Hello SIGCIS members, Please find attached the CFP for SHOT's 2011 annual meeting, taking place in Cleveland this November. Full details at http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pdf/cfp_shot_2011.pdf. Note that this is the call for the main SHOT annual meeting. SIGCIS plans to run its own one day workshop again this year, with a separate call, reviewing process, and submission mechanism to be announced in the next few weeks. You can submit to the SIGCIS workshop and to the main SHOT conference, but should not present the same material at both. To facilitate this we’ll also make sure that our workshop deadline is after people have heard back from the SHOT program committee. SIGCIS does not have any designated space on the main conference program (other than the lunch meeting) but we have organized and submitted up to three panel proposals for each of the past seven years. These have been accepted more often than not. So if you have an idea for a paper (particularly one relevant to the conference themes) that you would like me to try to work into a panel proposal for the main workshop please let me know BY THE END OF THIS MONTH. This is particularly helpful for those new to SHOT who would benefit from assistance in appropriately framing their abstracts to maximize the chance of acceptance. SIGCIS members are also encouraged to use the list to contact others with similar interests to submit panel proposals without my direct involvement. SHOT doesn’t always pay that much attention to the year’s themes, but anything related to them probably has a better chance. Fortunately they go well with our concerns: Technology, power and control (particularly technology and geography or technology and surveillance) and technology in use/appropriation. Finally, note that SHOT “discourages” North Americans from presenting papers at two North American meetings running – so if you are a prolific researcher from the US or Canada who presented in the main conference in Tacoma last year then it would be better to participate as a chair/commentator in the Cleveland main conference and save your latest brilliant research for our workshop (which is not covered by this rule). Best wishes, Tom Haigh From: Jane Carlson [mailto:janecarlson@ntelos.net] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:46 PM To: janecarlson@ntelos.net Subject: SHOT CALL FOR PAPERS 2011   Good morning   I wanted to write to let you know that SHOT 2011 will be held in Cleveland, OH in November of this year.  As you probably know, it's a co-located meeting with HSS and 4S and the SHOT meeting will take place November 3-6 at the Marriott Downtown at Key Center.  We are currently planning an exciting program and look forward to seeing you there!   If you are interested in presenting a paper at this year's conference, please visit our website http://www.historyoftechnology.org/ as the Call for Papers has just been uploaded.  Visit http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pdf/cfp_shot_2011.pdf for a copy.  This month's electronic newsletter will follow shortly.   At the moment, it looks like the submission of paper and session proposals will be done via email.  However, we are moving towards electronic submission and we would like to have this in place for the 2012 meeting.  As you can imagine, this is not a simple process and we don't want to rush it!   Finally, if you no longer wish to receive email blasts from the SHOT office or if we are writing to you at more than one email address, please let me know your preferred one and I will adjust the database.   In the meantime, if you have any other questions, please let us know.   With best wishes, Jane   Jane Carlson Admin Assistant to Exec. Sec Society for the History of Technology Charlottesville, VA (434) 975 2190 (fax) (434) 987 6230 (cell)