Linda Hall Library Fellows Set to Present at National History of Science and Technology Conferences

This November, Linda Hall Library fellows, both past and present, will be presenting at the Society for the History of Technology’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans and the History of Science Society’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. The Library is delighted to see so many fellows continuing their excellent research and sharing it with the scholarly community. Are you attending either conference? See the list below for sessions featuring Linda Hall Library fellows!

View the full list of fellow speaking events for SHOT 2022 here or a downloadable list can be found here.

View the full list of fellow speaking events for HSS 2022 here or a downloadable list can be found here.

Friday, November 11

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

• Technological Change, Labor, and Diversity I: Industrial Transitions (Edgewood, 4^th Floor)
  • Corinna Schlombs (2022-23 Fellow), Rochester Institute of Technology, “Real-Time Booking Terminals in US Banking Automation: Re-Skilling White Collar Workers?”

• Engineering Empire, Globalization and Technological Change, Part A Sponsored by SIG Prometheans
  • Ellan Spero (2020-21 Fellow), Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Station 1  (Organizer and Chair)

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

• Engineering Empire, Globalization and Technological Change, Part B Sponsored by SIG Prometheans (Rhythms III, 2^nd Floor)
  • Ellan Spero (2020-21 Fellow), Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Station 1 (Organizer and Chair)

• Roundtable: “Playing with Technology: How Outdoor Recreation Has Linked Nature, Culture, and Commerce” (Edgewood, 4^th Floor)
  • Jesse Ritner (2020-21 Fellow), University of Texas, Austin (Panelist)

• Technological Change, Labor, and Diversity II: Global and New Economy
  • Corinna Schlombs (2022-23 Fellow), Rochester Institute of Technology (Organizer)
  • Lee Vinsel (2017-18 Fellow), Virginia Tech, “Technology, Work, and Diversity in ‘the New Economy’”
  • Heidi Voskuhl (2017-18 & 2012-23 Fellow), University of Pennsylvania (Chair)

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• Logistical Histories of Computing (Rhythms III, 2^nd Floor)
  • Ranjodh Dhaliwal (2020-21 Fellow), University of Notre Dame, “Logistical Graphics: Economic Crises and Outsourcing in the 1990s”

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

• Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society (Rhythms III, 2^nd Floor)
  • Ekaterina Babintseva (2021-22 Fellow), Purdue University (Panelist)

Saturday, November 12

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

• The Comforts and Contestations of Power: Latin American Wind, Water, and Nuclear Energy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Edgewood, 4th floor)
  • Justin Castro (2020-21 Fellow), Arkansas State University (Organizer and Chair)

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

• Engineering in Latin America and Beyond (Edgewood, 4^th Floor)
  • Carlos Dimas (2019-20 Fellow), University of Nevada Las Vegas, “An Engineered Garden: Technocrats and the Construction of Hydrological Infrastructure in Early Twentieth-Century Northwestern Argentina”
  • Diana Montaño (2021-22 Fellow), Washington University of St. Louis, “At Risk of Collapsing: The Hydraulic-fill and the Career of James D. Schuyler at the Necaxa”
  • Sonia Robles (2022-23 Fellow), University of Delaware (Chair)

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• Gender and Technology: The State of the Field (Rhythms III, 2^nd Floor)
  • Corinna Schlombs (2022-23 Fellow), Rochester Institute of Technology (Chair)

• Interwar Technologies and the Transition to the Postwar Era (Oakley, 4^th Floor)
  • Matthew Hersch (2020-21 Fellow), Harvard University, “Home Alive by '45: Repatriation Technologies of World War II”

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

• Digital Origins (Oakley, 4^th Floor)
  • Mark Chen (2021-22 Fellow), Harvard University, “Reckoning with Machines: The Japanese Abacus and Mechanical Calculation”

Sunday, November 13

10:30 a.m. -– 12:15 p.m.

