Thursday, 17 November 2022

18.15
Key Note: Richard Sennett

Friday, 18 November 2022

9.00 – 9.30
Martina Heßler, Darmstadt
Welcome, Introduction

A History of Flexibility

9.30 – 10.15
Vincent August, Berlin
The Rise of Cybernetic Network Ideas: A Critical Conceptual History of Flexibility

10.15 – 10:45 Break

Working Time/Temporary Work

10.45 – 11.30
Michael Homberg, Potsdam
The Flexible Clock. Circadian Rhythms, Temporal Concerns, and the Debate about Night and Shift Work in the Federal Republic of Germany

11.30 – 12.15
Anna Elisabeth Keim, Halle-Wittenberg
From Harmful Fluctuation to Beneficial Flexibility: Mobility Regimes and the Concept of Zeit-Arbeit in West Germany During the Boom

12.15 – 13.00
Ariane Leendertz, Stuttgart
Promoting Agility and Competitiveness in Science and Research: The Max-Planck Society and the Strategies of Flexibilization since the 1980s.

13:00 – 14.00 Lunch

Flexible Biographies

14.00 – 14.45
Kirstin Berit Jäggi-Jorns, Zürich
Flexibilization Configurations in Future Designs: The Subjectivization of Social Problems in the Swiss Federal Law on Vocational Education and Training since 1930

14.45 – 15.30
Christian Garland, London
“Flexibility“ as Precarity/Precarity as “Flexibility”: The Neoliberal Ideological Mask and the Social Reality, 40 Years of the “Anglo-American-Model” in the UK

15.30 – 16.00 Break

Work Processes: Promises/Policies of Flexibility

16.00 – 16.45
Sarah George, Berlin/Franziska Zehl, Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Mobile Work and the New Middle Class. Time-Space Compression and Impacts on Social and Spatial Mobility

16.45 – 17. 30
Mirjam Mayer, Zürich
Efficiency through Flexibility? Office Automation in the Swiss Federal Administration in the 1980s

17.30 – 18.15
Tim Clausnitzer, Martin Meister, Ingo Schultz-Schaeffer, Kevin Wiggert, Berlin
Narratives of Flexibilization Regarding the Introduction of Collaborative Industrial Robots

c. 19.00 Conference Dinner

Saturday, 19 November 2022

Re-Organization – Flexibility/Agility

9.00 – 9.45
Mona-Maria Bardmann, Hohenheim
Quo Vadis Flexibility? Digitalization and Formalization in High-Reability-Organizations.

9.45 – 10.30
Christopher Neumaier, Potsdam
Group Work a Win-Win-Option for Management and Workers? The Flexibilization of Work Processes in the German Automotive Industry between the 1970s and 1990s

10.30 – 10.50 Break

10.50 – 11.35
Martin Krzywdziniski, Hamburg/Berlin
Remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Experiences of agile, hybrid and traditional teams.

Software / Agile Practices

11.35 – 12.15
Sebastian Randerath, Bonn
How We (Almost) Became Agile: A Format History c. 1972–2001

12.15 – 13.15 Lunch

13.15 – 14.00
Timo Leimbach, Aarhus
Rooting agility – The Different Origins of Agile Methods and Their Contributions to the Current Conceptualization of it

14.40 – 14.45
Donald Bertulfo, Delft
The World in a Sprint: Computational Infrastructures and Agility in the New Economy

14:45 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16.15 Concluding Comments
Sabine Pfeiffer, Erlangen-Nürnberg / Martina Heßler, Darmstadt / Christopher Neumaier, Potsdam
Final Discussion