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Session Schedules

To see details of the topics, participants, and schedule of the more than fifty academic sessions that will be taking place at the SHOT Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, please see the attached PDF file. Print out the file, review it, mark it up, and bring it with you as a convenient way of organizing your time at the meeting.

Friday, October 16 8.30-10.00 am
1	Women at Work: Machines, Tools, Bodies, and Gendered Labor, Birmingham room
2	From National Security to Commercial Manufacturing: Cold War Transits of Technology, Smithfield Room
3	Web 2.0 and the History of Technology, Ft. Pitt Room
4	Obsolescence and Waste, Benedum room
5	Operating Technological Networks, Duquesne Room
6	DDT (Re)considered: Disease Control, Environmental Change, and the Politics of Science, Brigade Room
7	Inventing Place, Rivers Room
10.30-12.30 pm
8	Materiality Meets Practice, Birmingham Room
9	Technological Shifts, Smithfield Room
10	From Benefit to Burden: The Unintended Environmental Consequences of Technologies Intended to Address Environmental Hazards , Ft. pitt Room
11	STS in Nonwestern Contexts: What Registers Do We Use Now? Benedum Room
12	Technological Cultures of Media, Duquesne Room
13	Picturing Radiation, Brigade Room
14	Increasing Women’s Participation in Engineering and Computer Science: Perspectives from the Field and from History, Rovers Room
15	Technology and Socioeconomic Transformations in Early Modern Europe, Traders Room
2.00-3.30 pm
16	The Sidney Edelstein Prize Session, Ballroom 3 & 4
17	The Transnational Geopolitics of Energy Supply, Birmingham Room
18	Technologies of Purification and Remediation in Post-World War II United States, Smithfield Room
19	Technological Translations of the Body, Ft. Pitt Room
20	Technologies of Road Safety, Benedum Room
21	Cultural Histories of Spaceflight Technologies, Duquesne Room
22	Intersections of Art and Technology , Brigade Room
23	Risk and Hazard in the Manufactured Gas Industry in the 19th Century, Rivers Room
Saturday, October 17 8.30–10.00 am
24	Why Here? Why Now? Understanding Places of Invention, Birmingham Room
25	State and Technology (I): Postcolonial perspectives, Smithfield Room
26	Navigating Virtual and Physical Landscapes: Geocaching, Locative Media, and Video Games, Ft. Pitt Room
27	Chemical Trails: Circulating Technology in Social and Natural Space”, Benedum Room
28	Reforming Technology to Serve Community: Old Order Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites, Brigade Room
29	Behind the Curtain Wall:Skyscrapers, Reinterpreted, Redesigned, and Recycled, Rivers Room
30	Confrontation and Cooperation in the Cold War (I), Duquesne Room
10.30-12.30 pm
31	Instruments and Knowledge Production, Birmingham Room
32	State and Technology (II): National Institutes and Government Agencies, Traders Room
33	Cultures of Learning and Knowledge Circulation, Smithfield Room
34	Methodological Challenges: Artifacts and Determinism, Ft. Pitt Room
35	The Instability of Technological Identities, Benedum Room
36	Consumer’s Agency in the History of Technology, Duquesne Room
37	Paths Not Taken and Paths Retraced in the History of Information Technology, Rivers Room
38	Robots in Practice, Forbes Room
2.00-3.30 pm
39	Hot and Cold: Consumers and the Technology of Temperature Control, Birmingham Room
40	Risk and Hazard in the Manufactured Gas Industry in the 19th Century, Smithfield Room
41	“Making Technologies Public”, Ft. Pitt Room
42	Spaces of Juxtaposed Technologies, Traders Room
43	Cars Reframed, Benedum Room
44	Confrontation and Cooperation in the Cold War (II), Duquesne Room
45	Locality and Innovation Dynamics, Brigade Room
4.00-5.30 pm
46	Reader's Theater as a Teaching Tool, Rivers Room
47	Technology Across Borders, Traders Room
48	Making Images, Smithfield Room
49	Enabling Innovation: Inventors and Their (Supposed) Allies in Law, the Media, and the Market, Ft. Pitt Room
50	Infrastructures: Tools for the governance of the circulation of transnational flows the constructions of transnational infrastructures in 20th century Europe, Birmingham Room
51	Technological History of the “Third Industrial Revolution”, Benedum Room
52	Users, Consumers and Innovation, Duquesne Room
53	Technology & Culture in Postindustrial Landscapes, Brigade Room
53	Contested Narratives in the History of U.S. Aerospace Technology, Rivers Room