SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
OF THE 45TH ICOHTEC SYMPOSIUM
Saint-Étienne, France
17 – 21 July 2018
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Table of Contents
W1A Digital Tools for Making History of Technology. 2
W1B Railways in the Making of Modern Societies 1. 2
W1C The Dream of Flight in the Popular Imagination. 2
W1D Theories on Complex Systems and Technological Paradigms. 3
W1E Encounters of New War Machines and Fictional Armored Shields. 3
W1F Electricity in Cultural and Political Development 3
W1G Technological Mindset in Political Activism and Miracles in Cookery. 4
W1H Energy and the Environment: Conflict or Compatibility. 4
W2A The Conquest of Hydraulic Power and its Place in the History of Mankind 1 (in French) 5
W2B Railways in the Making of Modern Societies 2. 5
W2C Technified Bodies at Work. 5
W2D Approaches to Technological Utopias and Dystopias. 6
W2E Technological Momentum: From Gunpowders to Modern Explosives and Propellants 1. 6
W2F Electronics and Computers in History. 6
W2G Technology as a Tool and a Target of Intelligence Agencies in the Second. 7
W2H Reassembling Crops for Changing Climates. 7
W3A The Conquest of Hydraulic Power and its Place in the History of Mankind 2 (in French) 8
W3B Railways in the Making of Modern Societies 3. 8
W3C Plastics, Emotions and Consumer Society. 8
W3D Industrial Strategies from the Past to the Future. 9
W3E Technological Momentum: From Gunpowders to Modern Explosives and Propellants 2. 9
W3F Reception of Novelties in Radio, Broadcasting and Communication. 10
W3G New Approaches to Industrial Heritage. 10
W3H Interaction of Modernisation, Technology and Agrarian Economies. 10
T1A West – East Transfer of Technology during the Cold War 1. 11
T1B Plastics, Emotions and Consumer Society 2. 11
T1C Manufacturing Industries, Management and Entrepreneurship. 12
T1D 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 1. 12
T1E Social Values Matter: Biotechnology and Medical Technologies. 13
T1F Technological Education and Exchange of Knowledge. 13
T1G Human Impacts on Nature and Landscape. 13
T2A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 1 (In French) 14
T2B Sustainable Buildings and Innovations 1 (in French) 14
T2C 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 2. 14
F1A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 2 (In French) 15
F1B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 1. 16
F1C The History of Repair Cultures and the Temporalities of Technology. 16
F1D Technological Innovations in Architecture. 16
F1E 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 3. 17
F1F Humans Encountering Medical and Psychological Technology. 17
F1G On Both Sides of Lenses: History of Photography. 17
F1H From Insights to Technology to Technological Futurism.. 18
F1I How to Write Global History of Technology? Interactive Discussion Session. 18
S1A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 3 (In French) 19
S1B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 2. 19
S1C Technological Nostalgia and Post Industrialist Idealism.. 20
S1D 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 4. 20
S1E Digitalisation: Revolution of Contemporary History. 21
S1F Search for Pure Potable H20: Development of Water Supply Systems. 21
S3A Sustainable Buildings and Innovations 2 (in French) 22
S2B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 3. 22
S2C Tourism – What Can History of Technology Contribute?. 22
S2D Beauty of Products: Technology and Design. 23
S2E 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 5. 23
S2F Taming Sounds and Transmitting Speech. 23
S2G Support of Science, Technology and Society: Interactions and Innovations. 24
S2H Commanded Nature: Technology and the Environment in Authoritarian Regimes. 24
Daily Schedule for Scientific Programme. 25
The 45th ICOHTEC Symposium.. 25
Table of Contents
W1C The Dream of Flight in the Popular Imagination. 2
W1D Theories on Complex Systems and Technological Paradigms. 2
W1E Encounters of New War Machines and Fictional Armored Shields. 3
W1F Electricity in Cultural and Political Development 3
W1G Technological Mindset in Political Activism and Miracles in Cookery. 3
W1H Energy and the Environment: Conflict or Compatibility. 4
W2A The Conquest of Hydraulic Power and its Place in the History of Mankind 1 (in French) 4
W2B Railways in the Making of Modern Societies 2. 4
W2C Technified Bodies at Work. 5
W2D Approaches to Technological Utopias and Dystopias. 5
W2E Technological Momentum: From Gunpowders to Modern Explosives and Propellants 1. 5
W2F Electronics and Computers in History. 6
W2G Technology as a Tool and a Target of Intelligence Agencies in the Second. 6
W2H Reassembling Crops for Changing Climates. 6
W3A The Conquest of Hydraulic Power and its Place in the History of Mankind 2 (in French) 7
W3B Railways in the Making of Modern Societies 3. 7
W3C Plastics, Emotions and Consumer Society. 8
W3D Industrial Strategies from the Past to the Future. 8
W3E Technological Momentum: From Gunpowders to Modern Explosives and Propellants 2. 8
W3F Reception of Novelties in Radio, Broadcasting and Communication. 9
W3G New Approaches to Industrial Heritage. 9
