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Advanced technologies or \u2018revolutionary\u2019 technological systems are\u00a0often deemed controversial, risky or ambivalent. Diverging interpretations clash when their places of development or use are turned into heritage sites through practices of remembrance or museumization. Understanding technological sites as \u201clieux de m\u00e9moire\u201d (Pierre Nora) shifts our focus to the actors engaged in processes of remembering modern technologies, and the cases in which established narratives have been supported or challenged on local levels: For some, Peenem\u00fcnde on the German island of Usedom is considered the \u2018cradle\u2019 of spaceflight, an interpretation complicated by the fact the \u2018V-2\u2019 rocket was built by forced laborers and used as a terror weapon. The Ukrainian \u2018lost place\u2019 of Pripyat, by contrast, displays the high tech ambitions of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but also draws a \u2018dark tourism\u2019 to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone that explores the failures of nuclear energy. Questions about the ethics of technology use often seem to subvert stories of the \u2018heroes of invention\u2018, leaving visitors with the impression of ambivalent historical places.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Places of Progress\u2018, to be held at Haus der Wissenschaft in Braunschweig from September 16 to 18, 2019, aims at investigating past and current challenges of remembering modern \u2018high technologies\u2019\u00a0(both military and civilian), such as\u00a0<\/span>weapons, information and communication technologies, transportation infrastructures, nuclear energy or nanotechnology, at or through their historical sites. The conference will examine the argument that histories of technology have often upheld a traditional view of modern linear progress, but became the focus of controversies when particular sites and objects were employed in exhibitions and other forms of remembrance.\u00a0We are interested in the agendas, stakeholders, practices and institutions involved. How have sites and technological objects been used to create traditions or consolidate cultural memories, to support or undermine established historiographies? 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