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SUMMARY:Martians of Engineering: Calculating the Unthinkable in Cold War S
 witzerland
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DESCRIPTION:Silvia Berger\, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich\nSilvia B
 erger\, PhD\, is Associate Faculty Member at the Center History of Knowle
 dge (ETH Zurich and University of Zurich) and Lecturer at the University 
 of Zurich’s Department of History. She is the author of the award-winnin
 g book Bakterien in Krieg und Frieden. Eine Geschichte der medizinischen 
 Bakteriologie in Deutschland\, 1890-1933\, Göttingen 2009. Her teaching 
 and research include the history of knowledge in the Atomic Age\, civil pr
 otection and defensive living\, the underground and vertical technologies\
 , the history of bacteriology\, and medical histories of World War I. \nS
 he currently finishes her second book which centers on the social\, cultur
 al and scientific history of nuclear bomb shelters in Cold War Switzerland
  and beyond. Her talk will focus on the knowledge in protective structures
  research developed by patriotic Swiss civil engineers at the height of th
 e Cold War.\n 
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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