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        Date: 2024-03-08 08:13:30+00:00
        From: Arianna Borrelli <anews@WEATHERGLASS.DE>
        Subject: HAPOC Symposium “The Computer in Motion” - final call for expressions of interest

FINAL CALL for expression of interest for participation in the HAPOC
Symposium “The Computer in Motion”

The DHST/DLMPST Interdivision Commission for the History and Philosophy
of Computing (HAPOC) is inviting proposals for participation in the
HAPOC symposium to be held as part of ICHST 2025 conference from 29 June
to 5 July 2025 (https://www.ichst2025.org/). We invite scholars to
present their research on subjects that explore computers and computing
from historical perspectives within the framework of the congress theme
“Peoples, Places, Exchanges, and Circulation”. Computers have always
been on the move between disciplines, nations, communities, cultures,
and social spheres. With each move they adapt to the milieu, and the
milieu adapts to them. The symposium focuses on all forms of computers
in motion, from the most abstract to the most material, from global to
locally situated.

Contributions could address, but are not limited to the following topics:

     • Metadisciplinary ambitions of computerisation; roots and models
of digital humanities; the computational turn in the natural sciences
and humanities.
     • Epistemics, history, and politics of artificial intelligence,
machine learning, and language models.
     • Materiality of data exchange, data sharing and data access, as
well as standards and protocols.
     • Collaboration and/or its failure between computer experts,
international circulation of ideas and appropriation of concepts and
practices between disciplines; politics of computing as well as regimes
of secrecy, censorship, spying, and proprietary ownership that prevent
circulation.
     • Local, national, and international computer networks; global
communication infrastructures.
     • Visioners, founding figures, and hidden figures of computing;
hackers, crackers, gamers, and game-changing technologies.

Submission guidelines:

If you want to be included in the HAPOC symposium as part of ICHST 2025
conference at the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus in New Zealand:

     • Please send us your expression of commitment (title and two
sentence description of your topic: and a brief biography (50-100 words)
to hapoc2025@gmail.com no later than Friday, 15 March 2024. If you
already know whether you can attend in-person or virtually, please let
us know to help us in our planning.
     • The symposium aims at a diversified line-up, with a balance of
age, gender, and geographic backgrounds. Proposals from Early-Career
Researchers are particularly welcome.
     • For now, sending an abstract is not mandatory. Prospective
presenters whose papers get accepted for the symposium will be asked for
an abstract (250 words) after 1 June 2024.

Organizers: Arianna Borrelli, Barbara Hof, and Ksenia Tatarchenko



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