[SIGCIS-Members] Paper Call for New SIG: EDITH (Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History)

[Marie Hicks]

Folks,

Please see below for the SHOT call from the newest SIG. EDITH
(Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History) is a  new SIG that aims
to institutionalize a space for the study of diversity and alterity in
the history of technology and connect scholars working on projects
concerned with these issues. I am not highly involved with EDITH so I
can't really answer questions about it, but the contact info for those
who can is listed in the call below.

Best,

Marie
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Marie Hicks, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor, History of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL USA
mhicks1 at iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech
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Special call for panels addressing diversity issues at the annual
meeting of the Society for
the History of Technology, October 10-13, 2013

The next SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) meeting will be
in Portland, Maine,

USA, October 10-13, 2013. The Society for the History of Technology
has long been

interested in the history of technology defined at its broadest, from
baby bottles and

cellphones to duct tape, architecture, automobiles, and much, much
more. Our organization

is particularly interested in the intersections of technology,
society, and culture. Our research

and teaching has long emphasized studying the ways in which gender,
race, class, and

other human factors both reflect and shape the development of
machines, devices, the built

environment, and other technologies.

EDITH (Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History) is a newly formed
special interest group

of SHOT, designed to expand dialogue about the importance of
understanding diversity/

alterity when thinking about the history of technology and culture.
This special interest group

has the dual aims of supporting scholars and scholarship currently
underrepresented in the

history of technology and SHOT. We look forward to incorporating
insights from expanding

studies of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability –
and growing attention to

intersectionality of such categories -- into the scholarship of the
history of technology, and

to provide an intellectual home within SHOT to a broad range of
scholars.Our goal for this

year's meeting is to arrange several sessions addressing these issues.

We would love to have papers by researchers in the history of art and
architecture, the

history of disability studies, gender history, the history of
sexuality, the history of race, and

other diversity-studies areas, as long as this research has some
meaningful connection to

the history of technology writ broadly. If you might be interested in
convening or participating

in a session, please contact Tisha Hooks (Tisha.hooks at yale.edu) and Ruth Cowan

(rcowan at sas.upenn.edu) by February 15th, 2013.

For more about the Society for the History of Technology, please see
the SHOT website at:

http://www.historyoftechnology.org/

SHOT offers meeting participants the chance to apply for travel funds,
through the SHOT

Travel Grant Program. Priority funding goes to graduate students,
independent scholars, and

young professionals just beginning their careers, as well as scholars
residing outside the US,

Canada, and Western Europe. (see
http://www.historyoftechnology.org/travel_grants.html).

In addition, the SHOT interest group Women in Technology History
(WITH) provides its own

travel-grant program (see http://women-in-technological-history.net/).
Eligibility for the WITH

Travel Award is open to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT
annual meeting.

Priorities for the WITH award go to: (1) a scholar or graduate student
new to SHOT who

belongs to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses
issues of gender,

race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology; (2) a
non-US, non-Western

graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.