Dear SIGCIS - I’m sure many of you already have seen the call for papers for the SHOT 2015 annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting is October 8-11; the deadline for proposals is March 31. As always, please feel free to use the SIGCIS list to float ideas for panels or recruit extra panelists if you already have a theme or group of people in mind for a panel. Also - as always, you can contact me directly (arussell@stevens.edu <mailto:arussell@stevens.edu>) if you have an idea for a paper for a SIGCIS-sponsored session. I plan to continue our SIG tradition, where the Chair (Tom Haigh in the past; now it’s me) collects individual ideas for papers and weaves them together into a panel proposal, sponsored by SIGCIS. We have a very good track record of having these SIGCIS-sponsored sessions accepted by the SHOT Program Committee. If you would like to be a part of a SIGCIS-sponsored panel, please send me your ideas within the next two weeks. In sum, there are a great variety of ways you can participate in the Albuquerque meeting: 1. Contact me to be a part of a SIGCIS-sponsored session, on a topic or topics TBD by your collective interests. 2. Propose a paper for one of the 15 “open sessions” (listed below), many of which fit well with the interests of SIGCIS members. 3. Propose a paper or panel on your own, independent of options 1 and 2 above. 4. Propose a paper or panel for the annual SIGCIS workshop, which, as usual, will be held on the Sunday at the end of the SHOT meeting (this year it’s Sunday Oct 13). We have yet to issue to the call for papers for the SIGCIS workshop; that deadline is usually at least a month or two after the deadline for the main SHOT conference. If you have any questions or suggestions, please just send me a note - I’m here to help! Cheers, Andy
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Date: February 7, 2015 at 10:12:12 AM EST From: Society for the History of Technology <shotsec@auburn.edu> Reply-To: shotsec@auburn.edu To: arussell@stevens.edu Subject: Call for Papers -- SHOT 2015 in Albuquerque, N.M.
Society for the History of Technology 7 February 2015 Annual Meeting - Albuquerque, New Mexico 8-11 October 2015
Call for Papers and Sessions (deadline: 31 March 2015)
Formed in 1958, SHOT is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history, the development of technology, and its relations with society and culture --that is, the relationship of technology to politics, economics, science, the arts, and the organization of production, and with the role it plays in the differentiation of individuals in society.
Accordingly, the Program 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. The Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or complete sessions from researchers at all levels. We also welcome proposals from all researchers, whether veterans or newcomers to SHOT's meetings, and regardless of primary discipline. Submitters are encouraged to propose sessions that include a diverse mix of participants: multinational origins, gender, graduate students and junior scholars with senior scholars, significantly diverse institutional affiliations, etc.
For the 2015 meeting the Program Committee welcomes proposals of three formats:
1-Individual papers
2-Sessions of 3 or 4 papers
3-Unconventional sessions
(Unconventional sessions have formats that diverge in useful ways from the typical 3 or 4 papers with comment, including round-table sessions and workshop-style sessions with pre-circulated papers.)
To submit a proposal, visit www.historyoftechnology.org <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0015R8S6Pp-tX2G2o2Gp58ai5ubNELwnoXwIytB4B89LfGOEje60IBxhR5ifaocSnvwMvQ-b2xIfIDXBeiiluCgXzwm24sEw9RbTZKm4MsACzBm9yKt8Dej10D6QVi0mPmaNcGPaXQaFIShT2LzCQrrWSovHrV3DiqaQ-Hg9oNsOrAGC60Ec2iNIw==&c=__6gXZaVNYgMdlVxl1qJVNxA0QQH1ToS6AlHbB6UnJho8JEk7GmBOg==&ch=AWMVKwxV0wChy4GkVx_lvae7-KXg4jvyKFgGZphSq0BaRN8g_GhF4A==> and follow the links!
