The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University announces two exciting opportunities for historians of science, technology, and industry: ECHO Online Collection Grants and a Digital History Workshop in New York.
CHNM’s ECHO project is pleased to announce the availability of up to five $1000 grants to fund current research projects involving the online collection of the recent history of science, technology, and industry. ECHO offers tailored consulting services to institutions and individual researchers with online projects or ideas, including help with strategic project planning, technology, website design, and outreach in building digital history collections. Examples of projects that employ ECHO’s methods and technologies can be fund at the ECHO Collecting Center (http://echo.gmu.edu/collecting.php) and include _A Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit_(http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/thinblueline/), a joint project by ECHO and the National Institute of Health, and _Remembering Columbia STS-107_(http://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Introduction.html), an online exhibit by NASA. Please submit a grant proposal of no more than 500 words and a C.V. to chnm@gmu.edu with the subject line, "ECHO grant proposal," by December 1, 2007.
CHNM also invites public historians of science, technology, and industry in the New York area to our next workshop on the theory and practice of digital history. The workshop will be held on January 17, 2008 at the New York Public Library. Participants will explore the ways that digital technologies can facilitate the research, teaching, and presentation of history; genres of online history and tools; website infrastructure and design; scholarly collaboration; digitization and online collecting; the process of
identifying and building online history audiences; and issues of copyright and preservation. There is no registration fee, but spaces are limited. Please submit an application form by December 1, 2007 (available at http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/3794/); accepted participants will be notified by December 10.
About ECHO and the Center for History and New Media. Since 2001, the ECHO project (Exploring and Collecting History Online—Science, Technology, and Industry,
http://echo.gmu.edu) has promoted the collection and dissemination of the history of science and technology on the Web with the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Since 1994, CHNM has used digital media and computer technology to develop innovative historical methods and tools for scholars, educators, students, and the general public.
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The 11th International Conference on
History of Science and technology in China
August 20th-24th 2007, Nanning, P. R. China
November 2006: First Circular, calling for abstracts of papers
February 2007: Second Circular, papers to be delivered to the organizers
May 2007: Third Circular, informing the accepted papers, sending the invitation
Conference Contact Address:
Research Institute for History of Science and Technology,
Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning 530006,
Guangxi, P.R.China
Tel: (86)0771-3260598, 13607718820
Fax:(86)0771-3262241, 3260598
E-mail: wfb8820@163.com
weidanfang@126.com
The Holberg International Memorial Prize 2007
Call for nomination
The Holberg Prize aims to increase society'awareness of the value of research in the fields of the arts and humanities, social science, law and theology.
For more information please see:
www.holbergprize.no