[ATHENA] Appel à contributions pour la 9ème conférence "Tensions of Europe"

[Valerie <valerieschafer AT wanadoo.fr>]

Bonjour, 

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Bien cordialement,  

Valérie Schafer 

Call for Papers

The 9th Tensions of Europe Conference

 

27-30 June 2019, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

http://www.toe2019.org

 

The Tensions of Europe conference is organised biennially by an interdisciplinary community of scholars who study the shaping of Europe through the lens of technology and material culture. We welcome fruitful interactions between historians of technology and scholars from all other fields of the humanities and social sciences (http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu). The 9th Tensions of Europe Conference will be organised by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg.

  

Conference Theme

Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age

  

Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age investigates the way in which our approach to European technological pasts is influenced, shaped and may even be transformed in the digital age, and, conversely, how the digital present and future of Europe is the result of long-term historical trajectories and patterns.

In the current narrative, digitisation is a process profoundly shaped by US visions. This conference also aims to rediscover European influences in this process, alternative EU visions, etc. Although Europe will be at the centre of most of the analyses, proposals that compare global, national, regional and/or local approaches and combine several scales and trajectories to shed light on technological pasts in the digital age are also welcome.

Along with the impact of digitisation on historical archives, resources and practices, we also invite presentations exploring the writing and shaping of European history in a critical, experimental and interdisciplinary way: retro-digitised and born-digital heritage, new tools and digital practices of European historiography, digital narratives and teaching methods in the field of European history.

 Our aim is to encourage a process of cross-fertilisation by including contributions from a wide variety of historical disciplines as well as from archivists and fields such as geography, digital humanities, science and technology studies, Internet studies, media studies, information and communication sciences, and infrastructure, platform and code studies.

 Also welcome are themes that extend the general research agenda of the Tensions of Europe network, e.g. transnational histories of technology, history of European infrastructures and networks, environment and technology, the democracy–technology relationship, conflicting interests and technology, technology and hidden integration, technology and culture, gender and technology, technology and ethnicity, and technology and disability.

  

Some possible topics:

·      The history of computerisation and digitisation in Europe

·      Continuity and change between the analog and digital eras

·       Computerisation and digitisation in specific fields, industries and sectors

·       The history of robotics, automation, artificial intelligence in Europe, etc.

·       The history of data (data histories, historicising big data, etc.)

·      Critical perspectives on the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”

·      The influence of US trajectories and alternative European visions

·      Digitised and born-digital material culture in European history

·       Heritagisation of Europe in the digital age

·       Digital tools and methods for analysing historical datasets/digital sources

·       New digital narratives and teaching methods in history of technology/European history

·       General topics on the ToE research agenda

The organisers invite scholars to submit proposals by 15 November 2018 (submissions will open on 15 October 2018). 

More information at  http://www.toe2019.org

Important dates:

 

●      Opening of submissions: 15 October 2018●      Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2018●      Notification of acceptance: 20 January 2019●      Confirmation of participation: 20 February 2019●      Publication of draft programme: 15 March 2019●      Opening of registration: 20 March 2019

 

Keynote speakers and special events

 Bethany Nowviskie (Director of the Digital Library Federation, CLIR, Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Virginia, United States) and Niels Brügger (Professor in Internet Studies and Digital Humanities, Head of NetLab and of the Centre for Internet Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark) will give keynote lectures during the conference. Several events linked to the topic Decoding Europe will be organised, especially a round table entitled Coding Europe, decoding its history and a presentation/performance on media archaeology organised by Lionel Broye and Emmanuel Guez (PAMAL, Avignon, France).

Local Organising Committee

At the C²DH (University of Luxembourg): Florentina Armaselu, Andreas Fickers, Brigitte Melchior, Victoria Mouton, Valérie Schafer, Noëlle Schon, Isabelle Voegeli, Florian Vetter

With the help of Jan Korsten (Foundation for the History of Technology, Secretary of the Tensions of Europe Network)

 

Programme Committee

Yves Bouvier (Sorbonne University, France), Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Benoît Majerus (C²DH, University of Luxembourg), Janne Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Valérie Schafer (C²DH, University of Luxembourg / Program Chair), Frank Schipper (Netherlands), Joanna Walewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)

 

International Scientific Committee

Gabriele Balbi (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland), Pascal Griset (Sorbonne University, France), Tom Misa (SHOT, United States), Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Julia Pohle (Berlin Social Science Center, Germany), Aristotle Tympas (School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Erik van der Vleuten (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Nina Wormbs (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

For any further information 

see http://www.toe2019.org

or please contact toe2019 AT uni.lu