Prague Summer: Twenty-Seventh Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology

Abstract

Following hard on the heels of the Society for the History of Technology's August 2000 meeting in Munich, the International Committee for the History of Technology held its annual symposium in Prague from the 22nd to the 26th of August. The European Union Council of Ministers of Culture designated Prague as a "City of European Culture" for the year 2000, and the Czech National University and the National Technical Museum organized the ICOHTEC meeting as one of the official "Praha 2000" events. Participants enjoyed the symposium's collegial atmosphere as well as the romantic cityscapes and cultural offerings of Prague.