Friday, December 1
Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Florenci 3, Prague
14:00 Welcome by the Organizers
14:15 Keynote Lecture
Karsten Uhl (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg – Darmstadt
University of Technology)
Spaces of Work – The Making of the Modern Factory
16:15 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Panel I: Spaces of Work in the 19th century Central Europe
Chair: Timo Luks (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
Thomas Schuetz (University of Stuttgart)
The Disappearance of Linen-Weavers and Spinners in the Kingdom of Wüttemberg
Jakub Raška (Charles University in Prague)
Typographers’ Workplace and Typographers’ Movement in the Habsburg Empire
Comments: Lars Bluma (Deutsches Bergbau Museum, Bochum)
Saturday, December 2
Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Florenci 3, Prague
9:00 – 9:30 Remarks on the Organization and Concept of the Workshop
9:30 – 11:30 Panel II: Spaces of Work in a Globalizing World
Chair: Karsten Uhl (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg – Darmstadt University of Technology)
Regina Blaszczyk (University of Leeds)
Fashioning Commercial Modernity: The Work Experience of American Merchandisers in Europe, 1850-1940
Tryfonas Lemontzoglou (University of Siena)
People’s Access to Land, Stuck in Agriculture and Literacy Development: Evidence from the Modern Greek state, 1860 - 1880
Marcin Jarząbek (Jagiellonian University in Cracow)
Space and Order. Organization of Space and Work on the Railway in Galicia and in the Polish Kingdom in Russia, 1848 – 1914
Comments: Timo Luks (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
11:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 Panel III: Workplace Redesign in the Age of Extremes
Chair: Lars Bluma (Deutsches Bergbau Museum, Bochum)
Martin Jemelka (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
To Work and To Prayer. Factory as a Worship Space in Bohemian Lands, 1850 – 1950
Anna G. Piotrowska (Jagiellonian University in Cracow)
Music Making in the Concentration Camps: Understanding of the Spaces of Works – Understanding of Work
Mrinmoy Majumder (GOA Institute of Management)
The Proletariat Cyborg: IT Sector and Work Environment in Contemporary India
Comments: Karsten Uhl (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg – Darmstadt University of Technology)
15:30 Coffee Break
15:35 – 16:00 Conclusions