BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T020000 RDATE:20240331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 RDATE:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291028T020000 RDATE:20300331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20301027T020000 RDATE:20310330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20311026T020000 RDATE:20320328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230430T170000 RDATE:20231029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T030000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280326T030000 RDATE:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 RDATE:20291028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20300331T030000 RDATE:20301027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20310330T030000 RDATE:20311026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f7b79a9723a47fdd0ca0de2bb130b4e2 CATEGORIES:Seminari CREATED:20240424T115443 SUMMARY:SISS Meets Early Careers DESCRIPTION:Online Seminar 'SISS Meets Early Careers'A reminder that the next seminar s ession on Labour, Technologies and Gender will take place on 30th April, 5- 7pm (CET).\nAll seminars are held online on Zoom:  (https://unipd.zoom.us/j /85357882609) (https://unipd.zoom.us/j/85357882609)https://unipd.zoom.us/j/ 85357882609 (https://unipd.zoom.us/j/85357882609)\nInformation: https://www .societastoriadellascienza.it/index.php/it/attivita/eventi-siss/136-siss-me ets-early-careers\nOrganizer: Dr Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).\n  (https://www.societastoriadellascienza.it/index.php/it/attiv ita/eventi-siss/136-siss-meets-early-careers)\n \n30th April 2024, 5-7pm (C ET)\nLabour, Technologies and Gender\nChairs: Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca’ Foscar i University of Venice), Violeta Ruiz (CSIC- Institució Milà i Funtanals, B arcelona)\nAndreas Lingg (University of Witten/Herdecke), “Sola civium indu stria”: on Ideas of Productivity and Craftsmanship in 16th century Nurember g\nGabriele Marcon (Warburg Institute/Villa I Tatti), Hidden Figures? Women ’s Work in Early Modern Mining\nEóin Philipps (La Salle - Ramon Llull Unive rsity, Barcelona), “They’ve the Concrete Master Race to keep you in your Pl ace”: Canals, Work and the Canal System in the Imperial Meridian.\n \nBios and Abstracts: \nAndreas Lingg (University of Witten/Herdecke), “Sola civiu m industria”: on ideas of productivity and craftsmanship in 16th century Nu remberg. \nIn the 15th and 16th centuries, Nuremberg was one of the most in fluential cities in the Holy Roman Empire, both economically and politicall y. In particular, its role in the metal trade, its intermediary position be tween the mining districts of Central Europe and important commercial cente rs such as Antwerp, contributed to its rise. Far more than just through the export of raw metals, the city benefited from the large number of talented craftsmen who processed this material. Nuremberg's goldsmiths and silversm iths were famous throughout Europe for their skill. As early as the beginni ng of the 16th century, references to a new understanding of 'industria' em erged in this context, which had previously been dated much later in resear ch. This article explores this conceptual shift - and searches for traces o f this transformation at the intersection of humanist circles, mining and a rtisans.\nBio: Andreas Friedolin Lingg is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Witten/Herdecke. His research mainly deals with the history o f economic ideas, economic history and philosophy as well as the history of knowledge. He studied in Friedrichshafen, Berlin and Munich. He has author ed several articles and book chapters. His first monograph Die Entdeckung d er Wirtschaft('Discovering the Economy') investigates the interaction of ea rly modern mining and economic discourses and imagination in Germany. It wo n the Hans Christoph Binswanger Prize 2023.\nGabriele Marcon (Warburg Insti tute/Villa I Tatti), Hidden Figures? Women’s Work in Early Modern Mining. \ nEarly modern mines ranked among the most populated workplaces of preindust rial Europe. Both men and women engaged in mining activities. Yet women’s w ork, which historians have either scarcely documented or considered irremed iably lost, was part of a paradox. On the one hand, early modern mines were segregated workplaces for women. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Eur ope, women were deemed unfit for mining labour, and perceived to lack the n ecessary strength and skills to carry out risky, unhealthy, and physically demanding activities. As a result, employers and subcontractors organized w ork and allocated tasks to women by following traditional gender difference s in male and female labour outputs. On the other hand, while continuities of gender inequality persisted at various stages of their work, female agen cy challenged this gendered working environment. Women contributed to vario us economic, scientific, and labour activities of preindustrial mining. For instance, they participated in the industry as heads of money lending inst itutions in the mines, and worked in high-skilled positions such as surveyo rs, metalworkers, and labour supervisors. This presentation aims to shed ne w light on women’s work in early modern mines through the lens of the labou r history of science. First, it surveys how humanist writers associated wom en with Nature, and how this connection underpinned technical discourses th at excluded women’s bodies from mining activities. Second, it analyses how sixteenth-century texts on mining and metallurgy supported this scholarly t radition while also recognizing women’s participation in the mines as disco verers of new metal deposits. Finally, the presentation draws some prelimin ary conclusions by presenting new archival material on the scientific knowl edge of German and Italian female labourers in the working community of the Medici mines in sixteenth-century Tuscany.