all for Participation: "Technology & Science in World War One', Development of an Internet-Platform, University of Stuttgart
Call for Participation: “Technology & Science in
World War One” – Development of an Internet-Platform
The Centennial of the beginning of the First World War
is approaching. The Section for the History of the Impact of Technology (WGT) at the History Dept. of the
University of Stuttgart plans to arrange an international, teaching and publishing project concerning the History of
Technology, Science, Medicine and Business of the First World War. It is planned, that students work on manageable topics
and develop digital presentations of their results in local courses.
The target group for the corresponding results are
teachers, the aim is to train the students to prepare material for educational purposes. These results are
to be published altogether in a second step on a public Internet platform. An analysis of the industrialized
manslaughter and of the connected developments in Sciences, Medicine, and Technology are essential for the understanding of
the multifaceted phenomenon of the Great War. With this approach we are clearly distinguished from a merely
encyclopedic recapitulation of well-known facts or even the utilization of the “primal catastrophe of the 20th
century” as means for national formation of identity.
To investigate the First World War as a global event
in an appropriate way, this call for participation is explicitly addressed to international Scientific Institutions. It
will be communicated in the German, English, Polish, Russian and French language (even though English is
the designated lingua franca for the project) – and Members of every other nationality or ethnic group are invited to
participate at the project. We aim to publish the
respective contributions at least in English and in
the individual national language. This is a project without any budget it lives solemnly from the enthusiasm and
the voluntary collaboration of the participant individuals and institutions.
Time Schedule: The courses should be scheduled in the
Winter 2014/15 and the publication of the results in the Spring of 2015.
You are invited to communicate this Call For
Participation and of course, we welcome your feedback.
Contact:
Scientific Coordination: Dr. Thomas Schuetz /
University of Stuttgart - Department of History - Section for the
History of the Impact of Technology (WGT) /
Keplerstraße 17 / 70174 Stuttgart – Germany / room 10.029 / phone: +49
711 685 84353 / Mail: thomas.schuetz@hi.uni-stuttgart.de
Didactics: Dr. Sonja Petersen / University of
Stuttgart - Department of History - Section for the History of the
Impact of Technology (WGT) / room 10.029 / phone: +49
711 685 84354 / Mail: sonja.petersen@hi.uni-stuttgart.de