Because of COVID-19, we are unable to meet in New Orleans in 2020. We are exploring options for virtual panels in October 2020. SHOT and HSS plan to meet jointly in New Orleans November 2021. 0riginally we planned to hold the 2021 meeting in Merida (Mexico). We regret that we will not be able to…
Read MoreIEEE Life Member History Fellowship, 2020 – 2021 The IEEE Life Member History Fellowship supports one year of full-time graduate work, or one year of post-doctoral research for a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. within the past four years, in the history of IEEE’s areas of interest, including Engineering, Computer Sciences and…
Read MoreSHOT is pleased to announce the 2019 Award and Fellowship winners. The prizes were officially announced at the Awards Banquet at the SHOT Annual Meeting in Milan (Italy) on Saturday 26 October 2019. available.You can download the program booklet here. Leonardo da Vinci Medal: Francesca Bray (The University of Edinburgh) Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship: Samaa Elimam,…
Read MoreAs we put together next year’s schedule of papers for discussion for the Technology Working Group of the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), we invite proposals for a paper for a session or to recommend someone else’s work. A quick reminder about our format: we convene simultaneously online and in Philadelphia,…
Read MoreThe IEEE Annals of the History of Computing invites submissions for a special issue titled “Computing Capitalisms.” Edited by Gerardo Con Diaz (University of California, Davis) and Devin Kennedy (Harvard University), this special issue will showcase new questions and methods in the business history of computing, broadly conceived. The history of computing has described the…
Read MoreSHOT ECIG is pleased to issue the Call for Papers for the Graduate Student Workshop at the SHOT 2018 Annual Meeting to be held 24-27 October, 2019 in Milan, Italy. SHOT invites applications from graduate students to present short papers: (up to 10 pages, 1.5-spaced) at an intensive workshop embedded in the formal SHOT conference. The workshop…
Read MoreICOHTEC organizes a summer school on ‘Technology and Power’. It is scheduled directly before the symposium in Katowice. The Deadline for application is March 4 2019. Lecturers: Lino Camprubi, University of Sevilla, Spain. Technology and Globalization: Political Economy, Diplomacy and Strategy. Martina Heßler, Darmstadt Technical University, Germany Power – Powerlessness: The Ambiguity of Technology and…
Read MoreDeadline 30 January 2019 We live in the digital age which has a huge impact on the way we do scholarly research. For emerging careers it seems to be particularly pivotal. One the one hand, digitalization brings opportunities enlarging the methodological and thematic horizons. On the other hand, it sets a number of challenges on…
Read MoreThe deadline for submissions to the ICOHTEC symposium, to be held in Katowice, Poland, 22-27 July 2019, has been extended. The new deadline is 18 February 2019. Visit conference website. Katowice has been a centre of technological activity for centuries and at present also is one of Poland’s high tech centres. The capital of the…
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