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September 25-28. 2008 ◆ Franklin Square Inn, Houghton, Michigan, USA Sponsored by Michigan Technological University with support from the National Science Foundation.
Workshop Description Industrial Heritage: Premises and Practices for the 21st Century serves as the capstone of a National Science Foundation Program in Science and Technology Studies grant to inaugurate a doctoral program in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology at Michigan Technological University. Begun in 2005, the Ph.D. initiative developed logically from an earlier Masters program in industrial archeology, with the intention of allowing students more time and resources to research industrial heritage and ultimately to pursue careers in this field. The timing of this workshop also mirrors recent European initiatives to develop international heritage programs, including the Erasmus Mundus Master’s degree on Industrial Technology, Heritage, and Technologies and a proposed International Master’s program that will connect universities in Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as other nations. This workshop takes an inclusive stance on industrial heritage. Beyond outlining three key avenues for discussion—education, environment, economic development—we have purposefully left latitude for the six core invitees to choose how they wish to address these topics. Helmuth Albrecht, Wolfgang Ebert, Sharon Ann Holt, Patrick Malone, Marie Nisser, and Fred Quivik have worked extensively in one or more of these areas. This workshop is geared mostly at the conversation that results in bringing varying perspectives together. The central question we hope to explore is this issue of connecting the theoretical and the practical—be it through identifying experiences or conditions where these aspects articulate well, or instances where they fail to do so at all. |
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