MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS Next year the Scientific Instrument Commission will hold its annual Symposium in Manchester as part of the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (http://ichstm2013.com/). The full Congress runs from Monday July 22 to Sunday July 28, 2013. We do not yet know when the SIC sessions will be during the week, but we do know that they will be sequential on adjacent days and not scattered over the course of the Congress.
The organizers have set aside three full days for SIC talks. * Each day will have four 90-minute sessions of four papers each. * The SIC sessions will be plenary and not parallel to each other. * The standard paper length will be 15 minutes + 5 for discussion. * The total number of papers possible is 48. * All papers must be oral. We do not have space for poster papers. Papers on all instrument topics are welcome and may concern the history of scientific instruments, preservation, conservation, or documentation of collections of instruments, or their use within the wider disciplines related to scientific heritage and the history of science. You may of course take direction from the Congress theme, "Knowledge at work," but it is not required. As usual the SIC meeting committee will organize independently contributed papers into thematic sessions. We hope to have one session that recognizes the work of the late Gerard L'E. Turner. If you would like to organize your own cluster of papers on a particular theme, please have each speaker submit his or her abstract separately and let the SIC Secretary know of your intentions. TO SUBMIT A PAPER, please use this special portal for SIC papers: http://ichstm2013.com/abstractsubmission/?sic The DEADLINE for submissions is Friday 30 November 2012. The SIC especially welcomes papers from students and young scholars and hopes to be able to offer a few modest travel grants to such to attend the 2013 meeting and deliver a paper. In addition to the talks, we are planning to arrange visits to instrument collections and related sites. If you have ideas to suggest or can help us make arrangements, please contact the SIC Secretary. Sincerely, Sara Schechner SIC Secretary sche...@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:sche...@fas.harvard.edu> Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-496-5932 | sche...@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:sche...@fas.harvard.edu> http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html
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