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Cfp for Open Panel on STS+Universities at 4s/EASST 2020 in Prague 18-21 August
by Sharon Traweek 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Sunday 29 February deadline for Abstracts to participate in Open Panel 97: Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities Organizers Knut H. Sørensen (NTNU) and Sharon Traweek (UCLA) The panel will be held in Prague, 18-21 August 2020, at the joint conference of the European Association for Studies of Science & Technology (EASST) https://easst.net/ and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) http://www.4sonline.org/ The EASST/4s 2020 Conference theme is Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/focus-and-themes/ For more conference information see https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/ https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/ https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/accepted-open-panels-all-abstracts/ Description for Open Panel 97: Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities Organizers Knut H. Sørensen (NTNU) and Sharon Traweek (UCLA) For many generations universities have been institutions of higher education and research. Now they are expected to contribute to local and global economies by commercializing research and spurring innovation, while addressing grand social challenges like climate mitigation and social disparities. They also must engage successfully in mass higher education and outreach with a variety of publics. This means that universities now occupy a strategic place in re/shaping society by circulating research and knowledge through teaching and professional expertise. Meanwhile, universities have become subject to increased auditing practices and austerity policies, locally and globally. Many universities turn to experts in branding and commodification for strategies in defining and representing their work as successful. STS provides resources for understanding such dis/continuities in the making and circulation of knowledge while the study of universities in dynamic ecologies is vital to addressing unexamined assumptions in STS about the relationship between research, teaching, and society, as well as the governance of that relationship. We invite papers that address how universities engage with the changing: - fragility and resilience of university cultures. - demands for rapid intellectual, social, and economic contributions to society; - work life and agency of academics - relationship between teaching, research, innovation, and outreach; - intersectional issues in knowledge making, teaching, outreach, funding, and society; - political economies of research, teaching, funding, and outreach; - campus infrastructures from software and budgets to buildings and transportation; and - increasingly complex webs of relationships among universities glocally through rankings, MOUs, satellite campuses, academic mobilities, etc. The organizers are co-authors of Questing Excellence: Tales of Two Universities (under contract with Routledge). Abstract Requirements: Give your main arguments, methods, and contributions to specific aspects of the panel topic in in 250 words or less. Deadline for abstract submissions is 29 February 2020 Submission information https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/ For more information contact: Knut H Sørensen, Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) knut.sorensen(a)ntnu.no<mailto:knut.sorensen@ntnu.no> https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/knut.sorensen Sharon Traweek, Gender Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) traweek(a)history.ucla.edu https://ucla.academia.edu/STraweek http://genderstudies.ss.ucla.edu/faculty/sharon-traweek

