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April 5th, 2024

CfP ICHST 2025, New Zealand, deadline 1 May 2024

The 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology will be held from 29 June – 5 July 2025 at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Symposium Proposals are due by 1 May 2024. Standalone Papers are due by 1 December 2024. For further details, please go to the Congress website: https://www.ichst2025.org

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March 26th, 2024

CfP Preserving the Race for Space Symposium 2024, Houston, deadline 8-4-24

The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training of the National Park Service is seeking papers for its Preserving the Race for Space Symposium 2024!  Please consider submitting a proposal and share the call for papers with your networks.  April 8 is the abstract deadline for the August 13-15 conference in Houston. Information about the conference can be found at: https://home.nps.gov/articles/000/preserving-the-race-for-space-2024-from-the-earth-to-the-moon-and-beyond.htm…

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March 15th, 2024

SHOT Chile: Early Career Group 2024 Workshop

Call for Proposals: SHOT Early Career Group 2024 Workshop (Proposals Due: March 31, 2024) The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Early Career Interest Group (ECIG) invites graduate students to submit 250-300 word paper proposals for an intensive workshop at the SHOT annual meeting in Viña del Mar, Chile, 9-14 July. The workshop will…

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February 24th, 2024

Preliminary program ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 now available

The preliminary program for the joint ICOHTEC-SHOT Conference in Viña del Mar (Chile) is now available. Meeting dates are 9-14 July 2024. 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,…

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January 31st, 2024

Updated submission deadline SIGCIS 2024 conference: February 12

UPDATED DEADLINE! Please submit proposals for SIGCIS 2024 (July 14th in Viña del Mar, Chile; hybrid options TBD) by Monday, February 12th. The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the CFP for our 2024 SIGCIS Conference, SYSTEM UPDATE. Our keynote for the event is Anita Say Chan, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences…

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December 12th, 2023

CfP: Midwest Junto for the History of Science 2024 Annual Meeting

The 65th annual meeting of the Midwest Junto for the History of Science will be held 22-24 March, 2024 at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. For more than six decades, the Midwest Junto has fostered an informal, congenial environment where students, faculty, independent scholars, and other research professionals can gather to discuss their research.…

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November 4th, 2023

Call for Papers Joint 2024 Annual Meeting ICOHTEC-SHOT

Joint annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 9-14 July 2024 in Viña del Mar, Chile Reparando / Repair in the History of Technology The technological environments we inhabit require continual repair and maintenance in order to function. Yet the people…

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October 26th, 2023

SHOT Awards and Fellowships 2023

SHOT AWARD AND FELLOWSHIPS 2023 SHOT is pleased to announce the 2023 Award and Fellowship winners. The fellowships will be presented during the SHOT Awards and Fellowships Event at the SHOT Annual Meeting that takes place 26-29 October in Los Angeles (California). Citations will be published on the website after the conference. The SHOT Awards…

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October 11th, 2023

Symposium New Perspectives on Energy Innovation, 19 October 2023

New Perspectives on Energy Innovation October 19, 2023 | 1:00-3:40pm ET FREE Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-perspectives-on-energy-innovation-tickets-709559821527 Details: https://invention.si.edu/new-perspectives-energy-innovation   October 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 oil embargo imposed by the Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the wake of the Yom Kippur/Ramadan War. The temporary shortages inflated energy prices,…

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October 6th, 2023

Call for Student Papers 2023 Sacknoff Prize for Space History (SHOT Albatrosses)

$500 Cash Prize + A Publishing & Presentation Opportunity Please encourage your students, interns, and/or volunteers to submit a paper for the 2023 Sacknoff Prize for Space History and share our flyer with them.  The deadline is  28 November 2023. This is a great opportunity to brush up a class paper or repurpose a thesis chapter! About…

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