Conferences and Workshops
Nodas Douzinas, Hara Konsta and Aristotle Tympas, ‘On the social construction of speed as a universal technical quality: Advertisement displays of transportation-information technology mixes’,9th International Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin, Germany, October 2011.
A. Katifori, C. Nikolaou, M. Platakis, Y. Ioannidis, A. Tympas, M. Koubarakis, N. Sarris, V. Tountopoulos, E. Tzoanos, S. Bykau, N. Kiyavitskaya, C. Tsinaraki, Y. Velegrakis, ‘The Papyrus Digital Library: Discovering History in the News’,International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Berlin, Germany, September 2011.
Τέλης Τύμπας, ‘Η αθέατη εργασία ως σύμπτωμα του λόγου περί έξυπνης τεχνολογίας: Για το ιστοριογραφικό πέρασμα από το ψηφιακό υλισμικό στο αναλογικό λογισμικό’, Συνέδριο του περιοδικού Historein/Iστορείν ‘Ιστορία της εργασίας: νέες προσεγγίσεις σε ένα παλιό θέμα’, Αθήνα, Μάιος 2011.
Vaso Aggelopoulou and Aristotle Tympas, ‘From localized wind structures for autonomous electric power networks to imported wind parks for grid-connection: The Greek experience’, Annual Conference of the International Committee of the History of Technology, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2011.
Aristotle Tympas and Foteini Tsaglioti, ‘Integrating the History of Calculation and Production: The Case of Machine Tool Nomograms’, International Conference ‘From Automation to Computerized Design: Industrial Engineering, Machine Tools, and Digital Frontiers, 1930s-1980s’, Paris, September 2010.
Stathis Arapostathis, Vaso Aggelopoulou, Katerina Vlantoni, Foteini Tsiaglioti, Ioannis Margaris and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Power and Resistance from Nuclear Plants to Wind Parks: A History of the Greek Experience’, Annual Conference of the International Committee of the History of Technology, Tampere, Finland, 2010.
Katerina Vlantoni, Antonia Pavli and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Medical expertise, new technology and risk evaluation from blood tests to body scans: Representations in the Greek media’, Society for the Social History of Medicine 2010 Conference 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives', Durham and Newcastle, UK, 2010.
Giannis Binietoglou and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Escaping knowledge disruption amidst talk about a technical revolution’, Conference ‘Managing Knowledge in the Techno-Sciences, 1850-2000’, University of Leeds, 2010.
Aristotle Tympas, Stathis Arapostathis, Katerina Vlantoni, Giannis Garyfallos), ‘Border-Crossing Electrons: Critical Energy Flows in the Balkans from WWII to the Post Cold War Era’, Final ESF Inventing Europe Plenary Conference and 4th Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2010.
Aristotle Tympas, Krishna Chandramouli, Roberta Turra, Giorgio Pedrazzi, Foteini Tsaglioti, Vaso Aggelopoulou, ‘Integrating research into video and audio digitized archives into textual research: Examples from research on renewable energy’, Final ESF Inventing Europe Plenary Conference and 4th Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2010.
Foteini Tsaglioti and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Rhetoric and Reality of Automatic Control of Energy; Technologies in Historical Capitalism: from Steam to Wind Power’, International Seminar on Work, Energy, Crisis and Resistance, Graz, Austria, 2010.
Akrivi Katifori, Eirini Mergoupi-Savaidou and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Making History Courses Relevant and Attractive to Enginering and Science Majors by Bringing Archival Research Within their Reach: The Papyrus Initiative, and International Technology’, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain, 2009.
Aristotle Tympas and Dimitris Koutsogiannis, ‘Greeklish or techno-linguistic agency between Greek and English: The global machine assumption revisited’, Harvard ‘Global Languages, Local Cultures’ ACLA Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
Akrivi Katifori, Eirini Mergoupi-Savaidou and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Tradeoffs in seeking to automate historical research in digitized media archives: Historians of media meeting media informaticians’, MIT ‘Media in Transition’ Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘A deep tradition of computing technology: Calculating electrification in the American West’, ‘Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West’ Workshop, The Huntington–University of South California Institute on California and the West, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2009.
