Protecting Bodies at Work: Technical Devices, Materialities of Health, and Political Imaginaries

September 18th
8:30-9:00 Welcome

9:00-9:10 Introduction

9:10-10:00 The Health of the Artisan

• Ricardo Córdoba (Universidad de Córdoba): The prevention of occupational hazards in the practice of craft trades, Iberian Peninsula, 14th-15th centuries
• Sarah Seinitzer (Universität Wien): The Use of Garlic to Maintain the Balance of Metalworker’s Body

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break

10:20-11:10 Underground Worlds I

• Emeline Retournard (Université Clermont Auvergne): The costume and protection of miners in Europe from the High Middle Ages to the early modern period. A multidisciplinary approach
• Charles-Antoine Wanecq, Bastien Cabot (Université de Lille ; Sciences Po): A worker's perspective on safety and hygiene devices: the archives of miners' safety delegates in France from 1890 to the 1980s

11:10-11:20 Coffee Break

11:20-12:10 Underground Worlds II

• Pascal Raggi, Sébastien Mellard (Université de Lorraine): Mineworkers' helmets in France: their emergence, use and representations (from the late 1940s to the early 21st century)
• Grace Simpson (Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie): Boots instead of espadrilles': changing attitudes to protective mining gear in the Asturian coal basins through the lens of the company committee, 1958–1964

12:10-12:30 Brainstorming

12:30-14:00 Lunch-workshop I

14:00-15:15 Breathing Modernities

• Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS): Living and working in the heat and noxious air: Charles Leroux's universal textile and the individualisation of protection
• Erika Wicky (Université Grenoble Alpes): Anti-Miasma Devices designed to protect Colour Grinders (1789-1830)
• Véronique Stenger, Yohann Guffroy, Bruno J. Strasser (Université de Genève): The Mask: Materiality and Imaginaries of Occupational Health in 19th Century France

15:15-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:20 (Post-)Colonial Contexts I

• Santosh Kumar Rai (University of Delhi): Protecting Bodies at Work: The Lives of Handloom Weavers in Colonial North India
• Shreya Kundu (University of Ashoka): Precarious Bodies and Marginal Lives of Labouring Children in British India: Health and Technology at the Crossroads (1870s- 1940s)

16:20-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:20 (Post-)Colonial Contexts II

• Rose Angeline Abissi (Université de Douala): The physical ''protection'' of workers in the colonial context in Cameroon between 1908 and 1957
• Christian Papinot (Université de Poitiers): Exposure to occupational risks and (non-)use of protective equipment of construction workers in Madagascar

17:20-18:00 Brainstorming

19:30 Dinner at the Bains des Pâquis

September 19th
8:30-9:00 Welcome

9:00-9:50 Safety at Sea

• Guillaume Linte (Université Aix-Marseille): Protecting the seafarer's body: naval hygiene and technological innovation in 18th-century France
• Baptistine Airiau-Bomont (Sorbonne Université): “L’hygiène ne saurait l’incriminer et la tradition le défend.” The navy sailors' uniform, between symbolism and protection for sailors at work (1856-1914)

9:50-10:00 Coffee Break

10:00-11:15 Expertises, Gender, and Policies

• Marie Charvet (Nantes Université): How a production tool became a sanitary protection device: the difficult acclimatisation of spin-dryers in 19th century French public washhouses
• Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): The toolbox of expertise. Dr Alice Hamilton and bodies at work during the Progressive era (United States, 1914-1930)
• Almira Sharafeeva (LMU München): Protecting Women’s Bodies at Work: Soviet Occupational Health Policies and the Politics of Risk (1920s-1930s)

11:15-12:00 Brainstorming

12:00-13:30 Lunch-workshop II

13:30-14:20 Safety Education

• Nadège Mariotti (Université de Lorraine): Safety Films in Mining and the Steel Industry: Audiovisual Devices and Prevention Imaginaries since 1938
• Sarah-Louise Rehahn, Katrin Petersen (DASA Arbeitswelt Ausstellung, Dortmund): Reaching out for a wide audience: exhibitions as educational tools for protecting bodies (and minds) at work

14:20-14:45 Coffee break

14:45-16:00 From Occupational to Environmental Health

• Petra Seitz (University College London): Protecting white-collar bodies at work: The Northern European cellular office
• Arthur Delacquis (Sorbonne Université): Hoods, caps and leftist propaganda–Aluminium Péchiney and the requests for action against fluoride fumes in l’Argentière- la-Bessée (1970-1982)
• Marie Thirion (Université Grenoble Alpes): « Un ballo in maschera » - Materiality and symbolic significance of the gas mask in Porto Marghera

16:00-17:00 Brainstorming & Farwell