The Newberry Seminar on Technology, Politics, And Culture

2003-2004

co-sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University

Seminars are held on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 PM at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL. Papers are pre-circulated. For a copy e-mail (below).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2002-2003 Schedule

The seminar will meet on scheduled Fridays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm, to be followed by dinner in a local restaurant. Sessions will feature either an original paper or a particularly suggestive text. If you plan to attend: Please e-mail or call to request a copy of the paper (specify hard copy or e-mail attachment; we prefer the latter). The seminar format assumes that all participants have read the essay, and that everyone who requests a paper will attend the seminar. Seminars are held at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.