Democracy and Technology. Europe under Tensions, 19th-21st C. 6th ToE Conference

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Session 1F Foreign radio broadcasts in socialist spaces during the Cold War

Serpente: room D035

Chair: Timothy Stoneman, Georgia Tech Lorraine - discussant: Andreas Fickers, Maastricht University

› Diplomacy, Psychological Warfare and Political Prestige: The Voice of America Frequency Issue and the US–Hungarian Talks on Releasing Robert Vogeler, 1950–1951 - Attila Szörényi, Independant scholar 09:00-09:20 (20min)

› Information war. Jamming foreign radio stations in the USSR, 1956-1991 - Larissa Zakharova, CERCEC, EHESS, Paris 09:20-09:40 (20min)

› Audio Communities and Identity in the Late USSR: Seva Novgorodsev and His Audiences, 1970s-1980s - Kristin Roth-Ey, University College London 09:40-10:00 (20min)

Session 1C Contesting expertise between environment and life

Serpente: room D035

chair: Christophe Bouneau, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3 - discussant: Laura Maxim, CNRS

› The “improvement of the river Loire” and the filling of Nantes' rivers (1850-1950). Democracy, technology and the government of the environment. - Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, EHESS 09:00-09:20 (20min)

› Transitioning to a Low Carbon Society? The case of Copenhagen from 1950 to 2050 - Andrés Valderrama - Nina Vogel, Aalborg University 14:40-15:00 (20min)

› Technology, the orthodox and the catholic: Stem cells between religious and secular institutions of the European South - Constantinos Morfakis - Katerina Vlantoni, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Lorenzo Beltrame, Università degli Studi di Trento 15:50-16:10 (20min)

Session 1A Consumers as actors on the stage of technical democracies

Serpente: room D040

Chair: Marie-Emanuelle Chessel, CNRS - discussant: Frank Trentmann, Birkbeck, University of London

› Politics, Democracy, and Bicycle Clubs in Europe and the United States, 1880-1975 - Ruth Oldenziel, Technical University Eindhoven 09:00-09:20 (20min)

› Consumers and democracy: the creation of the fashion system - Emanuela Scarpellini, Università degli Studi di Milano 09:20-09:40 (20min)

› Gas Consumers' Strikes in France (1892-1914): the starting point of a consumer movement in the energy sector ? - Dominique Pinsolle, C.E.M.M.C., Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 09:40-10:00 (20min)

Session 1B Digital publics and participation

Serpente: room D116

Chair: Adeline Wrona, Université Paris-Sorbonne - discussant: Karl-Erik Michelsen, Lappeenranta University of Technology

› Democracy-by-design: Distributed architectures as a tool for “distributed democracy” - Danièle Bourcier - Primavera De Filippi - Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, CNRS 09:20-09:40 (20min)

› Digital Participation – the case of the Italian “Dialogue With citizens” - Gianluca Sgueo, Universidade de Coimbra 09:40-10:00 (20min)

Session 1D Delivering European patents. Building a European market - and democracy?

Serpente: room D223

Chair: Pascal Griset, Paris Sorbonne University - discussant: TBA

› Prior art. The International Patents Institute's forgotten legacy - Léonard Laborie, CNRS 09:00-09:20 (20min)

› EPO-EU relations. The question of patents on life - Birte Wassenberg, Université de Strasbourg 09:20-09:40 (20min)

› Information costs asymmetries in the European patent system: a barrier to integration? - Michele Gazzola, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Alessia Volpe, Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques, Paris 09:40-10:00 (20min)

Session 1E The digital panopticon?

Serpente: room D421

Chair: Francesca Musiani, MINES ParisTech - discussant: Nanette Levinson, American University SIS

› Opaque Democracy in the Transparent Society - Mouli Bentman - Michael Dahan, Sapir College, Israël 09:00-09:20 (20min)

› Video surveillance and privacy issues in a comparative perspective - Fiammetta Berardo, Université de Liège 09:20-09:40 (20min)

› On dis/abled clandestine bodies: Producing European borders through uneven technological battles - Vasilis Galis, Örebro University - Aristotle Tympas, University of Athens - Spyros Tzokas, Hellenic Open University 09:40-10:00 (20min)

Coffee break

Session 2E Regulating food and defining safety

Serpente: room D035

Chair: Florence Hachez-Leroy, Université d'Artois - discussant: Nil Disco, University of Twente

› Regulating biotechnological innovation in Europe: the evolution and challenges of the European Food Safety Authority - Loes van Suijlekom, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› The Drive for Democracy in the Regulation of Modern Agricultural Biotechnology - Ludivine Petetin, University of Hull, United Kingdom 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Mexican Biosafety as a performance of seriousness: science and politics in the distancing of the Transgenic contamination of Mexican Maize - Jean Foyer - Christophe Bonneuil, CNRS, Paris 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 2F Radical innovation in the shadow of war

Serpente: room D040

Chair: Paul Edwards, University of Michigan - discussant: Patrick Fridenson, EHESS

