Calendar of SIA events and other industrial archeology related events

Society for Industrial Archeology Email: sia@mtu.edu Tel.: 906-487-1889

August 26, 2010: First Meeting of Edward P. Allis Southern Wisconsin Chapter of the SIA The first meeting of the Edward P. Allis Chapter has been set for August 26th at 5:00 p.m. The free tour will start at the former Allis manufacturing shops that have been converted to office space through adaptive reuse, located at 6737 W. Washington Street, Suite 3105, West Allis, WI 53214. From there we will proceed to Regenco at 6609R West Washington Street, West Allis, WI 53214. These two facilities are the remnants of the original Reliance Works of the Edward P. Allis Company, manufacturer of some of the world’s largest steam engines and other machinery. The company later became Allis Chalmers Corporation. Directions: Coming from Downtown, exit I94 at 68th Street and drive the ramp to 70thStreet; turn south and drive about 2/3rds of a mile to Washington Street; take Washington east about one block to Summit. PLEASE RSVP to Ann Rice at ricea@msoe.edu or 277-2300 BY AUGUST 12th. The tour should conclude by 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 9-12, 2010: Seventh Biennial Conference on Historic Roads, Washington, DC. Info: www.historicroads.org.

Entries dues by Sept. 10, 2010 National Historic Landmarks 2010 Photo Contest
In 2010, the contest name, “Imaging Our National Heritage” encourages people to use their cameras to capture the meaning of the National Historic Landmark in a photo. If you’re inspired to visit our nation’s National Historic Landmarks, seek out the stories that have formed our American history, and create your own image to share. For the first time, NHL will be administering the NHL Photo Contest through our Group on Flickr.

Sept. 16-19, 2010 - SIA Vermont Fall Tour Note: Tour is full and registration is closed.

Sept. 19-24, 2010: World Canals Conference, Rochester, N.Y.Info: www.wccrochester.org.

Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2010: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Conference, Tacoma, Wash. Info: www.historyoftechnology.org/

Oct. 6-8, 2010: Big Stuff 2010-Imperial War Museum Duxford/UK
Conference on the display of large technological objects within museum settings.

Oct. 6-9, 2010: Odyssey in the Ozarks, Society for Commercial Archeology Annual Conference, Fayetteville, Ark. Toursof commercial landscape and architecture along U.S. Routes 62 & 71. Info: www.sca-roadside.org.

Oct. 6-10, 2010: Assn. for Preservation Technology Annual Conference, Denver, Colo. Theme: Layers across Time, Preserving a Diverse Western Heritage. Info: www.apti.org.

Oct. 13-16, 2010: Pioneer America Society Annual Meeting, Castleton, Vt. Theme: Memory and Landscape on New England’s Northern Frontier. Paper sessions and tours, some IA-related (railroads, bridges, marble works). Info: www.pioneeramerica.org.

Oct. 20-22, 2010 HOOVER DAM 75th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
ASCE's History and Heritage Committee.
Come hear how this amazing project was designed and built! Learn about the many engineering firsts employed to create it and the many lessons learned over the project's life-span. As this special event is in conjunction with ASCE's 140th Annual Civil Engineering Conference.

Oct. 27-29, 2010 ERIH Annual Conference 2010 Barcelona, Spain
2010 ERIH Annual Conference which this year will take place in the Museu Nacional de la Ciéncia i de la Tècnica de Catalunya (mNACTEC) in Terrassa near Barcelona. 

The subject of this year’s Conference will be “Industrial Heritage Tourism – Examples of Best Practice". The aim of the event is to increase awareness of the wide range of activity and good practice that is taking place in this field across Europe. As the Conference is being organised jointly with the TICCIH Industrial Heritage Tourism Section it will also feature examples of good practice from across the world.

Oct. 28-30, 2010: Popular Culture and the Built Environment, Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn., Alexandria, Va. Theories, personalities, styles, and technologies that influence buildings, city planning, and community design. Info: www.mapaca.net.

Nov. 9-12, 2010: VI Latin-American Colloquium on Preservationand Protection of Industrial Heritage, Belo Horizonte,Minas Gerais, Brazil. Info: www.patrimonioindustrial.org.br.

Nov. 10, 2010: Crisis and Consequence Conference, Hagley Museum & Library, Wilmington, DE. The historical impact of financial crises on American society, business, and technology. Info: clockman@hagley.org.

2011

Mar. 31-Apr. 2, 2011: Business History Conference, St. Louis, Mo. Info: Carol Lockman, (302) 658-2400, ext. 243; clockman@hagley.org.

April 14th- 16th, 2011 - Industrial Heritage Congress “Elevators and Funiculars of the World”. The Chilean “International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage” (TICCIH); in collaboration with the Portuguese Association for the Industrial Heritage (APPI/TICCIH); the Municipality of Valparaiso and together with the SEK-Chile International University and the University of Pavia-Italy in Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile.

June 1-5, 2011 - SIA Annual Conference - Seattle, Washington