Workshop: How do Infrastructures Matter?

Organizers, ZZF Potsdam: 
Rüdiger Graf, Michael Homberg, Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş, Isabella Löhr, Christopher Neumaier, Carolyn Taratko

PROGRAM

Welcome and Introduction
Carolyn Taratko & Rüdiger Graf
10:00 – 10:30

Panel 1: Technological Knowledge Infrastructure
10:30– 12:00

• Julian Schellong, TU Darmstadt: Data Continuity and Technological Transformation in the Swiss Meteorological Observation Network, 1860s/1970s
• Carolin Liebisch: The Authority of Infrastructure: How Technical Regulation Justified Migration Control
• Caroline Elfe: Exploring the infrastructures of the reproductive market: making families in the age of assisted reproduction

Chair: Michael Homberg

Lunch Break 12:00 – 1:00

Panel 2: Emotionalizing Infrastructures
1:00 – 2:30

• Elisabeth Kimmerle: Reclaiming the Night by Taxi? Gender and Infrastructures of Fear in 1980s West Berlin 
• Mario Bianchini: Energy Avatarization: Anthropomorphizing Energy Infrastructures in East, West, and Nazi Germany
• Niklas Weber: "Jim Crow Car", "Judencoupé" and "Eingeborenenwagen": Racial segregation on the railways of the 19th century

Chair: Isabella Löhr

Coffee Break 2:30 – 3:00 

Panel 3: Experiencing and Normalizing Infrastructure
3:00 – 4:30

• Leon Waldmann: Wie normalisieren sich Infrastrukturen? Überlegungen zu sozialen und ökologischen Folgen von Umgehungsstraßen 
• Lisa Thiel: “One or Two Rooms?” – Understanding Housing as Infrastructure
• Beatrice Azzola: Oil matters: Gas station history between domesticity and alienation

Chair: Christopher Neumeier

Coffee Break 4:30-4:45 

Panel 4: Infrastructural Agency
4:45-6:00

• Julian Bock: From Parking Garage to Kindergarten. Debates on Adaptive Reuse and the Materiality of Automobile Infrastructure in 1980s West Berlin
• Francis Kirk: Infrastructure of crime: housing estates and street violence in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, 1987-1994

Chair: Carolin Liebisch-Gümüs

Keynote Lecture
6:15 – 7:45

Brian Larkin: The Political Economy of Light 

Chair: Rüdiger Graf