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SHOT 2010

• Tacoma Meeting
• Program Overview
• Schedule of Sessions
• Special Interest Group (SIG) Activities
• SHOT Tours
• Special Events

Past Meetings:

• Tacoma 2010
• Pittsburgh, 2009
• Lisbon, 2008
• Washington, DC, 2007: 50th Anniversary Meeting
• Las Vegas, 2006 (PDF)
• Minneapolis, 2005 (PDF)

Future Meetings:

• Cleveland, 2011:
  Co-located with the meetings of the History of Science Society and the Society for Social Studies of Science

 

Program Overview

"Now that I've gone to a SHOT conference I feel silly that I haven't gone before."
-Attendee of the 2009 SHOT Annual Meeting

A PDF version of the Program is available here.

Thursday, 30 September
8.00 am-5.00 pm	Executive Council Meeting, open to all members
Tours	9.45 am-4.00 pm Mount Ranier National Park 1.30-4.00 pm Port of Tacoma
5.30 pm	TEMSIG meeting over cocktails
6.30-7.30 pm	Opening Plenary Session: "The Past, Present, and Future of Technology & Culture: The View of Three Editors," Tacoma Art Museum
7.30-10.00 pm	Opening Reception, Tacoma Art Museum
Friday, 1 October
7.00-8.30 am	Graduate Students Breakfast (please register in advance) International Scholars Breakfast
8.30 am-5.00 pm	Book Exhibit
8.30-10.00 am	Sessions 1-7
10.00-10.30 am	Coffee Break
10.30 am-12.30 pm	Sessions 8-14
	Historical Walking Tour of Downtown Tacoma
12.30-2.00 pm	Lunch: Overview of Funding Opportunities with the National Science Foundation, Mike Gorman Lunch: SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Lunch: Women in Technological History
2-3.30 pm	Sessions 15-21 Sidney Edelstein Book Prize Roundtable
2.00-4.00 pm	Tacoma's Industrial History Tour
3.30-4.00 pm	Coffee Break
4-5.30 pm	Plenary Honoring Winner of 2010 Leonardo da Vinci Medal
6.00-9.00 pm	Salmon Bake,Fort Defiance Park
9.00-12.00 pm	Hospitality Suite with Beer Tasting
Saturday, 2 October
7.00-8.30 am	Envirotech SIG Breakfast Technology & CUlture Editorial Board Breakfast (by invitation only)
8.30 am-5.00 pm	Book Exhibit
8.30-10.00 am	Sessions 22-27
10.00-10.30 am	Coffee Break
10.30 am-12.30 pm	Sessions 28-33
	Historical Walking Tour of Downtown Tacoma
12.30-2.00 pm	Lunch: Members Meeting (all welcome) Lunch: Mercurians and Jovians SIG Lunch: Prometheans SIG
2.00-3.30 pm	Sessions 34-40
	Maritime History Tour at Foss Seaport
3.00-4.00 pm	Coffee Break
4.00-5.30 pm	Sessions 41-46
5.30-6.30 pm	Presidential Address, Arne Kaijser
6.30-7.30 pm	Cocktail Reception with Wine Tasting
7.30-9.30 pm	Awards Banquet
9.00 pm-12.00 am	Hospitality Suite
Sunday, 3 October
9.00 am-12.00 pm	Asia Network Breakfast
8 am-9.00 am	Albatrosses: Informal breakfast, followed by a roundtable highlighting current research of grad students and young scholars Prometheans: Event TBA SMiTIng, the SHOT Military Technology Interest Group
9.00 am-6.00 pm	Computers, Information and Society: Workshop on “Materiality and Immateriality in the History of Computing”