Accidents and the State in the 20th Century
Workshop
9-10 June 2016
FRIAS, Albertstraße 19
June 9
15.30-16 h
Welcome and Coffee
16-18 h
Risk, citizenship, responsibility and social justice
Judith Rainhorn (University of Valenciennes)
Who sets the price for injured bodies? French mining companies facing State intervention against industrial hazards, 1898-1930s
Nadine Rossol (University of Essex)
Preventing Danger through Education: The State, Traffic Accidents and Citizenship in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Patricia Faraldo Cabana (FRIAS)
Death on the roads and the need to regulate traffic. The influence of car accidents in the rise of regulatory law
Comment: Stefan Kaufmann (Freiburg)
18.30 – 19.30 h
Keynote lecture
Bill Luckin (University of Bolton)
Before the State: Highways, Communities and the Law in Nineteenth Century Britain
June 10
9-11 h
Naming and qualifying accidents
Peter Itzen (FRIAS-USIAS)
The Nature of Accidents and Social History
Nils Kessel (Institut Francilien Innovation Recherche Société (IFRIS))
Normal exceptions – A comparison of accidents and disasters in the fields of medicines and road safety
Birgit Metzger (FRIAS-USIAS)
What does «military accident» mean?
Comment: Helke Rausch (Freiburg)
11.30-13.00 h
Responding to accidents I: emergency systems and medical innovation
Frédéric Vagneron (Centre for Medical Humanities-Lehrstuhl für Medizingeschichte, Universität Zürich)
The “moment of the accident” and the multiple causation behind the rise of municipal ambulances and emergency rescue services in the European Urban Environment (1880-1914)
Charles-Antoine Wanecq (Sciences Po Paris)
Road accidents as an epidemic: the creation of the Emergency Medical Services (SAMU) in France (1956-1979)
Comment : Anne Rasmussen (FRIAS-USIAS)
14.00-15.30 h
Responding to accidents II: Concepts of rehabilitation and citizenship
Jonathan Voges (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
“Most accidents happen at home”. The Aktion Das Sichere Haus and the “securization” of West German households from the 1950s to the 1970s
Andrea del Campo Peirano (University of Manchester)
My gratitude to the great and honourable Trauma… I take it in my soul’. Integral rehabilitation for injured workers in the state traumatological hospital. Chile 1938-1942
Comment: Anne Rasmussen (FRIAS-USIAS)
16-17 h
Conclusion and Discussion
Kurt Möser (KIT Karlsruhe)