Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Arts, Humanities, Journalism and information, Social and behavioural sciences
Science and Technology Studies (History, Anthropology and Sociology of Science and Technology); Sound Studies
Themes at the crossroads of History, Science and Technology Studies, and Sound Studies. Examples are history of noise as a public problem, developments in musical instrument design, sound technologies and everyday practices, history of car sound design, history of car radio, media representations of urban soundscapes, soundscapes of the past, the role of sound and listening in science, engineering and medicine, and the history of auditory surveillance.
NWO Cultural Dynamics Outreach Grant, 2011
Citation of honour as finalist (“runner-up”) in the competition 2010 for the Sidney M. Edelstein Award by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
NWO VICI Grant, 2010
NWO Cultural Dynamics Grant, 2008
NWO Language Correction Grant, 2007
NWO Cultural Dynamics Elaboration Grant, 2007
Maasticht University A-Status Grant, 2007
NWO Open Competition in the Humanities Grant, 2006
Usher Award 2002 by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
NWO Substitution Grant, 1999
Schreuder Award 1998 by the Dutch Society of Gerontology (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Gerontologie)
SNS-Bank Limburg Award, 1996
Travel Award Netherlands Graduate School Science and Technology Studies, 1992
Dutch, English, French, German
Pinch, T. & Bijsterveld, K. (Eds.) (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bijsterveld, K. (2010). Acoustic Cocooning: How the Car became a Place to Unwind, The Senses & Society, 5, 2, 189-211.
Bijsterveld, K. & Dijck, J. van (Eds.) (2009). Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Bijsterveld, K. (2008). Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Bijsterveld, K. (2006). Listening to machines: industrial noise, hearing loss and the cultural meaning of sound, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 31, 4, 323-337.
Bijsterveld, K. & Pinch, T. (Eds.) (2004). Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music. Special Issue Social Studies of Science, 34, 5, October.
Bijsterveld, K. & Schulp, M. (2004). Breaking into a World of Perfection. Innovation in Today?s Classical Musical Instruments, Social Studies of Science, 34, 5, 649-674.
Bijsterveld, K. (2003). ?The City of Din?. Decibels, Noise and Neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980, Osiris, 18, 173-193.
Pinch, T. & Bijsterveld, K. (2003). ?Should one applaud?? Breaches and Boundaries in the Reception of New Technology in Music, Technology and Culture, 44, 3 (July), 536-559.
Bijsterveld, K. (2001). The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age. Technology and Symbolism of Sound in European and North American Noise Abate¬ment Campaigns, 1900-40, Social Studies of Science, 31, 1, 37-70.
Bijker, W.E. & Bijsterveld, K. (2000). Women Walking through Plans. Technology, Democracy and Gender Identity. Technology and Culture, 41, July, 485-515.
Founding Member European Sound Studies Association (ESSA), since 2012
Research Collaborator Sound Studies Lab, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, since 2012
International Guest Researcher, Research Network Sound in Media Culture: Aspects of a Cultural History of Sound (Initiated by Holger Schulze, Jens Gerrit Papenburg and Maria Hanácek, and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), since 2010
NWO VICI Grant 2010 (€ 1,069,000) for Sonic Skills: Sound and Listening in the Development of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1920-now (K. Bijsterveld).
NWO Cultural Dynamics Grant 2008 (€ 464,900) for Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage (K. Bijsterveld & A. Fickers).
NWO Open Competition in the Humanities Grant 2006 (€ 413,504) for Selling Sound: The Standardization of Sound in the European Car Industry and the Hidden Integration of Europe (K. Bijsterveld & G. Mom).
Member Tensions of Europe (Network European Science Foundation), since 2002
Member Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), since 1997
Member European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), since 1996
Member Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), since 1996
Member Netherlands Graduate Research School Science, Technology and Modern Culture, since 1996
Member Panel AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council/UK) and NWO for the Joint Networking and Exchange Call (Sustainable Communities in a Changing World & Cultural Interactions of Research), 2011 – 2012
Member NWO Assessment Panel Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen (PhD Projects in the Humanities), 2011
Member ERC Advanced Grant Peer Review Panel SH2: Institutions, values and beliefs, and behaviour: sociology, social anthropology, political science, law, communications, social studies of science and technology, since 2010
Member NWO-VIDI Assessment Panel, 2009
Member Research Assessment Committee for the Humanities 2006 (University of Amsterdam, Free University Amsterdam, Radboud University, University of Tilburg), 2006
Member and Chair (2005) Brooke Hindle Fellowship Committee, Society for the History of Technology, 2004 – 2006
Member of the Jury for Johanna Naber Award (Women’s History), 1999
Member Board Graduate School, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Maastricht University, since 2011
Contributing Editor "Technology & Culture", 2006 – 2011
Academic Director Netherlands Graduate Research School Science, Technology & Modern Culture (WTMC), 2005 – 2010
Director of Research/Member Board Faculty of Arts, Maastricht University, 2002 – 2004
Acting Head of Department Technology & Society Studies, Maastricht University, 2001 – 2002
Acting Chair Research Program “Technology and Society: Social Theory and Technology Studies”, Maastricht University, 2001 – 2002
Member Editorial Board Geron (Journal on Social Gerontology), 1999 – 2001
Acting Head of Department Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University, 1997 – 2000
Acting Chair Research Program “Technology and Society: Social Theory and Technology Studies”, Maastricht University, 1998 – 2000
Member Municipal Advisory Committee on Festival Grant Applications, Maastricht („Gemeentelijke adviescommissie culturele beleidsevenementen Maastricht“), 2008 – 2012
Concert Visitor National Board of Culture („Concertbezoeker landelijke Raad voor Cultuur“), 2003 – 2006
Member Provincial Advisory Committee on Culture („Provinciale Adviescommissie Cultuur“), 2001 – 2003
Member Subcommittee Amateur Music, Provincial Advisory Committee on Culture („Provinciale Adviescommissie Cultuur“), 2001
Member Provincial Advisory Committee on “Cultuurplan 2001-2004” („Provinciale Adviescommissie Cultuurplan 2001-2004, Provincie Limburg“), 2000
Advisor Festival Soundscapes (be)for(e) 2000 (Nederlandse programma Stichting, De Balie, Gaudeamus, Goethe-instituut et.al.), Amsterdam, November 19-26, 1999
Roles in cultural organizations (see "Additional Qualification – Roles in Cultural Organizations")
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Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Journalism and information, Arts, Musicology
Social and behavioural sciences, Neurocognitive psychology
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