The Department of History in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in partnership with the African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika) located at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 6th AHE-Afrika History Education International Conference which will be held at the…
Read MoreRegister Now for 11/12 Levi Symposium on The Value(s) of Disposability in Health Care Roughly 80 percent of healthcare’s oversized carbon footprint derives from the production, transportation, use, and disposal of a single-use medical supply chain. Yet as health care organizations try to practice ‘resource stewardship’ – that is, to move away from single-use…
Read MorePROGRAM: Innovative Lives with Gary Brantley (SVP and CIO, National Football League) SYMPOSIUM: Sports Technology and Innovation 21-22 October 2024 Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC USA FREE Registration (Innovative Lives with Gary Brantley): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovative-lives-gary-brantley-tickets-1013998104627 FREE Registration (Symposium): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sports-technology-and-innovation-new-perspectives-tickets-969323932977 Meet…
Read MoreCall for Papers Textile History Forum ( 1-3 August 2025) Location: The Weaver’s Croft and Eaton Hill Textiles, Marshfield (Vermont, USA) The forum meets bi-annually and was founded in the 1990s as a scholarly, but non-academic setting to encourage new voices to discuss old materials and process. Presenters from all areas of textile interests are…
Read MoreWinners 2024 SHOT Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize The SHOT Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize is awarded annually for the best-delivered paper by an individual who is making his or her first appearance at the Society’s annual meeting. The 2024 prize is awarded to two candidates: Constanza Marin (Universidad Catolica Del Norte), for “La transformación en la…
Read MoreThe 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.…
Read MoreJoint 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…
Read MoreSHOT 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…
Read MoreNew 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,…
Read More$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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