MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Event

Sep 20-24, 2021
Bovine Regimes: When Animals Became Technologies

During this hybrid workshop (Harnack Haus/Webex), the "Out of Place, Out of Time" Working Group will be discussing pre-circulated papers that will form the basis of a special issue for Technology & Culture. 

Program

  • Day 1 (Sep. 20, 2021)

    13:00-13:55

    • Tamar Novick (MPIWG): Bovine Regimes: When Animals Became Technologies— Introduction

    14:05-15:00

    • Taija Kaarlenkaski (Turku U): Multispecies Agencies,Technology, and Gender in Contemporary Finnish Dairy Husbandry

  • Day 2 (Sep. 21, 2021)

    10:00-12:00

    • Discussion of Readings: Tech & Animals

    13:30-15:00

  • Day 3 (Sep. 22, 2021)

    10:00-12:00

    • Farm Tour: Domäne Dahlem

    13:00-13:55

    • Paul Hansen (Hokkaido U): Dances with Cows: Dairy Farm Lessons in Becoming a Human Animal

    14:00-15:00

    • Joint Discussion with the "Global Matters" Group (Tech and Global History Group, TU Darmstadt + Dep. III, MPIWG)

  • Day 4 (Sep. 23, 2021)

    10:00-12:00

    • Discussion of Readings: Temporality

    13:00-13:55

    • Lucy Beech & Tamar Novick (MPIWG): Disruptive Animality: The Productive Infertility of the Freemartin

    14:05-15:00

    • Emma Kitchen (U Chicago): The Wild Side of Animals as Technologies: Wild British Cattle as Unlikely Model Organisms at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

  • Day 5 (Sep. 24, 2021)

    13:00-13:55

    • Nicole Welk Joerger (Princeton U): Measuring Maintenance: Unlocking Possibly in the Bovine Body

    14:05-15:00

    • Karl R. Appuhn (NYU): Are You Experienced? Instruments and the Construction of Veterinary Knowledge at the University of Padua

    15:00-16:00

    • Revisit of Intro & Concluding Remarks
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Open to Dept. III members. If you would like to join the various sessions please write to Tamar Novick in order to get access to the papers.

2021-09-20T00:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2021-09-20 00:00:00 2021-09-24 00:00:00 Bovine Regimes: When Animals Became Technologies During this hybrid workshop (Harnack Haus/Webex), the "Out of Place, Out of Time" Working Group will be discussing pre-circulated papers that will form the basis of a special issue for Technology & Culture.  Program Day 1 (Sep. 20, 2021) 13:00-13:55 Tamar Novick (MPIWG): Bovine Regimes: When Animals Became Technologies— Introduction 14:05-15:00 Taija Kaarlenkaski (Turku U): Multispecies Agencies,Technology, and Gender in Contemporary Finnish Dairy Husbandry Day 2 (Sep. 21, 2021) 10:00-12:00 Discussion of Readings: Tech & Animals 13:30-15:00 Dep. III Colloquium Day 3 (Sep. 22, 2021) 10:00-12:00 Farm Tour: Domäne Dahlem 13:00-13:55 Paul Hansen (Hokkaido U): Dances with Cows: Dairy Farm Lessons in Becoming a Human Animal 14:00-15:00 Joint Discussion with the "Global Matters" Group (Tech and Global History Group, TU Darmstadt + Dep. III, MPIWG) Day 4 (Sep. 23, 2021) 10:00-12:00 Discussion of Readings: Temporality 13:00-13:55 Lucy Beech & Tamar Novick (MPIWG): Disruptive Animality: The Productive Infertility of the Freemartin 14:05-15:00 Emma Kitchen (U Chicago): The Wild Side of Animals as Technologies: Wild British Cattle as Unlikely Model Organisms at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Day 5 (Sep. 24, 2021) 13:00-13:55 Nicole Welk Joerger (Princeton U): Measuring Maintenance: Unlocking Possibly in the Bovine Body 14:05-15:00 Karl R. Appuhn (NYU): Are You Experienced? Instruments and the Construction of Veterinary Knowledge at the University of Padua 15:00-16:00 Revisit of Intro & Concluding Remarks Tamar Novick Tamar Novick Europe/Berlin public