History | Gender | Computing -- Program


	History \| Gender \| Computing Conference and Workshop 30-31 May 2008 Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota

Friday (30 May)

Andersen Library 120
(open public conference)
PRINTED CONFERENCE PROGRAM -- includes paper abstracts

8.00

Poster set-up in Andersen Library atrium

8.30

Arrival (coffee)

9.00

Welcome and Introduction

9.30-

10.50

Session 1: Automation, Skill and Power

Greg Downey (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Gender and Computing in the Push-Button Library, 1965-1985”

Corinna Schlombs (University of Pennsylvania), “Where Have All The Women Gone?”

10.50-

11.10

Coffee

11.10-

12.30

Session 2: Gender Discourse and Imagery

Hilde G. Corneliussen (University of Bergen, Norway), “Gendered Discursive Patterns in Norwegian Computer History”

Hara Konsta, Theodore Lekkas, and Aristotle Tympas (University of Athens/National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), “A Historical Taxonomy of Gendered Computing Advertisements”

12.30-

2.00

Gendered Bits

Lunch and Coffee
CBI exhibit "Gendered Bits: Identities, Practices, and Artifacts in Computing"
Posters attended 1.30 - 2.00

Vicki L. Almstrum, et al. "Computing Educators Oral History Project"
Maria Bardosova (University College Cork, Ireland), "Was Gender Equality an Issue behind the Iron Curtain? Is it an Issue Now?"
J. Penney Burton (Concordia University, Canada), "Contemporary North American Textile Artists"
Jill P. Dimond (Georgia Tech), "More than Paradoxes to Offer: Exploring Motivations to Attract Women to Computing"
Marie Hicks (Duke University), "Women Computer Operators in British Media, 1950-1970"

2.00-

3.20

Session 3: Boundaries and Identity

Caroline Hayes (University of Minnesota), “Women and Computing: Where Have We Been, and Where are We Now?”

Nathan Ensmenger (University of Pennsylvania), “Making Programming Masculine”

3.20-

3.50

Coffee

3.50-

5.10

Session 4: Gendered Cultures of Work and Play

Irina Nikiforova (Georgia Tech), “A Turtle in the Classroom: Envisioning Playing and Learning with Logo”

Tom Haigh (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “Masculinity in the History of Computing”

5.10-

5.30

Concluding Remarks [whiteboard]

5.30-

7.00

Conference Reception in Atrium (Andersen Library)

Generous support provided by conference sponsors: University of Minnesota Institute of Technology Dean's office; Graduate Program in History of Science, Technology & Medicine; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Posters in atrium

7.30-

9.30

Conference dinner for pre-signed-up guests (and all paper- and poster-presenters)


	Saturday (31 May) Andersen Library 211 (workshop for paper and poster presenters) PRINTED WORKSHOP PROGRAM -- final schedule

Many thanks to our generous sponsors
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Program Committee: Janet Abbate (VT); Tom Misa (Minnesota);
Veronika Oechtering (Bremen); Jeff Yost (CBI)

Charles Babbage Institute 211 Andersen Library
University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455 USA www.cbi.umn.edu

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