W3H Interaction of Modernisation, Technology and Agrarian Economies. 9
T1A West – East Transfer of Technology during the Cold War 1. 10
T1B Plastics, Emotions and Consumer Society 2. 11
T1C Manufacturing Industries, Management and Entrepreneurship. 11
T1D 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 1. 11
T1E Social Values Matter: Biotechnology and Medical Technologies. 12
T1F Technological Education and Exchange of Knowledge. 12
T1G Human Impacts on Nature and Landscape. 12
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T2A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 1 (In French) 13
T2B Sustainable Buildings and Innovations 1 (in French) 13
T2C 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 2. 14
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F1A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 2 (In French) 14
F1B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 1. 15
F1C The History of Repair Cultures and the Temporalities of Technology. 15
F1D Technological Innovations in Architecture. 15
F1E 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 3. 16
F1F Humans Encountering Medical and Psychological Technology. 16
F1G On Both Sides of Lenses: History of Photography. 16
F1H From Insights to Technology to Technological Futurism.. 17
F1I How to Write Global History of Technology? Interactive Discussion Session. 17
S1A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 3 (In French) 18
S1B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 2. 18
S1C Technological Nostalgia and Post Industrialist Idealism.. 19
S1D 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 4. 19
S1E Digitalisation: Revolution of Contemporary History. 20
S1F Search for Pure Potable H20: Development of Water Supply Systems. 20
S3A Sustainable Buildings and Innovations 2 (in French) 21
S2B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 3. 21
S2C Tourism – What Can History of Technology Contribute?. 21
S2D Beauty of Products: Technology and Design. 22
S2E 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 5. 22
S2F Taming Sounds and Transmitting Speech. 22
S2G Support of Science, Technology and Society: Interactions and Innovations. 23
S2H Commanded Nature: Technology and the Environment in Authoritarian Regimes. 23
Daily Schedule for Scientific Programme. 24
The 45th ICOHTEC Symposium.. 24
Wednesday, 18 July
09:00 –10:30
W1A Digital Tools for Making History of Technology
Location: H 21
Organiser: Florent Laroche
Chair: Michel Cotte
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W1B Railways in the Making of Modern Societies 1
Location: H 13
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: Timo Myllyntaus
The Carrying Trade and the First Main-Line Railways in England, 1840-1850
Ms. Carolyn Dougherty
The Coming of the Mail and the News: Railways and Cultural Change in Rural Great Britain, 1840-1914
Professor Robert M. Schwartz
Portuguese Metropolitan and Overseas Railways and Harbours as Portals of Globalization, 1850s – 1910s
Researcher Hugo Silveira Pereira
Railways as Tools of Direct and Indirect Empires in Africa: Angola and Mozambique
Professor Bruno J. Navarro
W1C The Dream of Flight in the Popular Imagination
Location: H21
Organiser: Tom Crouch
Chair: Peter Jakab
“Like all novices, we began with the helicopter: “An Ancient Toy That Inspired the Air Age
Dr. Tom Crouch
Imaging Faster-Than-Light Travel and Fictional Spaceship Designs
Dr. Margaret Weitekamp
Fascinating Toys: Flying Cars are Dead But They Will Always be Fun
Researcher Dorothy Cochrane
A long, long way down: Cleveland Model & Supply and the Business of Memory
Dr. Aaron Alcorn
W1D Theories on Complex Systems and Technological Paradigms
Location: H 11
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Throwing Light on Photonics: Genealogy of a Technological Paradigm
Dr. Marcin Krasnodebski
Smart Cities: The Political Revolution of Exceedingly Complex Systems
Ph.D. candidate Diana Adela Martin
Dr. Stefan Storrie
Technology and Globalization: Which is Primary?
Dr. Peeter Müürsepp
Hyperobject and Hyperhistory: Remnants of Hiroshima
Dr. Mitsuhiro Hayashi
W1E Encounters of New War Machines and Fictional Armored Shields
Location: HR 5
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Spectacle in the Sky: Theatrics of Weaponized Technologies in Total and Global War in the India-Myanmar frontier
Ph.D. candidate Aditya Kiran Kakati
Development and Evolution of Seaplanes in Europe during World War One
Ph.D. candidate Marion Weckerle
Nothing at Risk?: Experiencing World War I in VR.
Dr. David Howell
Lionization, Professionalization, and Mechanization: Three Contrasting Visions of Powered Armor in Speculative Fiction
Ph.D. candidate Ian Boley
W1F Electricity in Cultural and Political Development
Location: H 26
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Electricity in the Making of Post-colonial Spain (1880-1936)
Dr. Daniel Pérez Zapico
Politics of Urban Electricity Grid in Ottoman Istanbul during the World War I
Ph.D. candidate Duygu Aysal Cin
The Heritage of the „Networks of Power“. Reading Monuments as Sources of the History of Technology
Dr. Michael Hascher
Hydroelectric Projections. The Culture of Water Power in 1950s European Industrial Films.
