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”
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.
“ title tbd “
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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