Journal Article

The Cleveland Meeting, 3-5 November 2011

History of Technology, Society for the

2012

Overview

Annual Meeting Sessions Opening Plenary: Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives on Fukushima from the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology (co-sponsored by SHOT, HSS, and 4S) Chair: Yuko Fujigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Panelists: Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics (HSS); Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan (SHOT); Hugh Gusterson, George Mason University (4S) Science, Technology and Development Roundtable (sponsored by the international outreach committee) Organizers: Harro Maat,Wageningen University, Netherlands; Rob Hagendijk, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Chair: Rob Hagendijk, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Commentators:Wiebe Bijker, University of Maastricht, Netherlands; Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University Participants: Annapurna Mamidipudi, University of Maastricht, Netherlands; Matthew Harsh, Arizona State University; Ivan da Costa Marques, Federal University of Rio di Janeiro, Brazil Beyond the Science-Technology Relationship (co-sponsored by HSS) Organizer: Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair and Commentator: W. Patrick McCray, University of California, Santa Barbara Papers: \"German Roots of the Science-Technology Debate,\" Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison; \"The Natural History of Industry: Revisiting the Question of Chemical 'Science' and Industry during the Second Half of the Long Eighteenth Century,\" Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands; \"The Origins of Pure and Applied Science in Gilded Age America,\" Paul Lucier, University of Rhode Island Mobilizing Media Chair and Commentator: Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University Papers: \"The Revolution Will Be Televised: The IRT Antú and the Chilean Road to Socialism,\" Michael Lemon, Indiana University; \"Cultural Stereo- Types: The Rise and Fall of the Ghetto Blaster, 1975-2000,\" Richard L. Perry, Elon University; \"Dissident Visions through Technological Use: Radio and Television Solidarity in Poland, 1982-1989,\" Carmen V. Krol, Cornell University Constructions of Gender Chair and Commentator: Amy Bix, Iowa State University Papers: \"Phrenology as Technology: Mapping the Gendered Mind in Nineteenth- Century America,\" Carla Bittel, Loyola Marymount University; \"Air Fashions of U.S.Women Aviators between the World Wars,\" Barbara Ganson, Florida Atlantic University and International Women's Air and Space Museum; \"'Masculinity in a Spray Can': Deodorant and the Cure for Effeminacy in the US,\" Cari Casteel, Auburn University Mapping the Earth: From Underground Geographies to Orbital Landscapes Chair and Commentator: Margaret Weitekamp, National Air and Space Museum Papers: \"Underground Geographies: Mine Mapping in the Late 19th Century,\" Eric Nystrom, Rochester Institute of Technology; \"Who Gets to Draw the Map? Mail, Telegraph and Telephone as Tools of Governing in the USSR (1922-1964),\" Larissa Zakharova, EHESS, Paris, France Cold War Control Culture Chair and Commentator: Sonja Schmid, Virginia Tech University Papers: \"Troubling Signals: Radio Transmissions, Radioactive Emissions, and Cold War Emergency Culture,\" Greg Siegel, University of California, Santa Barbara; \"Rockets and the Red Scare: Frank Malina and American Rocketry,\" James Johnson, Case Western Reserve University; \"Purity and Danger in ColdWar Italy: Nuclear Power and Fears of Pollution around the US Navy Base of La Maddalena,\" Davide Orsini, University of Michigan Mobility Networks Chair and Commentator: Alex Roland, Duke University Papers: \"Getting Accustomed to Take Time into Account: Transport Network, Travel Regime, and Linking Imperial Russia to Europe, 1820-1850s,\" Alexandra Bekasova, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia; \"The Power and the Tragedy of Old Technologies: Shipping in the North Sea in the Second Half of the 19th Century,\" Håkon With Andersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; \"Shifting Geographies: China's High-Speed Rail Venture Along the Beijing-Tianjin and Wuhan-Guangzhou Corridors,\" Har Ye Kan, Harvard University; \"Benefit Inversions in Modern Transit Technologies,\" Peter Zelchenko, University of Chicago Sight, Sound, and Surveillance Chair and Commentator: Stefan Kaufmann, University of Freiburg, Germany Papers: \"Private Pictures: Photography and Privacy in Turn of the Century United States,\" Lynn Berger, Columbia University; \"Technology and Surveillance- of Wildlife,\" Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech University; \"Early Telephony and Surveillance in the United States,\" Colin Agur, Columbia University; \"Closed-Circuit Television, Surveillance, and the Hostile Environment,\" Caroline Nappo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Centennial of Mme Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011, 1911) and Its Social Significance (on the HSS program, co-sponsored by SHOT) Chair: Alan Rocke, CaseWestern Reserve University Commentator: Maria Rentetzi, Technical University, Athens Papers: \"Curie and Einstein: 'Those tinsel-filled accounts that