<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s a final reminder of the call for Open Sessions for SHOT 2015 in Albuquerque. Please see below for details,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Andrew Russell <<a href="mailto:arussell@stevens.edu" class="">arussell@stevens.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 16, 2014 at 6:41:56 PM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">members <<a href="mailto:members@SIGCIS.org" class="">members@SIGCIS.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: Society for the History of Technology, Call for Open Panel Proposals, Albuquerque 2015</b><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many of you may have seen the message below, SHOT’s call for proposals for Open Sessions for the annual meeting in Albuquerque on October 8-11 2015. SHOT is encouraging creative and/or provocative proposals for these Open Sessions - especially sessions that can bring history into conversation with other disciplines. For more information, see below and <a href="http://www.historyoftechnology.org/call_for_papers/2015_submit_unconventional.html" class="">http://www.historyoftechnology.org/call_for_papers/2015_submit_unconventional.html</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please feel free to write to me directly if you have an idea that you think SIGCIS could propose. And, as always, feel free to use the SIGCIS list to bounce ideas around… </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Finally, keep in mind that this is the first of many opportunities to propose panels or papers for the meeting in Albuquerque - both for the main SHOT meeting on Friday and Saturday as well as for the Sunday SIGCIS workshop. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 15, 2014 at 5:10:04 PM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Society for the History of Technology <<a href="mailto:shotsec@auburn.edu" class="">shotsec@auburn.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:shotsec@auburn.edu" class="">shotsec@auburn.edu</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Call for Open Panel Proposals, Albuquerque 2015</b><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div class=""><strong class="">Call for Open Panel Proposals for the Albuquerque Meeting, 8-11 October 2015</strong></div>
<br class=""><div class="">The SHOT Program Committee is inaugurating an Open Sessions process for the purpose of facilitating collaboration among scholars. </div><br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">How it works:</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Individuals interested in finding others to join panel sessions for the Annual Meeting may propose Open Sessions to the Program Committee on or before <strong class="">January 15, 2015</strong>. (Submission format details are available at <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018LTimUHI0J0FmSdsQ-farlh0WVB2G9-8ks3tiu1BAjJoq0_WxDI7-zF5RK_4q7DWslMgA3wl9mukQdAygv64DxbkZZp-3pRb_FHE_pXgbEb6550uyleXnSbYsOiLIy1DTFuSvffro5hCGsn661GUPJ6h4Ow26z2r5JhrOKc_PXMezCx9bqhNaA==&c=PHtJEE2qHpud5XsSbpJI_hibWT08ryVrKjhGNv9sri2FaoTApEW7cA==&ch=7alIrUAMveRhq_RpA0hUnc-1dFr2yublVVPpZuZ7Lgin3lOFszSdZA==" target="_blank" class="">www.historyoftechnology.org.</a>)</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The Program Committee reviews and approves Open Session proposals that show promise of quality and feasibility, notifying applicants by February 2, 2015. Accepted applicants then become the session organizer. </div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The approved Open Sessions descriptions, along with organizer contact information, will be widely publicized in the official SHOT Annual Meeting Call for Papers in late January. Those with an interest in a given panel will then contact the Open Session organizer.</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Open Session organizers will then assemble full panel sessions and submit them to the Program Committee by the end of the regular call for papers on March 31, 2015. The Program Committee will review the resulting Open Sessions panels for quality and adherence to SHOT standards of gender, geographic, and institutional diversity with an assumption of inclusion in the final Annual Meeting program. </div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">For more information, or to submit an Open Panels proposal, please visit the SHOT webpage at <a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018LTimUHI0J0FmSdsQ-farlh0WVB2G9-8ks3tiu1BAjJoq0_WxDI7-wDkZaK8VjtMHIKMjhGt6UO9DHlqZjr4Xb1KTE0veuDAQ0UhqMR1N-XB0UI2nRI-0wbT__PukniZ4GH8mj1CzeZxpXLgbuVCtfbeHJOEpHRTSlzY2TIxHuH2hXhnl2uKhg==&c=PHtJEE2qHpud5XsSbpJI_hibWT08ryVrKjhGNv9sri2FaoTApEW7cA==&ch=7alIrUAMveRhq_RpA0hUnc-1dFr2yublVVPpZuZ7Lgin3lOFszSdZA==" target="_blank" class="">www.historyoftechnology.org</a> and follow the link!</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td>
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