Cleveland Sessions
Session Schedule
The program committee (chaired by Eda Kranakis) has put together an outstanding line-up of sessions.�You will not only be able to hear papers on timely topics such as the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, but also on topics ranging from superconductivity to technology and the body to the Tao of innovation.�
All SHOT sessions will take place in the Marriott Key Center, only a five-minute walk from where the History of Science Society (HSS) and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) are meeting.
For details of the topics, participants, and schedule of the more than 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, 3 November
6.00-7.00 pm
1
Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives on Fukushima from the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology
Plenary sponsored by SHOT, HSS, and 4S
Friday, 4 November
8.30-10.00 am
2
Science, Technology, and Development Roundtable
Sponsored by the International Outreach Committee
3
Beyond the Science-Technology Relationship
Co-sponsored by HSS
4
Mobilizing Media
5�
Constructions of Gender
6
Mapping the Earth: From Underground Geographies to Orbital Landscapes
7
The Politics of Representation
8�
The Fabric of Armed Encounter
9
Superconductivity: From New Materials to New Devices
10.30 am-12.30 pm
10�
Roundtable: Engaging with Asia–Responsibilities and Opportunities in the History of Science and Technology
Co-sponsored by HSS
11�
Producing Efficiency–Consuming Efficiently? Changing Meanings of Private Energy Consumption, 1900-1990
12���
Visual Culture, Technology, and History
13
Controlling Territories, Crossing Boundaries: Information and Communication Technologies Between Authoritarianism and Democracy
14
Cold War Control Culture
15
Mobility Networks
16
Sight, Sound, and Surveillance
1:30-3:30 pm
The Centennial of Mme Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(2011, 1911) and its Social Significance
Van Aken Room, Renaissance Hotel
Part of the HSS Program, co-sponsored by SHOT
Science and Regulation in a Contaminated World:
Part I
Gold Room, Renaissance Hotel
Part of the HSS Program, co-sponsored by SHOT
2.00-3.30 pm
17
Sidney Edelstein Book Prize Roundtable
2011 Winner: Joy Parr for Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
18
Making People Like Their Inescapable Social Destiny: Technologies of Power and Control in Natural Resource Development
19
Technology and Subjectivity: Approaches Toward Understanding the Psychology of Technological Change
20
Amateur Experts
21
Dreading the Dull Drive: Creating and Contesting Cinematic Parkways, Straight Autostrade and Corridor Highways
22
Geographies of Computing: Straddling the Divide Between the Global and the Local
23
Technologies of the Body
24
Communication Technopolitics
4.00-5.30 pm
25
Plenary Session: da Vinci Prize Lecture
(The 2011 recipient will be announced in the final printed program)
Science and Regulation in a Contaminated World: Part II
Gold Room, Renaissance Hotel
Part of the HSS Program, co-sponsored by SHOT
Saturday, 5 November
8.30-10.00 am
26
Infrastructure(s) and the Fukushima Earthquake: A Roundtable on Emergencies, Nuclear and Otherwise
27
Degrees of Control: Introducing Regulating Technologies in the Field
28
Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice and Community in the History of Software
29
Organization, Technology, and Policy: Central Themes of the Defense Acquisition Process
30���
(Wo)Man-Machine
31
Exploring Network Mobilities
32
Environmental Dreams
9:00-11:45 am
Sensing Tones: Hermann von Helmholtz at the Intersection of Sound, Music, and Science
Garfield Room, Renaissance Hotel
Part of the HSS program, co-sponsored by SHOT
10.30 am-12.30 pm
33
Reexamining the Origins of the History of Technology at Case
34
Before Fukushima: Public Concerns about Nuclear Safety
35
Do Politics Have Artifacts? The Promise of International Communications Networks
36
Negotiating the Limits of Control
37
The Tao of Innovation
38
Nations and the Construction of ‘Modernity’
39
Microcosms: Grasping the World Through Everyday Artifacts
1:30-3:30 pm
Emerging Methodologies in the Scholarship in History of Recent Science: Lessons from Food History
Gold Room, Renaissance Hotel
Part of the HSS Program, co-sponsored by SHOT
2.00-3.30 pm
40
Streetcar Cultures and Politics in Comparative Perspective, 1859-1915
41
Hot & Cold: Manipulating & Disciplining Bodies With Technologies of Temperature
42
Controlling Oceans… Or Not
43
Tensions of Agricultural ‘Modernization’ from Imperialism to Postcolonialism
44
Institutions and Strategies of Controlling Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
45
Conflicting Rhetorics of Labor
46
Expert Communities
4.00-5.30 pm
47
Infrastructure and Stabilization
48
Conducting Space Science, Technology, and Engineering
49
Technology and Territory in Post-War Archi-technical Historiography
50
Styling Production: National Contexts of Global Manufacturing
51
Visionaries and the Technological Imaginary
52
Spaces of Knowledge Production