Ph.D. candidate Fabian Zimmer
W1G Technological Mindset in Political Activism and Miracles in Cookery
Location: E 11A
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Anti-Vietnam War Activism and the Business of Anti-Statism in California’s Silicon Valley, 1965-1980
Ph.D. candidate Jeannette Estruth
The Fullness of Containment: Investigations in the Diverse Global Social Formations Shaping World Opinion and Otherwise Confronting the Political Might of Nuclear Weapons Technology
Dr. Julie Boddy
“Kitchen Technology: A Biography of the Couscous Pot”
Dr. Sylvie Durmelat
W1H Energy and the Environment: Conflict or Compatibility
Location: E 13
Organiser: Anthony N Stranges
Chair: Anthony N Stranges
How Wind Energy Contributes to the Reduction of CO2 Emissions
Dr. Anthony N Stranges
The Atmosphere as a Commons – a Way to View Climate Change
Researcher Petter Wulff
Energy Trilemma: Past and Future
Dr. Elena Helerea
Wednesday, 11:00 – 12:30
W2A The Conquest of Hydraulic Power and its Place in the History of Mankind 1 (in French)
Location: H 21
Organisers: Alexandre Herlea and Mircea Ivanoiu
Chair: Alexandre Herlea
Benoit Fourneyron and the Invention of the Hydraulic Turbine (In French)
Professor Jean-Paul Deleage
Hydraulic Turbine Technology Disruption to Cope New Power Generation Paradigms (In French)
Professor François Avellan
Exploitation of Hydraulic Energy in Rural Traditional Technology in Romania: Resemblance and European Synchronism (In French)
Dr. Mircea Ivanoiu
Professor Alexandre Herlea
W2B Railways in the Making of Modern Societies 2
Location: H 13
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: Hugo Silveira Pereira
The Electrification Try-outs in Stockholm, 1905-1907
Lecturer Roine Viklund
Conquering the Land: Nazi Germany’s Railways in the Far North
Ph.D. candidate Mari Olafson Lundemo
Railway and Internet Infrastructure – Similarities and Differences
Researcher Olli Sjöblom
Professor Reima Suomi
Professor Timo Myllyntaus
W2C Technified Bodies at Work
Location: H 14
Organiser: Karsten Uhl
Chair: Karsten Uhl
Body against Soul? German Psychotechnics and the “Whole Worker”
Dr. Kevin Liggieri
Discipline and Alcohol: Power, Bodies, and Infrastructure Construction around 1900
Dr. Eike-Christian Heine
History of Technology Meets History of the Body – Miners` Bodies in the Age of Rationalization
Dr. Lars Bluma
Production Technology and the Body of the Shipyard Worker
Dr. Christian Ebhardt
W2D Approaches to Technological Utopias and Dystopias
Location: H 11
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Utopias and Dystopias of Media Technologies in History
Dr. Jukka Kortti
Back to the Future: Collapse and Technological Utopia in Science Fiction (In French)
Professor Bertrand Guillaume
Internet Imaginary: Reflections on Masoud Khayam and Technology’s Horizon of Expectations
Professor Babak Rahimi
W2E Technological Momentum: From Gunpowders to Modern Explosives and Propellants 1
Location: HR 5
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Shotgun Momentum? Diversity in Early Modern Gunpowder Mixtures
Professor Steven Walton
Exhuming Trodden Earth: Technologies of Saltpeter Production in Korea, 1592-1698
Ph.D. candidate Hyeok Hweon Kang
Future Scenarios for the Safeguarding and Musealisation of the Vale de Milhaços Gunpowder Factory
Researcher Graça Filipe
W2F Electronics and Computers in History
Location: H 26
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Monster Computer vs. Grassroot Computing. The Early Computer Culture in the US, 1944-1953
Prof. Richard Vahrenkamp
Exploring History of Computing with Prototypes
Dr. Zbigniew Stachniak
50 Years of the Development of Microelectronics and Society
Professor Vasily Borisov
Rise and Fall of the Romanian State-owned Micro/nanoelectronics
Dr. Andreas Wild
W2G Technology as a Tool and a Target of Intelligence Agencies in the Second
Half of the 20th Century
Location: E 11A
Organiser: Miroslaw Sikora
Chair: TBA
Commentator: Kristie Macrakis
Stasi and Eavesdropping in the GDR in the Years 1956 to 1989
Researcher Detlev Vreisleben
Hungary’s Participation in the Technology Transfer During the 1970 – 1980 Period
Dr. Zsuzsanna Borvendég
Obtaining Strategic Intelligence by SIGINT – Surveillance of the President of Serbia S. Milošević by Croatian Intelligence Agency
Dr. Gordan Akrap
Comecon’s Complex-Program for Scientific-Technical Progress 1986-2000 and the Role of the Intelligence Services’ Community of Warsaw Pact
Dr. Miroslaw Sikora
W2H Reassembling Crops for Changing Climates
Location: E 13
Organiser: Harro Maat
Chair: Francesca Bray
Commentator: Maria do Mar Gago
Following the Cloud: Long-term Trends of Making Coffee Grow in Colonial Angola, 1898-1939
Dr. Maria do Mar Gago
Jack of no Trade, yet a Probable King?
