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The Royal Society Centre for History of Science is hosting its inaugural conference on 22/23 April to explore the impact that the Society has had on science in the 20 th century. Both professional historians and professional scientists will be contributing innovative papers across a wide range of themes. The current programme and abstracts, and a registration form for those planning to attend, can be found at http://royalsociety.org/The-Royal-Society-and-Science-in-the-20th-Century/ I do hope you can join us for what promises to be a fascinating couple of days. Peter Collins

The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition Swansea University, 28 June - 1 July 2010 Keynote speakers: Susan Bassnett, David Constantine, Lawrence Venuti This major international conference seeks to reassess the importance of translation for European writers – both well-known and less familiar – from antiquity to the present day. It will explore why authors translate, what they translate and how they translate, as well as the links between an author’s translation work and his or her own writing. There will be almost eighty panels, on topics ranging from ‘Theories of Self-Translation’ and ‘Translation and Creativity’ to ‘Romantic Pseudo-Translation’ and ‘Translating Children’s Literature’. The conference will thus map out the phenomenon of the author-translator in Europe on a large scale for the first time. For full programme and registration, please see http://www.author-translator.net Conference Organizers: Hilary Brown & Duncan Large Department ...

This two-day international conference will explore the nature and rich variety of connections between nationalisms and cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Cities explored include Alexandria, Belfast, Buenos Aires, Budapest, Cape Town, Cork, Cracow, Hong Kong, Kinshasa, Kirkuk, London, Montreal, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, Tel Aviv and Washington. The conference will take place on 17-18 June 2010 at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR. The deadline for registrations is 4 June 2010. The programme and booking form are available at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/941 Olwen Myhill Centre for Metropolitan History Institute of Historical Research Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU +44 (0)20 7862 8790 +44 (0)20 7862 8793 Email: olwen.myhill@sas.ac.uk Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/941

The four Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland experienced the effects of the German invasion in April 1940 in very different ways. Today, we believe that it will be instructive to review the immediate and long-term influences on each country’s self-image and national identity as viewed today. This is the main purpose of the conference. The conference has been structured to enable historians from each country and Nordic scholars to review the last 70 years and to share issues of interpretation and commemoration with each other and their European counterparts. Collaboration, resistance, concessions, and co-belligerency were only some of the short term consequences. Each Scandinavian country’s historiography of the period has undergone enormous changes in the 70 years since the invasion to an extent which is little appreciated and understood outside the countries involved. The organisers intend to publish the papers from the conference in or...

Dear colleagues Below please find a list of the contents of the most recent issue of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 24, No. 1 (Winter, 2010) Dan Malleck, editor in chief. ==================== Essays Opium, the United States, and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Southeast Asia Anne L. Foster "He is an Excellent Doctor if Called when Sober": Temperance, Physicians and the American Middle Class, 1800-1860 Scott C. Martin Recent Dissertations on Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco and Addiction History Jonathon Erlen Retrospective: The Class of 1979 American Alcohol Studies Matures: The Class of 1979, Thirty Years of Reflection David T. Courtwright On Discovering Alcohol History W. J. Rorabaugh American Alcohol Studies Matures: The Class of 1979, Thirty Years of Personal and Historiographical Reflection Amy Mittelman Reflections on a Life Drenched in Alcohol David E. Kyvig Bringing the State Back in (to the Tavern) T...

Call for Paper: HSS Session 2010, Montreal Session Title: Plants and the Evolutionary Synthesis Paper topic needed: Plant Genetics and the Evolutionary Synthesis I am looking for an individual (preferably a graduate student) who is working on a research project that examines plant genetics and the evolutionary synthesis. So far, the session has a paper on paleobotany and the synthesis and plant systematics and the synthesis. The deadline for HSS submission is April 11, 2010, so I will need your abstract by April 1, 2010. Contact information: Dawn M. Digrius, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History/History of Science Stevens Institute of Technology Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 Dawn.Digrius@stevens.edu ---------------------------------- Dawn M. Digrius, Ph.D. Stevens Institute of Technology College of Arts and Letters Assistant Professor of History Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 201-216-5373 ddigrius@stevens.edu

