[Commlist] Online Workshop Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée: Program

*Subject: Online Workshop Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée: 
Program*

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In the last decades, more and more scholars have claimed for inclusion 
of maintenance among the key topics and key questions of technology 
(Edgerton 2007, Jackson 2014, Russell and Vinsel 2018, Henke and Sims 
2020). Communication and media studies have just partially included in 
their methodological and analytical tools reflections on maintenance 
(see Balbi and Leggero 2020; Weber and Krebs 2021) and this paper-based 
workshop aims to advance in this aspect adding another fundamental yet 
underestimated layer in communication and maintenance research: the 
Longue durée. The workshop will host methodological and empirical 
approaches ranging from history to anthropology, from geography to 
political studies, from economics to obviously communication and 
transportation studies.

This is the final program

*24 February 2022*

noon-3pm CEST

Noon-1.30 pm

*Introduction*

*Roundtable 1 *

/What does maintenance mean in communication studies? /**

*Roberto Leggero*

/Communicating and doing maintenance in Medieval and early Modern time 
societies. Why is it not only an art history problem/

*Stefan Krebs*

/“Keeping the lights on” – maintaining (communication) infrastructures /

*Gabriele Balbi*

/Communication is Maintenance. Towards a maintenance culture in 
communication and media studies. /

2 pm-3.30 pm

*Panel 1 *

/Infrastructures /

*Felipe Beuttenmüller Lopes Silva*

/Large Scale Infrastructure Systems in Lisbon: Politics of repair and 
maintenance on Europe´s periphery /

*Laura Meneghello*

/Feeling the air: Sense perception and the maintenance of pneumatic mail 
tubes in the longue durée/

*Rebecca Mossop and Stefan Krebs*

/The delicate balance between expansion, innovation and maintenance /

/of the Luxembourg telephone network/

*Matthias Röhr*

/Digital timescales? The digitalization and privatization of the German 
telecom-munications network of the 1980s and 1990s and the change of 
timescales in the telecommunications/

*25 February 2022*noon-3pm CEST

Noon-1.15 pm

*Roundtable 2*

/What does longue durée in maintenance mean?/

*Hitomi Sato*

/Reflection from the project Spatial and social mobility in the Medieval 
and Early Modern Alpine regions: Political, religious, and social 
dynamics in boundary areas /

*Heike Weber*

/Maintenance and beyond: A pluri-temporal perspective/

*Andrew Russell*

/Maintenance and the longue durée in the United States/

1.45 pm-3.30 pm

*Panel 2*

/Maintenance Theory /

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*Erik Koenen*

/Only old media: Maintaining the media heritage/

*Martin Meiske*

/The hidden cost of maintenance. Reflections on the persistence and /

/long-term effects of railway tie impregnation for environment and society /

*Julie Momméja*

/The clock of the Long now in longue durée: Maintaining a communication /

/“cool tool” through millennia/

*Kirill Postoutenko*

/Persistence of communication: Non-technological view/

*Corinna Peil*

/We are all maintainers: Mundane practices of maintenance in the use of 
digital media as sites of contestation, critical (re-)assessment, and 
social negotiations/

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3.30p pm-3.45 pm

*Closing Remarks*

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