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