[H-verkko] CFP: Reusing the Industrial Past

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Reusing the Industrial Past

Elokuussa 2010 tie vie Tampereelle teollisuushistorian ja -perinteen
monialakokoukseen. ICOHTEC ja TICCIH järjestävät ensimmäistä kertaa
yhteisen maailman konferenssin. Ainutlaatuinen kokous on avoin
kaikille kiinnostuneille - tieteenalasta riippumatta  - niin
mustakourille kuin valkokaulustyöläisille.

Sitten vaan hihnat pyörimään ja sorvin ääreen. Nääs lastua pukkaa.

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Call for Poster, Papers and Sessions

ICOHTEC & TICCIH Joint Conference 2010

Reusing the Industrial Past

10–15 August 2010 Tampere, Finland

A Joint Conference between the International Committee for the
History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and The International Committee for
the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH). The
International Association of the Labour Museums (WORKLAB) is a minor
partner in the conference.

Deadline for Proposals is 16 November 2009.

Conference language: English

As a joint conference, the primary theme ‘Reusing the Industrial
Past’ is intended to be a broad idea covering various approaches.
Clearly, the industrial past is reused whenever old industrial
installations are renovated or adapted. There have been many attempts
to preserve the most significant aspects of old industrial areas after
productive activity has ceased, by giving them a new viable function.
However, the idea of reusing the industrial past need not stop
there.

Old industrial and handicraft technology can also be reintroduced and
reused in manufacturing various products or in explaining how they
work to the public in exhibitions. Various kinds of ‘retroproducts’
are now in vogue, while people are looking for alternative
technological solutions for plastics, electronics, concrete,
artificial chemicals and fertilisers. Knowledge of old technologies
is in demand. What technologies do historians suggest could be
reused?
Manufacturing still has a strong impact on culture, working habits
and ethics. The industrial past and obsolete technologies are also
present in the way people think and use their language. For instance,
“put the small pulley on” continues to be used as a metaphor in
British English for speeding up. Similar examples can be found in
other languages as well. For social historians, it would be
interesting to discover practices and ethics of factory work that
continue to be used in offices and shops today. The culture of work
seems to change more slowly than work itself and technology in use.

The conference programme will include scientific and plenary
sessions, poster presentations, business meetings and general
assemblies of the organising societies, excursions, social events
such as receptions and the banquet, and pre- and post-conference
trips. The premises of the University of Tampere and the historical
industrial buildings on the in the City Centrum will serve as
conference venues.

Conference Subthemes

In order to make the conference theme as strong as possible, the
programme committees have decided that all papers must fit within one
of the following sub-themes (which must be indicated on the proposal).
The bullet points under the subthemes are simply examples of topics
that fit into the each subtheme. Papers need not deal specifically
with a particular bullet point:
1. Nuts and Bolts Keep on Rolling
• Deindustrialisation and restructuring: Threat or opportunity?
• Stubborn technologies: Resistance to change
• Technological outcasts: Products and solutions rejected by
consumers
• Technological comeback: Retroproducts and retrodesign
• Reinventing the industrial past: Innovations that never existed
• Legitimising competitiveness: Political and economic actions to
support technological image and performance
• Processes in change: Technology of textile manufacturing and
papermaking

2. Artefacts and Experiences in Transition: Challenges for Industrial
Heritage
• Canonisation of the symbols of industrial revolutions
• Living and dead industrial landscapes
• Regeneration through heritage
• Reuse of industrial environments
• Societal aims for the conservation of industrial heritage
• Adapting technology and reforming industrial heritage
• Contested pasts - the heritage of science, technology and industry
in geo-political conflict

3. Social History of Industry
• Reinterpretations of the First Industrial Revolution
• Social history of factory work
• Identities of blue-collar workers and white-collar workers in
industry
• People and machines in industrial history
• Masculine machines and female labour: Gender in industry
• Local experiences: changes in work, vanishing employment, emerging
opportunities
• Twins astray? Labour history and industrial history
• Serfs of looms and slaves of mobile phones

