====================== HES POSTING ===================== [Perhaps of interest to some of your students. -- RBE] Mephistos 1997 ****Call for Papers**** Mephistos 1997, the 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference in the Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine, and related fields, welcomes your abstracts and registrations. Purpose of the Conference: Mephistos was created to be an annual forum for graduate students working in diverse areas touching upon the fields of science studies. The conference provides students an invaluable opportunity to share research and discuss topics of concern across a variety of disciplines. Mephistos gives students a low-stress environment in which to present ideas, interact with colleagues, and discover common interests. Therefore, we especially encourage those students working in related fields such as communications and information studies to participate in Mephistos '97. Logistics: The planning committee of MePHiSToS 1997 invites you to sunny California - the first time on the West Coast for Mephistos! The conference will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles from February 20th to 23rd, 1997. Registration fees are $12 (please make your check out to MEPHISTOS). Limited FREE lodging will be available for early registrants in the homes of participating UCLA graduate students on a first-come, first-served basis. Small subsidies for travel expenses will also be available (upon registration, we will be able to confirm the number and amount of subsidies available). Please note that: * 1-page abstracts for 20-minute papers are due December 30, 1996. Please send abstracts to Karen Gracy by e-mail ([log in to unmask]) or by U.S. mail at the address below. * Registration fee due January 20, 1997. * For more information on lodging and transportation, as well as registration via the web, check out the Mephistos website at: <http://scow.gslis.ucla.edu/students_m-z/mephisto/HTML/home.html>. To register by mail: Send your name, institutional affiliation, address (e-mail and U.S. mail), phone number, and whether you want information on housing and travel by January 20, 1997 to: Mephistos Attn.: Karen F. Gracy Department of Library and Information Science GSE&IS Bldg. UCLA Mailbox 951520 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 Mephistos '97 is sponsored by the Department of Library and Information Science of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies of UCLA. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]