Presentation by Anna Echterhölter

Conference "Recent trends in the social studies of quantification"

Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris

The goal of this conference is to identify new paths that scholars working on or with the socio-history of quantification have opened recently. Be it in rejuvenating classical problematics, or in opening new questions, such as, but it is only examples, the role of quantification in the environment ; data and violence; emotions and statistics, etc.

9:00 am - 11:00 am: Standardization of Measures and Visibilization of Minorities

Chairman of the session : Pauline Adam (ULB, ENS-EHESS)

Participants:

• Walter Bartl (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Revolutionizing the Census in Germany: An Exemplary Case of Quiet Politics?
• Moisés Kopper (University of Antwerp) and Eugênia Motta (UERJ), Numeric Rights. Mapping the Enactment of Ethno-Racial Difference in Brazil and Portugal
• Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna), Data Protection. On the Failed Promotion of Indigenous Law in German Colonial Statistics
• Natália Gil (UFRGS), The Quantification of quality in education: the transit between international organization policies and local newspapers dissemination