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  • From: Patrice Bret <patrice.bret AT yahoo.fr>
  • Subject: [ATHENA] Appel à communications et sessions - ICOHTEC 2022
  • Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 11:18:55 +0000 (UTC)

Bonjour,

Je vous transmets l'appel à communications et sessions pour le 49e congrès de l'ICOHTEC qui se tiendra en visioconférence en 2022 en trois phases 17-18 juin, 24-25 septembre et 15-16 octobre, ce qui peut être une bonne occasion pour participer pour la première fois sans grands frais ni amputation des vacances !

Comme la langue du congrès est l'anglais, l'appel est également dans cette langue uniquement, bien que le français soit une langue officielle des divisions de l'Union internationale d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IUHPST) et de leurs commissions et sections comme l'ICOHTEC, qui relève de la Division d'histoire des sciences et des techniques (DHST).

Bien cordialement,

Patrice Bret
Membre honoraire du Centre Alexandre Koyré (EHESS-CNRS-MNHN) / LabEx HASTEC (EPHE-PSL)
Secrétaire général du Comité Lavoisier de l'Académie des sciences
Membre émérite du CTHS (Section Sciences, Histoire des sciences et des techniques, Archéologie industrielle)
Membre de l'Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences



----- Message transmis -----
De : Maria Elvira Callapez Callapez <mariaelviracallapez AT gmail.com>
Envoyé : samedi 20 novembre 2021, 11:47:50 UTC+1
Objet : Updated _Call for Papers and Sessions - ICOHTEC 2022

Esteemed Colleagues, Friends,

 

I'm pleased to resend you an updated call for papers including the LOGOS of our organizing university partners for the 2022 ICOHTEC Symposium.


Also, I would like to emphasize that, along with the important contribution of each one of you, a highlight of the congress will be the Kranzberg Lecture by Prof. Maria Paula Diogo, awarded with the Leonardo da Vinci Medal by SHOT in 2020.

 

Additionally, I would like to invite you to participate in the seminars that our “ICOHTEC Dynamic Group”, is enthusiastically preparing for. As I mentioned in my initial message as Secretary-General of ICOHTEC, these meetings are thought to take place throughout the year.

 

Other initiatives are on the way, such as summer school.

 

Each of you, ICOHTECer and friends, is essential for the ICOHTEC live!


Please circulate this call to colleagues and contacts.

 

Thank you for reading! Thinking of you. Any comments are very welcome. 

 

With best wishes, 

 

 Maria Elvira Callapez


(PhD, History of Science and Technology,

Researcher, Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa

Visiting Scholar, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, University of California, Berkeley

Secretary-General of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)


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Call for Papers and Sessions

 

 

 

Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions

 

 

The 2022 International Committee for the History of Technology’s 49th Symposium will take place virtually. It will occur in 3 phases, each lasting two days. The 1st meeting will be in June (17, 18), the 2nd in September (24, 25), and the 3rd in October (15, 16). The Kranzberg Lecture will take place in June.

 

The general theme is “Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions”. Whereas technology-based decisions have a long history, technology-generated decisions of so-called artificial intelligence, AI, are on the horizon since the turn to the 21st century and might gain decisive influence within the next years. Which decisions we are willing to handle over to technology? How to define ethical guidelines for this development? The symposium aims to contribute to this discussion, based on a transnational perspective of the history of technology.

 

The deadline for proposal is Sunday, 30 January 2022

 

For a long time, societies have considered technology a value-neutral instrument for various purposes, including decision-making by organizations. Between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, technology progressively increased its pivotal role in societies: governments, companies, or individual people considered technology essential for living and surviving. But due to increasing over-saturation with technology, negative outcomes became visible and thus, subject of public discussion.

 

Technology is involved in decision-making in two ways: decisions based on technology and technology-generated decisions. Human societies are used to base their decisions thanks to technologies permitting them, for instance, data collection. Cartography was helpful in decisions such as financing exploratory expeditions traveling, trade, or military operations since the early modern era. In the contemporary World, high-resolution satellite images are the base for the decision-making process in military operations or identifying places where it could be possible to extract mineral and oil resources. Moreover, new technologies often inspire new ways to perform old tasks (e.g., imaging technologies in medical diagnosis) and inspire taking on new tasks (think military rockets being applied to spaceflight). Second, the design and manufacture of technology require decisions that affect how it works, how it is used, how it is manufactured, etc. Certain decisions regarding material properties, usage scenarios (e.g., usability), and areas of application require different types of production. Conversely, the type of production chosen (technology, process, etc.) influences the possible uses of the technology and its artifacts.