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Hiring Graduate Research Assistants
by Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Dear SIGCIS Colleagues, Please see below for AI Now’s announcement hiring (paid) Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs) for now *through the 2020-21 academic year*. In particular, I want to note that the Gender, Race, and Power in AI Program that I’m leading is planning to hire two GRAs. We welcome graduate students with any disciplinary or experiential background to apply, including technical and non-technical backgrounds, and especially those with experience in Science and Technology Studies, History, Media Studies, Critical Race and Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy. Please share and circulate widely. Warm regards, Joy Joy Lisi Rankin Research Lead Gender, Race, and Power in AI AI Now Institute New York University www.joyrankin.com Dear friends, AI Now is hiring Graduate Research Assistants (GRA) to support the ongoing research at the Institute. These part-time positions are ideal for graduate students looking to gain exposure to the developing interdisciplinary field surrounding the social and political implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. We welcome graduate students with any disciplinary or experiential background to apply, including technical and non-technical backgrounds, and especially those with experience in Science and Technology Studies, History, Media Studies, Critical Race and Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy. You can find the full job description below and on our website. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. Know someone who might be perfect? Please feel free to share this email. Thank you for helping the AI Now Institute grow! Kate, Meredith, and the AI Now team Learn More Tweet Share Share Forward Copyright © 2020 AI Now Institute, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive news and notifications about AI Now at www.ainowinstitute.org Our mailing address is: AI Now Institute New York University New York, New York 10013 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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Second CfP HaPoP-5, 27 May 2020, Paris
by lidemol 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Dear all, it is my greatest pleasure to send you the second call for papers for the fifth symposium on the history and philosophy of programming, organized by the DLMPST/DHST commission HaPOC (www.hapoc.org) and to be held in Paris on 27 May 2020. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Tomas Petricek (my co-chair), with best wishes, Liesbeth *HaPoP 2020* Second call for papers Fifth international symposium on the History and Philosophy of programming 27 May 2020, Paris, France Co-located with NewCrafts 2020, 28-29 May 2020 https://www.shift-society.org/hapop5/ In a society where computers have become ubiquitous, it is necessary to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of computer programs, not just from the technical viewpoint, but from a broader historical and philosophical perspective. A historical awareness of the evolution of programming not only helps to clarify the complex structure of computing, but it also provides an insight in what programming was, is and could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle fundamental questions about the nature of programs, programming languages and programming as a discipline. HaPoP 2020 is the fifth edition of the Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming, organised by HaPoC, Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing. As in the previous editions, we are convinced that an interdisciplinary approach is necessary for understanding programming with its multifaceted nature. As such, we welcome participation by researchers and practitioners coming from a diversity of backgrounds, including historians, philosophers, computer scientists and professional software developers. /Programming as an art, a craft or a science/ This edition of the symposium will be colocated with NewCrafts, an international software development conference for professional developers who care about quality code and improving their practices. In recent years, NewCrafts featured many talks on software craftsmanship, programming paradigms, architecture, but also ethics and philosophy and history of computing. To initiate an inspiring conversation between the NewCrafts and HaPoP communities, we are particularly looking for talk proposals that discuss the question in how far programming can/has been/should be understood as an art, a craft and/or a science and what that implies both for the practice of programming as well as for our understanding of computer programs. We may not be able to answer this question, but we believe it will lead to useful insights about the nature of programs and programming. We also welcome papers with a broader scope. /Selected topics of interest for the symposium/ Possible and in no way exclusive questions of relevance to this symposium are: Can/has been/should be programming understood as an art, a craft and/or a science? Are we getting better at writing programs that solve the given problem? Is programming a specialist discipline, or will everyone in the future be a programmer? What are the different scientific paradigms and research programmes developed through the history of computer programming? Is it possible to eliminate errors from computer programs? What is a program? How did the notion of a program change throughout the history? How are programs and abstractions born, used and understood? What was and is the relationship between hardware and software developments? How did theoretical computer science (lambda-calculus, logics, category theory) influence the development of programming languages and vice versa? What are the novel and most interesting approaches to the design of programs? What is a correct program? Historical and philosophical reflections on issues in formal specification, type checking and model checking. What is the nature of the relationship between algorithms and programs? What legal and socio-economical issues are involved in the creation, patenting and free-distribution of programs? How do we understand the multi-faceted nature of programs combining syntax, semantics and physical implementation? How is programming to be taught? /Dates, format and submissions/ For the symposium, we invite submission of two-page extended abstracts (including footnotes, but excluding references). Accepted papers will be given a 30 minute presentation slot including discussion. As with the previous editions, we also intend to submit a proposal for a special issue of a suitable journal for publication of full papers based on the symposium presentations. Important dates Submission deadline: *20 March 2020* Author notification: *20 April 2020* HaPoP symposium: *27 May 2020* /Important links/ Submission web site: https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=PRJGt7pZiwCv3QpOfMAmKd# Financial support: Coming soon Registraton site: Coming soon /Program committee/ Liesbeth De Mol (co-chair, CNRS – UMR 8163 STL Université de Lille) Tomas Petricek (co-chair – University of Kent) Arnaud Bailly (Aleryo) Martin Carlé (Ionean University) Andrea Magnorsky (Independent) Ursula Martin (Oxford University) Baptiste Mélès (CNRS, UMR 7117 Archives Henri-Poincaré Pierre Mounier-Kuhn (CNRS & Université de Paris-Sorbonne) Romeu Moura (Independent) Mark Priestley (Independent) Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan) /Registration/ Program committee of the symposium, as well as registration information will be announced soon. Please check this page regularly for updates. We will be also sharing updates via the HaPoC Comission web page (register to get updates via email) and on Twitter at @HaPoComputing. HaPoP-5 co-chairs are Liesbeth De Mol and Tomas Petricek. If you have any questions regarding suitability of a topic or format of the extended abstract, please contact Liesbeth at liesbeth.de-mol(a)univ-lille.fr or Tomas at tomas(a)tomasp.net. For quick questions, you can also use @tomaspetricek on Twitter.

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Charles Babbage Institute's Just Code Symposium, Website/Program and Registration (Event May 8-9, 2020)
by Jeffrey Yost 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, The website for the Charles Babbage Institute's Symposium "Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT" (May 8-9, 2020 at the Charles Babbage Institute, Andersen Library) is now up. Please see the website at: http://justcode.cbi.umn.edu/ The website includes the full program/schedule, registration form (registration is free), and other information. Con (UC Davis Assoc. Prof. of STS Gerardo Con Diaz) and I are thrilled with the tremendous program (stellar interdisciplinary scholars, diverse geographies, and vital, insightful papers on IT and race, gender, labor, disability, and the environment, and inequality/equality and injustice/justice globally). We are greatly looking forward to the event! I am hoping many of your will join us for this public day and a half symposium! (registration required). We've been delighted to see graduate students and academics steadily registering to attend from throughout the U.S. and across the globe. Please register soon, as space is limited. Please forward to those who might be interested. Best, Jeff and Con Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax

