<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Call for Contributions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Women, Gender and Information and Communication Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">(Europe, 19<sup>th</sup>-21<sup>st</sup> centuries)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">International Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Paris</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">15-16 May 2014</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent: 35pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">Organized by LabEx EHNE (Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe - Writing a New History of Europe),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">Research strands 1 and 6 (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.labex-ehne.fr"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">http://www.labex-ehne.fr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">in partnership with the CNRS Institute for Communication Sciences (ISCC)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent: 35pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Although pioneering studies have contributed in the last few years to highlighting numerous aspects of the gendered construction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), via analyses concerning women telephone operators, female radio listeners, or even the ENIAC Girls, the place of women and of gender in the history of information and communication technologies remains to be reflected upon and written, whether it is the role and the representation of the two sexes regarding research, conception, utilisation or consumption.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">It is hoped that these two days will compare European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies, since the telegraph. The study days invite transnational and interdisciplinary analyses across the long term, drawing as much upon the history of computer science and ICT as upon the history of work, organisations, consumption, education, media, and gender studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">In touching upon imaginations, values, figures, models and practices that cut across the history of the telegraph, the telephone, the radio, the TV, the internet and digital devices, we hope to explore in particular the manner in which the history of information and communication technologies can enrich gender studies, and conversely the way in which the latter can shed light on studies related to ITC. The aim is to do so via numerous angles of approach (not exclusive of other approaches):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 53.5pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Female actors of ICT: individual and collective historical figures, inventors, programmers, researchers, professional users, consumers etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 53.5pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The gendered representations of the public actors of ICT and their evolution (discourses, advertising, teaching and education, imagination etc).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 53.5pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The stakeholders implicated at the heart of ICT, affected by the problematic of gender (European associations, national or transnational collectives etc).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 53.5pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">ITCs as producers of new spaces for the expression of gender.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 53.5pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The specificity or not of European research in the gendered approach of ITCs in relation to the work carried out in North America.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Papers should be twenty minutes in length and can be delivered in French or English. The organising committee would be particularly interested in proposals integrating a diachronic dimension and those explicitly touching upon a European dimension. Proposals of post-graduate students or early-career researchers</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: red;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Submission</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Proposals should be sent to </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:fgtic@iscc.cnrs.fr">fgtic@iscc.cnrs.fr</a></span></u></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">They should be one page long, contain a bibliography and if possible a proposed plan. Authors can include a summary of their publications/research and a brief biography in their initial e-mail.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Deadlines</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">• Deadline for submission of proposals: March 1<sup>st</sup> 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">• Notification of acceptance: March 15<sup>th</sup> 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">• International Symposium: May 15<sup>th</sup> and 16<sup>th</sup> 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This information is available on </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://genreurope.hypotheses.org/">http://genreurope.hypotheses.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Organizers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Delphine Diaz (IRICE, Université Paris-Sorbonne, LabEx EHNE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Valérie Schafer (ISCC, CNRS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Régis Schlagdenhauffen (LISE, CNAM/CNRS, LabEx EHNE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Benjamin Thierry (IRICE, Université Paris-Sorbonne)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Program Committee</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Gerard Alberts </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(52, 52, 52);">(Universiteit van Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Alec Badenoch (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann (LISE, CNAM/CNRS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Niels Brügger (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Centre for Internet Studies, Aarhus University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Frédéric Clavert (Université Paris-Sorbonne, IRICE, LabEx EHNE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Delphine Gardey (Faculté des Sciences de la Société, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Université de Genève)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pascal Griset (Université Paris-Sorbonne, CRHI-IRICE/ISCC, LabEx EHNE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Sandra Laugier (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IUF)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Christophe Lécuyer (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ilana Löwy (Cermes, CNRS, EHESS, Inserm, Paris 5)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Cécile Méadel (CSI, MINES Paris Tech)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ruth Oldenziel (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Eindhoven University of Technology, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Munich</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Jean-Claude Ruano-Borbalan (HT2S, CNAM)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Fabrice Virgili (IRICE, CNRS, LabEx EHNE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Conference Secretary</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Arielle Haakenstad (Université Paris-Sorbonne, IRICE/ISCC, LabEx EHNE)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; 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