Day 1: Thursday, 2.9.2021 (all times UTC+2)
10:00 – 11:00 Welcome by the organizers and introduction of participants
Philosophy of Repair
11:00 – 11:45 Mark Thomas Young, University of Bergen
Making and Maintaining: What Philosophers of Technology can learn from the Study of Maintenance
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break
Maintaining High-Tech (and Power)
12:00 – 12:45 Sangwoon Yoo, Seoul National University
Innovation in Maintenance: Technical Achievements of Cleanroom Operators and Maintainers in Korean Semiconductor Production Line, 1980s-2000s
12:45 – 13:30 Liliana Gil, New School for Social Research, New York
The Brazilian "Electronics Paradise:" Repair Work, Expertise, and Global Connections in Santa Efigênia
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
Off the Grid: Everyday Repair Practices
14:30 - 15:15 Kostas Latoufis and Aristotle Tympas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Makeshift Engineering: Repairing Machines, Crafting Knowledge and Maintaining Relationships with Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines
15:15 - 16:00 Yovanna Pineda, University of Central Florida
Gendered Spaces of Repair, Maintenance, and Knowledge Production in Argentina, Twentieth Century
Day 2: Friday, 3.9.2021 (all times UTC+2)
10:00 - 10:30 Summary of Day 1
10.30 - 11.15 Anaïs Bloch, HEAD-Genève
Mobile Repair Cultures: from informal repair to silent innovation, the smartphone case
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break
Maintaining Infrastructures
11:30 - 12:15 Laura Meneghello, Siegen University
Between Old and New: “Modernizing”, Maintaining and Repairing Pneumatic Tube Systems
12:15 - 13:00 Martin Meiske, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Cultures and Costs of Maintenance. The Rise of Creosote and its Precarious Legacy
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45 Amanda McMillan Lequieu, Drexel University
Imagining the unmaintained object: Industrial transportation infrastructure decline as narrative symbol in the American Rust Belt
Visual Inventory of Repair Practices
14:45 - 15:30 Sam Bennett, Parsons School of Design, New York
A New Year’s Resolution of Repair: Investigated through Niche Repair Shops of New York City
15:30 - 16:00 Closing Remarks