Dr. John Lourdusamy
Cultivating Oranges and Whiteness in the Global Mediterranean: South African Citrus Growers’ Cooperative and Californian Practices of Cloning
Dr. Tiago Saraiva
Temperate and Tropical Rice across the Atlantic: How the Americas became a breeding site for Asian and African rice farmers
Dr. Harro Maat
Wednesday, 13:30 – 15:00
W3A The Conquest of Hydraulic Power and its Place in the History of Mankind 2 (in French)
Location: H 21
Organisers: Alexandre Herlea and Mircea Ivanoiu
Chair: Mircea Ivanoiu
Aurel Bărglăzan (1905-1960), Founder of the Hydraulic Machinery School in Timisoara, Romania
Professor Mircea Octavian Popoviciu
Hydropower infrastructure on the upper course of the Dniester River: historical evolutions and perspectives for the Ukraine – Republic of Moldova relations
Dr. Dorin Dusciac
The Contribution to Energy Sustainability of a Romanian Engineer in the Hydraulic Power Domain – Dorin Pavel
Dr. Sorin Florică Abagiu
Professor Marius Daniel Călin
W3B Railways in the Making of Modern Societies 3
Location: H 13
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: Reima Suomi
Railways and Global Integration: Remarks from an African Historian’s Perspective
Researcher Norman Aselmeyer
The Indian Railways: Negotiating Space & Time in a Colonial Context
Researcher Vanshica Kant
The Biggest Railway Catastrophe in the History of Romanian Railways: Context, Causes and Consequences
Researcher Eduard Cotorobai
Professor Liviu Alexandru Sofonea
Professor Victoria Cotorobai
W3C Plastics, Emotions and Consumer Society
Location: H 14
Organisers: Maria Elvira Callapez, Günter Lattermann, Stefan Poser
Chair: Stefan Poser
Historic Surrogates (“Ersatzstoffe”) and the Image of Plastics Today
Dr. Günter Lattermann
Building the History of the Portuguese Plastic Industry through Material Testimonies
Dr. Inês Soares
Professor Susana Sá
Professor Joana Ferreira
Plastics Hand in Hand with Consumers
Dr. Maria Elvira Callapez
Graduate student Sara Marques da Cruz
Graduate student Marta Martins Neto
W3D Industrial Strategies from the Past to the Future
Location: H 11
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
“Two Centuries of Progress and Adaptation: The Evolution of the Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale”
Dr. Andrew Butrica
Industrial Strategy, Techno-nationalism and the Limits of Economic Liberalism under Thatcher
Ph.D. candidate Tom Kelsey
Economics and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a History of the Future?
Professor Simone Fari
Future Expectations in German Textile Industry: The Role of History on the Cusp of the 4th Industrial Revolution
Ph.D. candidate Robert Peters
W3E Technological Momentum: From Gunpowders to Modern Explosives and Propellants 2
Location: HR 5
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
An Early Industrial State-owned Enterprise: The Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey, 1787–1816
Ph.D. candidate Sabrina Fröhlich
Did Making Gunpowder Make Good Revolutionaries? Using Saltpeter to Measure Popular Support for the American Revolution
Dr. David Hsiung
Comments
Dr. Brenda Buchanan
W3F Reception of Novelties in Radio, Broadcasting and Communication
Location: H 26
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Radio Enthusiasm as an Individual Experience and a Collective Emotion in the Early Soviet Russia.
