SHOT 50th Anniversary Workshop: Washington, DC, fall of 2007

项目摘要：SHOT 50周年研讨会本提案寻求NSF协助开发一个研讨会，以纪念技术史学会（SHOT）成立50周年。研讨会将于2007年秋季在华盛顿举行的年会的前一天举行，由美国国家工程院主办。讲习班将审查和讨论这一领域的新趋势和模式以及新方法。其目标是使学会能够鼓励其成员和从事技术史研究的其他学者利用最新的方法和见解在最新的方向上开展工作。由于技术是现代社会的一个重要和无所不在的元素，SHOT还寻求超越有关该领域状态的内部和专业问题，并扩大我们的奖学金范围，连接到尽可能广泛的外部受众。因此，研讨会的组织和进行方式将有助于使我们对技术的理解能够被其他对技术与社会的相互作用感兴趣和关注的群体所理解。科学价值这个计划的科学价值在于，在每年例行的年会之前，用一整天的时间进行讨论，以评估和评价技术史的主要轮廓，这种安排使技术史学家能够尽可能多地参与。演讲者将代表社会的全部多样性，因为研讨会旨在提出令人兴奋的奖学金方面的方法和主题。与会者将包括SHOT的资深成员和来自技术历史之外的访客和客人。该协会将通过其旅行资助计划强烈鼓励研究生参与。主要目的是划定有前途的领域和杰出的奖学金的例子，作为SHOT及其成员进入第六个十年的存在。更广泛的影响这个研讨会的更广泛的影响只存在于教育机会，不可避免地将导致从一个显着的社会参与者在这个特殊的事件。同样重要的是，学会努力联系其他学术领域和其他专业组织的学者和专家，他们对技术感兴趣，但没有与SHOT具体联系。该讲习班将继续该协会努力恢复和加强与工程师和工程学的联系，为主办会议的国家工程学院建立桥梁。SHOT还将加强与历史和社会科学其他领域的学者以及政策制定者的联系。正如一位SHOT成员所说，我们的目标受众（SHOT之外）应该是那些正在处理世界上真实的问题的学者和知识分子，他们需要只有我们才能提供的历史视角。或者正如另一位历史学家所观察到的，这个研讨会旨在探索现代世界技术史的相关性。为了进一步实现这一目标，学会将出版一本经过编辑的文集，其中包括讲习班的最佳论文，作为其期刊《技术与文化》的特刊。此外，将对几次会议进行录像，以便作为SHOT利用万维网扩大外联工作的一部分，在协会的网页上播放。

Project Summary: SHOT 50th Anniversary WorkshopThis proposal seeks NSF assistance in developing a workshop to mark the 50th anniversary of thefounding of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). The workshop, to take place theday before the annual meeting in Washington, DC in the fall of 2007, will be hosted by theNational Academy of Engineering. Workshop sessions will examine and discuss scholarlytrends and patterns and new approaches to the field. The goal is to enable the Society to encourage its members and other scholars working on the history of technology to pursue work in the newest directions using the newest approaches and insights. Since technology is a vital and omnipresent element of modern society, SHOT also seeks to press beyond the internal and professional questions about the state of the field and extend the reach of our scholarship, connecting to the widest possible external audience. Thus the workshop will be structured and conducted in ways that help make our understandings of technology accessible to other groups that share an interest in, and concerns about, the interactions of technology and society. Thus the workshop has both scientific merit and broader impact, as the NSF expects.Scientific MeritThe scientific merit of this project lies in the effort to assess and evaluate the main contours of thehistory of technology, by devoting an entire day to discussions before the regular annual meeting.This arrangement allows the largest possible participation by historians of technology. Presenterswill represent the full diversity of the Society, as the workshop seeks to present excitingscholarship in terms of approaches and subjects. The participants will include both beginningand senior members of SHOT and visitors and guests from outside the history of technology. TheSociety will strongly encourage participation by graduate students through its travel grantprogram. The primary intent is to delineate promising areas and outstanding examples ofscholarship as SHOT and its members enter a sixth decade of existence.The Broader ImpactThe broader impact of this workshop resides only partially in the educational opportunity thatinevitably will result from the participation of a significant number of the Societys attendees inthis special event. As important is the Societys effort to reach out to scholars and experts inother fields of academic and in other professional organizations who share an interest intechnology but who have not been connected to SHOT specifically. The workshop will continuethe Societys attempts to renew and strengthen linkages to engineers and engineering, building abridge to the National Academy of Engineering, which will host the meeting. SHOT also willstrengthen linkages to scholars in other areas of history and the social sciences and to policymakers. As one SHOT member put it, our target audience (outside SHOT) should be that smallarmy of academics and intellectuals who are dealing with the real problems of the world and needthe kind of historical perspective that only we can provide. Or as another historian observed,this workshop is designed to explore the relevancy of the history of technology in the modernworld. To further this goal, the Society will produce an edited volume including the best papersfrom the workshop as a special issue of its journal, Technology and Culture. Moreover severalsessions will be videotaped so that they may be streamed on the Societys web page as part ofSHOTs expanding outreach effort using the WWW.