Friday, 7 December (MSH, dh-lab)
09.00-10.30 Welcome by the organisers
Reflections on the Historiography of Repair
10.30-11.15 Jérôme Baudry, From the Ethnography to the History of Repair: Notes from the Field
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
Maintaining Infrastructures & Infrastructures of Repair
11.45-12.30 Ying Jia Tan, Cycles of Destruction and Creation: Maintaining and Dismantling China’s Wartime Power Grid, 1937-1945
12.30-13.15 Angelica Agredo Montealegre, The Unintended Role of Maintenance: Keeping Colombian Roads Passable, 1950s-1960s
13.15-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.15 Philip Scranton, Fixing Holes in the Plan: Maintenance and Repair in Poland, 1945-1970
15.15-16.00 Thomas Lean, Memories In The Grid: Reuse And Adaptation In Britain's National Electricity Grid
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.15 Jan Hadlaw, Telephone Repair & Maintenance – Business as Usual at Bell Telephone
17.15-18.00 Stefan Krebs, Self-Repair Practices of German Automobilists: Community, Identity and the Appropriation of Technology
18.30 Dinner
Saturday, 8 December (MSH, dh-lab)
Maintenance and Repair as Technology Transfer
09.00-09.45 Egor Lykov, Repair, Reuse and Removal of Locomotives on Russian Private Railways 1890–1914
09.45-10.30 Slawomir Lotysz, Jewel in the Junk: Technology Transfer Through Obsolete Artefacts. The Case of Merck Corp. Penicillin Plant for Yugoslavia in 1947
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
Waste and Reuse
11.00-11.45 Ayushi Dhawan, India’s Shipbreaking Business, Emerging Economies, and the “Right to Pollute”?
11.45-12.15 Heike Weber, Consumer Durables, Bulk Waste, and the ‘Planned Obsolescence’ Debate in West Germany (1960s-80s)
12.15-13.30 Lunch break
From Reliability to Restoration
13.30-14.15 Karsten Marhold, Maintaining Innovators: How 1970s Engineers Struggled to Build a Reliable Electric Vehicle
14.15-15.00 David Lucsko, “Proof of Life”: Restoration, Preservation, and Old-Car Patina, 1930–2010
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.00 Closing remarks