Thursday, 24 January 2013
15:30-16:00 h – Welcome Reception
16:00-16:30 h – Introductory Remarks
16:30-17:30 h – Opening Lecture
Harald Fischer-Tiné (ETH Zürich): The Production of ‘Pidgin-Knowledge’ and the Making and Unmaking of
Experts. Medicine in British India and beyond, c. 1800-1930
18:00-20:00 h – Panel 1: Institutionalization of Expertise. Centers of Knowledge and Nation-
Building
Chair: Sören Brinkmann (Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Thomas Maier (University College London): The Museo Social Argentino. The Transnationality of
Social Knowledge Production in Argentina in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Flávio Madureira Heinz (PUCRS Porto Alegre): Technical Culture, Circulation of Knowledge, and germanismo
in Southern Brazil. The Formation of the Escola de Engenharia de Porto Alegre and its Academic Exchanges
with Germany, 1900-1920
Georg Fischer (LAI, FU Berlin): State Companies as Expert Arenas. The Brazilianization of the Companhia
Vale do Rio Doce, 1942-1951
Friday, 25 January 2013
9:00-11:00 h – Panel 2: Forging Experts. Knowledge and Social Recognition
Chair: Thomas Fischer (KU Eichstätt)
Niklaas Hofmann (LAI, FU Berlin): Between Hobby and Profession. Amateurs, Experts, and the Emergence of
Wireless Telegraphy in Argentina, 1910-1930
Christiane Berth (Univ. St. Gallen): A Central American Path to Nutrition? Experts and Knowledge Transfer in
the Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá,1949-1990
Nadia Zysman (LAI, FU Berlin): Experts on Human Rights at School. Moralizing Argentine History
11:30-13:30 h – Panel 3:
Transfer I. Imported Expertise
Chair: Delia González de Reufels (Univ. Bremen)
Cristina Alarcón (HU Berlin): German Education Experts in the South Pacific. The Reception of German
Models of Teacher Education in Chile, 1883-1920
Michael Goebel (Harvard Univ./FMI, FU Berlin): Latin American Scholarship Holders in European Universities
(1918-1939)
Alexis de Greiff (Universidad Nacional de Colombia,Bogotá): The Pan-American Highway. Technology Transfer, Expertise and the Construction of Hegemony, 1930-1950
15:00-17:00 h – Panel 4: Transfer II. Export
and Circulation of Expertise
Chair: Jurandir Malerba (LAI, FU Berlin/PUCRS PortoAlegre)
Christine Hatzky (Leibniz Univ. Hannover): Export of Experts. Cuba’s Knowledge Transfer to Africa
Nikolai Brandes (KHI, FU Berlin): Civil Engineering Expertise and Architectural Planning in Mozambique.
Brazilian Influences and Transnational Networks,1960-1987
Stephan Scheuzger (ETH Zürich): Latin America in the Global Production and Circulation of Expertise in Dealing
with the Past. The Case of Truth Commissions
17:30-19:00 h – Panel 5: (Re)presenting Knowledge and Expertise
Chair: Debora Gerstenberger (LAI, FU Berlin)
Mario Peters (Leibniz Univ. Hannover): Howard in the Tropics? - Lincoln Continentino, English Garden Cities
and the Construction of Belo Horizonte’s Cidade Jardim, c. 1940-1970
Mario Faust-Scalisi (Univ. Bremen): Representing Scientific Authority. Experts and the Communication of Social Ideals in Mexico, 1960s-1980s
Saturday, 26 January 2013
10:00-12:00 h – Panel 6: Knowing the Future. Prognoses, ‘Development’, and Social Change
Chair: Stefan Rinke (LAI, FU Berlin)
Anna-Barbara Sum (FMI, FU Berlin): ‘The Visiting-Economist Syndrome’. Albert O. Hirschman, Development Economic Expertise and the Production of Knowledge in Colombia, c. 1948-1960
Annika Hartmann (Univ. Bremen): Was Family Planning a New Occupation? Guatemala’s APROFAM as a Center of Expert Knowledge, 1960s-1980s
Teresa Huhle (Univ. Bremen): J. Mayone Stycos and his Struggle to Solve ‘Population Problems’ from Puerto Rico to Peru. An Expert’s Biography in the Cold War
12:15-13:00 h – Final Discussion