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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It seems likely that SIGCIS will be organizing two panel submissions for this year’s SHOT (Copenhagen).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One would focus on the early development of information societies, looking at technologies of knowing from a political perspective. Likely participants Giuditta Parolini (statistical tables), Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (importation of cybernetics to French ethnography) and Ksenia Tatarchenko (Soviet visions of the information society as expressed in computer education).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The other is a little less settled, but will probably concern the politics of IT manufacturing in NY State (analog computers), Europe (IBM typewriters) and India (an early personal computer company during an era of protectionism).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll probably either chair or comment on one session myself, but we’d need at least three other people to volunteer as chair or commentator (give preference for role and session if you have them). Let me know in the next day or two if you are interested.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>