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Dear all Apologies for sending an addendum to last week's "final" reminder, but you may wish to know about six further proposal ideas which have been added to the planning page at http://ichstm2013.wikispaces.com/ in the past week: * Modern sciences and occultisms (Richard Noakes) * Novel expertise and emerging specialists (Sean Johnston) * Putting knowledge to war: research and development in the First World War (Don Leggett) * Publishing the sciences (Aileen Fyfe) * Oral history and the history of science and technology (Sally Horrocks) * Scientific heritage: saving and disseminating knowledge in the papers of scientists (Anne Barrett) If you might be interested in contributing to any of these themes, visit the page at http://ichstm2013.wikispaces.com/ and contact the proposers at the addresses given as soon as possible: the deadline for symposium proposal submissions is Monday! General details of the Congress, as ever, are at http://www.ichstm2013.com/ . Please forward this announcement to any appropriate lists. Best regards, James Sumner (for the iCHSTM2013 Local Organising Committee) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 2013 International Congress: symposium proposals Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:23:51 +0100 From: James Sumner <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Dear all Final reminder: the call for symposium submissions for the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine will close on Monday 30 April. If you are preparing a symposium, please make sure you are familiar with the proposal submission arrangements: http://www.ichstm2013.com/call/ Our suggestions and planning page currently has active suggestions on the following symposium topics: * Patents, ownership and invention in the history of medicine (James Stark) * Computers, IT, and information cultures (James Sumner) * Chemistry and industry (Andrew Butrica) * Prophecy and precognition (Katy Price) * Thinking through the visual, explaining with the visual (Amir Teicher) * Putting the human sciences to work (Alice White and Michael Kliegl) * Journal editors' meeting (Robert Fox) * Doctor as hermeneutes (Vassilka Nikolova)