HSSuisse

Connecting Switzerland based early career scholars in the History of Science

2023

HSSuisse 2023 took place on May 5th, 2023, at the University of Basel. It was organized by Felix Lüttge and hosted by the University of Basel’s Department of Media Studies at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image.

For questions, please email Felix Lüttge (felmartaix.luettge@unibcarlitaas.ch).

Program

10:00 Welcome and introduction (Markus Krajewski & Felix Lüttge (UNIBAS))

10:30 Panel 1: History of Science in the Anthropocene

Chair: Lisa Cronjäger (UNIBAS)

  • 10:30 Ashoka Vardhan Manchala (UZH)
    The Making of Value: Coal Extraction in Hyderabad State, c. 1880–1912

  • 10:50 Camille Schneiter (UZH)
    The Creatures of the Anthropocene: A Bioconstitutional History of Neobiota in Switzerland

  • 11:10 Lucas Müller (UNIGE)
    Avalanches of Snow, Avalanches of Numbers?

11:30 Coffee break

12:00 Panel 2: Poetics and Aesthetics of Knowledge

Chair: Felix Lüttge (UNIBAS)

  • 12:00 Stamatina Mastorakou (MPIWG/Zürich)
    Visualizations of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa

  • 12:20 Yohann Guffroy (EPFL)
    On the Use of the “Techno-aesthetic” Notion in the Study of Drawings of Invention (England, ca. 1750–1850)

  • 12:40 Paul Deshusses (IHEID)
    History of Animal Communication: The Biosemiotics Case

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Panel 3: Media and Techniques of the Psyche

Chair: Maria Eriksson (UNIBAS)

  • 14:30 Mireille Berton (UNIL)
    Film as a Source for the History of Psychiatry: The Case of the Waldau Collections (1920–1970)

  • 14:50 Joshua Klein (IHEID)
    Mind Sciences, Modernity and the Making of Subjects after Empire, ca. 1930–1980

  • 15:10 Magnus Rust (UNIBAS)
    Technology Criticism Transfer: From California’s 50s to West Germany’s 80s

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Panel 4: Human Sciences in Switzerland and Beyond

Chair: David Bucheli (UNIBAS)

  • 16:00 Martina Sochin-D’Elia (UZH)
    Miscarriages and Stillbirths in Switzerland

  • 16:20 William Favre (UNINE)
    Japonisme et études japonaises en Suisse à la Belle Epoque

  • 16:40 Niki Rhyner (ETHZ)
    Cultural Identities and Their Economy: A History of Ethnographic Field Research in Europe after WWII

17:00 HSSuisse 2024

18:00 Drinks & dinner