Tuesday, 23 July 2019
09:00—10:30
T1A Transportation: from steam power to the security liftLocation: Room 137 (A) T1A-1 The Dublin Tramways: Wayfinding technologies in the early Twentieth CenturyMr. Glen O'Sullivan T1A-2 Steaming Privately vs. Publicly: Power Dynamics for Introducing the First Steam-Powered Vessels (via SKYPE)Mr. John Laurence Busch T1A-3 Historical lifts in Poland - conforming the historical lift mechanisms to the changing security requirements and regulations.Ph.D. candidate Katarzyna Pietrzak |
T1B The State: Energy, Power, Technology, and the Environment ILocation: Room 138 (B) T1B-1 The Present and Future of Solar EnergyProfessor Anthony N. Stranges T1B-2 Robert Moses and “the Other Niagara”Professor John B. Stranges T1B-3 The Reaction of the Soviet Power to the Chernobyl Disaster Dr. Kamil Dworaczek T1B-4 Energy Security - Current and Future TrendsProfessor Elena Helerea |
T1C Technology & Disability 1: access – emancipating or limiting technologiesLocation: Room 141 (C) T1C-1 Disability and (dis)empowering modern technologies? The case of blind translators.Dr. Wojciech Figiel T1C-2 From Braille code to smart book readers: technology as a tool to reading emancipation of visually impaired persons.Ph.D. candidate Kamila Albin T1C-3 Exoskeletons and the Imperative of ‘Normal’ Walking: A Recent History of Technology, Mobility, and DisabilityPh.D. candidate Miryang Kang |
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T1E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology ILocation: Room 147 (E) T1E-1 The Classical Greek Trireme: A Warship without a Future (In French)Professor Jean-Nicolas Corvisier T1E-2 Firearms and militias in Italy: from an individual to a collective drill system. The case of Lucchese militias, 1400-1600Researcher Jacopo Pessina |
11:00—12:30
T2A The State: Energy, Power, Technology, and the Environment IILocation: Room 137 (A) T2A-1 Energy politics in Greece: the lignite casePh.D. candidate Domna Iordanidou T2A-2 Will the Idea of a Cooler Climate Wither Away? (via SKYPE)Researcher Petter Wulff T2A-3 Power, Tension, and Resistance. Electrifying Canada’s Industrial Capital, 1890-1930Graduate student Clarence Hatton-Proulx |
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T2C Technology & Disability 2: inventing against normalizationLocation: Room 141 (C) T2C-1 Multimodality in the Digital Environments of Deaf Education (DE2)Lecturer Michael Skyer T2C-2 Reusing as inventing: adoption of teletypewriters (TTY) by the American deaf communityDr. Magdalena Zdrodowska |
T2D Technology and Health I: Surveillance & ManagementLocation: Room 143 (D) T2D-1 Constructing the Neoliberal Citizen: The Domestication of (Health) SurveillanceGraduate student Sarah MacLean T2D-2 Re-valuing and Re-describing the Significance of the Advent of Modern Anesthesia: the Perspective of Sensory HistoryDr. Fanxiang Min |
T2E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology IILocation: Room 147 (E) T2E-1 An Image of Power and Glory. The Neapolitan Aragonese Artillery and the ‘Book of Armaments’ of King FerranteDr. Fabrizio Ansani T2E-2 The professionalization of the English gunpowder acquisition process from 1787 to 1793Ph.D. candidate Sabrina Fröhlich T2E-3 Engineering of the Highest Caliber: Kazimierz Siemienowicz and the Culmination of the Military RevolutionDr. Paul Wlodkowski |
14:00—15:30
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T3B The State: Energy, Power, Technology, and the Environment IIILocation: Room 138 (B) T3B-1 PV politics: European funding and technologies, 1975-2013Ph.D. candidate Efi Nakopoulou T3B-2 Electricity, regeneration and national building during the Spanish Restoration (1873 – 1931): an engineering approachDr. Daniel Perez Zapico T3B-3 Oily impacts. State power, oil extraction, and their effects on the indigenous Wayúu community in Venezuela, 1940s to 1970sPh.D. candidate Martin Schröder |
