Symposium on the History of Science and Technology
© 2018 DHI EPFL
The Digital Humanities Institute is pleased to invite you to its first Symposium on the History of Science and Technology on May 30th & 31st, 2018 in room BC420.
Wednesday, May 30th - Room BC420
8:00-8:45 - Programming — the Second Literacy: What Kind of Information Age? - Ksenia Tatarchenko, University of Geneva
9:00-9:45 - Toward an integrated socio-epistemic narrative of the history of 20th century physics - Roberto Lalli, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
9:45-10:15 - Coffee break
10:15-11:00 - Martians of Engineering: Calculating the Unthinkable in Cold War Switzerland - Silvia Berger, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich
11:15-12:00 - Exploring the science/technology interface - Jérôme Baudry, University of Geneva
Thursday, May 31st - Room BC420
8:00-8:45 - “Scientists are worse than other professors”: Industrial Patronage of Academic Research in the Early Cold War - Joseph D. Martin, University of Cambridge
9:00-9:45 - Social Engineering in China: Typical Samples and Big Data - Andrea Bréard, Université Paris-Sud
9:45-10:15 - Coffee break
10:15-11:00 - Making Sense of Modern Global Mathematics - Michael J. Barany, Dartmouth College