SHOT 2025 Annual Meeting – Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), 9-11 October 2025
Individuals and groups interested in finding others to join an organized session can submit an open session proposal to be posted on the open sessions list below. The list will be updated daily until April 5, 2025. Those interested in participating in a session listed on the open sessions list below should contact the organizer(s) of that session directly. Make sure that you leave sufficient time for the session organizer(s) to prepare and submit a fully assembled session proposal to the program committee.
Submit a proposal to be posted on the open sessions list
Information for open session organizers
Based on the abstracts received open session organizers have to create and submit a fully assembled traditional or unconventional session propasal through the regular SHOT 2025 submission forms. It is possible to submit a “thread” consisting of two and at most three connected sessions. Please submit a proposals for each session, make clear that the sessions are connected by adding I, II, III to the session name and highlight this information also in each proposal.
For more information on any of the open sessions listed below, click on the session title to download the proposal in PDF format. To inquire about joining one of the open sessions listed below, please contact the session organizer by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address listed.
Updated: 1 April 2025
Learning, Limits, Logic: Epistemological Tensions in the History of Machine Learning
Organizer: Won Jeon (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
History of Spaceflight
Organizer: Tyler Peterson (Lamar University)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
What is Special in Maintaining Communication Technologies? Caring and Repair Human Connections
Organizers: Riccardo Ferrigato and Gabriele Balbi (USI Università della Svizzera Italiana)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Are current politics affecting your research?
Organizer: Allison Marsh (University of South Carolina)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Code Histories
Organizers: Alexandre Hocquet and Frédéric Wieber (University of Lorraine (Archives Henri Poincaré)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Migrating Technologies for Preserving and Reviving Them
Organizer: Valérie Schafer (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Data migrations and migrations of data: how biometrics, digital identity industry, and infrastructures shapes migration policies
Organizer: Cecilia Passanti (Centre populations et developpement (CEPED), Université Paris Cité)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Tourism and the Making of the International
Organizer: Shinhye Jang (Seoul National University)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
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The analog in migration: when the world embraced “Multimedia”
Organizers: Alina Volynskaya, Fred Pailler, andValérie Schafer (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Signals in Motion: Mobile Communication and Geo-Positioning Technologies
Organizers: Ion Mihailescu and Gianenrico Bernascon (University of Neuchâtel)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Early 20th Century Migration of Extraordinary People with Their Unique Technical Knowledge
Organizer: Julie Mark Cohen (Julie Mark Cohen, PhD, pE)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Data Migration: Histories, Infrastructures, and Transformations
Organizers: Grigoris Panoutsopoulos and Hector Isern-Alsina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 0
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Migrating Technologies, Engineers and Expertise
Open Call SHOT Special Interest Group Prometheans
Organizer: Ellan Spero (MIT)
Contact the organizer: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Intimate Energies. Negotiating Power in Domestic Spaces
Organizers: Tiia Sahrakorpi (Weber State University / Aalto University) and Fabian Zimmer (TU Berlin)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Technologies of pattern recognition
Organizers: Valentin Goujon (médialab, Sciences Po) and Alex Campolo (Durham University)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected]
Download the proposal here
The Silk Curtain. Migration of computer experts and technologies between socialist East-Central Europe and the ‘West’ from the late 1960s onwards
Organizers: Johannes Kleinmann (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF))
Contact the organizers: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Into Complementarity: History of the Humanities and Non-Tech in Engineering Education
Organizers: Nina Wormbs and Jakob Henningsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Greenwork and Environmental Knowledge
Organizers: Matthew Eisler (University of Strathclyde) and Hannah Rogers (University of Copenhagen)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Building the Non-Aligned World: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Urban Development in the Global South
Organizers: Tijana Rupčić (The Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Contact the organizers: [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Digital Borders: Biometric Industry, Migration Databases, and DataPolitics, 1950s to 2000s
Organizers: Michael Homberg (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)) and Cecilia Passanti (Centre Population et Developpement (CEPED), Luxembourg)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Migration, and technology and in precolonial Africa
Organizers: Robert T. Nyamushosho (Queens College, City University of New York) and Rebecca Y. Bayeck (Utah State University)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected]
Download the proposal here
Back to the bolts? Engaging materially in a globalizing discipline
Organizers: Jonas van der Straeten (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Josh Grace (University of South Carolina)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected]
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Bicycles in motion: New scopes on cities, cycling and mobility justice
Organizers: Luísa Souza (NOVA University of Lisbon) and Jaume Alvarez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Contact the organizers: [email protected] and [email protected]
Download the proposal here