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Wednesday 11 April 2012
11.00 - 13.00
L-2
URB07
Urban Amenities
Main Building: Room 355
Giuseppe Restifo, Carmelina Gugliuzzo : The Opening of the Harbour, the Closing of the Walls: Urban History of two Mediterranean Port Cities Mikkel Thelle : Resisting Urban Modernity: The Copenhagen Tramways as Assembly
Wednesday 11 April 2012
14.00 - 16.00
K-3
TEC02
Text and Technology
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Vitaly Gorokhov : From Theory to Design in the Technoscience: Some Remarks on the History of Engineering Peter Meyer : Networks and Publications of Aeronautical Invention up to 1910 Hugo Silveira Pereira : Railways and Parliament in Portugal (1851-1892) Yousef Yassi : Reconstruction and Experimental Validation of a Magic Jar - An Ancient Invention for Liquid Separation
Wednesday 11 April 2012
16.30 - 18.30
M-4
WOR05
Making Europe. Technology and Transformations 1850-2000
Main Building: Melville
Johan Schot : The Origins of a European Technocracy, or the Governing of Europe by experts Philip Scranton : Introduction to the Making Europe book series Erik Van der Vleuten : Infrastructuring Europe: Technology, Society, and Nature in Transition
Thursday 12 April 2012
8.30 - 10.30
S-5
RUR07
Seeking Solutions to Rural Problems: Science and Social Life
Maths Building: 204
Ruth Sandwell : “Read, Listen, Discuss, Act: the Farm Radio Forum as an Experiment in Adult Education, Rural Activism and the Creation of a Modern Rural, 1940-1980” Paul Vickers : Polish Memoir Sociology: Peasants' Memoirs of Settling the Former-German Territories of Post-war Poland Catharine Wilson : The Complicated Side of Neighbourhood: When Communal Work and Good Intentions End in Disaster
Thursday 12 April 2012
11.00 - 13.00
K-6
TEC03
Early Mechanization and the Origins of the Industrial Revolution
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Harilaos Kitsikopolous : The Early Development of Steam Power Technologies Alessandro Nuvolari, Sean Bottomly : James Watt's 1769 Patent and the Development of Steam Power Technology U-6 MAT05 Rethinking Consumer History: Consumer Power in Comparative Perspective Maths Building: 326
Nicole Robertson : The Organised Consumer: Education, Empowerment and Experiments
Friday 13 April 2012
11.00 - 13.00
R-10
POL19
Experimental Spaces II: Spatial and Infrastructural Governance
Maths Building: 203
Sébastien Gardon : Governing Urban Traffic: French Cities and the Automobile (1910-1970) Frank Schipper : Transatlantic Tourism: American Visitors to Europe in the Long 20th Century Anette Schlimm : What is a Transport Region? Transport Experts and their Attempts to Establish a New Socio-spatial Order, 1920s – 1950s
Friday 13 April 2012
14.00 - 16.00
I-11
SPE02
The 2010 Eruption of the Eyfjallajokull Volcano and its Impact of Travelling in Europe. The ESSHC's Participants in Ghent as a Test Case
Main Building: Humanities
R-11 POL20 Experimental Spaces III: High Modernist Projects Maths Building: 203
Vincent Lagendijk : How the Model got its Mojo, or, How the TVA Became the Paradigm of Planning Uwe Lübken : Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space
Saturday 14 April 2012
14.00 - 16.00
T-15
RUR06
Technology, Modernity and Agricultural Transitions
Maths Building: 325
Alba Díaz Geada, Ana Cabana Iglesia & Lourenzo Fernández Prieto & Daniel Lanero Táboas : Agricultural Extension Programmes in Postwar Europe: A Comparative Study of Two Extreme Cases: Spain and the Netherlands (1946 - 1973) Heather Holmes : The Diffusion of Labour Saving Technology and Technological Innovations: English Reaping Machines in Scotland 1850 to 1910 Paul Sharp, Markus Lampe : Greasing the Wheels of Rural Transformation? Margarine and the Emergence of the Danish Dairy Industry Jens van de Maele : The Resonance of 'Silent Spring'. An Inquiry into the Reception of Rachel Carson’s Environmental Critique in Belgium and the Netherlands (1962-1963) |
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