4. Cultural History of Technology
• Emotions and machines: Adored and hated technologies
• Technological optimism and pessimism
• Company cultures: Breaks and continuity
• Ethics of factory work
• Workers’ culture: Legitimising hard work
• Long shadow of history: Influence of the industrial past in our
present way of life
• Fossilisation of factory rhetoric in language
• Exploiting images of the industrial past

5. Environmental History of Industrialisation and
Deindustrialisation
• Harnessing nature: Environmental exploitation
• Interdependence of energy and mechanisation in the smoke-stack
industries
• Smoke-stack industry as an environmental burden
• Environmental heritage of the First Industrial Revolution
• Environmental consequences of deindustrialisation


6. Museums and Industrial Memories
• Collection policies for the industrial era
• New perspectives for exhibiting industrial heritage
• Challenges for museums in the postindustrial society
• Museum architecture in old factories

Proposal Guidelines
We urge contributors to consider organizing a full session of three
or more papers. Individual paper submissions will, of course, be
considered.

Note: Membership of ICOHTEC, TICCIH, or WORKLAB is not required to
participate in the conference.

INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals must include: (1) a 250-word (maximum)
abstract in English; and (2) a one-page CV. Abstracts should include
the author’s name and email address, a short descriptive title, a
concise statement of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources,
and a summary of the major conclusions. Please indicate one of the
specified subthemes for your paper.

In preparing your paper, remember that presentations are not
full-length articles. You will have no more than 15-20 minutes to
speak – depending on the number of speakers in your session – which
is roughly equivalent to 6-8 double-spaced typed pages. Contributors
are encouraged to submit full-length versions of their papers after
the conference for consideration by ICOHTEC’s journal ICON or
TICCIH’s journal Industrial Patrimony. For more suggestions about
preparing your conference presentation, please consult the guidelines
at the conference web site: http://www.tampere.fi/industrialpast2010.

SESSION proposals must include: (1) an abstract of the session (250
words maximum), listing the proposed papers and a session
chairperson; (2) abstracts for each paper (250 words maximum); (3) a
one-page CV for each contributor and chairperson. Sessions should
consist of three or four speakers and may include several sections of
three to four speakers each, which might extend over more than one
day. We also encourage 'untraditional' session or roundtable
proposals.

POSTER proposals must include (1) a 250-word (maximum) abstract in
English; and (2) a one-page CV. Abstracts should include the author’s
name and email address, a short descriptive title, a concise statement
of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and a summary of the
major conclusions. Please indicate one of the specified subthemes for
your poster.

Proposal submissions

The final deadline for all submissions is Monday 16 November 2009.

Please submit proposals for papers and sessions via the website of
the Tampere conference at http://www.tampere.fi/industrialpast2010.

If web access is unavailable, proposals may be sent by fax to ICOHTEC
2010 at: +358 (0) 3 5656 6808. Otherwise they may be sent via regular
mail or courier, postmarked not later than 9 November 2009. The mail
address is:

ICOHTEC 2010
c/o Museum Centre Vapriikki
PL 487
Alaverstaanraitti 5
33101 Tampere
Finland

All questions about the programme proposals should be submitted to
the local organizing committee, icohtecticcih2010 at tampere.fi. Queries
about the conference venue should be made to the same address.

Further information on host organisations:

ICOHTEC: http://www.icohtec.org/
TICCIH: http://www.mnactec.cat/ticcih/
WORKLAB: http://www.worklab.dk/
University of Tampere: http://www.uta.fi/english/
Museum Centre Vapriikki:
http://www.tampere.fi/english/vapriikki/index.html
The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas: http://www.tyovaenmuseo.fi/?q=en

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Transmitted by

Timo Myllyntaus
General Secretary of ICOHTEC

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Agricola <agricola at utu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 16.11.2009
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta: http://www.tampere.fi/industrialpast2010