9:00–17:00
EHESS, Room 640, 190 av. de France, 75013 Paris*
Patrice Bret (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Guillaume Carnino (Université de Technologie de Compiègne), Liliane Hilaire-Perez (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Aleksandra Majstorac (historienne, CECMC), Allan Potofsky (Université Paris Diderot), Marie Thébaud-Sorger (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Koen Vermeir (SPHERE), Eric Schatzberg (University of Wisconsin) & Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
Scientific supports & diffusion :
Institut des Humanités et des Sciences de Paris (IHSP), Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Partnership :
EHESS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, GIS Unité de la Technologie et des Sciences humaines (UTSH), Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), programme HumanTechnology (fonds européen Feder), International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), Laboratoire LARCA (CNRS/université Paris 7), Laboratoire SPHERE (CNRS/université Paris 7), Laboratoire ICT (université Paris 7)
Presentation :
What if technology was a social science? The idea may appear incongruous: technology is the term used to designate specific technical processes developed by science. How can “technologies” be social? Up until the 19th century in Europe and in the United States, an another approach to technology has prevailed: it referred to a specific field that aimed at studying art and techniques in action, as well as the ways in which we think about action. How this discipline, which did not separate man from technology, has come to disappear? How and why should one rehabilitate this alternative perspective? Those questions will be addressed in june 2015 during the conference “La technologie entre l’Europe et les États-Unis aux XIXe et XXe siècles: rencontre et ignorance”, which is part of the Technical Sciences and Social Sciences Series. Historian of technology Liliane Hilaire-Perez, who co-organize the event with Koen Vermeir, provides here an overview of the issue.
Download the programme, the abstracts and the poster
PROGRAMME
Introduction
9:30
Guillaume Carnino (UTC, Costech) & Liliane Hilaire-Pérez (EHESS CAK, Paris 7 ICT)
Inaugural session
Chair : Aleksandra Kobiljski (Centre Chine Corée Japon)
10:00 - 11:15
- Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
Between technologie and history of technology: frameworks, sources and other challenges.
- Eric Schatzberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison, EU)
Why There Is No Discipline of Technology in Anglo-American Scholarship.
Transfers & institutionnalizations in XIXth century
Chair : Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS CAK)
11:30 - 13:00
- Koen Vermeir (CNRS, SPHERE)
The Prehistory of "Technology": the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Jérôme Baudry (EHESS, CAK / Harvard University)
Les brevets d’invention et la technologie (France - États-Unis).
- Konstantinos Chatzis (ENPC/LATTS) & Thomas Prévéraud (Centre F. Viète, Université de Nantes)
La présence française dans la formation des ingénieurs américains
durant les deux premiers tiers du XIXe siècle : aspects institutionnels et intellectuels.
Diffusions & territorializations in the XXeth century
Chair : Jochen Hoock (Université Paris 7 Diderot)
14:00 - 15:30
- Vincent Dray (Université paris 1, IDHE)
Le discours de la « Technology » aux Etats-Unis: rencontre, mobilités et diffusion (1914-1939).
- Adelheid Voskhul (University of Pennsylvania)
Philosophies in the Industrial Age: German and American Engineers in Trans-Atlantic Trade
of Theories and Practices of Technology, 1870 to 1930.
- Steeve Sabatto (EHESS CAK)
Mode de circulation et de territorialisation des systèmes constructifs durant la Guerre Froide.
Anthropology & contemporary philosophy of technology
Chair : Guillaume Carnino (UTC)
16:00 - 17:00
- Ludovic Coupaye (University College of London)
De l’anthropologie des techniques à l’anthropologie de la Technologie.
- Xavier Guchet (Université Paris 1 / CETCOPRA)
Le tournant empirique en philosophie des techniques (1980-2015) : échanges Etats-Unis/France .
General discussion 17:00 - 17:30
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