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 2017 or 2018. 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 2019. Electronic submissions are preferred. The
winner will be contacted in late April 2019.
The prize will be awarded at our 46th
Symposium, to be held in Katowice,
Poland, in summer 2019 (22-27 July 2019). 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.
Barcelona,
Catalunya, Spain
Eike-Christian
Heine, Dr.
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Laurent Heyberger, Dr.
Université de technologie
de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France
Liliia Zemnukhova, PhD
Sociological
Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SI RAN), St. Petersburg,
Russian Federation
Lino
Camprubí,
Dr.
Universidad de Sevilla, Facultad
de Filosofía, Spain
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.
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further information about Daumas:
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