30 October 2021
(deadline for papers: 9 October)
10:00-10:30am ET— Michael Gordin (Princeton University) and Patrick McCray (UCSB)
Introductions: Why Greedy Science?
10:30-11:15 ET — Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University), “Taking the Marks to the Market: The Oil Industry and Entrepreneurial Science in the Go-Go ’80s”
11:15-noon ET — Angela Creager (Princeton University), “Neoliberal Mutations”
Noon-12:45pm ET — Matthew Stanley (New York University), “Extinction or Chicken Little: Asteroid Impacts and Predicting the Apocalypse in the 1980s”
15 January 2022
(deadline for papers: 25 December )
10am-10:15am ET – Michael Gordin (Princeton University) and Patrick McCray (UCSB)
Welcome Back and Introductions
10:15am-11am ET — Margaret Weitekamp (National Air and Space Museum), “Brands in Space”
11am-11:45pm ET — Cathy Gere (UC-San Diego), “’Drugs into Bodies’: ACT UP and the Ironies of Greedy Science”
11:45am-12:30pm ET — Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University), “From Hanoi to Havana: Soviet Space Adventures in the Era of Stagnation and Star Wars”
2 April 2022
(deadline for papers: 12 March)
10am-10:45am ET — Yulia Frumer (Johns Hopkins University), “Service with a Smile; or, How Greed Made Japanese Robots Personal and Personable”
10:45-11:30am ET — Jon Agar (University College London), “Thatcherism and Science”
11:30-12:15pm ET — Stephanie Dick (Simon Fraser University), “Mind Games: How AI Went Knowledge-Free in the 1990s”
12:45-1:30pm ET — Peter Westwick (University of Southern California), “Science, Texas Style: How the Lone Star State Embraced Science in a Big Way”
1:30-1:45pm ET — Wrap-Up