Cfp Tensions of Europe Early Career Scholars workshop. Porto and online, August 1, 2016.
In connection to the ICOHTEC conference in
Porto this summer, the Early Careers Scholars group from the Tensions
of Europe network (http://www.tensionsofeurope.
Tensions
of Europe (TOE) is an international scientific network consisting of
almost 300 historians trying to understand the role of technology in
20th century Europe. Since the start in 1999, the network explored a
broad range of themes, focusing on the linking and delinking of
infrastructures, the emergence of transnational technical communities
and the circulation of artifacts, systems, knowledge and people in
Europe. By organizing inspiring conferences and summer schools as well
as by stimulating international research collaboration and disseminating
research results to various audiences, TOE wants to reveal the role of
technology as an agent of change in European history.
The
Tensions of Europe network is currently exploring a new research
agenda. The tentative overarching theme for this agenda is “Technology
and the Making of Europe’s Societal Crises/Challenges, a Transnational
History ca 1850-Today”.The theme was explored at a workshop in Vught in
March 2016 (http://www.tensionsofeurope.
Some tentative questions we want to explore through this agenda are:
• What is the role of technology, as cause, medium, and solution, in the making of crisis understandings and realities?
• How are meanings of crises generated?
• How does technology mediate interdependencies between crises/challenges?
• How can we understand the temporality of crises?
• How can we understand the spatiality of crises?
• How did actors historically anticipate to, react to, or govern crises?
Workshop program
The workshop will have two main components:
1:
The main part of the program will be dedicated to the developing ToE
research agenda. There will be reports from the Tensions of Europe
workshop in Vught, (http://www.tensionsofeurope.
2:
In the second part of the day we welcome those who want to get comments
on article drafts, a proposal for funding, presentations, course
syllabi etc, to present in any form. We will assign commentators for all
texts we have on the program. The group also acts as a resource for
input on literature, references and contacts with scholars if you want
to present a project/course idea or the project you are currently
working on. We aim for this to be a space for informal comments and
discussions, and thus encourage participation in all forms and stages of
preparation.
Practicalities: We will try to
make it possible for as many people as possible to attend virtually
throughout the day, both as presenters and as listeners. When we send
out the instruction for participation online, we please ask you to read
through these instructions carefully in good time before the workshop
starts. We will also likely want to gather all of those who join us
virtually for a trial on Monday morning before the workshop starts, to
make sure the connections work. This is an experiment, and we kindly ask
your understanding with regard to the technical problems that will no
doubt arise at some point during the day.
If
you are interested to join, please tell us who you are (Name,
affiliation and email address) as well as whether you want to present,
comment or be a listener. If you want to present, send us an abstract
(max. 250 words).
Send your proposals to f.schipper@tue.nl no later than July 8th, 2016.