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Estimados colegas, Esta semana ha comenzado un curso de historia de la biología en el siglo XX en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Campus de Cantoblanco). Las sesiones de las dos próximas semanas, martes y jueves a partir de las 13.00 en la Facultad de Ciencias (aula 403, módulo XIV), aboradrán el desarrollo de la biotecnología, la genómica, y la bioquímica y biología molecular en España (esta última impartida por María Jesús Santesmases). El 4 de febrero a partir de las 16.00 en el Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC (C/ Albasanz 26-28, metro Ciudad Lineal), Sabina Leonelli, del Centro Egenis de Genómica y Sociedad, clausurará el curso con la conferencia "Bioinformatics in the 21st Century". Un saludo, -- Dr. Miguel García-Sancho Research Fellow Department of Science, Technology and Society Instituto de Filosofia Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Calle Albasanz, 26-28 28037 Madrid

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG) offers four six-month predoctoral fellowships for outstanding students in the final stage of completing their dissertations. Dissertation topics should be related to an ongoing research project (see website below) in Department II (Director: Prof. Lorraine Daston). The fellowships are open to doctoral candidates of all nationalities and disciplines, except those who have already received three years of Max Planck Society predoctoral fellowship funding. Department II holds a bimonthly colloquium in English, and candidates are expected to be able to present and discuss their work in that language. Applications, however, may be submitted in German, French or English. Two fellowships run from 1 August 2010 to 31 January 2011, and two others from 1 February to 31 July 2011. Applicants should submit the following materials: 1. Curriculum Vitae and list of publications 2. Brief (maximum 750 words) desc...

VIII Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología “Ciencia y Tecnología para la Inclusión Social en América Latina” Buenos Aires, 16 al 19 de julio de 2010 Primer Anuncio y Convocatoria a Presentación de Trabajos ESOCITE es un espacio que se creó en 1995, cuando se celebró en Buenos Aires la primera reunión de investigadores en el estudio social de la ciencia y la tecnología con alcance latinoamericano.Desde entonces ya se han realizado cada dos años los sucesivos encuentros en Caracas (Venezuela), Querétaro (México), Campinas (Brasil), Toluca (México), Bogotá (Colombia) y Río de Janeiro (Brasil). Ahora, 15 años más tarde, Buenos Aires vuelve a ser el huésped de ESOCITE, con un campo de estudios y con instituciones mucho más consolidados a nivel regional, y con una importante cantidad de jóvenes investigadores que se fueron incorporando a los largo de estos años. Las próximas Jornadas tienen dos desafíos importantes: consolidar defini...

Fully-Funded International Research Scholarships (FIRS) Session 2010/11 Closing Date 29 January 2010 The University of Leeds is offering at least nine Fully-Funded International Research Scholarships (FIRS), which are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from Session 2010/11. The Scholarships will provide full international fees together with a maintenance grant in the region of £13,490 for Session 2010/11. Further information and application forms can be found at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rds/postgraduate_scholarships/firs-info.doc For more information regarding the scholarships contact pg_scholarships@leeds.ac.uk< mailto:pg_scholarships@leeds.ac.uk > For more information regarding research degrees in HPS contact j.r.topham@leeds.ac.uk< mailto:j.r.topham@leeds.ac.uk > ************************** Dr. Jon Topham Senior Lecturer in History of Science Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2...

Summer Teachers Required* *The Oxford Tradition* and *The Oxford Prep Experience* are well established, academically rigorous summer programmes for advanced secondary school students held in Corpus Christie, Pembroke and Oriel Colleges during July.  We invite applications from innovative, motivated teachers in the humanities, sciences and creative arts.  Subjects include: Physics and the Future Pop Culture as Knowledge Archaeology and Anthropology Please check our website for other courses *www.oxbridgeprograms.com* For details of the programmes and specific course offerings, please consult our website.  Applicants should be well-qualified graduates who either have obtained or are working towards an appropriate postgraduate qualification (MSc, MPhil, DPhil).     * Competitive salaries     * Bright, enthusiastic students from all over the world and       predominantly the United States  ...

UNIVERSEUM NETWORK MEETING University Heritage: Present and Future Museum Gustavianum University of Uppsala, Sweden, 17-20 June 2010 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The European Academic Heritage Network UNIVERSEUM would like to announce its 11th annual meeting. UNIVERSEUM invites submissions of papers devoted to academic heritage in its broadest sense, tangible and intangible, namely the preservation, study, access and promotion of university collections, museums, archives, libraries, and buildings of historical and scientific significance. Graduate students are especially encouraged to attend. The main theme of the conference is University Heritage: Present and Future, however papers on other topics are welcomed too. University Heritage: Present and Future Academic heritage institutions  traditional roles are collecting, preservation, research and teaching. Increasingly, they are expected to develop public programs and exhibitions as well as to assume a stronger role ...

