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December 21st, 2012

Preliminary Schedule of Sessions

SHOT 2012
Preliminary Schedule of Sessions
This year, the program committee (chaired by Andreas Ficker) has put together an outstanding line-up of sessions. Unless otherwise stated, all events will take place in the Kilen Building on the campus of the Copenhagen Business School, only a five-minute walk from the Radisson Blu Falconer Conference Center.
For details on the topics and participants of the fifty academic sessions listed below, please see the attached PDF file. Print out the file, review it, and mark it up as a convenient way of organizing your time at the meeting.

Thursday, 4 October
6.00-7.00 pm

1
Transnationalism and the History of Technology: Lessons from Tensions of Europe and Other Projects
Joint Plenary with Tensions of Europe Network

Friday, 5 October
8.30-10.00 am

2
Nation, State and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Cold War Asia and Beyond

3
Indigenous Water Control Regimes in Nineteenth-Century East and Southeast Asia

4
Technological Heritage

5�
Digital Aesthetics

6
Spaces and Geographies of Expertise in Engineering

7
The Social Origins of Personal Computing

8�
High Technology and Indigenous Weavers: Must They Clash?

10.30 am-12.30 pm

9
Dialogue Workshop on the Future of the History of Technology in a Global Context

10
Comedy, Seriously

11�
Technocratic Dreams

12�
Transnational Technopolitics

13���
Cold Environments. Changing Styles and Infrastructures in Polar Exploration

14
Natural Factories

15
Technology and Propaganda

2:00-3:30 pm

16
Sidney Edelstein Book Prize Roundtable
The 2012 Winner: Eden Medina

17
International Information Identities

18
Fraying Ties in Cold War Science

19
Popular Music in the Studio: Sound and Technology in the Transnational Context

20
Women in Technological History (WITH) in the 21st Century – Future Directions

21
Everyday Technologies

22
Risk at Sea

4.00-5.30 pm

23
Plenary Session: da Vinci Prize Lecture
The 2012 recipient: Wiebe Bijker

Saturday, 6 October
8.30-10.00 am

24
Science, Technology, and the Military in a Cold War Setting: Exploring Shifting Configurations and Specific Interventions in Greenland from 1951 to 1968

25
Unwelcome Expertise

26
Negotiating Water Control in Twentieth-Century South Asia

27
Space and the Environment, Space as an Environment

28���
Power Tools: Technologies of Control and Sustainability

29
Bodies and Technology: Mid-(20th)-Century Mayhem

30
Shaping Imperial territories, building political power

10.30 am-12.30 pm

31
History of Concepts – Concepts of History

32
Airy Curtains

33
Technological Sublime

34
Envisioning Urban Infrastructures

35
Techno-Choreographies: Embodying Technologies of Mobility

36
How to be Policy-Relevant: The History of Technology and the Future of the Arctic

2.00-3.30 pm

37
International Information Societies

38
Institutionalizing Expertise

39
Spaces of Experiment

40
The Contextual Logics of Electronics Innovation

41
Sustainability Narratives

42
Made in Automation: Transformations at the Interface Between Machines and Scientific Knowledge

43
Thinking Through Spatial Units of Analysis in the Global Cold War

4.00-5.30 pm

44
Labor and the Mantra of Efficiency

45
Prosthetic Interactions

46
History of Technologies in Soviet Russia in Transnational Perspective

47
Contexts of Creativity

48
Patents, Invention, and Narrative in Industrial America

49
Engineers with and without Disciplinary Borders

50
Unmaking Technologies: The Afterlife of Discarded Artifacts and Systems

5.30-6.30 pm

Presidential Address
Ron Kline (Cornell University)

Sunday, 7 October
9.00 am-6.00 pm

Workshop on Information Identities: Historical Perspectives on Technological and Social Change
Sponsored by CISSIG

Workshop on Historical and Contemporary Studies of Disasters: Placing Chernobyl, 9/11, Katrina, Deepwater Horizon, Fukushima and Other Events in Perspective
Sponsored by Prometheans/Asia Network/Teach 3.11

 
SESSION I: Natural/Anthropogenic Disasters (9:30-10:45 am)

 
SESSION II: Disaster Preparedness & Response in Global Perspective (11:00 am-12:15 pm)

 
SESSION III: Contemporary Nuclear and Other Technologies (1:30 pm-2:45 pm)

 
SESSION IV: Understanding Fukushima Dai-Ichi
(3:00 pm-4:15 pm

 
CLOSING SESSION (4:30 pm-5:00 pm)

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