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Happy 74th Birthday ENIAC
by Brian L. Stuart 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

On this, the 74th anniversary of the unveiling of the ENIAC, I've decided to post a couple of things I've been working on. The first is the 3D model of the ENIAC mentioned before. It's designed using brlcad, from the Ballistics Research Lab. It just seemed too appropriate to model it using the tool devleoped where it lived. The thingiverse link is: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4164825 The second thing is a draft of a chapter from a book I'm in the very early stages of. It describes the basic circuit designs used in the ENIAC with SPICE simulations of them. The layout and formatting are based on the old Army Technical Manuals of the time. http://cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/eniac/ch1.pdf Enjoy, BLS

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CfP: "Crowd Control, " SHOT 2020, Abstracts by 2/15
by Scott Kushner 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Dear SIGCISsians, I'm proposing an open session for SHOT 2020. I hope you'll consider submitting an abstract by this Saturday's deadline (2/15), and that you'll feel free to be in touch with any inquiries. See below or visit https://tinyurl.com/shot-crowd-control CROWD CONTROL Organizer: Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island (scottkushner(a)uri.edu) Queues, gates, doorways, turnstiles, stanchions, guards, cages, pens, cells, anterooms, hallways, cameras, bottlenecks, streets, signage, velvet ropes, bouncers, bleachers, fences, barriers, ushers: the methods of crowd control are technological interventions. The ways that crowds have been constituted, apprehended, understood are historically, geographically, and culturally contingent. The discourses that differentiate crowds from (and conflate them with) adjacent categories of analysis, such as audiences, mobs, masses, multitudes, are similarly variable across different contexts. The purposes to which crowd control has been put have also changed over time and space, organizing the flows and stases of bodies in order to impose political, social, cultural, and economic logics specific to and co-constitutive of the contexts in which its various technologies are situated. This SHOT session seeks to develop an understanding of technologies used to control crowds of people over time. Participants will present research on historically-situated technological devices, protocols, systems, and infrastructures that modify built and natural environments in order to contain, channel, direct, arrange, expel, disperse, and otherwise direct the movements and stillnesses of human bodies. The significance of this work to the history of technology lies in concentrating discussion about the ways that technological interventions have shaped the spatial dispositions of groups of human bodies in order to sculpt the experiences of those spaces and of the crowds of people those spaces attract. Proposals engaging with any era and geographic context are welcome. The organizer is interested in placing in conversation scholars and audience members working with and curious about a range of materials and methodologies. Potential participants are therefore invited to imagine the notion of crowd control in adventurous manners. Procedure: Those interested in proposing presentations for potential inclusion in this session should kindly prepare a one-page abstract (500 words maximum) and a one-page short CV (300 words maximum) with current contact information. Please send these materials to Scott Kushner ( scottkushner(a)uri.edu) no later than February 15, 2020. Note: If you will be a first-time SHOT presenter and wish to be considered for the Robinson Prize, please indicate as much in your abstract and send a separate email to this effect to SHOT.Secretariaat(a)tue.nl. (Find information about the Robinson Prize at the SHOT website.) -- Scott Kushner Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Harrington School of Communication and Media University of Rhode Island 312 Davis Hall 10 Lippitt Rd. Kingston, R.I. 02881 +1 (401) 874-5223 scottkushner(a)uri.edu

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Contact for Joan Stark
by Esther Milne 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Hi everyone, I am trying to contact the ASCII artist Joan Stark. I'm seeking permission to reprint one of her images in my book about email to be published by MIT later this year. I've tried her AOL email and Instagram but to no avail. If anyone can help with contact details or advice off list that would be fantastic, thanks! Cheers, Esther Associate Professor Esther Milne Department of Media and Communication Swinburne University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA emilne(a)swin.edu.au<mailto:emilne@swin.edu.au> ||| +61 3 92148195 ||| @esthermilne

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HSS/SHOT panel on cybernetics, psychology and anthropology
by Angelica Clayton 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Hello SIGCIS, I haven't used this list before but I figured this might be of interest to some of you! I am a third year PhD student at Yale University's history of science and medicine program and am currently putting together a panel on the intersections between cybernetics, psychology and anthropology for 2020's SHOT/HSS join conference. The panel will focus on second order cybernetics and how it was used by figures such as Gregory Bateson and John Lilly to theorize ideas of mental illness and think about self observation as part of scientific method. We are still looking for panelists (as well as a discussant and chair) so if this might be of interest or your research might fit with the panel's topics, please do reach out! All my best, Angélica Angelica Clayton PhD Student Program in the History of Science and Medicine | Yale University angelica.clayton(a)yale.edu | (206) 434 - 6430

