Stefan Krebs, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg
Thursday, 13 October
09.15 Arrival of participants
09.45 Welcome by Stefan Krebs (University of Luxembourg, PI REPAIR)
10.00 Section 1: Repairing Infrastructures
Chair: Stefan Krebs
- Maintenance and Political Economy: Fixing Submarine Cables to Reinvent Transatlantic Capitalism, Jacob Ward (Maastricht University)
- Communicating Smoothly: Maintaining the Luxembourg Telephone Network, Rebecca Mossop (University of Luxembourg)
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Section 1 (continued): Repairing Infrastructures
- Repairing "Smart" Infrastructures: Sustainability Orientations in Tension Between Infrastructuring Publics, Madison Snider (University of Washington)
- Iron Gates: The Study on Maintenance of the Hydro and Navigation System, Tijana Rupcic (Central European University, Vienna)
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Visit Blast Furnace A
14.30 Section 2: Repair Ethnographies
Chair: Thomas Hoppenheit
- Tinkering and Innovation in Medicine: Ethnographic Experiments for Studying Repair and Maintenance, Anna Harris (Maastricht University)
- Materialize the Thought: the Production of Research Zines as a Tool in Studying Repair and Maintenance, Anaïs Bloch (Geneva University of Art and Design)
15.30 Coffee break
16.30 Section 2 (continued): Repair Ethnographies
- Maintaining Shoes/Feet, Chris Hesselbein (Politecnico di Milano)
- Repair Work as Craft and Career: Insights from the Apprenticeship Journey in Classic Car Restoration, Ödül Bozkurt (University of Sussex Business School)
17.15-18.15h Keynote Christopher Henke (Colgate University): Repair, Maintenance, and Infrastructure Studies: The Promise (and Perils?) of an “Emerging Field”
18.30-19.15h Reception
Friday, 14 October
09.00 Section 3: Repairing Objects
Chair: Rebecca Mossop
- The Politics of Everyday Repair Opportunities, Thomas Hoppenheit (University of Luxembourg)
- Wasted Time / The Emergence of a Throwaway Culture Using the Example of Clocks and Watches, Thomas Schütz (Stuttgart University)
- Modest Technology: Repairing Radio Sets in Socialist China, Yingchuan Yang (Columbia University)
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Section 4: Repairing Hard- and Software
Chair: Stefan Krebs
- The Broken World of Refugee Apps? Towards Sustainability of Mobile Applications, Olga Usachova (University of Padova)
- Repair and Democratisation of Distance Learning During Covid-19, Abdallah Zouhairi (University Hassan II. Casablanca)
12.00 Lunch break
13.00 Section 4 (continued): Repairing Hard- and Software
- Maintenance and Repair as Innovation? Software Systems and the Case of Climate Models, Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University)
- Project ATENA: Born to be Outmoded. Emotions and the Technopolitical Construction of Obsolescence in the History of Computing, Ginevra Sanvitale (Eindhoven University of Technology)
14.00 Closing remarks Stefan Krebs