Ph.D. candidate Ekaterina Rybkina
Radio, Home, and Country: The Listener, the Medium, and the Network, 1922-1960
Professor Anne MacLennan
Dark Side of AMPEX
Mr. Roman Artemenko
W3G New Approaches to Industrial Heritage
Location: E 11A
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Technological Heritage, Memories, Myths and Sustainability
Dr. Elitsa Stoilova
Visual Memories of Marble Industry – Using Cinema and Photography in Mining Heritage Studies
Ph.D. candidate Armando Quintas
Ph.D. candidate Alexandre Ramos
The Structural Rehabilitation of Tharsis Pier (Huelva, Spain), Monument of the Spanish Industrial Heritage
Ph.D. candidate Aurora Donoso-Sequeiros
Dr. Narciso Vazquez-Carretero
Photography and UNESCO Industrial Heritage World Heritage Sites of the Iberian Peninsula
Ms. Sheila Palomares Alarcón
Mr. Pietro Viscomi
W3H Interaction of Modernisation, Technology and Agrarian Economies
Location: E 13
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
The British-Raj and the Evolution of Modern Agriculture Science, Tools, Techniques and Knowledge in Bengal
Ph.D. candidate Pankoj Sarkar
Does Technology Shape under the Pressures of Farmers or Shaping Farmers under the Pressure of Technology? (In Spanish)
Ph.D. candidate Bruno Esperante Paramos
Agrarian Modernization in Ecuador, a Heterogeneous Path
Dr. Antonio Chamorro
All Roads Lead to Bursa: Introducing New Transport Technologies in Ottoman Hüdavendigar/Bursa, 1840-1900
Dr. Semih Celik
Dr. Sinan Kaya
Thursday, 19 July
9:00 – 10:30
T1A West – East Transfer of Technology during the Cold War 1
Location: H 13
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: Slawomir Lotysz
The Tight Rope over the Iron Curtain: Technology Transfer between Finland and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Professor Timo Myllyntaus
Duplication Model of Transfer of Western Technologies in Soviet Metallurgy, 1920-1940
Ph.D. candidate Irina Sheveleva
Soviet Bureaucracy and the Postwar Technological Transfer at the Soviet Periphery, 1944-1947
Researcher Alexandru Lesanu
Home Technologies and the Question of Technological Drive in State Socialism
Dr. Patryk Wasiak
T1B Plastics, Emotions and Consumer Society 2
Location: H 14
Organisers: Maria Elvira Callapez, Günter Lattermann, Stefan Poser
Chair: Maria Elvira Callapez,
Plastics, Emotions, and the Oil Crises in the 1970s
Dr. Stefan Poser
Summertime, and the Living is Plastic: PVC and the Creation of a Summer Toy Industry
Ph.D. candidate Angela Cope
Plastics – Friend or Enemy of Humans? Case Study for Romania
Dr. Laura-Mihaela Lelutiu
Dr. Elena Helerea
T1C Manufacturing Industries, Management and Entrepreneurship
Location: H 11
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Technical Innovation as a Solution to Political and Economic Crisis: the Example of the Early Industrial Complexes of the Shūsekan Jigyō in Japan
Ph.D. candidate Céline Zuretti
The German Electrical Industry and the End of the Electric Car in Germany before World War I: The Example of the Automobile Company NAG in Berlin – Technological Development and Entrepreneurial Decisions
Researcher Thomas Irmer
Charcoal Production for Geopolitical Stability of Russia from the End of the 19th Century to the Beginning of the 20th Century
Professor Yakov Samodelkin
T1D 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 1
Location: HR 5
Organiser: Bart Hacker and Ciro Paoletti
Chair: Ciro Paoletti
Catapults still are not Atomic Bombs: Why does Technological Determinism Continue to Enthrall Military Historians?
Professor Kelly DeVries
“Neither Catapults nor Atomic Bombs”: Technological Determinism and Military History from a Post-industrial Revolution Perspective.
Professor David Zimmerman
From the Military Revolution to RMAs: Technology, Military Institutions, and Society
Dr. Bart Hacker
T1E Social Values Matter: Biotechnology and Medical Technologies
Location: H 26
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Stubborn Technology: Barrier Contraceptives in Twentieth-Century American History
Dr. Donna Drucker
Social Inequality and New Identities in the Context of Biotechnology Development
Dr. Elena Bogomiagkova
Ear Trumpets: The Obsolete, the Nostalgic, the Protective
Dr. Magdalena Zdrodowska
T1F Technological Education and Exchange of Knowledge
Location: E 11A
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Instruments of Development: Indo-German Scientific Collaboration and Engineering Practices at IIT Madras
Professor Roland Wittje
The Harpist Clotilde Cerdà and the Promotion of Technical Education for Women in Barcelona (1885)
Dr. Antoni Roca-Rosell
