<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear colleagues - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please see below for a message from SHOT, which is extending the submission deadline for the 2018 annual meeting until April 10. I know of a couple of SIGCIS-related sessions that already have been submitted; but if you have been sitting on the fence, or discouraged because you missed the March 31 deadline - now is your chance! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I want to draw your attention to 3 different ways to participate:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. If you have an idea for a panel, and want to sound out interest, feel free to send a note to the list!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. If you’d like assistance identifying scholars who could be fellow panelists, chairs, or commentators, I would be happy to assist, just send me a note.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. Finally, please note SHOT’s calls for open panel submissions (for a list of panels see <a href="https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2018-shot-annual-meeting-10-14-october-st-louis/shot-annual-meeting-open-sessions-list/" class="">https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2018-shot-annual-meeting-10-14-october-st-louis/shot-annual-meeting-open-sessions-list/</a>) as well as SHOT’s interest in unconventional sessions (roundtables, “you write, I present,” and more).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Over the years we’ve seen a marked increase in SIGCIS members and topics on the main SHOT program, and I hope that continues in St. Louis.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Finally: as usual, we will be holding a Sunday SIGCIS conference immediately following the SHOT conference, on Sunday October 14. The conference theme and call for papers will be issued within a few weeks - stay tuned!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><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="">Society for the History of Technology <<a href="mailto:shot.secretariaat@tue.nl" class="">shot.secretariaat@tue.nl</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="">Repeted Call for Proposals for SHOT Annual Meeting 2018</b><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="">April 3, 2018 at 4:38:58 PM EDT<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=""><a href="mailto:arussell@arussell.org" class="">arussell@arussell.org</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-size: 18pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><strong class="">EXTENDED DEADLINE</strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-size: 18pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><strong class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> Call for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">Proposals</span></strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Annual Meeting 2018: St. Louis, Missouri,</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>US</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">11-14 October 2018</span></div><span lang="EN-US" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class=""><b class="">April 3, 2018</b></span></div></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span class="">Dear SHOT Members, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span class="">I have just heard from the Program Committee that we have a considerably lower number of proposals than usual in all categories for the annual meeting in St Louis this year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span class="">Of course, for many reasons, Philadelphia was especially popular. All the same the annual meeting remains the main venue where we can meet as a community. In addition this is SHOT's 60th anniversary and it would be sad not to celebrate it with a bang. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span class="">I remind you too that next year we meet in Milan, Italy, a wonderful venue but probably rather less accessible than a local site for those graduate students, and even some more senior scholars, who are based in the U.S. </span></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span class="">So do please submit a proposal to SHOT St Louis this year if you have not already done so. The deadline for submissions has been extended to April 10 to enable as many people as possible to tax the energies of the Program Committee to the full!</span></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span class="">Sincerely yours, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span class="">John Krige, President 2017-8</span></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span><a href="https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2018-shot-annual-meeting-10-14-october-st-louis/" style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><b class="">Visit the conference page on the SHOT website and submit a proposal</b></span></a></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span></div></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></span></div><br class=""></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK28" style="display: table;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="Content MainText" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" style="padding: 8px 20px 9px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><div style="font-size: 16pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 16pt;" class=""><span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-size: 18pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><strong class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Call for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">Proposals</span></strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Annual Meeting 2018: St. Louis, Missouri,</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>US</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">11-14 October 2018</span></div><span lang="EN-US" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The SHOT Program Committee is pleased to issue the Call for Papers and Sessions for the SHOT 2018 Annual Meeting to be held 11-14 October, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, US.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div align="left" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;" class=""><span style="" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">SHOT is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history and society. We explore the production, circulation, appropriation, maintenance and abandonment of technology under specific historical circumstances. And we scrutinize the epistemic, economic, social, cultural and political conditions of this development. Our approaches are informed by a broad concept of technology encompassing knowledge resources, practices, artifacts and biofacts</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">artifacts in the realm of the living</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">. Accordingly, the Committee invites paper and session proposals on any topic in a broadly defined history of technology, including topics that push the boundaries of the discipline.