Call for submissions for SHOT’s IEEE Life Member’s Prize in Electrical History

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Dear colleagues,

This is the annual call for submissions for SHOT’s IEEE Life Member’s
Prize in Electrical History.

If you or someone you know has published a deserving article in 2008 dealing
with any aspect of the history of electricity, electronics,
telecommunications, or any other electrically-related field, please
consider nominating it for the IEEE Prize.

THE IEEE LIFE MEMBERS’ PRIZE IN ELECTRICAL HISTORY

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Life
Members’ Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life
Members’ Fund and administered by the Society for the History of
Technology (SHOT), is awarded annually to the best paper in the
history of electrotechnology­–power, electronics, telecommunications,
and computer science­–published during the preceding year. Any
article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the
art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners.
The article must be written in English, although the journal or
periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication.
The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To
nominate an article, please send a copy (paper or electronic) of the
article to each member of the prize committee. Deadline for the 2008
prize is April 15, 2009.

For more information, please contact the committee chair.

Robert MacDougall (committee chair)
Department of History
University of Western Ontario
Social Science Centre 4328
London, Ontario N6A 5C2
CANADA
rmacdou@uwo.ca

Susan Schmidt Horning
Department of History
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
schmidts@stjohns.edu

Andrew J. Butrica
P.O. Box 30223
Bethesda, MD 20824-0223
abutrica@earthlink.net

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EAT MY DUST: EARLY WOMEN MOTORISTS

The Johns Hopkins University Press proudly announces the publication of Georgine Clarsen’s new book, EAT MY DUST: EARLY WOMEN MOTORISTS. The history of the automobile would be incomplete without considering the influence of the car on the lives and careers of women in the earliest decades of the twentieth century. Illuminating the relationship between women and cars with case studies from across the globe, EAT MY DUST challenges the received wisdom that men embraced automobile technology more naturally than did women.

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WITH Travel Award 2009

WITH TRAVEL AWARD - A Call for “New Voices” in Technological History

The SHOT Special Interest Group Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel award for 2009. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. WITH invites applications from scholars presenting topics or perspectives underrepresented in SHOT as well as from individuals who can contribute to the annual meeting’s geographic and cultural diversity.

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The 2009 SHOT meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 15-19, 2009. See http://historyoftechnology.org.

Eligibility for the WITH Travel Award is open to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Priorities for the WITH award will go to: (1) a scholar or graduate student new to SHOT belonging to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology; (2) a non-US, non-Western graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.

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The award will include registration for the Pittsburgh meeting, a year’s membership to SHOT and WITH, the WITH breakfast or lunch, the graduate student breakfast (if appropriate), and the awards banquet; the balance of funds will be allocated to travel expenses.

Application deadline for the WITH Travel Award is June 15, 2009. For more information and the application form, go to the WITH homepage at http://www.women-in-technological-history.net/ or contact Joan Rothschild, chair of the award committee, at jrjar@nyc.rr.com wanted dvd .

Download the Announcement and Application:

2009 WITH Announcement (PDF) (DOC)

2009 WITH Travel Award Application (PDF) (DOC)

WITH annual meeting report from Martina Blum

The WITH Annual Meeting was held on Oct 13th, 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal.

About 24 people attended the meeting.

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This year, the WITH travel award was presented to three scholars (in alphabetical order):

1. Alexandra Bekasova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for the History of Science and Technology. Her paper had the title: The Making of Passengers in Russian Empire: Macadam Roads, Coach Companies, and the Middle Class, 1820-1863. It was presented in session 4: Travel and Tourism on Sunday, Oct 12th.
2. Philip S. Cho, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences. His paper had the title: Popular Religion and Artisanal Practice in Late Imperial China: Sericulture songs and the urbanization of silkworm temples in 18th century Jiangnan. It was presented in session 2: Religion in Harmony with Technology on Sunday, October 12th.
3. Min Suh Son, Johns Hopkins University, Dept of History of Science & Technology. Her paper had the title: Beyond Technological Orientalism: New Perspectives in Writing the History of East Asian Technology. It was presented in session 15: New Approaches and Tools II on Sunday, Oct 12th.

WITH travel award prize committee

Many thanks to Bayla Singer who took the time and has designed a nice WITH-letterhead for the congratulatory letters.

Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware has been elected as a new member of the
prize committee at the WITH meeting.

Present members of the WITH travel award prize committee:

• Joan Rothschild, City University of New York Graduate Center
• Bayla Singer, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
• Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware

WITH newsletter

For the 2008 newsletter, please send updated contact information, news of publications, professional achievements, and news you would like to share to Molly Berger at molly.berger@case.edu.

WITH board replacements

• Amy Bix, Iowa State University, (abix@iastate.edu) volunteered to become our
  new treasurer.
• Min Suh Son, Johns Hopkins University, (msoh1@jhu.edu) volunteered to become
  our new web administrator.
• Corinna Schlombs, University of Pennsylvania, (schlombs@sas.upenn.edu)
  volunteered to become our new annual meeting organizer.
• Molly Berger, Case Western Reserve, (molly.berger@case.edu) stays on as
  newsletter editor.

All volunteers received a warm welcome at the meeting. We very much thank Jonathan Coopersmith, the former treasurer, and Melanie McCalmont, the former web administrator, for their enduring commitment.

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on behalf of the old and new WITH board
martina blum

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Bibliography for the 50^th Anniversary of the Society for the History of Technology, 2008

Compiled by Rachel Maines (Cornell University, USA) and Daryl Hafter (Eastern Michigan University, USA)

This is a work in progress–your comments, suggestions and changes are welcome.  List is by no means complete!

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History | Gender | Computing

ANNOUNCING: History | Gender | Computing

Public Conference, 30 May 2008
Charles Babbage Institute, Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455

**** Registration now open ****

Women were active participants in building and programming the first electronic digital computers, and notably prominent in the first generation of computer programmers in the 1950s, but they have faced serious barriers to full participation in the computing professions. Today, computing persists as one of the most gender-segregated domains of modern life. How and when did a male-coded world of computing emerge? How and why has it has continued? What are the exceptions — and promising strategies for change?

The Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota presents a day-long public conference devoted to a much-needed examination of these questions. While the National Science Foundation and other policy actors have devoted immense resources to increasing women’s participation in computing, over the past two decades there has been a striking **drop** in women’s participation in computing education and a corresponding tail-off in the U.S. workforce. Clearly, an important “missing piece” is yet to be discovered. This international conference, with participants from six countries, examines gender and the diverse uses of computing in offices, libraries, schools, mass media, and the computing profession. The eight papers will spark lively audience discussion on these themes:

* Automation, skill, and power;
* Gender discourse and imagery;
* Boundaries and identity;
* Gendered cultures of work and play.

Complementing these presentations is a scheduled poster session, showcasing additional views and innovative projects, as well as a viewing of “Gendered Bits: Identities, Practices, and Artifacts in Computing.” This new exhibit, curated by CBI archivist Arvid Nelsen, explores how gender has shaped the professional identities and material culture of computing. Using materials from CBI’s extensive archival holdings in the history of computing, as well as the Children’s Literature Research Collections, it presents the contributions, struggles, and shifting roles of women as well as raises questions about gender broadly and the specific issues of masculinity. The exhibit in Andersen Library will be open 28 May through 23 July 2008.

Register _now_ for the conference and get a free lunch! For registration, the conference program, travel and lodging details, a bibliography with key literature, and useful links see www.umn.edu/~tmisa/gender/

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direct questions to <cbi@umn.edu>.