Κατερίνα Βλαντώνη και Τέλης Τύμπας, ‘Τεχνολογικά Όρια, Εθνικά Σύνορα: Ευρώπη, Βαλκάνια, Ελλάδα’ τοπικά ιγ Εργαστήριο, Πρέσπες, 2009.
Hara Konsta, Theodore Lekkas and Aristotle Tympas, ‘A Historical Taxonomy of Computing Advertisements’, History-Gender-Computing Workshop and Conference, Charles Babbage Institute and University of Minnesota, 2008.
Fotini Tsaglioti and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Steamy Encounters; Bodies and Minds between Explosions and Automation’, Philosophy and Engineering Workshop, Royal Academy of Engineering, London, USA, 2008.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Engaging the History of Technology to Understand Emerging Technical Demarcations and Concepts’, ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Session: Historical Visions: Enhancing Engineering Education through the History of Technology, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, 2008.
Aristotle Tympas, Fotini Tsaglioti and Theodore Lekkas, ‘Universal machines vs. national languages: Computerization as production of new localities’, International Conference ‘Technologies of Globalization’, Darmstadt, Germany, 2008.
Dimitrios Ziakkas and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Building borders in the air: technical protocols competition and international route formation in the electronic era’, Annual Meeting of the International Committee of the History of Technology, Victoria, Canada, 2008.
Aristotle Tympas, Theodore Lekkas and Katerina Vlantoni, ‘National-international tensions in the history of software localization: A case of permanent crisis in non-anglophone computer use in Europe’, ‘The State of Historiography in Transnational Interpretations’ Workshop, Grenoble, France, 2008.
Katerina Vlantoni and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Telecommunications structures and agencies while a ship was sinking in the Aegean’, ‘Transnational Infrastructures: coping with scarcity and vulnerability’ Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008.
Yiannis Garyfallos, Stathis Arapostathis and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Transnational Energy Flows and Blackout Risks in a Balkan European Context’, ‘Transnational Infrastructures: coping with scarcity and vulnerability’ Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Did the computing revolution start after or in parallel to the industrial revolution? Presentations of computing in influential steam and electricity treatises’, Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 2007.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Cross-talking’: Signal and noise in the history of Greek telecommunications’, ‘History of Communications Technologies’ Symposium of the Society for the History of Communication Technologies and the National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C., USA, 2007.
Αristotle Tympas and Fotini Tsaglioti, ‘Automation’s darkest hour: Mechanical minds, steam engine explosions, mutilated bodies’, Minds, Bodies, Machines Conference, London, Great Britain, 2007.
Stathis Arapostathis, Katerina Vlantoni, Giannis Garyfallos, and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Changing conceptualizations of technological risks and accidents in the transition from national to transnational European nation’s, Third Plenary Conference of the ‘Tensions of Europe’ Network, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.
Fotini Tsaglioti and Aristotle Tympas, ‘Recent ‘Hellenization’ difficulties and the ‘universal machine’ concept’, European Computing and Philosophy Conference, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2007.
Aristotle Tympas, Spyros Tzokas, and Yiannis Garyfallos, ‘On the Spontaneous History of Engineering Textbooks’, ‘Educating Engineers: Location, Knowledge, Desire’ Conference of the International Network of Engineering Studies, Blacκsburg, Virginia, USA, 2006.
Aristotle Tympas and Theodore Lekkas, ‘Ideologies of World Fair Classification and Display of Calculating Artefacts, 1851-1914’, History of Scientific Instruments 2006 Conference, Krakow, Poland, 2006.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Electronic Era Technologies, the European Experience: Historiographical Omissions and Ambitions’, ‘Technology and Rethinking of European Borders’ Second Plenary Conference of the ‘Tensions of Europe’ Network, Lappeenranta University of Technology, South Karelian Institute, Finland, 2006.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Ancient Greek History in a Modern Engineering Journal: Elaborating on the Centrality of Technological Determinism by Considering Peripheral Versions’, Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference, Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 2005.
