Invitation and announcement.
The Mercurians is a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Society for the
History of Technology (SHOT) that began meeting in 1986 for the purpose of
connecting people who share work and interests in the history of
communication technologies, defined broadly. Our membership and interests,
like those of our parent organization, SHOT, are international in
composition and scope. Among our activities are a semi-annual newsletter,
Antenna, an annual meeting held in conjunction with that of SHOT, and the
pursuit of contacts and exchanges between meetings. Antenna serves both as
a clearing house for readers and an informal forum for their ideas.
We welcome contributions, including feature articles on the history of
communication technologies, notices and queries about Mercurians' projects,
as well as short essays on their work. Antenna includes book reviews and
other materials about conferences, museums, publications, archives,
websites, funding, and other pertinent materials. We especially are
interested in the work of new scholars, whether graduate students or recent
graduates, and the projects being undertaken by scholars outside academia.
Thanks to the generosity of several members, we can offer four free
two-year subscriptions to Antenna to students interested in the history of
communication technologies. We invite nominations from faculty and
colleagues for these subscriptions. Students may nominate themselves, as well.
We also invite anyone with an interest in the history of communication
technologies to join the Mercurians.
Please contact us at:
Pamela W. Laird
P.O. Box 6972
Denver, CO 80206
telephone: 303/556-4497
FAX: 303/556-6037
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
OR
Andrew J. Butrica
U. S. Army Center of Military History
Attn: Defense Acquisition History Team
Building 35
103 Third Avenue
Fort McNair, DC 20319-5058
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