{"id":510,"date":"2023-05-08T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-fr\/events\/surprising-sources\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:08:07","slug":"surprising-sources","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-fr\/events\/surprising-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>A \u00ab\u00a0Tensions of Europe\u00a0\u00bb (ToE) remote conference.<\/p><p>Do the historians gathered in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tensionsofeurope.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Tensions of Europe<\/a>\u00a0network 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.<\/p><p>The issue of \u201cSurprising Sources\u201d 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be understood in two ways: first by reflecting on a source that is surprising in its form (use of a series of stamps, unpublished data, a natively digital archive, material traces like abandoned factory, pipes, etc.), and second by presenting a source that is surprising in its content,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.<\/p><p><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"programme\"\n    >\nProgramme<\/h3>\n<p><strong>13.00 Welcome<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>13.15-14.00<\/strong><\/p><p>Chair: Anna \u00c5berg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)<\/p><p><i>Socio-Economic Characteristics as Determinants in the Job Market: The Case of Piedmont in Italy (1867-2005)<\/i><\/p><p><i>OCR generated digital newspaper archives: Usefulness and limitations for the study of history<\/i><\/p><p><strong>14.00-15.15<\/strong><\/p><p><i>Jumping into unexpected venues of advertisement research<\/i><\/p><p><i>Operation Crossroad\u2019s Flickering Image: On the (Im)Possibility of Researching Useful TV<\/i><\/p><p><i>Four ways of looking at a satellite earth station<\/i><\/p><p><strong>15.15-15.30 Break<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>15.30-16.45<\/strong><\/p><p>Chair: Val\u00e9rie Schafer (C\u00b2DH, University of Luxembourg)<\/p><p><i>Surprising encounters in anarchist archives. On the many lives of historical sources about politics and computing<\/i><\/p><p><i>On Nicola Pellow\u2019s notebook, or: some practices of writing a web browser in 1992\/1993<\/i><\/p><p><i>Exploring the Hidden Gems of the World Wide Web Logo: Uncovering its Historical Significance and Untapped Marketing Potential through CERN Archive<\/i><\/p><p><strong>16.45-17.30<\/strong><\/p><p><i>Can Social Media help reconnect with the past? The case of party.lu<\/i><\/p><p><i>After Wear and Tear: Working with Archival Materials That Show No \u201cLook of Age\u201d<\/i><\/p><p><strong>17.30-17.45 Break<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>17.45-18.30 Keynote<\/strong><\/p><p><i>Unconventional sources found during the ENIAC in action project<\/i><\/p><p>by Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin \u2013 Milwaukee, USA &#038; Siegen University, Germany)<\/p><p><\/p><p>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:BLW_Pillar_boxes_at_BPMA.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">BLW Pillar boxes at BPMA<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikepeel.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Peel<\/a>, licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00ab\u00a0Tensions of Europe\u00a0\u00bb (ToE) remote conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":511,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2023-05-11 13:00:00","event_end_date":"2023-05-11 18:30:00","event_speaker_name":"","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Online","event_street":"","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"","event_city":"","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[306],"events-type":[],"organisation":[],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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