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Torsten Meyer

Senior Scientist
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM)
Participates in 6 items

Dr. Torsten Meyer is Senior Scientist at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Deputy Head of Department at the Mining History Document Center (montan.dok). Prior to that he was researcher and senior researcher at the University of Hamburg, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He is mainly interested in the History of Technology and Science (16th-18th century), History of Post-Industrial Landscapes (20/21th century), and Construction History (18th-20th century). He was member of the editorial board of the “Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit” (2005-2012) and since 2017 he is editor (together with Marcus Popplow) of the “Studien zur Geschichte von Technik, Arbeit und Umwelt” (formerly “Cottbuser Studien zur Geschichte von Technik, Arbeit und Umwelt”, founded by Günter Bayerl). He has worked on the industrial heritage of the GDR and is working on authenticity issues of industrial heritage in the UK. He is lecturer at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

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Sessions in which Torsten Meyer participates

Monday 29 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

Sessions in which Torsten Meyer attends

Sunday 28 August, 2022

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10:30 AM
10:30 AM
  • Tour: The Lachine Canal with Heritage Montreal
  • Signup required
  • 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM  | 2 hours
  • Explore the banks of the Lachine Canal, the cradle of industry in Canada. Benefiting from access to hydraulic power, maritime and rail tran...
  • Tour
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
  • Opening ceremony
  • Signup required
  • UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM  | 2 hours
  • Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...
  • Cocktail

Monday 29 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
  • Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
  • Available
  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas co...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Gérard Beaudet
Keynote speaker
Full Professor

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
  • Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
  • Available
  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Wednesday 31 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Prof. Laurajane Smith
Speaker
Australian National Univ...
Professor and Head of th...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Stefan Berger
Speaker
5:30 PM
5:30 PM

Friday 2 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Cathy Stanton
Speaker
Tufts University
Distinguished Senior Lec...
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
  • Closing dinner
  • Available
  • Usine C - Hall
  • 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM  | 3 hours
  • Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...
  • Repas