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LECTURES
2007-2008 Lecture Series (Propylaia Building, 6pm)
27-3-2007
'The Antikythera Mechanism: Approaches and Considerations'
Agamemnon Tselikas (Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece) and Yiannis Bistakis (Physicist)
24-4-2007
'Greek merchants and artisans in Europe: Transfer of technical know-how (18th century)'
Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Professor of History, University of Athens
22-5-2007
'Policies for the advantageous appropriation of information-telecommunications technologies in the Greek economy and society: A difficult path'
Yiannis Kaloghirou, Associate Professor, National Technical University of Athens
Doctoral Seminar in the History of Science and Technology
29/05/2007 18:00, Goudarouli Room. We are going to discuss the 4 articles of 'Focus: Mathematical Stories' ISIS (2006, 97.4).
Doctoral Seminar in the History of Science and Technology
17/04/2007 18:00, Goudarouli Room. Christiana Christopoulou presents an article by F. Sherwood Taylor (The Origins of the Thermometer, Annals of Science, Volume 5, Issue 2 December 1942 , pages 129 - 156).
Doctoral Seminar in the History of Science and Technology
Discussion about the historiography of scientific instruments Presentation by Georgia Kollia, Doctoral Student. Tuesday, Macrh the 13th, 6pm, Goudarouli Room.
Doctoral Seminar in the History of Science and Technology
Next meeting: Tuesday, 17-4-2007, 6pm, Goudarouli Room
Doctoral Seminar Discussion on "Science and Visual Culture"
February 20th, 2007, 18:00 at Goudarouli Room, Philosophy and History of Science Department. Article Presentation by Lena Exarchou.
Demostehnes Agrafiotis: "Concerning technology: Social and Cultural Issues"
March 3rd, 2007, 19: 00 at Propylaia Building, University of Athens. Demostehnes Agrafiotis is a Professor at the National School of Public Health.
Vasilis Kyrkos: "Man and his technology: issues of consience and responsibility"
February 27th, 2007, 19: 00 at Propylaia Building, University of Athens. Vasilis Kyrkos is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Athens.
Iris Tzahili: "What's new? Innovations, Inertias, and Denials in Pre-Historic Aegean"
Tuesday, January 23th, 2007, 19: 00 at Propylaia Building, University of Athens. Iris Tzahili is an Associate Professor at the University of Crete.
Jean Christianidis participates in a panel discussion on the findings from the Archimedes Palimsest
Tuesday, December 19th 2006, Aithousa Logou kai Tehnis, Stoa tou Vivliou, Pesmatzoglou 5 kai Stadiou.
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Dimitris Dialetis participates in a panel discussion entitled "History's Transformations in digital technology: Internet's dynamic"
Monday, December 18th 2006, Amphitheater "L. Zervas", Greek Research Foundation.
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Tzina Politi: "The working-class woman during and after the industrial revolution: reality and myth"
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006, 'Drakopoulos' Room (Propylaia), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Tzina Politi is Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Theodosios Tasios: "Anthropological and Historical View of the Technological Development in Ancient Greece"
December 12, 2006. Amfitheatre "IOANNHS DRAKOPOULOS", University of Athens, Panepistimiou 30, 19:00. Theodosis Tasios is Professor at the National Technical University of Athens.
Christina Banou: "Typography's contribution to the Scientific Revolution"
Tuesday, December 5th 2006, 18:15, Goudarouli Room, Philosophy and History of Science Department, National nd Kapodistrian University of Athens. Christina Banou is Lecturer at the University of the Ionian.
D. Dialetis, J. Christianidis, K. Gavroglou: "Archimede's palimpsest and its new reading technics"
November 28, 2006. Amfitheatre "IOANNHS DRAKOPOULOS", University of Athens, Panepistimiou 30, 19:00.
Peter Menzel: "Crosses, Crescents and Community" inter-ethnic on Ottoman Railroads"
November 13, 2006. MITHE, 18:00.
