The Computer History Museum (CHM) will host a meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Special Interest Group for Computing, Information and Society (SIGCIS) during the weekend of March 18-19, 2017 in Mountain View, California.
Command Lines: Software, Power, and Performance aims to draw together scholars from a variety of fields that study software, including the history of computing, science and technology studies, software studies, code studies, game studies, media studies, the study of women, gender and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity and post-coloniality; network and internet histories; and computer science and engineering. The meeting hopes to explore the connections between the creation and use of software and “power” in multiple senses, and the connection between software and conceptions of technical and cultural “performance.”
Keynote Speakers: Kavita Philip (UC Irvine) and Tom Mullaney (Stanford)
Proposals for papers are due by December 30th, 2016
Full Conference Information
Proposals for short papers (15-20 min.) are sought to present new work at the conference. Work that hinges on, links to, or reacts against the themes of the meeting are welcome, as are submissions that may not connect specifically with the themes but have bearing on the larger project of SIGCIS–the study of computing and sociotechnical change. We especially encourage submissions from graduate students and early career scholars.
Submission Protocol
- a one-page abstract (maximum 400 words) addressing the paper’s topic, approach, sources, and relationship to existing literatures
- a one-page CV
- email your proposal to Conference Assistant kera.allen@gatech.edu (link sends e-mail)
SIGCIS and the Museum will be able to provide partial financial support to graduate students to present at the meeting. Please note in your proposal if you would like to be considered for a travel award.
The event is sponsored by the Computer History Museum’s Center for Software History: www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory
This event is organized by the SIGCIS Conferences Committee:
David C. Brock (dbrock@computerhistory.org (link sends e-mail))
Marie Hicks (mhicks1@iit.edu (link sends e-mail))
Laine Nooney (laine.nooney@gmail.com (link sends e-mail))
Andrew Russell (arussell@arussell.org (link sends e-mail)