[SIGCIS-Members] CFP: SHOT 2012 Conference, 4-7 Oct in Copenhagen. Deadline 31 March.

[Evan Koblentz]

 >> I’ve become aware that there’s a lot of tacit knowledge about how a 
history conference works that is mystifying to (say) computer 
scientists, amateur historians or economists but is not included in a 
typical history CFP because it is “too obvious” to bother stating.

... "mystifying to people without conference management experience" 
would have sufficed.

One need not possess a Ph.D. to appreciate the complexities of 
conference organization (says the "amateur" historian, while asserting 
this his Vintage Computer Festival has a lot more complexity than a SIG 
day.)

Some irony: two of this year's VCF East lecturers are Ph.D.s -- Dr. 
Thomas Kurtz, of Dartmouth, and Dr. Kent Lundford, of MIT.