CfP - Plastics Heritage Conference, May 2019 - Lisbon, Portugal
Under the aegis of the Plastics Heritage European Association (PHEA),
the Portuguese Center for the History of Science and Technology
(CIUHCT) will host the Plastics Heritage Congress 2019.
Plastics Heritage: History, Limits and Possibilities (congress
general theme), is the fifth in a series of international Plastics
Heritage Conferences and will be held in Lisbon (29 – 31 May 2019), the
capital city of Portugal at Museu da Farmácia.
This congress aims
to address plastics history and heritage by encouraging papers that
contribute to a deeper understanding of the socioeconomic culture and
material culture of historic polymeric materials (HIPOMS) in their
various representations and functions in society.
The main theme
embraces the concepts of history, limits and possibilities of plastics
heritage as organizing principles, thus perceiving their impact on the
consumer and their technical and scientific developments. The programme
committee suggests the following non-exhaustive sub-themes for
contributors of individual papers, and posters:
- Plastics history (historic polymeric materials [Hipoms] manufacturing, engineering, companies)
- Plastics heritage (Hipomsin art, design, everyday use, technical objects and architecture)
- Collecting Hipom objects
- Conservation of Hipoms (artefacts, technical heritage, material characterization)
- Documentation and reproduction (archives, data bases, digital scanning, 3D-printing etc.)
- Plastics limits (degradation, waste problems, environmental impacts, history of social interactions)
- Plastics and emotions: impact on consumers and design personalisation.
Historic polymeric materials (Hipoms) comprise:
- The large group of natural polymeric materials (amber, birch pitch, bitumen, natural rubber, gutta-percha, natural fibers, natural lacquers and varnishes, vegetable and animal glues, linoleum, shellac and Bois Durci etc.).
- Chemically modified biopolymers like cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate and casein-formaldehyde masses.
- Historic synthetic polymeric material like phenolics, urea and other early thermosets, thermoplastics, elastomers, fibers, lacquers, glues etc.
All
proposals must be in English. For advice on preparing your submission
and the conference presentation, please consult the guidelines.
In addition to the scientific programme, the congress will include social events.
INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals must include: (1) a 200-350-word abstract; and (2) a one-page CV.
Abstracts
should include the author’s name and email address, affiliation, a
short descriptive title, a concise statement of the thesis, a brief
discussion of the sources, and a summary of the major conclusions.
If you are submitting a paper proposal dealing with a particular subtheme, please indicate this in your proposal.
In
preparing your paper, remember that presentations are not full-length
articles. Depending on the number of papers in the session, you will
have no more than 16-20 minutes to speak, which is
roughly equivalent to six – eight double-spaced typed pages. For more
suggestions about preparing your conference presentation, please consult
the guidelines at the conference website. Contributors are encouraged
to submit full-length versions of their papers after the congress for consideration by Journal of Plastics History e-plastory. http://www.dg-kunststoffgeschichte.de/e-plastory/index.php/e-plastory
SESSION proposals
must include (1) an abstract of the session (200-350 words at maximum),
listing the proposed papers and a session chairperson; (2) abstracts
for each paper (200-350 words); (3) a one-page CV for each contributor
and chairperson. Sessions should consist of at least one set of
presentations – but no more than four time slots of 90 minutes – and
they may include three or four papers in each, which might extend series
of successive sections over more than one day. Proposing a commentator –
instead of the fourth presenter – is also possible. The programme
committee reserves the right to relocate papers to different themes and
add papers to sessions. We also encourage proposing roundtables and
other “untraditional” as well as experimental session formats. Whatever
the session format will be, organisers and chairs are expected to
reserve enough time for general discussion between the presenters and
audience.
POSTER proposals must include (1) a 200-350-word abstract; and (2) a one-page CV. Abstracts
should include the author’s name and email address, a short descriptive title, a concise statement
of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and a summary of the major conclusions. Please,
indicate one of the specified subthemes for your poster.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS
The final deadline for session proposals is 30th August 2018 and for individual paper proposals is 15th November 2018.
Proposals should be sent electronically (as a pdf
file) to Guenter Lattermann (guenter.lattermann@uni-bayreuth.de), the
chair of the programme committee or Maria Elvira Callapez (mariaelviracallapez@gmail.com), co-chair.