1. The Technopolitics of Knowledge and Secrecy in South Africa

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Organiser		Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan, USA Keith Breckenridge, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Chair		Helen Tilley, Princeton University, USA
Commentator		Keith Shear, University of Birmingham, UK
Papers		Camouflaging Geopolitics under Apartheid Paul Edwards & Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan, USA Verwoerd's Bureau of Proof: Total Information in the Making of Apartheid Keith Breckenridge, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa The Record, the Archive and Electronic Technologies in South Africa Verne Harris, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

2. A Path to Industrialisation? The Atlantic Economy, Circulation of Knowledge and Early Modern Industry, 1500-1850

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Organiser		Klaus Weber, Rothschild Archive, London, UK Alexander Engel, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Chair		Renate Pieper, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
Commentator		Ulrich Pfister, Universität Münster, Germany
Papers		Silver, Slave Trade, Textile Markets, and Central European Proto-Industry, 1680-1850 Klaus Weber, Rothschild Archive, London, UK Invited Strangers: Technology Emergence and Transfer in Europe and the Americas, 1500-1750 Elva Kathleen Lyon, Rutgers University, USA Embedding Transatlantic Markets in Systems of Knowledge and Technology: The Case of Dyestuffs Alexander Engel, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany Robinson Prize Candidate

3. Cold War Politics of the Kitchen

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Organiser		Karin Zachmann, Technical University Munich, Germany
Chair		Bruce Pietrykowski, University of Michigan, USA
Commentator		Karin Zachmann, Technical University Munich, Germany
Papers		Peaceful Competition in the Kitchen: The Soviet Encounter with the American Dream Susan E. Reid, University of Sheffield, UK The American "Fat Kitchen" in Europe: Cold War, Domestic Modernity, and the Marshall Plan Greg Castillo, University of Miami School of Architecture, USA American Kitchens in Italian cucine: US Influence and the Transformation of Italy's Domestic Space During the 1950s Paolo Scrivano, University of Toronto, Canada

4. Corridors of Modernization

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Organiser		Paul R. Josephson, Colby College, USA
Chair		Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University, USA
Commentator		Paul R. Josephson, Colby College, USA
Papers		National Identification and The Imperial Railway Administration of Elsaß Lothringen, 1871-1918 Martijn Wit, University of Twente, The Netherlands Robinson Prize Candidate Soviet Roads in the Interwar Period: Corridors of Modernization, Legitimacy and Control Tracy Nichols Busch, Federal Highway Administration, USA Robinson Prize Candidate Transnational Infrastructures and the Rise of Contemporary Europe Johan Schot & Erik van der Vleuten, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands

5. Hidden from View: Technology for Functional Bodies

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Organiser		Shelley P. McKellar, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Chair		Mikael Hård, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Commentator		Olga Amsterdamska, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Papers		´The Conquest of the Deep´: Diving between Engineering, Science, and Adventure Alexander von Lünen, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Hidden Dangers: The Case of the Nuclear-Powered Artificial Heart Shelley P. McKellar, University of Western Ontario, Canada From Backpacks to Pockets: Insulin Pumps and Diabetic Care Kristen Gardner, University of Texas San Antonio, USA

6. Tunnel Visions

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Chair		Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Commentator		Rosalind Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Papers		Tunnel Visions and Mountain Sickness: The Construction of a Road Tunnel and its Cultural Meaning in Mid 19th Century France Onne Bieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands "Last Stop on the Metro: Aswan" Elizabeth Bishop, The University of Texas, Austin, USA Studying Landscapes of National Prowess Judith Schueler, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands

7. Conduits of Urban Expansion

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Chair		Bernard Barraqué, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France
Commentator		Olivier Coutard, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France
Papers		Water Infrastructure and Urbanism: Restoring Aqueducts and Restoring Rome, 1570-1630 Katherine Wentworth Rinne, National Gallery of Art, Washington Network Services and Urban Growth. Water and Power in a Spatial and Social Perspective: a Comparative Research (Cape Town, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome) Denis Bocquet, Kostas Chatzis, Fionn Mac Killop, and Agnès Sander, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France Water as a Commodity? Debates on the (De) Regulation of Water Supply in Istanbul, 1885-1937 Noyan Dinçkal, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

