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Vincent Lagendijk
@vincentlagendijk.bsky.social
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researcher Rathenau Institute, asst prof in history UM: dam(n) historian working on Europe, IOs, infrastructures, electricity, STS, radioactive waste, coffee geek
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · Sep 8
Bloomsbury just published Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century. The volume sheds new light on the globalization of technology and international power struggles in the twentieth century through the perspective dams.
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International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 1d
Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Aug 21
excited to share the call for the workshop

EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION

happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,

made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

deadline: 10 September!

full call below ⤵

#envhist #envhum
URL and ALT text to follow.
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · Jun 26
We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · May 20
Another review of Dam Internationalism just appeared in Neue Politische Literatur: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Lagendijk, Vincent/Schulze, Frederik (eds.): Dam Internationalism. Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century (Histories of Internationalism), 272 pp., Bloomsbury, London 2024...
Neue Politische Literatur -
link.springer.com
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Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · May 8
The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!
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Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · May 1
We currently have a vacancy for a PhD (4 years, 1.0 fte, deadline 11 May) on Blockades and the Second World War in Asia: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
BLOCKADE – Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · Apr 24
Very happy to see this review of our volume Dam Internationalism in Technology & Culture: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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EenVandaag @eenvandaag.nl · Mar 22
Tv-uitzending EenVandaag 22-03-2025
O.a. Hoe Europa volgens 'Trump-fluisteraar' Nile Gardiner de koers van Donald Trump moet zien * Kernafval onder de grond? Niet hier, laten ze in Groningen en Drenthe duidelijk horen
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · Mar 20
De nieuwe aflevering van de podcast Verrekijkers van het Rathenau Instituut gaat over het betrekken van burgers bij het beslissen over de berging van radioactief afval. Naast de Nederlandse situatie worden ook de ervaringen in België besproken!
Luister nu via open.spotify.com/episode/7Iem...
Achtertuin gezocht: waar laten we radioactief afval?
Verrekijkers · Episode
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · Feb 24
📖 New article online!

'Toxic Exports, ‘Third World’ Hunger and Pesticide Politics: International Pesticide Trade and Perception in West Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s', by Benjamin Brendel

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Toxic Exports, ‘Third World’ Hunger and Pesticide Politics: International Pesticide Trade and Perception in West Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Toxic Exports, ‘Third World’ Hunger and Pesticide Politics: International Pesticide Trade and Perception in West Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s
www.cambridge.org
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Feb 18
Notifications for #ESEH2025 have been sent out --check spam or with session organiser if you haven't heard anything-- BUT there are 10 days left to apply to the @eseh.bsky.social summer school taking place on an island out in the Stockholm archipelago! 🌊

#envhist #envhum #anthropocene

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Jan 9
CfP: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History

Anthropocene Histories

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
August 25-28, 2025, right after #ESEH2025

Deadline: 28 February

#envhist #envhum #anthropocene @eseh.bsky.social
🌿

More information👇

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Call for participants: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History – European Society for Environmental History
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Óðinn Melsted @odinnmelsted.bsky.social · Feb 10
We're throwing an #energyhist conference in Maastricht, Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories (October 20-21, deadline for proposals is April 4):
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · Feb 10
We're putting on a conference! "We" being me, @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & @michielbron.bsky.social as part of the Managing Scarcity project.

Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories
Dates: October 20-21, 2025
Location: Maastricht University
Abstracts due: April 4, 2025

managingscarcity.com/waeh/
WAEH
Call for Papers Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories (WAEH): Scenarios and Transitions Organizers: Michiel Bron, Odinn Melsted, Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University) Venue: Maastricht University D…
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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Feb 3
Very happy to see this #specialissue on #oilhist and #envhist out in the world: stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e....
With great articles by @renaudbecot.bsky.social, Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, @mattinbiglari.bsky.social, Randal L. Hall, Jelena Stanković, @michielbron.bsky.social, and Robert Lifset.
Journal of Energy History 2024/1 (No 12)
Black and Green? Environmental Histories of the Oil Industry
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Michiel Bron @michielbron.bsky.social · Jan 27
Tomorrow, I will defend my PhD dissertation "The Petro-Atom: A century of ubiquitous oil involvement in nuclear energy, 1895-1993" at Maastricht University (16.00 CET) @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social
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carolyn taratko @carotaratko.bsky.social · Jan 24
Interested in pursuing a PhD in Germany with a focus on the int’l/ transnational history of technology, medicine, and environment? Come work with me @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social ! I’m looking to fill 2 PhD positions (for 4 years), details below and inquiries very welcome

