<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Dear SIGCIS Community,</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></div><div style=""><font color="#212121">The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to </font><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">announce the CFP for our 2018 10th Annual SIGCIS Conference, </b><b>STORED IN MEMORY</b><font color="#212121">. Our keynote for the event is Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">The SIGCIS Conference will take place <b>October 14th, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, </b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. </span><b>Abstracts are due June 30.</b><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. These details can also be found at our conference website: <a href="http://meetings.sigcis.org">meetings.sigcis.org</a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you in St. Louis! </div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">-Laine Nooney, Andrew Russell, Gerardo Con Diaz, Stephanie Dick, Kera Allen and Nabeel Siddiqui<br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:6pt 0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b style=""><span style="color:black">STORED IN MEMORY<br></span></b><b><span style="color:black">The 10th Annual SIGCIS
Conference</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:6pt 0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><i style=""><span style="color:black">St. Louis, Missouri, USA | October 14, 2018</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:6pt 0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">The
Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their annual conference<br>
</span><a href="meetings.sigcis.org">meetings.sigcis.org</a><span style="color:black"><br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:6pt 0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><u><span style="color:black">Proposal
Due Date: June 30, 2018</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0.25in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:black">KEYNOTE SPEAKER</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:black">Eden Medina</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Associate
Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">THEME</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">Much of a computer’s work
is made possible not by users’ direct actions, but by off-screen manipulations
of its memory: storage, allocation, saving, deletion, registration, collection,
partitioning, defragmentation, and so on. These processes have been crucial to
the computer’s mass popularization during the 20th century and into the
21st—from the first stored program computer, to the rise of the consumer
software industry, to the unpredictable and often troubling emergence of the
Internet of Things, predictive analytics, and data harvesting. Yet encoding in
computer memory is never obvious, given, or inert; choices about how to store
and structure data inevitably inform the meaning that can be made with
computing machines. In other words, all exercises in memory are also exercises
in obfuscation, exclusion, and forgetting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">Similarly, historians,
theorists, and archivists of information technologies depend on the often
imperceptible operations of memory: from the delicacy of human past experiences
taken down in oral history, to presences and gaps “captured” in the archive.
This problem of what is remembered, and what is forgotten, is the disciplinary
condition that renders history as much art as it is science.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">In honor of the 10th annual
SIGCIS conference, STORED IN MEMORY invites scholars, museum and archive
professionals, IT practitioners, artists and independent researchers across the
disciplinary spectrum to submit abstracts related to the historical conditions
of computing. We are especially interested in (but not limited to) work that
relates to the theme of “memory,” broadly and imaginatively construed. Areas of
engagement may include:</span></p>
<ul><li>How
have computing technologies transformed people’s engagement with their
past, present, or future?<br></li><li>What
role does computing play in the formation and development of political
systems, governance infrastructures, and institutional memory?<br></li><li>How
are people’s histories and identities—race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity,
and so on—recorded and represented through information technologies?<br></li><li>Where
do computer encodings fit in the longer history of tools and practices
with which communities represent the world? What epistemological realities
does computer memory afford?<br></li><li>What
place does the history of memory (computer, human, sociopolitical, and so
on) have in the history of computing?<br></li><li>How
have databases served to memorialize and monumentalize certain formations
of knowledge, and what is forgotten in these processes?<br></li><li>How
has the historiography of computing and information changed over the
years, and where could it take us next? (Retrospectives welcome)<br></li><li>What
challenges and methods are emerging in the preservation of computing
history through archives, museums, oral histories, and digital-born
collections?<br></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"> <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">SIGCIS
is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an
inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting both disciplinary
interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology, and with
respect to promoting diversity in STEM. </span><span style="color:black">We welcome submissions
from: the histories of technology, computing, information, and science; science
and technology studies; oral history and archival studies; digital humanities; critical
studies of big data and machine learning; <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">studies
of women, gender, and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity, and
postcoloniality; disability studies and the medical humanities; film, media,
and game studies; software and code studies; network and internet histories;
music, sound studies, and art history; and all other applicable domains.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 12pt;line-height:normal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">The annual SIGCIS
