Dear colleagues - 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! I want to draw your attention to 3 different ways to participate: 1. If you have an idea for a panel, and want to sound out interest, feel free to send a note to the list! 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. 3. Finally, please note SHOT’s calls for open panel submissions (for a list of panels see https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2018-shot-annual-meeting-...) as well as SHOT’s interest in unconventional sessions (roundtables, “you write, I present,” and more). 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. 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! All the best, Andy
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From: Society for the History of Technology <shot.secretariaat@tue.nl> Subject: Repeted Call for Proposals for SHOT Annual Meeting 2018 Date: April 3, 2018 at 4:38:58 PM EDT To: arussell@arussell.org Reply-To: shot.secretariaat@tue.nl
EXTENDED DEADLINE Call for Proposals Annual Meeting 2018: St. Louis, Missouri, US 11-14 October 2018
April 3, 2018
Dear SHOT Members,
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.
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.
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.
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!
Sincerely yours,
John Krige, President 2017-8 Visit the conference page on the SHOT website and submit a proposal <https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2018-shot-annual-meeting-10-14-october-st-louis/>
Call for Proposals Annual Meeting 2018: St. Louis, Missouri, US 11-14 October 2018
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.
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 (artifacts in the realm of the living). 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.
SHOT is committed to a policy of diversity. In addition to intellectual quality, we warmly welcome proposals that reflect diversity in their line-up of speakers, 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: for 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.
To pay tribute to the venue of the 2018 annual meeting -St. Louis, the Gateway to the West- 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."
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.
For the 2018 meeting the Program Committee welcomes proposals of three types:
Traditional sessions of 3 or 4 papers, with a chair and a commentator. EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 10, 2018. Unconventional sessions: 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 poster sessions (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). 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: "you write, I present."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. EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 10, 2018.
Join an open session proposal: 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, not the Program Committee. 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 April 8, 2018. Open Session organizers will then assemble full panel sessions and submit them to SHOT by the EXTENDED DEADLINE of April 10, 2018.
Proposals for individual papers: 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. EXTENDED DEADLINE April 10, 2018. ***Please note: All pre-organized panels should include a chair and discussant(s) in their final proposal.
SHOT and The Program Committee look forward to a vigorous, enthusiastic, and intellectually stimulating annual meeting in St. Louis!
Sincerely,
Sonja Beekers
Stichting History der Techniek Assistant to SHOT Secretary, J. Korsten
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