Winners 2024 SHOT Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize The SHOT Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize is awarded annually for the best-delivered paper by an individual who is making his or her first appearance at the Society’s annual meeting. The 2024 prize is awarded to two candidates: Constanza Marin (Universidad Catolica Del Norte), for “La transformación en la…
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 MoreOn Monday 8 July – one day before the conference – theMuseo Chileno de Arte Precolombino in Santiago will open specially for conference attendees, so please consider stopping by on your way to Viña del Mar. Our colleague Gloria Bairrogotegui has arranged for them to host a repair workshop on Monday afternoon! Thanks to an…
Read MoreThe joint ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 Annual Meeting will take place in Viña del Mar (Chile) on 9-14 July. This will be the first joint meeting between ICOHTEC and SHOT in three decades, and will take place on the Viña del Mar campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI). You can find all conference information and the most…
Read MoreThe First joint ICOHTEC-SHOT Winter PhD School, held in Santiago de Chile, will combine the Joint Annual Meeting of ICOHTEC and SHOT in Viña del Mar (Chile), 9-14 July 2024, with a two-day intensive seminar, geared to PhD students and young post-doctoral scholars. The Winter PhD School brings together seminars/tutorials for the students and the…
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
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