Please read & share: New statement from the British Society for the History of Science, supporting @jennybulstrode and @HistAndTech in the face of unfounded criticism and associated media campaign @BSHSNews
https://t.co/p27qusXFAP
Please read and circulate this editorial, by editors of the journal History and Technology, @A_Slaton and Tiago Saraiva, which fully vindicates our colleague Jenny Bulstrode and her paper 'Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution' https://t.co/gKsibTA6MO
From @HistAndTech: Our Editorial (open access) on @jennybulstrode's vital historical contributions, and the stakes of writing histories of enslavement in 2023. https://t.co/yhe40vazH2
💼Back to school is just around the corner!
Have you considered incorporating Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (@TapuyaLASTS) articles into your course syllabus?
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Call for Participants: Handbook of the History of Technology in the Americas... edited by Edna Suárez Díaz, Gisela Mateos, Jesse Smith and myself. All info here...thanks for sharing widely!
https://t.co/7ymWyyIUig
Fascinating research by historian of technology @jennybulstrode demonstrates that enslaved Black metallurgists in Jamaica invented one of most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution.
Original article https://t.co/w36cu3vp5O
just got back from #ASEE23 in Baltimore. @ASEE_DC sharing text of my short remarks at the plenary panel organized by the great Dr. @A_Slaton
"What does it mean to truly care about equity and inclusion in engineering?" https://t.co/skS6ABlqRi
📢Now receiving applications from early-career scholars to attend a four-day seminar at Drexel University, PA. Due May 1st.
The conversation will produce 10-12 essays to be published as a joint special issue between @HistAndTech and @TapuyaLASTS
More info
✉️[email protected]
***CFP Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections***
Science History Institute, Philadelphia, USA, 4-6 October 2023
A fantastic event I'm co-organizing w/ @jgreene2 @DollyJorgensen @A_Slaton
Abstracts due April 1 to
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.@HistAndTech is very excited to share this fabulous double issue confronting familiar historiographies, comfortable geographies, and customary narrative approaches to technological change. ...With many thanks to our guest editors and all authors!!
Thanks to our fabulous guest editors Victor Seow & Dagmar Schäfer and all authors for a remarkable special issue of @HistAndTech on "Technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia"...articles now coming online! @EastAsiaSciTech https://t.co/54ZuWUj54Q
@WalterLeePhD There are a few discipline-specific histories, but a great starting place is this 2015 overview, and its refs., from Atsushi Akera and Bruce Seely:
https://t.co/ABEeBfvTeJ
Maskless America. I am out of explanations. Evolutionary biologist friends, please assist: Has anyone observed ants running towards an anteater because..."freedom"?
Fast-track to virtue? ...Some historical thoughts on how predominantly white Engineering institutions see minority serving institutions, and themselves, in the struggle for racial equity. #ASEE#HBCUs https://t.co/CbVAYfA816
“We will labor to disentangle that which is truly engineering from that which is intended to maintain a white supremacist culture yet continues to be called engineering.”
~James Holly, Jr. + Brooke Coley