Maurice Daumas Prize 2013



ICOHTEC:  The International Committee for the History of Technology

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MAURICE DAUMAS PRIZE 2013



The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes sub­missions for its new article prize, the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative and superbly written research in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technology focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.
         The Maurice Daumas Prize will be awarded to the best article submitted on the history of technology and published in a journal or edited volume in 2011 or 2012. Submissions are welcomed from junior and senior scholars of any country, and their focus can be the technological past of any part of the world.
         Eligible for the prize are original articles published in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). If the language of publication is not English, applicants should include a three-page English summary.
         For the Maurice Daumas Prize 2013, please send your submission to each of the four Prize Committee members. Your submissions must be postmarked no later than 23 January 2013.
         The submission should be accompanied by a CV and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add references or reviews of the work submitted. The winner will be contacted in mid-early June 2013.
         The prize will be awarded at our 40th Symposium, 22–28 July 2013 in Manchester, United Kingdom. The winner will receive a cash prize of Euro 500 as well as a travel grant of Euro 300 (if needed) to attend the ICOHTEC Symposium of 20123.  . Additionally, the ICOHTEC Symposium will feature a special panel organized around the winning article.
         Send a complete application by regular mail or electronically as a pdf-file attach­ment to each of the following Article Prize Committee members:



Andrew Butrica, Dr., Chair                                                         Email: abutrica@earthlink.net
Research Historians History Group
Apt. 913-South
5225 Pooks Hill Road
Bethesda, MD 20814 USA

Martina Hessler, Prof.                                                                Email: mhessler@hsu-hh.de
Department of History
Helmut Schmidt University
Holstenhofweg 85
D-22039 Hamburg 
Germany

Pierre Lamard, Prof.                                                                   Email: pierre.lamard@utbm.fr
Laboratoire RECITS
L’Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM)
F-90010 Belfort CEDEX
  France

Susan Schmidt Horning, Prof.                                   Email: schmidts@stjohns.edu
Department of History
St. John's College of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity
St. John Hall, Room 244N      
Queens Campus
8000 Utopia Parkway,
 Queens, NY 11439 USA


 
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MAURICE DAUMAS (1910 - 1984) – The French Trailblazer


The history of technology would never have become a prominent field of historical research without energetic pathbreakers. Maurice Daumas was one of them. His broad scientific production includes an early work work, Les instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, which garnered a good reputation and also appeared in English translation. During the years 1962–1978, he edited a highly valued history of technology, Histoire générale des techniques, 5 volumes, which has been translated into English and Spanish and used as a textbook in various countries. In France, Daumas was also the pioneer of industrial archaeology. Daumas was a major promoter of the history of technology as a discipline, and he contributed to several societies, journals and conferences. He was also the first secretary general of ICOHTEC and the host of its symposium at Pont-à-Mousson in 1970.For further information:
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/issue/rhs_0151-4105_1984_num_37_3
 
ICOHTEC:  The International Committee for the History of Technology



ICOHTEC –  A Scholarly Forum and Global Organiser


ICOHTEC, founded in Paris in 1968, is a Scientific Section within the Division of the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philo­sophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST). It is a leading international organi­sation in the history of technology. Its membership base is mainly in Europe, but also in the Americas, East Asia, India and Australia.

Research activities in which ICOHTEC members co-operate are on a comparative national basis, stressing aspects of co-operation between various nations, regions or institutions.

ICOHTEC holds annual symposia at sites spread around the world. Next year’s meeting “Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture” will take place in BarcelonaManchester, Spain England from 10 to 14 August 2012 22 to 28 July 2013.

ICON is ICOHTEC’s journal and contains scholarly articles and reviews. Other items of interest to members are reported in the Newsletter, which also provides country reports on the history of technology and bibliographical surveys. Further information is available at ICOHTEC’s homepage: http://www.icohtec.org/.

Should you wish to join ICOHTEC, please visit our website, fill in the membership form and return it to the address provided at: http://icohtec.org/about-us-join.htm

For more information, please contact Timo Myllyntaus, ICOHTEC Secretary General, at timmyl@utu.fi.
 

Andrew J. Butrica, Ph.D.
Research Historian

Voice: (301) 656-3486
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