Joint ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 Annual Meeting
Viña del Mar (Chile), 9-14 July 2024
The technological environments we inhabit require continual repair and maintenance in order to function. Yet the people on whom such repairs rely—along with their knowledge and labor—too often remain unseen and undervalued, becoming visible only in cases of infrastructural breakdown or spectacular disaster. The routine invisibility of repair facilitates grand proclamations of technological solutionism, distracting from the requirements for living equitably in an increasingly fragmented and fragile world. How, then, does our understanding of the history of technology change when we center repair and maintenance? We will explore this and related questions at the first joint meeting between ICOHTEC and SHOT in three decades.
News
Please find some exiting news about the planned Book Exhibit in Chile below!
Conference information
(The Spanish version of the conference information will be available early May)
- The preliminary program (English version 13 April) is now available. You can find it here.
- This partly bilingual (English – Spanish) conference will take place in Viña del Mar, Chile from 9 to 14 July 2024.
- The main conference venue will be the Viña del Mar campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), 750 Padre Hurtado Avenue, Viña del Mar, Chile.
- The conference will include a limited number of hybrid participation options for both panelists and audiences. There will be two meeting rooms with live streaming.
Registration
Registration will open 1 May 2024. More information and a link to the online registration system will be posted here.
Travel grants
- All travel grant information can be found here.
- All travel grant awardees have been informed about the grant they receive, with details for reimbursement. If you have not received a mail by 1 May please contact the Secretary ([email protected])
- All NSF confirmations are being send out before 1 May.
- Please do not forget to send in your reimbursement claim within one month after the meeting.
SHOT Book exhibit 2024
SHOT Cooperative Book Exhibit and Silent Book Auction in Chile
Since some publishers will be unable to attend our meeting in Chile, SHOT is organizing a cooperative book exhibit, inviting our members to showcase your exciting scholarship. If you are coming to Chile, you are welcome to bring one copy of your recent book(s), and we will have tables where you can set them out for browsing. If you are not coming to Chile but wish to have a book on display, please feel free to send a copy with a friend who will be attending. Please note that SHOT has a reasonably secure display space but cannot guarantee the security or return of books placed on exhibit tables.
- If you are bringing a book for this cooperative book exhibit in Chile, we encourage (but do not require) you to please consider donating your book(s) for a silent book auction.
- All proceeds will go to supporting SHOT’s travel-grant programs, REDI initiative, and multiple other society activities.
- We will set out a bidding sheet for each donated book and invite attendees to enter their bids over the course of the conference.
- Winners with the highest bid on each book will need to pick up and pay for their book(s) towards the end of the meeting.
If you would like to donate your book(s) for this silent auction, many thanks! Please just bring your book(s) with you to the SHOT Staff, near the registration when you arrive, and we will take care of the rest!
Our Secretariat would love to receive a mail from you, what book you are taking with you for the book table, and whether you want to donate it (to be able to prepare). If you do bring a book and do not want to donate it: we will have a second table separate, specifically for these. But do please add a sticker (or ask us to do so) with “this book is not available for the auction but will be returned to the owner!”, or similar.
Please also provide details on where the book can be ordered and we will display that on or near the table!
many thanks!
Amy Bix
Traveling to Chile
- Practical information (external website): Chile te cuida: recomendaciones para un buen viaje – Chile takes care of you: Travel recommendations
- Visa information:
- There are several options for transportation from Santiago Airport to Viña del Mar, such as public transportation, taxis, and ride-share services. A bus journey between Santiago Airport and Viña del Mar takes around 1h 55m and covers a distance of around 126 km. Ticket prices vary between USD 5 and USD 32. A taxi would cost between USD 90 and USD 110. We encourage Travel Grant awardees to use the public transport. You can find more information here (external website). We will post more detailed information at a later time.
Hotel and alternative accommodations
- As the conference will take place on the Viña del Mar campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) there will be no official conference hotel.
- Hotel rooms and alternative accommodations, also recommended for Travel Grant awardees, in various price ranges can be found at:
- At the moment the Pullman Hotel and the Novotel are offering a limited number of rooms for a special ICOHTEC-SHOT rate (please note that they will charge for any cancelations):
- Pullman Viña del Mar: Rooms city view: USD 115 + tax (single) or USD 125 (double) – breakfast included; Rooms bay view: USD 135 + tax (single) or USD 145 (double) – breakfast included. You can book a room by completing and submitting this Pullman reservation form.
- Novotel Viña del Mar: Rooms: USD 80 + tax (single) or USD 95 + tax (double). You can book a room by completing and submitting this Novotel reservation form.
Conference program
The preliminary program for the joint ICOHTEC-SHOT Conference in Viña del Mar (Chile) will be updated every 2 weeks.
The Program Committee created an exiting, broad and diverse program. We are grateful for the work, devotion and enthusiasm of the committee members – Diana Montaño (Chair), Magdalena Zdrodowska (Associate Chair), Bess Williamson, Itty Abraham, Leticia Galluzzi , José Ragas, and Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz.
Please note:
- Information on (hybrid) meeting rooms, Special Interest Groups meetings, plenary lectures etc. is not included yet.
- SHOT Robinson Prize Candidates are indicated. Please note: the maximum number of candidates for the prize is 30, administered on a first-come, first-served basis. Others will be added to a waiting list. If any of the first 30 candidates decides not to participate, those on the waiting list will be bumped up accordingly.
- The Program Committee has reviewed all submitted proposals. All confirmation letters have been send out. If you have not received a letter, please first check your spam filter, than contact the session organizer and/or our Secretariat.
- The program will be updated regularly. Please email updates and corrections to the SHOT secretariat ([email protected])
Congreso conjunto de SHOT y ICOHTEC
9-14 julio del 2024 en Viña del Mar, Chile
Los entornos tecnológicos que habitamos dependen del trabajo constante de mantenimiento y reparación para su funcionamiento. Sin embargo, las personas que realizan dichas reparaciones–junto con sus conocimientos y su trabajo–comúnmente pasan desapercibidas e infravaloradas, haciéndose visibles sólo cuando una infraestructura se avería o en caso de una catástrofe espectacular. La invisibilidad rutinaria de la reparación facilita las grandes proclamas de solucionismo tecnológico, distrayendonos de los requisitos para vivir equitativamente en un mundo cada vez más fragmentado y frágil. ¿Cómo cambia entonces nuestra comprensión de la historia de la tecnología cuando centramos la reparación y el mantenimiento?Exploramos esta y otras cuestiones relacionadas en la primera reunión conjunta entre SHOT e ICOHTEC en tres décadas.
Esta conferencia bilingüe tendrá lugar en Viña del Mar, Chile, del 9 al 14 de julio de 2024.