8. Knowledge Production and Transnational Contexts, 1942-1990

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Organiser		Philip Scranton, Rutgers University/Hagley Museum and Library, USA Martin J. Collins, Smithsonian Institution, NASM, USA
Chair		Margaret Graham, McGill University, Canada
Commentator		John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Papers		Cold War Technological Complexities: Building American Jet Engines, 1942-1960 Philip Scranton, Rutgers University/Hagley Museum and Library, USA Commercial Aircraft Industry during and After the Cold War: West and East German Aircraft Production, 1955-1990 Hans-Liudger Dienel, Berlin University of Technology, Germany The Corporation Ascendant: Iridium's Global Satellite Telephone System and the Post Cold War World Martin J. Collins, Smithsonian Institution, NASM, USA

9. Technology and Political Legitimation in the Twentieth Century

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Organiser		Suzanne M. Moon, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Chair		Donna Mehos, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Commentator		Michael Dennis, Independent Scholar, USA
Papers		Revolution, Technology, and Political Legitimation in Colonial Indonesia, c. 1930 Suzanne M. Moon, Colorado School of Mines, USA Places of Power: Technology, Nature, and Political Reconstruction in France since 1945 Sara B. Pritchard, Montana State University, USA Making the Inside Visible: A Political History of "Visual Languages" and "Un-African" Technologies Pauline Kusiak, Northwestern University, USA

10. The Business of Pleasure, Pornography, and Technology

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Organiser		Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University, USA
Chair		Delphine Gardey, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Germany
Commentator		Rebecca Herzig, Bates College, USA
Papers		Does Your Mother Know What You Really Do? The Changing Nature and Image of Computer-Based Pornography Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University, USA Technology and Eroticism: The Pornographic Film Joseph W. Slade, Ohio University, USA Virtuous Pleasures in the Hedonic Marketplace: Needlework as a Technology of Pleasure Rachel Maines, Cornell University, USA

11. Business and the Legal Control of Technology, 1850-1950

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Organiser		Christopher Beauchamp, Cambridge University, UK
Chair		Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University, USA
Commentator		Steven W. Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Papers		The Second Industrial Revolution in Court: Building and Attacking National Patent Monopolies in the Telephone Industry, 1876-1897 Christopher Beauchamp, Cambridge University, UK Robinson Prize Candidate Patents and Technological Competencies: A Cross National Study of Intellectual Property Right Strategies in the Synthetic Dye Industry, 1857-1914 Johann Peter Murmann, Northwestern University, USA Patents into Copyrights: Cartels and Collusion in the Early Film Industry, 1890-1949 Gerben Bakker, University of Essex, UK

12. Failed Technologies

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Chair		Kathryn Steen, Drexel University, USA
Commentator		Hans-Joachim Braun, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany
Papers		The History of Holographic Optical Storage at Both Sides of the Iron Curtain, 1969-1989 Ivan Tchalakov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Next Generation Nuclear Power as a Non-Aligned Technology Ian J. Slater, York University, Canada Arming Perón's "New Argentina": The Migration of German Scientists and Technology after World War II Jonathan D. Hagood, University of California, Davis, USA Robinson Prize Candidate

13. Cities, Tensions, and Technologies in European River Basins

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Organiser		Cornelis Disco, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Chair		Ulrich Wengenroth, Technical University Munich, Germany
Commentator		Arne Kaijser, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Papers		The Integrative Role of a River in the Divided Cities on the German-Polish border Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany/Poland The River and the Divided City: Restructuring the Eco-Technological System in the River Vuoksi Basin after 1944 Karl-Erik Michelsen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland The View from Below: Dutch Municipal Waterworks and the Struggle to Clean up the Rhine, 1930-1980 Cornelis Disco, University of Twente, The Netherlands

14. Transatlantic Nodes

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Chair		Marc Dierikx, Institute of Netherlands History, The Netherlands
Commentator		Tom Misa, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Papers		Major Mayo Goes to the West Indies: Anglo-American Aviation and the Empire Question in the Early Twentieth Century Chandra D. Bhimull, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Germanum Mare: Germany's Aerial Atlantic Ambitions, 1926-1939 Ryan K. Noppen, Purdue University, USA Robinson Prize Candidate Ireland's Role in Post-War Transatlantic Aviation and Its Implications for the Defence of the North Atlantic Area Michael Kennedy, Royal Irish Academy, Ireland

