Folks, Please see below for the SHOT call from the newest SIG. EDITH (Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History) is a new SIG that aims to institutionalize a space for the study of diversity and alterity in the history of technology and connect scholars working on projects concerned with these issues. I am not highly involved with EDITH so I can't really answer questions about it, but the contact info for those who can is listed in the call below. Best, Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mhicks1@iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech _________________________________________________________________________ Special call for panels addressing diversity issues at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, October 10-13, 2013 The next SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) meeting will be in Portland, Maine, USA, October 10-13, 2013. The Society for the History of Technology has long been interested in the history of technology defined at its broadest, from baby bottles and cellphones to duct tape, architecture, automobiles, and much, much more. Our organization is particularly interested in the intersections of technology, society, and culture. Our research and teaching has long emphasized studying the ways in which gender, race, class, and other human factors both reflect and shape the development of machines, devices, the built environment, and other technologies. EDITH (Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History) is a newly formed special interest group of SHOT, designed to expand dialogue about the importance of understanding diversity/ alterity when thinking about the history of technology and culture. This special interest group has the dual aims of supporting scholars and scholarship currently underrepresented in the history of technology and SHOT. We look forward to incorporating insights from expanding studies of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability – and growing attention to intersectionality of such categories -- into the scholarship of the history of technology, and to provide an intellectual home within SHOT to a broad range of scholars.Our goal for this year's meeting is to arrange several sessions addressing these issues. We would love to have papers by researchers in the history of art and architecture, the history of disability studies, gender history, the history of sexuality, the history of race, and other diversity-studies areas, as long as this research has some meaningful connection to the history of technology writ broadly. If you might be interested in convening or participating in a session, please contact Tisha Hooks (Tisha.hooks@yale.edu) and Ruth Cowan (rcowan@sas.upenn.edu) by February 15th, 2013. For more about the Society for the History of Technology, please see the SHOT website at: http://www.historyoftechnology.org/ SHOT offers meeting participants the chance to apply for travel funds, through the SHOT Travel Grant Program. Priority funding goes to graduate students, independent scholars, and young professionals just beginning their careers, as well as scholars residing outside the US, Canada, and Western Europe. (see http://www.historyoftechnology.org/travel_grants.html). In addition, the SHOT interest group Women in Technology History (WITH) provides its own travel-grant program (see http://women-in-technological-history.net/). Eligibility for the WITH Travel Award is open to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Priorities for the WITH award go to: (1) a scholar or graduate student new to SHOT who belongs to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology; (2) a non-US, non-Western graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.