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ICOHTEC NEWSLETTER No 176, December 2020 www.icohtec.org Sound To Light System Sound Operated Lamp Switch Circuit The first real dedicated disco lights were invented in about 1968 when someone decided to control lighting using electronics (Transistors and Thyristors in those days, no silicon chips) the idea was to flash lamps to different frequencies, originally three channels. Basically one lamp would flash in time with the Bass frequency, one in time with the Middle and one in time with the Treble. For the first time Sound To Light was born. The sound of the light: https://youtu.be/vkVPXpSE_Us Newsletter of the International Committee for the History of Technology - ICOHTEC Editor: Francesco Gerali, The University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies. Norman, OK, United States. Mail to [email protected] Newsletter of the International Committee for the History of Technology - ICOHTEC Editor: Francesco Gerali, 2020 IEEE Pugh Visiting Scholar, IEEE History Center, NJ, United States. Mail to [email protected] I. ICOHTEC I.1 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE 48TH SYMPOSIUM OF ICOHTEC GO ONLINE I.2 MAURICE DAUMAS PRIZE - ICOHTEC’S ARTICLE PRIZE I.3 TURRIANO ICOHTEC PRIZE 2021 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS I.4 ICON II. PRIZES III. JOURNALS IV. E-SCHOL@RSHIP IN THE V. OPEN ACCESS VI. CALLS FOR MANUSCRIPTS VII. CALLS FOR PAPERS VIII. PLASTICIDADE, UMA HISTÓRIA DOS PLÁSTICOS EM PORTUGAL, A HISTORY OF PLASTICS IN PORTUGAL IX. JOBS, POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS, AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS X. JOIN ICOHTEC 1 I. ICOHTEC I.1 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology and the 48th Symposium of ICOHTEC go online Dear Colleagues and Friends, Due to the risks of a real meeting, the organizers of the 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, ICHST (25 – 31 July 2021), decided to organize the conference online. Since our next ICOHTEC symposium is part of ICHST we will meet online, too. The conference is scheduled on the same dates, announced for the real meeting. Due to the enormous work organizing a conference of 1000-1500 participants, deadline of our symposium was already last year, but there is still an opportunity to participate in ICHST directly: the deadline for stand-alone papers was extended to 10th January 2021. Please find more information on the conference website: https://www.ichst2021.org/ It is in fact a pity that we have to meet online for the second time, but having the risk of a real meeting of such a huge number of participants in mind, there is no other chance, I think. We intend to run our symposium within this new frame including all elements of normal symposia as we did in Eindhoven digital already. Some of our members suffered really hard due to the covid pandemic; for others it meant restrictions of their normal life. Let’s hope that both will become history next year. Happy New Year! Stefan Poser Secretary General I.2 MAURICE DAUMAS PRIZE – ICOHTEC’S ARTICLE PRIZE The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative scholarship in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture, and the environment. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches. The prize will be awarded to the author of the best article submitted which deals with the history of technology in any period of the past or in any part of the world and which was published in a journal or edited volume in 2019 or 2020. Eligible for the prize are original articles published in (or later translated into) any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). Submissions are welcomed from scholars of any country who are currently in graduate school or have received their doctorate within the last seven years. Please send your submission and a brief (not to exceed one-page) cv to each of the six Prize Committee members no later than 15 January 2021. Electronic submissions are preferred. The winner will be contacted in late April 2021. The prize will be awarded at our 48th Symposium, to be held on-line, in summer 2021 (25 - 31 July 2021). The winner will receive a cash prize of Euro 500. The ICOHTEC Symposium will feature a special panel organized around the winning article. Alongside the first prize, articles in the second and third-ranking positions will receive an honorarium/diploma award. The Daumas Prize is sponsored by the Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France. 2 PRIZE COMMITTEE Maria Elvira Callapez, PI. Dr., [Prize Committee Chairperson], CIUHCT, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Email: [email protected] Antoni Roca-Rosell, Dr. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain Email: [email protected] Eike-Christian Heine, Dr. Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany Email: [email protected] Francesco Gerali IEEE Pugh Scholar - IEEE History Center, Hoboken, NJ, USA Email: [email protected] Laurent Heyberger, Dr. Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France Email: [email protected] Liliia Zemnukhova, PhD Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SI RAN), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation [email protected] Lino Camprubí, Dr. Universidad de Sevilla, Facultad de Filosofía, Spain Email: [email protected] MAURICE DAUMAS (1910 - 1984) - The French Trailblazer. The history of technology would never have become a prominent field of historical research without energetic pathbreakers. Maurice Daumas was one of them. One of his better-known early works is Les instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, which was also published in English. Between 1962 and 1978, he edited a highly acclaimed history of technology, Histoire générale des techniques, in five volumes, which has been translated into English and Spanish, and used as a textbook in various countries. In France, Daumas was also the pioneer of industrial archaeology. Daumas was the first secretary general of ICOHTEC and the host of its symposium at Pont- à-Mousson in 1970. For further information about Daumas: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/issue/rhs_0151-4105_1984_num_37_3 I.3 TURRIANO ICOHTEC PRIZE 2021 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Turriano ICOHTEC Prize is an Early Career Prize for Books on the history of technology, sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 2,500 Euro. The prize-winning book will be presented and discussed at a special session of the next ICOHTEC symposium, that will take 3 place as part of the 26th International Congress for the History of Science and Technology, ICHST online 25 – 31 July 2021 (orgaised by local team in Prague, Czechia). ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the history of technology, focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history and all populated areas. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches. Eligible for the prize are original book-length works in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish) in the history of technology: published or unpublished Ph.D. dissertations or other monographs written by scholars in the early stages of their career. Articles and edited anthologies are not eligible. If the work is a Ph.D. thesis, it should have been accepted by your university in 2019 or 2020; if it is a published work, the year of publication should be 2019 or 2020. For the ICOHTEC Prize 2021, please send an electronic copy (PDF or Word) of the work you wish to be considered for the prize to each of the four Prize Committee members. (Note: Hard copies are only accepted for published works not available electronically.) Your submission must be emailed no later than 1 February 2021. Please also include an abstract of no more than a half-page in length. If your book is in Spanish or Russian, please also supply a summary in English, French or German of about 4,500 words. In that case, the prize committee will find additional members, who are familiar with the language in which your book is written. The submission should be accompanied by a CV (indicating also the date of birth) and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add references or reviews of the work submitted. Any materials sent to the prize committee will not be returned. Send a complete application by email to each of the following Prize Committee members: PRIZE COMMITTEE Dr. Darina Martykánová (Chairperson) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Departamento de Historia Contemporánea Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 – Madrid Spain [email protected] Dr. Irina Gouzévitch Centre Maurice Halbwachs École Normale Supérieure 48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris France [email protected] 4 Dr. Klaus Staubermann ICOM Germany In der Halde 1 14159 Berlin Germany [email protected] Dr. Tiina Männistö-Funk School of History, Culture and Arts Studies University of Turku Turku Finland [email protected] Dr. Jacopo Pessina Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge Via Pasquale Paoli, 15 56126 Pisa Italy [email protected] 1.4 ICON ICON, the biannual journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, publishes papers covering all aspects and periods in the history of technology, but devotes special attention to the discussion of contemporary problems of technology in their socio-economic and cultural settings. The journal's goal is to foster co-operation amongst scholars from all parts of the world by providing timely review and circulation of ideas to an international audience of like-minded individuals.