8th Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP) meeting
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
21-24 June 2012

We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the 8th
meeting of STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery)
held in Athens, Greece, 21-24 June 2012. It is organized by the
Philosophy and History of Science Department of the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, which in addition to its thriving
graduate program the largest in Greece is, in international
perspective, one of the few university departments offering a BA in HPS.

CFP OPEN:
The deadline for submission of paper or session proposals is 15
October 2011.

Further details about the meeting can be found at
www.cc.uoa.gr/step/?q=3Dnode/505.

The conference will have soon its own website providing more practical
and scholarly details.

STEP (www.cc.uoa.gr/step) is an international group of historians of
science, medicine and technology founded in 1999 by scholars from all
over Europe. STEP organizes biannual meetings to explore the
historical character of science, medicine and technology in regions
and societies on the periphery of Europe and beyond.

We welcome submissions of papers or sessions related to any of the
past STEP meeting themes and to its research groups (a list is
available on the website), but also new ones dealing with the
centre-periphery problematic, and discussions on its significance for
science, technology and medicine. Transnational approaches and those
going beyond the European canon would be particularly welcome.  We
would also be happy to hear suggestions for sessions (but not
individual papers, please) on any other theme that relates to STEP's
interests.

The Scientific Committee:

Anastasia Filippoupoliti (Democritus University of Thrace)
Samuel Gessner (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciencias e
da Tecnologia, Lisbon)
Annette Lykknes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Gisela Mateos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Faidra Papanelopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Eirini Mergoupi-Savaidou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Josep Simon (Université Paris Ouest).