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

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Tensions of Europe - Dialogue workshop and research collaboration sessions

Cosmopolitan Commons. Governing Resources and Infrastructures across Borders
Introduced by Nil Disco, University of Twente - Paul Edwards, University of Michigan - Arne Kaijser - Nina Wormbs, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Disscussant: Erik van der Vleuten, Eindhoven University of Technology

Serpente: room D040

Consumer, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe
Introduced by Ruth Oldenziel, Eindhoven University of Technology and Mikael Hard, Darmstadt University of Technology
Commentator: Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan

Serpente: room D116

Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers
Introduced by Martin Kohlrausch, KU Leuven and Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum
Commentator: Arie Rip, University of Twente

Serpente: room D223

Coffee break

Session 5C Interconnection and techno-politics: a European Janus? Technical democracy and the interconnection of power systems in Europe from the end of the 19th century to the 21st century

Serpente: room D035

Chair: Arne Kaijser, Royal Institute of Technology - discussant: TBA

› The trajectory of UCPTE (Union for the Coordination of Production and Transmission of Electricity) and European Techno-Politics through Interconnection from 1950s to the 1990s - Christophe Bouneau, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux 3 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› Retrofitting a Large Technological System with Democracy? Breaking Points in the European Electricity Network and the Rise of Opposition to Power Lines - Vincent Lagendijk, Maastricht University 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Techno-Politics and the trajectory of France-Spain interconnection from 1920s to 2000s - Renan Viguié, MSHA, Bordeaux 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 5A The making of European tourism: regimes of integration and segregation

Serpente: room D040

chair: Birte Wassenberg, Université de Strasbourg - discussant: Frank Schipper, Universiteit Leiden

› Fostering Youth, Curbing Revolution: The Development of a Swedish Bourgeois Tourism Regime in the Interwar Period - Per Lundin, Uppsala University - Emmanuel Martin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› Tourism, Taxes, and Bicycle Lanes, 1880-2012 - Ruth Oldenziel, Technical University Eindhoven - Adri Albert De la Bruheze, University of Twente 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Tourist passages to antiquities and beaches: Road constructions and distractions in twentieth century Attica - Sofia Alexia Papazafeiropoulou - Evangelia Chatzikonstantinou, National Technical University of Athens - Christos Karampatsos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 5B User communities as technical and political stakeholders

Serpente: room D116

Chair: Nicole d'Almeida, Université Paris-Sorbonne - discussant: Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, CNRS

› The French research and education network, RENATER: a twenty-year-old stakeholder in Internet history - Valérie Schafer, CNRS, Paris 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› Peer-to-peer: the evergreen qualities of a seasoned technology - Francesca Musiani, MINES ParisTech, Georgetown University 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Co-evolutionary Processes in Governance & Technology: Multistakeholderism & The Internet Governance Forum, 2006-2013 - Nanette Levinson, American University SIS, Washington DC 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 5F Experts as public personae. Media, politics and expertise since 1851

Serpente: room D223

chair: Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum - discussant: Maria Paula Diogo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

› Walter Gropius as a Transatlantic ‘Techno-Celebrity' - Martin Kohlrausch, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› The Portuguese astronomer Melo e Simas (1870-1934). Shaping the republican ethos through a many-layered practice as scientific communicator - Ana Simões - Luís Miguel Carolino, Universidade de Lisboa 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Experts on TV – the new Portuguese conquerors in Africa (from 1958 onwards) - Ana Paula Silva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 5E Rethinking theoretical approaches to technology

Serpente: room D323

chair: Hélène Gaget, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - discussant: Jacques Perriault, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

› Liberalism and the State in French and Canadian Technocritical Discourses: Intersections and Contrasts Between George Grant and the Bordeaux School - Christian Roy, Université de Montréal 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› The framing and wider implications of the relationship between factors of production against the background of technological change - Jens Lowitzsch - Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Technology, Mythology, Democracy: Some Reflections on Cornelius Castoriadis and Kostas Axelos' thinking on the Question Concerning Technology - Vassilios Bogiatzis, National Technical University of Athens 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Session 5D Struggles over urban space

Serpente: room D421

› Publics, professions and pipes in the hygiene transition - Ulrik Jørgensen - Hanne Lindegaard, DIST, Aalborg University 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› Driving to an idealised democracy - Areti Sakellaridou, RWTH Aachen University 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Making illuminated advertising a matter of concern in the French cityscape - Stéphanie Le Gallic, Université Paris-Sorbonne 11:40-12:00 (20min)

Lunch

Session 6D Controversal mobilities: The user turn in transnational and long term perspective

Serpente: room D035

Chair: Massimo Moraglio, Technische Universität Berlin - discussant: Mathieu Flonneau, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

› Cities, congestion and Traffic Regulation: Transnational Exchanges during the Interwar Périod - Sébastien Gardon, LBNC, Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse 15:30-15:50 (20min)

› The Honey Trap - The democratization of leisure through automobilism - Michael Wagner, Aalborg University 15:40-15:30 (-1h-10)

› Rural mobility: beyond the controversies and prejudices: the Rhone department and the region of Quebec (20th century) - Etienne Faugier, Université Laval 15:50-16:10 (20min)

