November 2023 - Members - lists.sigcis.org

American codebreaker exhibit - but you can't see it
by Jonathan Coopersmith 30 Dec '24

30 Dec '24

https://dcist.com/story/23/09/22/arlington-foreign-service-institute-recogn… Actually, I suspect we could probably arrange a tour. Stay sane, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) "Technological obsolescence, <https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/05/technological-obsolescence>" National Academy of Engineering *Perspectives* May 23, 2023 It's taking longer to vote - especially if you are Black or Hispanic <https://theconversation.com/its-taking-more-time-to-cast-a-ballot-in-us-ele…> , theconversation.com Preserving space archives: https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/ *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press)

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The impact of computer patents
by Brian Randell 30 Dec '24

30 Dec '24

Hi: I would be grateful for recommendations on books and papers containing thoughtful well-justified discussion of the likely or actual practical impact of the outcomes of the various attempts to patent the concept of a programmable computer (whether granted, refused or invalidated) on the early development of the computer industry, in the US and elsewhere. I have in mind the ENIAC and especially the Konrad Zuse patent cases, but am also interested in any others. (My searches for good references have been hampered by the proliferation of articles on software patenting - a topic which I am not trying to cover.) Cheers Brian Randell Sent from my iPhone

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cfa: The Global Cochlear Implant
by Mara Mills 30 Dec '24

30 Dec '24

The Global Cochlear Implant: Provincializing “Brain Implants” through Disability Technocultures Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) and Mara Mills (New York University) have received funding from the US-based National Endowment for the Humanities <https://www.neh.gov/program/dangers-and-opportunities-technology-perspectiv…>for a conference, working group, and book project on “The Global Cochlear Implant” for the period Fall 2023-Fall 2025. We are seeking chapter contributors for our interdisciplinary edited volume that will focus on: -Historical and contemporary accounts of cochlear implant development and utilization in specific geographic contexts, including developing contexts -Pre-histories of cochlear implant development and use (especially in Russia, France, Austria) -Analysis of the ways that cochlear implantation is changing (or not) deaf and disability identities, socialities, solidarities, and life trajectories in specific geographic contexts - Ethics of cochlear implantation development, dissemination, and use in diverse contexts; an exploration of ethics can also include discussions of brain implants and biotechnology more broadly - Humanistic and aesthetic accounts and representations of cochlear implantation - Histories connecting cochlear implants to the broader category of brain implants Doctoral students are welcome and encouraged to apply. Contributors can be at any academic or non-academic rank and will be offered a stipend for their chapters as well as travel and lodging funds to attend the October 2024 conference in Chicago. Participants will also be invited to attend monthly zoom group meetings where they will receive support for writing their chapters. The deadlines are as follows: 1. Submit abstract and cv to michelefriedner(a)uchicago.edu and mmills(a)nyu.edu <mamills(a)nyu.edu> by December 1 2023; please email both with questions and/or concerns. 2. Decisions will be made by Jan 1, 2024. 3. Working group meetings in support of research and writing of papers will commence first week of February. 4. Conference will be held in October 2024 at the University of Chicago; Participants will present talks based on their chapters. 5. Versions of chapters will be sent to the selected press in April 2025. Project Abstract: Perhaps no medical device has sparked more popular discussion of the “dangers and opportunities of technology” than the cochlear implant (CI). The first true bionic device, CIs (re)produce an absent ‘normal’ human function (Blume 2009). Despite ongoing polarizing debates about the ramifications of CI technology, only a few book-length studies of the technology exist, and these have overwhelmingly emphasized U.S. and European perspectives. This collaborative humanities project will document the impacts of the technology itself (e.g. algorithmic bias), the influence of the global corporations that market it, and the range of ways implants have been domesticated, maintained, and re-interpreted. At this pivotal moment for the development and global dissemination of neuroprosthetics, with brain implants widely featured in the popular press, this multi-disciplinary, international project will serve both a documentary and a comparative function, as well as provide a platform, through our conference and published work, for alternative narratives of CI use. Mara Mills <http://maramills.org/> | Associate Professor | Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University Co-Director, NYU Center for Disability Studies <https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/> Crip Authorship: Disability as Method <https://nyupress.org/9781479819355/crip-authorship/>, eds. Mills and Sanchez (NYU 2023) Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality <https://academic.oup.com/book/36957>, eds. Tkaczyk, Mills, and Hui (Oxford 2020)

