Lena Filzen | Transformations of Science and Technology

History

Project: History of the Wahuma: Conceptional Analysis of a Changing Ascription

Supervisor: Anne Sophie Overkamp

Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Gaußstraße 20
42119 Wuppertal
Building S, 10th Floor, Room 21

Events

April-May 2026: co-organization of IZWT Lecture Series “Nukleare Zäsuren? Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf 40 Jahre Tschernobyl & 15 Jahre Fukushima”
May 2025: co-organization of workshop “Materialien des Forschens und Lernens – Instrumente, Modelle und Wissensdinge aus historischer und soziologischer Perspektive”

Information

since February 2024: affiliated member of the GRK
since April 2024: coordinating the women’s advancement program her.culis – her cultural interdisciplinary studies of the GRK 2696 (gerne mit Link: https://www.gleichstellung.uni-wuppertal.de/de/foerderprogramme-instrumente/wissenschaftliche-laufbahn-fuer-frauen/)

Publications

Filzen, L. (2026): ‘History of the Wahûma’? Publishing Practices and Colonial Knowledge Production, GHIL Fellowreport. (blogpost)
Filzen, L. (2026): “The white Man sitting on his Throne” – John Hanning Speke’s iron Camp-Chair and its diplomatic Importance for the Search for the Source of the Nile, in: Endeavour. Special issue zum Workshop Beyond instruments and specimens: Exploring new perspectives on the material culture of expeditionary science, 18-19. Oktober, 2024, vom DFG Netzwerk The history of expeditions. (tba)
Filzen, L. (2025): “Quo simplicus eo perfecticus“- von der Quelle zur DOI. Ein Erfahrungsbericht am Beispiel von historischer Embryonenbetrachtung, FAIR Data Fellowbericht (blogpost)

since 2022: Research Assistant at the department of History of Science and Technology, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
2019–2022: M.A. in History and Historical Practise – Intercultural (Multiple Major), Universität Duisburg-Essen
2015–2019: B.A. in Physics and History (Multiple Major), Universität Duisburg-Essen