[Themaintainers] 2026 Schedule - Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology SIG

[mark young]

Dear all,

We're excited to announce the 2026 schedule for the SPT Maintenance and
Philosophy of Technology Special Interest Group. You'll find dates and
titles below for the speakers we'll be hosting this year. If you'd like to
attend any of the talks, send me a quick email at mark at markthomasyoung to
be added to the mailing list through which links are forwarded in advance
of each session.

Mark Thomas Young
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Oslo
https://uio.academia.edu/MarkThomasYoung

*2026 Schedule: Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology Special Interest
Group*

February 12th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Jordan Young (Wageningen University)

“A Practice Based Typology of Repairing and Sharing Initiatives”



March 12th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Michelle Bastian (University of Edinburgh)

“Defying the clock’s incessant beat: How Google lied about the time of the
Earth and made up its own”



April 9th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Brooke Rudow (University of Central Florida)

“The Imperatives of Environmental Responsibility: To Maintain and Repair”



May 14th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Dmitry Muravev (TU Delft)

“Can algorithmic systems break? Revisiting the concept of repair vis-á-vis
the concepts of mechanistic breakdown and algorithmic error”



June 11th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Carlos Garcia (Technical University of
Munich)

“Meeting Maintenance and Innovation Halfway: Exploring Sewer Inspection
Robots”



August 13th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Tamara Gupper (Goethe University)

“Care and Maintenance in Making Humanoid Robots Play Soccer”



September 10th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Dominic Brownell (University of
Hertfordshire)

“Repair and Reuse in the Mass Consumption of Cars in Britain 1960-1993”



October 8th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Mark Theunissen (TU Delft)

“Maintenance and the Politics of Technology”



November 12th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Emily Whitted (University of
Massachusetts Amherst)

“Darning Stockings, Patching Trousers: Textile Mending Technologies in
Early America“



December 10th 2026 (18-1915 UTC+1) Maria Amuchastegui (York University)

"From Mainframe Encodings to Quantum Chips: Historical Contingency and
Binary as a Technological Standard"
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