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International Symposium Reports on the History of Industrial Technology, Putting the history of technology to work for the future

International Symposium Reports on the History of Industrial Technology, Putting the history of technology to work for the future

February 2001

  • Keynote address:
    “Toward the foundation of a nation rich in learning resources on its 20th-century industrial heritage”
    Akihiko Kawaguchi (Director, University Museum, University of Tokyo)
  • Keynote report:
    “Functions and roles required of a national center for the history of industrial technology”
    Keiichi Shimizu (Director, No. 4 Science and Engineering Research Office, National Museum of Nature and Science)
  • Case-study report:
    “Concept for the Kitakyushu Museum of Industrial Technology”
    Koichi Sueyoshi (Mayor of Kitakyushu)
  • Special address:
    “Toward the formation of a new academic discipline: Studies in technological revolutions”
    Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (Chair, Committee for the Study of the History of Industrial Technology, National Museum of Nature and Science; President, Open University of Japan)
  • Keynote address:
    “We are all artifacts: Inquiries into research and museums about the history of industrial technology in the United States”
    Stephen Cutcliffe (Director, Science, Technology & Society Program, Lehigh University)
  • Case-study presentation:
    “Arrow or matrix? The social and cultural structure of technology”
    Gregory Clancey (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore)
  • Panel discussion:
    “Putting research and development experience at museums of the history of industrial technology to work as a new resource”
  • Coordinator:
    Motoyuki Suzuki (Chair, Planning and Promotion Committee of the Research on the Evaluation, Preservation and Publication of Materials on the History of Industrial Technology; Vice Rector, United Nations University)
  • Panelists:
    Stephen Cutcliffe (Director, Science, Technology & Society Program, Lehigh University)
    Gregory Clancey (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore)
    Azusa Tomiura (Advisor, Nippon Steel Corporation)
    Naomasa Nakajima (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo)
International Symposium Reports on the History of Industrial Technology, Putting the history of technology to work for the future 2

International Symposium Reports on the History of Industrial Technology, Putting the history of technology to work for the future 2

February 2002

  • Keynote address:
    “Characteristics of research in the history of industrial technology in Munich: The 'double helix' of university and museum”
    Helmuth Trischler
    (Director of Research, Deutsches Museum; Director, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology)
  • Keynote report:
    “Objectives for a national center of materials and information on the history of industrial technology”
    Keiichi Shimizu (Director, No. 4 Science and Engineering Research Office, National Museum of Nature and Science)
  • Keynote address:
    “Fresh challenges and outlook for the Smithsonian”
    Stephen Lubar
    (Director, Studies in the History of Technology, American History, Smithsonian Institution)
  • Keynote report:
    “What is expected from the concept of a key museum”
    Seizo Miyata (President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
  • Special address:
    “Research in technological revolutions at the National Center”
    Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (Chair, Committee for the Study of the History of Industrial Technology, National Museum of Nature and Science; President, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
  • Panel discussion:
    “Social role expected of the National Center"
  • Coordinator:
    Motoyuki Suzuki (Chair, Planning and Promotion Committee of the Research on the Evaluation, Preservation and Publication of Materials on the History of Industrial Technology; Vice Rector, United Nations University)
  • Panelists:
    Stephen Lubar (Director, Studies in the History of Technology, American History, Smithsonian Institution)
    Helmuth Trischler (Director of Research, Deutsches Museum; Director, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology)
    Seizo Miyata (President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
    Seishi Koizumi (Freelance journalist, former report with Yomiuri Shimbun)
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