15. The Construction of Radio Listening

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Organiser		Timothy Stoneman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Chair		Susan Smulyan, Brown University, USA
Commentator		Susan J. Douglas, University of Michigan, USA
Papers		Middlemen of the Air: Disk Jockeys and the Transformation of Listener Survey Technologies in the 1940s Elena Razlogova, George Mason University, USA Robinson Prize Candidate The Construction of Listeners: The Case of the "Portable Missionary Radio", 1954-1970 Timothy Stoneman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Abuse of the Use of Radio: Profaning a Respectable Medium and the Battle Against the Chaining of America on Louisiana's KWKH, 1924-1933 Derek W. Vaillant, University of Michigan, USA "Radio's Alternative Dimension": Social Space, Australian Aboriginal Prisoners, and the Prison Show Jacqueline Ann Cook, University of South Australia, Australia

16. Building Housing, Building Class, Building Gender

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Chair		Art Molella, Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Commentator		Joan Rothschild, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
Papers		A Political Statement in Stone: Voluntary Housing Associations as Mediators of Political Dreams and Decent Housing Conditions Liesbeth Bervoets, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Steel Houses Within a Political Framework: Lord Weir's Camouflaged Homes Edmund Potter, Auburn University, USA "The Fermette": A Camouflaged Technology Els De Vos, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Robinson Prize Candidate

17. Contesting Water Purity

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Chair		Hugh Gorman, Michigan Technological University, USA
Commentator		Betsy Mendelsohn, University of Virginia, USA
Papers		Urban Water: The Man-Made and the Natural in the New American City Carl Smith, Northwestern University, USA Knowing Good Water: Conflicts Between Local and Technological Understandings Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario, Canada Water Quality Contested. The Localisation and Materialisation of Drinking Water Quality Standards. Ragna Zeiss, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

18. Dutch Treat: Seventeenth-Century Engineering Culture

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Chair		Daryl Hafter, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Commentator		Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Papers		From Bucket to Slang-Brandspuyten: Water and the Fire Problem in Amsterdam Daniel Winer, Auburn University, USA The Garden Behind the Dyke: Polders and Dutch Culture in the 17th Century Alette Fleischer, University of Twente, The Netherlands Technologies of Vision: The Nature Pieces of Otto Marseus van Schrieck, 1619-1678 Douglas R. Hildebrecht, University of Michigan, USA

19. Men, Minds, and Materia: New Hydraulic History in the North Sea Area before 1800

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Organiser		Petra van Dam, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chair		Karel Davids, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Commentator		Pamela Long, Princeton University, USA
Papers		Tidal Water Technology: Political Choices versus Ecological Dynamics in Coastal Flanders, 900-1200 Dries Tys, Free University Brussels, Belgium Coastal Water-Management: Socio-Economic and Political Influences in Flanders, 1200-1600 Tim Soens, University of Ghent, Belgium Between Conflict and Consent: The Dike in Early-Modern North-Frisian Coastal Society Marie Luisa Allemeyer, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Germany Holland´s Hydraulic Engineering: The Eighteenth Century's Stagnation Reconsidered Siger Zeischka, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

20. Food For All

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Organiser		Gabriella M. Petrick, University of Delaware, USA
Chair		Mark R. Finlay, Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA
Commentator		Deborah Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Papers		The Market Garden and Modernity: Commercial Canning in New Jersey, 1850-1870 Geoffrey David Zylstra, Case Western Reserve University, USA Robinson Prize Candidate On the Causes of Academic Drift in Technical Education: A Study of German Agricultural Colleges, 1860-1940 Jonathan Harwood, University of Manchester, UK The History of the Development and Adoption of Mechanical Milking Noëlle Foster Feliciano, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Green Gold: Mass Producing Lettuce in California, 1910-1950 Gabriella M. Petrick, University of Delaware, USA

21. Technological Mediators

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Organiser		Erik P. Rau, Drexel University, USA
Chair		Carolyn M. Goldstein, Lowell National Historical Park, USA
Commentator		Ronald R. Kline, Cornell University, USA
Papers		Mediating for Military Consumers: Operations Research during World War II Erik P. Rau, Drexel University, USA Statistical Quality Control, Consumer Goods, and Global Markets: The Founding of the Commission on Product Quality Gail Cooper, Lehigh University, USA Use, Misuse, or Abuse? Product Liability, Expertise, and the Social Construction of Safer Consumer Technologies in Postwar America Arwen Palmer Mohun, University of Delaware, USA AOL Community Volunteers and Hobbyist Game Programmers: Case Studies of Unpaid Work on the Internet Hector Postigo, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, USA