T3C Technology & Disability 3: medicine - art – cyborgsLocation: Room 141 (C) T3C-1 “Quantified-me” in art@science projects. Medical bio-tracking strategies in reference to disability, disease and extension of disabled bodyDr. Ewelina Twardoch-Raś T3C-2 The past and the present of film and animation production as inspired by disabilities studiesProfessor Jan Stasieńko |
T3D Technology and Health II: Pills, reproductionLocation: Room 143 (D) T3D-1 Scientific cooperation of POLFA Poznan Pharmaceutical Works (1961-1989)Researcher Piotr Skalski T3D-2 The Power of Contraceptive Science: The British Family Planning Association’s use of Pure and Applied Research to Standardise and Guarantee Contraceptive Technology, 1929-1959Dr. Natasha Szuhan |
T3E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology IIILocation: Room 147 (E) T3E-1 Usage of Telegram and Ciphering in Modernizing the Military Intelligence Section of the late Ottoman EmpirePh.D. candidate Somer Alp Şimşeker T3E-2 Kriegsspiel Takes to Sea – Early Naval Wargaming, 1870 to 1898.Professor Jorit Wintjes T3E-3 Mythicizing Cook: On the Interaction of Military, Technoscience, and the Cultural Narrative of Discovery and ExplorationGraduate student Friederike Frenzel |
16:00—17:30
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T4B Concrete and PoliticsLocation: Room 138 (B) T4B-1 A Concrete Success for FDR’s New Deal, TVA Engineers fast-track concrete production logistics at The Norris Project (1933-35)Professor Tracy Walker Moir-McClean T4B-2 Industrial architecture: Rethinking reinforced concrete structures during the Franco`s Regime (Spain)Ms. Sheila Palomares Alarcón |
T4C Material Regimes of Power: Technocracy and Political Struggle in Egypt, Turkey, and SudanLocation: Room 141 (C) T4C-1 Technics and Subjects: Notes Toward a Materialist Approach to Secularity at the Turn of the 20th Century Ottoman WorldGraduate student Ali Ugurlu T4C-2 Waterways in the Age of Overland Traffic: British Colonialism and Resistance in EgyptGraduate student Rana Baker T4C-3 The “Indebted Peasant”: Human Capital, Development and Neoliberalism in Sudan’s Gezira Cotton Irrigation SchemeGraduate student Henny Ziai |
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T4E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology IVLocation: Room 147 (E) T4E-1 The Glory of a Gun: the French Soixante-quinze in Popular CultureResearcher Bruno De Corte T4E-2 The First Ottoman Electronic Warfare Techniques in Dardanelles WarProfessor Esat Arslan T4E-3 Visualizing War: Art and Technology in Shaping Public Perceptions of the Great WarDr. Bart Hacker |
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
09:00—10:30
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W1B Technocracy and WaterLocation: Room 138 (B) W1B-1 ‘Ripe for development’ – The Mekong River Basin during Cold WarPh.D. candidate Anja Westermann W1B-2 He-Chaluc means Pioneer. The question of Jewish agricultural colonization in Pripet marshes.Professor Sławomir Łotysz |
W1C Historiography and Theoretical Perspectives ILocation: Room 141 (C) W1C-1 Science, Technology and Power - Revisiting Lewis MumfordDr. Peeter Müürsepp W1C-2 Petre Sergescu, science historian and promoter of the disciplineProfessor Alexandre Herlea W1C-3 Technology as indication of state power. Powermetrics perspectivePh.D. candidate Malwina Hopej |
W1D Cultural Responses to Technological InnovationLocation: Room 143 (D) W1D-1 A Critical Reading of Alois Riegl’s Modern Cult of Monuments or what has Science Fiction Film to do with New Monument Values?Ph.D. candidate Gamze Okumuş Solmaz W1D-2 Fear of a technologized planet: the perception of technology in Dutch speculative fiction during the InterbellumGraduate student Gijs Altena |
