Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics College Park, Maryland March 1-2, 2018 Paper, Presentation, and Roundtable Proposals Due November 1, 2017 The “To Boldly Preserve: Archiving for the Next Half-Century of Space Flight Conference” will examine the unprecedented challenges and opportunities we face in preserving the history of…
Read MoreThe Association for Computing Machinery’s History Committee invites proposals for research projects related to ACM’s professional and educational activities and/or to ACM’s rich institutional history including its organization, publications, SIG activities, and conferences. We will support up to four projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. To Apply: Applicants…
Read MoreThe Department of Social Sciences and History at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, is seeking to fill a position of Full Professor (W 3) in History of Technology The position is to be filled as soon as possible. The successful candidate will teach History of Technology in a broad sense in all programmes taught at the…
Read MoreThe Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science (http://www.eands.virginia.edu/) seeks multiple candidates to teach undergraduate courses in one of the following areas: entrepreneurship, science and engineering policy, science and technology studies [STS], applied mathematics, or general engineering. Candidates must have at least a Master’s degree or…
Read MoreTechnology and Culture is happy to announce that Margaret Grubiak’s article “An Architecture for the Electronic Church: Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma” (Technology and Culture 57, no. 2) has won the 2017 Catherine Bishir Award for best article in vernacular architecture given by the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Congratulations to Dr. Grubiak!
Read MoreAs a leading organization promoting the historical interpretation of technology in its many forms and contexts, it is vital today that the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) reach its community of scholars and the interested public via social media. Going forward, this will include regular updates of SHOT member activities on Facebook. This…
Read MoreSHOT is pleased to announce its new Small Grants Award and will consider proposals from external individuals and organizations to endorse events relevant to SHOT’s mission.
Read MoreCALL FOR PAPERS for International Conference “CONTOURS OF THE FUTURE: TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN CULTURAL CONTEXT” 1 – 3 November 2017 Saint-Petersburg, Russia Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University www.futurecon.ru For postindustrial societies the future has turned into a space of risk and construction of expectations. The future exists in the present as a discourse…
Read MoreTechnology’s Stories is SHOT’s latest initiative – an open-acess digital magazine featuring essays, blogs, book announcements from SHOT members.
Read MoreWe announce a conference at the Office for the History of Science, Uppsala University to take place April 12-14, 2018 on the topic of “Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice.” We call for papers that explore the history of research integrity and fraud, including the question of how the…
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