The Role of Military School in the Development of Italian Technology during the 19th Century
Ph.D. candidate Elena Rinaldi
T1G Human Impacts on Nature and Landscape
Location: E 13
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Silk Industry of Moscow Facing the Pollution of the Environment, Second Half of the 19th Century – Beginning of the 20th Century (In French)
Mrs. Olga Melnichenko
Industrialization of Slovakia and its Impact on the Environment during the Period of Socialism
Dr. Miroslav Sabol
Professor Ľudovít Hallon
Ph.D. candidate Michal Ďurčo
Revisiting Wars against Nature: Irrigation Works in Nantong County, 1950s-1970s
Lecturer Yu Qiao
Transforming Colonial Assam’s Landscape, One Brew at a Time
Ph.D. candidate Namrata Borkotoky
Thursday, 11:00 – 12:30
T2A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 1 (In French)
Location: H 21
Organiser: Pierre Lamard, Mathieu Triclot and Yves-Claude Lequin
Chair: Pierre Lamard
Commentator: Yves-Claude Lequin
History of Technocritics: A Series of Ideas and Arguments in the Francophone World, from 1900 to Nowadays (In French)
Dr. Alexandre Moatti
A Humain and Social Sciences Contribution to the Development of Technological Projects: ’Ethnographic Design’ and ’Technical Democracy’
Dr. Mathieu Triclot
Ph.D. candidate Nicolas Simoncini
Dr. Bénédicte Rey
Ethnographic Field Methods, Digital Technologies and the Interpretation of Heritage
Prof. Laurier Turgeon
« La conférence des directeurs » or the Tool according to Henri Fayol to Scientifically Lead a Big Company, 1888-1918
Dr. Luc Rojas
T2B Sustainable Buildings and Innovations 1 (in French)
Location: H 21
Organiser: Richard Cantin
Chair: Pierre Michel
Mosaic Tiles: The Technique
Graduate student Indio Vignes
The Carpenter’s Trade, between Tradition and Modernity: Alternating Training in Maisons Familiales Rurales
Mrs. Marie Pachtem, Mr. Denis Amblard, Dr. Richard Cantin
Double Windows: An Old Technical Answer for Today’s Energy Issues
Dr. Richard Cantin, Ph.D. candidate Mike Coillot, Mr. Mohamed El Mankibi
T2C 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 2
Location: HR 5
Organiser: Bart Hacker and Ciro Paoletti
Chair: Bart Hacker
The Mortar and the Sword: Weapons in Fantasy and Reality
Professor Davud Ritchie
The Advantages of Brick Fortification, from Antiquity to the Modern Era
Professor Jean-Nicolas Corvisier
From Concept to Combat: The First Decade of the Medici Ducal Fleet, 1548–1558
Graduate student Andrew Tzavaras
T2D ICOHTEC Prize Session
Location: Amhitheater E 01
Organisers: Yoel Bergman, Hans-Joachim Braun and Elvira Callapez
Friday, 20 July
9:00—10:30
F1A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 2 (In French)
Location: H 21
Organiser: Pierre Lamard, Mathieu Triclot and Yves-Claude Lequin
Chair: Pierre Lamard
Chair: Mathieu Triclot
Commentator: Yves-Claude Lequin
100 Years of Projects for Home Automation: the Figure of the Kitchen
Ph.D. candidate Noémie Boeglin
Culinary Technical Gestures and Domestic Rationalization: the Art of Managing Everyday Life
Dr. Aurélie Brayet
Another Technical Democracy is Possible: Approach of Responsibility by Ecofeminism
Dr. Marie-Pierre Escudié
Dr. Thomas Le Guennic
F1B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 1
Location: H 13
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: Timo Myllyntaus
Hydroelectricity, Industrialization and Regional Development in São Paulo
Professor Gildo Santos
Energy, Desalination and Solar Ponds: Success and Oblivion of Salts and Solar Power in Atacama Desert, Chile and Beyond, 1907-1981
Dr. Nelson Arellano
Energy Transition through Energy Efficiency: Flash Smelting of Copper by the Outokumpu Method since 1947
Dr. Janne M. Korhonen
F1C The History of Repair Cultures and the Temporalities of Technology
Location: H 14
Organiser: Stefan Krebs
Chair: Hans-Joachim Braun
Tero-Cultures: The Temporalities of Maintenance
Professor Gabriele Schabacher
Cultures of Self-Repair: Community, Identity and Appropriation of Technology
Dr. Stefan Krebs
Temporal Strata of Technologies: From Repair and Obsolescence to Questions of Technology’s “Afterlife”
Professor Heike Weber
F1D Technological Innovations in Architecture
Location: H 11
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Aesthetics and Acoustics: A History of the Concert Hall as an Epistemic Object
Dr. Darryl Cressman
Carrier Weathermaster System Air-conditioning in Post-War modern Architecture in Finland 1950
Ph.D. candidate Seija Linnanmäki
From the Place of “Production Machines” to the Place of “Dream Machines”: the Factory Space as a Praise for Emptiness.
