Extended deadline for the ICOHTEC Symposium 2016 : Porto : Portugal : 26-30 July. Submission Deadline: February 08, 2016
ICOHTEC
Symposium 2016 : Porto : Portugal : 26-30 July
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Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability:
Historical and Contemporary Narratives
Innovation and sustainability have become key words of our everyday
life, extending from political and economic discourse to teaching curricula and
from the lay public to academia. However, the use of these terms is often
abstract and simplistic, ignoring the density of their interrelationships in
different geographic, historical and civilizational contexts, and the boomerang character of today’s world.
The 43rd ICOHTEC
meeting aims at addressing this complex
relationship by encouraging papers that contribute to a deeper understanding of
the multilayer cultural and material built meaning of innovation and
sustainability and on the various roles played by technology in enabling or
preventing such interplay.
The symposium covers all periods and areas of the
globe. We invite submissions of new, original and unpublished work that offers
fresh perspectives for the history of technology as well as exploring sources
and methods.
The main theme embraces the concepts of technology, innovation and sustainability
as organizing principles, thus perceiving them as actors in the building of
today’s globalized society. The programme committee suggests the following
non-exhaustive sub-themes for the
consideration of session organisers and contributors of individual papers, and
posters:
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Routes of innovation: the changing
relationship between centres and peripheries
(north-south; west-east)
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Readdressing technology’s conceptual
topics: from diffusionism to appropriation
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Innovating in imperial settings:
western dominance, indigenous agency and go-betweens
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Rethinking global technology
governance: how to make innovation work for society
·
Technology, nature and power:
postcolonial perspectives on innovation
·
Food, environment and agriculture:
industrial and cultural approaches to sustainability
·
Innovation and sustainability
patterns in Europe and elsewhere
·
Identities
in the face of innovations and environmental crises
·
Linking the territory; mobility
patterns and environmental choices
·
"The Town Mouse and the Country
Mouse": balancing urban and rural territories
·
From grey to green: sustainable
energy
·
Inventing new consumers: innovation,
sustainability and consumption
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The Big Brother syndrome: privacy in
open societies
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The Grey Goo syndrome: risk and
ethical choices in nuclear, biomedical, and nano technologies
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The changing
historiography of innovation
·
Sustainable
narratives of crises: articulating disasters and challenges
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Green
home in green city: sustainable architecture and urban planning
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Re-inventing
health in globalized world
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Displaying
the past or teaching the future? In quest for sustainable museum of technology
ICOHTEC welcomes proposals for individual papers and posters, but
preference will be given to organised sessions of three or more papers. The
Programme Committee will also consider submissions not directly related to the
symposium theme providing that they relate to the history of technology broadly
defined. All proposals must be in English, and should be submitted
electronically by 8 February 2016
via http://icohtec2016.ciuhct.org For suggestions about preparing
your submission and the conference presentation, please consult the guidelines
on www.icohtec.org/proposal-
The ICOHTEC Board will make available a limited number
of travel grants for graduates, post-graduates and young researchers who
are giving papers at the Symposium.
In addition to the scientific programme, the symposium
will include plenary sessions, business meetings, special sessions for the
prize winning book and article, the general assembly of ICOHTEC as well as
social events such as excursions, receptions, and a banquet.
If you have any questions related to the scientific
programme, paper, poster or session proposals, please, do not hesitate to
contact Sławomir Łotysz, the chair of the programme committee, at s.lotysz@gmail.com.
Programme
Committee:
·
Inês Amorim, CITCEM, University of Porto, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Porto,
Portugal
·
Eike-Christian Heine, Stuttgart University, Department of History, Section for the History
of the Impact of Technology, Stuttgart, Germany
·
Peter Koval, Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University,
Berlin, Slovakia/Germany
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Dick van Lente, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Sławomir Łotysz (chair), Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of
Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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M. Luísa Sousa, CIUHCT, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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James Stark, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom