Programme

Monday 30th March 2009

Opening Statement
13.30-14.00

Re-examining Familiar Dichotomies. How to Classify Machine Tools?
Adam Tooze (Cambridge University) & Ralf Richter (Bielefeld University)

 

Panel I: 14.00 –16.15

14.00 – 14.30
1) Machine Tools and the Question of Productivity in the US
Cristiano Ristuccia (Cambridge University)

 

14.30 – 15.00
2) Machine Tools and the Question of Productivity in Germany and the UK (abstract » )
Adam Tooze (Cambridge University)

 

15.00 – 15.30
3) Electric Motors in the US and Germany: An Explanation for the ‘Productivity Gap’? (abstract » )
Ralf Richter (Bielefeld University)

 

15.30-16.15
Comment and Discussion:
Stephen Broadberry (Warwick University)

 

Coffee Break
16.15 – 16.30

 

Panel II: 16.30-18.15

16.30-17.00
4) Catching-up and Falling Behind? Illegitimate Knowledge Spillover from American to German Machine Tool Makers, 1877-1932 (abstract » )
Jochen Streb (Hohenheim University)

 

17.00-17.30
5) From Depression to Globalization: Reconfiguring American Machinery and Machine Tool Building, 1930s-1970s (abstract » )
Philip Scranton (Rutgers University & Hagley Museum and Library)

 

17.30-18.15
Comment and Discussion
David Edgerton (Imperial College, London)

 

Break
18.15-18.45

 

Panel III: Simulation

18.45-19.30

6) Virtual Reconstruction of Renault’s C5 Workshop and the Assembly Line Process in the 1920’s, (abstract » )
Alain P. Michel (University of Evry-Val d’Essonne ) & Stéphane Pouyllau (French National Center for Scientific Research)

 

 

Tuesday, 31st March 2009

Panel IV:

9.30-10.00
7) The Watchmaking Enterprises and the Growth of a Special-purpose Machine Tools Industry in Japan (1880-1960) (abstract » )
Pierre-Yves Donze (Kyoto University)

 

10.00-10.30
8) Fordism in the Forest? - The Case of the Simson Works in Suhl, Thuringia (abstract » )
Ulrike Schulz (Bielefeld University)

 

10.30-11.00
9) An Important Edge: The Adoption of Tungsten Carbide Cutting Tools in Britain (abstract » )
Hermione Giffard (Imperial College, London)

 

11.00-11.45
Comment and Discussion:
Ross Thomson (University of Vermont / UCLA)

 

Brunch
11.45-12.30

 

Panel V:

12.30-13.00
10) Design and Production in the 19th and 20th Century (abstract » )
Wolfgang König (Technical University Berlin)

 

13.00-13.30
11) Knowledge, Skill and Machine Tools: Situating Engineering Education in late 19th Century Britain (abstract » )
Klaus Staubermann, National Museums Scotland / University of Edinburgh, UK

 

13.30-14.15
Comment and Discussion:
Cristianio Ristuccia (University of Cambridge)

 

Coffee Break
14.15-15.00

Panel VI

15.00-15.30
12) The Concept of a Comparative Product History and its Contribution Towards a Global History of Production (abstract » )
Anne Sudrow (Technical University Munich & German Museum Munich)

 

15.30-16.00
13) Production as Social Practice: Conceptual Considerations (abstract » )
Thomas Welskopp (Bielefeld University)

 

16.00-16.30
14) Elements of a New Global History of Production (abstract » )
David Edgerton (Imperial College, London)

 

16.30-17.15
Comment and Discussion:
Gareth Stedman Jones (University of Cambridge)

 

17.15
End