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Call for articles :: Prize Committee :: List of recipients :: About the Patron

The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for its new article prize, Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative and superbly written research in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technology focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.
The Maurice Daumas Prize will be awarded to the best submission of an article on the history of technology published in a journal or edited volumewithin two previous calendar years. Submissions are welcomed from junior and senior scholars of any country, and they can focus to study the technological past of any part of the world.
Eligible to the prize are original published articles in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). If the language of publication is not English, applicants should include a three-page English summary.

CALL FOR ARTICLES

A Call for Articles for 2012 is now available. Your submissions must be postmarked no later than 23 January 2012. Click here to see it online or download a PDF flyer. Feel free to distribute it in your institution and among your friends.

PRIZE COMMITTEE

Anna Storm, Postdoctoral researcher (Chair)
Centre for Baltic and East European StudiesSödertörn University
SE-141 89 Huddinge/Stockholm
Sweden
E-mail: anna.storm@sh.se

Andrew Butrica, Dr.
Research Historians Group
Apt. 913-South
5225 Pooks Hill Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
USA
E-mail: abutrica@earthlink.net

Martina Hessler, Prof.
Department of History
Helmut Schmidt University
Holstenhofweg 85
D-22039 Hamburg
Germany
E-mail: mhessler@hsu-hh.de

Pierre Lamard, Prof.                                                                 
Laboratoire RECITS
L’Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM)
F-90010 Belfort CEDEX
France
E-mail: pierre.lamard@utbm.fr

LIST OF RECIPIENTS

2011: Joseph Masco (University of Chicago) for "Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis"

MAURICE DAUMAS (1910 - 1984) – The French Trailblazer

The history of technology would never have become a prominent field of historical research without energetic pathbreakers. Maurice Daumas was one of them. His broad scientific production include an early work Les instruments scientifiques aus XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles,which gained good reputation and was also published as an English translation.During years 1962–1978, he edited a highly valued history of technology Histoire générale des techniques, 5 volumes, which has been translated into English and Spanish and used as a textbook in various countries. In France, Daumas was also the pioneer of industrial archaeology. Daumas put great efforts to promote the history of technology as a discipline, and he contributed to several societies, journals and conferences. He was also the first secretary general of ICOHTEC and the host of its symposium at Pont-a-Mousson in 1970.
For further information:
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/issue/rhs_0151-4105_1984_num_37_3

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