• Awards, Prizes & Grants
• Special Interest Groups
• International Scholars Program
• Travel Grants

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

 

Schedule of Sessions

"I've been attending SHOT meetings since 1969 and last year's conference was arguably the best organized one I've ever attended."
-Attendee of the 2009 SHOT Annual Meeting

To see details of the topics and participants of all the academic sessions that will be taking place at the SHOT 2010 in Tacoma, 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.

UPDATED SEPTEMBER 4th!

Thursday, 30 September 6.30-7.30 pm:
	Opening Plenary: The Past, Present, and Future of Technology & Culture: The View of Three Editors, At the Tacoma Art Museum
Friday, 1 October 8.30-10.00 am:
1	The Agency of Infrastructure
2	Patent Regimes
3	Big Things
4	Feeding Nationalism
5	The Power of Mundane Things
6	Consuming Expertise: Experts’ Role in Shaping Food Production and Consumption in Global Contexts
7	Networks as Places in the History of Computing
10.30-12.30 pm:
8	Approaches to Industrialization
9	Innovate, Standardize, Circulate
10	Cold War Trails
11	Challenges to Nasa, Old and New
12	The Airport Whisperer: Can the New History of Airports Be Useful?
13	Technology in the Tropics
14	INtransit V.6: “scientific american”/La America Cientifica
2.00-3.30 pm:
15	The Sidney Edelstein Book Prize Roundtable
16	Kabul to Kolkata and Beyond: The Clash of Civilizations and History of Technology
17	Flights of Fancy
18	Shock of the Old
19	Environment and Path-Dependency
20	Entrepreneurs as Nation-Builders
21	Author Meets Critics: Paul Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010)
4.00-5.30 pm:
	da Vinci Medal Plenary
Saturday, 2 October 8.30–10.00 am:
22	T&C: Technology & (Counter) Culture
23	Users and Standards
24	Oysters, Estuaries, and Origins: The Constants of Change in Marine Aquaculture and Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest
25	Technological Capabilities and Learning in Mexico and Argentina in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
26	“Good airplanes are more important than superiority in numbers”: Technological Determinism in the Cold War U.S. Air Force
27	Standards, Technology, and Power
10.30 am-12.30 pm:
28	Large-Scale Technological Systems: Roads, Rails, Air, and Space
29	Air Powers: National, Colonial, and Global
30	Leo Marx Meets Some New Readers
31	Technology Across Borders
32	A Banker’s Utopia: Dreams and Realities of the Cashless/Checkless Society
33	The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
2.00-3.30 pm:
34	Who Decides? I: Technology’s Experts
35	The Image of Technology
36	Military Industry
37	Geek Worlds
38	Dams in the World: Transformation of Rivers and Societies in the 20th Century
39	Inventors on the Move
40	Consumption and Technological Change in 20th Century Africa
4.00-5.30 pm:
41	Who Decides? II: Technology’s Stakeholders
42	At The Office
43	Gendertech
44	Visions of Technology
45	Environmental Scales and Emerging Technologies: From Nano to Geo
46	A Cosmic Tug of War: Social Construction and Technological Determinism in Space Hardware Design