The future of science : scientific archives and new research
EDUC/LABEX PasP/MSH Mondes two days international conference
29-30th of November 2023
Amphithéâtre Max Weber/ Salle du Conseil de la MSH Mondes
Coorganisers : Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes (MSH Mondes) and Monica Heintz (University of Paris Nanterre)
The testimonial value of scientific archives cannot be denied: archives help historians and particularly historians of science retrace science’s history, its place in society, past and future. But what other direct value could be assigned to old scientific archives? Could scientific archives be used for producing new scientific results, either in their discipline or in another? Could they be used for informing new artistic or societal work or bring about technological innovations? This conference aims to consider examples of reuses of scientific material for producing new results.
WEDNESDAY 29TH OF NOVEMBER, Amphitheater Max Weber, Building Max Weber ground floor, Nanterre campus
10:00 Welcome and introduction— Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes (director MSH Mondes) and Monica Heintz (codirector EDUC Nanterre)
10:20-11:20 Panel 1: Reuses of anthropological archives
10:20 Victor Stoichita (CNRS/ Univ Paris Nanterre) — Various ways of listening to an ethnomusicology archive
10:50 Monica Heintz (Univ Paris Nanterre) — Potential reuses of the scientific archives of the Dakar Djibouti expedition 1931-33 in a global open data environment
11:20- 11:40 Coffee break
11:40-13:00 Panel 2: Reuses of naturalistic archives
Hari Sridhar (KLI, Vienna) —An Elephant in the Room? The place of science and scientists in conservation decision-making in India
Thomas Drouin (Univ Paris Nanterre) — When an 18th-century herbarium and palm-leaf manuscripts meet, what are they talking about?
13-14 LUNCH
14:00-15:20 Panel 3: Reuses of media archives
Akos Gocsal (Univ of Pecs) — Media Archives in Present-day Research: The Case of the Hungarian Newsreel Archive used in Linguistic Studies
Pascal Vallet (Univ Paris Nanterre) — Pasam, a tool for exploring film corpora
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:35-17:00 Panel 4: Reuses of ‘outdated’ archives
Roland Schmuck (Univ of Pecs) — Reusing previous scientific results by redeveloping technologically outdated business simulation games
Marco F. Lutzu (Univ of Cagliari) (online) — New proposals for audiovisual archives in ethnomusicology from the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies (IISMC) of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice.
THURSDAY 30TH OF NOVEMBER, Salle du Conseil of the MSH Mondes, 4th floor
10-11:20 Panel 5: Reuses of SSH scientific archives (archeology)
Alfonso Ramírez Galicia (Univ Paris Nanterre) Re-using the excavation archives of Pincevent (France): Contributions to current research in archaeology and the history of sciences
Caroline Carrier (Evry University) and Ludovic Trommenschlager (BNF, Paris) – The renewal of antic numismatics in the digital era
11:20-11:40 Coffee break
11:40-13:00 Panel 6: Reuses of human rights archives
Murtaza Mohiqi (USN) and Marzie Moheqqi (independent HR researcher) — Archival Narratives in the Digital Age: Bridging Human Rights Advocacy, Memory Preservation, and Technological Innovation
Pascale Laborier (Univ Paris Nanterre) — Archiving and Deep Mapping on High skilled Migration in the Digital Age: Bridging Knowledge and Avocating for Scholars at Risk
13-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:40 Panel 7 : Reuses of academic archives
Marta Erdos (Univ of Pecs) — Explorations on academic identity in the 21st century
Francesca Pinna (U. of Cagliari) – Today records’ management for tomorrow’s scientific research: the university archives
15:40- 16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Final discussion
