Technology & Culture Forum on history, technology and societal challenges

Interesting reading for the upcoming ICOHTEC 2020 conference on Technology & Crises:

Earlier this year, Technology & Culture published a Forum on ‘History and Technology in an Age of Grand Challenges.’ (Technology and Culture Volume 61, Number 1, January 2020, pp.260-332)

Short description and ToC:

In 2016 we formed a number of transnational working groups to build research agendas and networks in the context of the Tensions of Europe flagship program Technology and Societal Challenges. By early 2019 that joint effort had resulted in over two dozen workshops and conferences, in which many relevant themes were debated with an ever-increasing number of interested and engaged scholars. This forum presents an introduction to the program and tentative findings from five of these working groups.

Content

History and Technology in an Age of “Grand Challenges”: Raising Questions

Erik van der Vleuten (guest editor)

p. 260-271

Crises and Technological Futures: Experiences, Emotion, and Action

Karena Kalmbach, Andreas Marklund, Anna Åberg

p. 272-281

Challenging Europe: Technology, Environment, and the Quest for Resource Security

Matthias Heymann, Per Högselius, Elena Kochetkova, John Martin, Ole Sparenberg, Frank Veraart, Anna Åberg

p. 282-294

The Energy Challenge in Historical Perspective

Ute Hasenöhrl, Jan-Henrik Meyer