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 [email protected].
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
Fabien 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?”
PAST YEARS
We are glad to share the program for the 2023-24 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 [email protected].
Jérôme Baudry (EPFL), Bruno J. Strasser (UNIGE), Harro Maas (UNIL) and Gianenrico Bernasconi (UNINE)
Program
9 October 2023, Université de Lausanne
Mary Morgan (London School of Economics): “Narratives and Models in Science”
7 November 2023 (nb: Tuesday), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Yi-Tang Lin (Universität Zürich): “Food and Agriculture Research in the Early People’s Republic of China”
11 December 2023, Université de Genève
Gerardo Ienna (Università di Verona): “A History of Science and Technology Studies Through its Transnational Associations”
19 February 2024, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Brice Laurent (Mines Paris – PSL): “Quelle politique du territoire face à l’extraction des ressources ?”
18 March 2024, Université de Neuchâtel
François Jarrige (Université de Bourgogne): “Du ‘cheval vivant’ and ‘cheval mort’ : penser le moteur animé à l’âge industriel”
22 April 2024, Université de Genève
Debjani Bhattacharyya (Universität Zürich): “Atmospheric Politics and the Indian Ocean”
13 May 2024, Université de Lausanne
Monika Wulz (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich): “Science, Technology, Gender, and Development Politics: Science Studies in International Socialist Debate”
17 June 2024, Université de Neuchâtel
Harro Maas (Université de Lausanne), “Moral Accounting Matters: Diaristic Accounts as Historical Sources”
We are glad to share the program for the 2022-23 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 [email protected].
Jérôme Baudry (EPFL), Bruno J. Strasser (UNIGE), Harro Maas (UNIL) and Gianenrico Bernasconi (UNINE)
Program
21 November 2022, Université de Lausanne
Sophie Cras (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) : “L’économie au musée. Une histoire des savoirs économiques exposés (XIXe-XXe siècle)”
19 December 2022, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre-Koyré, CNRS) : “Communicating Science from the Republic of Letters to Virtual Communities: A Short Technological History of Conferencing”
20 February 2023, Université de Neuchâtel
Tina Asmussen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) : “The Matter of Air: Imagineering Vapors and Spirits in Early Modern Mining”
20 March 2023, Université de Genève
Judith Rainhorn (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) : “Air intérieur et poisons domestiques, XIXe-XXe siècles”
3 April 2023, Université de Lausanne
Verena Halsmayer (Universität Luzern) : “Historicizing the Solow Model: Managing Growth en miniature”
24 April 2023, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Margarita Boenig-Liptsin (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) : “Just Right: An Imaginary of Data and Justice”
22 May 2023, Université de Genève [en ligne]
Etienne Benson (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftgeschichte) : “The Environment as an Object of Science and a Setting for Collective Life”
19 June 2023, Université de Neuchâtel
Matteo Valleriani (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftgeschichte) : “Is it Possible to Quantify Historical Temporality?”
We are happy to announce that EPFL, UNIGE, UNIL and UNINE are joining forces to launch a new Séminaire romand d’histoire des sciences et des techniques this year. The seminar will be held on Mondays 11am-1pm, 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. We’re attaching the program for 2021-2022.
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 [email protected].
Jérôme Baudry (EPFL), Bruno J. Strasser (UNIGE), Harro Maas (UNIL) and Gianenrico Bernasconi (UNINE)