{"id":436,"date":"2013-12-01T17:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2013-12-01T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:44:25","slug":"recent-conference-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Been Talking About&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the term&#8217;s finally ended, I&#8217;m gratified to be able to reflect on what I&#8217;ve been up to for the past few months, in terms of conferences and presentations. This Fall was a really interesting time for me, because in addition to presenting at conferences that are old standbys for me, like the Society for the History of Technology, I was also glad to have the opportunity to make new connections in fields ranging from digital humanities to queer studies.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to, with some links to available online versions of presentation materials where possible:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mobile Processing Conference, <\/strong>University of Illinois, Chicago, November 2, 2013<br \/>\n<em>\u201cArtifacts from History: Gender, Infrastructure, and the Assumptions Our Technologies (Make Us) Make\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nMuch of this talk was based on the experiment detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/?p=321\">these blog posts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital Humanites Workshop, <\/strong>Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, August 8, 2013<br \/>\n<em> \u201cRetooling Undergrads: Digital Humanities in the Classroom, on Campus, &amp; Beyond\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nDownload a <a href=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/NorthwesternDHPresentationAug2013v3.pdf\">copy of the slides<\/a> for this talk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>North American Conference on British Studies, <\/strong>Portland, Oregon, November 2013<br \/>\nRoundtable on Queering the History of Technology in British Studies (organizer and participant, with co-presenters <a href=\"http:\/\/johnshopkins.academia.edu\/KatieHindmarchWatson\">Katie Hindmarch-Watson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brynmawr.edu\/english\/Faculty_and_Staff\/smThomas.html\">Kate Thomas<\/a>, and chaired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/history\/brian-lewis\">Brian Lewis<\/a>)<br \/>\nThe comments I presented here will inform an upcoming article, but unfortunately no slides to share for this one, given the format of the session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Society for the History of Technology,<\/strong> Portland, Maine, October 2013<br \/>\nParticipant in teaching Roundtable, spoke on:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe History of Computing and Outward-Facing Classrooms: A perspective from the SIGCIS (Special Interest Group on Computers , Information, and Society)\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nYou can <a href=\"http:\/\/shot-talk.org\/?page_id=147\">read my comments for this panel<\/a>, as well as the comments of the other panelists, on the new website for SHOT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Society for the History of Technology,<\/strong> Portland, Maine, October 2013<br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe Invisible Logic of Technocracy: Feminization, Reskilling, and Governance in British Computing, 1944-1979\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nNothing to share publicly for this one right now&#8211;too busy working on the book manuscript!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the term&#8217;s finally ended, I&#8217;m gratified to be able to reflect on what I&#8217;ve been up to for the past few months, in terms of conferences and presentations. 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