Maurice Daumas Prize – ICOHTEC’s Article Prize
The International
Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions
for the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative
scholarship in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history
of technological development as well as its relationship to science, society,
economy, culture and the environment. There is no limitation as to theoretical
or methodological approaches.
The
prize will
be awarded to the author of the best article submitted which deals with the
history of technology in any period of the past or in any part of the world and
which was published in a journal or edited volume in 2016
or 2017. Eligible for the prize are original articles published in (or later
translated into) any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French,
German, Russian or Spanish). Submissions are welcomed from scholars of any
country who are currently in graduate
school or have received their doctorate within the last seven years. Please
send your submission and a brief (not to exceed one-page) cv to each of
the six Prize Committee members no later than 15 January 2018.
Electronic submissions are preferred. The winner will be contacted in late
April 2018.
The prize will be awarded at
our 45th Symposium, to be held in St Etienne, France, in summer 2018
(17-21 July 2018). 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, which will
feature a special panel organized around the winning article. The Daumas Prize
is sponsored by the Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM),
France.
PRIZE COMMITTEE
Maria Elvira Callapez, PI. Dr., [Prize Committee
Chairperson],
CIUHCT,
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Antoni Roca-Rosell, Dr.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Email: antoni.roca-rosell@upc.edu
Eike-Christian Heine, Dr.
Technische Universität
Braunschweig, Germany
Hermione Giffard, Dr.
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Email: hgiffard@gmail.com
Laurent Heyberger, Dr.
Université de
technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France
Email: laurent.heyberger@utbm.fr
Liliia Zemnukhova, PhD
Sociological
Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SI RAN), St. Petersburg,
Russian Federation
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. One of
his better known early works is Les instruments scientifiques aux
XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, which was also published in English. Between
1962 and 1978, he edited a highly acclaimed history of technology, Histoire
générale des techniques, in five 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 the
first secretary general of ICOHTEC and the host of its symposium at Pont- à-Mousson in 1970.
For
further information about Daumas:
For information about ICOHTEC: http://www.icohtec.org