The Newberry Library Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture

Co-Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University

2003-2004 Schedule
Fridays, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
at The Newberry Library

October 10, 2003
"Federal Intervention, Technological Innovation and the Communications Industry During the Wilson Administration, 1917-1921"
Jonathan Reed, Yale University

November 14, 2003
"Modernity, Gender, and Technology during the Popular Unity Government in Chile"
Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

December 5, 2003
"'Is Your Plant a Target?' Cole War Civil Defense and the Rise of the High-Tech Suburb"
Margaret Pugh O'Mara, Stanford University

January 30, 2004
"Weapons, War, and the Early Modern Japanese State, 1440-1660"
William D. Johnston, Wesleyan University

February 27, 2004
"Women of Steel: Gender, the Railroad, and Cultural Change, 1870-1900"
Amy G. Richter, Clark University

March 19, 2004
"Mapping Power: Urban Space and 'Second Nature' in the American Southwest"
Andrew Needham, University of Michigan

April 23, 2004
"Culture and the Transfer of Technology: A Case Study from Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico"
Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame

This seminar provides a forum for "works-in-progress" that explore the relationship between technology, politics, and culture, broadly defined. Papers are pre-circulated. If you plan to attend you may receive a paper by sending an email message or by calling.