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Contents of Issue 19.2 Thematic Dossier: “Small Science: Perspectives on Contemporary Small-Scale Research” Introduction: Why Small Science Xavier Roqué, Gemma Cirac-Claveras Small by Design? Acting, Being, and Feeling Small in the History of Quantum and Mechanical Computation Eóin Phillips Jugaad As Small Science: The ‘e-Rickshaw’ Conundrum in Delhi Shekhar Jain, Saradindu Bhaduri Small Science, Little Fraud? Scale and Misconduct in Contemporary Science Eduard Aibar Is Small Science Cargo Cult? Mimicry, Dependency and Agency in the Margins of Big Science David Aubin Varia Before the “Fascist Labscapes”: Origin and Development of Plant Breeding in Portugal, 1862–1926 Carlos Manuel Faísca Book Reviews William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens Review by Robert Brown José Maria Moreno Madrid; Henrique Leitão, A Longitude do Mundo – Viagens Oceânicas, Cosmografia Matemática e a Construção de ...

Call for Papers for the session "Women, Sacred Landscapes, and Ritual Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean" as part of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in 2026 in Athens in Greece, August 26-29:  Women, Sacred Landscapes, and Ritual Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean The session explores the intersections of gender, movement and sacred space in the ancient Mediterranean by foregrounding women’s active engagement with religious space and cult. Across diverse cultural and ethnic contexts, women carried out acts of devotion that transcended domestic boundaries and reshaped religious environments. For this session, we seek papers examining the impact of female agency on the formation of votive and cult practices beyond household and town settings, from peri-urban sanctuaries and cave shrines to sacred centers and distant dedication sites.  We welcome papers that explore women’s religious identities, practices and offerings and the social r...

Concept Note The ongoing transformations in the education sector, marked by the emergence of new enclosures of knowledge, privatisation and the accelerating AI-turn, have profoundly affected all arenas of ‘intellectual life’. Curricula, pedagogy, modes of research and intellectual labour are undergoing radical transformation both within and beyond the institutional framework of the university. One of the results of this change is the separation of  techne  from  episteme  - between the skills and labour involved in producing knowledge and a reflective understanding of how and why such knowledge is generated. In critically examining the process of knowledge production, circulation, and consumption, within and beyond the academy, it becomes crucial to interrogate how different practitioners contribute to knowledge making, critical thinking, and inaugurate newer forms of engagement. Taken together, these developments indicate that  how we produce knowledge, and how...

The term  Regimescape  refers to urban, architectural, and agricultural landscapes shaped by twentieth-century regimes as material manifestations of political ideology, social engineering, and modernist ambition. As Hannah Arendt observed, totalitarian power extends beyond institutions to the organization of space, nature, and everyday life; in this sense, architecture and landscape become essential instruments of governance and political legitimation. This volume offers a historical-critical reconsideration of these landscapes, moving beyond both celebratory narratives and uncritical erasure. The focus is on cities, monumental districts, infrastructure, land reclamation projects, and agricultural landscapes as sites where politics, technology, and ecology intertwined in meaningful ways, becoming tools of governance, economic development, and symbolic representation. Drawing on James C. Scott’s analysis of state-imposed territorial legibility, the volume investigates how regim...

Se ha publicado el volumen 45, número 2 (2025) de la revista Dynamis. Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam . El número reúne un amplio conjunto de artículos dedicados a la historia de la medicina, la salud y las ciencias en distintos contextos cronológicos y geográficos. SUMARIO  El sumario incluye los siguientes artículos: “La asistencia sanitaria en una comarca valenciana medieval: el Alto Palancia (1401-1531)”, de Joaquín Aparici y Carmel Ferragud; “Itinerarios terapéuticos y espacios de curación en el siglo XVIII: una aproximación histórico-médica a los milagros de Mariana de Jesús”, de Laura Guinot Ferri; “Educação higiênica em Portugal e na América portuguesa no século XVIII”, de Eduardo Traversa; “Abusos, impagos y corrupción en hospitales y otros centros de beneficencia: la prensa y el debate parlamentario de 1821”, de Cristina Teresa-Morales, Diego José Feria Lorenzo y Cristina Ramos Coban; “Rupturas e inicios: las primeras mujeres profesionale...

