Saturday, December 14, 2013

Program and Schedule, Society of Automotive Historians Biennial Conference, Stanford University, April 10-12, 2104

Hi folks -- what follows is the Program for the next SAH Conference, April 10-12, at Stanford University. Many thanks to Arthur Jones, Conference Chair, for a remarkable effort that will bring together academic historians, SAH members, graduate students, international scholars, and those working at the cutting edge of the automobile industry.  I hope to see some of you there!  



Program and Schedule

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014

Board of Directors Meeting
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Boardroom

Registration
2:00 – 6:00 p.m.  Hotel Entrance

WELCOME RECEPTION
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.  Stratton Room and Patio
Greetings:  Reilly Brennan, Executive Director Revs Program at Stanford University

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014

Continental Breakfast
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Lobby

8:30 - Shuttle bus to Automotive Innovation Facility on Stanford campus

MORNING SESSIONS
Chair:  Arthur W. Jones

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
“A Portuguese Hybrid Car from the early 20th Century:  A Case Study in Innovation towards Energy Saving”
Speaker:  José Barros Rodrigues
Engineer and Historian, Portugal

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
“Making the African Car:  Design, Tinkering, and Politics”
Speaker:  Joshua Grace, Assistant Professor of History, University of South Carolina

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.
“Building a Bricolage of Speed: Dirt Track Racecar Construction, 1920-1960”
Speaker:  Alison Kreitzer
University of Delaware

BREAK - 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
“On the Road, Auto-mobility in American Culture and Literature”
Speaker:  Christina Ann Mesa, Lecturer in American Studies, Stanford University


11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
“License to Drive:  A History of the Driver’s License from New York in 1914 to California in 2013”
Speaker:  Eric Karl Roth, Attorney and Legal Historian, Stanford University

12:00 – 12:30 p.m.
“Policing the Automotive Society”
Speaker:  Sarah Seo
Princeton University

LUNCH BUFFET – 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Chair:  John A. Heitmann

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.
“On Balloon Tires into the Automotive Society:  The Low Pressure Tire and Other Technologies of Heavy Truck Transportation”
Speaker:  Jørgen Burchardt, Senior Researcher National Museum of Science and Technology, Denmark

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.
“Historical Development of Crankcase Engine Oils from the Model A to the Z4”
Speaker:  William Chamberlin
Research Engineer, Lubrizol Corporation

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
“Innovations in Vehicle Coatings during the First Half of the 20th Century:  Breaking a Bottleneck in Automobile Production”
Speaker:  Gundula Tutt, Conservator-Restorer, Institut für Technologie der Malerei
ABK Stuttgart

BREAK – 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.
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Featured Speaker:  Christian Gerdes
Associate Professor of Engineering
Interim Director, Revs Program at Stanford

5:00 Shuttle bus return to hotel

Evening – Dinner on your own



SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2014

Continental Breakfast
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Lobby

8:30 – Shuttle bus to Automotive Innovation Facility on Stanford campus

MORNING SESSIONS
Chair:  Judith E. Endelman

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
“Firm Competitiveness and Postwar Economic Integration in Europe:  The Case of Volkswagen in the ECSC and EEC”
Speaker:  Grace Ballor, Department of History University of California, Los Angeles

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
“Volkswagen’s American Experiments, Then and Now”
Speaker:  John Mohr
Auburn University

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.
“Byers A. Burlingame and the Studebaker Corporation:  Villain or Savior?”
Speaker:  Robert Ebert, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Baldwin-Wallace College

BREAK – 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
“The Trailer Revolution”
Speaker:  David Burel
Department of History, Auburn University

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
“Fuel to Drive:  A History of the Gas Station in the United States”
Speaker:  Usua Amanam
Revs Program at Stanford

12:00 – 12:30 p.m.
“Mexico, the United States and International Auto Theft”
Speakers:  John Heitmann
President, Society of Automotive Historians
Professor of History, University of Dayton
and Rebecca Morales, Independent Historian
former curator, San Diego Automotive Museum

LUNCH BUFFET – 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.



AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Chair:  Arthur W. Jones

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.
“Craft, Styling, Design:  The Evolving Disciplines of Car Design in Great Britain”
Speaker:  Helen Evenden
Royal College of Art, London

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.
“The Molecular Interactions of Cleaning Solutions with Lacquered Vehicles”
Speaker:  Owen Falk
Department of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
“3D Technology:  Additive Manufacturing and Holographic Imaging Applications”
Speaker:  John Marino
Associate Professor, Business Technology
Kent State University at Trumbull

BREAK – 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.
“My Vision of a Feasible Future of Electric Vehicles and Society”
Featured Speaker:  Masato Inoue
Former Product Chief Designer of Nissan LEAF

5:00 Shuttle bus returns to hotel

CLOSING DINNER
AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS
6:30 p.m. – Stratton Room
“Putting It All Together without a Workshop Manual”
Rudi Volti, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Pitzer College 

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