Preliminary Programme

Showing: Technology (all days)
Wed 22 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 23 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Sat 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
O-3 TEC05 Normalizing Society and Technology
Room O
Network: Technology Chair: Cornelis Disco
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Patrick Kammerer : The Digitalization of the Mobile Phone -The GSM Standardization as a Successful Learning ProcessThe Digitalization of the Mobile Phone
Otto Kroesen, Wim Ravesteijn : Inspired standardization: technology and revolution in the Netherlands 1550-1700
Wim Ravesteijn, Otto Kroesen : A cascade of inspiration: a new perspective on the periodization of European history



Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30
S-4 TEC01 Designing Modern Childhood: Toys and Food
Room S
Networks: Culture , Education and Childhood , Technology Chair: Bengt Sandin
Organizer: Ning De Coninck-Smith Discussants: -
Aaron Alcorn : Packaging Modernity: Model Airplanes, Model boys, and the Culture of Making in the United States
Rudolf Dekker : Changes in the Appreciation of Toys and Play in Dutch Childhood Memoirs, 17th-20th Centuries.
Maria Papathanasiou : Poor children’s material cultures in the german-speaking world (1880-1940)



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
N-5 TEC02 Designing Modern Childhood: Educational Architecture
Room N
Networks: Culture , Education and Childhood , Technology Chair: Dick Van Lente
Organizer: Ning De Coninck-Smith Discussant: Ning De Coninck-Smith
Catherine Burke, Ian Grosvenor : Designed Spaces and Disciplined Bodies: E.R. Robson's Grand Architectural Tour.
Amy Ogata : Designing Education in Postwar American Schools
Lesley Whitworth : School Children, Domestic Skills and Future Consumption in a British Midlands City: a 1930s case study



Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
N-9 TEC04 Postwar Images of Science and Technology
Room N
Networks: Culture , Technology Chair: Thomas Misa
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Dolores Augustine : Boldly going where no socialist has gone before: Engineers and industrial scientists in East German popular culture and propaganda
Guillaume De Syon : From Pyramids to Time Travel: The scientists as controller of fate
Jaakko Suominen : Machines in Duckburg. Inventing in Walt Disney’s Comic Book ‘Donald Duck’ in Finland during the 1950’s



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
J-11 TEC03 Water in the City
Room J
Networks: Technology , Urban Chair: Thomas Misa
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Misa
Hans Buiter : Transforming water infrastructures in Amsterdam and Utrecht, 1860-2000: power relations, social functions and urban identities.
Cornelis Disco : Living with Urban Water. “Inner” water and “outer” water in Amsterdam 1200-2000
Dieter Schott : Urban Water systems and the metamorphosis of a city: the case of Mannheim



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
X-12 TEC06 Water in the City II: Canal Boat Tour. See also special events.
Canal Boat
Network: Technology Chairs: -
Organizers: Hans Buiter, Cornelis Disco Discussants: -


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