Aristotle Tympas and Dina Dalouka, ‘Electric Power Networks and Interwar Scientific Ontologies: Competing Orientations in the Early History of Computing’, History of Science Society Annual Conference, Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 2005.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Telecommunication phantoms from the telegraph to the computer: Historiographical considerations’, ‘Cross-Connections: Communications, Society, and Change’ Science Museum International Conference, London, Great Britain, 2005.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘From Mechanical-Electrical to Electrical-Electronic Computational Metaphors: From the Historical Continuity of the Engineering Imaginary to An Anti-Essentialist Conception of the Mechanical- Electrical-Electronic Relationship’, ‘Technological And Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of Society’ International Conference, Darmstadt, Germany, 2005.
Aristotle Tympas, Katerina Vlantoni and Yiannis Garyfallos, ‘Beloved Buttons, Hateful Lines: Fragmented Conceptions of Technology’, ‘Technology: Between Enthusiasm and Resistance’ International Conference, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2005.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Technological Modernization and Urbanization’s Contested Positioning between East and West: Early Views of the Greek Technical Community’, Seventh International Conference of the European Association of Urban Historians, Athens-Piraeus, Greece, 2004.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Machines as Mirrors of Europe: Thoughts on Future Tensions of Europe Research Based on Observations from the Greece-Europe Relationship’, Tensions of Europe Network First Plenary Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 2004.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘One global machine, many local journals: The proliferation of a nation-specific press in electronic computing for the case of Greece’, Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2003.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Technical Accuracy and Technological Ownership: Observation from Slide Rule’s Long History’, Society for the Social Studies of Science Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2003.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Engineering and the Delights of the Slide Rule: Historical and Historiographical Considerations, International Committee for the History of Technology Annual Conference, St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, 2003.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Between Communication Efficiency and Instability: A View of a Southeastern European Telecommunication Network’, ‘Euronets, EuroChannels, Eurovisions: Towards a History of Telecommunication in 20th Century Europe’ International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2003.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘For a historiography of the academic and popular journals and periodicals of computing science and technology: Mediating between the ideal of an international (universal) machine and national technological realities’, ‘Information Systems and Technologies in Organizations and Society’ Workshop of the Tensions of Europe Network, Barcelona, Spain, 2003.
Aristotle Tympas and Irene Anastasiadou, ‘On Studying the History of Greek Technological Networks’, International Committee for the History of Technology Conference, Granada, Spain, 2002.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Hybrid Computing or from use of technology to technology-in-use’, ‘Knowledge of New Technologies’ International Workshop, Chios, Greece, 2002.
Aristotle Tympas and Irene Anastasiadou, ‘Beyond Momentum: Network Fluidity in the History of Greek Railroads’, ‘Networking Europe’ Workshop of the Tensions of Europe Network, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2002.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Tensions Between, Tensions within: The European and the Balkan in the Formation of the Greek Telecommunication Networks’, ‘Networking Europe’ Workshop of the Tensions of Europe Network, Lisbon, Portugal, 2001.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Artifacts without Workers: The World Fair as a Stage for Technological Evolutionism’, International Committee for the History of Technology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 1998.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Enterprising State, Political Firm: Institutional Ambiguity in the Earlier History of Computing’, Economic and Business Historical Society Annual, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 1998.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Intelligent Technologies, Evolutionist Ideologies: Earlier Computing History at World’s Fairs and International Exhibitions’, Popular Culture Association and American Cultural Association Joint Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, 1998.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Essentialist Ideology and Technical Demarcation: Analog Computing as the Invention of Digital Computing’, Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference, Pasadena, California, USA 1997.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Historizing the Definition of the Computer: The Essentialism of the Analog/Digital Demarcation Within Modernity's Panorama of Classes of Computing Technology’, IEEE History Center Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 1997.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘The History of the Relationship Between Analog and Digital Computing’, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology & Society for the Social Studies of Science Joint Annual Conference, Bielefeld, Germany, 1996.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘From the Electrical Analyzer to the ENIAC’, Conference Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Construction of the ENIAC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 1996.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Ethics and the Use of Genetic Information’, Pugwash International Conference on Science, Technology, and Social Responsibility, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1992.
Aristotle Tympas, ‘Cross-National Comparison of Technology Policies: The Case of Environmental Research Evaluation’, University System of Georgia Research Symposium, Athens, Georgia, USA, 1992.
