A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis

Target participants:
PhD students and recent post-doctoral researchers
Early career researcher and professionals with a subject-relevant academic background
- Thu 09 July to Sun 12 July, 2020 (Part 1)
- Mon 13 to Sun 19 July, 2020 (Part 2)

Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e, the Netherlands

1. Fee of the Summer school only (ICOHTEC Member): 100 €
(After 31 May: 150 €)
2. Fee of the Summer school only (ICOHTEC Non Member): 115 €
(After 31 May: 165 €)

3. Fee of Summer school & Symposium (ICOHTEC Member): 150 €
(After 31 May: 200 €)
4. Fee of Summer school & Symposium (ICOHTEC Non Member): 165 € (After 31 May: 215 €)

These ICOHTEC’s registration fees include participation services, lunches, and accommodation. A limited number of ICOHTEC travel grants will be available for Summer School participants and they cover part of travel costs from regions outside the Netherlands.

Applications will be accepted by email until 2nd March, 2020. The results of selection will be announced to the applicants by 31st March 2020.

Objectives
The Fourth ICOHTEC Summer School will combine the 47th ICOHTEC Symposium
with a three -day intensive seminar course geared to PhD students and young post-doctoral scholars. The Summer School brings together conventional seminars and the participation in the ICOHTEC Symposium. The topic of the ICOHTEC Summer School is "A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis" and it aims, in conjunction with the main thematic objectives of the ICOHTEC Symposium, to approach its theme open-mindedly and multidisciplinary. The School enhances students’ skill to comprehend and study versatile relationships between science, society and technology.
The Summer School aims to deal with responding to the following questions:
- In which ways have crises influenced technological change?
- What’s the role of technology to predict, avoid or manage crisis?
- Which technologies caused (environmental, societal etc.) crises and in which way did different societal groups try to cope with these crises?
- What’s the role of protests and resistance against technology to cope with technology-related problems, to handle crises?
- Do crises “reveal” how deep technology is embedded in society?
- What (and whose) histories do technological crisis imaginaries and historiographies highlight and obscure?

Lecturers

1. Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
2. Aristotle Tympas (Athens University)
3. Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin University of Arts)

Description

The ICOHTEC Summer School consists of two parts:

Part 1. Interactive discussion seminars

Objectives of the School include discussions of: daily lectures, students’ research papers distributed in advance, and appropriate methodological and theoretical approaches to the research themes under examination. Expert tutors will moderate these discussions in small groups.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to propose a presentation format that deviates from the standard 20 minutes frontal talk. This can include active engagement of the other summer school participants and also an outside-classroom activity, for example an excursion to a location linked to your topic.

A joint feedback colloquium will end the School.

Part 2. Active attendance in the ICOHTEC Symposium

Students of the Summer School are expected to participate in the ICOHTEC Symposium and its scientific sessions according their personal tailor-made schedules.

All students who complete the programme will receive an attendance
certificate.

For whom is the programme?

- Ph.D. students with a subject-appropriate academic background.
- Post-doctoral researchers with a subject-appropriate academic background

Participants are expected to

- be able to speak, read and write in English.
- undertake preparatory reading in advance of the programme.
- attend all lectures and seminar sessions.
- be actively engaged with the topics of the sessions.
- attend the ICOHTEC 2020 Symposium and present a paper there as a single or co-author.
- submit a final assignment of 2,000-2,500 words on one of the topics discussed in the Summer School within six weeks after the summer school.

Application for this course:

- Deadline for application: 2nd March, 2020.
- Applicants must send the following data by email file attachments to Maria Elvira Callapez: mariaelviracallapez@gmail.com.
1) A brief one-page cv, which must include the main personal data, academic training and career, selected publications and e-mail for further contact.
2) A short statement of purpose (350-400 words) detailing your academic reasons for wishing to attend the summer school. This should include your expectations what you hope to get out of the summer school and its education, and what you are likely to contribute to the intellectual life of the summer school. This may include details of history, political or social science courses you have previously taken, or the relevance of the summer school to your present course of study or professional development. If you are preparing a thesis or research paper at the moment, please write a brief description of it. Include also the title of your possible paper submission to the ICOHTEC Symposium, which follows the Summer School (Further information: icohtec.org/annual-meeting-2018.html).
3) A letter of recommendation by your teacher or supervisor, referring to your application to the ICOHTEC Summer School.

The subject line of the email should be "Summer School Application" and in the titles of your file attachments mark your surname first and then the title of the file (e.g. Smith_CV).

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

After you have submitted your application, you will receive a response by 31 March 2020.

Members of the Summer School Committee

- Maria Elvira Callapez (chair), Portugal
- Karena Kalmbach, The Netherlands
- Sofia Alexia Papazafeiropoulou, Greece
- Magdalena Zdrodowska, Poland