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The 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

The 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology will be held at the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus, 29 June-5 July 2025.

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Honorary Associate Professor Hugh Richard Slotten, Chair

Slotten is the Chair of the Local Organising Committee for the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology. His areas of expertise include the history of science and technology, media and communication history, and science and technology studies. His most recent book explores the development of the first global satellite communication system: Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). It was awarded the 2022 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Book Award.

Slotten has held appointments at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the Charles A Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum two different times (most recently for the 2022-23 academic year). He has also received grants and fellowships from the United States National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the American Historical Association, the Huntington Library, the Spencer Foundation, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, and the Dibner Foundation.

Slotten was the lead editor of Volume 8 of the Cambridge History of Science Series: Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and the editor-in-chief of the two-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology (Oxford University Press, 2014). His book – Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey (Cambridge University Press, 1994) won an award from the Forum for the History of Science in America of the History of Science Society. Radio’s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States (History of Communication Series, University of Illinois Press, 2009) won a book award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.