There’s a very interesting (if you like old things) workshop taking place at the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation in Ottawa from Aug. 15-19, 2011. It’s the Reading Artifacts Summer Institute,
Discover alternative historical perspectives and methods in the midst of Canada’s largest collection in science, medicine and technology. Our annual artifact sessions in the CSTM storage facility bring together Canadian and international scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum. Participants immerse themselves in our collections gaining renewed appreciation for artifacts and the multiple, unpredictable stories they tell.
Guest faculty for 2011:
- Dag Spicer, Senior Curator, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California, USA
- Cindy Stelmackowich, Faculty-Lecturer, Art History, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Yes, it’s a little to apply for this year but if you’re interested for next year, contact David Pantalony, dpantalony@technomuses.ca
Students can get some financial assistance for travel through the Situating Science Cluster (SSC). It’s a programme of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, one of Canada’s tricouncil funding agencies) with which I am unfamiliar. From the SSC home page,
Created in 2007 with the generous funding of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant, Situating Science is a seven-year project promoting communication [emphasis mine] and collaboration among humanists and social scientists that are engaged in the study of science and technology.
I wonder why they don’t promote communication with the rest of us.
Hi there, 🙂
We ARE interested in communicating with the “rest” of you. Please understand that we are a Canadian Cluster, hence the emphasis on supporting Canadian scholarly work in the area of the humanist and social studies of science and technology. This is not to say we don’t engage with other scholars, of course. Our workshops and conferences invite many researchers from the US and other countries. We have some international partners and always seek opportunities to collaborate where and when we can.
We’re happy to send along our notices to you. We may have overlooked you (whoever you are ? :)) in our international mailing list
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for more information. I’d be happy to chat: situsci[@] dal.ca
Hello! Thank you for dropping by to leave a comment and giving me an opportunity to discuss this matter further. I’m glad to hear that your organization is interested in outreach to the ‘rest of us’ although I suspect that you and I mean something different by that phrase. I was referring to those of us who are not scholars in the traditional sense and I must admit it’s a pet peeve of mine that so much scholarly research is effectively kept hidden from a public that has funded that very research. I say ‘effectively’ because this is largely due to academic publishing business models, ignorance (or reluctance) on the part of many academics as to how they might go about sharing the research with the ‘rest of us’, and funding agencies that have no requirement for public dissemination of research or may include the requirement but don’t offer any assistance or guidance on how to achieve that end. I do realize that the mandate for your organization is a scholarly interchange. My problem lies less with your specific organization and more with the fact that this ‘gap’ is institutionalized in your mandate.
Cheers,
Maryse
BTW, I gather you didn’t have a chance to look at the About page where I reveal my name (Maryse de la Giroday) and that I’m Canadian, amongst other things.
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