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Meet the book series authors: Making Europe – A new history of Europe and Technology

During this years' SHOT Conference the book authors join a festive lunch session to discuss with you the new Making Europe book series.

About the event 


Organiser: Erik van der Vleuten (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Panellists:

  • Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Mikael Hård (Darmstadt University of Technology): Consumers, Tinkers Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe
  • Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum): Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers
  • Per Högselius (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) and Erik van der Vleuten (Eindhoven University of Technology): Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature
  • Pascal Griset (Sorbonne-Université): Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events
  • Maria Paula Diogo (NOVA University of Lisbon): Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging


Participants


This event is publicly accessible: Everyone is welcome! For people who are not registered SHOT Conference attendees, registration is obligatory. Please follow the instructions below.


Registration


For joining the lunch session, please send an email to SHOT.Secretariaat@tue.nl mentioning your name and occupation.


Practicalities


Date: Saturday, 26 October 2019
Time: 13:00 – 14:25
Location: Leonardo room. Conference Center Palazzo delle Stelline
Corso Magenta 61, Milan, Italy.

The entrance is free!


About SHOT


The Society for the History of Technology is dedicated to the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labour, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts. Founded in 1958, the society now numbers around 1500 members. An international society, SHOT meets annually in North America or Europe and also sponsors smaller conferences focused on specialized topics, often jointly with other scholarly societies and organizations.
The society’s quarterly journal, Technology and Culture, is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. In addition to T&C, SHOT publishes a yearly newsletter and, with the Johns Hopkins University Press a new book series “Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society, and Culture.”

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