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La Universidad de Alcalá ha publicado una convocatoria para la creación de bolsas de empleo de profesorado sustituto en distintas áreas de conocimiento, entre ellas, Historia de la Ciencia . La resolución, emitida el 10 de julio de 2025 por el Vicerrectorado de Planificación Académica y Profesorado, regula el proceso y establece los requisitos para poder participar. Las personas interesadas deberán cumplir los requisitos generales de acceso al empleo público y estar en posesión de una titulación universitaria oficial (grado o posgrado) relacionada con el área. En el caso de titulaciones extranjeras, será necesario contar con la homologación o equivalencia correspondiente. El proceso de solicitud se realizará de forma electrónica. El plazo para presentar solicitudes es de 10 días hábiles desde la publicación de la convocatoria. La información completa, el modelo de instancia, los criterios de valoración y los detalles de la convocatoria están disponibles en la página web de la Univer...

Guest editors:  Gabriel Târziu (LMU Munich) and  Borut Trpin (LMU Munich, University of Maribor and University of Ljubljana) Submission Deadline: 1 December 2025   Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Addressing it requires an unprecedented level of collaboration and engagement between scientists, the public, and policy-makers. A central but underexplored theme in this context is the role of  understanding . The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (2023) emphasizes that proper responses to climate change are facilitated when key actors share a basic understanding of its causes and consequences. But what kind of understanding is needed, and by whom?   This topical collection seeks to examine the multifaceted role of understanding in successfully addressing climate change, focusing on scientific understanding, public understanding, and the epistemic needs of policymakers. We invite contributions that engage with any of these three focal area...

This special issue explores the intersection of ecology and disability. Recognizing the materiality of both human and more-than-human bodies, we invite articles that consider the possibilities afforded by eco-crip theory to examine the marginalizing cultures of normalization, ableism, and speciesism and to positively value wide- ranging understandings, experiences, and contexts of embodied disability and environment. We invite the submission of internationally diverse articles that bring a cultural studies approach to the representation of disability and ecology. Topics may include: representations of tensions, synergies, toxicity, and health of spaces (urban, natural, accessible, etc.) and bodies (human, nonhuman, hybrid) cultural texts that posit the replacement of extractive economic and cultural models that focus on quantitat...

A conference taking place on 20 March 2026 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG, London 9.30 am – 5.00 pm   Deadline for submissions: Friday 26 September 2025   Many long-established learned societies and academic organisations have collections of portraits, and the Royal Society is no exception, with extensive holdings of primary images (such as oil paintings, watercolours, and sculpture busts) and secondary material (including engraved prints and photographs). Very little recent research has been undertaken on such artworks, and what it meant to scientists in this, and in similar collections, to have their images recorded and displayed for posterity.   The Society is interested in how portraits have been created, used and collected by scientists in the course of their work. Most obviously, this may have been for medical purposes (as part of case studies, for example); within images captured as part of expeditions; or for other reasons. Since science...

Call for Proposals: 2026 Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) and History of Science Society (HSS)   Title: Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences Location: University of Edinburgh, Scotland Dates: 13–16 July 2026 Organized by: The History of Science Society (HSS) The European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) With support from The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)   Deadline for submitting proposals:    Friday 1 December 2025, 11:59 pm PST  (Abstract Submission Site to come)   Link to the full Call For Proposals  is available  here

El XXIII Congrés Internacional d’Història de la Medicina Catalana es celebrarà a Granollers, els dies 16 i 17 d’octubre de 2026. L’organització, a càrrec de la Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Catalunya (RAMC) i la Societat Catalana d’Història de la Medicina (SCHM), compta amb el recolzament local de la Filial del Vallès Oriental de l’Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears (ACMSCB).   Des de fa mesos el Comitè Organitzador (CO), el Comitè Científic (CC) i el Comitè de Suport Local (CSL), els membres dels quals s’adjunten en la present circular, estan treballant amb molta il·lusió en la preparació del congrés, que comptarà amb diferents conferències, simposis, taules rodones, sessions monogràfiques i comunicacions científiques, així com amb un programa cultural addicional.   El lema d’enguany del congrés és “ Història, ciència i salut: una trobada amb el llegat mèdic català”  i el seu objectiu és donar a conèixer els estudis històrics més recent...

Priority Deadline: August 15, 2025 Submit to: Robert Lifset at: robertlifset “at” ou.edu The Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Working Groups brings together scholars from around the world in online forum to share their works-in-progress on specialized topics in the history of science, technology and medicine.  https://www.chstm.org/ .  The Energy History Working Group solicits work from within the field of energy history for our 2025-2026 schedule.  Meetings will begin in October and will be held the second Friday of each month at 12:30 EST. Meetings will be held via Zoom.  A full schedule can be found here:  https://www.chstm.org/content/energy-history .  The Energy History Working Group seeks to highlight work that provides new analytical focus for the study of energy and its history. We solicit papers that access the deep linkages between business, labor, and environmental history as well as issues of technological developm...

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers:   Petty Tyranny and Soulless Discipline? Patients, policy and practice in public mental hospitals in England, 1918–1930  by Claire Hilton. Download it free:  https://bit.ly/3ZZ1xva

Intergenerational Justice Journal:  Monash Bioethics Review Guest editor: Romina Rekers Opening date:  01.07.2025 Closing date:  30.11.2025 The development of antimicrobials has historically contributed significantly to human progress. However, their overuse and misuse have led to one of the most pressing global health threats: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). As with climate change, the Global North has benefited more from the past use of antimicrobials, while the Global South bears a disproportionate share of the harms and risks associated with AMR. The distribution of AMR burdens is also shaped by interconnected historical injustices, such as colonization, as well as present-day structural inequalities inherited from that past. At the same time, how the current generation responds to AMR will profoundly impact the health and well-being of future generations. That is why many efforts are now focused on building a sustainable future in the context of AMR. Ac...

Os invitamos a participar en la sesión que organizamos para el X Congreso Internacional de Historia Ferroviaria. Esta sesión lleva por título “La internacionalización de las empresas ferroviarias (siglos XIX-XXI)”. La expansión del ferrocarril conllevó un novedoso desarrollo de conocimiento, tecnología y profesiones que se organizó en estructuras empresariales de nuevo cuño. Este modelo se expandió desde los países pioneros de la industrialización (Gran Bretaña, Bélgica, Francia o Estados Unidos) hacia países y regiones seguidoras (Italia, España, Portugal, América Latina, etc.), y convirtió pronto al ferrocarril en un símbolo de la primera globalización. La amplia movilidad de los factores capital y trabajo fue la impulsora de ese proceso decimonónico, en un marco dominado por la explotación de las redes en manos de empresas privadas. En el siglo XX, con la progresiva nacionalización de las empresas ferroviarias, también se produciría un intenso intercambio de conocimiento y tecnologí...