The Agricultural History Society Annual Conference Springfield, Illinois, June 15-18, 2011
Deadline for Submissions, October 1, 2010
Contemporary debates about food, agriculture, and rural life are often framed in opposition with little attention to historical context. Proponents of the local, slow, and organic often emphasize quality while advocates of the global, fast, and industrial stress quantity [...]

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2010 Annual Meeting – Tacoma, Washington
Deadline: 31 March 2010
The Society for the History of Technology will hold its annual meeting in Tacoma, Washington from September 30 to October 3, 2010. The Program Committee invites paper and panel proposals on any topic in the history of technology, broadly defined. Sessions dealing with non-Western technologies are particularly [...]

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ICOHTEC & TICCIH Joint Conference 2010
Reusing the Industrial Past
Tampere, Finland
10–15 August 2010
A Joint Conference between the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH). The International Association of the Labour Museums (WORKLAB) is a minor partner in the conference.
Deadline for Proposals is 16 [...]

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The Sunday, 9-10:15 am session slot at SHOT 2009 in Pittsburgh has been dedicated to SIG-specific sessions. Envirotech will be having a session called “Taking Risks: New Directions in the History of Technology and Environment.” The session will begin by having panelists present some ideas about where they see Envirotech potentially going based on their [...]

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ICOHTEC & TICCIH Joint Conference 2010
Reusing the Industrial Past
10–15 August 2010 Tampere, Finland
A Joint Conference between the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and The International Committee for the
Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH). The International Association of the Labour Museums (WORKLAB) is a minor partner in the conference.
Deadline for Proposals is 16 [...]

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Conference organized by the graduate program Topology of Technology of the Darmstadt University of Technology
To be held at the Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany, 7 – 9 October, 2009
Phenomena recognized as spatial arrangements are complex—thus we need tools to cope with them. Models can serve as tools for researchers and practitioners alike. There are two distinct [...]

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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 [...]

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Lucerne, Switzerland
November 5–8, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
– Energy and Innovation –
The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at its Seventh International Conference to be held at the Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Museum of Transport), Lucerne, Switzerland from November 5th till the 8th, 2009.
The conference [...]

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Session CfP for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2009, Manchester, UK, 26-28th August 2009
“Natural” disasters are just as social as they are natural. Their impact depends heavily on social issues such as vulnerability while the work done by society to mitigate their impact is obviously social. However, social aspects of “natural” disasters have often been [...]

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[ March 14, 2008; ] The deadline for submitting paper & panel proposals for SHOT 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal is March 14. The CFP is available online: http://shotnews.net/?p=401.

The deadline for booking hotels at the conference reduced rate is April 30, so don’t wait until the last minute to book! Information can be found at http://shotlisbon2008.com/

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