Programs & Sessions
Humanities and Technology Association Annual Conference 2009
Charlottesville, VA
Sept 24-26, 2009
(PDF Program)
Thursday, September 24
4:30-5 p.m.
Conference Registration outside South Meeting Room
5-7 p.m.
Opening Plenary: "Gender, Feminism, and the Media: Policy Issues for 2009"
South Meeting Room, Newcomb Hall
A panel featuring:
- Susan Douglas, Chair of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan
- Eszter Hargitay, Northwestern University
- Carolyn Cunningham, University of Texas
Reception following in the Garden Room, West Range
Co-sponsored by the Department of Media Studies
Friday, 25 September 2009
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Conference registration(Newcomb Hall 360)
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
1. Technology, Transparency, Control (Newcomb Hall 481)
Moderator: Andreas Michel (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
"Enhancing Democratic Governance through Architecture and Web 3.0 Technologies" (Robert Damashek, Binary Group and Steven Volandt, Auroros, Inc.)
"Democracy and Transparency" (Nicholas Xenos, University of Massachusetts)
"Strategic Tactics in the Public Domain: A Reappraisal of Michel de Certeau in the Light of Web 2.0" (Yoni van den Eede, Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
2. Network, Rhetoric, and Simulation (Newcomb Hall Board Room)
Moderator: Alex Cummings (Vassar College)
"Democratic Transformation in Post-apartheid South Africa" (Beverly Sauer, Georgetown University)
"Social Simulation: Katrinasim" (Roberto Armengol, University of Virginia)
"Civic Journalism, Pragmatism and the Technology of Community" (Philip Deen, Wellesley College)
3. Society, Networks, Media (Newcomb Hall 389)
Moderator: Dennis Weiss (York College)
"Democracy, Narcissism, & the World Wide Web" (Craig Condella, Salve Regina University)
"The Background, the Body, and the Internet" (Michael Brownstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology)
"Bruno Latour's 'Parliament of Things' and Andrew Pickering's 'Mangle': Reconfiguring Democracy in a Non-Anthropocentric World" (Srikanth Mallavarapu, Roanoke College)
10:45 — 12:15
4. Surveillance and Transparency as Socio-technical Systems of Accountability (Newcomb Hall 481)
Moderator: Robert Damashek (Binary GrouBinary Groupp)
"Google Surveillance" (Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia)
"Secure Flight, IT, and Democracy" (Priscilla Regan, George Mason University)
"The Promises and Perils of Transparency: Comparing American Red Cross and Campaign Finance Disclosure" (Deborah Johnson and Kent Wayland, University of Virginia)
5. ICT and the Open Society (Newcomb Hall Board Room)
Moderator: Michael Brownstein (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
"Open Source, Open Society" (David R. Koepsell)
"Opening up the Closed Parliaments in Developing Countries through Aid-Assisted Information and Communication Interventions" (Malik Aleem Ahmed, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Cass Sunstein's Technological Democracy" (Brian Butler, UNC Asheville)
6. Democracy, Networks, Politics (Newcomb Hall 389)
Moderator: Yoni van den Eede (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
"Hot Buttons: Liberalism and the Politics of Interface Design" (Jason Puskar, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee)
"Technology Policy and the Public" (William Davis and Paul Poenicke, Virginia Polytechnic and State University)
"Networks and Democracy: How Did Korean Candlelight Protesters Use the Net?" (Sangmin Kim, George Mason University)
12:15 — 1pm Lunch
1:15 — 2:30
7. Ethics and Technology (Newcomb Hall Board Room)
Moderator: Craig Condella (Salve Regina University)
"Genetic Technologies and Responsibility: Re-Examining the Threat of Determinism" (Takuda A. Matoseu, University of Pennsylvania)
"Autonomy Unbound: An Unanticipated Consequence of Biotechnology" (Heinz Luegenbiehl, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
"Technopolis and Kinds of People" (Dennis Weiss, York College)
8. Democratizing Technologies? Revaluations of the Past (Newcomb Hall 389)
Moderator: Stan Kranc (University of South Florida)
