Since April 2021, Marcus Popplow and Gisela Hürlimann (Dresden) have been organizing a biweekly online colloquium for the Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte on Fridays from 12 to 1 p.m. during the semester (mid-April to mid-July and mid-October to mid-February). In this colloquium, research and publication projects, exhibitions, courses of study, teaching concepts, or conference plans on the history of technology in German-speaking countries are presented and jointly discussed. The presentations can be problem-oriented and may also address popular science concerns. The focus is on its workshop character: a short input (20 min.) is followed by an open discussion among the audience and then reactions in dialogue with the presenter. The event adsdresses the members of the GTG (Society for the History of Technology), chairs and professorships in the field of history of technology as well as its students, museums, exhibitors and other institutions and interested parties in the field of history of technology.
In her lecture on 14.7.2023, 12 o'clock, Nicole Hesse presents an excerpt from her dissertation, in which she deals with discourses around historical wind energy futures. One result in advance: crises, especially "fossil" energy crises, always lead to taking recourse to wind energy.
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"Construction - Deconstruction. Bauingenieure im Krieg" - Uwe Fraunholz, Maximilian Gasch, and Anna Mattern (Dresden) curated the online exhibition of the German Digital Library and will be available for a Q&A session on June 30, 2023, 12 a.m., at the Online Forum History of Technology at Noon at the GTG.
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Travel by mouse click: the digital edition of Johann Conrad Fischer's travel diaries (1773-1854) - this source and mediation project will be presented by Franziska Eggimann (Schaffhausen) on Friday, June 16, 2023. The online lecture begins at 12 noon. Info for interested parties under the following link:
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Patrick Kupper (Innsbruck) will speak on Friday, June 2, 2023, on the topic How can the historical sciences contribute to understanding the energy transition? The colloquium starts online at 12 a.m. Info for interested parties at the following link:
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Thomas Morel (Wuppertal) spears on May 19 2023 in the series History of Technology at Noon on the topic Mathematik im Bergbau: zur Wissensgeschichte der Markscheidekunst (1500–1800) (mathematics in mining: on the history of knowledge about mining surveying). This online colloquium starts at noon.
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Thomas Schütz (Stuttgart) presents as part of the GTG's History of Technology at Noon series the topic Everything has its time - the coffee table book as a means of popularization. The online event on Friday, February 10, 2023, begins at 12 noon.
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Kobold, Knirps und Flirt - Sammlung, Dokumentation und Erforschung der rheinisch-bergischen Schirmindustrie im LVR-Industriemuseum (Kobold, Knirps and Flirt - Collection, Documentation and Research of the Rhenish-Berg Umbrella Industry in the LVR Industrial Museum) - this is the title of the lecture that Regina Weber (Oberhausen) will present as part of the online colloquium History of Technology at Noon. The event will take place on 27 January 2023, starting at 12 noon.
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On Friday, January 13, 2023, Lennart Nickel (Hagen) will deliver an online lecture on the topic "With one click. The digital competence center for crafts and technology at the LWL Open Air Museum Hagen". Starting at 12 noon. Interested parties are cordially invited. Further info at:
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On Friday, December 9, 2022, at 12:00 a.m., the Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (GTG) will continue its successful History of Technology at Noon series with another online colloquium. The lecture by Mikael Hard (Darmstadt) is titled Technical Landscapes and Material Culture. A contribution to the discussion.
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"The Past Futures of Artificial Intelligence, AI Development in German-German Comparison" is the topic of the online lecture by Rebecca Roschy (Dresden) on Friday, November 11, 2022. The event will take place every two weeks during the semester on Fridays from 12:00-13:00 via Zoom. More info at:
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Working on the Periphery. Personal Computers and Local Networks in the Swiss Federal Administration, 1980-1995 will be the topic of Mirjam Mayer 's (Zurich) lecture on June 3, beginning at 12 noon. As part of the GTG series History of Technology at Noon, short lectures followed by an exchange of ideas will take place every 14 days. Interested parties are cordially invited!
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On April 23, 2021, the Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (GTG) will launch a new online colloquium every two weeks on Fridays from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. Research and publication projects, exhibitions, study programs, teaching concepts or conference plans on the history of technology in German-speaking countries will be presented and discussed together. A short input (15 min.) is followed by an open discussion among the audience (15 min.) and a reaction in dialogue with the presenter (15 min.). The event adresses the chairs and professorships in the field of the history of technology and their students as well as anyone interested in the history of technology.
Read more by clicking here"Gramophone, Tape, Hard Disk: New Recording Techniques in 20th Century Music," is the title of the online lecture Michelle Ziegler (Basel) will give next Friday, February 11, as part of the GTG's History of Technology series. The originally planned colloquium by Sibylle Gluch has been cancelled.
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