In October I will travel to Luxembourg to participate in the SHOT Annual Meeting for the first time! Me and Lara Marziali (who I met at the Tensions of Europe conference last year) put together a session proposal about European history of computing where some more established scholars graciously accepted to participate as presenters, commentator and chair.
The full SHOT program is available at the conference website but here are the details for my session:
S43: The Local and the Universal: Organizing European Computing in the 1960s–1980s
Organizer: Aron Ambrosiani (Chalmers University of Technology)
Chair: Jeffrey Yost (Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota)
Commentator: Martin Schmitt (Universität Paderborn)
Presenters:
Aron Ambrosiani (Chalmers University of Technology): Systems Men and Girls at the Keypunch: Gendered Boundary Work in Swedish Computing, 1960s–1980s (Robinson Prize Candidate)
Lara Marziali (Politecnico di Milano): IRA-INAF’s computational center: how radioastronomers compute the sky (Robinson Prize Candidate)
Johannes Kleinmann (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)): The local and the universal: The organisation of computer work at the steel factory Brandenburg an der Havel, 1960s–1980s
Corinna Schlombs (Rochester Institute of Technology): High Tech and Routine Work: Computing in the East German Financial System
(Photo credit: panorama view of Belval, Luxembourg in 2019 by User:Zinneke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
