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* Work in Progress (IHC-UAB)Work in Progress (IHC-UAB)

Time: 12:00

Jaume Navarro (UPV/EHU): "Science, Religion and Nationalism. Local interactions and global historiographies"

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* Colomina: Paz y SolidaridadColomina: Paz y Solidaridad

Time: 12:00

Immaculada Colomina: "Paz y Solidaridad. La ayuda humanitaria de las iglesias de paz norteamericanas a las víctimas de la guerra civil española"

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* Technology & CapitalismTechnology & Capitalism

Time: 18:30

"Biometric Capitalism: Africa in the 21st Century", by KEITH BRECKENRIDGE (WISER -- Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research). ABSTRACT: This talk argues that a new and distinctive variety of capitalism is currently taking form on the African continent. States are being remade under the pressures of rapid demographic growth, persistent conflicts over boundaries, domestic and global national security demands, declining investments in mineral resources and the gifts of multilateral donors and international data-processing corporations. Much of this turn to enhanced forms of state surveillance is common to societies across the globe, but the economic and institutional forms on the African continent are distinctive. The British, French and Portuguese colonial states bequeathed lethargic and constrained registration systems to their post-colonial successors – government administrations that did little to record births, deaths, marriages, debt or property. This administrative condition has changed little, or deteriorated, over the last half-century. Automated biometric identification systems, aimed chiefly at adults, present these states with apparently simple and cost-effective alternatives to the intractable and expensive projects of registration. In many African countries – the paper discusses Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria – commercial banks are offering to bear the costs of building centralised biometric population registers. They have explicitly in mind the development of an unusual combination of a centralised national identification database and commercial credit risk scoring apparatus, an informational union that aims to transform all citizens into appropriate subjects of automated biographical debt appraisal. This is remarkable in comparison with the earlier histories of identification and registration, and with the legal and administrative arrangements for physical and virtual forms of property that exist on the continent.

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* Conferència (IHC-UAB)Conferència (IHC-UAB)

Time: 11:00

Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich‐Alexander‐Universität Erlangen‐Nürnberg): "Science in the Hands of Diplomats: How the IAEA Shaped our Knowledge About Radiation Protection"

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* grup lectura hist. tecnologiagrup lectura hist. tecnologia

Time: 14:00

Pritchard, Sara B. & Zimring, Carl A. (2020). Technology and the Environment in History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/technology-and-environment-history).

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* GHOSS (IHC-UAB)GHOSS (IHC-UAB)

Time: 12:00

Agustí Nieto‐Galan (UAB): “From Science to Hype: Giovanni Succi and the land of hunger artists (1880‐1922)"

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