The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

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SHOT travel grant applications are open! Get yours in by March 31. More info here: https://t.co/Dpq8tln15X
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The annual meeting is almost upon us! Pre-order your conference lunch here: https://t.co/VfoRuXSGfI

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Tours for next month's SHOT-ICOHTEC meeting have just been announced! Book yours here: https://t.co/ZkAQCmh4FG

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SHOT travel grant applications are open! Get yours in by March 31. More info here: https://t.co/Dpq8tln15X
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@chstmorg Career Diversity Workshop: Join us Tuesday, March 5 for the next meeting of the Career Diversity working group. We will be discussing opportunities in the business community with Jeffrey Sturchio (AT&T, Merck & Co., Inc., Rabin Martin). #histSTM
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The paper submission deadline for ICOHTEC 2025 in Dunedin, New Zealand is fast approaching! @SocHistTech @iuhpst_dhst #icohtec2025 @ichst2025

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Recently @SocHistTech released on its website a newly expanded bibliography for an Anti-Racist History of Technology, compiled by the SHOT's REDI committee in partnership with IHPST @ejonesimhotep and Tola Ajao - Check out this valuable resource here: https://t.co/XjWpdUKtUf

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What can a food documentary tell historians of technology? Barkha Kagliwal thinks A LOT, reflecting on gender, colonialism, and national identity in “A Historian of Technology Watches, A King, His Kitchen and Other Stories.” Read it here: https://t.co/DJOZV0B2Jd

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Check out "Technology and Subaltern Knowledge at the Catalan Olive Oil Museum" by Ximo Guillem-Llobat here: https://t.co/5NGvWOhKLV

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Can a museum transcend traditional narratives on technological change? Read about the success of the Catalan Olive Oil Museum in avoiding top-down narratives and missed opportunities to address the complexity of concepts such as quality and subaltern knowledge.

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Read it here: https://t.co/V9Fmy4vPf6

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What is "processed" food? "Unearthing Technology in Public Histories of Food" by Xaq Frohlich challenges historians to rethink food technology and innovation, using public histories to highlight invisible labor in food prep and tell object-centered stories that people hunger for.

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Today is the last day to submit proposals for the SHOT-ICOHTEC meeting, get yours in ASAP!

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‼️ No se olviden de subir sus propuestas de paneles y ponencias individuales para la Conferencia de SHOT [@SocHistTech] & @icohtec que tendrá lugar en Viña del Mar en julio. 🇨🇱

Hoy vence el plazo.

Link: https://t.co/Zb1c8bRnfe

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Only one day left to submit for the SHOT-@ICOHTEC joint meeting, get your proposal in by January 10!

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What role did historical knowledge play for nineteenth-century hydraulic engineers? Giacomo Bonan's article, "Hydraulic Engineers and Antiquarians," analyses the management of Venetian waters through the porous boundary between scientific and humanistic cultures.

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Read it here: https://t.co/6HPPJiL3qO

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Another Technology & Culture article for you: In “Atomville: Architects, Planners and How to Survive the Bomb,” Arthur Molella and Robert Kargon examine architects and planners’ reactions to the threat to U.S. cities, looking at architect Paul Laszlo’s planned city, “Atomville.”

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Happy New Year! There's one week left to submit proposals for the next SHOT/ICOHTEC meeting, get yours in by January 10!

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Find out more in "Women, Reactors, and Nuclear Weapons: From Revolutionary Liberation to the "Miss Atom" Pageant in (Post-)Soviet Russia" by Tatiana Kasperski and Paul Josephson in July's issue of Technology and Culture!

Full article here: https://t.co/JcWPG1D8EU

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Some Soviet women gained fame as cosmonauts. Others worked on the atomic bomb project. Yet within a few years of the USSR’s collapse, Russia seemingly forgot the contribution women had made to national defense...

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...with the nuclear industry introducing a “Miss Atom” beauty pageant in 2003. How did women’s position in the sciences evolve in the course of the Soviet and post-Soviet socialist experiment?