International Telecommunications History Workshop

International Telecommunications History Workshop

Location:	District of Columbia, United States
Workshop Date:	1999-11-24 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	1999-11-18
Announcement ID:	124945

George Washington University
Phillips Hall 328, Academic Center
Wednesday 24 November 1999
9:00 am - 12:00 am

Telegraphy and Technological Modernization:
Political and Cultural Issues in 19th Century China
Erik Baark
Hong Hong University of Science and Technology

Telegraphy and International Rivalry: 
Western Race for Concessions in China, 1881-1886
Ole Lange
Copenhagen Business School

Telegraphy and Empire: Japan's Quest for Submarine Cables, 1871-1914
Daqing Yang 
Department of History, GW

Coffee Break

Neutrality and the "Political Imperative" in International Telecommunication:
The Great Northern Telegraph Company
Kurt Jacobsen 
Copenhagen Business School

The Ironies of Cable History
Bernard Finn
National Museum of American History

Tracing the Rise of Cable Telegraphy Literature, 1855-1895
Christopher Sterling
Graduate Telecommunications Program, GW

Sponsored by the History Department and the Graduate Telecommunications Program Supported by the George and May Shiers Memorial Fund. The workshop is free and open to the public

Prof. Daqing Yang
History Department
George Washington University
Phone: (202)994-8262
Fax: (202)994-6231
Email: yanghist@gwu.edu

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