Past Kranzber Lecturers

2020: 47th symposium, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (virtual)

James Williams (Stetson University, FL, USA)
Humans, Technology, and Nature: A Recipe for Crises?

Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute in Berlin)
Cotton and Silk. Capitalism, States and Market Regimes in Premodern Technological Change

Robert Bud (Science Museum in London)
Conceptual history, branding and technology as part of the public sphere

Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum in Munich)
The Anthropocene: A Challenge to the History of Science, Technology, and Sustainability

Robert Fox (University of Oxford)
Mentality or Circumstance? The Dilemmas of Science-Based Industry in France, 1870–1920

Alexandre Herlea (Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard)
The History of Technology and the European Unity

Manuel Silva-Suaréz (University of Zaragoza)

Hans-Joachim Braun (Helmut-Schmidt University in Hamburg)
Creativity: Technology and the Arts

Håkon With Andersen (Norwegian University Of Science And Technology)
Reusing the Industrial Past – The Challenges of Interpretations

Robert Post
Invention and Enterprise: The Life and Times of Melvin Kranzberg

Helge Kragh (University of Arhus)
(A lecture on interrelationship between technology and cosmology)

Arthur I. Miller (University College London)
Einstein, Picasso: The Role of Technology in the Discovery of Cubism and Relativity

Claude Debru (l’École normale supérieure in Paris)
Biotechnology: Scientific and philosophical aspects

Carroll W. Pursell
The Technological Gap and the Brain Drain

Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Historical Reflections on the New Reproductive Technologies

Juan José Saldaña

Thomas Parke Hughes
Networks of Knowledge

Angus Buchanan