SHOT is pleased to announce the 2024 Award and Fellowship winners. The fellowship will be announced during the SHOT Awards and Fellowships Event at the joint ICOHTEC-SHOT Annual Meeting that takes place 9-14 July in Viña del Mar (Chile). Citations will be published on the website after the conference. The ICOHTEC-SHOT Awards and Fellowships Event…
Read MoreSHOT is greatly saddened by the passing of Professor Joy Parr, a luminous member of our community. Joy Parr’s exceptional scholarship earned her many awards throughout her career, including SHOT’s 2011 Edelstein Prize for Sensing Changes:Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (University of British Columbia Press, 2010). In 2018 SHOT awarded her the da Vinci…
Read MoreSHOT 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…
Read MoreDear SHOT community, It appears that a side-effect of presidenting a professional society is vulnerability to impersonation by spam bots. This is just to confirm what you’ve probably already figured out: any recent injunctions you may have received to get in touch with me right away are nothing more than the electronic version of canned…
Read MoreJulie Wosk, Professor Emerita, SUNY Maritime College, is happy to announce the publication of her new book Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females (Indiana University Press). AI-enhanced simulated females are becoming ever more lifelike as the virtual vies with the real. They are already having a dramatic impact on…
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe ASU Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes in Washington, DC has a position available for a postdoctoral research scholar (“postdoc”) for 2024-2025 to join a project examining the history of science and technology policy (S&T policy) in the United States. The project is led by CSPO Director Prof. Arthur Daemmrich and is funded through…
Read MoreThe School of History and Sociology (https://hsoc.gatech.edu) at Georgia Tech invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor, one in the History of Science, Technology, or Medicine and a second in the Sociology of Science, Technology, or Medicine. We seek candidates with expertise in twentieth and/or twenty-first century science, technology,…
Read MoreCFR’s David Rockefeller Studies Program has launched a search for a fellow or senior fellow for technology (NY). The David Rockefeller Studies Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is seeking to hire a fellow or senior fellow for technology, with the title depending on the successful candidate’s level of experience. The fellow will…
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