Sustainable Transformations:
Technology and Its Environments
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
4 - 6 October 2007
All conference events in Hulman Memorial Union
Thursday, 4 October 2007
5:00 – 5:30 Campus Welcome (Heritage Room)
Dr. Jerry Jakubowski, President Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Conference Theme
Andreas Michel, President Humanities and Technology Association
5:30 – 7:30 Conference Welcome Dinner (Heritage Room)
7:30 – 9:30 Keynote Address. (Robert Kahn Room)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Watersheds Large and Small and The Endangered Meadows of Europe
Helen and Newton Harrison
Introduction: Steve Letsinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Friday, 5 October 2007
7.30 – 8.30 Continental Breakfast (Conference Room)
8.30 -10.00 Session I
I. Design and Ecology (Robert Kahn Room)
Moderator: Scott Clark, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Eric Nay, Ontario College of Art and Design
“Industrial Design in the New Ecology of Learning”
Mark Dixon, Ohio Northern University
“The Ethics of Environmental Restoration”
Tendai Chitewere, San Francisco State University
“Green technology in an Eco-village”
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session II
II. Art Technology Politics (Robert Kahn Room)
Moderator: Steve Letsinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Gentiane Belanger, Concordia University, Montreal
“Relational Art and the Technocratic Order: Strategies of Subversion from Within”
J. Anthony Langlois, University of Windsor
“Reactive Environments Through Politicized Artworks”
Russell Manning, Deakin University
“The Unethical Environment of Reality Television”
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (Louise Kahn Room)
1:30 – 3:00 Concurrent Sessions III and IV
III. Sustainability and the American Undergraduate Student (Robert Kahn Room)
Moderator: John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
James Adams, Troy University and Richard Emanuel, Alabama State University
"Talk about campus sustainability: Do students know what this means? Do they care?"
Kristin Hanks, Indiana University
“Undergraduate Attitudes towards Sustainability and the Material Effects of Information Technologies: Survey and Results”
David Roedl, Indiana University
“Undergraduate Attitudes towards Sustainability and the Material Effects of Information Technologies: Conclusions and Ideas”
IV. Food, Wendell Berry, Agriculture (Performing Arts Room)
Moderator: Mark Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Lillian Daughaday, Murray State University
“Food for thought: The Food Ethics of Wendell Berry”
Lindsay Welsch, Indiana University
“Food With a Face: The Literalizing Local Food Movement”
Arthur Sherwood, Indiana State University
“Is there a Postindustrial Agriculture?”
3:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Coffee Break (Conference Room)
3.30 – 5:00 Concurrent Sessions V and VI
V. Problems of Technology Transfer (Robert Kahn Room)
Moderator: Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Bruce Buchanan, Southern Illinois University
“The Challenge of Technology Transfer”
Tom van der Voorn, Delft University of Technology
“Technology Transfer in Bangla Desh”
Enslin VanRooyen, University of Pretoria
“Integrated Agricultural Development Planning: Administrative Technologies and Options in South Africa”
VI. Natural Resources and Pollution (Performing Arts Room)
Moderator: Ella Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Michael Robinson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
“Global access to sustainable drinking water”
Amy Roe, University of Delaware
“Serene Destruction. Image and Experience: Conflicts, Resource Extraction Technologies, and the Decline of Susqhehenna River Shad”
Vanesa Castan Broto, Forest Research/University of Surrey
“Claiming Environmental Pollution: a Symbolic Exploration”
5:00 – 5.45 Reception (Heritage Room)
5:45 – 7:00 Friday Night Dinner (Faculty Dining Room)
7:30 – 9:30 Roundtable Discussion (Kahn Rooms)
FRIDAY EVENING ROUNDTABLE
Transforming Terre Haute: Sustainability in the Wabash River Valley
Helen and Newton
Harrison’s position statement on the Wabash watershed and its future
development will be followed by a roundtable discussion with regional
environmental experts, officials of the city of Terre Haute, Rose-Hulman
faculty and students, and HTA conference participants.
Moderator: Mark Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Saturday, 6 October 2007
7:30 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast (Conference Room)
8:30 – 10:00 Concurrent Sessions VII and VIII
VII. History: Engineering and Art (Robert Kahn Room)
Moderator: Sam Martland, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
J. N. Nodelman, University of Winnipeg
“David B. Steinman, Literary Engineer of Spatial culture”
Robert Williams, University of Maryland, College Park
“Signal Work: The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America”
George Sochan, Bowie State University
"Levittown and the American Dream: Suburban Sprawl from Mall to Mall"
VIII. Philosophy of the Environment / Environmental Philosophy (Performing Arts Room)
Moderator: Heinz Luegenbiehl, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia
“Reading Aristotle in New Orleans: the Polis, Technology and its Environments”
Mark Herman, Bowling Green State University
“Sustainability of Psychological Prudence”
Jacques Laroche
“Sustainability and Ethics”
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break (Conference Room)
10:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions IX and X
IX. Electronic Technologies (Robert Kahn Room)
Moderator: Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Beth Miklavcic and Jimmy Miklavcic, University of Utah
“InterPlay: Performing on the High Tech Wire” Reflections on
Collaborative Real-Time Video Conferencing Telematics”
Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
"Training Simulations: Technology for Building Humane Societies"
X. Aesthetics Technology Environment (Performing Arts Room)
Moderator: Michael A. Kukral, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Howard S. Meltzer, Borough of Manhattan Community College
“You Can’t Imagine What It Sounds Like: Reflections on Iain M. Banks’ novel, Look to Windward”
Leon Niemoczynski, Southern Illinois University
“Forest Hermeneutics”
Methee Payomyong, Eisenhower Fellow
"Sufficiency Economy Philosophy: The Essential Assets for Sustainable Development of Thailand"