Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Conference Archive
The Life of New Materials, November 17-18, 2011
Crisis and Consequence
Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library, November 5, 2010
"Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions and History"
Sponsored by the Hagley Museum and Library and German Historical Institute. October 30 and 31, 2009
"Fashions: Business Perspectives in Historical Perspective,"
Business History Conference, June 11-13 2009
"Unintended Consequences"
A conference sponsored by the Hagley Fellows of the University of Delaware
Saturday April 4, 2009
"Automobility: A Conference on the 100th anniversary of the Model T", November 6-7, 2008.
Conference poster
"Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday Objects", Friday, May 16, 2008. Program | Poster | Registration
"Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction", November 29-30, 2007 | PROGRAM | POSTER
"Technological Innovation and the Cold War", March 9, 2007 | PROGRAM
"Missing Subjects", Hagley Fellows Conference, March 31, 2007 | PROGRAM
"Food Chains: Provisioning, Technology, and Science", November 2 to 4, 2006 | PROGRAM | POSTER
"How Business Users Shaped Modern Technologies...and Vice Versa", March 10, 2006 | POSTER
"Producing Fashion", October 28-29, 2005 | PROGRAM
"Utopian Visions and World's Fairs", April 15, 2005 | PROGRAM
Tourism Conference, "Consuming Experiences", November 12-13, 2004 | PROGRAM
"The Pennsylvania Railroad and its Archives: Their History and Legacy", December 5, 2003 | PROGRAM
"The Ambiguities of Work: Knowledge, Power, and Culture", November 7, 2003 | PROGRAM
"Reinventing the Factory", Hagley Fellows Conference, March 28, 2003 | PROGRAM
"The Technological Fix", October 4-5, 2002 | PROGRAM
"Commodifying Everything: Consumption and the Capitalist Enterprise", October 12-13, 2001
"Consumption and the Environment", Hagley Fellows Conference, March 9, 2001
"Kitchens: Design, Technologies, and Work", November 10, 2000
"Food and Drink in Consumer Societies", November 12-13, 1999
"Beauty & Business", March 26-27, 1999
"Private Time, Private Space, Private Parts: Negotiating the Boundaries of Private and Public in History", Hagley Fellows Conference, February 26, 1999
"Technology and Artistic Practice", October 30, 1998
"Women and Historic Preservation", May 28 & 29, 1998
"Boys and Their Toys? Masculinity, Technology, and Work", October 3, 1997
"The Future of Business History", April 4 & 5, 1997
"Modernism and Technology, 1900-1945", Hagley Fellows Conference, March 7, 1997
Image: Conference poster for Technological Innovation and the Cold War held at the Hagley Library on March 9, 2007. Full poster