HSSuisse

Connecting Switzerland based early career scholars in the History of Science

2022

HSSuisse 2022 took place on May 20th, 2022, at the University of Fribourg (Pavillon vert, Chemin du Musée 10, Fribourg). The meeting was organized by Jasmine Lovey, Felix Rietmann and Marco Storni and hosted by the Chair for Medical Humanities (Martina King).

Program

9.30 Martina King (UNIFR): Welcome and Introduction

9.45-11.00 Panel 1: Medical Research and Medical Practice

Chair: Jasmine Lovey (UNIFR)

  • 9.45 Amos Kuster (Unibas)
    Genealogische Diagramme in der psychiatrischen Klinik: Vererbungsforschung in der “Friedmatt” in Basel 1925-1945

  • 10.00 Manuel Merkofer (UZH)
    Neurosurgical Ergonomics, Microsurgical Industries, and the Cold War

  • 10.15 Florence Pasche Guignard (Université Laval)
    Spiritual, Maternal and Medical Considerations on the Life and Works of Frédérick Leboyer

  • 10.30 Discussion

11.00 Coffee break

11.30-12.45 Panel 2: Medical Spaces and the Historiography of Medicine

Chair: Linda Rathschiller (UNIFR)

  • 11.30 Guillaume Linte (UNIGE)
    Syphilis and Colonial Medicine in French West Africa (1900-1960)

  • 11.45 Zoé Pochon (Stockholm University)
    Detect Infectious Diseases with aDNA

  • 12.00 Mona Baie (UNIFR)
    Narrating the Hospital – Poetics and Narrativity of Clinical Spaces in Contemporary Life-Writing

  • 12.15 Discussion

12.45 Lunch

14.00-15.15 Panel 3: Science and Environment

Chair: Marco Storni (UniNE)

  • 14.00 Arthur Emile (EPFL)
    Rethinking Steam Locomotives as an Environmental Issue in Northwestern Europe (1830-1940)

  • 14.15 Lucie Gerber (Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, SAGE UMR 7363)
    “Preparing the Agriculture of Tomorrow, which will do without Soil, and perhaps without the Sun” at the CNRS Phytotron, 1950-80

  • 14.30 Aude Barthe (UniNE)
    Réparations textiles (recyclage, réutilisation, reprisage) au XIXe siècle

  • 14.45 Discussion

15.15 Coffee break

15.45-17.15 Panel 4: Technology, Science, and Society

Chair: Jérôme Baudry (EPFL)

  • 15.45 Leander Diener (UZH)
    The Free Sphere of Switzerland: Swiss Science Policy before 1934

  • 16.00 Lukas Held (UZH)
    Governing a Fractured World. A History of the Commons-Paradigm and the Transformation of the Public Spirit, 1960s-2000

  • 16.15 Tatiana Smirnova (Unil)
    Cultural Event in Social Media Memory: the Case of the Fête des Vignerons

  • 16.30 Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan (EPFL)
    Introduction to Computational and Digital Tools for Historians of Science and Technology

  • 16.45 Discussion

17.25 Felix Lüttge (Unibas): Announcement of the Next Meeting

18.30 Dinner