ICOHTEC-HISTELCON 2015: History of High-Technologies and Their Socio-Cultural Contexts

42nd International Commitee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) Symposium 

ICOHTEC-HISTELCON 2015:
History of High-Technologies and Their Socio-Cultural Contexts

August 16, 2015 - August 21, 2015                           

Tel Aviv University

The meeting is hosted by the Cohn Institute for he History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
 

ICOHTEC Program Committee 2015
Chair: Dr. Christopher Neumaier, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany (technology)

The 42nd ICOHTECSymposium will be held together with IEEE HISTELCON in Tel Aviv from 16 to 21 August 2015. The main theme of the meeting will be the History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts. The aim is to analyse the social, cultural, political, economic, scientific as well as military impact of high-technologies, ranging from recent and contemporary developments in computer technology through to innovations that were state-of-the-art in their own time, such as the telegraph, radar, and the jet engine. The conference will explore this complex process from national as well as international perspectives. It will trace both developers and users of high-technologies and their appropriation strategies. It addresses scholars from various backgrounds such as historians, sociologists, practicing engineers, and scientists. More....

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