Historian of science and technology; thinking about technical labor, education, and the false consolations of Diversity. Opinions own.
Philadelphia
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So excited!! Huge thanks to authors @USofDisaster @tiagofsaraiva1 @KASenaga, Rafico Ruiz, Darin Hayton, Projit Mukharji, Patryk Wasiak, Sharon Ku, & Jose Torero ...Bland catfish, kind asylum locks, fragile skyscrapers, frozen missionaries, sturdy oranges...it's all here, & more!
Check out the latest @Lever_Press title on Fulcrum! "New Materials" by @A_Slaton is available to read here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1167542…. #openaccess
Please read & share: New statement from the British Society for the History of Science, supporting @jennybulstrode and @HistAndTech in the face of unfounded criticism and associated media campaign @BSHSNews
bshs.org.uk/bshs-council-sta…
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Please read and circulate this editorial, by editors of the journal History and Technology, @A_Slaton and Tiago Saraiva, which fully vindicates our colleague Jenny Bulstrode and her paper 'Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
From @HistAndTech: Our Editorial (open access) on @jennybulstrode's vital historical contributions, and the stakes of writing histories of enslavement in 2023. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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💼Back to school is just around the corner!
Have you considered incorporating Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (@TapuyaLASTS) articles into your course syllabus?
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Call for Participants: Handbook of the History of Technology in the Americas... edited by Edna Suárez Díaz, Gisela Mateos, Jesse Smith and myself. All info here...thanks for sharing widely!
cfplist.com/CFP/39405
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Thrilled to announce that #gender of #things will be out soon by @routledgebooks preorder here routledge.com/The-Gender-of-…
Huge thank you to @jennybulstrode for sharing this remarkable work through @HistAndTech ! ...thrilled to see it going still wider .... @guardian @hannahdev @NewScientist
Fascinating research by historian of technology @jennybulstrode demonstrates that enslaved Black metallurgists in Jamaica invented one of most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution.
Original article tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Thank you for being there, @sepehrvakil! Huge pleasure to think with and learn from this amazing community @MaxeyKR @MeaganPollock
just got back from #ASEE23 in Baltimore. @ASEE_DC sharing text of my short remarks at the plenary panel organized by the great Dr. @A_Slaton
"What does it mean to truly care about equity and inclusion in engineering?" sepehrvakil.substack.com/p/w…
.@HistAndTech couldn't be more excited to be planning this gathering of early-career scholars along with @TapuyaLASTS @UofT_IHPST @SocHistTech, and more! Please share widely!
📢Now receiving applications from early-career scholars to attend a four-day seminar at Drexel University, PA. Due May 1st.
The conversation will produce 10-12 essays to be published as a joint special issue between @HistAndTech and @TapuyaLASTS
More info
✉️[email protected]
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The #GenderofThings goes into production by @routledgebooks Thanks to Elizabeth Grosz and Lorraine Daston for their wonderful endorsements!
@hssonline @UniFAU @HRP_IAEA @STGS_FAU @EllieTheElement
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***CFP Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections***
Science History Institute, Philadelphia, USA, 4-6 October 2023
A fantastic event I'm co-organizing w/ @jgreene2 @DollyJorgensen @A_Slaton
Abstracts due April 1 to
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FREE ACCESS to current issue!!!
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New Issue online now!
𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮
@RoutledgeHist #Technology #History #EastAsia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
.@HistAndTech is very excited to share this fabulous double issue confronting familiar historiographies, comfortable geographies, and customary narrative approaches to technological change. ...With many thanks to our guest editors and all authors!!
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Thanks to our fabulous guest editors Victor Seow & Dagmar Schäfer and all authors for a remarkable special issue of @HistAndTech on "Technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia"...articles now coming online! @EastAsiaSciTech tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Maskless America. I am out of explanations. Evolutionary biologist friends, please assist: Has anyone observed ants running towards an anteater because..."freedom"?
Fast-track to virtue? ...Some historical thoughts on how predominantly white Engineering institutions see minority serving institutions, and themselves, in the struggle for racial equity. #ASEE #HBCUs amyeslaton.com/fast-track-to…
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“We will labor to disentangle that which is truly engineering from that which is intended to maintain a white supremacist culture yet continues to be called engineering.”
~James Holly, Jr. + Brooke Coley
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When we move from race reform to reparation, from
"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" to truly transformative and redistributive change, these are the words; from @PlzSayTheJr & @ColeySPACE: engineeringindependence.com
If you're wondering what an institutional statement in support of gender rights & justice looks like when it takes the threat seriously, look no further. And yes, this is an Engineering org. If they can do it... (Thank you, Donna Riley & #ASEE DEI Cttee.):
diversity.asee.org/deicommit…
