Midwest Junto for the History of Science

Announcement

The fifty-first annual meeting of the Midwest Junto of the History of Science will be held at the University of Minnesota, 4-6 April, 2008. Short papers (15 minutes) on any topic in the history of science, technology, and medicine are welcome. A short abstract (one page) should be submitted by 15 February 2008 to the program committee: Jole Shackelford, Program for the History of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Box 506 Mayo, 420 Delaware St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Abstracts sent as attachments or embedded in e-mail should be sent to: shack001@umn.edu.

Registration response: 1 March, 2008. We need a good idea how many people to order stuff for, esp. the banquet. So, please be attentive. Deadline for getting the Junto special rate at the Days Inn ($65/room/night): 4 March, 2008. After this date, the Days Inn will release the block of rooms it is holding. For more detail on hotel options and to register for the Junto, please see the registration form. If you have any questions, please contact Junto secretary Peter Ramberg at ramberg@truman.edu or Minnesota organizer Jole Shackelford at shack001@maroon.tc.umn.edu.

About us

Oklahoma's Duane Roller, Wisconsin's Robert Siegfried and Kansas's Robert Schofield founded The Midwest Junto for the History of Science more than a half century ago to provide a professional forum for themselves, students and like-minded individuals unable to afford travel to a national professional meeting. It continues to serve as a central meeting place for persons living in the middle of the country and beyond. The organization meets annually in spring and is particularly receptive to persons without extensive experience presenting their research to national professional historical organizations. It welcomes work in the history of medicine and the history of technology as well as the history of science. The Midwest Junto retains its founders' vision that it should be informal and loosely organized. The time and place for the Junto's annual meeting is rarely set more than a year in advance. The organization caters to no time period or place. Papers themselves are limited to about fifteen minutes in duration.

The Call for Papers is generally issued after the first of the year. Dues are $2/year paid at the annual meeting. Graduate students receive the cost of one night's lodging (double occupancy) at the convention hotel if they deliver the fruits of their research at the meeting.

The Junto has recently inaugurated a Stuart Pearson Memorial to remember one of its most loyal members. Stuart dutifully traveled to the Junto meeting yearly from his home in Newfoundland. Rarely did he fail to offer a paper that was great fun and greater insight.

Current Junto Officers

President: Alan Shapiro
President-elect: Bill Ashworth
Council: Tom Broman, David Cahan
Secretary-Treasurer: Peter Ramberg