(NAME-MCE) WITH Travel Award 2008 – A Call for "New Voices" in Technological History

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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.

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.geography.wisc.edu/WITH/ or contact Martina Blum,  email:
t7911ai at mail.lrz-muenchen.de.

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



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