General areas to be explored are:
• Changing times: Continuities and discontinuities in the transfers of knowledge and
technology between Eastern and Western Europe.
• Negotiating identities: spaces and places of co-operation or confrontation before, during, and after the Cold War.
• Parallel histories: alternative processes of European integration and fragmentation in Eastern and Western Europe.
• Blurred boundaries: spill-over effects and holes in the Iron Curtain
• Europe as a trading zone, a symbolic battle field, and the diplomatic playground for world hegemony.
• Chilling effects: Technologies at war & wartime technology
• Contested approaches: the merits and pitfalls of concepts like Americanization, Sovietisation, Westernization for European historiography.

Key note speaker Prof. Luciano Segreto
Conference website: www.conference2010sofia.com

Early registration deadline May 19, 2010
E-mail ToE@tue.nl

Conference is supported by European Science Foundation.
Other sponsors:
Foundation for the history of Technology; St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia; Paisii Hilendarski University, Plovdiv and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Date:
From: 17 June 2010
To: 20 June 2010