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SIGICS update
by Andrew Russell 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

Dear SIGCIS friends - I’m writing to share the news that I’m stepping down as SIGCIS Co-Chair. I started as Chair back in 2014, and became Co-Chair when Melanie Swalwell joined me in this role in 2020. I’m really proud of what we’ve built and sustained together as a community! At the same time, I think it’s healthy for SIGCIS to have some rotation in leadership. The tipping point for me came a couple of months ago, when I was named as Officer-in-Charge (aka interim president) of my university, SUNY Polytechnic Institute. This assignment is as rewarding as it is time-consuming, and leaves me little choice but to pull back from some of my professional commitments, including SIGCIS. Fortunately, Melanie Swalwell has agreed to continue on as SIGCIS Chair. She will be writing to the list soon with an update about SIGCIS in 2023 and beyond. Thank you for your support and kindness over the years, and for making SIGCIS a welcoming and fun place to be :) All the best, Andy — — — — — — — — — — — Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D. Officer-in-Charge SUNY Polytechnic Institute 100 Seymour Road Utica, NY 13502 257 Fuller Road Albany, NY 12203 https://sunypoly.edu/ https://arussell.org/

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SIGCIS 2022 CFP: UNDER CONSTRUCTION | Due June 1
by Laine Nooney 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Dear SIGCIS Community, The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to *announce the CFP for our 2022 SIGCIS Conference, **UNDER CONSTRUCTION*. Our keynote for the event is Lilly Irani <https://quote.ucsd.edu/lirani/>, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. The SIGCIS Conference will take place *November 13th, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, *on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. *Abstracts are due June 1.* Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here <https://bit.ly/388L3Zk>, or at our conference website: meetings.sigcis.org. Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you at SIGCIS! -Laine Nooney, Morgan G. Ames, Stephanie Dick, and Xiaochang Li -------------------------------------------------------------- *UNDER CONSTRUCTION* *New Orleans, LA, US | November 13, 2022* The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their annual conference meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: June 1, 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Lilly Irani Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies University of California, San Diego THEME A shovel strikes dirt in one country, and the Internet goes out in another. Data centers are cooled by local water supplies, fiber-optic cable follows the sightlines left by railroads and telegraph, global hardware semiconductor supplies depend on the labor of rare earth mineral miners: somehow computing always needs more. The past ten years, in particular, have exhibited a perilous turn in the political economy of computing, as software became service, programming became agile, and storage became cloud. This new regime is driven by an accelerated mode of iterative software development that increasingly relies on post-sales bug fixes, security patches, and performance upgrades, producing a litany of products and services whose endless failures aid some and threaten others. From the communities subject to such “innovation” to the shadow workers paid to “be” artificial intelligence to the coders pushing ambient updates by the millions, risk hums through it all. Computation today is locked in a state of perpetual beta testing, forever promising “improved” features—just don’t ask when it will end, and don’t ask who’s doing the work. In the meantime, these new standards of practice generate new labor and resource demands, new forms of risk, and new challenges for accountability and intervention alike. Yet the patched and partial nature of computing isn’t new. Computing is infrastructure, requiring its own forms of construction and maintenance throughout its history, whether tearing up roads, detangling spaghetti code, or hastily soldering circuits. These are metaphors for history too: what better encapsulates the sentiment of doing history, than the feeling that it will never be done? For historians of information and computing itself, such anxieties are particularly acute due to the objects under examination: constant upgrades, absent documentation, planned obsolescence, the failure of historic hardware. For every line of code we save, hundreds, thousands, disappear. As we work to make sense of our contemporary conditions, how does the undone quality of history affect our ability to tell it? The 2022 SIGCIS Conference, convening in-person in New Orleans on November 13 following the SHOT Annual Meeting, invites scholars, museum and archive professionals, journalists, 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 construction, maintenance, and labor, broadly and imaginatively construed. Areas of engagement may include: - Maintenance and infrastructure in the history of computing and information tech - Historically-oriented approaches to the platform and gig economies - Computing as a site of labor struggle - Networks, borders, boundaries - Computational models of resistance: obfuscation, open-source, hacking, going “off grid” - Government’s historic role in the construction of computing industries and infrastructure - Communitarian and utopian applications of computing - Updates, upgrades, failures, and bugs - Modding, re-using, recycling, afterlives - Archival and curatorial practices and methods - Oral history, memory, forgetting - The limits of historical representation SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions from: the histories of technology, computing, information, and science; science and technology studies; oral history and archival studies; critical studies of big data and machine learning; studies of women, gender, and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity, and postcoloniality; film, media, and game studies; software and code studies; network and internet histories; music, sound studies, and art history; and all other applicable domains. The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://bit.ly/3Nswik2 SUBMISSION FORMATS SIGCIS welcomes proposals for individual 15-20 minute papers, 3-4 paper panel proposals, and non-traditional proposals such as roundtables, software demonstrations, art and music performances, hands-on workshops, etc. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Submissions are due June 1, 2022 via Google form: <https://forms.gle/C8ixar9s3JsCXq8d9>https://forms.gle/sLRowEDz6QitKCfv9. Submissions require: - 300-350 word abstract, summary, or prospectus (as appropriate for the submission type). Full panel proposals should additionally include 200-250 word abstracts for each paper that will be part of the panel. - 100-150 word bios for each participant If you are submitting a co-presented paper, pre-constituted panel, or other submission involving multiple participants, please only have one person submit for the group; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: xiaochang.li(a)stanford.edu. COSTS/REGISTRATION While last year’s online conference was pay-what-you-can, hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS As a new initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We understand that for some, participation is more contingent on childcare or elder care, and as such we are opening up these grants to provide that form of support as well. There 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. 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, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Laine Nooney, New York University (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Morgan Ames, University of California, Berkeley Stephanie Dick, Simon Fraser University Xiaochang Li, Stanford University ---- Laine Nooney <http://www.lainenooney.com/> MCC <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/> @ NYU <http://www.nyu.edu/> Assistant Professor -Need to make an appt? Click, don't email: https://bit.ly/2GIHuK0 -Probably typed by voice recognition, so please cherish typos

