2002 Newsletter
February 20th, 2002 Posted in Newsletters
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Announcement: Nina Lerman, Arwen Mohun, and Ruth Oldenziel are to co-editors of the recently published a History of Technology and Gender in North America Reader with Johns Hopkins University Press, is due to come out in 2003. This edited volume began as the 1997 issue of Technology and Culture on gender, and has been expanded with several new pieces. It is aimed at an undergraduate or graduate audience.
Announcement: Women’s History Month 2003, with the them “Women Pioneering the Future,” is the continuation of an annual celebration that takes place each March. Sponsorship is provided by the National Women’s History Project, a non-profit
Listserv Dialog- Sept 2001-Sept 2002
Calls for Papers (see CFP category)
Conference: The Gender and Medieval Studies Group presents Gender and Objects, a conference to be held at the University of Nottingham 3-5 January 2003. While there is no detailed description of the conference in the call for papers, its web site lists topics of interest including gender and objects, gendered objects, gender and materialism, gender and the gift, gender and economy.
Conference Announcement: Women Scholars And Institutions, Prague, June 8-11, 2003, organized by the Commission Women in Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science (IUHPD/DHS) and Research Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities founded by the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University, Prague. This conference will focus mainly on historical themes, however, gender and sociological topics will be included, as well. All historical periods will be included, however, papers drawing on 19th and 20th centuries would be welcome. Contact Mgr. Katerina Mojsejová, Research Center for History of Sciences and Humanities, Legerova 61, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic, Phone: (+420) 2 2199-0617; fax: (+420) 2 2494-3057, e-mail: mojsejov@vcdv.cas.cz or katerinam@email.cz
On the Tube: The Steward Huston Charitable Trust and Nightingale Productions announce “Rebecca Lukens: Woman Of Iron: America’s First Industrialist,” a 60 minute documentary film. Produced by Gail Pietruzyk and Laura Jackson, the film is based on the writings of Rebecca Lukens, and includes reenacted scenes from her life and comments from a number of historians and others including activist Mary Brooks, historians Judith McGaw, Paul Paskoff, Emma Lapansky, Angel Kwolek-Holland, English professor Judith Scheffler, President of Graystone Eugene Diorio, Charles Lukens Huston III, and Katherine Pella. Although the film aired on public television in many locations early in 2002, the editor’s internet search for this item did not turn up any sources where it can be purchased.
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WITH Newsletter 2002 is a publication of Women in Technological History, a Special Interest Group of the Society for the History of Technology Board Members
Molly Berger
2695 Rocklyn Rd., Shaker Heights, OH 44122 USA
molly@rmrc.net
Nina Lerman - Listserv Editor
Whitman College, Department of History, Walla Walla, WA 99362 USA lermanne@whitman.edu
David Morton - Newsletter Coordinator
IEEE History Center at Rutgers University, 39 Union St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA d.morton@ieee.org
Ruth Oldenziel - European Liaison
Belle van Zuylen Institute, University of Amsterdam, Rokin 84, NL-1012 KX
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ruth@oldenziel.com
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