\nBio:Gabriele Marcon is Warburg /I Tatti Joint Fellow 2023/2024 at I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence, Italy). His current project inve stigates women’s work in the mines of the Medici family in sixteenth-centur y Tuscany. Before joining I Tatti, he held positions as Lecturer in Early M odern European History at Durham University (UK) and as Teaching Fellow at the University of Padova. In 2022, He received his PhD from the European Un iversity Institute (Florence) with a thesis titled “The Movements of Mining : German Miners in Renaissance Italy (1450s-1550s)”. His research focuses o n the social and economic history of mining in early modern Europe, with a particular emphasis on labour migration, women’s work, and resources in Ren aissance Italy. Marcon has authored numerous articles and book chapters exp loring topics such as wage negotiation, coercion, and labour mobility. Curr ently, he is working on his first monograph, tentatively titled Renaissance  Underground: Labour and Science in the Mines of Early Modern Italy.\nEoin Philipps (La Salle - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona), ‘They’ve the concr ete master race to keep you in your place’: canals, work and the canal syst em in the Imperial Meridian\nThis paper will explore the relationship betwe en work, imperial-technological projects and scientific representations of this relationship in the context of the extensive canal and dock building p rojects pursued by the British state in the period 1760-1820. A recurring f eature in British historiography of industrialisaion and enlightenment has been the division between political and imperial transformation on the one hand and industrial revolution on the other. The historiography of British canal and dock building has followed this pattern: dominated as it is by wh at might be called 'dry' accounts of their development: 'dry' in the sense that they have largely been told as stories of national industrial/economic development and separated from the expanding European maritime expansion f rom the Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans; 'dry' too, because throu gh this separation, the political and social dimensions of their developmen t have been ignored. This paper will show the changing strategies, manageme nt and representations of canal building projects in contrast with the expe rience of those groups of workers who built, worked and managed these exten sive waterways. This paper will attempt to show how examples of oceanic and colonial management came to be used as resources for an emerging group of plantation owners, engineers, mathematicians and astronomers to promote can al and dockyard schemes as the means for a form of labour control and disci pline that situated technological systems as the means to transform the cus tomary organisation of work of typically itinerant workforces. Importantly however, this paper will stress the means to which these projects were alwa ys resisted and that historians dependence on certain forms of representati on - particularly enyclopaedias - has led to the experience of canal and do ck builders and workers - as well as the forms of unpaid labour with which they were compared - as separate from the technological developments in whi ch their role was central. As such, the paper attempts to show not only the ways through which we might approach a labour history of science and techn ology, but also to suggest that this must be done through situating the ach ievements of 'dry' European innovation in the context of 'wet' schemes of c olonial management and imperial expansion.\nBio: Eóin Phillips is an histor ian and sociologist of science and technology and assistant professor at La Salle - Ramon Llull University where he co-directs the Observatory of Quan tum Technologies. His work explores the social, economic and political deve lopment of calculative technologies and regulatory regimes, from the eighte enth century to the present day. He is currently completing a book about th e transformation of European artisanal social relations in the context of t he imperial meridian and the rise of the 'calculative state'. His new proje ct waterways is an attempt to offer a 'global history from below',  explori ng the relations between state planning, models of economic development and the formation of class identity with relation to canals, coasts, and inlan d river ways.\n \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Online Seminar 'SISS Meets Early Careers '

