Suzanne Lommers (1980) is a Ph.D.candidate at the section of History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology since August 1st, 2005. She holds an MSc degree in Economic and Historical Studies from Utrecht University (2003) of which she has spent part of her time at the Universitá di Bologna in Italy. Her thesis is titled Wartime wages beyond control. The influence of war and occupation on the distribution of industry wages in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1938-1946. After her masters she has worked as Assistant Production Manager at the Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht. Then she has worked as a Junior Researcher at the Research Institute for Culture and History, Utrecht University, on the project A 100-years Royal Dutch/Shell. The project has resulted in a seminal history by J. Jonker, J.L. van Zanden, S. Howarth and K.Sluyterman, A history of Royal Dutch Shell (Oxford: Oxford UP 2007).

Suzanne is a member of the Tensions of Europe Network, and of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

Suzanne speaks Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish as well as a little bit of German and French. She reads Danish.

Suzanne Lommers
IPO 2.03
PO Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
+31(0)40-2473461
s.b.lommers@tue.nl

Publications

Articles:

(with Andreas Fickers), "Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the mediated performances of Europe", in: Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers eds., Europe materializing? Transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe (forthcoming with Palgrave 2009).

(with Léonard Laborie), "Les concerts européens à la radio dans l'entre-deux-guerres : Mise en ondes d'une métaphore diplomatique?", in Le Temps des Médias 11 (2008), special issue "Espaces européens et transferts culturels", 110-125.

(with Alexander Badenoch), EBU Archives: The other 'public service', Diffusion online, EBU online publication, June 2006,
http://www.ebu.ch/CMSimages/en/____online_26_e_archives-uer_tcm6-45878.pdf

Papers:

'Radio and Europe's Cultural Heritage: The Case of the Concerts Européens, 1925-1940', Paper to be presented at the Mapping European Culture Conference, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 4-6 2009.

'Europe's Broadcasters Between the Wars: A Focus on East-West Relations', Paper Presented at the Inventing Europe EUROTRANS Workshop Lisbon, 10-11 October 2008.