22. The Electronic Eighties: Domesticating, Gendering, and Consuming, 1975-1990

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Organiser		Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin, USA
Chair		Bruce Sinclair, Lehigh University, USA
Commentator		Pap Ndiaye, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Papers		Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity for the Information Age Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin, USA From Court Reporting to Closed-Captioning to the Classroom: Jumping Context with Computer-aided Stenography Greg Downey, University of Wisconsin, USA "Portable Pleasures": Audio Equipment of the 80s in Urban and Domestic Spaces Heike Weber, Technical University Munich, Germany "Everything but the Popcorn": Domesticating the Cinema by Remaking the Living Room Jeffrey Tang, University of Pennsylvania, USA

23. Challenging Technology

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Chair		Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Commentator		John Staudenmaier, S.J., University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Papers		National Socialist Ideology, Technology, and the Conquest of Nature Bernhard Rieger, International University Bremen, Germany "Mr. F" and "Astro Boy": Images of Robots and Public Perceptions of Technology in Pre- and Post- WWII Japan Kenji Ito, University of Tokyo, Japan Pacem in Terris: The Catholic Church and Cold War Nuclear Diplomacy Eric S. Hintz, University of Pennsylvania, USA Robinson Prize Candidate Where Do We Go From Here: Martin Luther King Jr., Black Intellectuals, and Technological Criticism Rayvon Fouché, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

24. Gendered Cultures of Invention

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Chair		Carmen Sarasúa García, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Commentator		W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia, USA
Papers		Emulation and Invention in the Great Depression: Advice Literature and Earl S. Tupper Kathleen Franz, University of North Carolina, USA Hooping It Up: The Subversive Side of the 19th Century Fashion Teresa Riordan, Independent Scholar, USA Collaboration in Camouflage: The Marital Context of Domesticating Electricity Sophie Forgan, University of Teesside, UK & Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds, UK

25. Authority and Medical Technology in Germany and the Americas

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Chair		Eddy Houwaart, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Commentator		Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Papers		Technology on Trial: German Aviation Medicine and Allied Prosecution at Nuremberg Maura Phillips Mackowski, Independent Scholar, USA "Too Far Out": LSD and the Modern Psychiatric Hospital, 1950-1970 Erika Dyck, McMaster University, Canada Robinson Prize Candidate "Taking Pictures, Making Decisions. Narratives, Social Worlds and the Construction of Cardiac Knowledge. A Comparative Ethnographic Study Rosana Horio Monteiro, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil

26. Counting on the State, Counting in the State

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Organiser		Gabriel Karl Wolfenstein, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Chair		Alex Checkovich, University of Virginia, USA
Commentator		David Alan Grier, George Washington University, USA
Papers		Risk International: Prediction, Disaster, and Emergency Management in the Age of Globalization Scott Gabriel Knowles, Drexel University, USA Metrics of Doubt: Public Mistrust and the CDC's Smallpox Vaccination Program Susan Coffin, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA & Amy Slaton, Drexel University, USA People Count: Enumerator and Enumerated in the Victorian Censuses Gabriel Karl Wolfenstein, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

27. Technopolitics of Deception

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Chair		Hans Weinberger, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Commentator		David Hounshell, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Papers		Adding Sight to Sound in Stalin's Russia: RCA and the Transfer of Electronics Technology to the Soviet Union. Alexander B. Magoun, David Sarnoff Library, USA Sweden and Clandestine German Rearmament Technology Petter Wulff, The Swedish Defence Research Institute/Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden The Korean "Peace Dam" and the Politics of Technology Sungook Hong, Seoul National University, Korea

28. Fact and Factory

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Chair		Steve Lubar, Brown University, USA
Commentator		Lindy Biggs, Auburn University, USA
Papers		Alternative Museum Spaces: Factory Tours and the Working Museum Allison C. Marsh, Johns Hopkins University, USA Robinson Prize Candidate Presentation of the "Virtual Factory" Program: Virtual Reconstruction of a Renault Workshop in Boulogne- Billancourt, France Alain P. Michel, Stéphane Pouyllau, and Robert Vergnieux, Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, France When Godard and Malle Film the Assembly Line, 1969-1972 Nicolas Hatzfeld, Université d'Évry, France, Alain P. Michel, Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, France, and Gwenaële Rot, Université de Paris X, France

