The History of Science Society will hold its 2008 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA in the Omni William Penn hotel. This will be a joint meeting with the Philosophy of Science Association. Proposals for sessions, contributed papers, and, for the first time, posters, must be submitted by 1 April 2008 to the History of Science Society’s Executive Office. Papers that are part of a session are due no later than 8 April 2008. Poster proposals must describe the visual material that will make up the poster. The HSS is also exploring the possibility of pre-circulated papers. Please contact the program chairs to discuss this. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged – please go to http://www.hssonline.org.

Submissions on all topics are requested. All proposals must be submitted on the HSS Web site (http://www.hssonline.org) or on the annual meeting proposal forms that are available from the HSS Executive Office. You do not need to be an HSS member to participate, but all participants must register for the meeting. Applicants are encouraged to propose sessions that include diverse participants: a mix of men and women and/or a balance of professional ranks (e.g., mixing senior scholars with junior scholars and graduate students). Strong preference will be given to panels whose presenters have different institutional affiliations. Please note that travel grants, funded by the National Science Foundation, are available for graduate students, independent scholars and junior scholars who appear on the program. Only one proposal per person may be submitted. In order to ensure broad involvement, an individual may only appear once on the program (see the guidelines for exceptions: http://www.hssonline.org/meeting/2008HSSCFPPitt.html). Prior participation at the 2006 or 2007 meetings will be taken into consideration. Before sending a proposal to the HSS Office, we ask that everyone read the Committee on Meetings and Programs’ “Guidelines for Selecting Papers, Posters, and Sessions” (see URL above). The 2008 program co-chairs are Ted Porter (UCLA) and Ken Alder (Northwestern University) . For general questions, please contact the HSS office at info@hssonline.org, 352.392.1677.