Programs, Past Meetings
X, Washington 2005: Globalization and the History of Science and Technology
SUNDAY, November 6
16:00 Tour of Arts & Industries building with Cynthia Field. This was the Smithsonian's first purpose-built museum, opening in 1881.
18:30 Reception/Dinner, hosted by Jane and Barney Finn (6819 Connecticut Ave, Chevy Chase, MD.)
MONDAY, November 7
8:30-9:00 Coffee, snacks in conference room9:00 Introduction
Barney Finn (SI-NMAH), Opening comments
Brent Glass (SI-NMAH), Director NMAH, Welcome
Robert Bud (SM), Summary of Artefacts IX
Helmuth Trischler (DM), Preliminary thoughts on Globalization
9:30-10:40 Session 1
Chair: Martin Collins (SI-NASM)
Judith Schueler (DM), "Artefacts as heroes: The global use and local adaptation of the Brandt hydraulic rotary rock drill"
Ben Russell (SM), "Global dissemination of the steam engine"
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
David Allison (SI-NMAH), "Epson comes to America"
Frank Dittmann (DM), "Modem--a global technical standard and its local usage in the East and West"
Discussion
12:30-13:45 LUNCH in cafeteria
13:45-15:30 Session 2
Chair: Ray Kondratas (SI-NMAH)
Birte Hauser (DM), "Reading DNA: From scientific handcraft to global service"
Stewart Emmens (SM), "Developments in non-western medicine"
Discussion
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-17:20 Session 3
Chair: Jeffrey Stine (SI-NMAH)
Tim Boon (SM), "Technology, Internationalism and Representation: Some Films of the GPO Film Unit"
Art Molella (SI-NMAH), "The machine in the museum: Reflections based on A.P. Usher's A History of Mechanical Inventions"
Discussion
18:30 Reception/dinner, hosted by Margaret Vining and Bart Hacker (150 12th Street NE, corner of 12th and Constitution Ave.)
TUESDAY, November 8
8:30-9:00 Coffee
Session 4 (9:00-10:00)
Chair: Saroj Ghose (Kolkata)
Helmuth Trischler, International Research Network of the Max Planck Society: "Scientific Objects"
Robert Bud (SM): Digitization projects and networks at the Science Museum
Eiju Matsumoto (Tokyo), Center for the History of Japanese Industrial Technology
Discussion
10:10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-12:00 Session 5
Chair: Robert Anderson (Cambridge)
Barney Finn, "Globalization of museums"
John Vardalas (IEEE History Center), Panel on globalization
Discussion
12:00-13:00 Wrap-up session
Chair: Derek Robinson
State of the Museums, future topics for Artefacts, locations of meetings, website, and other matters of interest
13:00 Lunch