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East Asian perspectives on game studies conference cfp
by Jonathan Coopersmith 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

fyi [DEADLINE EXTENDED] III Complutense Conference on Historical Game Studies: East Asian Perspectives <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__networks.h-2Dnet.org_u…> by Federico Peñate Domínguez Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__networks.h-2Dnet.org_n…>. The byline reflects the original authorship. [*DEADLINE EXTENDED: FEBRUARY 10th, 2020]* Since the twilight of the last century, game studies have emerged to become a legitimate discipline by which to study digital entertainment products as part of the Humanities. Deriving from this phenomenon are historical game studies, which have blossomed in the last decade and help us understand the uses of and discourses about the past in gaming. Most of the works, however, have focused on Western computer games using an analytical approach that also draws from a Western heritage, despite the importance of the Asian market, especially the Japanese one, after the 1983 crash of the American game industry. Furthermore, in recent decades the production of videogames in countries like China, South Korea and Taiwan has been reaching global audiences. Therefore, we have deemed it relevant to focus the 3rd Complutense’s Historical Game Studies Conference on this Asian phenomenon. The 2020 Conference follows an open call for papers system. The organization will evaluate positively those contributions built on original and appropriate theoretical frames and methodological apparatuses (in preference to purely descriptive ones). Proposals should be sent to asiangamesconference(a)gmail.com <joveneshumanistas16(a)gmail.com> and will consist of* a title, an abstract of no more than 400 words, up to 5 key words and a selection of bibliography* in a text document with the name of the contributor. They will be *blind peer reviewed by a scientific committee of five experts.* The accepted languages are *English and Spanish.* Research topics proposed by the organization are as follows: - *History of videogames and gaming culture in East Asia:* producers and developers, evolution of franchises, chronologically defined audiences, their practices and their evolution… - *Western games consumed in East Asia and vice versa:* impact of historical computer game franchises around the globe, *ports*, localization of historical games in order to adapt their discourses to foreign audiences… - *Representations of foreign history in Asian videogames:* how Asian developers reimagine foreign history (*Operation Europe: Path to Victory* , *Uncharted Waters, Bladestorm, Valkyria Chronicles…*), adaptation of historical elements in contexts of fantasy (*Fate, Granblue Fantasy…*), historical anthropomorfism (*Azur Lane, Girl’s Frontline…*)… - *Representations of Asian history in Asian videogames:* *Sengoku Basara, Samurai Warriors, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Nobunaga’s Ambition, Touken Ranbu…* - *Computer game genres and gender/sexual identities:* historical games marketed to gender-based audiences (*otome *games, *bishoujo* games), sexuality and history in East Asian games (*moé*)… - *Transmedia visual culture:* relationship between historical games and comics (*manga, manhwa, manhua*), animation, film, advertisement… - *Reception dynamics:* fan activities (*cosplay, fanzines, doujinshi, modding, *pilgrimages…), fan cultures around historical videogames… ------------------------------ The deadline for proposals is February 10th, 2020. Authors will be notified of the selection early March. The conference will be held at *Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) mid-late April 2020.* If you have any questions regarding the Conference, please contact us at asiangamesconference(a)gmail.com. We are looking forward to your contributions. Contact Info: Jóvenes Humanistas UCM (academic association at Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. c/ Profesor Aranguren s/n, 20840, Madrid, Spain Contact Email: asiangamesconference(a)gmail.com - Read more or reply <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__networks.h-2Dnet.org_u…> Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Most recent oped: "Will Artemis fail in the halls of Congress?" https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3836/1 Apollo thoughts: https://today.tamu.edu/2019/07/19/would-apollo-11-have-happened-without-rus… *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press) is the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history.

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Reminder: ACM History Fellowship Competition--Deadline Feb 15th, 2020
by Tracy, Kim 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Dear Colleagues, The deadline for this call is rapidly approaching and is February 15, 2020. We look forward to your proposals. Thanks, --Kim From: Kim Tracy <tracy(a)rose-hulman.edu> Date: Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 12:07 PM To: "members(a)lists.sigcis.org" <members(a)lists.sigcis.org> Subject: ACM History Fellowship Competition--Deadline Feb 15th, 2020 Dear Colleagues, The link below provides an announcement to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2020 fellowship competition for research projects on or centrally related to ACM history. The ACM History Committee runs this program, which has resulted in 30 fellowships awarded since the start of this fellowship program in 2009. Many of these awards have gone to scholars (graduate students to senior scholars) in the SHOT and SIGCIS communities. The submission deadline for applications is February 15, 2020. http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship_annou…<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhistory.acm…> Thanks, --Kim Kim W. Tracy Visiting Asst. Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering (pronouns: he, him) 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: 812.872.6060 www.rose-hulman.edu<http://www.rose-hulman.edu>

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