History of technology over lunch
"Technikgeschichte über Mittag" has been taking place in cooperation with KIT and GTG since April 2021.
The event is an online lecture series and takes place in cooperation with the KIT. The access link has not changed, if you do not have it yet, please contact Ms. Klaudija Ivok (KIT).
Program for the winter semester 2025/2026
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Date |
Advisor |
Title of the lecture |
| 07.11.2025 | Michael Leemann (University of Frankfurt) | Christianity and the metal pen. Reflections on a religious history of early modern automata (1500-1800) |
| 21.11.2025 | Nico Nolden (University of Hamburg) |
Pixelated contours. Digital games as technology and cultural technique and the gaps in their techno-cultural history |
| 12.12.2025 | Olha Martynyk (University of Basel) | Testing the Soviet Utopia: The Social History of Technologies in Ukraine, 1922-1991 |
| 09.01.2026 | Sebastian de Pretto (Uni Bern) |
Technocracy in the Mountains: Knowledge, Power and Hubris in Alpine Hydraulic Engineering after 1945 |
| 23.01.2026 | Barbara Hof (University of Lausanne) |
Dissident technopolitics: The solidary-practical knowledge production of Western grassroots movements during the Vietnam War |