W1E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology VLocation: Room 147 (E) W1E-1 From War to Peace: The Birth of Civil Aviation in Italy 1917-1927Dr. Ciro Paoletti W1E-2 Airships on board: an account on the History of the Airships Carrier, 1913-1922Professor Francisco A. González-Redondo |
11:00—12:30
W2A Nuclear Power and Fuel in the Non-Western WorldLocation: Room 137 (A) W2A-1 Where did Atomshchiki disappear? Decoupling of the socio-technical ensemble of the Ignalina Nuclear Power PlantGraduate student Iryna Lunevich W2A-2 State, Technology and Exclusion: A study of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in IndiaDr. Kamna Tiwary W2A-3 Citizen expertise in the controversy surrounding the monitoring of former uranium mines: knowledge as powerDr. Saliha Aliha Hadna-Bremand |
W2B Technology and Politics I: global themesLocation: Room 138 (B) W2B-1 Biotechnology, democracy and the crisis.Professor Yiannis Kokkinakis W2B-2 Technological Mediation: Alienated BodiesGraduate student Abu Haque W2B-3 Globalization and global governance: resistance, navigation, or negotiation? The case of foreign policyPh.D. candidate Pedro Ponte e Sousa |
W2C Historiography and Theoretical Perspectives IILocation: Room 141 (C) W2C-1 What is the meaning of a dam? Technology change and the critical theory of technologyProfessor Eduardo Beira W2C-2 From Image to Inscriptions: An Actor Network Theory approach to Digital Satellite ImagesPh.D. candidate Yashaswini Jayadevaiah |
W2D The Decline, Rise, and Persistence of Repair in the 20th CenturyLocation: Room 143 (D) W2D-1 Planned Durability: Telephone Repair, Refurbishing, and Recycling at Bell Canada, 1920-1955Dr. Jan Hadlaw W2D-2 Questioning the “Decline of Repair Businesses” Narrative: The Case of Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-AlzetteDr. Stefan Krebs |
W2E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology VILocation: Room 147 (E) W2E-1 Arms Race. Sport and Technical Competition in Railway Military Training 1927-1939Ph.D. candidate Anna Turza W2E-2 Technological evolution of aeronautics through war and peace : case study of the seaplanesPh.D. candidate Marion Weckerle |
14:00—15:30
W3A Empowering Change: Railways in a Societal Context: Railways as a systemLocation: Room 137 (A) W3A-1 Operating Infrastructure: Finnish Railways as a Large Technological SystemProfessor Timo Myllyntaus W3A-2 Aerotubexpres" – The high-speed transport system through pipes for persons and goods, the re-markable project of Coanda, materialized in Romania in the 1970sProfessor Victoria Cotorobai W3A-3 Network Externalities – Traces in Railways and Internet (via SKYPE)Professor Reima Suomi |
W3B Technology and Politics II: Planning Local and StateLocation: Room 138 (B) W3B-1 Five-Year Plans – A form of Control in the Communist State Economy. Romanian Case StudyDr. Cătălina Mariana Creţu W3B-2 Participation of the local population on the planning of the dam network Nové Mlýny. The example of flooded municipality of MušovDr. Kristýna Kaucká W3B-3 Philips, the Dutch government, and failed attempts to create a domestic computer industry, 1950s-1980sDr. Dick van Lente |
W3C Media and CommunicationLocation: Room 141 (C) W3C-1 Telegraph TimePh.D. candidate Ahti Korhonen W3C-2 Japan and the Early Wireless in War and Peace: Contingency in Technological DevelopmentProfessor Daqing Yang W3C-3 The Power of the Artificial Eye: Production and Reception of Aerial Photography during the World WarsPh.D. candidate Noemi Quagliati W3C-4 Behind the TV-picture: NTSC, SECAM, PAL standards in techno-political shaping of the world‘s mapResearcher Roman Artemenko |
