Tacoma Sessions
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