Helmuth Trischler: Book Series Receives Freeman Award
Making Europe–Technology and Transformations 1850-2000
22.09.2014
The book series Making Europe, for which RCC Director Helmuth Trischler co-authored a volume, has received the Freeman Award. This award, conferred by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), is given to "a publication which is a significant collective contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of innovation".
The EASST council stated:
"This series reframes the grand theme of European history and identity from a technology based perspective. Genuinely pan-European in scope. A refreshingly ambitious and original collabor ative project. It reveals the interplay between the material and the social in the creation of different meanings of Europe. Shows how the lens of innovation presents a strikingly new view of the dynamics of interaction across national boundaries in the making of Europe. The work resonates strongly with Freeman's concerns with history, innovation and politics and with EASST's engagement with sociotechnical change in Europe."
Trischler co-wrote the second volume of the series, entitled "Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers". This volume delivers a new reading of European history. The authors show that modern Europe was built by experts using their unique knowledge to shape societies, set political agendas, and establish collaborations which proved decisive in integrating the Continent.