A reminder that the next sem inar session on Labour, Technologies and Gender  will take place on 30th April, 5-7pm (CET).

All seminars are held online on Zoom: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/85357882609

Information: h ttps://www.societastoriadellascienza.it/index.php/it/attivita/eventi-siss/1 36-siss-meets-early-careers

Organizer: Dr Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).

 

 

30th April 2024, 5-7pm (CET)

Labour, Technologies and Gender

< p>Chairs: Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca’ Foscari Uni versity of Venice), Violeta Ruiz (CSIC- Institució Milà i Funtanals, Barcel ona)

Andreas Lingg (University of Witten/Herdecke), “Sola civium industria”: on Ideas of Prod uctivity and Craftsmanship in 16th century Nuremberg

Gabriele Marcon (Warburg Institute/Villa I T atti), Hidden Figures? Women’s Work in Early Modern Mining

Eóin Philipps (La Salle - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona), “They’ve the Concrete Mas ter Race to keep you in your Place”: Canals, Work and the Canal System in t he Imperial Meridian.

 

Bios and A bstracts: 

Andreas Lingg (University of Witten/Herdecke), “Sola civium industria”: on ideas of productivity and craftsmanship in 16th century Nuremberg. 

In the 15th and 16th cen turies, Nuremberg was one of the most influential cities in the Holy Roman Empire, both economically and politically. In particular, its role in the m etal trade, its intermediary position between the mining districts of Centr al Europe and important commercial centers such as Antwerp, contributed to its rise. Far more than just through the export of raw metals, the city ben efited from the large number of talented craftsmen who processed this mater ial. Nuremberg's goldsmiths and silversmiths were famous throughout Europe for their skill. As early as the beginning of the 16th century, references to a new understanding of 'industria' emerged in this context, which had pr eviously been dated much later in research. This article explores this conc eptual shift - and searches for traces of this transformation at the inters ection of humanist circles, mining and artisans.

Bio: Andreas Friedolin Lingg is a postdo ctoral researcher at the University of Witten/Herdecke. His research mainly deals with the history of economic ideas, economic history and philosophy as well as the history of knowledge. He studied in Friedrichshafen, Berlin and Munich. He has authored several articles and book chapters. His first m onograph Die Entdeckung der Wirtschaft('Discovering the Econo my') investigates the interaction of early modern mining and economic disco urses and imagination in Germany. It won the Hans Christoph Binswanger Priz e 2023.

Gabriele Marcon ( Warburg Institute/Villa I Tatti), Hidden Figures? Women’s Work in Early Modern Mining. 

Early modern mines ranked among the most populated workplaces of p reindustrial Europe. Both men and women engaged in mining activities. Yet w omen’s work, which historians have either scarcely documented or considered irremediably lost, was part of a paradox. On the one hand, early modern mi nes were segregated workplaces for women. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-cen tury Europe, women were deemed unfit for mining labour, and perceived to la ck the necessary strength and skills to carry out risky, unhealthy, and phy sically demanding activities. As a result, employers and subcontractors org anized work and allocated tasks to women by following traditional gender di fferences in male and female labour outputs. On the other hand, while conti nuities of gender inequality persisted at various stages of their work, fem ale agency challenged this gendered working environment. Women contributed to various economic, scientific, and labour activities of preindustrial min ing. For instance, they participated in the industry as heads of money lend ing institutions in the mines, and worked in high-skilled positions such as surveyors, metalworkers, and labour supervisors. This presentation aims to shed new light on women’s work in early modern mines through the lens of t he labour history of science. First, it surveys how humanist writers associ ated women with Nature, and how this connection underpinned technical disco urses that excluded women’s bodies from mining activities. Second, it analy ses how sixteenth-century texts on mining and metallurgy supported this sch olarly tradition while also recognizing women’s participation in the mines as discoverers of new metal deposits. Finally, the presentation draws some preliminary conclusions by presenting new archival material on the scientif ic knowledge of German and Italian female labourers in the working communit y of the Medici mines in sixteenth-century Tuscany.

