Category: Activities

  • 53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting | Alexandroupolis, Greece

    Paper: Sustainability, Well-being and a Greek Connection: the case of the aluminium industry in Delfzijl, in the Northern Netherlands. By Frank Veraart and Dulce van Vliet. 9 October 2026 Abstract: This contribution examines the economic, social, and environmental history of the municipality of Delfzijl through the lens of sustainable development, with particular attention to the…

  • 11th Tensions of Europe| Micro-Workshop Mapping Extraction: Digital Approaches to the Material History of Empire and Industry | Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Paper: Assembling a historical (post)-colonial sustainability monitor for Indonesia. Presented by Dulce van Vliet. 9 July 2026 Abstract: This paper adopts the Dutch Monitor of Well-being and SDGs, developed by Statistics Netherlands, as a heuristic model to examine sustainability trade-offs connected to historical supply chains. Originally designed for policy monitoring and to support public debate,…

  • 11th Tensions of Europe| Panel Digital Tools to Investigate New Histories of Technology & Environment @ 4TU | Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Paper: Researching Historical Sustainability at the Municipal Scale: The case of Velsen. Presented by Dulce van Vliet. 9 July 2026 Abstract: This contribution explores the economic, social, and environmental history of Velsen from the perspective of sustainable development and trade-offs. The municipality, a coastal industrial hub in North Holland, has been fundamentally shaped by the…

  • TSEG Essay Prize 2025 Nominee @ Posthumus Conference 2026

    Speaking the Same Language: Re-imagining Wellbeing Monitors for Social and Economic (and Environmental) History. Pitch presented by Dulce van Vliet At the Posthumus Conference 2026, the TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History announced the nominees of the TSEG Essay Prize 2025. 21 May 2026 Abstract: Looking at a problematic issue…

  • STONEM Workshop: Connected by/with/to the Dutch (1900-2025)

    Exploring Concepts and Practices of Entangled Histories Date: 23 January 2026 – 10.30/16.30 Location: Van Ravensteynzaal / Utrecht University (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80) Workshop OverviewThis workshop examines the concept of entangled histories in relation to the Dutch past and its global connections from 1900 to 2025. It brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore how…

  • Netherlands Media Studies Conference 2025: Lightning Talk “From Media History to Sustainability and Well-Being”

    Short paper presented by Dulce van Vliet The 1st Netherlands Media Studies Conference is organized by the Research School for Media Studies RMeS 23 October 2025 Abstract: The STONEM project aims to investigate the impact of Dutch international trade on sustainable development from an historical perspective. My tasks as postdoc researcher in this project include…

  • SHOT 2025: Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting | Luxembourg

    Lightning talk: “Historical Data Streams and Measuring Sustainability” Short paper presented by Dulce van Vliet 11 October 2025 Abstract: The process of datafication and quantification is central to the current effort to track sustainable development (Wickberg et al. 2024). But while digital technology might have ushered the current large scale datafication, data streams of different…

  • SHOT 2025: Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting | Luxembourg

    “Full of Good from Sunny Lands”: Paper presented by Frank Veraart Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting 2025, Luxembourg 10 October 2025 Abstract: “Rich harvest of ripe fruit for Planta. Abundance from warm countries: bananas, lemons, coffee and tea. But also… coconuts and palm fruits, the suppliers of easily digestible vegetable fats for…

  • Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2025 | Brussels, Belgium

    26 – 28  June, Brussels, Belgium Maite van den Borre presented the paper “Unearthing the Past: Colonial Legacies and the Modern Realities of Tin Mining in Bangkaand Belitung” Link to conference website: https://www.ebhabrussels2025.org/

  • Workshop Contested Industrialization of Food Systems in the Unequal Anthropocene: Critical Histories of Agriculture- and Food-Affiliated Industries from a Global Perspective (1945-present) | Utrecht, The Netherlands

