The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for its new article prize, Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative and superbly written research in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technology focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.
The Maurice Daumas Prize will be awarded to the best submission of an article on the history of technology published in a journal or edited volume in 2009 or 2010. Submissions are welcomed from junior and senior scholars of any country, and they can focus to study the technological past of any part of the world.
Eligible to the prize are original published articles in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). If the language of publication is not English, applicants should include a three-page English summary.
For the Maurice Daumas Prize 2011, please send your submission to each of the four Prize Committee members. Your submissions must be postmarked not later than 24 January 2011.
The submission should be accompanied by a CV and, if applicable, a list of publica-tions. Applicants are free to add references or reviews on the work submitted. The winner will be contacted in mid-June 2011.
The prize will be awarded at our 38th Symposium, 2 – 7 August 2011 in Glasgow, UK. The winner will receive a money prize worth of Euro 500 as well as travel grant of Euro 300 (if needed) to attend the ICOHTEC Symposium of 2011.
Send a complete application by regular mail services or electronically as a pdf-file attachment to each of the following Article Prize Committee members:
Anna Storm, Postdoctoral researcher, Chair, Email: anna.storm@sh.se
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies
Södertörn University
SE-141 89 Huddinge/Stockholm
Sweden
Colin Divall, Prof. Email: colin.divall@york.ac.uk
Department of History
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
Martina Hessler, Prof. Email: mhessler@hsu-hh.de
Department of History
Helmut Schmidt University
Holstenhofweg 85
D-22039 Hamburg
Germany
Pierre Lamard, Prof. Email: pierre.lamard@utbm.fr
Laboratoire RECITS
L’Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM)
F-90010 Belfort CEDEX
France
MAURICE DAUMAS (1910 - 1984) – The French Trailblazer
The history of technology would never have become a prominent field of historical re-search without energetic pathbreakers. Maurice Daumas was one of them. His broad scientific production include an early work Les instruments scientifiques aus XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, which gained good reputation and was also published as an English translation. During years 1962–1978, he edited a highly valued history of technology Histoire générale des techniques, 5 volumes, which has been translated into English and Spanish and used as a textbook in various countries. In France, Daumas was also the pioneer of industrial archaeology. Daumas put great efforts to promote the history of technology as a discipline, and he contributed to several societies, journals and conferences. He was also the first secretary general of ICOHTEC and the host of its symposium at Pont-a-Mousson in 1970.
For further information: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/issue/rhs_0151-4105_1984_num_37_3
ICOHTEC – A Scholarly Forum and Global Organiser
ICOHTEC, founded in Paris in 1968, is a Scientific Section within the Division of the His-tory of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST). It is a leading international organi¬sation in the history of technology and has its membership base mainly in Europe, but also in the Americas, East Asia, India and Australia.
Research activities, in which ICOHTEC members co-operate, are on a comparative na-tional basis, stressing aspects of co-operation between various nations, regions or institu-tions.
ICOHTEC holds annual symposia, sites of which are spread round the world. Next year’s meeting “Consumer Choice and Technology” will take place in Glasgow, UK from 2 to 7 August 2011.
ICON is the ICOHTEC’s journal and contains scholarly articles and reviews. Other issues of interest to members are reported in the Newsletter, which also provides country reports on the history of technology and bibliographical surveys. Further information is available at ICOHTEC’s homepage: http://www.icohtec.org/.
Should you wish to join ICOHTEC, please, visit our website, fill in the membership for and return it to an address mentioned at: http://icohtec.org/about-us-join.htm
For more information, please, contact Timo Myllyntaus, ICOHTEC Secretary General at timmyl@utu.fi.