W3D Technology and the EnvironmentLocation: Room 143 (D) W3D-1 Using sea currents to improving the climate: some case-studies in the Pacific OceanPh.D. candidate Kunzhang Guo W3D-2 Switch the Sun on. A case study of recent electrification in peri-urban Burkina FasoDr. Roberto Cantoni |
W3E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology VIILocation: Room 147 (E) W3E-1 Nicola Tesla, Joseph Stalin, and how much the “Peace rays” came to.Professor Vasily Borisov W3E-2 In the Midst of Military Politics: Clarence Zener’s World War II Army ResearchDr. Yoel Bergman W3E-3 American Pax Atomica: The American Atomic Enterprise 1945-1950Dr. John M. Curatola |
16:00—17:30
W4A Environment, space and power: sharing and using technology on the Silk RoadLocation: Room 137 (A) W4A-1 The competition between Technology and Nature: A Case Study of the operation of the Western Regions in the Chinese EmpireGraduate student Hao Tian Chen W4A-2 When Technology meets Archelology: 3D Laser Scanner and UAV LIDAR on the Historical Sites on Silk Route (via SKYPE)Graduate student Hoang Khuong Tran W4A-3 How to become partner with land: Urbanization land use impacts of urbanization on agricultural land of Gilgit city (Pakistan) (via SKYPE)Graduate student Ali Farman W4A-4 In the local shadow of foreign mirrors: technology, trade, mirrors and space in Central Asia (1000 BC – 200 AD)Ph.D. candidate Goran Đurđević |
W4B Technology and Politics III: Technicians as servants and TechnocratsLocation: Room 138 (B) W4B-1 DDT and the role of agricultural engineers during the early years of the Francoist dictatorship (1939-1953)Ph.D. candidate Silvia Pérez-Criado W4B-2 Structures of knowledge and tecnoscientific networks in the construction of the Portuguese empire (1647-1871)Researcher Alice Snatiago Faria W4B-3 Engineers to Power! The Rise and Fall of Technocracy in Japan, 1900 to 1945Professor Erich Pauer |
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W4D Empowering Change: Railways in a Societal Context: Railways in Building the Portuguese EmpireLocation: Room 143 (D) W4D-1 From Heaven to Hell: Portuguese railways between the technical sublime and technological pessimism, 1880s-1890sResearcher Hugo Silveira Pereira W4D-2 Railways as tools of direct and indirect Empires in Africa Angola and Mozambique: the agricultural railway linesDr. Bruno Navarro W4D-3 Railroads and Power in African Context: the Moçamedes Case, more than one Century of HistoryProfessor Anne E. C. McCants |
W4E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology VIIILocation: Room 147 (E) W4E-1 The Total Defense of the Welfare State: Swedish Stationary Coastal Artillery of the Final Stage of the Cold WarDr. Krzysztof Kubiak W4E-2 The Roller Bridge over the Suez, October 1973Professor Matitiahu Mayzel W4E-3 Thinking Through a Weapon: "Iron Dome" Missile Defense System and Israeli Polity and War MakingDr. Ari Barell |
Thursday, 25 July 2019
09:00—10:30
Th1A Computers I: Early DecadesLocation: Room 137 (A) Th1A-1 About dynamic expert forecasting in Soviet project OGASPh.D. candidate Serhii Zhabin Th1A-2 Polish Solidarity and two models of encryptionDr. Agnieszka Dytman-Stasieńko Th1A-3 Preserving Software as World’s HeritageDr. Alexios Zavras |
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Th1C Infrastructures I: water supply and bridgesLocation: Room 141 (C) Th1C-1 The Use of Water Infrastructure and the Making of Modern Los Angeles, circa 1900Lecturer Jan Hansen Th1C-2 Prussian Masterpiece or Global Project? The 1857 Vistula Bridge at Tczew/Dirschau and its EngineersProfessor Jan Musekamp Th1C-3 Narratives of power: Hydroelectric power stations in South Tirol in the first decades of the 20th centuryProfessor Constantin Canavas |
