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Some Paper Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Upcoming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Feline Organisms, Digital Computers and The Human: Cybernetics and the included Excluded<\/strong>
2026 European Society for the History of Science\/History of Science Society Joint Meeting, 12.-16. July 2026, Edinburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FRom Cat Cortex to Communication Circuits: Vision Physiology and Cybernetics in Postwar Laboratories<\/strong>
Workshop „Seeing in\/With\/Through Machines“ Isntitut F\u00fcr Sozioalwissenschaftliche Forschung & Deutsches Museum M\u00fcnchen, 9.-10.02.2026.
Negotiating Boundaries: Karl Steinbuch between Communications Engineering and Computer Science in the 1950s<\/strong>
Conference „Paths to ‚Informatik‘: Values, Machines, Sciences,“ Deutsches Museum M\u00fcnchen, 23.-25.11.2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historical Re-Enactment with \u201cDead\u201d Technologies: The Case of the German Electron-Synchrotron<\/strong>
Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH). 11.10.2025, Luxembourg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing Patterns, Creating Differences: Neurophysiological Experiments on Vision in 1970s West Germany<\/strong>
Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH). 11.10.2025, Luxembourg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digitale Medien und Wissen. Prof. Dr. Hans-J\u00f6rg Rheinberger im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Dr. Dinah Pfau<\/strong>
Summer School \u201eAufschreibesysteme 1800\u00b71900\u201c, Friedrich-Kittler-Gesellschaft, Juniorprofessur f\u00fcr digitale Medien und Computation, Humboldt-University of Berlin. 16.9.2025, Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epistemology of a Matrix. Micro-study on research into an \u201cartificial neural network\u201d in the Federal Republic of Germany 1950-1961<\/strong>
International Conference ICHST\/ICOHTEC, 29.6.2025, Dunedin, NZ (online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sehen als Arbeitspraxis: Historische Perspektiven auf Neuronales \u201eSehen\u201c und seine Modellierungsans\u00e4tze<\/strong>
Conference of the DFG Priority Program 2267 \u201cDigitalisierung der Arbeitswelten\u201d, Topic \u201cTransformation\u201c, 12.6.2025, N\u00fcrnberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Find Signatures of New Particles: A Comparative Assessment of the Scanning Girls and Current Expectations about Machine Learning in Elementary Particle Physics<\/strong>
International Conference \u201c10th Integrated HPS Conference\u201d of The Committee for Integrated HPS, CalTech, CA. 27.3.2025, Los Angeles, CA (online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epistemology of a Matrix, or how Communication Engineering invented the Human<\/strong>
Workshop \u201cClustering: Automated Order in the Social Sciences\u201d of University of Vienna and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (ifk). 29.11.2024, Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auf den Mensch gekommen. Epistemologische Ann\u00e4herungen an Karl Steinbuchs \u201eLernmatrix\u201c<\/strong>
Oberseminar der Abteilungen Unternehmensgeschichte und Wirkungsgeschichte der Technik (GUT), Historisches Institut d. Universit\u00e4t Stuttgart, 12.11.2024 Stuttgart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Practices? ‚Scanning Girls‘ and the Computerization of Image Evaluation at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY)<\/strong>
Workshop \u201eFabricating Archaeologies: Feminist Craft, Human Hands and Intelligent Architectures\u201c, Technical University Munich, Deutsches Museum Munich. 4.7.2024, Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steinbuch\u2019s Matrices. Epistemology of an Artificial Neural Network<\/strong>
Workshop \u201cWhy Intelligence? The political and social roots of a scientific object\u201d, University Erfurt. 23.2.2024, Erfurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Practices? \u2018Scanning Girls\u2019 and the Computerization of Image Evaluation at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY)<\/strong>
Early Career Group 2023 Workshop, Early Career Interest Group (ECIG) of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). 27.10.2023, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making of the \u2018real world\u2019<\/strong>
6th CUHKSZ (Chinese University of Hongkong, Shenzhen) History Seminars, Chinese University of Hongkong, Shenzhen. 5.5.2023, Shenzhen (online).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Paper Presentations Upcoming Feline Organisms, Digital Computers and The Human: Cybernetics and the included Excluded2026 European Society for the History of Science\/History of Science Society Joint Meeting, 12.-16. July 2026, Edinburgh Past FRom Cat Cortex to Communication Circuits: Vision Physiology and Cybernetics in Postwar LaboratoriesWorkshop „Seeing in\/With\/Through Machines“ Isntitut F\u00fcr Sozioalwissenschaftliche Forschung & Deutsches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinahpfau.medientheater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinahpfau.medientheater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinahpfau.medientheater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinahpfau.medientheater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinahpfau.medientheater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/dinahpfau.medientheater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/dinahpfau.medientheater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinahpfau.medientheater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}