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The article reports on a conference on the history of natural disasters, held in Munich, Germany, from May 18-19, 2012. Topics discussed included the importance of the field of environmental history to modern historiography, media reporting on two chemical accidents at the BASF chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in 1921 and 1948, and the 1957 accident at the Majak (Mayak) nuclear reprocessing facility in the Chelyabinsk district of Russia.

A report is presented from a May 18-20, 2012 conference in Munich, Germany on natural and technological disasters. Topics of discussion included the 1947 nuclear reprocessing facility accident in Tatysh, Russia, chemical spills in Ludwigshafen, Germany in the early 20th century, and mass media depictions of natural disasters.

The article discusses the conference for historians, titled "Geschichten von Menschen und Dingen – Potenziale und Grenzen der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie (ANT) für die Geschichtswissenschaft," that discussed the potentials and limitations of the social theory called the actor-network theory (ANT) for the study of history and was held in Germany from September 29 to October 1, 2010. Presentations were given by historians such as Christina Benninghaus, Martina Hessler, and Klaus Weinhauer.

The article introduces the theme of the journal, which is a comprehensive depiction of the development of robots in Japan since the 1950s from a cultural historical perspective.

The article reports on a February 2010 conference in Bochum, Germany, of the Historical Technology Meeting of the Association of German Engineers on the topic "Research Is Essential": Technology and Innovation in the Global Economic Crisis 1929-1933. Lead speaker Helmut Maier opened the proceedings with a presentation linking the Great Depression to the Global Economic Crisis that began in 2008.

This article presents information about an annual seminar of the German society of engineers, the Verein Deutscher Ingenieuere (VDI), which took place February 7-8, 2008 in Düsseldorf, Germany. The central theme of this conference was sports and technology. Presentations were given by specialists Walter Kaiser, Stefan Poser, and Hans-Joachim Braun.