Reparando / Repair in the History of Technology
Our 51st Annual Meeting will be held in Viña del Mar, Chile, from 9 to 14 July 2024. For the first time in three decades, the meeting will be held in conjunction with the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Join us in celebrating this reunion! The conference will be bilingual, in English and Spanish.
The technological environments we inhabit require continual repair and maintenance in order to function. Yet the people on whom such repairs rely—along with their knowledge and labor—too often remain unseen and undervalued, becoming visible only in cases of infrastructural breakdown or spectacular disaster. The routine invisibility of repair facilitates grand proclamations of technological solutionism, distracting from the requirements for living equitably in an increasingly fragmented and fragile world.
How does our understanding of the history of technology change when we center repair and maintenance? Such a shift involves highlighting users and experiential knowledge. It opens up conceptions of what counts as technological knowledge and who counts as technological actors. Such themes have lurked in our field for some time, mounting in scale and significance over the last decade. Repair is now part of our vocabulary, here to stay. The time has come to make it the thematic core of our annual meeting.
ICOHTEC-SHOT Winter PhD School
Escuela de Doctorado de Invierno ICOHTEC-SHOT
Kranzberg Lecture by Sławomir Łotysz
Due to the special nature of the 2024 conference, ICOHTEC has decided to feature a second keynote, which will be delivered by Antoni Roca-Rosell.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
Call for Papers in English / Convocatoria en Español
Official conference website (submission system is open)
Travel grants
Open sessions (find session/panelist)
How to get to Viña del Mar?
Getting from the Santiago airport to Viña del Mar is easy, one-hour bus ride, and we will have teams at the airport to welcome and guide people to the bus during the most common arrival days. We will post information about lodging and transportation during the conference as soon as possible.
Two of the conference rooms will be streaming each day. If there’s a hybrid component to your sessions, please indicate the relevant details in your submission.
Programme Committee
Diana Montaño (SHOT, Washington University in St. Louis, USA) – Chair
Magdalena Zdrodowska (ICOHTEC, Jagiellonian University, Poland) – Associate Chair
Itty Abraham (SHOT, Arizona State University, USA)
Damir Galaz-Madakovic Fernandez (Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile)
Letícia Galluzzi (ICOHTEC, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Veronica Ramirez (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)