The sixth meeting of HSSuisse will take place on 5 December 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 19:30 p.m. at the University of Lucerne.
If you would like to participate and catch up with colleagues, please complete the following registration form by 7 November 2025. This will help us plan for lunch and coffee breaks: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflTW7LxBSQgs9fvJuZNCbDIqz4vUUsF9M2gfIlqpnEqYp6kw/viewform
Program
Venue: University of Lucerne, Frohburgstrasse 3, 6002 Luzern, Room 3.B58
9:45 Welcome Christoph Hoffmann, Sarine Waltenspül (Universität Luzern) and Mario Schulze (Universität Basel)
10:00–11:30 Panel 1
Chair: Dania Achermann (Universität St. Gallen)
Simon Lindner (Universität Basel)
The Romantic Appropriation of Police Science
Elena Schaa (Universität Basel)
A Stroke of Genius? The Cultural Roots of Heisenberg’s “Breakthrough” on Helgoland
Julien Gressot (Université de Neuchatel)
Sydney de Coulon (1889-1976): industrie horlogère, politiques d’innovation et développement technoscientifique
12:00–13:30 Panel 2
Chair: Kris Decker (Universität Luzern)
David Bucheli (Universität Basel)
Inkblots in the High Alps. Roland Kuhn’s Rorschach Experiments at Jungfraujoch 1942/43
Mirjam Mayer (ETH Zürich)
High-Tech Trace Search: Archaeology and the Technoscientific Configuration of the Past in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Magnus Rust (Universität Basel)
When Computers Were Antihistorians
13:30–14:30 Lunch at the University of Lucerne
14:30–16:00 Panel 3: Epistemologies of Peace in the Cold War: Scientific Perspectives on Aggression, Education, and Social Coexistence
Chair: Susanne Schmidt (Universität Basel)
Carla Seemann (HU Berlin/Universität des Saarlandes)
Epistemologies of Peace in the Cold War: Scientific Perspectives on Aggression, Education, and Social Coexistence
Cécile Hauser (LMU München)
Peace Despite Aggression? Peace Researchers in Germany Debating the “Aggressive Drive” Around 1970
Hannah Kressig (MPIWG Berlin/HU Berlin)
“Make Love, Not War”-Apes: Bonobos as a Model for Peaceful Coexistence in Late Twentieth Century
16:30–18:00 Panel 4
Chair: Jérôme Baudry (EPFL)
Simon Lobach (Universität Wien/Université de Genève)
Humans and Microbes Mining Together: Biomining from Secret Alchemy to New Common
Anna Lytvynova (ETH Zürich)
Reflecting Controversies: Epistemologies of Studying Blockchain and Other Politically Charged Technologies
Ulrike Kiessling and Raffaele Perniola (Universität Basel)Discussion: Who Speaks, Who Listens? Colonial Sound Archives, Gnosis, and the Making of Knowledge about Africa
18:15–19:30 Keynote
Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré Paris)
What is a scientific conference, why study it and how?
20:00 Dinner (at own expense) Parterre Luzern, Mythenstrasse 7
Funding: SNSF project Visualpedia, Chair for Science Studies and Forschungskommission Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Luzern