OCTOBER 11
1–2 pm Welcoming and Roundtable
2-3 pm Kick-off Elissa Mailänder (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po Paris) and Benoît Majerus (University of Luxembourg)
3-4 pm Unrooting the Rules: The Social Life of Plants in Libraries and Archives, Brian Beaton (University of Pittsburgh)
4-4.30 pm coffee break
4.30-5.30 pm Entrance Permitted?! The Exclusionary Character of Public Administrations - Studies on Materiality and Sociality in Swiss Municipalities, Michaela Schmidt (ETH Zurich)
5.30-6.30 pm Totalizing Materiality and Subaltern Practices in the Context of Education in the Swiss Penal System: Reflections on the Porosity of the Total Institution (Ueli Hostetter, Marina Richter (University of Fribourg)
6.30-7.30 pm ‘A New Leaf’: Paper and the Reform of the Institution and Inmate, 1793-1860, Rebecca Wynter (University of Birmingham)
OCTOBER 12
9.00-10.00 am The Material Culture of Gymnasiums in Early 19th Century Paris, Sun-Young Park (Harvard University)
10.00-11.00 am Inside the barrack room: material culture, discipline and promiscuity in French republican garrisons (1872-1914), Mathieu Marly (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris)
11.00-11.30 am coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 am Communist Women’s Prison, Albania (1977-1985): Political prisoners and their everyday life of forced labour for survival, Shannon Woodcock (University of Sydney)
12.30 am – 1.30 pm lunch break (sandwiches)
1.30-2.30 PM ‘Ditch the old handcuffs, dig the new i-pods’: Prison legacies and the allure of ‘forgetting’ among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala, Ayetree Sen (University of Manchester)
2.30-3.30 pm Final whistle, Elissa Mailänder (Centre d’histoire Sciences Po Paris) and Benoît Majerus (University of Luxembourg)