Call for Papers for a Prometheans/WITH Joint Workshop, to be held on the Sunday of the Singapore SHOT Annual Meeting, June 26, 2016 – deadline for proposals, February 22 2016 Two SHOT Special Interest Groups (SIGs) – WITH and the Prometheans – invite people to submit abstracts for possible presentations at a joint SIG workshop…
Read MoreEDITH/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…
Read MoreEDITH CONFERENCE AWARD Exploring Diversity in Technological History Grants for Presenters at the Albuquerque SHOT meeting The SHOT Special Interest Group EDITH (Exploring Diversity in Technological History) announces its new conference award, available for the first time for the 2015 conference of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. The purpose of the award…
Read MoreEDITH CONFERENCE AWARD Exploring Diversity in Technological History Grants for Presenters at the Albuquerque SHOT meeting The SHOT Special Interest Group EDITH (Exploring Diversity in Technological History) announces its new conference award, available for the first time for the 2015 conference of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. The purpose of the award…
Read MoreWITH TRAVEL AWARD -A Call for “New Voices” in Technological History Women in Technological History The SHOT Special Interest Group for Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel award for 2015. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of…
Read MorePam Laird Research Grant The Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), is offering the Pam Laird Research Grant (US$1,000) to defray the cost of travel and housing to use a research collection to pursue research in the history of communication technologies. The Mercurians began meeting in 1986…
Read MoreACM History Committee Call for Papers 2015 Research Workshop on ACM History The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has more than 100,000 members around the world. To help illuminate ACM’s history the ACM History Committee (ACM-HC) will…
Read MoreSHOT 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/
Read MoreENVIROTECH TRAVEL AWARD The Envirotech Special Interest Group is pleased to announce a $400 travel grant for the upcoming 2014 SHOT conference. Eligibility for the award is limited to those presenting a paper addressing the interrelated histories of environment and technology at the SHOT meeting in Dearborn, MI November 6-9, 2014. The grant is available…
Read MoreSomething 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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