
Six months ago, I launched with Elissa Mailänder a call for paper on the material culture in closed spaces. The workshop will take place on 11-12 October in Luxembourg and we are quite happy with the people we succeeded bringing together.
OCTOBER 11
14h-15h Kick-off, Elissa Mailänder (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po Paris) and Benoît Majerus (University of Luxembourg)
15h-16h Unrooting the Rules: The Social Life of Plants in Libraries and Archives, Brian Beaton (University of Toronto)
16h30-17h30 Entrance Permitted?! The Exclusionary Character of Public Administrations: Studies on Materiality and Sociality in Swiss Municipalities, Michaela Schmidt (ETH Zurich)
5h30-6h30 Totalizing Materiality and Subaltern Practices in the Context of Education in the Swiss Penal System: Reflections on the Porosity of the Total Institution (Ueli Hostetter, Marina Richter (University of Fribourg)
6h30-7h30 ‘A New Leaf’: Paper!and the Reform of the Institution and Inmate, 1793-1860, Rebecca Wynter (University of Birmingham)
OCTOBER 12
9h-10h The Material Culture of Gymnasiums in Early 19th Century Paris, Sun-Young Park (Harvard University)
10h-11h Inside the barrack room: material culture, discipline and promiscuity in French republican garrisons (1872-1914), Mathieu Marly (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris)
11h30–12h30 Communist Women’s Prison, Albania (1977-1985): Political prisoners and their everyday life of forced labour for survival, Shannon Woodcock (University of Sydney)
1h30-2h30 ‘Ditch the old handcuffs, dig the new i-pods’: Prison legacies and the allure of ‘forgetting’ among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala, Ayetree Sen (University of Manchester)
2h30-3h30 Final whistle, Elissa Mailänder (Centre d’histoire Sciences Po Paris) and Benoît Majerus (University of Luxembourg)
The workshop takes place at the campus Walferdange, building VI, room 1.111