29. Soundscapes: Negotiating Disembodiment

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Chair		Karin Bijsterveld, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Commentator		Emily Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Papers		We Are What We Use. The Telephone and The Transformation of Autoception through Information Technologies Matthias Rieger, University of Hannover, Germany Flirting with Teleportation in the Telephone Booth Kristen Haring, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Germany The Invisibility of Music in the Age of Recording Mark Katz, Johns Hopkins University, USA

30. Engineering the Segregated State

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Chair		Nina E. Lerman, Whitman College, USA
Commentator		Angela Lakwete, Auburn University, USA
Papers		Springs, Shoals, and Southern Prosperity: The Business of Water in Nineteenth-Century Spartanburg, South Carolina Bruce W. Eelman, Siena College, USA Transnational, Trans-Cultural, Translation: Bridging Cultural Difference in the South African Workplace Beverly A. Sauer, Johns Hopkins University, USA Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood Disaster, Race, and the Remaking of Regional Identity, 1900-1930 Richard M. Mizelle, Rutgers University, USA Robinson Prize Candidate

31. History of Technology Goes Online

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Organiser		Robert Bud, Science Museum, UK
Chair		Susan Hodgson, University of Sheffield, UK
Commentator		David Kirsch, University of Maryland, USA
Papers		Three Generations of the History of Technology Online: Compendia, Stories, and Networks Robert Bud, Science Museum, UK Technology and Society: Teaching Engineers Online Harry Lintsen, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands "You've Seen One Sextant, You've Seen Them All" Deborah Warner, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution, USA

32. Engineering Independence? Colonial Influence in Water Dominated Landscapes of Asia and Africa

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Organiser		David Biggs, University of California, Riverside, USA
Chair		R. Parthasarathy, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India
Commentator		Martin Reuss, Army Corps of Engineers, USA
Papers		Building from a Colonial Mold: Water Engineering and Conflict in the Plain of Reeds, Vietnam 1938-1975 David Biggs, University of California, Riverside, USA Transplanting the TVA: International Contributions to Postwar River Development in Tanzania Heather Hoag, University of San Francisco, USA The Interpenetration of Western and Indigenous Technologies: Irrigation in Colonial Java, Indonesia, 1800-1950 Wim Ravesteijn, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

33. Eurovision: National Differences versus One Common Culture?

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Organiser		Onno de Wit, Museum for Communication, The Netherlands
Chair		Adri Albert de la Bruhèze, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Commentator		Georges Prevelakis, Sorbonne University, France
Papers		Transatlantic Tension, European Cooperation: Industrial Policy in the European Community, 1958-1973 Eda Kranakis, University of Ottawa, Canada Eurovision: A History of Infrastructural Challenges and Ideological Dilemmas Onno de Wit, Museum for Communication, The Netherlands ...Off the Leash: Expectations, Experiences and the "Unexpected"- the GSM Standardization as a Successful Learning Process Patrick Kammerer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

34. High Anxiety, Risky Technology, and the American Dream

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Chair		Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin, USA
Commentator		David Nye, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Papers		Computer Virus as a Virtual Media Object Jussi Parikka, University of Turku, Finland "Crash-Proof" Vehicles and "Blast-Proof" Domiciles: Constructing Safety and Security in Atomic-Age America Greg Siegel, University of North Carolina, USA Robinson Prize Candidate Dangerous Circuitry? Responses to Failure in the U.S. Nuclear Missile Early Warning System Christopher Jones, University of Pennsylvania, USA Robinson Prize Candidate

35. Artful Engineering

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Chair		Samuel Florman, Independent Scholar, USA
Commentator		William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA/Utrecht University, Netherlands
Papers		Existential Pleasures: Engineers and "Creativity" in the History of Experiments in Art and Technology Matthew Wisnioski, Princeton University, USA Mediating Technologies: On the Textualities of Contemporary Science Fiction Film Tanja Sihvonen, University of Turku, Finland Game Over Boundaries - The Coevolution of Video Games, Media and IT Jan Jörnmark, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Mirko Ernkvist, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Sweden

36. Mutable Mobiles: Of Wheels, Wings, and Woofers

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Chair		Rebecca Herzig, Bates College, USA
Commentator		Trevor Pinch, Cornell University, USA
Papers		Weaponizing the "Safety Bicycle": The U.S. Military Bicycle Program of the 1890s Damon Yarnell, University of Pennsylvania, USA Robinson Prize Candidate Northern Visions: The Adoption of Aerial Surveying by the Canadian Mining Industry, 1920-1929 Marionne Cronin, University of Toronto, Canada Illegal Biotechnology: Lurchers and Poachers in 19th Century Britain Edmund Russell, University of Virginia, USA

