ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars
2013
The
ICOHTEC-Book Prize is sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists
of 3,000 Euro. The prize winning book will be presented and discussed at a
special session of the next ICOHTEC symposium, July 2013 in Manchester UK.
ICOHTEC,
the International Committee for the History of Technology, 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 and all populated
areas. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.
Eligible
for the prize are original book-length works in any of the official ICOHTEC
languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish) in the history of
technology: published or unpublished Ph.D. theses or other monographs written
by scholars who, when applying for the prize, are not older than 37 years. Articles
and edited anthologies are not eligible.
For
the ICOHTEC Prize 2013, please send a copy of the work you wish to be considered
for the prize to each of the three Prize Committee members. Your
submissions must be postmarked not later than 8 February 2013. You
may also submit an electronic version of the book or Ph.D. thesis by 24:00
o’clock of your local time on the same day. If your book is in Spanish or
Russian, please also supply a summary in English, French or German of about
4500 words. In that case, the prize committee will find additional members, who
are familiar with the language in which your book is written.
If
the work is a Ph.D. thesis, it should have been accepted by your university in 2011
or 2012; if it is a published work, the year of publication should be 2011 or
2012. The submission should be accompanied by a CV (indicating also the date of
birth) and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add
references or reviews on the work submitted.
Any
materials sent to the prize committee will not be returned.
Send a
complete application by regular mail
services or by email to each of the following Prize Committee members:
Dr. Rachel Maines, Prize Committee Chair Email: rpm24@cornell.edu
School of Computer & Electrical Engineering
School of Computer & Electrical Engineering
726 University
Avenue Rm. 311
Cornell
University
Ithaca NY 14853
USA
Dr
Peter L. Jakab Email:
jakabp@si.edu
Associate
Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs
National Air
and Space Museum
P.O. 37012,
MRC 312
Smithsonian
Institution
Washington,
DC 20013-7012
USA
Dr.
Nina Möllers
Email: n.moellers@deutsches-museum.de
Deutsches
Museum
Museumsinsel 1
80538 München
Germany
Museumsinsel 1
80538 München
Germany
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 organization
in the history of technology and has its membership base 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, sites of which are spread round the world. Next year’s
meeting will take place in Manchester, UK from 22 – 28 July 2013, and will have
”Knowledge at Work” as its main theme.
ICON is the ICOHTEC’s
journal and contains scholarly articles and reviews. Other issues 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 mentioned at: http://icohtec.org/about-us-join.htm
For
more information please contact Timo Myllyntaus, ICOHTEC Secretary General at timmyl@utu.fi.