WITH: Women in Technological History

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Link to mystery tool-

The complete link for the mystery tool is here and here

“Withniks,

Perhaps you can help with this puzzle. We have, in our very small museum, this tool:
http://people.whitman.edu/~lermanne/museum/What-is-this.html

If you could tell me of a similar tool, a person who may know about it, or any published information on such tools, the student in my Social History of Stuff” class who adopted it for her “artifact journal” (and indeed the museum staff) will be most grateful.

Many thanks! Nina”

IEEE Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History, April 15 deadline

Dear Withs:

This appears on the SHOT website, but I wanted to send a reminder to the WITH list:

The IEEE Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members’ Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology, is awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology—power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science—published during the preceding year. Any article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. The article must be written in English, although the journal or periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication. The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To nominate an article, please send a copy of the paper to each member of the prize committee. DEADLINE IS APRIL 15.

Susan Schmidt Horning (chair)
Department of History
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
schmidts@stjohns.edu

Andrew J. Butrica
Defense Acquisition History Project
U.S. Army Center of Military History
103 Third Ave., Bldg. 35
Fort Mcnair D.C. 20319-5058
abutrica@earthlink.net

Robert MacDougall
Department of History
University of Western Ontario
Social Science Centre, Room 4328
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2
rmacdou@uwo.ca

WITH 2008 Travel Award

WITH Travel Award 2008 – A Call for “New Voices” in Technological History

The SHOT Special Interest Group Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel grant for 2008. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT].

The 2008 meeting will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-14, 2008 (See http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annualmtg.html)

“New voices” seeks topics or perspectives underrepresented in SHOT, and invites scholars from underrepresented constituencies, geographic and cultural. Eligibility for the WITH Travel Award is open to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Graduate students and other scholars new to SHOT are particularly encouraged to apply for the award. Seeking to foster exchange of ideas among cultures and to help broaden the intellectual scope of our field, the WITH Travel Award will support papers that especially consider questions of ethnicity, gender, and modes of difference in the history of technology, and scholars who come from non-US and non-Western venues.

The award will include registration for the Lisbon meeting, a year’s membership to SHOT and WITH, the WITH breakfast or lunch, the graduate student breakfast (if appropriate), and the awards banquet; the balance of funds will be allocated to travel expenses.

Priorities for the WITH award will go to:

1. a scholar or graduate student new to SHOT belonging to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology;
2. a non-US, non-Western graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.

The WITH award is to be granted to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Deadline for papers-proposals for the SHOT 2008 annual meeting is March 14, 2008, for further information please see http://shotnews.net/?p=401.

How to apply:

Download an application form:
WITH_travel_award_form_08.pdf
WITH_travel_award_form_08.doc

The application deadline for the WITH Travel Award will be June 15th 2008.

For more information about the WITH Travel Award and the application form, please go to the WITH-Homepage at http://www.women-in-technological-history.net or contact Martina Blum, email: t7911ai@mail.lrz-muenchen.de.

Dr. Martina Blum
Zentralinstitut für Geschichte der Technik
c/o Deutsches Museum
80306 München

Travel Award History

The WITH Travel Award was established in 2005. The winners to date:

2005: Tanfer Emin-Tunc, “Beyond the First Trimester: Technological Change in Mid to Late Term Pregnancy Termination” Ph.D. candidate, SUNY at Stony Brook

2006: Mara Mills, “’The Deaf May Lead the Way’: Sound Spectography and Visible Speech” Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, Department of the History of Science

2007: No award.

2008: Could be you!

Help us update the “WITH at 21″ publication for WITH at 50

Help us create the “WITH at 50″ publication!

WITH members should read this 1997 version “WITH at 21″ carefully and make additions or corrections. It’s posted to receive comments so we can prepare an update for the 50th anniversary. This will form the base for the 50th anniversary document and updates in future years.

Send text corrections to the listserv with the subject line “WITH at 50″

WITH at Twenty-one: A Look Back 1976-1997 (1997)

2007 Newsletter

In past years, the WITH Newsletter has included a report on the prior year’s annual meeting, news of members section, summary of listserv discussions, and membership roster. As our online capabilities grow and members’ access to online information appears complete, we are going to peel sections off from the newsletter on to separate links on the website. These include the annual report, roster, and the annual summary of listserv discussions.

The membership roster posted to the WITH website will include names and affiliations/self-descriptions. A roster with complete member contact information will be emailed separately to everyone on the listserv.

If you are not on the listserv, you may request a copy of the roster from molly.berger@case.edu. Instructions for joining the listserv can be found on here.

Download a PDF of the Fall 2007 newsletter:

http://www.women-in-technological-history.net/pdf/WITH%20Newsletter%20Fall%202007.pdf