Th1D Challenging Power through Playing with Technology ILocation: Room 143 (D) Th1D-1 Artful Play with TechnologyDr. Florian Bettel Th1D-2 Gaming the Iron Curtain: Alternative and subversive practices in the Czechoslovak computer hobby movementDr. Jaroslav Svelch Th1D-3 Spraying – Challenging Activity, Art and Subversive Game in the CityDr. Stefan Poser |
Th1E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology IXLocation: Room 147 (E) Th1E-1 The Rising Tide of Silicon Beach: Socioeconomic Restructuring in Twenty-First Century Los AngelesDr. Layne Karafantis Th1E-2 The Cold War as a Period of Analysis to Study Globalization and Foreign Policy: A Critical AssessmentPh.D. candidate Pedro Ponte e Sousa Th1E-3 Transforming advanced missile technology into a medical innovation: The case of the capsule endoscopeMs. Sandra Ziv |
11:00—12:30
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Th2B Urban Technologies and Planning II: 19th and 20th CenturiesLocation: Room 138 (B) Th2B-1 First urban plans for the implementation of railway systems: the co-existence of the industry with the city (1800-1910)Ph.D. candidate Fernanda de Lima Lourencetti Th2B-2 Civil engineering and urbanism: disciplinary complementarities and urban policies in the second half of the twentieth centuryDr. Maria da luz Sampaio Th2B-3 Improving urban life of prefabricated housing estates in the crossfire of private and municipality interestsDr. Erzsébet Szeréna Zoltán Th2B-4 The Mechanisms of a Siege: Counter-Terrorism Technology and Infrastructure's Affects on CitiesPh.D. candidate Alejandro Salas Strus |
Th2C Infrastructures II: Cycling, Air TransportLocation: Room 141 (C) Th2C-1 Power, Place and Discourse: Analysis of New Istanbul AirportMs. Merve Özhan Th2C-2 The role of technocrats in the development of infrastructure in Slovakia during first half of the 20th centuryProfessor Ludovit Hallon Th2C-3 The gendered AtlanticDr. Catarina Caetano da Rosa |
Th2D Challenging Power through Playing with Technology IILocation: Room 143 (D) Th2D-1 Alternative mobility: the history of sliding vehicles for wintry roadlessnessDr. Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk Th2D-2 From illness to satisfaction. A history of the vibrator in Germany and UK 1880-1920.Ph.D. candidate Sarah Scheidmantel Th2D-3 Toy Robots: Playing with Humanity’s FearsDr. Artemis Yagou |
Th2E 14th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology X Location: Room 147 (E) Th2E-1 Technology Driven "Revolutions in Military Affairs"Dr. Azriel Lorber Th2E-2 Tilarids and the Daisy CutterProfessor David Ritchie |
14:00—15:30
Th3NH Prize SessionLocation: New Hall
Chair for the Maurice Daumas Article Prize: Maria Elvira Callapez |
Friday, 26 July 2019
09:00—10:30
F1A Technology, environment and state power in Russia before and after the Revolution of 1917Location: Room 137 (A) F1A-1 Technologies in the urban landscape of Cherepovets, 1860 - 1940sLecturer Anna Agafonova F1A-2 Technologies and state power in case of urban pollution: London and Saint- Petersburg (1820-1920)Researcher Gregory Afanasiev |
F1B Resources of artistic expression at the service of techniques: appropriation, uses and representations I: Engineering and Art in historyLocation: Room 138 (B) F1B-1 Art and Technology. The minorcan artist Pasqual Calbó (1752-1817) and his mathematical courseLecturer Antoni Roca Rosell F3B-3 Power of Design during the Cold War: The Exhibition Graphic Arts: USA, 1963-64Dr. Kirill Chunikhin F1B-3 Drawing and photography: instruments for work and to promote the profession of engineeringProfessor Ana Cardoso de Matos |