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CFP: 2024 ACM History and Archiving Fellowship call for proposals - Due Feb 15
by Tracy, Kim 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

SIGCIS members, The ACM History Committee’s call for proposals for the history and archiving fellowship program is now open. We’d appreciate your sharing this call with anyone who may be interested. The full call can be found in the link https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ACM-fellowship_CFP_2024.… or on the ACM History Committee Website (history.acm.org) The deadline for submissions is February 15th, 2024. The ACM History Committee’s 2024 fellowship competition is for research and archiving projects on or centrally-related to ACM history. The History Committee plans to support up to four projects with awards up to $4,000. The History Committee has awarded over 40 fellowships<https://history.acm.org/projects-and-initiatives/fellowship-for-the-advance…> since the start of this fellowship program in 2009. Thanks for any help in getting the word out, --Kim On behalf of the ACM History Committee Kim W. Tracy Asst. Professor of Practice in Computer Science and Software Engineering (he/him/his) ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 5500 Wabash Avenue | Terre Haute, IN 47803-3999 Room: Moench D216 | tracy(a)rose-hulman.edu<mailto:tracy@rose-hulman.edu> Phone: 812.877.8343 | Fax: 812.877.8343 www.rose-hulman.edu<http://www.rose-hulman.edu>

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Internet Histories, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2023
by Asger Harlung 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

To whom it may concern The journal editors are please to announce that: Internet Histories, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2023 is now available online. One article is open access, one is free for a limited time. The issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/7/4 Below, please find an overview of contents of this issue. Please also consider submitting an article to the journal, more information about submission can be found here http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rint20&page=…. --------- Contents: Between two Acts: competing narratives, activism and governance in Singapore’s digital sphere Howard Lee & Terence Lee Old “cowboy towns”: enduring democratic enclaves as Singapore’s alternative digital histories, 1994–2011 Kai Khiun Liew The Wikipedia imaginaire: a new media history beyond Wikipedia.org (2001–2022) | Open Access Steve Jankowski Continuity and discontinuity in web archives: a multi-level reconstruction of the firsttuesday community through persistences, continuity spaces and web cernes Quentin Lobbé Sorting URLs out: seeing the web through infrastructural inversion of archival crawling | Free Access for a Limited Time Emily Maemura

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Living Computer Museum Seattle
by Peter Krapp 24 Nov '23

