Preliminary SHOT Conference Schedule

SATURDAY MORNING, 8:30-11:30

13. "Teaching Gender in the History of Technology and in Science Studies: Notes from the Classroom"

Organizer: Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford University

Chair and moderator: Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford University

Adele Clarke, UCSF

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, SUNY, Stonybrook

Donna Haraway, UCSC

Judith A. McGaw, University of Pennsylvania

Ruth Oldenziel, University of Amsterdam

Carroll Pursell, Case Western Reserve University

14. "Recent Studies on Western European Space Activities"

Organizer and chair: Deborah Douglas, NASA

Arturo Russo, University of Palermo

"Big Technology, Little Science: The European Use of Spacelab"

John Krige, European University Institute

"The Politics of Big Technology in Europe,"

Dennis Newkirk, Motorola, and Asif Siddiqi, Yes Computers

"The FGB Core Module of the International Space Station Alpha: A Historical Overview of Its Lineage and Organizational Origins"

Commentator: Cathleen S. Lewis, NASM, Smithsonian Institution

15. American Immiscibility: Environment & Oil

Chair: Jeffrey Stine, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution

James Williams, De Anza College

"Energy and the Environment in Postwar California: Seeds of a Postindustrial Paradigm"

Barbara L. Allen, RPI

"Oil and Water: An Environmental and Cultural History of the Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana"

Hugh Gorman, Carnegie Mellon University

"Environmental Innovation in the U.S. Petroleum Industry"

Commentator: Ed Constant, Carnegie Mellon University

16. "Antebellum Technology in France and the United States"

Chair: R. Angus Buchanan, University of Bath

Robert MacMurray, Bloomsburg University

"Relating Technological Change and the U.S. Ceramics Market, 1790-1836"

Pierre Claude Reynard, York University

"Unreliable Mills: The Paper Mills of the Avergne in 18th Century France"

David Ferro, VPI

"The Press, Property, and Invention in Colonial America"

Daniel Larkin, SUNY, Oneonta

"Benjamin Wright and the James River Canal"

Commentator: Phil Scranton, Rutgers University, Camden

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 1:30-3:30

17. "Planned Mobility: Political Transport Concepts in the 20th Century"

Organizer: Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University

Chair: Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum

Paul Barrett, Illinois Institute of Technology and Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University

"Mediations on the Technological Politics of Transportation Texts"

Burghard Ciesla, Center for Contemporary Historical Studies, Potsdam

"Urban Transport Concepts in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-90"

Hans L. Dienel, Deutsches Museum

"Governmental Planning for Civil Aviation in West and East Germany, 1949-90"

Commentator: Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University

18. "Big Technologies"

Chair: Paul Josephson, Sarah Lawrence College

Stephen B. Johnson, University of Minnesota

"Three Responses to Big Technology: Operations Research, Systems Engineering, and Program Management"

Curtis Brooks, CBEMAF

"The Jeffersonian Spirit Returns to Twentieth Century Science: The Beginnings of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility as a Project of 'Scientific Amateurs,'"

Tony Stranges, Texas A&M University

"Synthetic Fuel Development at BASF in the 1920s"

Commentator: J. Colin Duvall, National Railway Museum

19. "Postwar Telecommunications"

Chair: Paxton Marshall, University of Virginia

Yuzo Takahashi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

"Advent of the Television Receiver Industry in Japan"

John W. Bakke, Telenor Research

"The Construction of Mobile Telephony in Norway"

Birgit Jaege, Technical University of Denmark

"Videotex in the Melting Pot: The Social Construction of Videotext in Denmark and Online Services in America"

Commentator: Ken Lipartito, University of Houston

20. Thought for Food: Industrial technique and research

Chair: John Smith, Lehigh University

Steve Petrina, North Carolina State University

"Intelligence Test Apparatus, Class, Gender, and Race, 1918- 21"

Mark Clark, AATCC

"'Real Standard Methods': The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, Atlas Electric Devices, and the Development of Textile Testing Machinery, 1921-71"

Mark Hamel, University of Pennsylvania

"Energy, Economy, and Equilbrium in American Food Research, 1880-1930"

Commentator: Sheldon Hochheiser, AT&T Archives

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 4-6

21. Earth: Works-in-Progress I

Chair: Luther Gore, University of Virginia

Kevin I. Borg, University of Delaware

"The 'Chauffeur Problem' and the Early Automotive Service Industry in America, 1893-1910"

David Harmon, Iowa State University

"Trains, Planes, and Automobiles: Technology Transfer and the Trailer Coach Industry in America, 1919-1949"

22. Air: Computing Technology

Chair: Janet Abbote ?

Phillippe Hert, University of Strasbourg

"Some effects of New Global Interactions Through Computer Networks in a Community of Research"

Dave Irvine, Hughes STX Corporation

"The Role of Data in EOS and the EOS Data Information System"

Jan van den Ende, Delft University of Technology

"Socio-Technological Interaction on the Macro-Level: Computing Technology in the 20th Century"

Commentator: Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS

23. Water: Works-in-Progress II

Elmer Gaden, University of Virginia

Karin Ellison, MIT

"Surveying the Columbia Basin: Technology, Politics, and Engineering Work"

David Wittner, OSU

"Japanese Maritime Innovation, 607-1639"

David Snyder, Texas A&M University

"American Coaling-at-Sea Experiments, 1890-1914: A Case Study in Failure"

24. Fire: Electric Lighting

Chair: Mel Cherno, University of Virginia

Dave Rossell, UC, Berkeley

"Uncovering the Assumptions of Lighting and Work: Illumination as a Tool"

Jan Garnert, Nordiska Museet

"In the City After Dark: Lighting and Social and Cultural History in Stockholm"

Charles Bazerman,

"A Light for the Home: Consumption, Style, Gender, Representation and Design of Early Incandescent Lighting"

Commentator: Brian Bowers, Science Museum

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