The boards of the Histechnica Association and of the KIVI Department of the History of Technology are pleased to invite you to attend a lecture to be given by Mr Dr A.H. Streefland on the subject:

From 'Voices' to 'Delta'. The student papers and university press in Delft.

on Saturday 16 December 2023

Location: Science Centre, Bouwcampus 26, entrance 'C', Van der Burghweg 1, 2628 CS Delft.

Entrance 'C' of the Science Centre

PLEASE NOTE: Location has changed! Entrance is from car park behind high-rise building.

Access to car park is by driving licence.

Programme

10.30:00: Walk-in with coffee and tea

11:00: Welcome and introduction

11.05:00: Lecture by Mr Abel Streefland

12:00 hrs: Break

12:15: Continuation of lecture and closing discussion

12:45: End of meeting.

Summary of lecture

What began with small-scale student journals for a specific group of Delft engineering students grew into well-run periodicals for a broad target group of aspiring engineers in the early twentieth century.

University historian Abel Streefland takes you on a journey through the Delft student magazines and the later university press and shows what great resources these magazines are. They show how (future) engineers in the 20th century were looking for their own voice - sometimes political, sometimes technical, often focused on their own student and university culture, regularly with surprising vistas.

Information about the speaker

Abel Streefland is a historian of science, with a PhD on Jaap Kistemaker and uranium enrichment in the Netherlands, and university historian at TU Delft since 2016. He researches all kinds of facets of TU history.

To attend this lecture, please register

  • KIVI members should register via the KIVI website
  • Members of Histechnica should register through the secretary hotzeboonstra@gmail.com
  • Interested parties who are not members can also register through the above channels. There will then be a charge of ā‚¬5.00.

The lecture will be broadcast live; click here to participate online.

Upcoming activities in the Science Center Delft

  • Saturday 27 January 2024 at 11:00 lecture by Drs Bert van de Ven, KIVI Event Manager: "Techniek in de middeleeuwen; achteruitgang, stagnatie of voortgang".
  • Saturday 24 February 2024 at 11:00 am lecture by Dr Karel van der Mast : "The origins and development of electron microscopy

On Saturday 20 April 2024, Histechnica will celebrate its 10th anniversary at Gebouw X, Mekelweg 8, 2628 CD Delft. It will be a day-filling programme with the theme: "Getting progress out of failure".

Study trip Basque Country 2024: It will be a seven-day trip, therefore 6 nights within the programme and excluding the round trip. Start around the end of May.

On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of KIVI in 2023, the History of Engineering Department has published a book highlighting the three founders of KIVI in the times in which they lived. The book will be available free of charge during the lecture for members of members of Histechnica and for members of the KIVI Department of History of Technology.

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