Call for Papers. The 8th Tensions of Europe Conference
Athens,
7-10 September 2017
Conference
Theme:
Borders
and Technology
The 8th Tensions of Europe Conference will have as its main
theme the history of borders and technology. We invite papers
studying the history of the relationship between national borders and
transnational infrastructures, hidden technological linking and delinking that reinforced
or challenged border delineations and demarcations, the relationship between
borders and technologically-induced environmental crises and disasters, the
virtualization of borders and the territories that they contain through the use
of electronic and related technologies, geopolitics and technology, the
redefinition of borders due to the use of technology (and vice versa), all the
way from the production to the circulation and use of goods and commodities. One
central aim is to cross-fertilize between disciplines and we therefore invite
contributions from a wide variety of historical disciplines as well as from fields like Migration and Border Studies,
Migration History, Mobility History, etc, especially in connection to borders
and migrations from, to and within Europe.
Themes that fall under the general agenda of the Tensions of Europe
network are very welcomed (e.g. transnational histories of technology, history
of European infrastructures and networks, environment and technology, the
democracy-technology relationship, conflicting interests and technology, technology
and hidden integration, technology and culture, gender and technology,
technology and ethnicity, technology and disability).
Tensions of Europe has a long tradition of fostering alternative meeting formats. We encourage proposals for non-traditional sessions with different formats and new ideas (e.g. round tables, agenda-building sessions, brainstorm sessions, break-out groups with assignments, poster discussion, film discussion, event-based sessions). As long as quality can be demonstrated, the program committee will not prioritize between formats. By quality we mean suggestions that promise constructive, stimulating and engaging discussion.
We invite scholars
from all relevant fields to submit proposal to:
8toe2017@phs.uoa.gr
by 15
February 2017
All
proposals should include a title, short abstract, the academic title and
affiliation of the applicant(s) and a short bio. Please name your file with
your surname. Abstracts for individual papers and posters should be no more
than 300 words. For panels, we ask for a description of the theme of the panel
(max 300 words) together with shorter abstracts (max 150 words) of the
individual papers. If you wish to suggest a presentation of a different format,
please use these word limits as guidelines. We will inform applicants by April 1st
2017 whether their contribution has been accepted. A second call for papers
with information about keynote speakers will be distributed by the end of 2016.
Conference website: http://8toe2017.phs.uoa.gr/
Welcome
to Athens in September 2017!
Aristotle Tympas
(Chair of the Organizing Committee)
Division of History of Science
and Technology
Department of Philosophy and
History of Science
School of Science
National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
The Tensions of Europe conference is
organized biennially. Tensions of Europe is an interdisciplinary community of
scholars who study the shaping of Europe by paying attention to the role of
technology and material culture. It welcomes fruitful interaction between historians
of technology and scholars who study technology from all other fields of the
humanities and the social sciences (http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu). The 8th Tensions of Europe
Conference will be co-organized by the Division of History of Science and
Technology, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, School of Science,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (http://www.phs.uoa.gr/hst/) and the
Foundation for the History of Technology (http://www.histech.nl/www/en/), which
is hosted by the Eindhoven University of Technology.