May 25 – 26, 2023
Collaborative Research Center 1482 "Studies in Human Categorization"
Research Project "Urban Regimes of Control", Media and Culture Studies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Venue
Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM)
Staudingerweg 18, 55128 Mainz
Room 00.131
Program
_Thursday, May 25, 2023
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Introduction Gabriele Schabacher (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) & Asher Boersma (Konstanz University). |
_MONITORING MOVEMENTS
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Late Modern Surveillance in Europe: Self-censorship in a Digital Asylum Veronika Nagy (Utrecht University) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Accounting for Migration Willem Schinkel & Rogier van Reekum (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Public discourses on mobility control? Newspapers and the making of public opinion about migration to and through the port cities of Antwerp and Rotterdam in the early twentieth century Christina Reimann (Södertörn University Stockholm) |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee Break |
_OPERATING CONTROL ROOMS
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Boundaries, Boundary Work and Repair: Resilience and Institutional Persistence in Challenging Times. The Case of Air Traffic Control Diane Vaughan (Columbia University New York) |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | Tracking Santa and Sinterklaas: Operators, Folklore, and the Pedagogy of the All-knowing Center Asher Boersma (Konstanz University) |
_Friday, May 26, 2023
_ADMINISTERING CIRCULATIONS
| 9:30 – 10:30 | "Regulation Mania": Rail Traffic and Station Control around 1850 Tom Ullrich (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Control on the ground and from afar: plantation written records across the Atlantic Marta Macedo (University of Lisbon) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Lunch Break |
_IMAGINING FUTURE CONTROLLABILITIES
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Virtual Ship-Bridges and Digital Dockyards: Digital Twins as Maritime Training and Construction Environments Sebastian Vehlken (University of Oldenburg / German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven) |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | The Moving of the World on Fire. A New Sensitiveness for the Circulation of Climate Objects and their "Control Rooms" Claudio Coletta (University of Bologna) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Closing Discussion |
Organizers: Gabriele Schabacher, Asher Boersma, Tom Ullrich, and Sophie Spallinger
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Contact: mobility-control@uni-mainz.de