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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The 2008 4S conference begins in Rotterdam on Wednesday,
August 20<sup>th</sup>. <a href="http://www.4sonline.org/meeting.htm">http://www.4sonline.org/meeting.htm</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Following our customary practice I am proposing to organize
an informal and affordable dinner for anyone with an interest in the history of
computing. This would probably be on Thursday night before the panel. If nobody
is going to the official and hugely expensive banquet then we could instead aim
for Friday night. Please email me if you are interested – I will send the
final details ONLY to people who confirm interest to avoid spamming the list. If
you can’t get to email you could also text my cell phone during the
meeting: +1 414 526 6631.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>For the third successive year this includes a SIGCIS
organized panel, this one prepared in collaboration with the Software for
Europe Project. I’m please that we were able to get celebrated STS
scholar Trevor Pinch as commentator, which should give our panel a little
visibility in the ever-expanding ocean of concurrent sessions that 4S has
become. It’s an exciting panel, looking at the relationship between
computing practices and national/transnational identities on both sides of the
iron curtain.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Our session is on Friday, 22 Aug from 11.00-12.30 am. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'>Session 2.2.4: Symbolic Internationalism: Computing,
Users and (Trans)national<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'>Agendas<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:
"Arial,Italic","sans-serif"'>Organizer: Thomas Haigh<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><span style='font-family:
"Arial,BoldItalic","sans-serif"'>Room: T3-31<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'>Chair: </span></b><b><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial,BoldItalic","sans-serif"'>Thomas
Haigh</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>,
University of Wisconsin, thaigh@computer.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'>Policy Machines: Shaping European
Computer Users<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Corinna Schlombs, University of Pennsylvania,
schlombs@sas.upenn.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'>Transnational Technology: The Unified
System of Computing and its Discursive Practices<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Simon Donig, University of Passau,
simon.donig@uni-passau.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'>Socialist Internationalism and its Limits
in Czech Computing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Helena Durnova, Brno University of
Technology, durnova@feec.vutbr.cz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'>The Goodbye Petrovka Plan: Internet Use
and National Identity in Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Maria Haigh, University of Wisconsin,
mhaigh@uwm.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'>Discussant: </span></b><b><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial,BoldItalic","sans-serif"'>Trevor
Pinch</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>,
Cornell University, tjp2@cornell.edu</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial,Bold","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The conference program is dominated by medical and environmental
themes. IT shows up in a number of contexts, including panels on standards,
online game worlds, and open source and the fashionable world of surveillance studies.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Please reply ASAP if you may be interested in dinner (this
includes the panel participants).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p>
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