Program
Program
Thursday, 4 October 2007
5:00 – 5:30 Campus Welcome -- Dr. Jerry Jakubowski, President Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Conference Theme -- Andreas Michel, President Humanities and Technology Association
5:30 – 7:30 Conference Welcome Dinner
7:30 – 9:30 Keynote Address -- Watersheds Large and Small and The Endangered Meadows of Europe, Helen and Newton Harrison
Friday, 5 October 2007
7.30 – 8.30 Continental Breakfast
8.30 -10.00 Session I
I. Design and Ecology (Robert Kahn Room) -- Moderator: Scott Clark, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Eric Nay, Ontario College of Art and Design -- Industrial Design in the New Ecology of Learning
Mark Dixon, Ohio Northern University -- The Ethics of Environmental Restoration
Tendai Chitewere, San Francisco State University -- Green technology in an Eco-village
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session II
II. Art Technology Politics (Robert Kahn Room) -- Moderator: Steve Letsinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Gentiane Belanger, Concordia University, Montreal -- Relational Art and the Technocratic Order: Strategies of Subversion from Within
J. Anthony Langlois, University of Windsor -- Reactive Environments Through Politicized Artworks
Russell Manning, Deakin University -- The Unethical Environment of Reality Television
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (Louise Kahn Room)
1:30 – 3:00 Concurrent Sessions III and IV
III. Sustainability and the American Undergraduate Student (Robert Kahn Room) -- Moderator: John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
James Adams, Troy University and Richard Emanuel, Alabama State University -- Talk about campus sustainability: Do students know what this means? Do they care?"
Kristin Hanks, Indiana University -- Undergraduate Attitudes towards Sustainability and the Material Effects of Information Technologies: Survey and Results
David Roedl, Indiana University -- Undergraduate Attitudes towards Sustainability and the Material Effects of Information Technologies: Conclusions and Ideas
IV. Food, Wendell Berry, Agriculture (Performing Arts Room) -- Moderator: Mark Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Lillian Daughaday, Murray State University -- Food for thought: The Food Ethics of Wendell Berry
Lindsay Welsch, Indiana University -- Food With a Face: The Literalizing Local Food Movement
Arthur Sherwood, Indiana State University -- Is there a Postindustrial Agriculture?
3:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Coffee Break (Conference Room)
3.30 – 5:00 Concurrent Sessions V and VI
V. Problems of Technology Transfer (Robert Kahn Room) -- Moderator: Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Bruce Buchanan, Southern Illinois University -- The Challenge of Technology Transfer
Tom van der Voorn, Delft University of Technology -- Technology Transfer in Bangla Desh
Enslin VanRooyen, University of Pretoria -- Integrated Agricultural Development Planning: Administrative Technologies and Options in South Africa
VI. Natural Resources and Pollution (Performing Arts Room) -- Moderator: Ella Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Michael Robinson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology -- Global access to sustainable drinking water
Amy Roe, University of Delaware -- Serene Destruction. Image and Experience: Conflicts, Resource Extraction Technologies, and the Decline of Susqhehenna River Shad
Vanesa Castan Broto, Forest Research/University of Surrey -- Claiming Environmental Pollution: a Symbolic Exploration
5:00 – 5.45 Reception (Heritage Room)
5:45 – 7:00 Friday Night Dinner (Faculty Dining Room)
7:30 – 9:30 Roundtable Discussion (Kahn Rooms)
FRIDAY EVENING ROUNDTABLE -- Transforming Terre Haute: Sustainability in the Wabash River Valley
Helen and Newton Harrison’s
position statement on the Wabash watershed and its future development
will be followed by a roundtable discussion with regional environmental
experts, officials of the city of Terre Haute, Rose-Hulman faculty and
students, and HTA conference participants.
Moderator: Mark Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Saturday, 6 October 2007
7:30 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast (Conference Room)
8:30 – 10:00 Concurrent Sessions VII and VIII
VII. History: Engineering and Art (Robert Kahn Room) -- Moderator: Sam Martland, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
J. N. Nodelman, University of Winnipeg -- David B. Steinman, Literary Engineer of Spatial culture
Robert Williams, University of Maryland, College Park -- Signal Work: The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America
George Sochan, Bowie State University -- "Levittown and the American Dream: Suburban Sprawl from Mall to Mall"
VIII. Philosophy of the Environment / Environmental Philosophy (Performing Arts Room) -- Moderator: Heinz Luegenbiehl, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia -- Reading Aristotle in New Orleans: the Polis, Technology and its Environments
Mark Herman, Bowling Green State University -- Sustainability of Psychological Prudence
Jacques Laroche -- Sustainability and Ethics
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break (Conference Room)
10:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions IX and X
IX. Electronic Technologies (Robert Kahn Room) -- Moderator: Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Beth Miklavcic and Jimmy Miklavcic, University of Utah -- InterPlay: Performing on the High Tech Wire” Reflections on Collaborative Real-Time Video Conferencing Telematics
Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology -- "Training Simulations: Technology for Building Humane Societies"
X. Aesthetics Technology Environment (Performing Arts Room) -- Moderator: Michael A. Kukral, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Howard S. Meltzer, Borough of Manhattan Community College -- You Can’t Imagine What It Sounds Like: Reflections on Iain M. Banks’ novel, Look to Windward
Leon Niemoczynski, Southern Illinois University -- Forest Hermeneutics
Methee Payomyong, Eisenhower Fellow -- "Sufficiency Economy Philosophy: The Essential Assets for Sustainable Development of Thailand"