2024
HSSuisse 2024 will take place on June 6th, 2024, in Geneva at the SDG Solution Space, Campus Biotech (15 Avenue de Sécheron, 1202 Geneva). It is organized by Lucas Müller and David Robertson, and hosted by the University of Geneva’s Département de géographie et environnement and History of Science & Science Education group.
For questions, please email Lucas Müller (lumartacas.mueller@unigcarlitae.ch).
Program
10:15 Welcome
10:30-12:30 Panel 1: Expertise and Geovernance
Chair: Lucas Müller (UNIGE)
- Arthur Emile (EPFL)
Railways in Tales of Progress. How Science Popularizers Invented the Fear of the Steam Train
- Daniele Gerundino (UNIGE)
Industrial Revolutions and Standards
- Yishu Mao (MPIWG)
Leveraging History of Science and STS: Three Lessons from Nuclear Proliferation and Climate Change for Global AI Governance
- Pierre-Nicolas Oberhauser & Sandrine Maulini (HESAV)
Ignorance, or What? Research on Social Inequalities in Health in Switzerland and France, from the 1970s to the Present Day
12:45-14:00 Lunchtime Keynote
- Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
How Cold Environments Shaped Science and Infrastructures – and Vice-Versa. Experiences from Cryo-History
14:30-16:00 Panel 2: Resources
Chair: Lisa Cronjäger (UNIL)
- Katja Doose (UNIFR)
White Coal for White Goal. A History of Glacier Research in Central Asia, 1880-1960
- Simon Lobach & Michael Tonetti (IHEID)
Graphite: Natural, Synthetic, Strategic?
- Luca Thanei (ETHZ)
Near-Earth Space – Two Histories, 1970 - 2010
16:30-17:30 Panel 3: Images
Chair: Katharina Steiner (UNIGE)
- Antoine Gallay (UNIGE)
The Problem of Verisimilitude: A Blind Spot in the Historiography of Early Modern Epistemic Images
- Kalinka Janowski (UNIFR)
Places of Natural History: On the Trail of Engraved Environments (17th-18th Centuries)
17:30-18:00 Concluding Discussion
18:00- Apéro Dinatoire
HSSuisse 2024 is kindly supported with funds from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Project Avalanche by Lucas Müller) and Professor Bruno Strasser.