FEM ciència?, és una iniciativa d’entrevistes a historiadores de la ciència sobre el paper que ocupen les dones a la cultura científica, a càrrec de Mar Rivera Colomer. Aquesta cinquena temporada té el focus en la història de les ciències quàntiques. En total hi 6 entrevistes i una taula rodona disponibles al  canal de YouTube de la SCHCT , i una entrevista per escrit a la  pàgina web de la SCHCT .  – Jimena Canales: “ Los demonios de la ciència no se presentan como antítesis de los Ángeles, sinó que tienen su propio lugar ” [entrevista escrita en castellà] – Shohini Ghose: “ If quantum particles don’t have a specific identity, why are we so obsessed with this rígid binarism? ” [entrevista en anglès, subtitulada al català] – Margriet van der Heijden: “ The commemorations are ocasions in which existint power balances or the existint idees are being reinforced ” [entrevista en anglès, subtitulada al català] – Gisela Mateos González: “ La única manera de estabilitz...

2-3 September 2026,  Spanish National Research Council, Madrid Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers Organisers: ‘Commodities of Empire’ British Academy Research Project, ERC Consolidator Grant WILDHIST, and the AMBTEC project funded by the Spanish State Research Agency. Deadline for abstract submissions: 14 February 2026. The scientific and technological dimensions of commodity history have long attracted attention, with recent work offering comprehensive accounts of the transnational movement of experts, technologies, and scientific ideas. Yet the skills, techniques, and expertise required for resource extraction and processing in and around commodity frontiers remain less thoroughly explored. This workshop seeks to redirect attention to these frontiers of commodity production as sites of knowledge generation, codification and exchange from early modern times to the present. While remaining attentive to imperial, trans-imperial and transnational knowle...

Annual Conference of the  Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte  (gtg) 2026 LWL Museum Zeche Zollern (Zollern Colliery), Dortmund, Germany, 7–9 May 2026 Mines, coal cellars, pipelines, server farms and coffee machines – these are all part of complex energy networks that shape people’s political, economic and cultural activities. Energy sources, their infrastructures and forms of use, energy landscapes and linguistic images of energy shape the material and cultural conditions of human life, are historically changeable, and arise from the interactions between people and the environment. In recognition of these connections, energy humanities has recently established itself as a dynamic field between the humanities and social sciences that examines energy in its material, political, cultural, ecological and technological forms. Whether energy history has the potential to become an independent historical sub-discipline and what consequences this would have for the history of technolog...

After what was a very successful Michaelmas term, we are thrilled to announce our  Call for Papers  for Lent. We welcome presentations on  all aspects of Oceanic and Maritime History across all periods , including (but not limited to): Encounters  - maritime worlds, cross-cultural interactions, the subaltern sea; Spaces  - litoral, coastal, and insular communities, the terraqueous globe, sacred maritime geographies; Exchanges  - migration and trafficking, flows of goods and ideas, maritime knowledge networks; Cultures  - maritime identities, seafaring traditions; Environmental Histories -  human-sea ecologies, oceanic transformations. This is a great opportunity to share completed research or receive feedback on a work-in-progress.  MPhil and PhD students  at all stages, from any institution in the UK or abroad, are encouraged to apply. The workshop will meet for several sessions througho...

The board of the Society for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (GWMT) invites you to the 2026 annual conference in cooperation with the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and the Prague department of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO). The conference will take place 9–11 September 2026 in Prague and will focus on the theme: Epistemic Passages: Knowledge in Translation Taking the opportunity of convening in a city that over centuries experienced has the positive as well as the negative aspects of the encounter of different cultures, confessions, ideologies, or nations, the GWMT annual conference will focus on  scholarly translation practices and their consequences . While translation is usually associated with so-called natural languages, our conference will extend beyond this to include knowledge moving across time, space, ideologies, religions a...