[Athena] CFP: 2008 Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Tech

[Philippe JARJAT <philippejarjat AT yahoo.de>]

From:    Martina Hessler <hessler AT em.uni-frankfurt.de>
Date:    12 Dec 2007
Subject: CFP: 2008 Annual Conference of the Society
for the History of
  
Technology

http://www.historyoftechnology.org/

Society for the History of Technology
2008 Annual Conference

The Society for the History of Technology will hold
its annual meeting
  
in Lisbon, October 11-14, to continue the celebration
of the 50th  
anniversary of the founding of the Society.   The
theme of last year's
  
conference was "SHOT@50: Looking Back." This year's
will be "SHOT@50:  
Looking Beyond."  To that end, the Program Committee
seeks papers or  
sessions for the 2008 meeting that concern the history
of technology  
as it may or ought to be practiced in the future.
Papers or sessions  
devoted to the question of how we shall write the
history of  
technology in the future are particularly encouraged.
To serve the  
purpose of "Looking Beyond" the Committee also
appreciates papers or  
panels reaching out beyond SHOT's current disciplinary
boundaries. The
  
Committee will also consider papers of high quality on
any aspect of  
the history of technology, broadly defined.
The Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers
or sessions, as
  
well as works-in-progress from researchers of all
stripes (including  
graduate students, chaired professors, and independent
scholars). It  
welcomes proposals from those new to SHOT, regardless
of discipline.  
The committee will also consider alternative venues
for presenting  
one's scholarship, such as poster sessions, short
(8-minute) quick  
sessions, author-meets-critics panels, discussion of
pre-circulated  
papers, and others.

The deadline for submission is March 14, 2008.

Proposals for individual papers must include:
1) a one-page abstract (maximum 600 words)
2) a one-page curriculum vitae, including current
postal and e-mail  
addresses

Proposals for complete sessions must include:
1) a description of the session that explains how
individual papers  
contribute to an overall theme.
2) the names and paper titles of the presenters
3) for each presenter, a one-page summary (maximum 600
words) of the  
paper's topic, argument(s), and evidence used
4) for the commentator, chair, and each presenter:
one-page c.v., with
  
postal and e-mail addresses


Please indicate if a proposal is sponsored by one of
SHOT's special  
interest groups.


Submission Instructions

1) Materials should be sent as a single text
attachment to an
e-mail message to the Program Committee Chair, Martina
Hessler, at:
 shot AT em.uni-frankfurt.de

2)  Proposals for complete sessions as well as
individual papers shall
  
be submitted in one file.

3)  Please adhere to the 600-word limit for each
paper. Use no unusual
  
fonts or special formatting, and save your attachment
either as a  
Microsoft Word document (.doc) or as a Rich Text
Format (.rtf) file.  
Nearly all word processing programs, including those
used on the  
Macintosh, can save text in the Rich Text Format. Do
not use Adobe  
Acrobat (pdf).

4)  Name your attachment with your last name and the
word 'proposal',  
e.g. 'Smith_proposal.doc'.

5) A session organizer should also deliver a
description of the  
overall session. If you are organizing a session and
proposing a paper
  
in that session, you will be delivering both an
"abstract" and  
"proposal", plus your c.v.

6) If you are proposing a non-traditional session you
may indicate that
in the "abstract."  These also require a curriculum vitae.

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