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Job: U.S. Environmental History/ History of Environmental Science, University of Arizona
The Department of History at the University of Arizona invites applications for
an advanced Assistant or Associate faculty position in U.S. environmental
history/history of environmental science, to begin August 2010.
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CFP: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 2010
2010 Annual Meeting – Tacoma, Washington
Deadline: 31 March 2010
The Society for the History of Technology will hold its annual meeting in Tacoma, Washington from September 30 to October 3, 2010. The Program Committee invites paper and panel proposals on any topic in the history of technology, broadly defined. Sessions dealing with non-Western technologies are particularly welcome. Of special interest for 2010 are proposals that engage in themes that resonate with the concerns of the specific locale. These include: Continue reading
Tim LeCain’s book chosen as “Outstanding Academic Title for 2009”
Timothy LeCain’s new envirotech book, Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet (Rutgers University Press, 2009), has been chosen as an “Outstanding Academic Title for 2009” by Choice, the review journal of the American Library Association. Every year in the January issue, in print and online, Choice publishes a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. This prestigious list reflects the best of the more than 7,000 scholarly titles reviewed by Choice that year and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community. Mass Destruction, the Choice review notes, is a “skillfully and eloquently written” work whose “clarity and reason . . . should appeal to a wide audience.” More information and all the latest reviews of Mass Destruction are available at the author’s website: http://www.timothyjameslecain.com/
CFP Reminder: Reusing the Industrial Past – ICOHTEC/TICCIH Joint Conference 2010
ICOHTEC & TICCIH Joint Conference 2010
Reusing the Industrial Past
Tampere, Finland
10–15 August 2010
A Joint Conference between the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH). The International Association of the Labour Museums (WORKLAB) is a minor partner in the conference.
Deadline for Proposals is 16 November 2009.
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Envirotech poster
Here is a copy of the gorgeous Envirotech poster that Ann Greene had made for the SHOT meeting in Pittsburgh.
Download pdf file (5.8 MB)
New exhibit – Edward Burtynsky: Oil
Rebecca Pinkus sent the following message:
Canadian industrial landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky’s newest project, “Oil” has recently opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, along with several related gallery shows in Amsterdam, New York, and Toronto. The Corcoran exhibit is on through mid-December, after which it will travel through 2011.
I was privileged to work as a Research Associate on this project for the past three years, and attended the exhibit opening in early October: the exhibit is fantastically curated and is a must-see for all envirotechies. It should be required viewing for just about everyone everywhere. The book (tome) that accompanies the exhibit is also worth examining if you can get hold of it. Dr. William Rees (University of British Columbia, and coiner of the term “ecological footprint”) has presented a thought-provoking essay on our relationship with oil, and Michael Mitchell (Canadian author and filmmaker) has supplied some great essays on the historical and social elements of the various “chapters” in Burtynsky’s project.
For those of you unable to make the trek to see the exhibit, you can find many of the images on Burtynsky’s site under “Galleries” or by checking the second Corcoran link listed below.
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
http://www.corcoran.org/burtynsky/index.php – this link will give you the exhibit images: http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/press%5Fburtynsky/
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/10/03/burtynsky-oil-corcoran.html
2010 ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars
The ICOHTEC-Prize is sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 3,000 Euro. ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the history of technology focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history and all populated areas. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.
Eligible for the prize are original works in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish) in the history of technology (published or unpublished Ph.D. theses or other monographs — no articles or edited anthologies) written by scholars who, when applying for the prize, are not older than 37 years of age.
For the ICOHTEC Prize 2010, please send a copy of the work you wish to be considered for the prize plus a 4500-word English summary of that work to each of the three Prize Committee members. Your submissions must be postmarked not later than by 22 January 2010.
If the work is a PhD thesis, it should have been accepted by your university in 2008 or 2009; if it is a published work, the year of publication should be 2008 or 2009. The submission should be accompanied by a CV and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add references or reviews on the work submitted. Send a complete application by regular mail services (not electronically) to each of the following Prize Committee members:
Thomas Kaiserfeld, Prize Committee Chairperson (Email: thomas@kth.se)
Department of History of Science and Technology
Royal Institute of Technology
S-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
Rebecca Herzig (Email: rherzig@bates.edu)
Program in Women and Gender Studies
209 Pettengill Hall
Bates College
Lewiston ME 04240
USA
Dick van Lente (Email: vanlente@fhk.eur.nl)
Prinses Margrietlaan 7
3051 AM Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Two Surprises (to me) in “New Directions” Envirotech Session at SHOT 2009
Very briefly (in a tweet or so) the six projects discussed involved the following: the architecture and politics of solar power homes (Daniel Barber); the engineering of a forest to influence climate-scale dynamics (Robert Gardner); designer drugs that are complicating the notion of clinical tests (Shera Moxley); food production and consumption (Nic Mink); sensing and the sense of place (Joy Parr); and opening the black box of the brain to better understand how historical actors experienced major changes in the sensory environment (Ed).
Envirotech Prize 2010 Call for Submissions
Envirotech invites submissions for the Envirotech Prize for Best Article on the Inter play between Technology and the Environment. The Envirotech Prize recognizes the best article published in either a journal or article collection on the relationship between technology and the environment in history. The prize committee is particularly seeking innovative publications that explore new ways of thinking about the interplay between technological systems and the natural environment. Articles originally published in any language are welcome, but applicants must provide a translation of non-English articles. More junior scholars are especially encouraged to submit their publications. To be eligible for the 2010 prize, the article must be published between January 1, 2008, and October 30, 2009.
The Envirotech Prize carries a cash award of $250 and will be conferred at the American Society for Environmental History conference in Portland, Oregon, March 10-14, 2010.
Send one electronic copy of your article and a brief curriculum vitae to prize@envirotechhistory.org to be considered. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2009.