Panels des DigIneq-Teams
Saturday, 11 October 2025
9:50 AM – 11:05 AM · Session S43
The Local and the Universal: Organizing European Computing in the 1960s–1980s
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Organizer: Aron Ambrosiani (Chalmers University of Technology)
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Chair: Jeffrey Yost (Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota)
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Commentator: Martin Schmitt (Universität Paderborn)
Presenters:
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Aron Ambrosiani (Chalmers University of Technology): Systems Men and Girls at the Keypunch: Gendered Boundary Work in Swedish Computing, 1960s–1980s (Robinson Prize Candidate)
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Lara Marziali (Politecnico di Milano): IRA-INAF’s computational center: how radioastronomers compute the sky (Robinson Prize Candidate)
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Johannes Kleinmann (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, ZZF): The local and the universal: The organisation of computer work at the steel factory Brandenburg an der Havel, 1960s–1980s
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Corinna Schlombs (Rochester Institute of Technology): High Tech and Routine Work: Computing in the East German Financial System
11:20 AM – 12:35 PM · Session S9
Digital Borders: Migration and Data Politics, 1950s–2000s
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Organizer & Chair: Michael Homberg (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, ZZF)
Presenters:
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Lennart Schmidt (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, ZZF) & Moritz Mähr (University of Bern): Digital Migration Regimes: Technologies of Control in Postwar Europe
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Michelle Pfeifer (Technische Universität Dresden): Infrastructural Opportunism: Database Interoperability’s Lessons from the German Central Foreigner’s Register
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Moritz Feichtinger (University of Basel): Control and Confusion: Digital Monitoring of Migration Flows during the War for Vietnam
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Cecilia Passanti (Université Paris Cité): The (Biometric) Rise of African Citizenship: Building the EU’s Migration Control Apparatus from Postcolonial Democracy Practices (Robinson Prize Candidate)