[Histport] CfP (2nd Circular) - Plastics Heritage Conference, May 2019 - Lisbon, Portugal

[Maria Elvira Callapez Callapez <mariaelviracallapez@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

 

We are pleased to update the announcement for the Call for Papers for the Plastics Heritage: History, Limits and Possibilities Congress, to be held on May 29-31 2019 at Museu da Famácia (Pharmacy Museum) in Lisbon, Portugal.

 

Provisional link: http://ciuhct.org/plasticsheritage2019/

 

Please see below the Proposal Guidelines and a list of suggested hotels.

 

Deadline for session proposals: 30^th August 2018;

Deadline for paper proposals: 15^th November 2018.

Please consult the guidelines, below.

 

Call for Papers

We are living in a time of increasing dependence on and encounters with synthetic materials, such as plastics, in our day-to-day life.

The Plastics Heritage Congress 2019, which general theme is "Plastics heritage: history, limits and possibilities” intends to emphasize the synthetic material’s "plasticity" that makes them crucial in today’s globalized world and to understand the chameleon capability of plastics, their limits and possibilities.  

This congress aims to address plastics history and heritage by encouraging papers that contribute to a deeper understanding of the socioeconomic culture and material culture of historic polymeric materials (HIPOMS) in their various representations and functions in society.

The main theme embraces the concepts of history, limits and possibilities of plastics heritage as organizing principles, thus perceiving their impact on the consumer and their technical and scientific developments. The programme committee suggests the following non-exhaustive sub-themes for contributors of individual papers, and posters:

·Plastics history (historic polymeric materials [Hipoms] manufacturing, engineering, companies)

·Plastics heritage (Hipoms in art, design, everyday use, technical objects and architecture)

·Collecting Hipom objects

·Conservation of Hipoms  (artefacts, technical heritage, material characterization)

·Documentation and reproduction (archives, data bases, digital scanning, 3D-printing etc.)

·Plastics limits (degradation, waste problems, environmental impacts, history of social interactions)

·Plastics and emotions: impact on consumers and design personalisation.

All proposals must be in English. For advice on preparing your submission and the conference presentation, please consult the guidelines.

In addition to the scientific programme, the congress will include social events.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals must include: (1) a 200-350-word abstract; and (2) a one-page CV.

Abstracts should include the author’s name and email address, affiliation, a short descriptive title, a concise statement of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and a summary of the major conclusions.

If you are submitting a paper proposal dealing with a particular subtheme, please indicate this in

your proposal.

 

In preparing your paper, remember that presentations are not full-length articles. Depending on the number of papers in the session, you will have no more than 16-20 minutes to speak, which is roughly equivalent to six – eight double-spaced typed pages. For more suggestions about preparing your conference presentation, please consult the guidelines at the conference website.

Contributors are encouraged to submit full-length versions of their papers after the congress for

consideration by Journal of Plastics History e-plastory. http://www.dg-kunststoffgeschichte.de/e-plastory/index.php/e-plastory

 

SESSION proposals must include (1) an abstract of the session (200-350 words at maximum), listing the proposed papers and a session chairperson; (2) abstracts for each paper (200-350 words); (3) a one-page CV for each contributor and chairperson. Sessions should consist of at least one set of presentations – but no more than four time slots of 90 minutes – and they may include three or four papers in each, which might extend series of successive sections over more than one day. Proposing a commentator – instead of the fourth presenter – is also possible. The programme committee reserves the right to relocate papers to different themes and add papers to sessions. We also encourage proposing roundtables and other "untraditional" as well as experimental session formats. Whatever the session format will be, organisers and chairs are expected to reserve enough time for general discussion between the presenters and audience.

 

POSTER proposals must include (1) a 200-350-word abstract; and (2) a one-page CV. Abstracts

should include the author’s name and email address, a short descriptive title, a concise statement

of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and a summary of the major conclusions. Please,

indicate one of the specified subthemes for your poster.

 

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

 

The final deadline for session proposals is 30^th August 2018 and for individual paper proposals is 15^th November 2018.

 

Proposals should be sent electronically (as a pdf file) to Guenter Lattermann (guenter.lattermann@uni-bayreuth.de), the chair of the programme committee or Maria Elvira Callapez (mariaelviracallapez@gmail.com), co-chair.

 

1 June 2018	Submission of sessions proposals opens
30 August 2018	Submission of sessions proposal closes 23.59GMT
01 September 2018	Submission of individual paper proposals opens
01 November 2018	Acceptance/rejection of session proposals announced
15 November 2018	Submission of individual papers proposals closes at 23.59GMT
07 January 2019	Acceptance/rejection of individual paper proposals announced
15 January 2019	Draft programme published and opening of Early Bird registration
3 March 2019	Late registration
4 April 2019	Draft final programme issued
17 April 2019	Publication of final programme
30 April 2019	Final deadline for registration

 

Accommodation suggestions in Lisbon

(Here: http://ciuhct.org/plasticsheritage2019/ )

Looking forward to meeting you at Plastics Heritage Congress 2019, Portugal.

 

With best regards,

Maria Elvira Callapez

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