24 Nov '23

Hello all, So sorry to see the Living Computer Museum Seattle https://livingcomputers.org/ in continued suspension… is there someone on this list who knows an employee there whom might be able to interview about the museum (which I visited several times before it closed) and its past, present, and possibly its future? I’ll take any advice off-list (krapp at uci dot edu works best), thank you in advance for any insights. Regards, pk

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Fw: SHOT E-Newsflash - CfP ICOHTEC - SHOT 2024 Annual Meeting
by Elizabeth Petrick 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

SHOT has shared more details on the meeting next summer. Note that the submission deadlines are very quick this year! Best, Liz ------------- Elizabeth Petrick Co-Director, STS Program Associate Professor Department of History Rice University http://elizabethpetrick.com/ ________________________________ From: Society for the History of Technology <shot.secretariat(a)tue.nl> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 2:56 AM To: Elizabeth Petrick <Elizabeth.Petrick(a)rice.edu> Subject: SHOT E-Newsflash - CfP ICOHTEC - SHOT 2024 Annual Meeting [https://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?ca=819edc62-a9d2-49f3-b3f8-d9663f7a5392&a=110310…] [https://files.constantcontact.com/880a246d001/bf98525f-ef5a-4b9a-ac95-0b7fb…]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JsstciEWGPSbMV5…> SHOT E-Newsflash 20 November 2023 [https://files.constantcontact.com/880a246d001/dacd0d59-07f3-40e8-8390-dbdc6…] Call for Papers Joint ICOHTEC-SHOT Annual Meeting - Viña del Mar, Chile - 9 to 14 July 2024 Call for Papers Reparando / Repair in the History of Technology Joint annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 9-14 July 2024 in Viña del Mar, Chile The technological environments we inhabit require continual repair and maintenance in order to function. Yet the people on whom such repairs rely—along with their knowledge and labor—too often remain unseen and undervalued, becoming visible only in cases of infrastructural breakdown or spectacular disaster. The routine invisibility of repair facilitates grand proclamations of technological solutionism, distracting from the requirements for living equitably in an increasingly fragmented and fragile world. How does our understanding of the history of technology change when we center repair and maintenance? Such a shift involves highlighting users and experiential knowledge. It opens up conceptions of what counts as technological knowledge and who counts as technological actors. Such themes have lurked in our field for some time, mounting in scale and significance over the last decade. Repair is now part of our vocabulary, here to stay. The time has come to make it the thematic core of our annual meeting. The first joint conference between ICOHTEC and SHOT in three decades, to be held bilingually in Viña del Mar, Chile, provides the ideal place for doing so. Reparando—the gerund of repair in Spanish—holds a special place in the history of Chile, a nation at the intersection of several tectonic plates. Chileans accept seismic activity as part of everyday life, remaining unfazed by mild earthquakes. Of course, the stronger earthquakes are deeply disruptive, destroying cities and communities. In 1960, the deadliest earthquake registered in human history (magnitude 9.5) struck the southern region of Valdivia. Accompanied by a tsunami, the Great Chilean Earthquake destroyed livelihoods and property, and took thousands of lives. This destruction required not just concrete infrastructural repair, but also social and emotional repair for traumatized victims. The Chilean experience highlights the need to approach repair as a practice of human and technological resilience, in which cooperation and compassion are as essential as material rebuilding and fixing. This is the context in which we invite a critical appraisal of the concept, strategies, and philosophies of repair. How does repair/reparando sustain our built environment and our daily lives? How can we think through brokenness, restoration, and care? What and who counts as “normal,” and how does that affect our infrastructures? How do people excluded from infrastructural benefits use rebuilding, repurposing, adjusting, and reparando as navigational strategies? How do discussions about repair and repurposing reflect social, political, and cultural dynamics? What does reparando look like at different scales, from the individual to the planetary? And how can focusing on these themes open a discussion of what requires repair in our own field of the history of technology – and what methodologies and approaches are needed to enact that repair? Topics and themes of special interest to the program committee include (but are not limited to): * The ethics, aesthetics, and politics of repair * Adjusting, tinkering, hacking - tactics for times of scarcity * Invisible labor in science and technology * Geographies of repair and