Our 48th Annual Symposium will be held as a part of the 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology that will meet from 25 to 31 July 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic (www.ichst2021.org). The main theme of the congress is “Giants and Dwarfs in Science, Technology and Medicine”, but as usually we are open to a wide array of topics.

We offer the following sub-themes for the consideration of session organizers and individual contributors, and welcome proposals on other topics related to the general Congress theme within the broadly defined discipline of history of technology.

1. Gender and Technological Systems
2. Class, Poverty, and Technology
3. Technology Usage by Minorities and Small States in a Global World
4. Migration and Transportation
5. Maintaining Technological Systems, Large and Small
6. Politics, Protest, and Big Technology
7. Technological Teams
8. Global Military Technologies and Societies
9. Art and Play – Technologies and Protest
10. Environmental Change and Energy Systems
11. Assistive Technologies and (Dis)ability Studies
12. Sustainability and Economies of Scale
13. Traditional Engineering and new IT Technologies
14. Workers in Post-industrial Society
15. Medical Technologies