A « Tensions of Europe » (ToE) remote conference.
Do the historians gathered in the Tensions of Europe network have a particular relationship to archives, to sources, and to their research materials? What does being a historian of technologies, infrastructures, or networks imply, and is there a singularity regarding sources and archives? It is this relationship to the archives, to the sources, to the historical material at large, to the spatialities, and materialities as well, that this conference invites us to question.
The issue of “Surprising Sources” can be understood in two ways: first by reflecting on a source that is surprising in its form (use of a series of stamps, unpublished data, a natively digital archive, material traces like abandoned factory, pipes, etc.), and second by presenting a source that is surprising in its content, such as an unexpected discovery in a source that alters the meaning of the research, adds substance to it, or modifies it.
Programme
13.00 Welcome
13.15-14.00
Chair: Anna Åberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Socio-Economic Characteristics as Determinants in the Job Market: The Case of Piedmont in Italy (1867-2005)
OCR generated digital newspaper archives: Usefulness and limitations for the study of history
14.00-15.15
Jumping into unexpected venues of advertisement research
Operation Crossroad’s Flickering Image: On the (Im)Possibility of Researching Useful TV
Four ways of looking at a satellite earth station
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.45
Chair: Valérie Schafer (C²DH, University of Luxembourg)
Surprising encounters in anarchist archives. On the many lives of historical sources about politics and computing
On Nicola Pellow’s notebook, or: some practices of writing a web browser in 1992/1993
Exploring the Hidden Gems of the World Wide Web Logo: Uncovering its Historical Significance and Untapped Marketing Potential through CERN Archive
16.45-17.30
Can Social Media help reconnect with the past? The case of party.lu
After Wear and Tear: Working with Archival Materials That Show No “Look of Age”
17.30-17.45 Break
17.45-18.30 Keynote
Unconventional sources found during the ENIAC in action project
by Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA & Siegen University, Germany)
Photo: BLW Pillar boxes at BPMA by Mike Peel, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0