Institute for History Annual Report 2010 - O - Universiteit Leiden

June: Invited commentator to Session ‘Papyrus’ at
Tensions of Europe / Inventing Europe conference,
Sofia.
August 25: Invited Panel member at ‘What Role
for International Organizations in a Master
Narrative of the Twentieth Century?’, at the Oslo
Contemporary International History Network
seminar at the Nobel Institute, Oslo.
November 8: ‘TEN Energy Networks: Aims,
Alternatives, and Focus’, invited guest lecture the
course ‘Europe builds on infrastructure’,
Eindhoven University of Technology.
November 19: ‘The TVA: The Man, The Myth, The
Mystery’, invited guest lecture at the Free
University of Amsterdam.
November 25-27: ‘Streams of Development:
Comparing the Development of the Rhine,
Tennessee and Mekong’, Paper presentation at
Second Transnational Rhine Conference ‘The Coalbased
Rhine Economy. Development of an
Industrial Region from Basel to Rotterdam, 1850-
1950’, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Reviewed a proposal for an Exploratory
Workshop for the European Science Foundation.
Membership of boards and committees
Part of a humanities panel to engage with policy
issues, as part of an Administration course
facilitated by ROI, The Hague for policy makers
working for the Dutch government. Discussion
centred on issues related to water and climate
change.
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Member of the Travel Grant Committee of the
Society for the History of Technology (chair in
2010).
Externally acquired funds
Awarded a travel grant worth $830 by the
Committee on Research, Scholarship and
Academic Relations of the Harry S. Truman
Library Institute, November 2010.
Publications
Van der Vleuten, E.B.A. & Lagendijk, V.C.
‘Interpreting Transnational Infrastructure
Vulnerability: 4/11 and the Historical Dynamics of
Transnational Electricity Governance’. Energy
Policy, 38(4), 2053-2062.
Van der Vleuten, E.B.A. & Lagendijk, V.C.
‘Transnational Infrastructure Vulnerability: The
Historical Shaping of the 2006 European Blackout’.
Energy Policy, 38(4), 2042-2052.
Lagendijk, V.C.
Biography 1: An Electrifying Legacy: The Long
Lilfe of the Oliven Plan. In A.W. Badenoch & A.
Fickers (Eds.), In: A.W. Badenoch & A. Fickers
(Eds.), Europe Materializing? Transnational
Infrastructures and the Project of Europe. London:
Palgrave MacMillan.
Schipper, F., Lagendijk, V.C. & Anastasiadou, E.
New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road
and Electricity in the League of Nations.
Organisation for Communications and Transit. In:
A. Fickers & A.W. Badenoch (Eds.), Materialising
Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project
of Europe (pp. 113-143). Basingstoke: Palgrave.