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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <b>Workshop: Histories
of Technology’s Persistence: Repair, Reuse, and Disposal</b><br>
Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of
Luxembourg, 7-8 December 2018<br>
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Repair, reuse and removal are closely interlinked phenomena
related to the lives and persistence of technologies, and they go
beyond the question of innovation. When technical artefacts become
old and outworn, decisions have to be taken as to whether it is
necessary, worthwhile or possible to maintain and repair them, to
reuse or dismantle them for different purposes, or to get rid of
them. And these decisions depend among other factors on the
availability of second-hand markets, repair infrastructures and
dismantling or disposal facilities. The contributions to this
workshop stress the long lives of old technologies whose form and
duration has been shaped by repair, reuse and disposal practices.
The workshop aims at showing that maintenance and repair have not
become obsolete in modern industries and consumer societies.<br>
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Organized by Stefan Krebs (University of Luxembourg) and Heike
Weber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).<br>
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The workshop will be based on pre-circulated papers. Guests are
welcome but registration is required. Please contact Stefan Krebs
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:stefan.krebs@uni.lu">stefan.krebs@uni.lu</a>)<br>
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Program<br>
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Friday, 7 December (MSH, dh-lab)<br>
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09.00-10.30 Welcome by the organisers<br>
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Reflections on the Historiography of Repair<br>
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10.30-11.15 Jérôme Baudry, From the Ethnography to the History
of Repair: Notes from the Field<br>
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11.15-11.45 Coffee break<br>
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Maintaining Infrastructures & Infrastructures of Repair<br>
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11.45-12.30 Ying Jia Tan, Cycles of Destruction and Creation:
Maintaining and Dismantling China’s Wartime Power Grid, 1937-1945<br>
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12.30-13.15 Angelica Agredo Montealegre, The Unintended Role of
Maintenance: Keeping Colombian Roads Passable, 1950s-1960s<br>
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13.15-14.30 Lunch<br>
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14.30-15.15 Philip Scranton, Fixing Holes in the Plan:
Maintenance and Repair in Poland, 1945-1970<br>
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15.15-16.00 Thomas Lean, Memories In The Grid: Reuse And
Adaptation In Britain's National Electricity Grid<br>
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16.00-16.30 Coffee break<br>
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16.30-17.15 Jan Hadlaw, Telephone Repair & Maintenance –
Business as Usual at Bell Telephone<br>
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17.15-18.00 Stefan Krebs, Self-Repair Practices of German
Automobilists: Community, Identity and the Appropriation of
Technology<br>
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18.30 Dinner<br>
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Saturday, 8 December (MSH, dh-lab)<br>
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Maintenance and Repair as Technology Transfer<br>
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09.00-09.45 Egor Lykov, Repair, Reuse and Removal of
Locomotives on Russian Private Railways 1890–1914<br>
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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<br>
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10.30-11.00 Coffee break<br>
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Waste and Reuse<br>
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11.00-11.45 Ayushi Dhawan, India’s Shipbreaking Business,
Emerging Economies, and the “Right to Pollute”?<br>
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11.45-12.15 Heike Weber, Consumer Durables, Bulk Waste, and the
‘Planned Obsolescence’ Debate in West Germany (1960s-80s)<br>
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12.15-13.30 Lunch break <br>
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From Reliability to Restoration<br>
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13.30-14.15 Karsten Marhold, Maintaining Innovators: How 1970s
Engineers Struggled to Build a Reliable Electric Vehicle<br>
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14.15-15.00 David Lucsko, “Proof of Life”: Restoration,
Preservation, and Old-Car Patina, 1930–2010<br>
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15.00-15.30 Coffee break<br>
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15.30-16.00 Closing remarks<br>
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