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SHOT NEWSLETTER p. 14 July 2002 “’The Eye of the Needle’ Of Nuclear Energy in the Federal Republic of Germany – The History of Nuclear Waste Disposal from its Beginnings to Gorleben 1955-1980”, Anselm Tiggemann, University of Cologne “Smoke, Technology, and the Clean Air Act of 1956”, Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 32. Aural Automata Afloat: Antedecedents of the Machine Age Chair: Bert Hall, University of Toronto Commentator: Deborah Warner, National Museum of American History “Deconstructing Reconstruction: The Restoration of the 17 th Century English Pipe Organ”, Caroline Cagle, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkansas “Invention in Context: Mechanical Navigation in the 18 th Century”, Jean-Louis Trudel, Université du Québec à Montréal “Clockwork dressed as a Human: The ‘Artistic’ and the ‘Mechanical’ in the Construction and Interpretation of Automata in 18 th Century Europe”, Adelheid Voskuhl, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 33.Technology, Power and the State Chair: Tom Misa, Illinois Institute of Technology Commentator: Barton Hacker, Smithsonian Institution “Mehmed the Conqueror and Fire-Arms Technology”, Salim Aydüz, Fatih University Istanbul “Wartime Technology: Its Transfer and Impact on Furniture Making in the Twentieth Century”, Clive Edwards, Loughborough University School of Art and Design “Rationalizing the “Guerilla State” North Korean Factory Management Reform in the 1960’s”, Hyungsub Choi, Johns Hopkins University 34. Danes from Newcastle: Technology Transfer in the 19 th Century Chair: Hans-Joachim Braun, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg Commentator: Suzanne Moon, Colorado School of Mines “British Coal Technology and European Iron-Making in the Nineteenth Century”, Chris Evans, University of Glamorgan and Göran Ryden, University of Uppsala “Technology Transfer and British Supremacy – Anglo- Swedish Iron Technology in India in the 1860s”, Jan Geijerstam, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm “Danish Engineers and Scientists Abroad, 1829-1945: Results of a Collaborative Biography Project”, Mark Clark, Oregon Institute of Technology Saturday, October 19, late Afternoon: 5.15 – 6.00 pm SHOT Business Meeting Saturday Evening Awards Banquet – Hart House, University of Toronto Sunday, October 20, Morning: 9.00 – 11.00 am 35. Intimate Technologies: A History of Women, Clothing, and the Construction of Shape Organizer: Amy Sue Bix, Iowa State University Chair: Rachel Maines, Cornell University Commentator: Amy Sue Bix, Iowa State University “Technology and the Bra”, Jane Farrell-Beck, Iowa State University “A Technological History of Corsets: Design, Invention, and Use”, Colleen R. Gau, Byron MN “Wired for Fashion”, Julie Wosk, State University of New York 36. Techno Cities, Science Cities, and Techno-Science Cities Organizer: Martina Hessler, Deutsches Museum München; Robert Kargon, Johns Hopkins University Chair: Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum München Commentator: Steven Goldman, Lehigh University “Techno-Citta: Technology and Urban Design in Fascist Italy”, Robert Kargon, Johns Hopkins University and Arthur Molella, Smithsonian Institution “Science City Movement in the Post-War USSR: The Case of the Ural Scientific Center”, Paul Josephson, Colby College “The Techno-Science City:Munich as an ‘Innovative Milieu’?”, Martina Hessler, Deutsches Museum München
SHOT NEWSLETTER 37. Global Shipbuilding in War and Reconstruction Organizers:Christopher James Tassava, Northwestern University, and Jonathan Zeitlin, University of Wisconsin Madison Chair: Alex Roland, Duke University Commentator: Thomas Heinrich, Baruch College; City University of New York “The Rise and Fall of ‘Coordinated Specialization’: Production Alternatives and Public Choices in British Shipbuilding, 1936-1964”, Jonathan Zeitlin, University of Wisconsin Madison “Continuities and Discontinuities in Productive Organization and Technology: The Japanese Shipbuilding Experience” , Kazuo Wada, University of Tokyo, and Takao Shiba, Kyoto Sangyo University “Standing Up, Falling Down: American Merchant Shipbuilding, 1936-1958”, Christopher James Tassava, Northwestern University 38. The Factory Project: A Panel Discussion about a Multi-disciplinary Study of Technology, Its Culture, and Its Impact Organizers: Haakon With Andersen, Norwegian University for Science Technology, Trondheim (NTNU) and Lindy Biggs, Auburn University Chair: Haakon With Andersen, NTNU Panelists: Knut Ove Eliassen (literary sciences, history of ideas), NTNU Ola Svein Stugu (history), NTNU Auden Øfsti (philosophy), NTNU Terje Borgersen (art history, media study), NTNU Moderator: Robert Friedel, University of Maryland NEWS OF MEMBERS Martin V. Melosi has won the Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award for full professors (2002) at the University of Houston, where he is Distinguished University Professor. The award is university-wide and is given annually to one person at each academic rank. Daryl M. Hafter (Eastern Michigan University) was awarded the Newcomen Article Award in Business History for “Women in the Underground Business of Eighteenth-Century Lyon”, Enterprise & Society 2, 1 (March 2001), 11-40. This prize p. 15 July 2002 recognizes the best article published in Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History in volume previous to the year of the award. It is awarded in association with the Newcomen Society of North America. Miriam Levin was invited to be the Maria Goeppert Mayer Visiting Professor at the University of Gottingen and will be presenting an invited lecture and seminar there in June. She was visiting professor at the University Blaise Pascal in France during the spring 2002 semester. Her article “Museums and the Democratic Order” appeared in the Winter issue of the Wilson Quarterly . Yves Cohen was awarded the 2002 Technology and Business History French Prize for Organiser a l’aube du taylorisme La pratique d’Ernest Mattern chez Peugeot, 1906-1919 (publié aux Presses universitaires franc-comtoises) Ruth Cowan has accepted the Janice and Julian Bers Chair at the University of Pennsylvania CALL FOR PAPERS XXXVI Settimana di Studi,THE CONSTRUCTION IN- DUSTRY BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLU- TION, 13TH TO 18TH CENTURIES, Prato, 26-30 Aprile 2004The Istituto Datini of Prato will dedicate the Settimana di Studi of 2004 to the construction industry before the industrial revolution, 13 th to 18 th centuries. Historians who are working on particular aspects of the industry – the construction of specific buildings, urban expansion, public works, fortifications, engineering projects, building technology, design, etc – are invited to present proposals that fit into the tentative program presented below. Participants are asked to consider the kinds of issues that interest economic historians. They should indicate how their proposal fits into this scheme and demonstrate a willingness to go beyond description to make comparisons across space and across time with the objective of throwing light on the industry as a whole and on the overall economy. All interested scholars should send proposals, clearly specifying theme, period and region of interest, to the Istituto Datini by no later than 15 September 2002. The Executive Committee of the Istituto will make decisions about acceptance of proposals by 31 October, 2002. Members of the committee are Hans Pohl (Bonn, President), Michele Cassandro (Siena, Vice-President), Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada (Madrid, Vice-president), Giampiero Nigro (Firenze, scientific director), Maxine Berg (Warwick), Jean-François Bergier (Zurigo), Giorgio Borelli (Verona), Antonio di Vittorio (Bari),
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