Vincent Lagendijk

Vacancy for a fully funded 4-year PhD at @uvahumanities.bsky.social on the key roles played by social science, demography, and nutritional science during the blockades of the First and Second World Wars, especially where they related to food.

2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 November

#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

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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@mathijsboom.bsky.social

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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

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

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

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 -

Another review of Dam Internationalism just appeared in Neue Politische Literatur: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!

Very happy to see this review of our volume Dam Internationalism in Technology & Culture: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Achtertuin gezocht: waar laten we radioactief afval? Verrekijkers · Episode

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...

📖 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

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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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We're throwing an #energyhist conference in Maastricht, Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories (October 20-21, deadline for proposals is April 4):

Journal of Energy History 2024/1 (No 12) Black and Green? Environmental Histories of the Oil Industry

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.

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

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...

Navigating the Archives: Writing the History of Development of Electrical Infrastructure in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991) Not registered yet?

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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Very happy with this book review of the edited volume Dam Internationalism, with Frederik Schulze!

Very honored to be a part of it!

CfP: Predicting Europe. Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe

Deadline: 17 January

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…

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.

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

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

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👇

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

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...

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 ...

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:
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Congratulations @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social & Frederik Schulze, I’m so thrilled this is in the series www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/hi...

Chocolate Chocolate layer cake. Fudge brownies. Chocolate chip cookies. Boxes of chocolate truffles. Cups of cocoa. Hot fudge sundaes. Chocolate is synonymous with our cultural sweet tooth, our restaurant desse...

and Alec Badenoch's work on chocolate: books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&...

The Bulgarianization of Yoghurt: Connecting Home, Taste, and Authenticity This article addresses the popularity of yoghurt, which came into vogue in France, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands during the 1910s and 1920s, and the assumption that Bulgaria is...

The work of Elitsa Stoilova on Bulgarian yoghurt is great: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology Innovation studies scholars use the concept of ‘spillovers’ to explain how ideas and people move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of technology use di...

the oil spillover - read all about it!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....