selected Upcoming and recent academic presentations
“‘Requires No Programming’: Language, Simulation, and Power at Postwar Monsanto,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 10 November 2023.
“‘Requires No Programming’: Language, Simulation, and Power at Postwar Monsanto,” SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society, online, 23 September 2023.
“Autocoding at Work: Designing Language, Specifying Labor,” Automation by Design: Politics, Culture, and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, online event, 17–18 February 2023.
“‘To Arouse the Enthusiasm of Most Schoolboys’: The Working Party for a Traveling Computer for Sixth Forms,” SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, 13 November 2022.
“‘Basically in English’: COBOL and the Construction of a Common Business Orientation,” Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, “Writing and the Contexts of Code” session (organized by David C. Brock and David E Dunning), New Orleans, Louisiana, 11 November 2022.
“A ‘Political and Politico-Academic Attack’: The Working Party for a Traveling Computer for Sixth Forms,” Tenth Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Brussels, Belgium, 8 September 2022.
“‘Contact with Real Computing’: Practice and Theory in Christopher Strachey’s Programming Research Group,” British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Belfast, UK, 22 July 2022.
“‘The Ordinary Man Who Happens also to Have a Great Deal of Scientific Knowledge’: Susan Stebbing’s Philosophy of Physicists,” Fourteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 20–23 June 2022.
“Constructing the ‘Home-side’ of a Scientific Legacy: Mary Everest Boole, Pedagogy, and Domesticity,” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics Annual Meeting, “History of/in Mathematics Education” panel (organized by David Orenstein), online, 14 May 2022.
“‘Real Working Men’: Performing Gender in Nineteenth-Century Mathematical Logic,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, “Gender and Work in the Mathematical Sciences” panel (organized by Andrew Fiss), online, 19 November 2021.
Upcoming and recent presentations for a general audience
“Logic Machine by W. S. Jevons,” legacy video for the History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yupTb20ke0A. 2023.
“What Is Polish Logic? National Identity in a Universal Science,” Polish Culture Salon, The Kosciuszko Foundation Philadelphia Chapter, online event, 6 June 2020.
“The Universe on Paper: Dmitri Mendeleev and a Table for Teaching,” Atomic Love Event, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 13 February 2019.