Call for Papers
Cross-Connexions: Communications, Society & Change
An International Conference
11 - 13 November 2005
Science Museum, London, UK
Organized by the London Science Museum, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Connected Earth, and the Newcomen Society.
Goals of the conference.
To stimulate scholarly research in the history of telecommunications, the conference will bring together all those interested to discuss developments in telecommunications. The conference will understand the interactions over time between telecommunications and computing, electrical engineering, space technologies, government, culture and business practice.
The conference will be structured thematically and may include:
* Communications and shifting social power
* Introduction of automated, analogue and
* Digital technology
* Empire
* Military power
* Technology transfer
* Relationship between innovation and utility
* Satellite and mobile phone technologies
* Material collections
* Empowerment and identity
* Historiography
Call for papers.
We invite all prospective speakers to send a one page preliminary abstract (via email or postal mail) for a 30 minute paper with name and postal/email address.
The deadline for paper submission is 31st December 2004.
All prospective speakers will be notified regarding acceptance by 1 February 2005.
A published selection of papers is anticipated.
Potential organizers of themed symposia should submit proposals by 31 October 2004 detailing theme, possible papers and speakers with contact details for the symposium organizers.
A web page address will shortly become available.
Registration.
If you wish to register your interest in attending the conference, to deliver a paper or not, please contact Chris Chilvers at christopher.chilvers@nmsi.ac.uk or by telephone +44 (0)20 7942 4183.
By post:
Chris Chilvers,
BT Connected Earth Senior Research Fellow,
Science Museum,
Exhibition Road,
London, SW7 2DD,
United Kingdom.
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