2. Session title: Challenging Central European Borders

Organizer: Elisabeth van Meer
Chair: Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast
Commentator: Valentina Fava

Papers:
- Elisabeth van Meer: Engineers without Borders? Scientific Management in Interwar Europe
- Karen Freeze: Theater Technology under Communism: Enabling an Ambassador to the West
- Jan Oliva: The Czechoslovak State and its Transport Policy Facing the New Boundaries in Central Europe (1918-1923)

3. Session title: Colonial Knowledge Exchange in European and Post-Colonial Water Management

Organizers: Wim Ravensteijn, Esha Shah and Maurits Ertsen
Chair: Donna C. Mehos
Commentator: Nil Disco
Papers:
- Maurits Ertsen: The Dutch Irrigation Regime
- Tiago Saraiva: Forests, Dams, and Colonization: The Portuguese Civilizing Mission in Africa and the Discovery of Portugal
- Wim Ravesteijn: Colonial Technology and the European Unification: The Case of Integrated River Basin Management

4. Session title: Ethnic Issues: Tensions between Traditional and Modern / Consumption in Eastern Europe

Chair: Lars Heide and Dobrinka Parusheva
Commentator: Paul Josephson

Papers:
- Milla Hannula: Regional Identity of the Carelian Isthmus
- Dianne van Oosterhout: Transcending Ethnic Borders: European Farmer Colonies, Transmigration and Migration of Technologies in Colonial and Post-Colonial Indonesia
- Malgorzata Mazurek: No More Wasting Time: Home Economics and the Fight against Queing Up in Communist Poland, 1966-1970

5. Session title: Technologies in ‘Developed Socialism’: Crossing the Internal and External Borders

Organizers: Ivan Tchalakov and Valentina Fava
Chair: Pascal Griset
Commentator: Karen Freeze

Papers:
- Valentina Fava: Automobiles vs Dollars: Selling Socialist Cars in Western Markets: Some evidence from the ŠKODA- Auto Case
- Ivan Tchalakov: Selling and Buying Technologies to the West: Bulgarian Institute for Metal Technologies and IZOT Co.”
- Todor Galev: Military-related Technological Innovations in Bulgaria during Socialism : Beyond Ideological and Political Borders: The ARCUS Military Plant Case

6. Session title: Colonial Knowledge Exchange in European and Post-Colonial Development

Organizers: Maria Paula Diogo, Harro Maat, and Donna Mehos
Chair: Frank Schipper
Commentator: Milena Veenis

Papers:
- Jahnavi Phalkey: “The Lack of Scientific Liaison”: A.V. Hill and Science Research in Colonial India
- Donna C. Mehos and Suzanne Moon: The New Internationalism?: Cirlulating Experts and Expertise in the Post-Colonial Context
- Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Paula Silva, and Wim Ravesteijn: Engineering, Colonial Empire, and European Power: The Cases of Portugal and the Netherlands

7. Session title: Consumption in Eastern Europe

Chair: Ruth Oldenziel
Commentator: Dobrinka Parusheva

CANCELLED! Paper by Malgorzata Mazurek has been moved to Session 4.

8. Session title: Contested Water: Technological Systems, Water Quality and the Environment

Organizer: Nil Disco
Chair: Pál Germuska
Commentator: Arne Kaijser

Papers:
- Viktor Pal: Technology and the Politicisation of Water in Central-East Europe after 1945
- Nil Disco: Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Technopolitics as "European" Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water supplies 1925-1975

12. Session title: Changing Spatial Orders: Europe in the Face of Global Networks

Chair: Judith Schueler
Commentator: Andreas Fickers

Papers:
- John Cloud: The Paradoxes of Precise Geo-Positioning for Citizens and States
- Ruth Oldenziel: Islands as Nodes: European Colonial Power Sharing with America during the Cold War
- Stefan Kaufmann: Border Regimes in the Era of Global Networks

13. Session title: Networks without Borders? Europe on the Cold War Divide

Organizer: Rhonda Hauben
Chair: Lars Heide
Commentator: Aristotle Tympas

Papers:
- Jay Hauben: Science and Technology Across an Ideological Divide: IIASA and IIASANET
- Ronda Hauben: Communicating Across the Boundaries of Dissimilar Networks: The Creation of the Internet and the Emergence of the Netizen
- Pál Germuska: Knowledge without Borders: Western Licences and Know-how in the Hungarian Defense Industry

14. Session title: Technological Styles and National Ambitions

Organizer: Paul Josephson
Chair: Eva Vamos
Commentator: Hakon With Andersen

Papers:
- Paul Josephson: Socialist Infrastructure in East Central Europe
- Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro: River Vuoksi: Industrialism and Water Regulation
- Evgeni Vodichev: The Role of Technical Assistance Projects in Overcoming Borders between the European Nations and Russia
- Alla Bolotova and Dmitry Vorobyev: Managing Natural Resources at the North: Changing Styles of Industrialization in the USSR

15. Session title: Roads and Networks: Connecting and Disconnecting Europe

Chair: Alec Badenoch
Commentator: Erik van der Vleuten

Papers:
- Hans Buiter: Urban Ring Roads: A Contested Concept
- Ekaterina Nikova: Roads Connecting, Roads Dividing: Infrastructure in South East Europe
- Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and Ana Cardoso da Matos: Networked Infrastructures in Portugal (1850-1920): Capital, Technology, and Skills Transfer

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16. Session title: Modes of Projecting Collective Identities by Shaping and Using Landscapes

Chair: Stefan Kaufmann
Commentator: Daniel Alexandrov
CANCELLED!

17. Session title: The Rise of the User: Europe in National Computer Projects

Organizers: Adrienne Bogaard and Petri Paju
Chair: Lars Heide
Commentator: Tom Misa

Papers:
- Timo Leimbach: STARG 440: A Scientific-technical User Group 1964-1981
- Philip Aumann: Between Users and Colleagues. Technical Cybernetics in Germany 1960-1980
- Gerald Alberts: Early Software in Europe: University-Industry Co-Entrepeneurship

18. Session title: Pan-European Technological Integration

Chair: Mikael Hard
Commentator: Todor Galev

Papers:
- Waqar Zaidi: Proposals for Internationalization of Aviation: A Case of Interwar Technological Internationalism
- Anique Hommels: Complex Interactions Between European Standards on National Innovation Projects: The Case of Tetra and the C2000 Network