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This message is to announce the fifth session of our <a href="https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/" id="LPlnk381664" title="https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/">
socio-history of informatics seminar</a>, which will take place at the <b>Cnam in Paris and online on Monday, April 14, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Paris time), with<a href="http://svelch.com/" id="LPlnk650168" class="OWAAutoLink" title="http://svelch.com/"> Jaroslav
Švelch</a></b> (Charles University, Prague). Kévin Limonier (Université Paris 8) is invited as a discussant.</div>
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To attend the seminar, please <a href="https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317" id="LPlnk866454" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317">
register here.</a></div>
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The presentation will be in English.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-weight: bolder;">Power to the clones: Hardware and software bricolage on the periphery</span></h4>
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<i>This talk will address the specifics of computing practices (both amateur and professional) in peripheral contexts. Its aim is to lift “clones”, “ports” and other “bastard” hardware and software artifacts from relative obscurity and derision up to the focus
of the history of computing. I will approach the topic revisiting the classic concept of bricoleur, introduced by Lévi-Strauss as a counterpoint to engineer. Bricoleur makes do with the resources that are at hand, and that is one of the reasons why hobby computing
and homebrew programming have played such important roles in peripheral contexts with limited access to resources and components, such as in the 1980s Soviet bloc. The chapter will use examples from 1980s Czechoslovakia, specifically the local efforts to design
and build first mainframes and then microcomputers without using any unavailable Western-manufactured components, or the clones and conversions of Western games for domestic or domestically available hardware. I will argue that clones required considerable
ingenuity and effort to make, and that they have made important contributions to the proliferation of computer technology and literacy in regions like Eastern Europe. The talk is based on Švelch’s chapter from the book Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories
of Computing and Society, edited by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick.</i></div>
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The <b>Socio-History of Informatics Seminar</b> is a research seminar organized by the research center of the
<b>HT2S laboratory</b> at the <b>Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers</b> in Paris. The goal of this seminar is to explore new narratives in the long-term history of informatics, emphasizing how computing and informatics intertwines with social, economic,
political, and cultural issues.</div>
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Every two months, we invite a researcher in history and/or anthropology and sociology (with a historical or diachronic perspective) of computing and informatics to present their work.</div>
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Seminar website: <a href="https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/" id="LPlnk264322" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/</a></div>
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We look forward to seeing you there.</div>
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<b>Best regards,</b></div>
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Mathilde Fichen (PhD candidate, HT2S), Adrien Tournier (PhD candidate, HT2S), and Camille Paloque-Bergès (Researcher, HT2S), on behalf of the seminar organizers.</div>
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Mathilde Fichen</div>
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Ph.D Candidate</div>
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<a href="https://technique-societe.cnam.fr/histoire-des-technosciences-en-societe-ht2s--913760.kjsp" id="OWA2b705e41-89af-c82a-0190-ac43e487aa91" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://technique-societe.cnam.fr/histoire-des-technosciences-en-societe-ht2s--913760.kjsp">CNAM
- HT2S</a><br>
Personal page: <a href="https://mathfichen.github.io/" id="OWAf694d98d-ab1d-065a-13f5-e25261bec7e8" class="OWAAutoLink">
mathfichen.github.io</a></div>
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