Lectures and Talks
‘Από τον υπολογιστή άνθρωπο στον υπολογιστή μηχανή: Παρατηρήσεις στην ελληνική εμπειρία’, Πρόγραμμα Μορφωτικών Εκδηλώσεων ‘Επιστήμης Κοινωνία’ και Έκθεση ‘Άβαξ: Πλευρές της ιστορίας των υπολογιστών στην Ελλάδα’, Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Δεκέμβριος 2011.
Σχολιασμός της παρουσίασης του Βασίλη Μπογιατζή «Μετέωρος Μοντερνισμός: τεχνολογία, ιδεολογία της επιστήμης και πολιτική στην Ελλάδα του Μεσοπολέμου, 1922-1940», Σεμινάριο ‘Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Οικονομικής Ιστορίας’, Δεκέμβριος 2011.
‘Can technical terms be defined without STS/HTS? The examples of ‘digital’ and ‘renewable’ technology’, Higher Seminar of the Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change, Linkoping University, November 2011.
‘Η σημασία της ιστορίας της πληροφορικής για τον εντοπισμό αφανών μηχανισμών αναπαραγωγής διακρίσεων φύλου’, Ημερίδα με θέμα ‘Η Επικαιρότητα της Ιστορίας της Επιστήμης και της Τεχνολογίας’, Γραφείο Σχολικών Συμβούλων Δυτικής Αττικής, 2ο Γυμνάσιο Άνω Λιοσίων, Δεκέμβριος 2010 (σε συνεργασία με την Χαρά Κώνστα και τον Θοδωρή Λέκκα)
‘The Fun and Magic of Nomographic Calculation’, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2009.
‘On the Historiography of the Telecommunications-Automation Relationship’, Research Center in the History of Innovation, Sorbonne University, Paris, 2008.
‘Η καλλιέργεια μιας κριτικής κατανόησης της σχέσης τεχνολογίας-κοινωνίας: Μια κρίσιμη συνιστώσα της γενικής εκπαίδευσης σύγχρονων πολιτών’, Ημερίδα Τεχνικού Επιμελητηρίου Ελλάδας για την Δευτεροβάθμια Τεχνική Εκπαίδευση, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, 2005.
‘Technical efficiency revisited: Historical considerations on automation, control, regulation, and on-line computation technologies’, Εικοστό Σεμινάριο Ερμούπολης, Σύρος, Ελλάδα, 2004.
‘Για την Ιστοριογραφική Σημασία του Διακριτού Αντικειμένου της Ιστορίας της Τεχνολογίας’, Σεμινάριο Εργασίας του Τμήματος Ιστορίας, Αρχαιολογίας και Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας και του Τμήματος Μεθοδολογίας, Ιστορίας και Θεωρίας της Επιστήμης του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Βόλος, Ελλάδα, 2003.
‘Κοιτώντας το Μέλλον των Νέων Τεχνολογιών από το Παρελθόν τους’, Ημερίδα με θέμα ‘Ο Νέος Ρόλος της Επιστήμης και Τεχνολογίας της Πληροφορικής’ του Τμήματος Μηχανικών Ηλεκτρονικών Υπολογιστών, Τηλεπικοινωνιών και Δικτύων του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, Βόλος, Ελλάδα, 2003.
‘From Innovative Genius to Computing Technique: Dr. H. Claudius, A Permanent Firing and Hiring’, Δέκατο Έβδομο Σεμινάριο Ερμούπολης, Σύρος, Ελλάδα, 2001.
‘The Analyst and the Computor: On the History and Historiography of Computing Technology’, Εθνικό Μετσόβειο Πολυτεχνείο, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, 1999.
‘Frankensteins Out of Control: The Interwar Crisis of Computing’, National Museum of American History Colloquium, Washington, D.C., USA, 1998.
‘Computing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Abstract Technical Ideal and Concrete Social Realities’, Hagley Museum and Library, Delaware, USA, 1997.
‘From the Electrical Analyzer to the Electronic Computer: Invention or Tradition?’ IEEE History Center, Rutgers, New Jersey, 1997.
