Call for Papers: HSSuisse 2025 in Lucerne

We would like to invite you to the sixth HSSuisse (https://hssuisse.ch/) meeting on 5 December 2025. The meeting will take place at the University of Lucerne and is hosted by the Ambizione project Visualpedia and the Chair of Science Studies. 

The meeting is an opportunity for early career scholars to network with other historians of science in Switzerland, to learn about each other’s current research, and to discuss current historiographical trends and issues. 

We are looking for 15-minute presentations or other formats (such as lecture performances, film essays, etc.). It is also possible to submit panels or roundtable discussions on pressing issues or questions in the field.
You are free to give the presentation in any Swiss language or in English. If you give the talk in a language other than English, please consider providing a handout or including slides in English. 

If you are interested in participating, please send a short abstract (250 words) until 15 August 2025 to sarine.waltenspuel@unilu.ch and mario.schulze@unibas.ch. 

Charlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Aubervilliers, France) will present her research on the history of scientific conferences in a keynote.
Charlotte Bigg is an historian of science trained in history and history of science at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, UK. She worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and at ETH Zurich before joining the French CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, in 2009. She has published widely on the visual and material cultures of the sciences and their circulations across different sites and communities, from the late eighteenth century to now. She is or has recently been co-PI of collective projects investigating the scientific conference, the photo-library and geological collections. Charlotte also regularly advises museums and contributes to exhibitions, such as, currently the Palais de la découverte in Paris.