Professor Raffaella Maddaluno
Green at Heart: From Old Smokestack Industry to Platforms of Sustainable Urban Future
Dr. Markku Norvasuo
F1E 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 3
Location: HR 5
Organiser: Bart Hacker and Ciro Paoletti
Chair: Ciro Paoletti
Kriegsspiel Goes forth: Notes on the Early History of Professional Wargaming in the British Army
Professor Jorit Wintjes
The Fırst Ottoman Pre-dreadnought: The Abd-al-Kadar
Professor Esat Arslan
Airships on Board: A History of the ‘Airships Carrier,’ 1913–1922
Professor Francisco A. González Redondo
F1F Humans Encountering Medical and Psychological Technology
Location: H 26
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Technology in Health Care Facilities and Environment of the Patient
Dr. Agata Gawlak
Researcher Magda Matuszewska
Ph.D. candidate Paulina Szuba
Technology and Expression of Love: Impact and Consequence of Technology on Love and Subsequent Human Emotions
Dr. Rituparna Das
F1G On Both Sides of Lenses: History of Photography
Location: H 26
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Cameras: Looking Through, Looking Towards – a Materialist Account of Photography
Graduate student Bethany Berard
From Kodak to Instagram: How Analog Photography Created Visual World
Ph.D. candidate Nevena Ilic
F1H From Insights to Technology to Technological Futurism
Location: H 14
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Engineering Models, Practices & their Changing Roles
Dr. Klaus Staubermann
The Historical Significance of Korolyov Space Museum Collection, Zhytomir, Ukraine
Researcher Olena Zosimovych
Future Mobilities and the Role of Historians
Professor Simone Fari
Researcher Massimo Moraglio
Life After Oil: The Anthropocene, Futurity and Literary Theory
Graduate student Oliver Aas
F1I How to Write Global History of Technology? Interactive Discussion Session
Location: EH 01
Organiser: Jonas van der Straeten
Chair: TBA
Highlights in the Arab World
Ph.D. candidate Shorouk El Hariry
African Aspects
Ph.D. candidate David Drengk
China: Proposals of New Directions
Ph.D. candidate Wei Wu
India: Going Beyond the Grand Narratives
Ph.D. candidate Aloy Buragohain
Latin America: Identifying Current Trends and Approaches
Ph.D. candidate Alejandra Osorio
Saturday, 21 July
8:30 – 10:00
S1A Technical Democracy: What are its Antecedents and its Prospects? 3 (In French)
Location: H 21
Organiser: Pierre Lamard, Mathieu Triclot and Yves-Claude Lequin
Chair: Pierre Lamard
Commentator: Yves-Claude Lequin
Participatory Research, Part of a Deliberative Technical Democracy
Dr. Bertrand Bocquet
Gamma Detector in the Service of Technical Democracy: A Case Study on the Mine Waste Inventory in Piriac-sur-Mer (Loire-Atlantique, France)
Dr. Saliha Hadna
Mobilities, Circulations and Technological Democracy. Building the Discourse of Technology in the United States: Identification of the Process and Archives in the 20th and 21th Century
Dr. Vincent Dray
S1B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 2
Location: H 13
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: TBA
Brokers of Future: a Story of Poland’s Shale Gas a Technoscientific Promise
Dr. Roberto Cantoni
Crude Oil Technology Development and Globalization – Romania a Pawn on the Chessboard of Big World Powers
Ms. Elena-Angelica Dinu
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Oil in Finland in the 1950s
Ph.D. candidate Tanja Riekkinen
S1C Technological Nostalgia and Post Industrialist Idealism
Location: H 14
Organiser: PC
Chair:
The Kind of Problem Innovation Is: Tracing the Intellectual Contributions of Jane Jacobs outside Urban Planning
Ms. Joanna Szurmak
Seeing the Past in Stages: Stagecoaches and Freight Wagons as Frontier Nostalgia in Western Canada, 1910-1960
Dr. Ben Bradley
History of Lifts in Poland – Development of Lifting Technology and Protection of Technical Heritage in the Context of Contemporary Security Requirements and Regulations
Ms. Katarzyna Pietrzak
S1D 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 4
Location: HR 5
Organiser: Bart Hacker and Ciro Paoletti
Chair: Bart Hacker
World War I and the Improvement of the Italian Canal and Port System, 1915-1918
Dr. Ciro Paoletti
Gender and the Gun: Feminizing Cannon in the First World War
Researcher Bruno De Corte
Swords into Ploughshares: U.S. Army Demobilization and Technology Transfer after WWI
Dr. Jeffrey Larrabee
Designing with Purpose: Human Factors Engineering in NASA
Dr. Layne Karafantis
S1E Digitalisation: Revolution of Contemporary History
Location: H 26
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Magical Things. Demons inside the Machine
Dr. Heiko Schmid
From Private to Public: Digitization and the Making of a Raunchy Identity
Professor Madhu Sharma
Digital Technologies and Sociotechnical Barriers: Some Lessons from the Soviet Experience
Researcher Liliia Zemnukhova
Passing the Power: Guardians of Journalism Production Expertise at U.S. Newspapers, 1975-2015
Dr. Susan Keith
S1F Search for Pure Potable H20: Development of Water Supply Systems
Location: E 11A
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Technological Advancements in Filtration Techniques in the Early Modern Period
Dr. Suryyia Manzoor
Technological Advancements in Ancient Water Systems of Baluchistan
Ph.D. candidate Muhammad Sohail
History of Methods and Technologies of Water Purification in Institutes of NAS, Ukraine
Ph.D. candidate Mariia Stankova
S1G Unusual Sounds: Girls with Electric Guitars, Finnish Synthesizers and New Issues in the Development of Computer Music
Location: E 13
Organiser: Hans-Joachim Braun
Chair: Stefan Krebs
Garage Girls All Over the World Playing with Sound and Technology in the 1960s
Professor Susan Schmidt Horning
Erkki Kurenniemi’s Electronic Musical Instruments and their Role in Electroacoustic Music in Finland during the 1960s and 1970s
Researcher Mikko Ojanen
Images and Utopias of the Digital Musician in the History of Music Software
Researcher Andreas Möllenkamp
Computer Music and Improvisation: A Contradiction?
