Connecting Switzerland based early career scholars in the History of Science
Our first meeting took place on March 6, 2020 in the ArtLab Building on the EPFL DataSquare in Lausanne. It was organized by Lucas Mueller and hosted by Jérôme Baudry's Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology (LHST).
This was our program:
10.15 – 11.00
Welcome and Introductions
Participants who didn't present gave a two-minute elevator pitch about their projects.
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11.00 – 12.00
Science and Environments (Chair: Marianna Fenzi, EPFL)
11.00 – 11.15
Lisa Cronjäger (Basel): “On Sustainability and Monocultures in the 19th Century”
11.15 – 11.30
Nils Güttler (ETHZ): “Infrastructural Knowledge: Environmental Sciences in the 20th Century”
11.30 – 12.00
Discussion
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13.00 – 14.10
Social Scientists Making Subjects (Chair: Milana Aronov, Lausanne)
13.00 – 13.15
Lukas Held (Zurich): “Creating the Will. Modern Origins of Will Psychology, the Politics of Motivation during the Cold War, and the Making of Capitalist Democrats, 1870-1975”
13.15 – 13.30
Harro Maas (Lausanne): “Moral Accounting Matters: A History of Consumer Governance 1800-1940”
13.30 – 13.45
Catherine Herr-Laporte (Neuchatel): “The Internalization of Time: The Example of Mobilities in the 18th Century”
13.45 – 14.10
Discussion
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14.15 – 15.25
Science and Media (Chair: Amandine Cabrio, Neuchâtel)
14.15 – 14.30
Stephan Graf (ETHZ): “Theorizing the Photographic Process: Technoscience between Photographic Industry and University, 1928–1979”
14.30 – 14.45
Felix Rietmann (Fribourg): “Towards a Media History of Child Health: Problems and Perspectives”
14.45 – 15.00
Yohann Guffroy (EPFL): “Technical Drawings and Invention (1750-1850)”
15.00 – 15.25
Discussion
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15.45 – 16.55
Science and the Digital (Chair: Tatiana Smirnova, Lausanne)
15.45 – 16.00
Alina Volynskaya (EPFL): “Querying the Digital Archive of Science: Distant Reading, Semantic Modeling and Representation of Knowledge”
16.00 – 16.15
Raphaël Sandoz (Geneva): “Mapping the Evolution of the Thematic Structure of Science”
16.15 – 16.30
Simon Dumas Primbault (EPFL): “A Material Archaeology of Computational Thinking from Leibniz on"
16.30 - 16.55
Discussion
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17.00 – 17.40
Open Discussion: Cross-Cutting Themes (Chair: Bruno Strasser, Geneva)
17.40 – 18.00
Future of HSSuisse (Chair: Felix Rietmann, Fribourg)
18.00
Social and Dinner