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Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich

Dr. Felix Mauch

Postdoc

History of Technology

Felix Mauch studied geosciences and history in Freiburg. He was a research associate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and received his PhD from LMU Munich in 2014. Since 2015, he has been a lecturer in the history of technology, STS, and environmental studies at the Department of Science, Technology and Society (STS), TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. He was awarded postdoctoral fellowships at the German Historical Institute in London, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Birkbeck, University of London, and ETH Zurich.

  • Logistical infrastructures, architectures and media
  • Technical landscapes
  • Urban and environmental history
  • Southeast Asian histories of technology

  • Mauch, F., Esselborn, S. “In einem Semester um die Welt? Globalgeschichtliche Ansätze in der technikhistorischen Lehre.“ Technikgeschichte 88 (2021): 197-201. doi.org/10.5771/0040-117X-2021-2-197.
  • Mauch, F. “Logistical Ecologies. A Singapore Story.“ Arcadia 30 (2021). doi:10.5282/rcc/9358.
  • Mauch, F. “Speicher in der Stadt. Logistische Landschaften der Ersten Globalisierung.“ Technikgeschichte 88 (2021): 145-174. doi.org/10.5771/0040-117X-2021-2-145
  • Mauch, F. “Rückblenden. Geschichte und Erinnerung einer Naturkatastrophe in Bildern.” Metaphorik. (2020)
  • Mauch, F. “Reviewing Portals of Globalization.” German Historical Institute London Bulletin 42 (2020): 66-71
  • Mauch, F. “Betwixt and Between. A Reflection on the Scale and Scope of Disaster Memories.” International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 7 (2019): 110-141. doi.org/10.18352/hcm.552.
  • Mauch, F. “Erinnerungsfluten. Das Sturmhochwasser von 1962 im Gedächtnis der Stadt Hamburg”, In: Forum Zeitgeschichte, Reihe der Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte Hamburg (FZH). München / Hamburg: Dölling & Galitz, 2015.

→ currently offered courses

  • STS3 – History of Science and Technology
  • Technology and History in Capitalism
  • Controlling Flows: Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Logistics in TechnoSocieties
  • Global Histories of Technology
  • Urban Natures: Landscapes, Infrastructures, Technologies

Selection

  • Logistics Takes Command. A Singapore Story, Birkbeck, University of London, 25 May 2022
  • Das logistische Singapur, 1848-1942. Versuch einer Annäherung, TU Dresden, 28 January 2022
  • A Migratory Island. Troubled Waters, Flowing Grounds, and the Layers of Disaster, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 28 September 2021
  • Troubled Waters. River Migration and Disaster Mobilities Across Timescales, GHI Washington, 28 April 2021
  • Seeing Like a Supply Chain. Singapore’s Extended Logistical Urbanization, TUM, 27 November 2020

  • Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
  • European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
  • Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (GTG)
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