Thursday, December 7 at 12:30 PM PT Buchanan Tower, Room 997 “Techniques of Time in Settler Colonial Utopia: Property-Owning Democracy and R.R. Torrens’ Archive” by CES Visiting Scholar Ari Finnsson The concept of a “property-owning democracy,” coined by British Conservative MP Noel Skelton in 1923, exercised a powerful hold over a number of twentieth […]
Thursday, December 7th at 5:00 PT Buchanan D, Room 324 “Origins of the Soviet computer subculture in 1960s Kyiv: Prototype of Personal Computer “MIR” and the Association of Users ‘Cybertonia’” by Dr. Serhii Zhabin The Laboratory of Calculating Machines in Kyiv that in 1950 built the first Soviet electronic digital computer (MESM), after 1956 continued […]