Programs, Past Meetings
XI, Stockholm, 2006: Constructing and Deconstructing Icons of Achievement in Science and Technology
THURSDAY, September 14
16:00 Tour of Nobel Museum and its Research Library
Comments by Svante Lindqvist: Problems and Challenges associated with collecting objects associated with Nobel Prize winners
Reception and buffet dinner at the Nobel Museum
FRIDAY, September 15
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:30 Introduction
Helmuth Trischler, Opening comments
Svante Lindqvist, Welcome
Barney Finn-Summary of Artefacts X
Robert Bud, Preliminary thoughts on icons
9:30-10:50 Session 1: Personal Icons
Chair: Hans Weinberger
Peter Jakab, From Invention to Icon: The transformation of the Wright brothers' research aircraft
Dag Andreassen, A Letter from Sir Frank Whittle. Inventing a Norwegian inventor
Robert Anderson, Scientists and their icons
Discussion
10:50-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:50 Session 2 Personal Icons (cont.)
Chair: Liba Taub
Peter Donhauser, Rise and fall of the neo-Bechstein. Constructing Walther Nernst as a figurehead
Frode Weium, The Theremin as an icon of achievement
Loic Petitgirard, Icons in CNAM
Andrew Nahum, Whittle and Wankel: Self-made icons
Discussion
12:50-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:40 Session 3: Icons of Achievement
Chair: Silke Berdux
Bart Hacker, Dog turds where no dog trod: Technological prowess and cultural blinders in Vietnam
Damon Yarnell, Building the bicycle: The controversial life of a simple machine
Joe Tatarewicz, The Hubble space telescope: Icon of failure and achievement
Alice Nicholls, The iron lung in Britain's African colonies--an icon of medical technology?
Discussion
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:20 Session 4: Icons of Achievement (cont.)
Chair: Omar Moritsch
Randall Brooks,
ZEEP: A different kind of scientific instrument
Margaret Vining, The OODA loop: Linking the technology of aerial combat to corporate strategy
Dan Albert, Isambard's folly: How a bloated whale became one of England's great ships
Discussion
Reception and sit-down dinner at the Nobel Museum
SATURDAY, September 16
8:30-8:50 Coffee
8:50-10:30 Session 5: Other thoughts
Chair: Roy Macleod
Eva Åhrén Snickare, The bust of Chief White Fox: Anthropological objects and racial science at the Karolinska Institute
Thomas Söderqvist, The GeneChip as an icon for molecularization, digitalization and miniaturization in the history of recent biomedicine
Christian Sichau, Peace to the ordinary objects! War on the icons!
Nathan Ensmenger, Nathan Hersch, Views from the academy: Program at Penn
Discussion
10:30-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:20 Session 6a Wrap-up
Chair: Derek Robinson
Martin Collins, Commentary
Discussion
11:20-12:40 Session 6b: State of the Museums
Bart Hacker, Tim Boon, Helmuth Trischler, Svante Lindqvist, Otmar Moritsch, Loic Petitgirard, Hans Weinberger, Kimberley Webber, Randall Brooks
12:40-13:10 Session 6c: The Future of Artefacts
Robert Bud, Helmuth Trischler, Barney Finn
13:30-16:00 Lunch on steamship during tour of archipelago outside Stockholm