This fall, Linda Hall Library fellows, both past and present, will be presenting at the Society for the History of Technology’s Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California and the History of Science Society’s Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The Library is delighted to see so many fellows continuing their excellent research and sharing it with the scholarly community. Are you attending either conference? See the list below for sessions featuring Linda Hall Library fellows!

View the full list of fellow speaking events for SHOT 2023 here or a downloadable list can be found here.

View the full list of fellow speaking events for HSS 2023 here or a downloadable list can be found here.

Friday, October 27, 2023

8:45 a.m.- 10:15 a.m.

• F5: Risk and Safety (Room 207)
  • Matthew Hersch (2020-21 LHL Fellow), Harvard University
    • Crusaders and Demons: Naval Aviation in an Age of Uncertainty
  • Alexander Parry (2020-21 LHL Fellow), John Hopkins University
    • Tested and Approved? The Good Housekeeping Institute and the Debate over Corporate Consumer Product Testing, 1910–1951

10:45 a.m. -12:15 p.m.

• F7: Global Perspectives on Technologies of Risk and Safety (Victory A)
  • Peter Soppelsa (2018-19 LHL Fellow), University of Oklahoma
    • Multispecies Risk and the Shift from Rat War to Rat Control
• F9: Embodying and Gendering Latin American Technocultural Worlds (Room 203)
  • Diana Montaño (2021-22 LHL Fellow),  Washington University in St. Louis
    • Chair
  • Pete Soland (2023-24 LHL Fellow), University of Houston-Downtown
    •  Conquistadores del Cielo: Masculinity, Aesthetics, and the Aviator Celebrity in Latin America
• F10: Standards-in-Use (Room 205)
  • Lee Vinsel (2016-18 LHL Fellow), Virginia Tech
    • Organizer and Chair

4:15 p.m. -5:45 p.m.

• FH10: Engineering Environment, Resilience and Longevity (Prometheans Sponsored Roundtable) -Hybrid Session (Champions A)
  • Carlos Dimas (2019-20 LHL Fellow),  University of Nevada, Las Vagas
    • Panelist
  • Ellan Spero (2020-21 LHL Fellow), MIT
    • Chair

Saturday, October 28, 2023

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 

• S7:Imagined or Real?: Epistemologies of Desert Environments Through Technological Encounters (Room 203)
  • Matthew Hersch (2020-23 LHL Fellow), Harvard University
    • Commentator
• S8: Back to the Future: Science and Technology Policy in Canada, Singapore, and the United States, 1980-2023 (Room 205)
  • Lee Vinsel (2016-18 LHL Fellow), Virginia Tech
    • Chair
    • Examining the Clinton Administration’s Technology and Human Capital Policies, including “the Digital Divide,” in the Context of 1990s Social Policies, including Welfare and “Violent Crime Control” Reforms

2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

• SH6: Latin American Technology Across the Pacific (Presidential Session)- Hybrid Session (Hotel 1880)
  • Diana Montaño (2021-22 LHL Fellow),  Washington University in St. Louis
    • Organizer
• S14: Technologies, Industries, and Economic Change – II (Room 203)
  • Lee Vinsel (2016-18 LHL Fellow), Virginia Tech
    • Chair
• S17: Should SHOT advance amicus briefs and public comment? (Public discussion) (Room 210)
  • Matthew Hersch (2020-23 LHL Fellow), Harvard University
    • Chair and participant

4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

• SH7: Is Prometheus OK? Postmodern Infrastructure after 1970- Hybrid Session (Champions A)
  •  Teal Arcadi (2019-20 LHL Fellow), Rutgers-Newark/NJIT
    • Commentator
• S24: Aeronautical Cultures (Room 212)
  • Matthew Hersch (2020-23 LHL Fellow), Harvard University
    • Chair

Friday, November 10, 2023

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• 056: Technologies of Accounting: Science, Medicine, and Capitalism (Hilton Portland Downtown, Floor: 3rd Floor, Forum)
  • J.P. Ascher (2022-23 Presidential Scholar in Bibliography)
    •  Disseminating Knowledge with Commerce: the Banking Model of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London during the Late Seventeenth Century
  • Mark Yu-Shan Chen (2021-22 LHL Fellow), Harvard University
    • Abacus Numeracy in Early Modern and Modern Japan
• 059. Pedagogy as Historical Practice: Research, Course Design, and Revision in History of Science, Technology, and Engineering (Hilton Portland Downtown, Floor: Plaza Level, Pavilion)
  • Adelheid Voskuhl (2016-18 LHL Fellow), University of Pennsylvania
    • “Futures” Roundtable: Social groups and stratification in the history of engineering science and its pedagogy
• 061: Experience and Expertise (Hilton Portland Downtown, Floor: 23rd Floor, Skyline III)
  • Ekaterina Babintseva (2021-22 LHL Fellow), Purdue University
    • Chair
  • Alyssa Peterson (2020-21 LHL Fellow), University of Texas at Austin
    • “To be discovered, or distinguisht by the Taste”: Taste as expertise in eighteenth-century science

Saturday, November 11, 2023

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• 096: Colonial Chemical Translations: South Asia and the Modern Chemical Sciences, 1850–1980 (Hilton Portland Downtown, Floor: 3rd Floor, Council)
  • Nikhil Joseph Dharan (2019-20 LHL Fellow), University of Pennsylvania
    • The Chemists' University: Chemical-Economic Exchange at the Indian Institute of Science, 1909-25

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• 110: Revisiting Gender ( Hilton Portland Downtown, Floor: 3rd Floor, Executive)
  • Michele Pflug (2022-23 LHL Fellow), University of Oregon
    • Butterflies through Bristol: Gender, Curiosity, and Collecting in an Atlantic Port City, c.1700.
• 112: Natural History in the Age of Revolutions (Hilton Portland Downton, Floor: Ballroom Level, Galleria North)
  • Edwin Rose (2022-2023 LHL Fellow), Darwin College, University of Cambridge
    • Empire, Interleaving and Indigenous Knowledge in the Emergence of the “Natural System.”
• 116: Dossier as Denkstil: Biographies of Files (Hilton Portland Downtown, Floor: 3rd Floor, Senate)
  • Patrick De Oliveira (2016-2018 LHL Fellow), IE University
    • "Au Nom de la Science": Inscriptions and Erasures in the Archive of Ballooning Meteorological Science

Sunday, November 12, 2023

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

• 129: The Science of Silence: Constructing cultural and intellectual understandings of environmental silence (Hilton Portland Downtown, Floor: Ballroom Level, Galleria North)
  • Whitney Robles (2016-18 LHL Fellow), Dartmouth College
    • Stillness and Secrets in Rattlesnake Country
• 132: Human and Social Sciences at the Computer Interface (Hilton Portland Downtown, Floor: Plaza Level, Pavilion)
  • Ekaterina Babintseva (2021-22 LHL Fellow), Purdue University
    • The Limits to Formalization: Logic, Embodiment, and Human Cognition at the University of Illinois in the 1960s-1970s