Welcome to the TIE Project website!
The Transnational Infrastructures and the Rise of Contemporary Europe-project, or simply the acronym TIE, is a historical research project that seeks to explore how Europe was materialised and shaped by infrastructures in the 20th century. In december 2002 this program was awarded to Johan Schot by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under the Innovational Research Incentive Scheme (VICI).
The TIE project is based at Eindhoven University of Technology. This website provides descriptions of all projects and associated projects, and planned activities and publications. Enjoy reading it!
If you would like to have more information please contact j [dot] w [dot] schot [at] tue [dot] nl (Johan Schot) or v [dot] c [dot] lagendijk [at] tue [dot] nl (Vincent Lagendijk) (content manager).
TIE-Project Edited Volume "Materializing Europe" Out
Palgrave just published Materializing Europe: Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures. The volume, edited by Alec Badenoch and Andreas Fickers, brings together the state-of-the-art on infrastructure studies from a historical and transnational angle. It is a dynamic volume, combining both full-fledged chapters as well short biographies. The book is direct outcome of the TIE-project with many contributions are from TIE-project members, as well as other infrastructure-history experts.
To catch a first glimpse, Palgrave made the table of contents and the introduction available through their website. Download them here for a preview. The book is on order at Palgrave.
TIE Publications Reviewed in CEH
The August issue of the journal Contemporary European History (volume 19) contains a review article by Christian Kleinschmidt, entitled "Infrastructure, Networks, (Large) Technical Systems: The 'Hidden Integration' of Europe". While exploring the latest publications related to European integration and infrastructure, he discusses books by Erik van der Vleuten (Networking Europe, edited with Arne Kaijser), Frank Schipper (Driving Europe), and Vincent Lagendijk (Electrifying Europe). With some minor critical notes, Kleinschmidt evaluates our work as very positive and significant.
Special issue Métropoles
Together with Sébastien Gardon and Arnaud Passalacqua, Frank Schipper edited a special issue of the Anglo-French journal Métropoles
(December 2009). Entitled "Des mobilités urbaines à la ville mobile.
Sur les traces des circulations urbaines", the
special issue is dedicated to transnational aspects of urban mobility
and their diverse local manifestations over time. Apart from
contributing to the introduction - his first publication in French -
Frank also contributed an article on traffic signs in the
special issue entitled "Unravelling hieroglyphs". The open-source
journal is available here.
Schot & Schipper win prestigious Prize
Johan Schot and Frank Schipper have been awarded the Dr.
Cornelis Lely Prize 2009 by The International Association for the
History of Transportation, Traffic and Mobility for their paper ‘The
role of experts, their beliefs and networks in European transport
integration, 1945-1958’ at the T2M conference in Luzern Switzerland,
5-8 November 2009. The prize consists of €250 and a certificate.
Lagendijk awarded VENI grant
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded TIE-member Vincent Lagendijk with a so-called VENI grant. These grants are supplied to researchers that recently completed their doctorates. It enables them to conduct new and innovative research over a period of three years.
Vincent will use the grant for his proposal Transnationalising the TVA. He will look at the transnational dimensions of the exploitation of international rivers, as inspired by the American Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA, 1933). His research proposal encompasses three cases; the river Mekong, Jordan, and the Danube. He will change to Leiden University in June 2010.
See more at http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_7XFCCJ
Schot accedes to Royal Academy
Johan Schot has acceded to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He is one of 2 new members of the KNAW, which in total has 200 members -- making membership quite prestigious. The active members themselves yearly select who takes the place of retired members.
The KNAW advices the government on developments in science, promotes scientific cooperation both domestically and internationally, and aids in accessing scientific quality of scientific research.
Badenoch wins IAMHIST prize
His book can be ordered here.
Badenoch worked in Eindhoven on the TIE-project, and now works as a lecturer at the Department of Media and Culture Studies of the University of Utrecht. He is co-editing the edited volume Europe Materializing: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe, which will appear with Palgrave.
Virtual Exhibit online
Since March 1, the Virtual Exhibition (in Dutch only) is online. It is the result of the work of TU/e honour's class students, that followed the course "Europe build on infrastructures". As an end product, each student produced a room in the virtual museum that tells a tale of how Europe intertwined with infrastructures.
Defense of Irene Anastasiadou
On January 12 Irene Anastasiadou successfully defended her dissertation entitled In Search of a Railway Europe: Transnational Railways Developments in Interwar Europe. Her committee was composed of Johan Schot, Gijs Mom, Colin Dival, Eda Kranakis, Ruth Oldenziel, and Harry Lintsen. Her book will appear soon.
