Christian Zumbrägel, Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin
21–22 March 2024, TU Berlin
21st March 2024
12:00–12:30 Welcome and Introduction
Christian Zumbrägel (Berlin): Reanimating Animals in the History of Technology. A Conceptual Introduction
12:30–14:30 Panel I: Technologies between Animals and Humans
Chair: Dorothee Brantz (Berlin)
Sandra Jasper (Berlin) & Jonathan Prior (Cardiff): Animal Voices in the Archive
Vanessa Bateman (Maastricht): Just Passing Through. Mediating Migratory Birds at the Natural History Museum
Christoph Borbach (Siegen): Virtual Borders/Invisible Fences: Structuring Animal Territory with Sensor Technology within Agriculture
Coffee break
15:00–18:00 Panel II: Animals as Actors in Technological Landscapes
Chair: Frank Uekötter (Bochum)
Barbara Orland (Basel): False Hope in Technology? Urban Fish Breeding Initiatives since the middle of the 19th Century
Daniel Bowman (Stavanger): Petro-Pets: American Automobility and Animal Acceptance
Coffee break
Kate Stevens (Waikato): Chew-Points across Pacific Ports: Marine Borer and the Disruption of Colonial Infrastructure (Zoom)
Margot Lyautey (Hamburg) & Heinrich Hartmann (Hamburg): Threatened by Modernity. Tunisian Rural Development and Animal Resistance (1950s-1970s)
Coffee break
18:30–19:30 Keynote
Dolly Jørgensen (Stavanger): Building for Birds: Cohabitation, Design, and Nonhuman Users of Technology
20:00 Dinner
22nd March 2024
9:00–11:00 Panel III: Animals as Living Technologies
Chair: Christian Zumbrägel (Berlin)
Martin Kalb (Bridgewater): Sustaining Empire: Animal Dependencies in German Southwest Africa
Corinna Röver (Linköping/Berlin): (Beyond) Living Technologies: Animals in the European Arctic during World War II
Ruža Fotiadis (Berlin): On Donkey Trails into the Modern Age: Transport Animals and Technological Change in Southeast Europe, 19th-20th Century
Coffee break
11:30–14:00 Panel IV: Animals as Resources
Chair: Gisela Hürlimann (Dresden)
Chad Denton (Seoul): Bones for Industry: The Technological Transformation of Animal Remains into Resources in Nazi Germany
Beat Bächi (Zurich): The Dream of a Germ-Free Life: Specific Pathogen Free Pigs as Technoscientific Organisms
Coffee break
Tamar Novick (Berlin): Bovine Regimes: When Animals Become Technologies
Lucy Beech (Berlin): Film Screening “Flush” (2023)
14:00–14:30 Lunch & Concluding Discussion