Teaching the History of Innovation: A History Institute for Teachers

A History Institute for Teachers

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Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, 2008

Hosted by

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Kansas City, Missouri

Sponsored by

The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center

The teaching of U.S. and world history is incomplete if it does not address the history of innovation from economic, scientific/technological, and sociological perspectives. We feel it important for students to be encouraged both to explore the role of innovation in U.S. and world history and to develop their own sense of innovation and creativity.

Webcast

The History Institute will be broadcast over the web. To view the webcast, you must register using the link below. You will receive an e-mail containing the appropriate link on the day of the event.

Topics and Speakers:

Saturday, October 18 (Kauffman Foundation Conference Center)

(For those staying overnight on Friday, breakfast is on your own. The bus to the conference center will leave the hotel at 10:00 a.m.)

10:45 a.m. CT: Welcoming Remarks – Walter McDougall
11:00 a.m. Keynote: Ideas: A History of Thought from Fire to Freud
Peter Watson, Oxford University  
1:15 p.m. From Stone to Silicon: A Brief Survey of Technology and Inventions
Lawrence Husick, Senior Fellow, FPRI   
2:30 p.m. Engaging Students Using Stone to Silicon
3:30 p.m. The Relationship Between Social and Technological Change in American and Western History
Alex Wright, author of Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages 
4:45 p.m. Bus back to Hotel 
The bus will return to the hotel for a short break and return to the conference center at 6:00 p.m..)  
6:15 p.m. Reception and Dinner
7:30 p.m. Teaching Innovation –A Panel Discussion
Lawrence Husick, Senior Fellow, FPRI,
Paul Dickler, Senior Fellow, FPRI’s Wachman Center
Joy Hakim, author of The Story of Science and A History of US
Dennis Shasha, Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Sunday, October 19 (InterContinental Hotel at the Plaza)

(Breakfast is on your own)

8:15 a.m.  Innovation and Invention: The Computer as a Case History
Rocco Martino, Chairman & CEO, CyberFone Technologies, Inc., and Senior Fellow, FPRI
Dennis Shasha, Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
9:45 a.m.  War and Technology
Alex Roland, Professor of History, Duke University
11:15 a.m.  How the West Grew Rich
Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr., Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University
12:30 p.m. Lunch

The conference begins 11 am CT on Saturday, October 18 and concludes at 1 pm CT on Sunday, October 19, 2008.

Sponsors

Core funding for these programs has been contributed by The Annenberg Foundation. For specific weekends, additional funding has been contributed by FPRI Trustees W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, and John M. Templeton, Jr., and by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Support for our programming on Teaching the History of Innovation is provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.