The Saint Louis Meeting, 11–14 October 2018
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- The Saint Louis Meeting, 11–14 October 2018
Opening Plenary: Kranzberg's Laws at Sixty
Amy Bix, Iowa State University, United States; Jeff Schramm, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States; and John Krige, Georgia Tech, United States
Jeff Schramm, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Eric Schatzberg, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech, United States; Laura Ann Twagira, Wesleyan University, United States; Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University, United States; Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany; Mara Mills, New York University, United States
Environmental Humanities and the History of Technology (Roundtable Sponsored by Envirotech)
Etienne Benson, University of Pennsylvania, United States, and Jim Fleming, Colby College, United States
Etienne Benson, University of Pennsylvania, United States
David Nye, University of Southern Denmark
Camille Cole, Yale University, United States; Kent "Kip" Curtis, Ohio State University, United States; Jim Fleming, Colby College, United States; Spring Greeney, University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States; Adam Lucas, University of Wollongong, Australia; Lisa Ruth Rand, University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States; Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
Nuclear Europeans: Transnational Approaches to the History of a Contested Technology
Arne Kaijser, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Richard Hirsh, Virginia Tech, United States
Sonja Schmid, Virginia Tech, United States [End Page 293]
"Society-Industry Relations in the Nuclear Industry, 1950s-present," Paul Josephson, Colby College, United States; "Nuclear Energy: A Public Technology," Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum, Germany; "Nuclear Installations at Borders," Arne Kaijser, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; "Transnational Governance of Nuclear Power in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Iron Curtain," Karl-Erik Michelsen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Graduate Students' Flash Talks (Presidential Panel)
John Krige, SHOT President, and Janet Browne, HSS President
"What Hath God Taught: Teaching Telegraphy at Notre Dame in the 1870s," Dana Freiburger, University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States; "Aerial Assimilation in the Philippines During the American Colonial Period," Patrick John F. Mansujeto, University of the Philippines–Dilman; "The Power of White Elephants: The Politics of Concorde and Nuclear Reactors in Post-War Britain," Thomas Kelsey, King's College London, United Kingdom; "China and Cybernetics: The Case of Qian Xuesen," Bo An, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; "East Germany and the Spirit of Technological Utopia," Mario Bianchini, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; "Hidden Technicalities: Consideration of Former Cold War Sites by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory for Placement of Large-Scale Interferometers," Tiffany Nichols, Harvard University, United States; "Gateways, Passages, Openings, and Enclosures in the History of Technology," Annie Handmer, University of Sydney, Australia
Infrastructure in Africa: Local Knowledge and Technological Know-How
Arwen P. Mohun, University of Delaware, United States Chair and Commentator: Nina Lerman, Whitman College, United States
"The Infrastructure of Empire: Local Knowledge and Telegraph-Building in Central Africa, 1898–1901," Arwen P. Mohun, University of Delaware, United States; "Under the Radar: Local Water-Supply Practices in Nairobi, 1940–1980," Jethron Akallah, Maseno University, Kenya, and Mikael Hård, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany; "Listening to Musokura: Lessons from Mali on Women, Technology, and Materiality," Laura Ann Twagira, Wesleyan University, United States; "'We Are What We Know': Radio, Rumor and Identity in Militarized Kampala, ca. 1966–86," Benjamin Twagira, Emory University, United States [End Page 294]
Innovators, Disruptors, and Thought Leaders (Sponsored by SIGCIS)
Bretton Fosbrook, University of Toronto, Canada Chair and Commentator: Kira Lussier, University of Toronto, Canada
"Lifelong Kindergarten: Play and the Making of Innovators," Matt Wisnioski, Virginia Tech, United States; "William J. Casey and the Foundations of Modern Venture Capital," Molly Sauter, McGill University, Canada; "The Work of a Thought Leader: Why Business Management Publishing Matters to Historians of Innovation," Bretton Fosbrook, University of Toronto, Canada
Human-Machine Interfaces: Industrial Design, Ergonomics, Psychology, and Semiotics in the Early History of Computing
Elisabetta Mori, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Winifred R. Poster, Washington University in St. Louis, United States
Paul Thomas Rubery, SUNY Stony Brook, United States
"Early Olivetti Computer Design: Sottsass, Maldonado, and the Sign System for ELEA," Elisabetta Mori, Middlesex University, United...
