Vincent Lagendijk
@vincentlagendijk.bsky.social
researcher Rathenau Institute, asst prof in history UM: dam(n) historian working on Europe, IOs, infrastructures, electricity, STS, radioactive waste, coffee geek
Pinned
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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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...
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Two Funded Doctoral Positions: Project on Nuclear Decommissioning - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
October 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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...
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
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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.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@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
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
August 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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
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
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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
June 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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
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
May 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Another review of Dam Internationalism just appeared in Neue Politische Literatur: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!
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
blockades.eu
May 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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...
muse.jhu.edu
April 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Very happy to see this review of our volume Dam Internationalism in Technology & Culture: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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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...
Luister nu via open.spotify.com/episode/7Iem...
Achtertuin gezocht: waar laten we radioactief afval?
Verrekijkers · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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...
Luister nu via open.spotify.com/episode/7Iem...
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📖 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', 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
February 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📖 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', by Benjamin Brendel
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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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#envhist #envhum #anthropocene
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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👇
eseh.org/call-for-par...
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👇
eseh.org/call-for-par...
Call for participants: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History – European Society for Environmental History
eseh.org
February 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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#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):
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/
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…
managingscarcity.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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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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.
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
stm.cairn.info
February 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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.
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.
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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
January 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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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...
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...
zzf-potsdam.de
January 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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...
zzf-potsdam.de/en/chances/j...
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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 🙂
stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e...
My article on archival sources for the energy history of Yugoslav space is available in the latest issue of the Journal for Energy History 🙂
stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e...
Navigating the Archives: Writing the History of Development of Electrical Infrastructure in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991)
Not registered yet?
stm.cairn.info
January 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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 🙂
stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e...
My article on archival sources for the energy history of Yugoslav space is available in the latest issue of the Journal for Energy History 🙂
stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e...
Very happy with this book review of the edited volume Dam Internationalism, with Frederik Schulze!
Rez: V. Lagendijk u.a. (Hrsg.): Dam Internationalism
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-150145
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
www.hsozkult.de
January 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Very happy with this book review of the edited volume Dam Internationalism, with Frederik Schulze!
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CfP: Predicting Europe. Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe
Deadline: 17 January
Deadline: 17 January
December 5, 2024 at 10:43 AM
CfP: Predicting Europe. Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe
Deadline: 17 January
Deadline: 17 January
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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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December 2, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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.
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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
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
www.taylorfrancis.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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
But, perfect time to have the chapter out OA!
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
#envhist #nuclearhistory
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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👇
Let us know in the comments if we are missing anyone👇
November 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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👇
Let us know in the comments if we are missing anyone👇
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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
👉 edu.nl/kk3df
November 28, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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
👉 edu.nl/kk3df
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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...
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
www.uni-augsburg.de
November 28, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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...
I am scouting!
Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
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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
🎧 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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November 27, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/ytvvddrs
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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...
November 17, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Congratulations @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social & Frederik Schulze, I’m so thrilled this is in the series www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/hi...