Conference takes place on the final day of the annual meeting of our parent
organization, the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. Information
about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/2E6qgko"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://bit.ly/2E6qgko</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.25in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:black">SUBMISSION FORMATS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">SIGCIS
welcomes proposals for individual 15-20 minute papers, 3-4 paper panel
proposals, works-in-progress (see below), and non-traditional proposals such as
roundtables, software demonstrations, hands-on workshops, etc. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.25in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">WORKS-IN-PROGRESS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
Works-in-Progress (WiP) session will be a workshop wherein participants discuss
their work in small group sessions.</span><span style="color:black"> <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We invite works-in-progress—articles, chapters, dissertation
prospectuses—of 10,000 words or less (longer works must be selectively edited
to meet this length). We especially encourage submissions from graduate
students, early career scholars, and scholars who are new to SIGCIS. Authors
who submit a WiP will also commit to reading (in advance) two other WiPs,
discussing them in a small group setting, and providing written feedback on one
of those WiPs. Scholars who would like to participate in this session without
submitting their own WiP are welcome; we ask that they commit to reading (in
advance) at least two of the WiPs.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Submissions
for WiP only require a 350-400 word abstract, but applicants should plan to
circulate their max-10,000-word WiPs no later than September 30, 2018. Scholars
who would like to be a reader of WiPs, please email a brief bio or 1-page CV,
along with your areas of interest and expertise, to Gerardo Con Diaz
[<a href="mailto:condiaz@ucdavis.edu">condiaz@ucdavis.edu</a>]. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:24pt 0in 6pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><b>SUBMISSION PROCEDURE <br></b></span><span style="color:black"><br>Submissions
are due June 30, 2018. Applicants should download, fill out and follow the
instructions on the application cover sheet at</span><a href="http://meetings.sigcis.org/call-for-papers.html"><span style="color:black;text-decoration-line:none"> </span>http://meetings.sigcis.org/call-for-papers.html</a><span style="color:black">. All
submissions will require:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:24pt 0in 6pt;line-height:normal"></p><ul><li>350-400
word abstract (full panel proposals should additionally include a 250-300 word
panel abstract in addition to 3-4 paper abstracts)<br></li><li>1-page CV
or resume for each presenter<br></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">Please
Note: Individuals who have submitted to the main SHOT program are welcome to
submit an additional proposal to our workshop, but should make sure that there
is no overlap between the two presentations. However, SIGCIS may choose to give
higher priority to submissions from those not already presenting at SHOT. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">Questions
regarding submission procedure should be sent to Kera Allen
[<a href="mailto:kera.allen@gatech.edu">kera.allen@gatech.edu</a>].</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:24pt 0in 6pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:black">TRAVEL AWARD</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">The top
financial priority of SIGCIS is the support of travel expenses for graduate
students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who
would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. The submission
cover sheet includes a space to note whether you fall into one of these
categories and would like to be considered for an award. These is no separate
application form, though depending on the volume of requests and available
resources we may need to contact you for further information before making a
decision.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">Any award
offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please
note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the
SHOT annual meeting, therefore acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility
for the SHOT travel grant program.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black">Details
of available awards are at</span><a href="http://www.sigcis.org/travelaward"><span style="color:black;text-decoration-line:none"> </span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.sigcis.org/travelaward</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><b><span style="color:black">SIGCIS
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:normal"><a href="http://www.lainenooney.com/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:none">Laine Nooney</span></a><span style="color:black">, New York University
(SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings)<br>
</span><a href="http://www.arussell.org/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:none">Andrew Russell</span></a><span style="color:black">, SUNY Polytechnic
Institute (SIGCIS Chair)<br>
</span><a href="https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/stephanie-dick"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:none">Stephanie Dick</span></a><span style="color:black">,
University of Pennsylvania<br>
</span><a href="https://www.condiaz.com/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:none">Gerardo Con Diaz</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of California,
Davis (SIGCIS Treasurer)<br>
</span><a href="https://hts.gatech.edu/people/person/e2f55e07-937a-571a-a4f8-c32c87fef19d"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:none">Kera Allen</span></a><span style="color:black">, Georgia
Institute of Technology (Conference Assistant)<br>
</span><a href="https://nabsiddiqui.github.io/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:none">Nabeel Siddiqui</span></a><span style="color:black">, College of William and
Mary (Conference Assistant)</span></p>
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