 

Suggestions for more specific questions, derived from the main question:

 

·       What are the social/historical/cultural conditions of technology related decision-making?

·       Decisions on science and technology: inclusion and citizen participation

·       What are the ethical conditions of technology-generated decisions?

·       Which transnational perspectives can be taken regarding technology-inherent decisions?

·       How do these technology-inherent decisions affect the critique of technology (e.g., impact factor in science, “publish or perish”)?

·       Technocracy is a well-researched topic. What is the state of the art in this field? Any new approaches, theories, empirical findings?

·       Data recording and processing is a core task now carried out with computers. Which technologies were used – and where and how – before the advent of computing?

·       Global challenges and technology-based/generated decisions (e.g., climate change, COVID-19 pandemic, individual health, and public health)

·       Artistic strategies involving technology/generated decision

·       Body, dis/ability, and technology-based/generated decisions

·       The role of images (maps, photographs, etc.) in decision making.

 

The symposium covers all periods and all areas of the globe. In keeping with a cherished tradition of the field, the meeting is open to scholars from all disciplines and backgrounds. Gender-related and worldwide topics are specifically welcome. Besides contributions to the main theme of the symposium, paper and session proposals on different topics of the history of technology are welcome.

 

Proposal Guidelines

 

ICOHTEC welcomes proposals for individual papers and posters, but preference will be given to organised sessions of three or more papers. The Programme Committee will also consider submissions not directly related to the symposium theme providing that they relate to the history of technology broadly defined. All proposals must be in English, and should be submitted electronically by 30 January 2022 via our website http://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/ (will be available, soon). For suggestions about preparing your submission and the conference presentation, please consult the guidelines on www.icohtec.org/proposal-guidelines.html In addition to the scientific programme, the symposium will include plenary sessions, special sessions for the prize winning book and article, the general assembly of ICOHTEC. If you have any questions related to the scientific programme, paper, poster or session proposals, please, do not hesitate to contact Jacopo Pessina, the chair of the programme committee, at j.pessina87 AT gmail.com.

 

We especially encourage graduate students to submit proposals and to participate in the symposium.

Members of ICOHTEC and low-income people pay a reduced fee.

 

INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals must include: (1) a 300-word (maximum) abstract; and (2) a one-page (maximum) CV. Abstracts should include the author’s name and email address, a short descriptive title, three to five key words, a concise statement of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and a summary of the major conclusions. If you are submitting a paper proposal dealing with a particular subtheme in this CfP, please indicate this in your proposal. In preparing your paper, remember that presentations are not full-length articles. You will have no more than 20 minutes to speak, which is roughly equivalent to 8 double-spaced typed pages. For more suggestions about preparing your conference presentation, please consult the guidelines at the conference website. Contributors are encouraged to submit full-length versions of their papers after the conference for consideration by ICOHTEC’s peer-reviewed journal ICON.

 

PANEL proposals must include (1) an abstract of the panel (300 words maximum), listing the proposed papers and a session chairperson; (2) abstracts for each paper (300 words maximum); (3) a one-page CV (maximum) for each contributor and chairperson. Panels should consist of three or four speakers. Several panels may be organized on one topic.

We encourage the creation of panels which examine technology-based and technology-generated decisions in different parts of the world, enabling international comparisons, and contributing to an emerging transnational historiography. We welcome especially contributions from beyond Europe and the United States, which so far have been less fully covered by historians of technology.

 

The programme committee reserves the right to relocate papers to different themes and add papers to panels.

 

POSTER proposals must include (1) a 300-word (maximum) abstract; and (2) a one-page CV. Abstracts should include the author’s name and email address, a short descriptive title,

a concise statement of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and a summary of the major conclusions.

 

Programme Committee:

 

·       Pessina Jacopo IT (Chair), j.pessina87 AT gmail.com

·       Florian Bettel AT, florian.bettel AT uni-ak.ac.at  

·       Ercolani Sara IT - supers.ercolani AT gmail.com

·       Fari Simone IT/ES _ fari AT ugr.es 

·       Hadlaw Jan CA, jhadlaw AT yorku.ca

·       Limina Valentina IT - valentinalimina AT gmail.com

·       Min Fanxiang CHI – fanxiangmin AT nju.edu.cn

·       Müürsepp Peeter EST, peeter.muursepp AT taltech.ee

·       Schuetz Thomas GE , thomas.schuetz AT hi.uni-stuttgart.de

·       Yagou Artemis (only for the evaluation of papers) GE/GR , artemis AT yagou.gr

·       Zdrowska Magdalena PL , magda.zdrodowska AT uj.edu.pl



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