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div align="left" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;" class=""><span style="" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">SHOT</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is committed to</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a policy of diversity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">In addition to intellectual quality, w</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">e warmly welcome proposals that reflect diversity in their line-up of speakers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">, in particular with regard to career level, gender, and geography. The Program Committee will prioritize proposals that make a conscious effort to increase diversity by fulfilling these criteria:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">f</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">or example, proposals that include at least one female speaker, and speakers at different stages of their professional careers, with different institutional affiliations and/or different nationalities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">To pay tribute to the venue of the 2018 annual meeting -<b class="">St. Louis, the Gateway to the West</b>- we want to encourage proposals that engage topics related to a broadly-interpreted theme of "Gateways: Passages, Openings, and Enclosures in the History of Technology."</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">St. Louis is uniquely situated in the United States, both geographically and historically. Known as "the Gateway to the West," St. Louis played key roles in the Louisiana Purchase and westward expansion. St. Louis remained a major transport and manufacturing center, where a rich agricultural hinterland, transformed by modern monoculture, connects with transportation links from river to road, rail, and air. This multi-dimensional story makes St. Louis a natural focus for scholarly analysis of the many ways technology impacts, and is impacted by, place, space, and culture. The pre-industrial, industrial, and postindustrial history of the region, from Native American Cahokia mounds to the African-American experience in suburban Ferguson, also suggests topics further analyzing technology, power, and democracy, race, gender, and ethnicity.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">For the 201</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">8</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>meeting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">the Program Committee welcomes proposals of three types:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-size: 16pt;" class=""><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li style="margin: 0cm 42.7pt 0pt 0cm; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Traditional sessions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">of 3 or 4 papers, with a chair and a commentator.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: rgb(216, 11, 11); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><em class=""><b class="">EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 10, 201</b></em></span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><em class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(216, 11, 11); text-decoration: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">8</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">.<span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></b></span></em></span></li></ul></div><div style="font-size: 16pt;" class=""><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li style="margin: 0cm 42.7pt 0pt 0cm; font-weight: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Unconventional sessions:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="EN" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">Sessions with formats that diverge in useful ways from the typical 3 or 4 papers with comment. These might include round-table sessions, workshop-style sessions with pre-circulated papers, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">poster sessions</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(poster proposals should include a description of the content and the visual material they will use in the poster. Individuals whose posters are accepted must be available to talk about them in a lunch/evening slot to be decided by the program committee).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The Program Committee encourages other creative formats that could facilitate communication, dialogue and audience involvement. A variety of new presentation formats are appearing in the academic arena. This year we want to explore a new type of session at SHOT:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">"you write, I present."</b>Authors will submit a paper to the discussant in advance as usual, but it will be the paired discussant who presents for the author and comments on the paper, with authors on-site to respond to comments, take questions from the audience, and join overall discussions. This "flipped" presentation format is intended to facilitate clear paper writing and deep engagement between writer and reader. In this type of panel, one paper is usually paired with one presenter/discussant, or alternatively, the paper-givers can present and comment on one another's papers in the same panel. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(216, 11, 11); text-decoration: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><em class=""><b class="">EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 10, 2018.<span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></b></em></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul></div><div style="margin: 0cm 42.7pt 0pt 0cm; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><br class=""></strong></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li style="margin: 0cm 42.7pt 0pt 0cm; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Join an open session proposal</strong>:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="EN" class="">Open Sessions descriptions, along with organizer's contact information, are listed on the SHOT website. Individual scholars who want to join a proposed panel from the Open Sessions list, please contact the organizer for that panel,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">not the Program Committee.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In order to give the session organizer sufficient time to select proposals and assemble the final panel, the deadline for submitting your paper proposal to the organizer is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">April 8</b>,<b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>2018.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Open Session organizers will then assemble full panel sessions and submit them to SHOT by the <span style="color: rgb(216, 11, 11);" class=""><em class=""><b class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="">EXTENDED DEADLINE of April 10, 2018</span>.</b></em></span></span></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm 42.7pt 0pt 0cm; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li style="margin: 0cm 42.7pt 0pt 0cm; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN" class=""><b class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="">Proposals for individual papers</span>:</b></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">Proposals for individual papers will be considered, but the Program Committee in general will give preference to pre-organized sessions (traditional, unconventional, or open sessions). Those scholars who might ordinarily propose an individual paper are encouraged to propose Open Sessions themselves or to join an Open Session.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="color: rgb(216, 11, 11); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><em class="">EXTENDED DEADLINE April 10, 2018</em></span><span style="color: rgb(216, 11, 11);" class="">.</span></strong></span></span></span></li></ul><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin-top: 0cm; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin-top: 0cm; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">***Please note: All pre-organized panels should include a chair and discussant(s) in their final proposal</span>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class=""> </span></b></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; 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