April 26th, 2024
SHOT 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…
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April 23rd, 2024
Dear 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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April 6th, 2024
Julie 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…
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April 5th, 2024
The 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
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March 26th, 2024
The 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…
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March 15th, 2024
Call for Proposals: SHOT Early Career Group 2024 Workshop (Proposals Due: March 31, 2024) The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Early Career Interest Group (ECIG) invites graduate students to submit 250-300 word paper proposals for an intensive workshop at the SHOT annual meeting in Viña del Mar, Chile, 9-14 July. The workshop will…
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February 24th, 2024
The preliminary program for the joint ICOHTEC-SHOT Conference in Viña del Mar (Chile) is now available. Meeting dates are 9-14 July 2024. The Program Committee created an exiting, broad and diverse program. We are grateful for the work, devotion and enthusiasm of the committee members – Diana Montaño (Chair), Magdalena Zdrodowska (Associate Chair), Bess Williamson,…
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January 31st, 2024
UPDATED DEADLINE! Please submit proposals for SIGCIS 2024 (July 14th in Viña del Mar, Chile; hybrid options TBD) by Monday, February 12th. The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the CFP for our 2024 SIGCIS Conference, SYSTEM UPDATE. Our keynote for the event is Anita Say Chan, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences…
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January 24th, 2024
The 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…
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December 15th, 2023
The 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,…
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