• SIGCIS 2022: Minds and Machines (Bayside C)
  • Ekaterina Babintseva (2021-22 Fellow), Purdue University, “The Mind in a Computer Age: Artificial Intelligence in Soviet Late Socialism”

• SIGCIS 2022: Out of Sight/ Out of Mind: The Limits of Historical Representation (Edgewood)
  • Lee Vinsel (2017-18 Fellow), Virginia Tech, “What is Digital Rupture?”

Thursday, November 17

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

• Troubling Temporalities: Approaches to Narrating and Historicizing Deep Time (Mezzanine, Georgian)
  • Alexis Rider (2019-20 Fellow), Institute of Historical Research at the University of London (Roundtable Participant)

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

• Environment (In)Justice: Imperial Hegemonies and their Neoliberal Legacies (Mezzanine, Huron)
  • Nuala Caomhánach (2019-20 Fellow), New York University/American Museum of Natural History (Chair)

Friday, November 18

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• Biological Lynndividuality (Mezzanine, Parkside)
  • Emily S Hutcheson (2019-20 Fellow), UW-Madison (Session Organizer)

• FUTURES: Digitizing and Decolonizing Collections. Challenges and Experiences (Lobby, Grand Ballroom)
  • Nuala Caomhánach (2019-20 Fellow), New York University/American Museum of Natural History (Participant)

• Human Descent and Evolution Across Scientific and Popular Literatures in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American World
  • Edwin Rose (2022-23 & 2016-18 Fellow), Darwin College, University of Cambridge, “Dynasties and the Adaption of Science: George Howard Darwin and the ‘Public’ Perception of the Solar System”

• Meteorology in Context: Weather, Health, and Climate Change (Mezzanine, Venetian)
  • Justin Niermeier-Dohoney (2019-20 Fellow), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “Toward an Astrometeorological Theory of Global Climate: John Goad's Weather Notebooks, 1652-1682”

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• Animal Knowledge Farther Afield: Menageries, Breeding Colonies, and Cities in the History of Animal Science
  • Brigid Prial (2022-23 Fellow), University of Pennsylvania, “Breeding Uncertainty: Caretaking and Reproduction in Robert Yerkes' Chimpanzee Station, 1929 – 1955”

• Communicating Science: From Periodical to Popular Science Book
  • Martin Bush (2020-21 Fellow), University of Melbourne, “Drawing Down the Moon: The nineteenth century history of the moonscape”

• Knowledges under Stress: Early Modern Science, Technology, and Medicine
  • José María Moreno Madrid (2022-23 Fellow), Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT) / University of Lisbon, “Artisans Under Stress: Epistemological divides in the demarcation of Tordesillas (1494)”

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

• Resourcing and Restoring Nature (Lobby, Drake)
  • Gustave Lester (2018-19 Fellow), Harvard University, “Geology, Political Economy, and Settler Colonialism in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1780-1840”

Saturday, November 19

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

• In Search of Habitable Worlds (Lobby, Grand Ballroom)
  • Jordan Bimm (2018-19 Fellow), University of Chicago (Chair), “Military Models of Mars: The Cold War Politics of Habitability in Early Astrobiology”

• Sown Tensions: Agricultural and Environmental Science in Context
  • Nuala Caomhánach (2019-20 Fellow), New York University/American Museum of Natural History (Chair)

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• Nature, Environment, and the Challenge of Animal Studies (Mezzanine, Venetian)
  • Whitney Barlow Robles (2017-18 Fellow), Dartmouth College, “Knowing Raccoons From Early America to the Anthropocene”

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• Mycology and its Discontents: Fungi and Category Confusion in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Mezzanine, Venetian)
  • Nuala Caomhánach (2019-20 Fellow), New York University/American Museum of Natural History, “The Stinkhorns: A cultural and evolutionary history of a fungal outlier and those who studied them”

Sunday, November 20

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

• Early Modern Histories of Science
  • Alyssa Peterson (2020-21 Fellow), University of Texas at Austin, “Ancient Authors, Early Modern Physicians, and their Chemical Reluctance”

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• Harmony and Discord: Conceptualizing and Categorizing Mental Health (Mezzanine, Michigan)
  • Edward Halley Barnet (2022-23 & 2018-19 Fellow), Hamilton College, “The Harpsichord Brain”