The Hagley Fellows Conference, “The Spectacle of Technology”, will be held on March 19, 2005, at the Hagley Museum & Library, in the Copeland Room. Our keynote speaker will be Bill Leslie from The Johns Hopkins University. Online registration is available--please see the link below. The following is the program for the day.
8:30-9:30 Coffee
9:30-10:15 Keynote Address
Bill Leslie
The Johns Hopkins University
Corporate Modernism and Urban Spectacle
10:15-10-30 Break
10:30-12:10 Panel 1: Technological Nationalism
Dolores Augustine
St. John’s University
Re Prometheus: The Symbolic Function of Feats of Technology in 1960’s East Germany
David Wittner
Utica College
Threads of Civilization: Silk, Technology, and Public Ideology in Meiji Japan
Zhongjie Lin
University of Pennsylvania
The Symbolic Representation of Modern Transportation: Technology in Kenzo Tange’s 1960 Plan for Tokyo
Comment: “To Be Announced”
12:20-1:20 Lunch
1:30-3:10 Panel 2: Selling The Public
Terri Lonier
New York University
Networks of Transport, Networks of Influence: Alfred Ely Beach's Pneumatic Subway
Jeremy R. Kinney
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Aerial Proving Grounds: The Spectacle of Flight and American Military Aviation, 1919-1939
Robert MacDougall
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Long Lines: AT&T and the Spectacle of the Transcontinental Telephone Network
Comment: Guillaume de Syon, Albright College
3:10-3:20 Break
3:20-5:00 Panel 3: At Work/At Home/At Play
Marie Hicks
Duke University
“Electronic Brains for the Office”: Conceptions of British Business Computing after World War Two
Jeffrey Tang
University of Pennsylvania
Seen and Not Heard…or Vice-Versa?: Fidelity, Décor, and Home Audio Equipment in America, 1945-1965
Lynn Sally
New York University
The Spectacular Display of Early Film at Coney Island’s Enclosed Amusement Parks
Comment: David Suisman, University of Delaware
5:00-6:30: Reception
Online Registration Form is available at the following web address.
| 