F1C Industrial Espionage: Poland and CzechoslovakiaLocation: Room 141 (C) F1C-1 The role of scientific and technical intelligence in making up for economic underdevelopment of the Polish People's Republic in the 1970sDr. Witold Bagieński F1C-2 The Polish People’s Republic’s Secret Service use of technology. Work methods and equipment of technical and operational departments of the Secret ServiceDr. Monika Komaniecka-Łyp F1C-3 Economic Espionage, Technocratic Reforms and the Czechoslovak Economic Diplomacy in Japan (1957–1968)Dr. Tomáš Gecko |
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11:00—12:30
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F2B Resources of artistic expression at the service of techniques: appropriation, uses and representations II: Engineering and Art: new social and professional challengesLocation: Room 138 (B) F2B-1 Architects as Edisonian Inventors? Alvar Aalto, his Patents and the Power of Technological ExpertiseDr. Markku Norvasuo F2B-2 Embattled Men of Science: Physicians and Engineers as Heroic Figures in Nineteenth-Century Spanish LiteratureDr. Darina Martykánová F2B-3 When Scientists, Engineers and Architects became filmmakers: promoting themselves, their projects and their worksPh.D. candidate Alexandre Ramos F2B-4 The Olivetti Programma 101: industrial design and technology innovation for the forerunner of the personal computerPh.D. candidate Pietro Viscomi |
F2C Industrial Technologies ILocation: Room 141 (C) F2C-1 The decline of the mechanical watchDr. Thomas Schuetz F2C-2 Technological changes in the textile industry and mass consumption society in the USSR of 50-60sResearcher Anna Petrova F2C-3 Repairs in tileries in France, from the end of the Middle Ages to the nineteenth centuryPh.D. candidate Cyril Lacheze F2C-4 The adaptation of molds for plastics - reuse and creativityResearcher Sara Marques da Cruz |
F2D Engineers: imperial China and post-communist RussiaLocation: Room 143 (D) F2D-1 The Rise and fall of engineers in media coverage: the case of Russian modernization years and after (2008-2018)Mr. Nikolay Rudenko F2D-2 Russian engineers as an invisible group in the 1990s and nowResearcher Roman Maliushkin F2D-3 Engineering China’s Last Empire: Demand and Politics of Technical and Industrial Education in the Late Qing Period (1860–1911)Dr. Hailian Chen |
14:00—15:30
F3A Advanced technologies in post-Soviet universeLocation: Room 137 (A) F3A-1 Shifting Dependencies? On the Internet Development in Post-Socialist LithuaniaPh.D. candidate Migle Bareikyte F3A-2 Heterogeneous and multiple technologies: the case of Russian digitalizationResearcher Liliia Zemnukhova F3A-3 From Interkosmos to NASA: Advanced Hungarian Materials in SpaceDr. Viktor Pál |
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F3C Industrial Technologies IILocation: Room 141 (C) F3C-1 Designing the Ottoman Industrial Complex: Turkish Technology Transfer From Two Rivals; Providence Tool Company and Winchester Repeating Arms CompanyProfessor Zeynep Guler Sabanci F3C-2 Accounting for the Steam Engine, 1700-1791Dr. Alan Morton F3C-3 Making power machines work in 18th century PrussiaProfessor Wolfhard Weber |
F3D The circulation of technology and knowledge in the gas industryLocation: Room 143 (D) F3D-1 Combining entrepreneurship spirit and power links: Melitón Martín and the dawn of Spanish gas lightingProfessor Mercedes Fernandez-Paradas F3D-2 The transfer of technology between gasworks in SpainDr. Francesc X. Barca-Salom F3D-3 The Société technique de l'industrie du gaz en France and its role in the technological diffusion worldwide, 1874-1935Professor Alberte Martínez-López F3D-4 The influence of British gas technology in Catalonia at the beginning of the 20th century: the case of Pablo Yvern Ballester (1879-1944).Dr. Florentino Moyano Jimènez |