[Air-L] CNH Conference program on AOIR mailinglist

[Gianluigi Negro]

Dear colleagues, apologies for cross posting
We would like to post the programme of a conference on computer networks histories to be held in Lugano, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in December (you can find the plain text below). The conference is open to public.
For any further information don't hesitate to mail us.

Best regards,

Gianluigi Negro, Paolo Bory, Gabriele Balbi

*Computer  Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives*
*USI -Università della Svizzera italiana*, Lugano, Switzerland.
  14-15 December 2017

The association Geschichte und Informatik, the Institute of Media and Journalism & China Media Observatory at USI Università della Svizzera italiana, and infoclio.ch are proud to announce the program for the International Conference *Computer Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives*

The conference aims to develop new frameworks and a space of discussion  on the historical role of computer networks; 28 speakers coming from  13 countries will present and discuss the multiple trajectories of  computer networks histories worldwide. There is no conference-fee and the event is open to the public.

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) & Hu Yong (Peking University)

Conference website: www.cnh.usi.ch
Programme: http://www.cnh.usi.ch/programme
CFP: http://www.cnh.usi.ch/call
Conference email address: nethistories at gmail.com

*Conference Programme*
*14th December 2017 USI - Università della Svizzera italiana*

8:00 / 9:00 Registration / Introduction speech


9:00 / 10:00 Keynote Speaker - Hu Yong, Peking University


10:30 / 12:00 Panel 1 / Focus on China - Chair: Hu Yong, Peking University
Bo An, Yale University
Infrastructure, amateurism, and radical Networking: FidoNet in China (1995-1998)

Liu Jinhe, Tsinghua University
Regime evolution of China's regulation on transborder flow of data：From 1994 to 2017

Clément Renaud, École Polytechnique de Lausanne
Grégory Bahde, Université Jean Monnet St Etienne
From Davos to Beijing : the historical trajectory of the concept of sovereignty in Internet territories

12:00 / 13:00 Lunch


13:00 / 14:30 Panel 2 / The legacy of the 1980s’ - Chair: Enrico Natale, Infoclio.ch
Camille Paloque-Berges, CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam
Beyond the protocol wars: 1980s user cultures in Dutch inter-net nodes

Valérie Schafer, ISCC – Institut des Sciences de la Communication
Benjamin Thierry, Université Paris Sorbonne
The Internet and the Web as a “Super Minitel”

Kevin Driscoll, University of Virginia
Thou shalt love thy BBS: a framework for the moderation of online communities


15:00 / 16:30 Panel 3 / European Histories - Chair: Christiane Sibille, Geschichte und Informatik
Mato Brautovic, University of Dubrovnik
Origins and development of Internet in Croatia: times of transition from communism to democracy and war for independence

Félix Tréguer, ISCC - Institut des Sciences de la Communication
Dominique Trudel, Concordia University
From internet access provider to political advocacy: the history of the French data network

Luciano Lenzini, Fabio Gadducci, Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa
On the Italian pioneering network projects: issues and challenges


17:00 / 18:30 Visit at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)


20:00 Conference Dinner


*15th December 2017 – USI - Università della Svizzera italiana*


9:00 / 10:00
Keynote Speaker - Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa
The network and the historian: opportunities, challenges, surprises, disobedience


10:30 / 12:00 Panel 4 / Infrastructures – Chair: Simone Natale, Loughborough Univ.
Christian Henrich-Franke, University of Siegen
Computer networks on copper cables

Paolo Magaudda, University of Padova
The rising of Tor and the history of a network “in the dark”

Sebastian Gieβmann, University of Siegen
Networking with/out computing? Remarks on the longue durée of networking practices


12:00 / 13:00 Lunch


13:00/14:30 Panel 5 / A taste of BRICS’ histories - Chair: Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa
Sophie Toupin, McGill University
Hacking Apartheid

Marcelo Savio de Carvalho, IBM Brazil
Henrique Luiz Kukierman, Federal University of Rio
The dawn of the internet in Brazil

Manushi, Indian Institute of Mass Communication
Towards Digital India: Internet in India


15:00 / 16:30 Panel 6 / Networking Memories - Chair: Marco Colombetti, USI
Raúl Carnota, FCEN Argentina
Lucas de Almeida Pereira, UNESP Brazil
SHIALC: History and memory of computer science in Latin America

Guido Koller, Swiss Federal Archives
Of men and register. The foreigner’s central register in Switzerland – An early digital federal administrative network

Benedetta Campanile, University of Bari
Robert Fano, an Italian computer scientist from Project Mac to Internet

16:30 / 17:00 Closing Remarks