[ecrea] CFP "Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age", ToE 2019 Conference

*Call for Papers *

*The *9th Tensions of Europe Conference**

27-30 June 2019, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

*http://www.toe2019.org <http://www.toe2019.org/>*

The Tensions of Europe conference is organised biennially by an 
interdisciplinary community of scholars who study the shaping of Europe 
through the lens of technology and material culture. We welcome fruitful 
interactions between historians of technology and scholars from all 
other fields of the humanities and social sciences 
(http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu <http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu/>). The 
9th Tensions of Europe Conference will be organised by the Luxembourg 
Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of 
Luxembourg.

*Conference Theme*

*/Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age/*

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/Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age/investigates 
the way in which our approach to European technological pasts is 
influenced, shaped and may even be transformed in the digital age, and, 
conversely, how the digital present and future of Europe is the result 
of long-term historical trajectories and patterns.

In the current narrative, digitisation is a process profoundly shaped by 
US visions. This conference also aims to rediscover European influences 
in this process, alternative EU visions, etc. Although Europe will be at 
the centre of most of the analyses, proposals that compare global, 
national, regional and/or local approaches and combine several scales 
and trajectories to shed light on technological pasts in the digital age 
are also welcome.

Along with the impact of digitisation on historical archives, resources 
and practices, we also invite presentations exploring the writing and 
shaping of European history in a critical, experimental and 
interdisciplinary way: retro-digitised and born-digital heritage, new 
tools and digital practices of European historiography, digital 
narratives and teaching methods in the field of European history.

Our aim is to encourage a process of cross-fertilisation by including 
contributions from a wide variety of historical disciplines as well as 
from archivists and fields such as geography, digital humanities, 
science and technology studies, Internet studies, media studies, 
information and communication sciences, and infrastructure, platform and 
code studies.

*Also welcome are themes that extend the general research agenda of the 
Tensions of Europe network, *e.g. transnational histories of technology, 
history of European infrastructures and networks, environment and 
technology, the democracy–technology relationship, conflicting interests 
and technology, technology and hidden integration, technology and 
culture, gender and technology, technology and ethnicity, and technology 
and disability.


*Some possible topics:*

·The history of computerisation and digitisation in Europe

·Continuity and change between the analog and digital eras

·Computerisation and digitisation in specific fields, industries and  
 sectors

·The history of robotics, automation, artificial intelligence in Europe, 
etc.

·The history of data (data histories, historicising big data, etc.)

·      Critical perspectives on the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”

·      The influence of US trajectories and alternative European visions

·      Digitised and born-digital material culture in European history

·Heritagisation of Europe in the digital age

·Digital tools and methods for analysing historical datasets/digital  
 sources

·New digital narratives and teaching methods in history of 
technology/European history

·General topics on the ToE research agenda

Tensions of Europe conferences have always featured *alternative meeting 
formats*. We encourage proposals for non-traditional sessions with 
different formats and new ideas (e.g. round tables, agenda-building 
sessions, brainstorming sessions, break-out groups with assignments, 
poster discussions, film discussions and event-based sessions). As long 
as quality can be demonstrated – with the potential for constructive, 
stimulating and engaging discussion – the program committee will not 
prioritise between formats.

The organisers invite scholars to submit proposals *by 15 November 2018 
(submissions will open on 15 October 2018)*.

For information on the academic and social programme of the conference, 
affiliated events and keynote speakers, see the conference website: 
www.toe2019.org <http://www.toe2019.org/>

All proposals should include a title, a short abstract and the academic 
title, affiliation and short biography of the applicant(s). Please name 
your PDF document with your LastName-FirstName.

Abstracts for individual papers and posters should be 250-300 words.

For panels, please describe the theme of the panel (max. 300 words) and 
provide shorter abstracts (max. 150 words each) for individual papers.

Two “My PhD in 10 minutes” sessions will allow young scholars to present 
their research. Please submit an abstract of 150 words (and specify that 
you are applying for these sessions).

If you wish to suggest a presentation in a different format, please also 
use these word limits as guidelines.

We will inform all applicants whether their proposals have been accepted 
by 20 January 2019.


*Important dates:*

**

●/Deadline for proposals/: 15 November 2018

●/Notification of acceptance/: 20 January 2019

●/Confirmation of participation/: 20 February 2019

●/Publication of draft programme/: 15 March 2019

●/Opening of registration/: 20 March 2019

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*Conference fees *

Students: €50

Advanced scholars: €150

/Young scholars may apply for travel funding. Several grants of €400 are 
available. Further details on how to apply for a travel grant are 
available on the conference website. /

**

*Pre-conference affiliated event*

A young scholar network pre-conference organised by Elitsa Stoilova, 
Falk Flade and Roberto Cantoni will also be held. Further details will 
soon be available on the conference website.


*Keynote speakers and special events*

Bethany Nowviskie (Director of the Digital Library Federation, CLIR, 
Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, University of 
Virginia, United States) and Niels Brügger (Professor in Internet 
Studies and Digital Humanities, Head of NetLab and of the Centre for 
Internet Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark) will give keynote lectures 
during the conference. Several events linked to the topic /Decoding 
Europe/ will be organised, especially a round table entitled /Coding 
Europe, decoding its history/ and a presentation/performance on media 
archaeology organised by Lionel Broye and Emmanuel Guez (PAMAL, Avignon, 
France).

*Local Organising Committee*

At the C^2 DH (University of Luxembourg): Florentina Armaselu, Andreas 
Fickers, Brigitte Melchior, Victoria Mouton, Valérie Schafer, Noëlle 
Schon, Isabelle Voegeli, Florian Vetter

With the help of Jan Korsten

(Foundation for the History of Technology, Secretary of the Tensions of 
Europe Network)

*Programme Committee*

Yves Bouvier (Sorbonne University, France), Vincent Lagendijk 
(Maastricht University, Netherlands), Benoît Majerus (C^2 DH, University 
of Luxembourg), Janne Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Valérie 
Schafer (C^2 DH, University of Luxembourg / Program Chair), Frank 
Schipper (Netherlands), Joanna Walewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, 
Poland)

*International Scientific Committee*

Gabriele Balbi (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland), Pascal 
Griset (Sorbonne University, France), Tom Misa (SHOT, United States), 
Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Julia 
Pohle (Berlin Social Science Center, Germany), Aristotle Tympas (School 
of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), 
Erik van der Vleuten (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), 
Nina Wormbs (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)


For any further information please contact (toe2019 /at/ uni.lu) 
<mailto:(toe2019 /at/ uni.lu)>



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