HSS 2011 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers

Vol. 40, No. 1, January 2011
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Cleveland, Ohio
3-6 November 2011
(Co-located meeting with SHOT and 4S)

The History of Science Society will hold its 2011 Annual Meeting in the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in downtown Cleveland. The meeting will be co-located with the Society for the History of Technology (at the Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Cleveland City Centre). All three hotels are within easy walking distance and shuttles will run on a circuit among the conference sites. Registration for one conference will entitle the registrant to attend all three conferences. Discussions are under way as to whether or not there will be additional administrative fees for any individual who appears on more than one program.

All proposals (sessions, contributed papers, and posters) must be submitted by 4 April 2011 to the History of Science Society’s Executive Office. Poster proposals must describe the visual material that will make up the poster. The HSS will work with organizers who wish to pre-circulate papers.
Submissions on all topics are encouraged. All proposals must be submitted on the HSS Web site (http://www.hssonline.org) or on the annual meeting proposal forms that are available from the HSS Executive Office. HSS members are asked to circulate this announcement to non-HSS colleagues who may be interested in presenting a paper or poster at the Annual Meeting (all participants must register for the meeting). Applicants are encouraged to propose sessions that include diverse participants: a mix of men and women, and/or a balance of professional ranks (i.e., mixing senior scholars with junior scholars and graduate students). Strong preference will be given to panels whose presenters have diverse institutional affiliations. Only one proposal per person may be submitted. An individual may only appear once on the HSS program (see the guidelines for exceptions). Prior participation at the 2009 (Phoenix) or 2010 (Montréal) meetings will be taken into consideration.

To encourage and aid the creation of panels with strong thematic coherence that draw upon historians of science across institutions and ranks, the conference organizers have created a wiki at http://hss2011.wikia.com. Anyone with a panel or paper idea seeking like-minded presenters should post and consult the postings there to round out a prospective session. Instructions are available on the site. Before sending a proposal to the HSS Office, we ask that everyone read the Committee on Meetings and Programs’ “Guidelines for Selecting Papers, Posters, and Sessions.” The 2011 program co-chairs are Michael Gordin (Princeton University) and Matthew Jones (Columbia University).

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