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<div class="">The deadline for paper and panel proposals for the Business History Conference is October 1. The meeting takes place in Portland, Oregon from March 31-April 2, 2016. The theme for the 2016 meeting is “Reinterpretation” - see <a href="http://thebhc.org/call-papers-2016" class="">http://thebhc.org/call-papers-2016</a> for
details. It is sounding more and more like a timely theme, given recent discussions on this list. </div>
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<div class="">I’m writing to encourage you to submit proposals, and to make a few comments about BHC:</div>
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<div class="">- for those who haven’t been to BHC, you shouldn’t be too put off by the word “business” in the group’s title. Topics under discussion at BHC include the history of capitalism, political economy, regulation, organizations (including non-profit
and public-private orgs), and (of course) technology. Also, one can attend BHC and be *anti*-business, if that suits your ideological preferences.</div>
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<div class="">- Several SIGCIS members regularly attend BHC; indeed, many of us consider BHC to be a second scholarly home. There are often more than one or two panels that deal explicitly with computing and/or information. Perhaps some of them/us will comment
here about their experiences with BHC. I believe we have at least one former BHC President as a list subscriber… For what it’s worth, my own experiences there have been uniformly positive, and I’m looking forward to attending the meeting in Portland.</div>
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<div class="">- BHC has an excellent infrastructure for supporting young scholars, including travel grants, the Herman Krooss Prize for the best dissertation in business history, and the BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History - see <a href="http://www.thebhc.org/doctoral-colloquia" class="">http://www.thebhc.org/doctoral-colloquia</a> for
details of the latter. </div>
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<div class="">- This year's CFP notes that the 2016 meeting location on the west coast provides an opportunity for the community to “take a fresh look at what might be termed the communities of the Pacific.” For those planning to attend the SHOT/SIGCIS meetings
in Singapore in June 2016, the BHC meeting in Portland looks like it could serve as a nice way to focus attention on things Pacific.</div>
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<div class="">Finally: I would be happy to facilitate a SIGCIS-themed submission (or submissions) for this year. If you have a paper idea or panel idea, and would like to find other scholars to join in,
<b class="">please let me know by September 15. </b>Or, better yet, feel free to use the list to float your ideas and recruit others to join in.</div>
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<div class="">All the best,</div>
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<div class="">Andy Russell</div>
<div class="">SIGCIS Chair</div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D.</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">
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<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Stevens Institute of Technology</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">
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<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">t. 201-216-5400 || f. 201-216-8245</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">
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<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks </span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">
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