Tacoma program
Program Overview
"Now that I’ve gone to a SHOT conference I feel silly that I haven’t gone before."
-Attendee of the 2009 SHOT Annual Meeting
A PDF version of the Program is available here.
Thursday, 30 September
8.00 am-5.00 pm
Executive Council Meeting, open to all members
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9.45 am-4.00 pm Mount Ranier National Park
1.30-4.00 pm Port of Tacoma
5.30 pm
TEMSIG meeting over cocktails
6.30-7.30 pm
Opening Plenary Session: "The Past, Present, and Future of Technology & Culture: The View of Three Editors," Tacoma Art Museum
7.30-10.00 pm
Opening Reception, Tacoma Art Museum
Friday, 1 October
7.00-8.30 am
Graduate Students Breakfast (please register in advance)
International Scholars Breakfast
8.30 am-5.00 pm
Book Exhibit
8.30-10.00 am
Sessions 1-7
10.00-10.30 am
Coffee Break
10.30 am-12.30 pm
Sessions 8-14
Historical Walking Tour of Downtown Tacoma
12.30-2.00 pm
Lunch: Overview of Funding Opportunities with the National Science Foundation, Mike Gorman
Lunch: SIG on Computers, Information, and Society
Lunch: Women in Technological History
2-3.30 pm
Sessions 15-21
Sidney Edelstein Book Prize Roundtable
2.00-4.00 pm
Tacoma’s Industrial History Tour
3.30-4.00 pm
Coffee Break
4-5.30 pm
Plenary Honoring Winner of 2010 Leonardo da Vinci Medal
6.00-9.00 pm
Salmon Bake,Fort Defiance Park
9.00-12.00 pm
Hospitality Suite with Beer Tasting
Saturday, 2 October
7.00-8.30 am
Envirotech SIG Breakfast
Technology & CUlture Editorial Board Breakfast (by invitation only)
8.30 am-5.00 pm
Book Exhibit
8.30-10.00 am
Sessions 22-27
10.00-10.30 am
Coffee Break
10.30 am-12.30 pm
Sessions 28-33
Historical Walking Tour of Downtown Tacoma
12.30-2.00 pm
Lunch: Members Meeting (all welcome)
Lunch: Mercurians and Jovians SIG
Lunch: Prometheans SIG
2.00-3.30 pm
Sessions 34-40
Maritime History Tour at Foss Seaport
3.00-4.00 pm
Coffee Break
4.00-5.30 pm
Sessions 41-46
5.30-6.30 pm
Presidential Address, Arne Kaijser
6.30-7.30 pm
Cocktail Reception with Wine Tasting
7.30-9.30 pm
Awards Banquet
9.00 pm-12.00 am
Hospitality Suite
Sunday, 3 October
9.00 am-12.00 pm
Asia Network Breakfast
8 am-9.00 am
Albatrosses: Informal breakfast, followed by a roundtable highlighting current research of grad students and young scholars
Prometheans: Event TBA
SMiTIng, the SHOT Military Technology Interest Group
9.00 am-6.00 pm
Computers, Information and Society: Workshop on “Materiality and Immateriality in the History of Computing”