Bio:Gabriele Marcon is Warburg/I Tatt i Joint Fellow 2023/2024 at I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Ita lian Renaissance Studies (Florence, Italy). His current project investigate s women’s work in the mines of the Medici family in sixteenth-century Tusca ny. Before joining I Tatti, he held positions as Lecturer in Early Modern E uropean History at Durham University (UK) and as Teaching Fellow at the Uni versity of Padova. In 2022, He received his PhD from the European Universit y Institute (Florence) with a thesis titled “The Movements of Mining: Germa n Miners in Renaissance Italy (1450s-1550s)”. His research focuses on the s ocial and economic history of mining in early modern Europe, with a particu lar emphasis on labour migration, women’s work, and resources in Renaissanc e Italy. Marcon has authored numerous articles and book chapters exploring topics such as wage negotiation, coercion, and labour mobility. Currently, he is working on his first monograph, tentatively titled Renaissance < em>Underground: Labour and Science in the Mines of Early Modern Italy.

Eoin Philipps (La Salle - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona), ‘They’ve the co ncrete master race to keep you in your place’: c anals, work and the canal system in the Imperial Meridian

This paper will explore the relationshi p between work, imperial-technological projects and scientific representati ons of this relationship in the context of the extensive canal and dock bui lding projects pursued by the British state in the period 1760-1820. A recu rring feature in British historiography of industrialisaion and enlightenme nt has been the division between political and imperial transformation on t he one hand and industrial revolution on the other. The historiography of B ritish canal and dock building has followed this pattern: dominated as it i s by what might be called 'dry' accounts of their development: 'dry' in the sense that they have largely been told as stories of national industrial/e conomic development and separated from the expanding European maritime expa nsion from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans; 'dry' too, becaus e through this separation, the political and social dimensions of their dev elopment have been ignored. This paper will show the changing strategies, m anagement and representations of canal building projects in contrast with t he experience of those groups of workers who built, worked and managed thes e extensive waterways. This paper will attempt to show how examples of ocea nic and colonial management came to be used as resources for an emerging gr oup of plantation owners, engineers, mathematicians and astronomers to prom ote canal and dockyard schemes as the means for a form of labour control an d discipline that situated technological systems as the means to transform the customary organisation of work of typically itinerant workforces. Impor tantly however, this paper will stress the means to which these projects we re always resisted and that historians dependence on certain forms of repre sentation - particularly enyclopaedias - has led to the experience of canal and dock builders and workers - as well as the forms of unpaid labour with which they were compared - as separate from the technological developments in which their role was central. As such, the paper attempts to show not o nly the ways through which we might approach a labour history of science an d technology, but also to suggest that this must be done through situating the achievements of 'dry' European innovation in the context of 'wet' schem es of colonial management and imperial expansion.

Bio: Eóin Phillips is an historian and sociologist of science and technology and assistant professor at La Salle - Ramon Llull University where he co-directs the Observatory of Quantum Technologies. His work explores the social, economic and political de velopment of calculative technologies and regulatory regimes, from the eigh teenth century to the present day. He is currently completing a book about the transformation of European artisanal social relations in the context of the imperial meridian and the rise of the 'calculative state'. His new pro ject waterways is an attempt to offer a 'global history from below',  exploring the relations between state planning, models of eco nomic development and the formation of class identity with relation to cana ls, coasts, and inland river ways.

 

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