Call for papers: 14th International scientific and practical conference, titled "History of Science and Technology. Museum Studies", which will take place in Moscow, December 10−11th 2020.

URL: (full English version): https://polymus.ru/ru/museum/pros/conference/Conference-XIV-2020/en/

URL: (Russian version): https://polymus.ru/ru/museum/pros/conference/Conference-XIV-2020/

Conference organizers:

• The Polytechnic Museum
• National Research University Higher School of Economics
• Moscow State University Faculty of History
• S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, RAS
• Scientific and Technological Museum Promotion Association (“AMNIT”)

We welcome historians, sociologists, philosophers, culturologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and museum specialists whose interests include the history of science, methodology, and technology in Russia and the Russian Empire from the second half of the 19th century to present. This year we invite you to discuss problems related to the influence the various challenges of our time (climate change, global epidemics, political and economic crises, war) had on the emergence and disappearance of new technological ideas and chains, how scientific directions, schools, theories, and disciplines formed and fell apart.

APPLYING FOR THE CONFERENCE

Applications for participation in the conference are accepted until 20.09.2020, inclusively. Applications sent after the deadline will not be considered. One author may send one application. The application must include a thesis summary of the presentation no less than 2000 and no more than 4000 characters. The organizing committee has the right to refuse applications that do not meet the requirements. Authors will be notified of the committee’s decision before 10.10.2020г. Registration free of charge.

APPLY HERE (

https://polls.polytech.one/zaiavka-na-uchastie-v-ezhegodnoi-konferentsii-istoriia-nauki-tekhniki-i-muzeinoe-delo/)

At the end of the conference a compendium will be released. Thesis summaries included in the programme will be available on the Polytechnic Museum’s website during the conference.

Contact numbers

Organization questions: Tatiana Aleksandrovna Glushkova 8 916−008−12−05; 8 (495) 730 5438, доб.11−86;

Conference programme director: Anna Anatolyevna Kotomina 8 916−008−12−41; 8 (495) 730 5438, доб. 12−36.