Vassilis Karasmanis: "Aristotle's Technological Thought"
November 7, 2006. Amfitheatre "IOANNHS DRAKOPOULOS", University of Athens, Panepistimiou 30, 19:00.
Aristotle Tympas: "The History of Technology and its History"
October 24, 2006. Amfitheatre "IOANNHS DRAKOPOULOS", University of Athens, Panepistimiou 30, 19:00.
Robert Fox: "The Public Face of Science in 19th century France"
April 26, 2006. Historical Archive, Skoufa 45, 16:00. Robert Fox is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford.
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Ruth Oldenziel
April 4, 2006. E Building, National Technical University (NTUA), 15:00-17:00. Ruth Oldenziel is professor at the Technical University Eindhoven and Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
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CALL FOR PAPERS & CONFERENCES
Added: 12/05/2007 NEW
SHOT International Scholar Program | More
Call for Papers Tensions of Europe/Inventing Europe Summerschool. Deadline for applying: June 13, 2008 | More
Added: 28/11/2007
"History | Gender | Computing" conference-workshop 30-31 May 2008 at Charles Babbage Institute (Univ. Minnesota) | More
Cfp 36th ICOHTEC Symposium in Budapest | More
Cfp Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) 2008 Joint Annual Meeting, August 20-23 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands | More
Added: 29/08/2007
Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism
A Sociological Review Monograph
Edited by Martin Parker (University of Leicester) m.parker@le.ac.uk and David Bell (University of Leeds) d.j.bell@leeds.ac.uk
One of the most iconic moments of the twentieth century was the first Apollo moon landing, which has its 40th anniversary in 2009. The images of the Earth from space, of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon, the massive cold war organisation of NASA and the Soviet space program, and the countless books, films and products associated with space travel have a huge significance in terms of popular culture and artistic practice. However, it is remarkable how little impact the space age has had on the social sciences and humanities more specifically. Perhaps this is partly because its combination of military-industrial cold war politics, combined with patriarchy and big science, sits uneasily with contemporary thought in these areas. To put it simply, it is hard to be 'for' space travel in a context of globalising inequality, and a supposed climate of suspicion about grand narratives. To admit an interest in such matters is likely to suggest a wilful detachment from the urgencies of contemporary life, or the sophistications of contemporary theory, unless it is a topic being used to demonstrate the catastrophic failures of complex organization, or the hubris of nation states, or the dreams of men.
We believe that these matters are not reducible to such simplistic dismissals. And when a topic is hugely important in popular culture, but almost invisible in the academy, it makes us want to ask questions about visibility, or perhaps self-censorship. So this book seeks to fill that gap by providing an interdisciplinary collection of essays on various aspects of NASA, the moon landings and space travel generally. This is not a book about cultural studies, or history, or the sociology of technology, or politics, or management, or science fiction -- yet all these will be involved in thinking through the implications of space travel for the way that human beings have imagined ourselves and the universe around us. The book will travel from hard science and engineering to space romance, echoing the variety of attempts to blur science and culture that we hope to find in the chapters.
Topic areas we would welcome submissions around include:
* The economics of space travel
* Alternative space programs
* Technoscience in space
* Space science fact and fiction
* The politics of the space age
* The popular cultures of space travel
* Gender in space
* Space age management
* Histories of the space age
* The archaeology of space
* Space conspiracies and folk myths
Deadlines and Word Length.Please send a brief abstract or synopsis by November 1st 2007. Full first drafts will be required by July 1st 2008, final revised versions by December 1st 2008. Final chapters should be 5-6000 words long, including notes and references.
Added: 09/07/2007
30-31 May 2008 - CBI workshop-conference on "History | Gender | Computing". Workshop and Conference 30-31 May 2008 Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota. More>>
Added: 29/05/2007
July 12th to July 14th 2007 - Bletchley Park and London. Computer Conservation Society - Three day conference to celebrate the British contribution to the development of modern computing. Full programme at http://www.bcsat50.org/
Added: 24/05/2007
History of Nordic Computing 2 Conference
The Second Conference on History of Nordic Computing (HiNC2) is going to be held on 21 – 23 August 2007 in Turku, Finland.