***The deadline for proposals is 31 March 2015***
NEW FEATURE FOR 2015: OPEN SESSIONS
This year the SHOT Program Committee inaugurated an Open Sessions process for the purpose of facilitating collaboration among scholars. Individuals interested in finding others to join panel sessions for the Annual Meeting proposed Open Sessions to the Program Committee in January.
To join a proposed panel from the Open Sessions list, contact the organizer for that panel, not the Program Committee. Open Session organizers will then assemble full panel sessions and submit them to the Program Committee by the end of the regular call for papers on March 31, 2015. The Program Committee will review the resulting Open Sessions panels for quality and adherence to SHOT standards of gender, geographic, and institutional diversity with an assumption of inclusion in the final Annual Meeting program.
The 15 approved Open Session descriptions are listed below; for more information on each of these sessions, including the contact information for each, please visit http://www.historyoftechnology.org/call_for_papers/index.html <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0015R8S6Pp-tX2G2o2Gp58ai5ubNELwnoXwIytB4B89LfGOEje60IBxhYs2daRSL94yNYbf_hX8tmEQBTdGSIk0LjwnyNvoVqVnu5IEPRsM4HXSh2zb2FCwdtSvD1U0qLjeFKm1ZBq2aKqc1yDRGxY93gI7QvuLdtUfex5M1gAfYdx56O3v7RfPU3Guedd5y4IQWuMdiRvFytumQt37xMBZpIo4W0hyWcNk&c=__6gXZaVNYgMdlVxl1qJVNxA0QQH1ToS6AlHbB6UnJho8JEk7GmBOg==&ch=AWMVKwxV0wChy4GkVx_lvae7-KXg4jvyKFgGZphSq0BaRN8g_GhF4A==>.
1-Legal Histories of Technology Organizers: Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University, USA and Elana Zeide New York University, USA
2-Satellite Remote-sensing and Environment Organizer: Gemma CIRAC CLAVERAS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris.
3-Through the Looking Glass: Virtual Reality in Historical Perspective Organizer: Alexander B. Magoun, IEEE History Center at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
4-Digital Histories of Technology Organizer: Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umeå University, Sweden
5-Machine Tools and Precision Mechanics: Reliability, Quality, Standard Organizer: Nadège SOUGY, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
6-Whose History? Museum Collections, Public Display and Interpreting the History of Technology. Organizer: Tilly Blyth, Science Museum, London
7-"Copie Non Conforme": Places, Practices, and Politics of Illicit Reproduction in the 20th Century Organizer: Ksenia Tatarchenko, NYU Shanghai, China
8-Nature Transformation and Technology Organizer: Paul Josephson, Colby College, USA & Tomsk State University, Russia
9-Outside Technologies: Instruments and their Users in the Field Sciences Organizer: Philipp N. Lehmann, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
10-Tinkering with Technology: Modification and Improvisation by User and Consumer Organizer: Penelope Hardy, Johns Hopkins University, USA
11-Connecting Technology's Peripheries Organizer: Joshua Grace, University of South Carolina, USA
12-A Vicious Cycle: Histories of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Organizer: Caroline R. Peyton, University of South Carolina, USA
13-Alternative Cultures/Alternative Technology: Conscious Construction of the Path Not Taken Organizer: Pamela C. Edwards, Shepherd University, USA
14-Engineers, Technology, and Neoliberal Economic Doctrine and Practice Organizer: Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
15-Automation, Computerization, and Digital Manufacturing: The Past and the Future Organizer: Ling-Fei Lin, Cornell University, USA
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SHOT allows paper presentations at consecutive meetings but rejects submissions of papers that are substantially the same as previous accepted submissions. Submissions covering the same fundamental topic should explain the difference(s) with the prior presentation.
The Program Committee has established a Facebook page to facilitate collaboration in establishing sessions: https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgro.... Alternatively, postings to the sci-med-tech listserv (http://www.h-net.org/~smt/) can also facilitate collaboration and session-forming.
***The deadline for proposals is 31 March 2015 ***
David Lucsko Society for the History of Technology
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