37. Changing Mature Systems: The Theory, The Evidence

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Organiser		Arne Kaijser, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Chair		Arne Kaijser, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Commentator		Paul Israel, Rutgers University/Edison Papers, USA
Papers		Altering the Momentum in the Mature American Electric Utility System Richard F. Hirsh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA Groping in the Dark or the Project to Liberate Electrical Power Systems from Their National Institutional Bonds Geert Verbong, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands Electricity Systems in the Baltic Region: Linking and Delinking East and West Per Högselius, Lund University, Sweden Resisting Innovation: Radical Technical and Institutional Change in Electric Power During the Third Industrial Revolution, 1991-2002 Mats Fridlund, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

38. Hardware of Travelling Theories

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Organiser		Colin Divall, University of York, UK & George Revill, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Chair		Joseph J. Corn, Stanford University, USA
Commentator		Thomas Zeller, University of Maryland, USA
Papers		Cultures of Transport Technologies: Representation, Practice, and the Culture of Transport Technology Colin Divall, University of York, UK & George Revill, Oxford Brookes University, UK The Culture of Walking in 20th Century Cities Barbara Schmucki, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany The Voyage of Your Dreams: Cruising Through the Dutch East Indies Kris Alexanderson, Rutgers University, USA Scoundrels, Crocodiles, and Border-Jumpers. The Tragicomedy of Journeying to/from Village/Mine in Early Colonial Southeastern Zimbabwe, 1890-1920 Clapperton Mavhunga, University of Michigan, USA/WISER, South Africa

39. Camouflage: Sexuality, Anxiety, and Hidden Technology

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Organiser		Sharra Vostral, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Chair		Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Commentator		Andrea Tone, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Papers		A Technology of "Passing": Tampons, Feminism and Menstrual Health in Early Twentieth Century America Sharra Vostral, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA "There's Got to Be a Morning After": College Women and the History of Emergency Contraception, 1970- present Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut State University, USA Examination of the Pregnant Uterus- or: How The Fetus Came into Focus Lise Kvande, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Conceiving a Disease: Postpartum Depression and Pharmaceutical Technology Alison Vander Zanden, Bates College, USA Robinson Prize Candidate

40. Design, Control, and Human Agency

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Organiser		Christopher Bissell, Open University, UK
Chair		Karen Freeze, University of Washington, USA
Commentator		Christopher Bissell, Open University, UK
Papers		"Mechanizing Korean": The Evolution of Korean Typewriters Kim Tae-Ho, Seoul National University, Korea Robinson Prize Candidate The User-Friendly Typewriter: The Role of Usability in the Shaping of the Typewriter Martin Campbell-Kelly, University of Warwick, UK Integrating Humans and Machines for Spaceflight: American and Soviet Approaches Slava Gerovitch, Dibner Insitute, USA & David Mindell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Reliable Cogs in the Nuclear Wheel: Nuclear Power Plant Operators in the Soviet Union Sonja Schmid, Cornell University, USA

41. Manipulating the Mainstream: Inspiring and Adapting to Technological Change

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Organiser		Joyce Bedi, Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Chair		Joyce Bedi, Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Commentator		Wiebe Bijker, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Papers		Horse Power: Draft Animal Agriculture Today Edward Tenner, Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution, USA "Of No Practical Importance"? The Long, Slow Development of Fuel Cell Technology Harold Wallace, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution, USA Robinson Prize Candidate "Every man his own weather-clerk!": Weather Information Systems, Local Communications Technologies, and a National Weather Service for Agriculture, 1870-1891 Jamie L. Pietruska, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Robinson Prize Candidate Going Against the Groove: The Persistence of Vinyl Records, 1960-2003 Megan Biddinger & Emily Chivers Yochim, University of Michigan, USA

