Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events

Communicating Europe reveals how these connecting technologies deeply impacted geopolitics and were intrinsically connected with culture, commerce, and communities. Find out about their spatial dimensions and transnational implications following the case studies that uniquely explore radio, telephone, television and the internet as material objects with particular qualities, as elements in institutional complexes, and as ‘vehicles’ carrying complex symbolic meanings. You will be lead through critical and mundane events, significantly altering any conventional perspectives you might have on communications and on modern European history.

Andreas Fickers is Professor of Contemporary and Digital History and Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at Luxembourg University (C2DH). He has published widely on the subjects of transnational media history and European history of technology. He is currently doing research on the methodological and epistemological challenges of digital historiography.

Pascal Griset is Professor of Modern History at Sorbonne University (UMR Sirice/CRHI), France. He is the coordinator and Principal Investigator of the H 2020 project Inventing a shared Science Diplomacy for Europe (InsSciDE). A specialist in the economic and technical history of information and communication technologies, he is currently researching the history of scientific research organizations and high technology industries. He chairs the Comité pour l'histoire de l'INSERM.