care, from the local to the planetary * The role of technology in environmental and climate (in)justice * Ableism, disability, and crip epistemologies in technology studies  Indigenous lands, indigenous knowledge * Queering the history of technology * Technologies of care and healing * Local cultures of repair, repurposing, and recycling * Intersections of repair, design, and engineering * Normies and Others in technological history * The technological dimensions and aftermaths of disasters, emergencies, and crises * Reckoning with colonial pasts and imagining decolonial futures * Repairing the history of technology: methodological and epistemic strategies for the future of the discipline * The role of conservation, preservation, and archives in understanding the past and repairing the field While we especially hope to prompt conversations around such matters, we also welcome proposals on other topics in the history of technology. We warmly welcome proposals from the wide range of fields that study such questions, including STS, Anthropology, American Studies, Black Studies, Communication, Discard Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, LatinX Studies, Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. We especially encourage scholarship in African, Asian, and Latin American Studies. Of special note: the program committee will accept proposals in English and Spanish, as well as for sessions that include both languages. Simultaneous translation will be available for plenaries and at least two session threads each day. As we get closer to the conference time, we will provide more details. ICOHTEC and SHOT are committed to the ongoing diversification of our field. In addition to valuing intellectual quality, we encourage and will prioritize proposals that reflect diversity in their line-up of speakers, in particular with regard to career level, gender, race, and/or geography. The submission deadline for open panels is 8 December 2023. The final deadline for all paper and panel submissions is 18 December 2023. Please consult the conference website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JsstciEWGPSbMV5…> for detailed submission guidelines. ICOHTEC, SHOT, and their joint program committee look forward to a vigorous, enthusiastic, and intellectually stimulating annual meeting in Viña del Mar! 2024 Program Committee: Diana J. Montaño (Chair), Magdalena Zdrodowska (Associate Chair), Itty Abraham, Leticia Galluzzi, José Ragas, Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz Convocatoria Reparando / Repair en la Historia de la Tecnología Congreso conjunto de la International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) y the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 9-14 julio del 2024 en Viña del Mar, Chile Los entornos tecnológicos que habitamos dependen del trabajo constante de mantenimiento y reparación para su funcionamiento. Sin embargo, las personas que realizan dichas reparaciones–junto con sus conocimientos y su trabajo–comúnmente pasan desapercibidas e infravaloradas, haciéndose visibles sólo cuando una infraestructura se avería o en caso de una catástrofe espectacular. La invisibilidad rutinaria de la reparación facilita las grandes proclamas de solucionismo tecnológico, distrayendonos de los requisitos para vivir equitativamente en un mundo cada vez más fragmentado y frágil. ¿Cómo cambia entonces nuestra comprensión de la historia de la tecnología cuando centramos la reparación y el mantenimiento? Este cambio implica poner de relieve a los usuarios y el conocimiento empírico. Abre la puerta a concepciones sobre qué se considera conocimiento tecnológico y quiénes son considerados actores tecnológicos. Estos temas han estado presentes en nuestra disciplina por algún tiempo, pero su escala e importancia han aumentado en la última década. La reparación ya forma parte de nuestro vocabulario y ha llegado para quedarse. Ha llegado el momento de convertirla en el núcleo temático de nuestra reunión anual. La primera conferencia conjunta entre SHOT e ICOHTEC en tres décadas, que se celebrará de forma bilingüe en Viña del Mar, Chile, ofrece el lugar ideal para hacerlo. Reparando–el gerundio de reparar en español–ocupa un lugar especial en la historia chilena, una nación situada físicamente sobre varias placas tectónicas. Los habitantes del actual chile aceptan la actividad sísmica como parte de su vida cotidiana, sin inmutarse ante los terremotos leves. Por supuesto, los terremotos más fuertes son profundamente perturbadores y destruyen ciudades y comunidades. En 1960, el terremoto de mayor intensidad registrado en la historia de la humanidad (magnitud 9,5) sacudió la región sureña de Valdivia. Acompañado de un tsunami, el Gran Terremoto de Chile, como llegó a conocerse, cobró miles de vidas, y destruyó medios de subsistencia y propiedades. Esta destrucción requirió no sólo la reparación concreta de las infraestructuras, sino también la reparación social y emocional de las víctimas traumatizadas. La experiencia