CfP: History of Science Society 2019 Annual Meeting
The History of Science Society
(HSS) will hold its 2019 annual meeting in the beautiful Dutch town of
Utrecht, a short train ride from Amsterdam. Since this will be the HSS’s
first meeting outside of North America, and we will be closer to
scholars in Russia, in East and South Asia, and Africa, we especially
encourage proposals that include scholars from different countries. The
Society encourages submissions on all topics. Proposals (250-word
maximum for abstracts) must be submitted via the HSS submission system on the meeting website: hss2019.hssonline.org. Click Abstract Submission
on the navigation menu. If you have did not create an account for the
2018 meeting website, you will have to create a new one in order to
submit an abstract. Unlike many academic societies, the HSS does not
require that participants be members, but all participants must register
for the meeting.
DIVERSITY
We
will give strong preference to sessions that reflect diversity, e.g.
diversity in institutional affiliation, gender, and/or in professional
rank. Only one proposal per person may be submitted – workshops, simply
moderating a session, posters, and other non-typical proposals (e.g.,
interest group lectures) are excluded from this restriction (for a
maximum of two presentations), but roundtables are not. If your name
appears more than once, outside of these exceptions, you must choose
which proposal will go forward. Prior participation at the 2017
(Toronto) and 2018 (Seattle) meetings will be taken into consideration.
DEADLINE
All roundtable, organized session, and contributed paper proposals must be submitted by 7 January 2019 (23:59 CET). See the chart below for how the deadline converts to your time zone or check this online time zone converter. The HSS will work with organizers who wish to pre-circulate papers.
Tokyo
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Utrecht
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Greenwich Mean Time
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New York
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San Francisco
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8 Jan 2019
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7 Jan 2019
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07:59 (JST)
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23:59 (CET)
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22:59 (GMT)
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17:59 (EST)
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14:59 (PST)
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The deadline for Flashtalks, limited to graduate students, is 4 February 2019 (23:59 CET).
COLLABORATION
To
encourage and aid the creation of panels with strong thematic coherence
that draw upon historians of science across institutions and ranks, the
meeting website features a discussion board
for users. Anyone with a panel or paper idea seeking like-minded
presenters should post and consult the postings there to round out a
prospective session. Alternatively, you may also search for
collaborators on Twitter, tagging your post with #hss19 #collab.
Organized sessions have much higher acceptance rates than individual
papers.
GRANTS
To
defray travel costs, we will award National Science Foundation travel
grants to graduate students, independent scholars, and recent PhDs
(degree in the past 5 years) who are participating in the meeting. Only
U.S. citizens or those studying at U.S. institutions are eligible for
NSF grants. HSS will offer a limited number of travel grants for
students, independent scholars, and recent PhDs who are participating
but are ineligible for NSF grants. Dependent care grants (up to $200)
will be offered for those who need such assistance. Additional
information on these grants and instructions for application can be
found on the meeting website.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
- Selection Guidelines: The Committee on Meetings and Programs (CoMP) has established a set of best practices and guidelines for proposal. Program chairs will look to these best practices and guidelines when accepting abstracts for the 2019 meeting.
- Additional instructions for abstract submission may be found on the meeting website. Please read these instructions carefully, as they have changed from previous years. Failure to comply fully with instructions or to complete the abstract submission process completely will preclude your submission from consideration.
- To preserve formatting of your abstract across platforms, only plain text is supported for abstracts. This means that bold, italic, and other formatting is not possible.
- All titles and abstract summaries should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style format. Easily confirm that your title follows CMS rules by using capitalizemytitle.com.
- Use the contact form on the meeting website for any additional questions or inquiries.
UPDATES
For the latest meeting updates, check the 2019 meeting blog and follow HSS on Twitter and Facebook.