› Partisans of a new technology: the development of the first computers in the Soviet Union, 1940-50s - Michael Lankin, European University at Saint-Petersburg 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Distrusted Feasibilities: The Rocket and the Future in Post-war Europe - Daniel Brandau, Freie Universität Berlin 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 2D The question of democracy in housing policies

Serpente: room D116

chair: TBA - discussant: Liesbeth Bervoets, University of Amsterdam

› Democratic housing in Belgium - Els De Vos, Artesis - Universiteit Antwerpen 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› House design for the middle class in Greece. Hyper-modern demands and cultural constraints - Myrto Kiourti, National Technical University of Athens 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Between the Soviet Mass and the Elite: Alternative Housing in the Soviet Baltic in the 1960s - Marija Dremaite, Vilnius University 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 2C Energy sovereignty

Serpente: room D223

Chair: Eric Bussière, Université Paris Sorbonne - discussant: Yves Bouvier, Université Paris-Sorbonne

› Democracy or Communism: the Bulgarian electricity sector during two political transition periods. (1944-1950; 1989-2003) - Ivaylo Hristov - Tihomir Mitev, Plovdiv University 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› Pipelines across Frontiers: Governance of the Natural Gas Sector in Europe, 1960s – 1990s. - Irene Anastasiadou, Delft University of Technology 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Expertise, Technologies and the Management of Natural Commons in Energy battles in Greece - Stathis Arapostathis - Vassiliki Aggelopoulou, University of Athens 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 2A Technology challenging governance

Serpente: room D323

Chair: Julie Bouchard, Université Paris 13 - discussant: Nina Wormbs, Royal Institute of Stockholm

› Responsible Innovation: new framework to overcome the tension between democracy and technology in Europe? - Bernard Reber, CNRS 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› Technical Democracy: What For? - Adeline Barbin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› The governance of societal configurations in support of transitions - Ulrik Jørgensen - Jens Stissing Jensen, Aalborg University 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Lunch

Reflections on future of Tensions of Europe - Plenary 2

Réfectoire des Cordeliers

Session 3F Invisible democracy? Women, radio and the mediation of domestic expertise

Serpente: room D035

Chair: Valérie Schafer, CNRS - discussant: Ana Paula Silva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

› Radio in Contest and Context: Mass Media and Gender in 1930s France - Joelle Neulander, The Citadel, South Carolina 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Ordinary housewives, domestic goddesses and scientific experts: competing domestic expertise on the BBC in inter-war Britain - Maggie Andrews, University of Worcester 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Radio in 1950: Eleanor Roosevelt as ordinary citizen and expert on domestic and international issues - Anya Luscombe, University College Roosevelt, The Netherlands 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› ‘Ordinary household deeds are of far-reaching social importance...' (Inter)national education of interactive housewives? - Alexander Badenoch, LABEX EHNE - Kristin Skoog, Bournemouth University 14:45-15:00 (15min)

Session 3C Nuclear energy in Europe. On technologies and controversies

Serpente: room D040

Chair: Johan Schot, Eindhoven University of Technology - discussant: Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan

› The diverging trajectories of Fast Breeder Reactor development in France and the UK (1950s-1990s): a tentative comparison - Claire Le Renard - Arthur Jobert, GRETS, EDF R&D - Markku Lehtonen, Sussex University 15:30-15:50 (20min)

› Local and Transnational Scales of Chernobyl - Karena Kalmbach, European University Institute - Tatiana Kasperski, European Humanities University Vilnius - Susanne Bauer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 15:50-16:10 (20min)

› Nuclear energy debate beyond borders. The rise and dynamic of counter-expertise in an entangled Europe. - Emmanuel Rivat, Sciences Po Bordeaux 16:10-16:30 (20min)

Session 3D Sharing the sky

Serpente: room D116

Chair: Vincent Guigueno, Ministère de l'Ecologie - discussant: David Burigana, Università degli Studi di Padova

› The symbolic power of aviation as a tool in the building of Czechoslovak democracy (1918-1938) - Jan Oliva, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› Flying in Formation: Western European Integration and its Impact on Civil Aviation, 1945-75 - Sean Nicklin, University of Ottawa 14:40-15:00 (20min)

› A trust-building agency? The East-West links in the civil aviation sector in the 1960s and the 1970s - Peter Svik, University of Tartu 15:50-16:10 (20min)

Session 3E Unleashing technology as a legitimation machine. Failures and paradoxes in the mobility realm

Serpente: room D223

Chair: Maria Luísa Sousa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - discussant: Michèle Merger, Ecole Normale Supérieure

› A Japanese solution to a French controversy in urban mobility. Paris, Tokyo, 1960s-1970s - Arnaud Passalacqua, ICT, Université Paris Diderot 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› Imposing and refusing. The High Speed Train European program: The Susa Valley case-study - Andrea Giuntini, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› Light rail or light participation? Technology shaping the political debate (and failing to perform) - Massimo Moraglio, Technische Universität Berlin 14:40-15:00 (20min)

