Presentations (Selection)

“The ‘Great Armory’ of Nazi Arbeitseinsatz: Workbooks, Card files and Related Bureau Technology”, EHRI Workshop Person-Related Records beyond the Personal, International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, 19-21 November 2018.

"Papierkrieg: Bürotechnik und die Organisation des Arbeitseinsatzes im 'Dritten Reich' und während der Besatzungszeit", Arbeitskreis Forschung Deutsches Museum, München, 24 April 2018.

"Measuring the Uncountable? Paul Flaskämper and the Reinterpretation of Statistics in Germany, c. 1910-1955", 1. Jahrestagung Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik, Münster, 22-24 September 2017.

"Against Archival Loss: Safeguarding Nazi Administrative Records for US-Military Government in Germany", Understanding Material Loss Conference, University of Birmingham, 17-18 February 2017.

"Between Mathematics and Social Sciences: the Statistical Field in Germany, c. 1880-1935", 7th European Society for the History of Science Conference, Prague 22-24 September 2016.

"'The Framework of our Work': File Cards, Allied Archival Protection, and the Persistence of Power in German Labour Offices, c.1935-1955", Workshop "Reconsidering the Political in Contemporary History. Social Practices and Material Cultures in Cold War Western Europe", Humboldt University Berlin, 4-5 March 2016.

"Speichern-Verarbeiten-Übertragen: Arbeitsbücher, Karteikarten und Statistiken im Arbeitseinsatz des ‚Dritten Reiches'", Workshop Unabhängige Historikerkommission zur Geschichte des Reichsarbeitsministeriums 1933-1945, Berlin, 20 October 2015.

"'Das Gerüst unserer Arbeit': File Cards, Statistics and the Persistence of Power in Germany's Labour Administration, c.1935-1960", Conference "Die Zählung der Welt: Kulturgeschichte der Statistik vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert", Göttingen University, 16-18 September 2015.

"Measuring the Uncountable? Paul Flaskämper and the Reinterpretation of Statistics in Germany, c.1910-1955", British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Swansea, 2-5- July 2015.

"A Manual Machine: Card Files and the Administration of Labour in Germany, c.1925-1950", Research Group Seminar, Topology of Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 14 April 2015.

"Mathematics at Stake: the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of the Statistical Field in Germany, c.1890-1935", Historical Network Research Conference 2014, Ghent, 15-19 September 2014.

"From File Card to Magnetic Tape: The Networks of Technologies and Institutions behind West German Labour Statistics, c.1945-1973", 41st Symposium, International Committee for the History of Technology, Brasov, 2 August 2014.

"Writing the Labour Market: The Production and Use of Workbooks and File Cards in Nazi Germany", Workshop 'Science at Work. How Academics and Other Specialists Contributed to the Normalization of Work', Vienna, 10 September 2013.

"Mathematics at Stake: the Statistical Field in Germany, c. 1890-1935", 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester, 21-28 July 2013.

"On the 'Mathematisation' of Statistical Discourse in (West) German Academic and Official Statistics, c. 1930-1960", German History Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 13-15 September 2012.

"Machine Powers: on the Creation of Facts and Figures in West German Labour Statistics 1950-1973", RGS Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 3-5 July 2012.

"Der Bologna-Prozess in Unterhaltungsdiskursen: Eine Analyse", Zweite Mainzer Diskursforschungswerkstatt – DiskursNetz, University of Mainz, 14-15 July 2011 (with Adrian Staudacher).

"Official Labour Statistics, the State, and Modernity: West Germany 1950-1973", ESRC workshop "Modernity, History, and Social Theory", School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, Edinburgh, 30 June 2011.

"How to Study Economics? Discourse versus Ideology". Input at the CIERA Colloque junior "Ideological Competition in Economics: Economists and Economic Discourses in Germany and France 1980-2007", Paris, 17-18 June 2011.

"On the Geographies of Official Statistics: German (Un-)Employment Statistics and the Debates on its Abolishment 1955-1963", Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, 12-16 April 2011.

"The State and Official Statistics of (Un-)Employment in the Federal Republic of Germany 1955-1982", Human Geography Seminar Series, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, 7 April 2011.

"The Circulation of Statistical Knowledge and the Category of Unemployment: A Transnational Comparison between Labour Market Institutions in West Germany and the OECD" (in German), French-German Postgraduate Seminar 'Comparer/Der Vergleich' with CIERA and Freie Universität Berlin, Moulin d'Andé, France, 15-19 September 2009.

"What is the Archive for a Discourse Researcher? Some Theoretical and Methodological Reflections", International Workshop for Early Career Researchers 'Doing Discourse Analysis', sponsored by the European Science Foundation and organised in cooperation with the Danish Political Science Research Programme, Copenhagen, 1-4 December 2008.

 

Conference/Panel Organisation

"Scientific Personae and the (Dis-)Unity of Modern Statistics in Comparative Perspective, c. 1860-1960" symposium European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018, London, 14-17 September 2018.

"Biography as History of Science – The Case of Statisticians, c.1860-1960", British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Swansea, 2-5 July 2015.

"Trials and Tribulations of Translation between Languages: Lessons from Research in Geography (and Beyond)", RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 26-29 August 2014 (with Luise Fischer).

"The Technology of Geography and the Geographies of Technology", session at the Deutsche Geographentag, 2-8 October 2013 in Passau (with B. Michel)

"Official Statistics as a Science and Tool of Government: Fascist, Socialist and Capitalist Germany, c. 1930-1980", session at the German History Society Annual Conference, 13-15 September 2012 in Edinburgh.

"Geography, Science, and Machines c. 1750-1960", session at the RGS Annual Conference, 3-5 July 2012 in Edinburgh (with Luise Fischer).

"Ideological Competition in Economics: Economists and Economic 
Discourses in Germany and France 1950-2007", Colloque junior under the auspices of the CIERA, Paris, 17-18 June 2011 (with Peter Schaefer).

Co-organiser of a fortnightly interdisciplinary workshop "Social Theory and History: Institutions, People, Power and Knowledge", School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, July 2009-May 2011 (with Luise Fischer).

"The Mobility of Scientific Knowledge: Historical Case Studies, Methodologies, and Conceptual Developments", session for the AAG in Seattle, 12-16 April 2011 (with Luise Fischer).