http://www.historyoftechnology.org/media/dearborn/2014_prelim_program_final.pdf
Friday, 7 November
10:30 AM–12:30 PM
Taking Things Apart
Chair and commentator: TBA
Nelson Arellano (Barcelona Tech, Spain) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: Two Solar Desalination Industries in XIXth Century in One Picture
John Baeten (Michigan Technological University) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: Disassembly: The Nature of Taking Things Apart
Joanne Goldman (University of Northern Iowa): Why did the US Rare Earth Industry Decline?
Nick LaCasse (University of Alabama-Huntsville)[Robinson Prize Candidate]: The Ring That Ruled Them All: Saturn V’s Instrument Unit Ring and the Development of Automated Space Flight
Technology Natures Communication
Chair and commentator: TBA
Carl Zimring (Pratt Institute, United States): Is the Polluted Past Prologue to a Sustainable Future? Uses of the Environmental History of Waterways as Pedagogy for Sustainability Education
Ann N. Greene (University of Pennsylvania): Engineering the Erie: The Technopolitics of Water in 19th Century America
Michael Winslow (University of Iowa) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: The Culture of Turfgrass: Golf Tourism, Progressive Agriculture, and Technologies of Landscape in North Carolina, 1895–1935
Saturday, 8 November
8:30–10:30 AM
Presidential Roundtable: Promises and Challenges of Doing International History of Technology
Organizers: Honghong Tinn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Germany) and the SHOT Internationalization Committee
Chair: Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma and Technology and
Culture)
Discussants:
Marta Macedo (University of Lisbon, Portugal): STEP Forward: History of Science and Technology in the European Periphery
Natalia Nikiforova (Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia): History of Technology in Russia: Research Traditions and Shifts
Xiaolei Shi (Harbin Normal University, People’s Republic of China): Recent Changes in the Field of the History of Technology in China
Édison Renato Silva (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil): An Overview of History of Technology in Brazil
John Bosco Lourdusamy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India): History of Technology in India: Some Reflections
Saturday, 8 November
11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Plenary in Honor of Thomas P. Hughes
Organizer: Bruce Seely (Michigan Technological University)
Chair: Rosalind Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Panelists:
Trevor Pinch (Cornell University, United States)
Amy Slaton (Drexel University, United States)
Arne Kaijser (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Saturday, 8 November
1:30–3:00 PM
Engineering Diasporas and Engineers as Immigrants
Organizer and chair: Ann Johnson (University of South Carolina)
Commentator: Ross Bassett (North Carolina State University)
Sadegh Foghani (University of South Carolina): The Diaspora of Iranian Engineers in the United States
Ling-Fei Lin (Cornell University, United States): Trans-border Engineers: Assembling in China Jonson Miller (Drexel University, United States): The Transformation of Engineering Knowledge through International Knowledge Transfer
Users and Mediators
Chair and commentator: Michael Neufeld (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, United States)
Anna Carlsson-Hyslop (University of Manchester, United Kingdom): The Decline of Solid Fuel and the Rise of Natural Gas for Domestic Heating in Britain: A Straightforward Transition?
Desalination and Solar Energy: the History of Technology 