Wednesday, July 20, 2022

1:00 – 2:00 PM
Welcome Lunch

2:00 – 2:15 PM Introduction
- Jan Hansen (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Frederik Schulze (Bielefeld University): Materiality and the History of Infrastructure

2:15 – 3:15 PM
- M. Luísa Sousa (NOVA University Lisbon): The Portuguese Intra-Imperial Research on the Use of Laterite in Road Construction in Angola and Mozambique
- Discussant: Robert Heinze (German Historical Institute, Paris)

3:15 – 3:45 PM
Coffee Break

3:45 – 4:45 PM
- Martin Meiske (Deutsches Museum Munich): Materialities of Maintenance: An Envirotechnical Analysis of Knowledge, Labor, and Toxicity in Railway Infrastructures
- Discussant: Aybike Alkan (Technical University of Berlin)

4:45 – 5:45 PM
- María Ignacia Jeldes, Paul Sprute, Monika Motylinska (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Erkner): The Materiality and Constructability of the Subway in Buenos Aires (1933–1944)
- Discussant: Georg Fischer (Aarhus University)

5:45 – 6:15 PM
Break

6:15 – 7:15 PM Keynote Lecture
- Mikael Hård (Technical University of Darmstadt): Technological Landscapes

7:15 – 9:00 PM
Dinner

Thursday, July 21, 2022

9:00 – 10:00 AM
- Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University): Materializing Racism: Roadbuilding, Urban Reconstruction and Race Relations in Baltimore, 1910–2018
- Discussant: Sophie Gerber (Technical Museum Vienna)

10:00 – 11:00 AM
- Laura Meneghello (University of Siegen): Assembling the City: Pneumatic Tubes and Urban Space (ca. 1860s–1980s)
- Discussant: Antonia von Schöning (Humboldt University of Berlin)

11:00 – 11:30 AM
Coffee Break

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
- Daqing Yang (George Washington University, Washington, D.C.): Materiality of Void: Wireless Spectrum and Communications Infrastructure in Japan, 1902–1945
- Discussant: Barbara Orland (University of Basel)

12:30 – 1:30 PM
- Ellan F. Spero, Christine Ortiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA): Technological Models as ‘Object Lessons’ of Agitation: Multiscale Materiality of a Demonstration Sand Filter for Water Purification in an Industrial City in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Discussant: Christian Zumbrägel (Technical University of Berlin)

1:30 – 1:45 PM Concluding remarks
- Jan Hansen (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Frederik Schulze (Bielefeld University)

1:45 – 2:30 PM
Farewell Lunch