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Vincent Lagendijk

@vincentlagendijk.bsky.social
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researcher Rathenau Institute, asst prof in history UM: dam(n) historian working on Europe, IOs, infrastructures, electricity, STS, radioactive waste, coffee geek

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congratulations to @michielbron.bsky.social on receiving the KHMW Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize for his PhD thesis 'The Petro-atom', supervised by @ccmmody.bsky.social & @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social! The award recognises outstanding research in economic, political and social history. 📸Marlise Steeman
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Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
📚 40% OFF for the @upittpress.bsky.social INTERSECTIONS series! "Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (2022, ed. with E.C. Heine)" is included. Use code 29INT40 at checkout. Explore the series + grab your copy here! 👇
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 23/03/2026
We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026
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Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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.
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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...
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Two Funded Doctoral Positions: Project on Nuclear Decommissioning - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich
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International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 26/06/2025
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
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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
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Another review of Dam Internationalism just appeared in Neue Politische Literatur: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Lagendijk, Vincent/Schulze, Frederik (eds.): Dam Internationalism. Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century (Histories of Internationalism), 272 pp., Bloomsbury, London 2024...
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Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Very happy to see this review of our volume Dam Internationalism in Technology & Culture: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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EenVandaag @eenvandaag.nl · 22/03/2025
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Tv-uitzending EenVandaag 22-03-2025
O.a. Hoe Europa volgens 'Trump-fluisteraar' Nile Gardiner de koers van Donald Trump moet zien * Kernafval onder de grond? Niet hier, laten ze in Groningen en Drenthe duidelijk horen
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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...
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Achtertuin gezocht: waar laten we radioactief afval?
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📖 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...
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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
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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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Óðinn Melsted @odinnmelsted.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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.
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Journal of Energy History 2024/1 (No 12)
Black and Green? Environmental Histories of the Oil Industry
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Michiel Bron @michielbron.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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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carolyn taratko @carotaratko.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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...
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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...
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Tijana Rupcic @ferejatina.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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...
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Navigating the Archives: Writing the History of Development of Electrical Infrastructure in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991)
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Very happy with this book review of the edited volume Dam Internationalism, with Frederik Schulze!
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Aleksandra Komornicka @olakom.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
CfP: Predicting Europe. Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe Deadline: 17 January
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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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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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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
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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
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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👇
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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
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Simone M. Müller @smueller.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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...
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Humboldt Fellows
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Karin van Leeuwen 🟥 @historikarin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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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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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Congratulations @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social & Frederik Schulze, I’m so thrilled this is in the series www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/hi...
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Histories of Internationalism: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
This book series features cutting-edge research on the history of international cooperation and internationalising ambitions in the modern world. Providing an i…
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
the oil spillover - read all about it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
We are seeking submissions to Joel Tarr Envirotech Article Prize for 2023. For articles published in a journal or an article collection January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022. The prize had been dormant for a cycle, so we are catching up! www.envirotechhistory.org/2024/10/25/c... #envhist #histtech
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Call for Applications: 2023 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize – Envirotech
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Over the past five years, the Rathenau Instituut has worked on providing recommendations for decision-making about radioactive waste in the Netherlands. The advice was presented to the State Secretary on September 4. The report has now been translated into English: www.rathenau.nl/en/climate/t...
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Taking steps together now | Rathenau Instituut
How do you make decisions on an issue for which decision-making takes several decades and involves a wide range of social and technological uncertainties? What knowledge is needed, and who can have th...
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
We are stoked for @stundenbower.bsky.social's first NiCHE series! Please do check it out and get her your proposals related to thinking about environmental adaptation historically!! #envhist #climhist
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
@dudleymarianna.bsky.social and I are looking for papers for panel(s) on landscapes of energy history and transition for #ESEH2025! We also plan a workshop session on new methods and approaches within #energyhistory. Let us know whether you want to be involved in either / or by 11 Oct! #envhist
Flyer for the ESEH2025 conference and call for papers, for more information see https://eseh2025.com
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Vincent Lagendijk @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
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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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
The Program in Science, Technology & Society (STS) at Stanford announces a 3-year, renewable Lecturer position. Deadline: February 15 for an August 2024 start date. PhD in STS or a related field must be in hand by July 1. Please pass it on! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27028
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