15 - 19 augustus 2005
WTMC is very pleased to announce that the anchor teacher for the 2005 Summer School is Professor Thomas J. Misa of the Illinois Institute of Technology (www.iit.edu/~misa). Professor Misa is the author of a number of well-known books and articles. His most recent book is Leonardo to the Internet, Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (2004, Johns Hopkins University Press). Together with Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg, he edited Modernity and Technology (2003, MIT Press). His 1998 book, A Nation of Steel, The Making of Modern America, won the Dexter Prize for Best Book in the History of Technology.
While much of Professor Misa's work focuses on the history of technology, he has also written about the (inter)disciplinary nature of STS, comparative methodologies and technology and the city. Professor Misa's interest in understanding processes of socio-technical change will be a useful perspective for everyone concerned with both historical and contemporary cases.
In addition to lectures and workshops led by Professor Misa, the Summer School will include contributions from other scholars in the field. The workshop will be facilitated by WTMC co-ordinators, Sally Wyatt (Summer School contact person, s.m.e.wyatt@uva.nl) and Els Rommes. Further programme details will be available in April.
The workshop will be held in the usual place, Studiecentrum Soeterbeeck (www.kun.nl/soeterbeeck).
WTMC members have the opportunity to register first for the Summer School. We would like to ask you to register early if you are planning to attend. That way, we will know how many places we have for PhD students from elsewhere, and how much more widely we need to extend our advertising.