The Conference web pages have now been updated. Please find more information concerning the programme, registration and accommodation on the following website: http://hinc2.utu.fi/
Early registration deadline: 20 June 2007
Added: 27/04/2007
IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power. 3-5 August 2007, New Brunswick. http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/.
Added: 20/04/2007
Business History Conference & Dissertation Colloquium, Sacramento, April 2008.
The 2008 annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) will take place April 10-12 in Sacramento, California, hosted by the California State University at Sacramento. The deadline for submission of proposals is September 24, 2007. More .
BHC is the main international conference for business history, but there is a panel for history of computing.
The Newcomen Dissertation Colloquium will be held in conjunction with the 2008 BHC annual meeting. This intensive workshop, sponsored by the BHC through the generous support of the Newcomen Society of the United States, will take place at the conference venue Wednesday evening, April 9, and Thursday, April 10. Participants will work closely with a small, distinguished group of BHC-affiliated scholars, including at least two of its officers. The assembled scholars and students will review dissertation proposals, consider relevant literatures and research strategies, and discuss the business history profession. Limited to ten students, it is intended for doctoral candidates in the early stages of their dissertation projects. Those interested in participating should submit to Roger Horowitz, BHC Secretary-Treasurer (rh@udel.edu), a statement of interest, a preliminary or final dissertation prospectus, and a CV. Please make clear that you are interested in the Dissertation Colloquium. One recommendation from the dissertation supervisor (or prospective supervisor) should also be faxed (302-655-3188) or emailed to Roger Horowitz by December 15, 2007. The review committee will notify all applicants of its decisions by February 1st. A grant from the Newcomen Society of the United States will provide each participant with a $400US honorarium.
Added: 04/04/2007
SICU2: An International Workshop on Historic Scientific Instrument Collections in the University will take place 21-24 June 2007 in Oxford, Mississippi. The workshop website (http://home.olemiss.edu/~sicu2web/) has links to the current program, including Keynote Speakers and the schedule of presenters and sessions.
Online registration for SICU2 is now open, via http://home.olemiss.edu/~sicu2web/SICU2_Registration.html.
Early Registration (before April 30 ) includes scheduled transportation from Memphis airport to the workshop site on June 20 or 21, and return transportation to Memphis on June 24. The registration fee also includes mid-day meals on June 22 & 23 and evening meals on June 21, 22, & 23. Registration fee does not include lodging. Workshop participants should make their own hotel reservations : a room block is available at The Inn at Ole Miss for SICU2 participants to reserve their choice (before June 5).
The University of Mississippi is in Oxford, longtime home of William Faulkner and 70 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. If there is sufficient interest among participants, a post-workshop excursion will be planned to attractions in the Mississippi Delta region and/or Memphis on June 24.
SICU2 is sponsored by the Scientific Instrument Commission and the University of Mississippi, with funding from the US National Science Foundation. Questions can be directed to sicu2@olemiss.edu or the Steering Committee listed on the website.
Tensions of Europe - Third Plennary Meeting
7-10 June 2007 Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Registration deadline is January 5, 2007.
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Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
2006 Annual Meeting at the Imperial Palace - Las Vegas Hotel, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Registration deadline is January 5, 2007.
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Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science
October 11-13, 2007, Montreal, Canada
"The theme for the conference is ways of knowing. By this we mean several things: implicitly, that there are many ways of knowing any particular object, process, or event; that some of these ways of knowing have historically been more valued than others; and that processes of adjudicating ways of knowing have usually been neither nice nor neutral. So we are interested in processes of valuation (from the language of debates to acts of censorship) that result in one way of knowing as “the right one” or “the natural one.” We are interested in how people, groups, or cultures hold more than one way of knowing, and whether this is stable, durable, or problematic.'
Registration deadline is February 1, 2007.
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ICOHTEC Symposium 2007
14-18 August 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fashioning Technology: Design from Imagination to Practice is the symposium's general theme.
