P120. Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group
Sponsoring body:
P120-A. Premodern military technology
Harry Rand | National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Peng Wen-Xian | Graduate Institute of History, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, Taiwan
P120-B. Early modern guns and forts
Michael Charney | Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Japan
P120-C. Military technology in the long nineteenth century
P120-D. From the late nineteenth century to the First World War
Chair: Ciro Paoletti | Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare, Italy
Dagmar Ellerbrock | Max Planck Institute for Human Development, GermanyWITHDRAWN: Far behind fashion and desire: the German Reichsrevolver M 79
Larry Burke | Carnegie-Mellon University, United States
P120-E. Between the wars
P120-F. Second World War military technology
P120-G. Weapons of mass destruction
Chair: Jeremy Kinney | National Air and Space Museum, United States
Glen Asner | Office of the Secretary of Defense, United States
Joseph P. Harahan | US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, United StatesWITHDRAWN: Controversies and solutions in Russia’s destruction of chemical weapons, 1992–2010
P120-H. Cold War military technology
Petter Wulff | Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Symposium abstract
Since 2006, the annual ICOHTEC symposium on the social history of military technology has sought to expand the subject from its usual emphasis on detailing weapons development and use to the broader goal of setting military technological change in its largest social and cultural settings.
Location: Schuster Building Moseley Theatre
