August 21st, 2015
EDITH/WITH Sunday Morning Workshop: “Beyond ‘Add and Stir:’ Making Difference a Central Part of Our Scholarship” (while still getting a job and tenure) Please join WITH and EDITH for a Sunday morning workshop (8:00-12:00) on incorporating gender, race, disability, class, sexuality, etc. into our scholarship. This structured conversation between experienced scholars who have done so…
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September 18th, 2014
SHOT congratulates Pamela O. Long, winner of a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship: http://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/21-extraordinarily-creative-people-who-inspire-us-all-meet-2014-macarthur-fellows/
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June 30th, 2014
Something New for the SHOT Annual Meeting As part of the Annual Meeting program upcoming in Portland (11-14 October 2013), I invite you to read online the short texts provided by the participants in the opening plenary and various roundtables that will take place during the meeting. Even more, we solicit your comments, feedback and…
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April 14th, 2014
SHOT Members: The House of Representatives has been working on legislation to reauthorize funding for the National Science Foundation, and competing bills have been introduced by the majority republicans and minority Democrats. The Republican measure, is named the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act and cuts funding for the social sciences by…
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April 14th, 2014
Call for participation in SHOT’s Three minute dissertation video contest Want to spread the word about your research to a broader audience? SHOT is pleased to announce its first ever three minute video contest for PhD students and recent graduates whose dissertation engages with the history of technology. We welcome participants from the history of science,…
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January 23rd, 2014
Call for Papers and Sessions Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting – Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) 26-29 October 2017 The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history and society. We…
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November 18th, 2013
Results of the recent election for certain SHOT officers and committee assignments: Executive Secretary (Three-year term) David Lucsko Executive Council (Three-year term) Molly Berger Ann Greene Heidi Voskuhl Editorial Committee (Five-year term) Janet Abbate Nominating Committee (Five-year term) Sonja Schmid
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October 31st, 2013
Note from the SHOT President I wish to express my thanks to all of the people who helped make the annual meeting in Portland such an interesting event. I and the officers are delighted that so many of you found the roundtable discussions and the two plenaries valuable and stimulating. I am especially grateful to…
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October 7th, 2013
SHOT Talk for Dearborn 2014: Presidential Roundtables and Plenaries Last year in Portland, we solicited your comments, feedback, and suggestions about the session topics and individual papers at the conference through online commenting – the first time SHOT had offered such an option tied to sessions and papers. Our goal was to stimulate a discussion…
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September 18th, 2013
Technical Support for Presenters Audio-Visual Support At The Henry and the Fairlane Events Center, each session room will be equipped with a digital projector and screen. Speakers planning to use PowerPoint should make sure that they (or someone on their panel) will have a laptop that can connect to the digital projector. Be sure to…
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