Registration deadline is 15 January 2007
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British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference
Thursday 28 June - Sunday 1 July 2007 - University of Manchester, UK. Papers are invited in all areas of the history of science, technology and medicine. Proposals for themed panels are particularly encouraged.
Registration deadline is Sunday 4 February 2007
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Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies - Minds, Bodies, Machines Conference
6-7 July 2007, London
This is a interdisciplinary conference, convened by Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies University of London in partnership with the Department of English, University of Melbourne and software developers Constraint Technologies International (CTI).
Abstracts for papers of 20 minutes, as well as details of expected audio-visual needs, should be submitted no later than 28 FEBRUARY 2007. Registration deadline is Sunday 4 February 2007.
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Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND THE COLD WAR', March 9-10, 2007 Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington Delaware.
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society invites papers for a symposium on Technological Innovation and the Cold War on Friday, March 9-10, 2007 at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. The conference's principal question is the impact of Cold War era military innovations on postwar American economic growth. Papers could consider the transition from military to commercial applications of technological initiatives in, for example, aerospace, communications, material science, propulsion, instrumentation, or computing. Failure or long delays in transferring technologies are of special interest. Given the state's central role in military procurement, papers must consider the relationships between corporations or research institutes, and state agencies in the design and development of new technologies. An opening plenary with Philip Scranton (Rutgers University and Hagley Library), David Edgerton (Imperial College) and John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology) will establish the theoretical and conceptual foundations for understanding this important subject in the U.S., Great Britain, and continental Europe.
Proposals should be no more than 500 words and accompanied by a short cv. To be considered proposals must be received via mail, fax or email by Monday Oct. 30, 2006. Travel support is available for those presenting papers at the conference. To submit a proposal or to obtain more information, contact Carol Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington DE 19807, 302-658-2400, ext. 243; 302-655-3188 (fax); clockman@Hagley.org.
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Scientific Reasearch in World War II
25-26 January 2007 in Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. From 25 to 26 January 2007 Museum Boerhaave, the Dutch National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine, will be organising a conference on scientific research during World War II.
The (preliminary) programme for the conference is now available on the website:
www.museumboerhaave.nl/conference
Technology, Environment and Work
October 19-21, 2006.
NALHC 2006. This conference explores the ways in which the parameters of work have been shaped and changed by the uses of technology and the elements of the environment. Workers welcome technological change and environmental factors that ease their labor. But, at the same time, such changes also threaten not only worker culture and morale but also their very livlihoods. Technology has transformed more than the shop floor, the field, and the home. It has affected nature, as well as laborers' relationship to the environment. As we witness on a daily basis, the intersection of technical change and work continues to exercise its complex pressure on labor today, just as it did in the past.
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Electrifying Cultures: Standardization vs. Diversity in Histories of Artefact and Experiment
Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, 10-12 September 2006. Registration deadline: 30 June 2006
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International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
33rd Symposium in Leicester, U.K., 15 - 20 August 2006. "Transforming Economies and Civilizations: The Role of Technology is the broad general theme of ICOHTEC’s 33rd symposium. Technology over “la longue durée” lends itself to a variety of topics".
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Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Manchester, U.K., 22 - 23 July, 2006. "Computers in Use: historical and social perspectives'. The event will take place at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester (Saturday) and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. "This two-day meeting aims to address these and other questions by bringing together invited speakers and commentators across a broad range of seniority and research interests, with backgrounds in academic history, the social sciences, museums and libraries."
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Institution of Engineering and Technology: Summer Weekend Meeting on the History of Science and Technology
34th IET Summer Weekend Meeting on the History of Science and Technology. 7th-9th July 2006 at the University of Wales, Swansea.
The IET History Group and the University of Wales, Swansea, would like to invite you to the 34th Summer Weekend Meeting on the History of Science and Technology. This annual event attracts IET members and non-members interested in the history of science, engineering and technology.
Themes this year include the 50th anniversary of the first transatlantic telephone cable (TAT 1), engineering in wartime, rural power supplies and TV standards conversion. There will also be papers on other subjects related to the history of science, engineering and technology. A full programme will be issued to delegates in due course.