    May 15-16, 2025, Utrecht University Entangled Oils: Transnational and Interwoven Histories of Indonesian Coconut and Palm Oil Paper by Maliene Kip, TU Eindhoven Abstract: This paper explores the comparative development of coconut oil and palm oil as major export commodities from Indonesia, tracing their trajectories from the 1900s onward. Coconut oil and copra, derived from…

  • World Economic History Congress 2025 | Lund, Sweden

    28 July – 1 August 2025 Frank Veraart (TU/e) and Annegeke Jansen (Leiden University/WISE) organized a double session with the title: “Re-assessing economic history from the perspective of well-being, inclusion, and sustainability. A global, international, and transnational lens.” Session Description: Environmental degradation and rising social disparities are increasingly undermining global peace, food security, and the…

  • Workshop Historical Narratives of Transformation: Resources, Sustainability, and a Just Society | Aarhus, Denmark

    August 13 -14, 2025, Aarhus Denmark Entangled Oils: Transnational and Interwoven Histories of Indonesian Coconut and Palm Oil Paper by Maliene Kip, TU Eindhoven Extended Abstract: A popular saying in Indonesia states, “there are as many uses for the coconut as there are days in the year.” From food and shelter to soap and medicine,…

  • Workshop Quantifying well-being and sustainability in a long-term global perspective

    30 January 2025, TU Eindhoven Description: Monitoring life quality and environmental impact is fundamental to the international shared agenda of achieving sustainable development. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), represent a widely adopted framework to quantify sustainable development, divided into 17 goals, 169 targets and 247 indicators. However, other frameworks have also been developed—predating…

  • Workshop Commodification, Values & Knowledge Politics

    Hosted by NWO research programs Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernisation (STONEM), 1900-2020 and Soy Stories. Date: April 22th 2024                                Location: Utrecht University Introduction Today we live in a polycentric world knitted together by human made material, knowledge, financial, digital, and natural flows and ecosystems. How can we study its historic developments? In this…

  • 11th Tensions of Europe Conference | Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

    Paper: “Beauty is in the eye of….”, value competition, alignment, and conflict in the development of transnational trade in resources Frank Veraart, Maliene Kip – Eindhoven University of Technology Maite van den Borre, Bram Bouwens – Utrecht University 20 September 2024 Trade in global resources has intensified over the last two centuries as industrializing societies…

  • 4th World Congress of Environmental History | Oulu, Finland

    Paper: A transnational entangled history could connect and balance the positive and negative master narratives Frank Veraart, Eindhoven University of Technology 19 August 2024 Abstract: The two master narratives, a positive signalling the improved quality of life, and a negative one focused on environmental degradation and social injustice are two sides of the same coin.…

  • Workshop Mining Matters: Coloniality and sustainable technologies in changing climates

    University of Twente, 27 & 28 November 2023 Description: The current push to move away from fossil fuel reliance and invest in sustainable energy technologies like wind turbines or electric automobility is key to reach climate goals. While cutting emissions by phasing out fossil fuels is crucial, the transition to sustainables has stoked global competition for…

  • Workshop Deep Transitions: Assessing and measuring systems change

    Deep Transitions Lab, 20-22 Sept. 2023, Tartu, Estonia Gathering in Tartu (Estonia) in September, teams from Britain, the Netherlands and Estonia began a 3-day Deep Transitions workshop on assessing and measuring systems change. The sessions aimed to develop increased knowledge on indicators for transformative change, generate ideas for funding proposals and exchange knowledge between teams,…

  • 2e Congrès International d´Histoire des Enterprises en France: Rises, Transitions And Resilience: New Views on Companies in France and in the Francophone Space | Paris, France

    Paper: Transnational Entangled Sustainability, through the lens of Margarine and Soap production at Unilever and its predecessors Frank Veraart, Eindhoven University of Technology 16 June 2023 Abstract: The development of transnational resource supply chains have had severe impact in economic, social and ecological developments, in various places around the globe. This paper analyses the effects…