Open Session on Doing Pre-Industrial History of Technology, SHOT Conference, October 2018: Call for Participants

If you are working on a pre-1850 topic, approaching it from a history-of-technology perspective, please consider joining our open session at the SHOT conference in St. Louis in October. We are interested in papers that discuss doing history of technology with pre-industrial subjects, such as artisanal crafts. The goal is to explore how the history of technology can offer insights into topics not usually explored by the field, which tends to favor industrial and post-industrial subjects. We're interested in the differences and commonalities between pre-industrial and industrial/post-industrial histories of technology. For example, how do we study diffusion without a documentary record of invention and direct transmission, and without mass-marketing?

We have two presenters currently committed, including myself, and one possible. If you're interested, please e-mail me. The deadline for submitting the session panel is Saturday, 24 March, and I'd like to have it all put to bed by early that week.

Phillip Reid, PhD

Wilmington NC USA

phillipfrankreid@gmail.com