42. Rethinking History of Technology in a Global Context

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Chair		Frank Trentmann, Birkbeck College, UK
Commentator		Bryan Pfaffenberger, University of Virginia, USA
Papers		The Uses of Things - Rethinking Histories of Twentieth Century Technology David Edgerton, Imperial College London, UK Firearms Cross the Atlantic: Military Technology Transfer and Adaptation in North America and West Africa Bart Hacker, Smithsonian Institution, USA Astonishing the Natives: Technological Encounter Narratives Through a Folkloristic Lens Mithra Moezzi, École des Mines, France Questioning Modernity’s Tradition: Designs of Tank Irrigation Technology in a Historical Perspective Esha Shah, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, India

43. Paradoxes of the Postmodern Laboratory

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Organiser		Stuart W. Leslie, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Chair		Kees Boersma, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Commentator		Chunglin Kwa, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Papers		When is the Laboratory Postmodern? Paul Forman, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution, USA Outposts of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Architecture in the National Laboratory System Joanna Ploeger, University of Iowa, USA The Spaces of Postmodern Science Stuart W. Leslie, Johns Hopkins University, USA

44. Circulation of Knowledge in Computing

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Organiser		Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Chair		Amy Bix, Iowa State University, USA
Commentator		Dan Holbrook, Marshall University, USA
Papers		Bridging Science and Market: Institutional Ecologies of Univac User Groups Corinna Schlombs, University of Pennsylvania, USA Robinson Prize Candidate Peripatetic Careers, Institutional Ecologies, and the Origin of New Technology: John W. Mauchly and the Multiple Foundations of the Digital Electronic Computer Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA How World War II Accelerated and Decelerated the Circulation of Knowledge: A Comparative Case Study between the U.S. and Japan in Mid-20th Century Chigusa Ishikawa Kita, Kyoto University, Japan

45. Making IT Work

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Organiser		Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Chair		Aristotles Tympas, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Commentator		Matthias Kipping, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Papers		Another Story of British Backwardness? Information Systems and Technologies in British High Street Banking, 1919-1979 Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, London South Bank University, UK & Peter Wardley, University of the West of England, UK The Co-Construction of Information Technology: The Role of European Users in the Development of Punch Card Systems, 1889-1918 Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Antitrust and the Market for Information Technology Advice: How IBM First Lost and Later Regained Primacy as IT Consultants Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford, UK

46. Inventing Patents, 1400-1900

- Van Leeuwenhoekzaal -

 

Organiser		Anna Guagnini, University of Bologna, Italy Christine MacLeod, University of Bristol, UK
Chair		Ian Inkster, University of Nottingham, UK
Commentator		Anna Guagnini, University of Bologna, Italy
Papers		The Birth of the Patent System in Europe, 1474-1621 Luca Molà, University of Warwick, UK "The Ingenious Crowd": Great British Inventors and their Patents, 1700-1852 Alessandro Nuvolari, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands & Christine MacLeod, University of Bristol, UK Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing in a 19th Century Power Engineering Company Patrick Llerana, University Louis Pasteur, France & Kristine Bruland, University of Oslo, Norway Patent or Secrecy. The Economic Effects of Two Alternative Strategies for Protecting Invention José M. Ortiz-Villajos, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

47. Aviation as Entertainment

- Keizers-, Herenzaal -

 

Organiser		Jeremy R. Kinney, University of Maryland/NASM, Smithsonian Institution, USA Dominic A. Pisano, NASM, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Chair		Dominic A. Pisano, NASM, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Commentator		Deborah Douglas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, USA
Papers		Aerial Proving Grounds: Military Air Racing, 1920-1931 Jeremy R. Kinney, University of Maryland/NASM, Smithsonian Institution, USA Tin Soldiers vs. Glass Slippers: Sport Sailplane Development and the Innovation Shift from America to Europe Russell E. Lee, Smithsonian Institution, NASM, USA Hangar Flying and Hundred Dollar Hamburgers: Flying for Pleasure after World War II Alan D. Meyer, University of Delaware/NASM, Smithsonian Institution, USA

48. War and Secrecy

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Chair		Joseph Tatarewicz, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Commentator		Alex Roland, Duke University, USA
Papers		Propaganda, Deception, Storytelling. Early Forms of Intermediality and Simulation in the Austrian War News Reels, 1914-1918 Thomas Ballhausen & Günter Krenn, Filmarchiv Austria, Austria The "Secret Bearers": Engineering, Identity, and the V-2 Missile at Peenemünde Michael Brian Petersen, University of Maryland, USA The Foreign Domestic: Hard Artefacts and Soft Politics in Sweden during the Cold War, 1945-1967 Johan Gribbe & Mikael Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Robinson Prize Candidate