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Tensions of Europe
Second Plenary Conference of the Tensions of Europe Network and Launch of the Tensions of Europe Research Programme. Lappeenranta, Finland May 24th - 28th 2006
"This conference will focus on technical change, transnational European history, and tensions of borders. Borders are commonly seen as boundaries created between nation-states but they also reflect many ways in which people, ideas, identities, and things are classified, brought together, and kept separate. This conference will explore the crucial related roles of technologies and borders in recent European history and in the process of European integration. It also will stimulate researchers of all levels of experience both to cultivate multinational research cooperation and to develop further the multidisciplinary Tensions of Europe Research Program and Intellectual Agenda".
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Fellowships Added: 28/11/2007
Chemical Heritage Foundation 2008–2009 Fellowships open to historians of science, technology, and allied fields | More
Added: 10/05/2007
BE PART OF THE WORLD’S FIRST INDUSTRIAL CITY’S HISTORY…
Our aim is to be a world class cultural attraction right at the heart of everything Manchester has to offer. To help us achieve this we are seeking the following individual with the focus and drive to deliver this vision here at MoSI.
CURATOR (SCIENCE) SALARY £23,187 PA (REF: 10/07)
Main responsibilities include development, management and interpretation of the collection of scientific instruments, photographic, computing and telecommunications equipment.You will develop interpretation of the collection and its promotion to a wide audience, and therefore good confident communication skills are required. Ideally you will have a comprehensive knowledge of the history of science and technology, particularly in relation to science collections. Educated to first-degree level (at least Upper Second Class) in History, Science Communication/Technology or relevant science related subject. A postgraduate qualification in museum studies or any of these subjects would be desirable.
http://www.msim.org.uk/AboutUs.asp?menuid=1409
Fellowships Added: 22/03/2007
Research Fellowships
The Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum, an independent association, was founded in 1916 and is the owner of one of the world’s leading maritime collections. The collection is on permanent loan to and managed by the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam / Netherlands Maritime Museum, seated in the former 17th century arsenal of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. The Vereeniging is primarily focussing on new acquisitions and research, and is co-sponsor of the Maritime Chair at Leiden University. With its Programme for Fellowships the Vereeniging aims to stimulate the use of artefacts of the collection as historic sources.
Candidates may consult the museum’s collection on the website www.scheecaartmuseum.nl and www.maritiemdigitaal.nl, the online catalogue of maritime museums in the Netherlands, the Vereeniging’s Yearbooks and annual reports. The Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Fellowships Foundation offers two research fellowships:
The Dr Ernst Crone research fellowship for academic graduates, 6-12 months
This fellowship is offered once a year and is primarily intended to support post-doctoral research. The Dr Ernst Crone fellowship carries a grant of maximum € 30.000 and is open for university-graduated scholars and museum professionals of all nationalities and disciplines.
Application forms must be supported by two academic referees and a proposal to publish the results (the Museum does not undertake to publish or assist with publications of the results of work accomplished during the tenure of the fellowship). The grant can be remitted to the candidates personally or to their employers. Fellows will have use of the Museum’s library and store-room facilities and may otherwise be provided with a space to work in and use of a computer.
The first fellowship will commence on September 1, 2007.
The Prof dr J.C.M. Warnsinck research fellowship for academic students, 3-6 months
This fellowship is offered once a year and intended to support research in the Museum’s collection by students, resulting in a special paper or publication. This fellowship is open for academic students of all nationalities and disciplines and offers a stipend of € 2.500, which will be remitted to the student personally. Application forms must be supported by at least one referee from the academic world. Candidates are expected to make a proposal to make the results available (the Museum does not undertake to publish or assist with publications). The first fellowship will commence on September 1, 2007.
Application forms can be downloaded from this website. Completed and signed application forms must be send by mail addressed to
Stichting Fellowships Nederland Scheepvaartmuseum
Mrs Evelien Ros, administrator
PO Box 15443
1001 MK Amsterdam
Netherlands
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