The American Historical Association will host a three-week long National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Higher Education Faculty on US environmental history and policy from the early 19th century through the 20th century. The application deadline is March 5, 2025. Situated at the intersection of environmental, Indigenous, and political history, this institute will explore how humans have…
Read MoreSHOT is please to publish the Call for Papers for the 2025 Annual Meeting in Luxembourg (9-11 October). Conference theme is Technologies of Migration – Migrating Technologies (This post will be updated)
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the results of the 2024 SHOT Elections. Elected are: Vice President – President Elect Jennifer Karns Alexander New members Executive Council (2025-2027) Benjamin Gross Elena Kochetkova Yeonsil Kang New member Nominations Committee (2025-2027) Kate McDonald New member Editorial Committee (2025-2029) Greg Downey We congratulate the elected candidates with their election,…
Read MoreThe new Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute (AIM) at the University of Maryland, College Park (https://aim.umd.edu/) has openings for 30 tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. The job description mentions “humanistic and social scientific approaches” to AI. The deadline for best consideration is 12/13/2024. The full text is available at: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124144 Questions…
Read MoreThe Department of History at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the history of science and technology with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2025. Applicants must have their Ph.D. in History or a related field conferred by July 30, 2025. The successful candidate will develop offerings in 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 MoreSHOT 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 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…
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