zzf-potsdam.de/en/chances/j...
Two PhD Positions | zzf-potsdam.de
Stellenausschreibung The German Research Council (DFG) funded Emmy Noether Research Group “Cooling the Global South: Technology, Society, and Thermal Regulation in the 20th Century” at the Leibniz Cen...
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Tijana Rupcic @ferejatina.bsky.social · Jan 22
New publication alert! Disclaimer: Only extremely cool people read my articles 😛
My article on archival sources for the energy history of Yugoslav space is available in the latest issue of the Journal for Energy History 🙂
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Navigating the Archives: Writing the History of Development of Electrical Infrastructure in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991)
Not registered yet?
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · Jan 10
Very happy with this book review of the edited volume Dam Internationalism, with Frederik Schulze!
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Jan 9
Rez: V. Lagendijk u.a. (Hrsg.): Dam Internationalism

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-150145

V. Lagendijk u.a. (Hrsg.): Dam Internationalism
Rezension zu: V. Lagendijk u.a. (Hrsg.): Dam Internationalism
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · Jan 9
Very honored to be a part of it!
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Aleksandra Komornicka @olakom.bsky.social · Dec 5
CfP: Predicting Europe. Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe

Deadline: 17 January
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · Dec 2
It's here!✨ Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century, edited by @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social and Frederik Schulze 👇https://tinyurl.com/36hp56zc.
Dam Internationalism
During the 20th century dam-building became a truly global endeavour. Built around the world, they generated networks of actors, institutions and companies embe…
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Dec 2
My ‘Nuclear Nordics’ project would have ended on Saturday, but instead of finishing the postdoc project, I started a position at @greenhouseuis.net two years ago - best decision!

But, perfect time to have the chapter out OA!

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

#envhist #nuclearhistory
Explosive Waste | 16 | Scandinavian Anti-Nuclear Movements' Campaign a
During the 1970s, reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel was promoted by nuclear industries on a large scale with the promise of countering
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · Nov 29
We have made a starter pack! Are you looking for FASoS researchers? Need expertise on history, political science, art and literature, science and technology studies, or philosophy? Consult the starter pack: go.bsky.app/5kvecGk

Let us know in the comments if we are missing anyone👇
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · Nov 28
FASoS researcher @pablo1981.bsky.social digs into Madrid’s fascist past and its ties to global far-right networks. His work spans a book, a doc, and campaigns to remove Franco-era monuments. His message? Understand the far right’s playbook to fight its rise.

👉 edu.nl/kk3df
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Simone M. Müller @smueller.bsky.social · Nov 28
Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany?

I am scouting!

Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
Humboldt Fellows
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Karin van Leeuwen 🟥 @historikarin.bsky.social · Nov 27
Cross-posting from the other platform: in this new Review of Democracy podcast, Aleksandra Komornicka, @koenvanzon.bsky.social and me discuss some key questions that organized the two editions of our overview of European integration history. 🇪🇺

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/ytvvddrs
Revising European Integration History in an Age of Uncertainty – Karin van Leeuwen, Aleksandra Komornicka, and Koen van Zon on Their Interdisciplinary Handbook with a Historical Focus | Review of Demo...
In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Karin van Leeuwen, Aleksandra Komornicka, and Koen van Zon – contributors to The Unfinished History of European Integration that has now appeared in a ...
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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Nov 17
Congratulations @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social & Frederik Schulze, I’m so thrilled this is in the series www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/hi...
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