Session 3B The internet and authoritarian regimes

Serpente: room D323

Chair: Larissa Zakharova, EHESS - discussant: Bernard Reber, CNRS

› Queer Travels: Networked Society, Digitizing Queerness and Political Surveillance - Yuenmei Wong, University of Maryland 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› A double-edged sword: the Internet and authoritarian regimes - Martin Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› How relevant is the dialectic link between democracy and technology? The case of revolutions for democracy – “Web2.0 revolutions” – in Arab countries - Tourya Guaaybess, LCP, Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand 14:40-15:00 (20min)

Session 3A Technocracy and Socialist Utopia

Serpente: room D421

chair: Isabelle Davion, Université Paris-Sorbonne - discussant: Alexandre Fernandez, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux 3

› Technocratic thought and humanism in state socialist discourse: removing the historical city of Most - Matej Spurný, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› Theory of Technocratic Socialism? “Scientific and Technological Revolution” Studies and State Socialist Governance in Czechoslovakia (1960s-1980s) - Vitezslav Sommer, Sciences Po Paris 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› Czechoslovakian Technocratic Thinking between Liberal Democracy and Socialist Dictatorship: Was there any Continuity? - Jakub Rakosnik, Charles University, Prague 14:40-15:00 (20min)

Coffee break

Session 4E Tracks and wires: linking Europe with steel and copper

Serpente: room D035

Chair: François Caron, Université Paris-Sorbonne - discussant: Arnaud Passalacqua, Université Paris Diderot

› “European Multilateralism” (1848-1865): a Telegraphic idea? - Simone Fari, Universidad de Granada - Gabriele Balbi - Guiseppe Richeri, Universitá della Svizzera Italiana 16:00-16:20 (20min)

› What role for the railways? - Discourses on international rail transport, as seen by industry professionals in the 19th and 20th century - Martin Schiefelbusch, Technische Universität Berlin 16:20-16:40 (20min)

› Coupling Europeanization and Sovietization: Transnational Governance of the Eastern European Railways in the Cold War Era - Jiří Janáč, Charles University, Prague - Johan Schot, Eindhoven University of Technology - Slawomir Lotysz, University of Zielona Gora, Poland 16:40-17:00 (20min)

Session 4F Split Signals. Cold War broadcasting technologies as tools of power and subversive practices

Serpente: room D040

chair: Olivier Forcade, Université Paris-Sorbonne - discussant: Hans Weinberger, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

› Negotiating ‚Airy Curtains‘ throughout the Cold War - Christian Henrich-Franke, Institut für Europäische Regionalforschungen, Universität Siegen 16:00-16:20 (20min)

› "We do not tolerate agitating aerials telling lies" - Technical measures against Western broadcasting in the GDR and how they were evaded - Christoph Classen, Centre for Contemporary History ZZF, Postdam 16:20-16:40 (20min)

› Subverting and Praising a Dictatorship: The case of shortwave broadcasts to Portugal during the Cold War, 1945-1974 - Nelson Ribeiro, Universidade Católica Portuguesa 16:40-17:00 (20min)

Session 4C Establishing nuclear power plants: democratic fissions

Serpente: room D116

Chair: Christophe Lecuyer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - discussant: Alain Beltran, CNRS

› Political Fissions inside the French Democracy: Institutions facing Civil Society - Yves Bouvier, LLS, Université de Savoie 16:20-16:40 (20min)

› Media Fissions: Freedom of the Press, Fourth Estate and Nuclear Power Debate - Vincent Porhel, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 18:30-18:50 (20min)

Session 4B The internet and the European public sphere

Serpente: room D223

Chair: Thomas Misa, Charles Babbage Institute - discussant: Cécile Méadel, Mines ParisTech

› New Technologies and the democratization of the European public sphere - Valentina Vardabasso, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 16:00-16:20 (20min)

› The impacts of E-participation projects on democracy - Alina Ostling, European University Institute Florence 16:20-16:40 (20min)

› Shaping a European Citizenship Online - Romain Badouard, CSI, MINES ParisTech 16:40-17:00 (20min)

Session 4D Building technologies, industrialized housing

Serpente: room D323

Chair: Ruth Oldenziel, Eindhoven University of Technology - discussant: Aristotle Tympas, University of Athens

› From the US Military Reasoning on Industrialized Buildings during Cold War (1947-1965) to the Urban Translocal Reception by the Technological Utopia - Steeve Sabatto, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris 16:00-16:20 (20min)

› Encounters of central and local experts' vision on city planning in the Soviet Arctic in 1960s - Ekaterina Kalemeneva, European University at Saint-Petersburg 16:20-16:40 (20min)

Session 4A Designer values

Serpente: room D421

Chair: Serge Paquier, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne - discussant: Françoise Daucé, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand

› Unixian european networks and newsgroups : ideals and pragmatics of an electronic agora - Camille Paloque-Berges, DICEN, LabEx Hastec, CNAM , Paris 16:20-16:40 (20min)

› Hackathons : laboratories of digital citizenship in contemporary Russia ? - Ksenia Ermoshina, MINES ParisTech 16:40-17:00 (20min)

› Are computer interfaces politics ? About text, icons and menus as political spaces. A comparison between French textual interfaces and American graphical ones (1970's-1990's) - Benjamin Thierry, Université Paris-Sorbonne 17:50-18:10 (20min)

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