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January 3rd, 2013

Pittsburgh Sessions

Session Schedules
To see details of the topics, participants, and schedule of the more than fifty academic sessions that will be taking place at the SHOT Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, 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.

Friday, October 16
8.30-10.00 am

1
Women at Work: Machines, Tools, Bodies, and Gendered Labor, Birmingham room

2
From National Security to Commercial Manufacturing: Cold War Transits of Technology, Smithfield Room

3
Web 2.0 and the History of Technology, Ft. Pitt Room

4�
Obsolescence and Waste, Benedum room

5�
Operating Technological Networks, Duquesne Room

6�
DDT (Re)considered: Disease Control, Environmental Change, and the Politics of Science, Brigade Room

7�
Inventing Place, Rivers Room

10.30-12.30 pm

8�
Materiality Meets Practice, Birmingham Room

9�
Technological Shifts, Smithfield Room

10���
From Benefit to Burden: The Unintended Environmental Consequences of Technologies Intended to Address Environmental Hazards , Ft. pitt Room

11
STS in Nonwestern Contexts: What Registers Do We Use Now? Benedum Room

12
Technological Cultures of Media, Duquesne Room

13
Picturing Radiation, Brigade Room

14
Increasing Women’s Participation in Engineering and Computer Science: Perspectives from the Field and from History, Rovers Room

15
Technology and Socioeconomic Transformations in Early Modern Europe, Traders Room

2.00-3.30 pm

16
The Sidney Edelstein Prize Session, Ballroom 3 & 4

17
The Transnational Geopolitics of Energy Supply, Birmingham Room

18
Technologies of Purification and Remediation in Post-World War II United States, Smithfield Room

19
Technological Translations of the Body, Ft. Pitt Room

20
Technologies of Road Safety, Benedum Room

21
Cultural Histories of Spaceflight Technologies, Duquesne Room

22
Intersections of Art and Technology , Brigade Room

23
Risk and Hazard in the Manufactured Gas Industry in the 19th Century, Rivers Room

Saturday, October 17
8.30-10.00 am

24
Why Here? Why Now? Understanding Places of Invention, Birmingham Room

25
State and Technology (I): Postcolonial perspectives, Smithfield Room

26
Navigating Virtual and Physical Landscapes: Geocaching, Locative Media, and Video Games, Ft. Pitt Room

27
Chemical Trails: Circulating Technology in Social and Natural Space”, Benedum Room

28���
Reforming Technology to Serve Community: Old Order Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites, Brigade Room

29
Behind the Curtain Wall:Skyscrapers, Reinterpreted, Redesigned, and Recycled, Rivers Room

30
Confrontation and Cooperation in the Cold War (I), Duquesne Room

10.30-12.30 pm

31
Instruments and Knowledge Production, Birmingham Room

32
State and Technology (II): National Institutes and Government Agencies, Traders Room

33
Cultures of Learning and Knowledge Circulation, Smithfield Room

34
Methodological Challenges: Artifacts and Determinism, Ft. Pitt Room

35
The Instability of Technological Identities, Benedum Room

36
Consumer’s Agency in the History of Technology, Duquesne Room

37
Paths Not Taken and Paths Retraced in the History of Information Technology, Rivers Room

38
Robots in Practice, Forbes Room

2.00-3.30 pm

39
Hot and Cold: Consumers and the Technology of Temperature Control, Birmingham Room

40
Risk and Hazard in the Manufactured Gas Industry in the 19th Century, Smithfield Room

41
�”Making Technologies Public”, Ft. Pitt Room

42
Spaces of Juxtaposed Technologies, Traders Room

43
Cars Reframed, Benedum Room

44
Confrontation and Cooperation in the Cold War (II), Duquesne Room

45
Locality and Innovation Dynamics, Brigade Room

4.00-5.30 pm

46
Reader’s Theater as a Teaching Tool, Rivers Room

47
Technology Across Borders, Traders Room

48
Making Images, Smithfield Room

49
Enabling Innovation: Inventors and Their (Supposed) Allies in Law, the Media, and the Market, Ft. Pitt Room

50
Infrastructures: Tools for the governance of the circulation of transnational flows the constructions of transnational infrastructures in 20th century Europe, Birmingham Room

51
Technological History of the “Third Industrial Revolution”, Benedum Room

52
Users, Consumers and Innovation, Duquesne Room

53
Technology & Culture in Postindustrial Landscapes, Brigade Room

53
Contested Narratives in the History of U.S. Aerospace Technology, Rivers Room

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