ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars 2008

The new prize is sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 3,000 Euro. Eligible are original works in English in the history of technology (published or unpublished Ph. D. theses, monographs, no articles) written by scholars who, when applying for the prize, are not older than 37 years. For the ICOHTEC Prize 2008 please send three copies of the work you want to submit to the ICOHTEC Secretary General Timo Myllyntaus, Professori, Suomen historia, Historian laitos, 20014 Turun yliopisto, Finland, by 15 April 2008. If the work is a PhD thesis it should have been submitted to your university in 2007; if it is a published work the year of publication should be 2007. The submission should be accompanied by a CV and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add references or reviews on the work submitted.

ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, founded in Paris in 1968, is a Scientific Section within the Division of the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST). It is a leading international organisation in the history of technology and has its membership base mainly in Europe, but also in the Americas, Japan, India and Australia. Research activities, in which ICOHTEC members co-operate, are on a comparative national basis, stressing aspects of co-operation between various nations, regions or institutions. ICOHTEC holds annual symposia and venues are spread round the world. This year’s meeting will take place in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 5 - 10 August 2008. ICON is the organisation’s journal containing scholarly articles. Current issues are reported in the Newsletter, which also contains country reports on the history of technology and bibliographical surveys. Further information is available at the homepage: http://www.icohtec.org/