Saludos a todos/as, un conjunto de sesiones han estado aprobadas de forma preliminar para ser presentadas en el congreso de la ESHS en Barcelona (18-19 de Noviembre del 2010). He presentado una sesión que trata sobre la introducción i difusión de los tests de inteligencia en diversos contextos locales concretos bajo el título de "Appropriation of mental measurement in different cultural contexts" (Symposium reference: 27) Si alguno de vosostros tiene interés en participar, porfavor, sólo debe enviar un resumen  de la propuesta en inglés antes del dia 25 de enero y miraré si lo puedo incluir en las comunicaciones planificadas. Para saber más sobre el congreso mirad: http://4eshs.iec.cat/entrada.asp?epigraf_contingut=8 Un cordial saludo, Annette Annette Mülberger Centre d'Història de la Ciència (CEHIC) Facultat de Ciències Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona) http://www.uab.es/cehic/ Tel. +34 93 581 13 29

Conference: Have You Ever Seen a Molecule? Art, Science and Visual Communication Thursday, 25 March to Friday, 26 March 2010 Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK CALL FOR PAPERS This interdisciplinary conference concentrates on the correlation between science and art/design, and the impact of the arts and artistic practices on scientific culture. The scientific focus of the conference is molecular biology, in particular structural biology. As any other micro- and nano-scale science, this research is inherently dependent upon visualising objects and data in the production and communication of scientific knowledge. Visualisation is thus an integral part of the understanding and evolution of new scientific concepts and boundaries. Interdisciplinary collaboration in visualising molecular structures lies at the very core of contemporary research processes and products. Bringing art, design and science t...

An der Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften der Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München ist zum nächstmöglichen Termin eine W3-Professur für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Lehrstuhl) zu besetzen. Die Professur vertritt das Fach Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Forschung und Lehre in seiner ganzen Breite. Gesucht werden Bewerberinnen und Bewerber mit einem Forschungs- und Lehrprofil im Schnittfeld von Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissensgeschichte. Erwartet wird die Fähigkeit zur interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit. Diese umfasst sowohl die institutionsübergreifende Kooperation im Rahmen des Forschungs- und Lehrverbunds „Münchner Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte" als auch die engagierte Mitwirkung an dem im Aufbau befindlichen LMU-Zentrum "TransFormationen des Wissens". Einstellungsvoraussetzungen sind abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium, pädagogische Eignung, Promotion und darüber hinaus zusätzliche wissenschaftliche Leistungen, die durch ei...

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Dear Colleagues, please note the following offer for a PhD scholarship. Best regards Matthias Heymann PhD scholarship for a historian of science: The Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, in cooperation with the Department of Science Studies, Aarhus University, and the Rachel Carson Center, Munich, invites applications for a historian of science for the project: ?Exploring the atmosphere: Atmospheric science in times of large scale air pollution and global climate change? Tasks and Goals: Atmospheric and climate sciences have grown enormously in the post-war period. Problems like air pollution, ozone formation and climate change posed great challenges to the atmospheric sciences. New developments in measurement technology, computer technology or aircraft and satellite surveillance, on the other hand, created formidable opportunities for advancing the understanding of atmospheric processes. The Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA) of Deutsches ...

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 2010 Annual Meeting – Tacoma, Washington Call for Papers Deadline: 31 March 2010 The Society for the History of Technology will hold its annual meeting in Tacoma, Washington from September 30 to October 3, 2010. The Program Committee invites paper and panel proposals on any topic in the history of technology, broadly defined. Sessions dealing with non-Western technologies are particularly welcome. Of special interest for 2010 are proposals that engage in themes that resonate with the concerns of the specific locale. These include: Consumption: In the popular imagination, the Tacoma-Seattle area is associated with several important corporate entities (Boeing, Microsoft, Nintendo, Starbucks, etc.) whose goods and services are deeply embedded in global consumer culture. At a moment in time when consumption, sometimes excessive, sometimes globalized, sometimes exploitative, is of great concern to both the public and policy-makers, Ta...

Dear Subscribers: We are pleased to announce the addition of the following new issues to the MUSE database: Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 83, Number 4, Winter 2009 http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm.83.4.html http://muse.uq.edu.au/content/alerts/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm.83.4.html

T he Organizers or the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science has issued a 2nd Circular on its official website: http://4eshs.iec.cat/entrada.asp?epigraf_contingut=8 We also remind that the deadline to submit communications is February 1st. The Submissio Form may also be found on the website: http://4eshs.iec.cat/abstracts.asp Best regards, Miquel Terreu, Technical Coordinator.