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A group of sixty early career and established historians and other colleagues from universities, knowledge institutions and museums gathered in the old main post-office (Neude11) in Utrecht on Friday, December 6, for the first annual symposium of the 4TU.History of Technology centre. They had been invited by Jan Korsten (Managing director) and Erik van der Vleuten (scientific director) to set the agenda for this new 4TU centre. What opportunities could they identify for collaboration and how could the centre stimulate and facilitate this?

We hereby cordially invite you to the kick-off event of the new 4TU Centre History of Technology on Friday 6 December 2024 in the old main post-office (currently Neude Public Library) in Utrecht.

November 5 & 6 2024 at the Dutch National Archives and National Library Organized by Jules Schoonman and Vincent Baptist (TU Delft) Funded by Open Science NL and supported by KNAW Humanities Cluster

Auditorium TU/e - Blauwe Zaal Wednesday 16 October - 12:40 - 13:20 Find more information here

Anique Hommels is aan de Faculteit der Cultuur- en Maatschappijwetenschappen (FASoS) van de Universiteit Maastricht benoemd tot hoogleraar “Sociohistorical Technology Studies with a focus on Urban Sustainable Sociotechnical Transformations”. Deze bijzondere leerstoel is mede op initiatief van Stichting Historie der Techniek tot stand gekomen.

Symposium: Transforming Cities in Times of Turmoil

The 15th European Social Science History Conference 2025 (26-29 March) is organized by the IISH/IISG in co-operation with Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands 0.

De Universiteit van Nederland heeft een podcast van Erik van der Vleuten gepubliceerd over het stikstofprobleem.

15 February 2024 – 17.30-19.00: TU-Delft - Berlage Room 1 - Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft

As of 1 January, a new centre has been added to the 4TU.Federation: 4TU.History of Technology. The centre aims to boost the discipline of history of technology. 4TU spoke to scientific director Erik van der Vleuten and managing director Jan Korsten about their plans and motivation. ''Historical awareness of the roles that technology and engineers have played in addressing past societal challenges is important and will be helpful in thinking about solutions to the societal challenges we face today and in the future.''

From January 2024, the four technical universities are pooling their knowledge and expertise in the field of the history of technology in 4TU.History of Technology. The new centre aims to provide students, engineers and the wider audience with a historical awareness of the role that technology and engineers played in societal transitions in the past two centuries, as well as to develop working methods that makes such knowledge actionable today.