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

项目概述：SHOT 50周年研讨会本提案寻求美国国家科学基金会协助发展一个研讨会，以纪念技术历史学会（SHOT）成立50周年。该研讨会将于2007年秋季在华盛顿召开的年度会议的前一天举行，由美国国家工程院主办。研讨会将审查和讨论该领域的学术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其他从事技术史研究的学者使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重要和无所不在的元素，SHOT还寻求超越有关该领域现状的内部和专业问题，并扩展我们的学术范围，与尽可能广泛的外部受众建立联系。因此，研讨会的组织和开展方式将有助于使我们对技术的理解能够为其他对技术和社会的相互作用感兴趣和关注的群体所理解。因此，正如美国国家科学基金会所期望的那样，研讨会既具有科学价值，又具有更广泛的影响。科学价值这个项目的科学价值在于，通过在年度例会之前花一整天的时间进行讨论，努力评估和评价科技史的主要轮廓。这种安排允许技术史学家尽可能多地参与。演讲者将代表该协会的全部多样性，因为研讨会寻求在方法和主题方面展示令人兴奋的奖学金。参与者将包括SHOT的初级和高级成员，以及来自技术历史之外的参观者和嘉宾。该协会将通过其旅行资助计划大力鼓励研究生参与。主要目的是在SHOT及其成员进入第六个十年的时候，划定有前途的领域和杰出的学术例子。更广泛的影响这次研讨会的更广泛的影响只是部分地在于教育机会，而这将不可避免地由大量协会与会者参加这次特别活动而产生。同样重要的是，该协会努力与其他学术领域和其他专业组织的学者和专家接触，这些学者和专家对技术有共同的兴趣，但没有与SHOT有专门的联系。该研讨会将继续学会更新和加强与工程师和工程的联系的努力，建立与将主办会议的美国国家工程院之间的桥梁。SHOT还将加强与其他历史和社会科学领域的学者以及与政策制定者的联系。正如SHOT的一位成员所说，我们的目标受众（SHOT之外）应该是一小群学者和知识分子，他们正在处理世界上的实际问题，需要只有我们才能提供的那种历史视角。或者正如另一位历史学家所观察到的，这个研讨会的目的是探索现代世界中技术史的相关性。为了进一步实现这一目标，该学会将出版一本包括研讨会最佳论文的编辑卷，作为其杂志《技术与文化》的特刊。此外，有几次会议将被录影，以便在该协会的网页上播放，作为shots利用WWW扩大外联工作的一部分。

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.