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H-Net members and friends are invited to the Industrial Environments project's spring conference, April 5-6, at Rutgers, New Brunswick. The program follows below. There is no registration fee and meals are also free to those attending. Please notify RCHA administrator Lynn Strawbridge (shanko@rci.rutgers.edu) if you wish to attend, so we can arrange name badges and adjust the meal-count. Fairly inexpensive lodgings are available at the conference center, and to reserve a room (or ask to share one), also contact Lynn. The phone no. is 732-932-8701.
Industrializing Organisms: Plants, Animals and Technology
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Spring Conference, April 5-6, 2002 --- University Inn & Conference Center, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Friday, April 5
8:15-9:00 - Coffee and danish
SESSION I -- 9:00 - 10:30 am
Keynote Address - The Anatomy of Organismal Technology
Edmund Russell, University of Virginia
SESSION II -- 10:45- 12:30 - Science and Organisms
The Biography of a ‘Purely American Disease’: Francisella tularensis and the Industrialization of a United States Biological Weapon, 1911-1960
Gerard Fitzgerald, Carnegie Mellon University
Modeling Animals as Technologies and Patients: The Historical Uses of the Canine Hemophiliac in American Biomedicine
Stephen Pemberton, Rutgers University
Manufacturing Green Gold: A History of Industrial Tree Improvement in the United States
William Boyd, Stanford University & Scott Prudham, University of Toronto
Comment: Keith Wailoo, Rutgers University
Lunch, 12:30-2:00
SESSION III -- 2:00-5:00 pm - Plants and Profits
The Red Queen and the Hard Reds: Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940,
Alan Olmstead, University of California, Davis and Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina
Nature and Profit: A Cuban Sugar Plantation in the Early Twentieth Century,
Mark J. Smith, University of Central Oklahoma
Strange Fruit: Banana Breeding Programs and the Contradictions of Commodification,
John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University
Scientific Agriculture and Corn Improvement in Mexico and the United States: Negotiating Genes, Environments and Politics
Karin Matchett, University of Minnesota
Comment: Lynn Swartley, RCHA postdoctoral fellow
5:30 Conference Dinner at the University Inn
Saturday, April 6
8:15-9:00 am Coffee and danish
SESSION IV -- 9:00-10:30 am - Industrial Meat
Making the Chicken of Tomorrow, 1945-1990
Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum & Library
Antibiotics and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture
Mark R. Finlay, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Comment: Greg Hise, University of Southern California
Coffee break, 10:30-11:00 am
SESSION V -- 11:00-12.30 pm - Horses in War and Peace
War Horses: Equine Technology in the American Civil War
Ann Greene, University of Pennsylvania
Technological Innovation in the Urban Cyborg: American City Horses in the 19th Century
Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University & Clay McShane, Northeastern University
Comment: Susan Schrepfer, Rutgers University
Lunch, 12:30-1:30 pm
SESSION VI -- 1:30-4:00 pm -- Domesticating Nature
“For Profit and Pleasure”: Peter Henderson and the Commercialization of Horticulture in 19th Century America
Susan Lanman, Metropolitan State College of Denver
The Improvement of Bees: The Search for a Rational Hive
John Clark, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
The Pet Industry: Growing Animals for the Sake of Sentiment
Katherine Grier, University of South Carolina
Turbo-Cows: About the Production of a Competitive Animal in 19th and Early 20th Century Germany
Barbara Orland, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich
Comment: Philip Pauly, Rutgers University
SESSION VII - 4:00-4:30 pm
Conference Overview and Closing Remarks, Edmund Russell, University of Virginia
Closing Reception for all attending, 4:30-6:00 pm
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