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        Date: 2025-03-12 16:39:33+00:00
        From: Phil Loring <Phil.Loring@TEKNISKMUSEUM.NO>
        Subject: CfP ARTEFACTS 30: Care and Repair

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ARTEFACTS 30, CARE AND REPAIR

With pleasure, Norsk Teknisk Museum <https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/>
(the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology) announces that the next
and 30th meeting of ARTEFACTS will be held in Oslo, Norway, *12–14
October 2025*.

ARTEFACTS is an international network of academic and museum-based
scholars of science, technology, and medicine, who share the goal of
promoting the use of objects in research. The consortium was established
in 1996 and since then has held annual conferences examining the role of
artefacts and collections in the making of science and technology and
related areas. See
https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/our-work/research-public-history/artefacts-consortium

The theme of the 2025 meeting is CARE AND REPAIR, and we encourage
proposals (see formats below) concerning how erosion, breakdown, and
maintenance, instead of progress and innovation, can be starting points
for research. What are the limits of our fragile world, and what work
does caring do? We characterize ‘care and repair’ broadly, encompassing
objects, people, and environments, but all proposals should have a focus
on the material culture of science, technology, and/or medicine.

In keeping with the theme, we especially encourage proposals from museum
conservators, as well as those who care for museum communities. These
could potentially be joint submissions with other museum practitioners
and scholars. ARTEFACTS conferences are friendly and informal meetings
with the character of workshops. There is plenty of time for open
discussion and networking.

Examples might include, but are not limited to:

   * _Conservation and restoration of technoscientific heritage_;
     “stubborn” objects, those which require persistent care and repair;
     challenges while taking care of technoscientific collections…
   * _Working__with communities on technoscientific heritage_; forgotten
     stories of care and repair; amateurs and enthusiasts, the maker
     movement, and do-it-yourself (DIY) culture...
   * _The sustainability of technoscientific heritage_; practices of
     repair leading towards more sustainability; making things last;
     waste and reuse; the afterlives of technoscientific heritage...
   * _Historical perspectives on technology and repair_; the shaping of
     technology through practices of repair; how repair practices have
     changed over time; lost expertise / knowledge / skills; the
     lifespans and persistence of technology; technology’s manifold
     temporalities...
   * _Care and the medical humanities_; care /versus/ repair, with regard
     to hierarchies of expertise in healthcare; caregiving and the
     difficulties of providing and receiving care; ethical dimensions of
     care and maintenance; how caregiving has changed over time...

Please remember that the focus of presentations should be on artefacts.

This time, ARTEFACTS is experimenting with two tracks for submissions:
(1) works to be considered for publication (a pre-circulated paper and a
longer presentation based on the paper) and (2) works-in-progress
(shorter presentations without a paper). Abstracts for track 1 should be
500-1000 words; abstracts for track 2 should be 200-300 words. They
should be accompanied by a 75-word author biography and sent to
artefacts@tekniskmuseum.no <mailto:artefacts@tekniskmuseum.no>by *15 May
2025*. We aim to notify accepted participants by 5 June 2025.

Registration will open formally when the program is announced in June,
but in the meantime informal queries should be directed to
artefacts@tekniskmuseum.no .



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