Professor Hans-Joachim Braun
Saturday, 10:30—12:00
S3A Sustainable Buildings and Innovations 2 (in French)
Location: H 21
Organiser: Richard Cantin
Chair: Richard Cantin
Wearing the Machine: Technological Evolution from Transportable to Wearable Machines
Ph.D. candidate Nada Ghribi
Influence of BIM-related Digital Technologies on Real Estate Management
Mr. Pierre Michel, Ph.D. candidate Xin Gong, Dr. Richard Cantin
Comments
Mr. Mohamed El Mankibi
S2B Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future 3
Location: H 13
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: TBA
Greenpeace and its Anti-nuclear Campaigns in Brazil, 1991 – 2011
Ph.D. candidate Marly Kamioji
Science, Energy and Knowledge: An Analysis of the Scientific Literature on the Synthetic Fuels Production Technologies in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States
Dr. Francesco Gerali
A Positive Example of the Operation of Binomial Political Authority: Powerful Technologies and Renewable Energies in the Period of Totalitarianism in Romania
Professor Victoria Cotorobai
S2C Tourism – What Can History of Technology Contribute?
Location: H 14
Organiser: Stefan Poser
Chair: Per Lundin
Touristic Space for a Deprived Period: Showcasing a Chapter of the History of Iron Technology in Ancient Gaya/Kaya, South Korea
Professor Constantin Canavas
Confronting Class: The American Motel in Early Post-war Sweden
Dr. Per Lundin
Technological Heritage: Question its Role in Tourism and in the Emerging Museums of the 21st Century
Dr. Maria da Luz Sampaio
Admired – Ignored – Rediscovered: Industrial Heritage and the Development of Tourism in Belgium
Researcher Bruno Corte de
S2D Beauty of Products: Technology and Design
Location: H 11
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
An Emotional Tour of the Plart Collection
Ms. Pina Di Pasqua
Ms. Alice Hansen
Mrs. Antonella Russo
From Industrial Aesthetics to Design: the Teaching of Arts Applied Industry in Portugal. A Case Study – the Portuguese Ceramics
Professor Maria Helena Souto
Professor Ana Cardoso de Matos
S2E 13th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology 5
Location: HR 5
Organiser: Bart Hacker and Ciro Paoletti
Chair: Ciro Paoletti
Studying Armor Penetration to Advance Organizational Need – Three Influential US and German mid-WWII Studies-Compared
Dr. Yoel Bergman
Anglo-American Bombers over Romania in the Spring and Summer of 1944
Professor Traian Constantin Dumbraveanu
An Armoured Military Technological Twist
Professor Matitiahu Mayzel
With UN Air Support: Challenges, Changes, and Perspectives
Mr. Enrico Magnani
S2F Taming Sounds and Transmitting Speech
Location: H 26
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
From Hal to Her: Cinematic Representations of Synthetic Speech
Ph.D. candidate Benjamin Lindquist
“Blueprint for Modern Living”: Promoting Residential Telephone Service in the United States, 1945-1965
Dr. Jan Hadlaw
From Singing Wires to Shazam: Symbiosis between Music, Telephony and Technological Development
Dr. Collette Snowden
S2G Support of Science, Technology and Society: Interactions and Innovations
Location: E 11A
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA
Science and Technology History Studies in the National Academy of Science of Ukraine
Professor Alla Lytvynko
Contributions of Romanian Researchers and Applicants in the Evolution of the Complex Forum ICOHTEC
Professor Liviu Alexandru Sofonea
Informatics in Romania: Theoretical Developments and Applications
Professor Eufrosina Otlacan
S2H Commanded Nature: Technology and the Environment in Authoritarian Regimes
Location: E 13
Organiser: Viktor Pal
Chair: Viktor Pal
Managing Natures in Interwar Poland. The Case of Pripet Marshes
Professor Slawomir Lotysz
Socialist Landscape Planning: The Construction of Mechanic Forest in Southern Moravia in the 1970s
Dr. Jiri Janac
Chemicals and Environmental Protection in the USSR/Russia, 1958-2018
Dr. Viktor Pal
Daily Schedule for Scientific Programme