NEWSLETTER - Society for the History of Technology
NEWSLETTER - Society for the History of Technology
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SHOT <strong>NEWSLETTER</strong> p.12 July 2002<br />
Saturday, October 19, Morning: 9.00 –11.30 am<br />
21. The Social Architectures <strong>of</strong> Cold War Electronics<br />
Organizers:Kristen Haring, Harvard University and Edward<br />
Jones-Imhotep, University <strong>of</strong> Guelph<br />
Chair: Stuart W. Leslie, Johns Hopkins University<br />
Commentator: Jennifer S. Light, Northwestern University<br />
“Reliable Humans, Trustworthy Machines: The Material<br />
and Social Construction <strong>of</strong> Electronic Reliability”, Edward<br />
Jones-Imhotep, University <strong>of</strong> Guelph<br />
“The Age <strong>of</strong> Electronics, at Work and at Leisure”, Kristen<br />
Haring, Harvard University<br />
“Olivetti <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> People: Electronics and Social Planning<br />
in Post-War Italy”, Massimo Mazzotti, University <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
“Lost in Translation: Total Systems from War Room to<br />
Boardroom, 1954-1968”, Thomas Haigh, University <strong>of</strong><br />
Pennsylvania<br />
22. Learning <strong>History</strong> by Doing <strong>History</strong><br />
Chair: Merritt Roe Smith, MIT<br />
Commentator: Robert Friedel, University <strong>of</strong> Maryland<br />
“The Power in Popularization: Lessons from Writing a<br />
Global <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Technology</strong>”, W. Bernard Carlson, University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Virginia<br />
“A New Cultural <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Technology</strong>”, Andrew Jamison,<br />
Aalborg University<br />
“Disciplining <strong>Technology</strong>: The Database <strong>for</strong> Historical<br />
Research”, Jessica Schaap, New Media BC, Vancouver<br />
“Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change”,<br />
Rosalind H. Williams, MIT<br />
23. Engineering a Civil <strong>Society</strong>?<br />
Chair: Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University<br />
Commentator: Arwen Palmer Mohun, University <strong>of</strong> Delaware<br />
“Making Money: Counterfeiters, Industrialization, and<br />
<strong>the</strong> Mechanization <strong>of</strong> Money”, Stephen A. Mihm, New<br />
York University<br />
“The Promise <strong>of</strong> a Benign Operation: On <strong>the</strong> Death<br />
Penalty, Electrified Bodies, and Per<strong>for</strong>mances <strong>of</strong> Civilization<br />
in <strong>the</strong> Late Nineteenth-Century United States”, Jürgen<br />
Martschukat, University <strong>of</strong> Hamburg<br />
“<br />
Politics and <strong>the</strong> Machine: <strong>Technology</strong> as an Agent <strong>of</strong><br />
Democracy in U.S. Elections”, Linda Eikmeier Endersby,<br />
Rutgers University and James W. Endersby, University <strong>of</strong><br />
Missouri<br />
“Monitoring People in France: From <strong>the</strong> Options <strong>of</strong><br />
French Army Operational Statistics to <strong>the</strong> Perils <strong>of</strong> Record<br />
Management, 1932-1944”, Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business<br />
School<br />
24. Technologies in Transition: Transfer in <strong>the</strong> 20 th<br />
century<br />
Chair: Johan Schot, Eindhoven University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Technology</strong><br />
Commentator: Hans Weinberger, Royal Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>Technology</strong><br />
Stockholm<br />
“<strong>Technology</strong> Transfer from Germany to Canada After<br />
1945”, Stephen Koerner, Victoria, B.C.<br />
“Project Eastinghouse – <strong>Technology</strong> Transfer or<br />
Multicultural Mixing <strong>of</strong> <strong>Technology</strong>?”, Karl-Erik Michelsen,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Helsinki<br />
“Users and Producers <strong>of</strong> Plastics in Post World War II<br />
Norway: Building a New Industry Through Transfer <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Technology</strong>”, Liv Ramskjaer, Norwegian Museum <strong>of</strong> Science<br />
and <strong>Technology</strong><br />
“Cultural Dimensions <strong>of</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> Transfer in <strong>the</strong> International<br />
Offshore Industry”, Gunnar Nerheim, Norwegian<br />
Museum <strong>of</strong> Science and <strong>Technology</strong><br />
25. Works in progress Nr.2<br />
Chair: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania<br />
Commentator: Nina Lerman, Whitman College<br />
“Industrial Milling in <strong>the</strong> Ancient and Medieval Worlds”,<br />
Adam Robert Lucas, University <strong>of</strong> New South Wales, Austalia<br />
“Christophe-Philippe Oberkampt — Enlightened<br />
Entrepreneur Extraordinaire”, Hanna E.H. Martinsen,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
“Practices and Discourses <strong>of</strong> Racial Discrimination in <strong>the</strong><br />
American Life Insurance Industry”, Pap Ndiaye, Ecole des<br />
hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris<br />
“When Hobbyists Were Experts: <strong>the</strong> U.S. Radio Amateur’s<br />
Long-Range Short-Wave Experiments ‘circa’ 1920”, Chen-<br />
Pang Yeang, MIT