chilena pone de relieve la necesidad de abordar la reparación como una práctica de resiliencia humana y tecnológica, en la que la cooperación y la compasión son tan esenciales como la reconstrucción y el arreglo materiales. Este es el contexto en el que invitamos a una valoración crítica del concepto, las estrategias y las filosofías de la reparación. ¿Cómo sostiene la reparación nuestro entorno construido y nuestra vida cotidiana? ¿Cómo podemos pensar desde la ruptura, la restauración y el cuidado? ¿Qué y quién se considera “normal” y cómo afecta esto a nuestras infraestructuras? ¿Cómo las personas excluidas de los beneficios de las infraestructuras usan la reconstrucción, la readaptación, el ajuste y la reparación como estrategias de navegación? ¿Cómo reflejan los debates sobre reparación y reutilización las dinámicas sociales, políticas y culturales? ¿Qué aspecto tiene la reparación en las diferentes escalas, desde la individual a la planetaria? ¿Y cómo puede centrarse la atención en estos temas para abrir un debate sobre lo que requiere reparación en nuestro propio campo de la historia de la tecnología, y qué metodologías y enfoques son necesarios para llevar a cabo dicha reparación? Entre los temas de especial interés para el comité organizador se incluyen (pero no se limitan * La ética, la estética y la política de la reparación * Ajustar, manipular, piratear: tácticas para época de escasez * El trabajo invisible en la ciencia y la tecnología * Geografías de reparación y cuidado, desde lo local hasta lo planetario * El papel de la tecnología en el medio ambiente y la (in)justicia climática * Epistemologías de capacitismo, incapacidad y crip en estudios sobre la tecnología * Tierras indigenas, conocimiento indigena * Introducir lo cuir en la historia de la tecnología * Tecnologías de cuidado y sanación * Culturas locales de reparación, adaptación, y reciclaje * Intersección de reparacion, diseno, e ingenieria * La gente común en la historia de la tecnología * Las dimensiones tecnológicas y secuelas tras desastres, emergencias y crisis * Enfrentarse a los pasados coloniales e imaginar futuros descolonizados * Reparación en la historia de la tecnología: estrategias metodológicas y estrategias epistémicas para el futuro de la disciplina * El papel de la conservación, preservación y los archivos en comprender el pasado y reparar la disciplina Aunque esperamos especialmente suscitar conversaciones en torno a estas cuestiones, también aceptamos propuestas sobre otros temas de la historia de la tecnología. Invitamos cordialmente a académicos de diversas disciplinas a unirse a nuestras conversaciones (incluidos los de Antropología, Estudios Americanos, Estudios Afroamericanos, Estudios de Género, Estudios Culturales, Estudios Indígenas, Estudios LatinX, Crítica Literaria, Estudios de Medios de Comunicación, Filosofía, Ciencias Políticas y Sociología). Alentamos especialmente la participación de especialistas en estudios africanos, asiáticos y latinoamericanos. Nota especial: el comité organizador aceptará propuestas en inglés y español, así como para sesiones que incluyan ambos idiomas. Habrá traducción simultánea en las sesiones plenarias y al menos en dos sesiones diarias. A medida que se acerque la fecha de la conferencia, daremos más detalles. SHOT e ICOHTEC están comprometidas con una política de diversidad. Además de la calidad intelectual, acogemos con gran satisfacción propuestas que reflejan diversidad en la composición de los exponentes, en particular en lo que se refiere a nivel profesional, género y geografía. La fecha límite para la presentación de paneles abiertos es el 8 de diciembre de 2023. La fecha límite para la presentación de ponencias y paneles es el 18 de diciembre de 2023. Consulte el sitio web de la conferencia<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JsstciEWGPSbMV5…> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JsstciEWGPSbMV5…> para conocer las directrices detalladas de presentación. SHOT, ICOHTEC y el comité organizador esperan que la reunión de Viña del Mar sea enérgica, entusiasta e intelectualmente estimulante! 2024 Comité de programa: Diana J. Montaño (presidenta), Magdalena Zdrodowska (Presidenta Asociada), Itty Abraham, Leticia Galluzzi, José Ragas, Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz Society For The History Of Technology<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JsstciEWGPSbMV5…> Secretariat: Atlas Building 8.418 - P.O. 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International Species Information System?
by Jacob Ward 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Dear all, On behalf of a colleague, I'm writing to see if anyone has any source/literature tips on the International Species Information System? The system was a computerized information system for zoo animals, designed in the 1970s, and apparently was quite influential on zoo administration. Let me know, and thanks in advance! Best, Jacob

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