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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello INES Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have proposed a session for SHOT 2025 which has the theme, "Technologies of Migration – Migrating Technologies." This annual meeting is scheduled to be held in Luxembourg from October 9 thru
11, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">See: <a href="https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2025-shot-annual-meeting/2025-shot-annual-meeting-call-for-papers/">
https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2025-shot-annual-meeting/2025-shot-annual-meeting-call-for-papers/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have proposed an open
<u>virtual or hybrid</u> session entitled " Early 20th Century Migration of Extraordinary People with Their Unique Technical Knowledge." You can present your paper from your office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please see the attached pdf file and this webpage:
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2025-shot-annual-meeting/open-sessions-list-2025/">https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2025-shot-annual-meeting/open-sessions-list-2025/</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So far, I have presenters for biographies of these gentlemen:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hugh Rose Forbes Mackay (1871-1940), a Scottish-Australian electric power engineer "who set up the electricity department of the Sydney Municipal
Council in 1896 and had more to do with the electrification of the city than anyone else. By all accounts an upright man who could nevertheless play the politicians like a fiddle."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963). Hungarian-American mathematician, (applied) physicist, aerospace engineer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Yes, he's mine.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am looking for one or two more presenters. If you're interested, please send your name, title, affiliation, e-mail address, and a 150-200 word abstract to me on/before March 31, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In lieu of one presenter, I would welcome a commentator if someone who has done historical biographies along the lines of my proposal. Please share with me: your name, title, affiliation, e-mail
address, and a 150-200 word abstract to me on/before March 31, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am looking for a chair. Sure, I can do this (and have done this several times in the past), but I would like to give someone else this opportunity. As a potential participant, please send
me your name, title, affiliation, e-mail address, and a 150-200 word abstract to me on/before March 31, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You're welcome to share this e-mail message with someone whom you know who isn't an INES Member.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Julie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#632423">Julie Mark Cohen, PhD, PE</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#632423">Consulting Structural and Forensic Engineer /
</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#632423">Historian of Engineering Design /</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#632423">Research Affiliate, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#632423"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Tel (518) 782-5235</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Cell (518) 364-0260</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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