Programs, Past Meetings
XV, Ottawa 2010: Knowledge on the Move: Conflict, Displacement and Re-Engineering Society--1933 to 1989
Sept 19. Sunday. Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Bush Theatre)
3:00 – 5:00 Pre-Conference tour: CASM Museum and Hangar
5:00 – 8:00 Registration (outside Bush Theatre)
5:15 Welcome: Steven Quick )Director-General, Canada Aviation and Space Museum)
5:30 Session #1
Chair: Bryan Dewalt (Canada Science and Technology Museum)
Michael J. Neufeld (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) "The Nazi Aerospace Exodus: Towards a Global, Transnational History"
Christopher Gainor (University of Alberta, Edmonton) "The Avro Arrow: Canada’s Phoenix"
7:30 – 8:30 Reception (outside Bush Theatre)
Sept 20. Monday. Canada Science and Technology Museum (Conference Hall)
8:30 Coffee
8:45 Welcome: Denise Amyot President and CEO, Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation
9:00 Session #2
Chair: Sharon Babaian Canada Science and Technology Museum)
Rosie Cook (The Chemical Heritage Foundation) “Experimenter today … Scientist Tomorrow: Chemistry Sets and the Public Perception of Science"
Katharine Anderson (York University) "Mr. Miller Goes to Europe: Gravity Instruments in Canada 1928-1945"
10:30 Break
11:00 Session #3
Chair: David Pantalony (Canada Science and Technology Museum)
Frode Weium {Norsk Teknisk Museum), "The Timex Formula: Joakim Lehmkuhl, Scientific Management and Timex Watches"
Eiju Matsumoto (Society of Historical Metrology, Japan) "Knowledge and Technology Transfer exhibited in Museums from Oyatoi Gaikokujin to Quality Control"
12:30 Lunch (Conference Hall)
1:30 Session #4
Chair: Anna Adamek {Canada Science and Technology Museum}
David McGee and Rian Manson (Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation) "Communists and the Colombo Plans: A Tale of Two Modernizations"
Nina Möllers (Deutsches Museum) "Exhibiting Capitalist Consumerism – Winning the Cold War: American Housing and Household Exhibitions in Germany, 1949-1955"
3:30 Break
4:00 – 5:30 Session #5
Chair: David McGee (Canada Science and Technology Museum)
Margaret Vining and Bart Hacker (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution) "The World War II GI, by Georges"
6:00-8:00 Reception / Dinner (Locomotive Hall)
Sept. 21. Tuesday. CSTM (Conference Hall)
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Session #6
Chair: Larry McNally (Library and Archives Canada)
Randall Brooks (Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation) "On the Trail of Smugglers’ Booty – the Modest ZEEP and its Impact"
David Pantalony (Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation) "Selling and Exhibiting Atomic Medicine"
10:30 Break
11:00 Raconteur / wrap-up: Robert Friedel (University of Maryland)
12:00 Barney Finn: Smithsonian funding opportunity
12:30 Museum Updates
1:30 Lunch (Conference Hall)
2:30 – 4:30 Canada Science and Technology Museum Reserve Collection Tour