2010
Poster, “A view to a hill: Experiencing nature through leisure cabin architecture.” Poster proposed for American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Portland, March [Read abstract].
2009
“Too close to nature? Dealing with leisure cabin sanitation technology, 1960-1980.” Paper accepted for Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, October [Read abstract].
“Making yourself at home in nature: The conflict between public access to land and leisure cabin ownership in Norway, 1850-2000.” World Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen, August [Read abstract].
“Technological Infrastructures and Natural Experiences: The Development of the Norwegian Tourist Association’s Network of Footpaths and Cabins.” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Tallahassee [Read abstract].
2008
“Are you really in the wild when you have an espresso machine in your cabin?” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Boise [Read abstract].
“Are you really in the wild when you have an espresso machine in your cabin?” Also presented at First International Seasonal Homes and Amenity Migration Workshop, Trondheim, March.
2007
“‘Feel the Volcanicity!’ The Imagined Landscapes of Bottled Water.” Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. [Read abstract]
“Green Machines: The blending of technology and environmentalism in beverage container recycling systems.” ICOHTEC Annual Meeting, Copenhagen [Read abstract].
“Teaching Consumers to Recycle: Approaches to aluminum can recycling in Norway and the US.” European Society for Environmental History annual conference, Amsterdam [Read abstract].
2006
“Bottle Bills: Breaking or Building Business?” Business History Conference, Toronto [Read abstract].
“Bottle Bills and Bottle Machines: The Practical Aspects of Beverage Container Recycling Policy in Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. in the 1980s.” Policy History Conference, Charlottesville [Read abstract].
Poster, “Turning a Green Machine Green.” American Society for Environmental History, St. Paul, Minnesota [Read abstract and pdf].
“Tomras flaskepantautomat og den grønne forbrukeren.” Productivity 2005 Closing Conference, NTNU, Trondheim [Read abstract].
2005
“From Rational Backroom Handling to Helping the World Recycle: Defining Users of Tomra’s Reverse Vending Machines.” Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis [Read abstract].
“From Rational Backroom Handling to Helping the World Recycle: Defining Users of Tomra’s Reverse Vending Machines.” Also presented at Workshop in the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science (WHEATS), University of Virginia.
“Reverse Vending Machines – Globalization in Reverse?” Conference Paper at “Navigating Globalization: Stability, Fluidity, and Friction”, Trondheim [Read abstract].
2004
“Nye organisasjoner på gamle spor? Deregulering av jernbane i Norge – synspunkt fra aktørene,” at “Can Deregulation Increase Traffic Safety?”, Gardermoen, Norway, 2004. (”New Organizations on Old Tracks? Deregulation of Railroads in Norway – viewpoints from the actors”) [Read abstract]
2003
“I Brochmanns kjøkken. Vitenskap, modernitet og politikk i mellomkrigstidens husstelldiskurs”, Conference Paper at the Brochmann Seminar, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo [Read abstract].
2001
“Engineering Kitchens, Engineering People. The scientific kitchen as ideal and metaphor in Norway in the 1930s”, Conference paper at “Mediating technologies: users and usage in the history of 20th century technology”, arranged by Tensions of Europe network, Munich [Read summary].