{"162801":{"#nid":"162801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"HTS Grad Students Help Run International Conference in Copenhagen","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive PhD students in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(HTS)\u0026nbsp;travelled to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) with an invitation to serve as support staff at the conference. Four of the students also presented papers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAngel Callahan, Emily Gibson, Brian Jirout, John Miller, and Peter Westin arrived early to assist the staff of SHOT\u2019s Executive Secretariat in handling the bulk of administrative work for the event. The students presenting papers were:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAngel Callahan: \u0022Talking About the Weather: Postwar Science and Cold War Internationalism, 1955-1964\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBrian Jirout: \u0022Environment, Remote Sensing and the Production of Compartamentalized User Communities, 1059-1978\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJohn Miller: \u0022Potent Signals: The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph and the Impact on the American Civil War\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPeter Westin: \u0022How Green was the Flag? The Maturation of Motorsports\u0027 Relationship with Automobility and the Environment\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is dedicated to the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts. Founded in 1958, the society now numbers around 1,500 members.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\u0026nbsp;Krige\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/strong\u003E, serves on SHOT\u2019s Executive Council.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunding for HTS travel to participate in this conference was through a combination of funds from SHOT, HTS, the Dean of the Ivan Allen College, and the Student Government Association.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive PhD students in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/strong\u003E (HTS)\u0026nbsp;travelled to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) with an invitation to serve as support staff at the conference. Four of the students also presented papers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2012-10-17 09:37:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:58","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"162791":{"id":"162791","type":"image","title":"Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Volunteers","body":null,"created":"1449178908","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:48","changed":"1475894799","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:39","alt":"Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Volunteers","file":{"fid":"195463","name":"htsdenmark.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/htsdenmark_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/htsdenmark_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":101508,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/htsdenmark_0.jpg?itok=0LJkcEnV"}}},"media_ids":["162791"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171113","name":"SHOT"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}