so often mask the lives of great creators,'\" John Stachel, Boston University; \"Globalizing the Public Memory of Mme Curie: Changing Commemorative Practices in the 20th Century,\" Pnina G. Abir-Am, Brandeis University; \"From Discovery to Production: The Curies and Artificial Radioactivity,\" Robert W. Seidel, University of Minnesota Science and Regulation in a Contaminated World: Part I (on the HSS Program, co-sponsored by SHOT) Chair and Commentator: Soraya Boudia, University of Strasbourg, France Papers: \"Unruly Technologies and Fractured Oversight: Developing a 'Science'-Based Approach to Chemical Regulation in a Risk Society,\" Jody Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation; \"The Political Life of Mutagens: A History of the Ames Test,\"Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University; \"The Crisis of Regulatory Scientists in Mutagenesis Testing (West Germany, 1970s),\" Alexander Schwerin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany Sidney Edelstein Book Prize Roundtable, 2011 Winner: Joy Parr for Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Vancouver: UBC Press / Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010) Chair:William Storey,Millsaps College Participants: Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Howard Segal, University of Maine; H. V. Nelles,McMaster University, Canada Respondent: Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario, Canada Making People Like Their Inescapable Social Destiny: Technologies of Power and Control in Natural Resource Development Organizer: MauritsW. Propagating Low-Power FM Radio in the 1990s,\" Christina Dunbar-Hester, Rutgers University Plenary Session: da Vinci Prize Lecture Introduction: Arne Kaisjer, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Lecture: John M. Staudenmaier, S.J., University of Detroit Mercy Science and Regulation in a Contaminated World: Part II (on the HSS program, co-sponsored by SHOT) Chair and Commentator: Nathalie Jas, University of Paris-Sud/INRA, France Papers: \"Toxic Bodies: Endocrine Disruptors,Uncertainty, and Precaution,\" Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison; \"On the Limits of Limit Values,\" Carsten Reinhardt, Bielefeld University, Germany; \"Toward an Anatomy of Ignorance in Environmental Risk Assessment,\" Scott Frickel, Washington State University Infrastructure(s) and the Fukushima Earthquake: A Roundtable on Emergencies, Nuclear and Otherwise Organizers: Paul N. Edwards and Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan Chair: Rebecca Slayton, Stanford University Participants: Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan; Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan; Peter Redfield,University of North Carolina; Gregory Clancey, National University of Singapore Degrees of Control: Introducing Regulating Technologies in the Field Organizer: Margaret Schotte, Princeton University Chair and Commentator: Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina Papers: \"Learning to Log: The Introduction of Mandatory Shipboard Journals,\" Margaret Schotte, Princeton University; \"Mapping Time: Mechanical Clocks in 19th-Century Japanese Cartography,\" Yulia Frumer, Princeton University; \"The Measure and Molding of a Dominion: Surveying in 19th- Century Upper Canada,\" Sarah-Jane Patterson, University of Toronto, Canada Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice, and Community in the History of Software (sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society) Organizer and Commentator: Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Chair: David Hemmendinger, Union College Papers: \"ACM and Turing Prize Scientists: Defining the Art and Science of Computing, 1947-2008,\" Irina Nikiforova, Georgia Institute of Technology; \"NeXT History and Cocoa Community Memory,\" Hansen Hsu, Cornell University; \"Complexity, Verification, and the Rise of Object-Oriented Programming,\" Joline Zepcevski, University of Minnesota Organization, Technology, and Policy: Central Themes of the Defense Acquisition Process Organizers: Glen R. Asner, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Thomas C. Lassman, National Air and Space Museum Chair and Commentator: Glen R. Asner, Office of the Secretary of Defense Papers: \"The Organization of Weapons Research, Development, and Production in the United States, 1945-1960,\" Elliott V. Converse III, Independent Historian; \"Managing Technological Innovation in Weapon Systems Acquisition: The Case of the U.S. Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter, 1964-1985,\" Thomas C. Lassman, National Air and Space Museum; \"Civil- Military (Dis)Integration: The Failure of the National Flat Panel Display Initiative,\" Philip L. Shiman, Defense Acquisition History Project (Wo)Man-Machine Chair and Commentator: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University of Pennsylvania Papers: \"'The regularity of clockwork': 'Feminization' and the Rhetoric of Frank L. Pope's Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph (1877),\" Kristin E. Kondrlik, Case Western Reserve University; \"From Functional to Experiential: The Development of User Interface in Consumer Electronics Devices, 1930-1975,\" Nick Muntean, University of Texas at Aust

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