[ATHENA] 2024-25 Séminaire romand d'histoire des sciences et des techniques

[Jérôme Baudry <jerome.baudry AT epfl.ch>]

Dear colleagues,

We are glad to share the program for the 2024-25 series of the Séminaire romand d’histoire des sciences et des techniques. The seminar is held on Mondays 11am-1pm, usually once a month, in Geneva, Lausanne or Neuchâtel, and online (in “hybrid mode”). Invited speakers will share a work-in-progress or recently published research that will be discussed collectively after a short presentation.

If you’re interested in the seminar and want to receive room & Zoom information, as well as the pre-circulated papers, please subscribe to the seminar mailing list by sending an email (any email) to hist.sci.tech-subscribe AT listes.epfl.ch.

With our best wishes,

Jérôme Baudry (EPFL), Bruno J. Strasser (UNIGE), Maria Bach (UNIL) and Gianenrico Bernasconi (UNINE)

Program

14 October 2024, Université de Lausanne

David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España): “What makes the price of your insurance fair? The intellectual history of some eighteenth-century answers”

 

18 November 2024, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Martin Meiske (Deutsches Museum): “Cultures and costs of maintenance. The rise of creosote and its precarious legacy”

 

16 December 2024, Université de Genève

Fabrien Locher (CNRS): “La mer : zone à exploiter, zone à défendre. Technologies, souveraineté et mobilisations politiques autour de la prospection pétrolière sur le littoral français (1950-1980)”

 

3 March 2025, Université de Neuchâtel

Rachele Delucchi (ETH Zürich): “Une unité pour le vide. Calibrages, conversions et conversations (ca. 1950-1960)”

 

24 March 2025, Université de Lausanne

Danielle Guizzo (University of Bristol): “Promoting inclusivity in economics: Can the ‘herstories’ of economic thought help?”

 

14 April 2025, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Marieke Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences): “Food preservation in the early modern era: dealing with heterogeneous sources and methods in the Preservare project”

 

19 May 2025, Université de Genève

Laurence Talairach (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès): “Women, algology, and science popularisation in nineteenth-century Britain”

 

16 June 2025, Université de Neuchâtel

Simona Boscani Leoni (Université de Lausanne): “Natural history and the discovery of the Alps: A global history?”