"Technology Deconstructed: Technology and Progress in Post-Revolutionary American Culture" (Angela M. Lohr, Portland Community College)
"Museums as Democratizing Technologies: Frank Oppenheimer, Science Education and the Model of the Exploratorium, 1968-85" (Karen A Rader, Virginia Commonwealth University)
"Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots: Technology, Spectacle, Politics" (Howard Meltzer, Borough of Manhattan Community College)
3:30 — 5:00
Main Plenary: "Deliberative Democracy and the Internet"
The Miller Center for Public Affairs, Ivy Road
Featured Speaker:
James Fishkin, the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University
Other Panelists:
Jennifer Peterson, Media Studies, UVA
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Media Studies, UVA
Moderator: Sidney Milkis, Assistant Director for Academic Programs at the Miller Center
Reception following at the Miller Center
Co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Saturday, 26 September 2009
9:00 — 10:30
9. Information and (Copy)Rights (Newcomb Hall Board Room)
Moderator: Howard Meltzer (Borough of Manhattan Community College)
"The Technology and Rhetoric of Democratic Access to Sound Recordings" (Alex Cummings, Vassar College)
"Digital Photography and the Right to Privacy" (Jenn Neilson, UT Austin)
"For All to See: Abraham Bradley, Jr's Postal Map as an Illustration, Manifestation and Instrument of American State Building" (Allen S. Miller, University of Virginia)
10. Technology, Politics and the Environment (Newcomb Commonwealth Room)
Moderator: Dustin Cable (University of Virginia)
"The Global Warming Debate and Transnational Obligations" (Emilie Prattico, Northwestern University)
"Sonar Technology in the US Courts: A Case Study in Technology and Democracy?" (Christine A James, Valdosta State University)
"'Precautionary Science' and the Identification of Nanotechnology Risks" (Kevin C. Elliott, University of South Carolina)
11. Literary Investigations of Technology (Newcomb Hall 389)
Moderator: Catherine Kelly (DeVry University)
"Nurturing Nature: Scientific Society and the Natural Freak in Geek Love" (Anna Carroll, University of West Florida)
"Ideology, Myth, and Changing Representations of Technology" (S.C. Kranc, University of South Florida)
"Literature as Thought Experiment: Collaborative Knowledge Systems and Democratic Citizenship" (Michele de Silva, Central Oregon Community College)
11:00 — 1:00 INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP WITH LUNCH
KatrinaSIM: A Simulation of Decision-Making about Technology in a Democracy (Clark Hall Foyer)
Kathryn Neeley, Thomas Finger, Jonas Hart, and Matthew Howell, University of Virginia
Lunch will be served beginning at 11 a.m. There will be a presentation of approximately 15 minutes beginning at 11:15, followed by an opportunity to experience the simulation.
1:30 — 3:00
12. Technology and the Public Sphere (Newcomb Hall Board Room)
Moderator: Fred Mills (Bowie State University)
"Arendt, Habermas, and Facebook: An Analysis of Cyber Public Spheres" (Asaf Bar-Tura, Loyola University Chicago)
"Ancient Ideals in New Media: Democracy, Authority and Participation in Our Re-Emergent Oral Culture" (D.E. Wittkower, Coastal Carolina University)
"Democracy, Technology, and Elections: Just Where—and How—Do Americans Consent to be Governed?" (Bryan Pfaffenberger, University of Virginia)
13. Pedagogy in the Technology Studies Classroom: Students as Active Producers of Knowledge (Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room)
Moderator: Catherine Kelly (DeVry University)
"Engineering Authors: Students at the Intersection of Technology, Nature and Sustainable Communities" (Benjamin Cohen, University of Virginia)
"Dissecting the Life of an Everyday Consumer Product: 'Charging a Generation: Red Bull Revealed'" (Ed Russell, University of Virginia)
"Bringing Engineers into the Foodshed: Producing Podcasts on Technology, Nature, and Sustainable Agriculture" (Laura Kolar. University of Virginia)
3:30 — 5:00
HTA Business Meeting (Commonwealth Room)
Everyone Welcome! The conference registration fee includes one year's membership in the Humanities and Technology Association
6 p.m.
Cookout at Home of Kay Neeley and John Crafaik (casual)