Session 6E Groping ways into the future

Serpente: room D116

Chair: Léonard Laborie, CNRS - discussant: Alec Badenoch, Université Paris-Sorbonne

› The mobility of the future ‘believes' in the past. The iron cage of technology. - Robin Kellermann, Technischen Universität Berlin 15:30-15:50 (20min)

› Governing the Future in an Authoritarian Regime: A History of Soviet Forecasting - Egle Rindzeviciute, Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po Paris 15:50-16:10 (20min)

› The European Commission's discursive regime of participative governance and the corresponding status of techno-scientific expertise - Emanuel Bertrand, CAK-CRHST, EHESS, Paris 16:10-16:30 (20min)

Session 6C Shifting discourses on nuclear power

Serpente: room D223

chair: Isabelle Veyrat-Masson, CNRS - discussant: Ana Simões, Universidade De Lisboa

› Wyhl 1975: Nuclear Power, Democracy and the Media in West Germany - Dolores Augustine, St. John's University, New York 15:30-15:50 (20min)

› Ignalina: A closed down nuclear power plant as a “landscape scar” - Anna Storm, Södertörn University, Sweden 15:50-16:10 (20min)

› An UnClear NuClear: the technopolitical regimes in Russia, Belarus and Lithuania - Andrei Stsiapanau, European Humanities University, Vilnius 16:10-16:30 (20min)

Coffee break

Session 7B Technology, communication and democracy

Serpente: room D035

chair: Fabrice d'Almeida, Université Panthéon-Assas - discussant: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University

› Projecting Power Overseas: The 1863 Paris Postal Conference, the American Civil War, and the Creation of International Communications Networks - Richard John, Columbia University 17:30-17:50 (20min)

› Communicating a critique of technological progress in the workplace: The genesis and impact of a major French book - Patrick Fridenson, CRH, EHESS, Paris 17:50-18:10 (20min)

› Is China a Weibo-democracy ? - Olivier Bomsel, CERNA, MINES ParisTech 18:10-18:30 (20min)

Session 7D Underground, underwater and over the sky: constructing surveillance, challenging democracy

Serpente: room D040

Chair: Gérard Arnold, CNRS - discussant: Néstor Herran, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

› Underwater Turbulences: Cold War Oceanography and the Contested Sovereignty of the Strait of Gibraltar - Lino Camprubí, The Earth Under Surveillance & Universidad Autónoma Barcelona - Sam Robinson, University of Manchester 17:30-17:50 (20min)

› Diplomacy and geosciences: the secret battle for Algerian oil - Roberto Cantoni, University of Manchester 17:50-18:10 (20min)

› Environmental Surveillance in the Context of the Cold War - Sebastian Grevsmühl, Centre Alexandre Koyré - CRHST, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 18:10-18:30 (20min)

Session 7F A difficult exercise in 'technical democracy'? Networks, municipalities and citizens

Serpente: room D116

Chair: Erik van der Vleuten, Eindhoven University of Technology - discussant: Andrea Giuntini, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

› "Municipalism", or, the Swiss model at stake : public opinion and policies from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century - Serge Paquier, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› Urban utilities networks : From the "municipal corporation's compromises" of the first third of 20th Century to today's ambiguous forms of "technological democracy" - Alexandre Fernandez, CEMMC, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux 3 17:10-17:30 (20min)

Session 7C Opening access to health?

Serpente: room D223

Chair - discussant: Muriel Le Roux, CNRS

› Democratizing access to modern drugs in postwar Eastern Europe - Slawomir Lotysz, University of Zielona Gora, Poland 17:30-17:50 (20min)

› Legal highs - innovation against the law - Johan Söderberg, IFRIS, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée 17:50-18:10 (20min)

› Situating Health in India - The Colonial Legacy Revisited (1950-2000) - Tinni Goswami Bhattacharya, University of Calcutta 18:00-17:40 (-1h-20)

Session 7E Responsible Research and Innovation

Serpente: room D323

Chair: Jean Foyer, CNRS - discussant: Brice Laurent, Mines ParisTech

› Responsible Research and Innovation: A Reflexive Governance Concept for Technology Ethics? - John Pearson, Fondation Universitaire Notre Dame de la Paix 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› Responsible Research and Innovation: Constructing technical democracy within the ERA? - Stevienna de Saille, University of Sheffield 17:30-17:50 (20min)

› What is Distinctive about a Reflexive Socio-normative Approach to Responsible Research and Innovation? - Robert Gianni, Fondation Universitaire Notre Dame de la Paix, Belgique 17:50-18:10 (20min)

Session 7A National technologies in a global marketplace

Serpente: room D421

Chair: Adri Albert De la Bruheze, University of Twente - discussant: Vincent Lagendijk, Maastricht University

› Engineers' class struggle and the question of technocracy in German and American high industrialism - Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› What and whom can technology transfer change? Western technologies in the Soviet modernization in 1950s – 1960s - Elena Kochetkova, European University at Saint-Petersburg 18:00-18:15 (15min)

› Manufacturing and Exporting National Technology - Elitsa Stoilova, Technical University Eindhoven and Plovdiv University 18:15-18:30 (15min)

Closing Gala

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