Dear Colleagues, The deadline has been extended to April 15, 2010 for submissions for the 2nd Madison Medicines Conference, “Pharmaceuticals in Historical Context,” to be held 22-23 October 2010. For the original CFP, please see below. Best, Dominique Tobbell ********** Call for Papers Pharmaceuticals in Historical Context The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy invites submissions for the 2nd Madison Medicines Conference, “Pharmaceuticals in Historical Context,” to be held 22-23 October 2010. Pharmaceuticals – whether from natural sources or research laboratories – have been central to the treatment of disease throughout human history. The conference organizers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that address the theme of placing medicines into the social, political, economic, or philosophical context of any era or place using the tools of history. Papers will be presented in plenary sessions over the two days in a workshop-style conference that seek...

I realize this is a last-minute item, but I was hoping to submit my paper proposal to SHOT not as an individual paper (virtually guaranteed to be rejected), but as part of a panel. That being the case, is anyone putting together a session proposal that deals with any aspect of French technology? Technical drawing? Elites? My paper deals with the teaching of technical drawing in France 1800 to 1848 (about), its use along with writing and arithmetic to award scholarships to a panoply of technical schools, and ability in technical drawing as a gateway to the "elite" (merit-based) positions in the French bureaucracy during the same time period. Please contact me off-line at: abutrica@earthlink.net Many thanks in advance, Andrew Butrica Andrew J. Butrica MERCURIANS ANTENNA Newsletter P.O. Box 30224 Bethesda, MD 20824-0224 USA mailto:mercurians@earthlink.net%20www.mercurians.org

I am eager to expand my bench of potential contributors to an edited volume on the eighteenth-century suppression of the Jesuits. My chapter on the suppression in Thomas Worcester’s Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits (Cambridge, 2008) began with a lament: that a satisfactory, modern, English-language account of this most intriguing of historical events is yet to be written. The proposed volume will hopefully bring us closer to this elusive goal. Obvious subjects include but are not limited to: — accounts of the various local suppressions: in France, Spain, Portugal, their satellite territories and overseas possessions. — the papal and curial politics that accompanied the process of suppression — the role of ambassadors in bringing the suppression to fruition — the response of Jesuits to the suppression: perhaps most interestingly, the strategies of survival employed by those who suddenly found themselves to be ex-Jesuits — the popular reaction to the suppression: pol...

The Napoleonic Continental System: Local, European, and Global Experiences and Consequences Location: Amsterdam, NL, International Institute of Social History Date: May 19-21, 2011 Since 2004, several exciting interdisciplinary conferences on the Napoleonic Empire have re-conceptualized the Napoleonic era as a period of intense political, military, social, and economic transformation on the local and European level. This conference will highlight the role of the Continental System in the Empire and beyond. Though relatively neglected compared to other aspects of the Napoleonic Wars and Empire, the Continental System has been interpreted as either “defensive” or “offensive” in nature. Scholars continue to debate its short and long-term consequences for economic development in Europe and North America. Regarded as both an economic and military structure, many scholars note that it became increasingly coercive after 1810. Some scholars argue the System discredited and d...

Call for Papers: Transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic (1876-1939) METU Studies in Development is devoting a special issue to the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic, 1876-1939. The aim of the issue as well as each article is to examine the era of transition as a whole and consider to what extent the period was one of continuity, change or rupture. Contributions are welcomed on a wide range of subjects, such as international politics and foreign policy, historiography, politics, economy, law, gender, urbanization, art and architecture, health, press and migration. All articles will be peer-reviewed. Articles, which can be in either English or Turkish, should be between 7,000 and 10,000 words. Short abstracts of the proposed articles of no more than 300 words should be submitted to the Guest Editors of this special issue, Mustafa Türkes ( turkes@metu.edu.tr ) and Ebru Boyar ( boyar@metu.edu.tr ) by 31 May 2010. The full articles sho...

Se encuentra abierta la convocatoria de trabajos de investigación para el Vol. 2 Nº 1 - Agosto 2010 de Eä – Revista de Humanidades Médicas & Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, revista académica periódica en formato electrónico e interactivo que publica trabajos en el campo de las Humanidades Médicas y Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ISSN 1852-4680). El próximo cierre de la recepción de trabajos será el 15 de mayo de 2010 . La información para autores se encuentra disponible en la sección Información para autores de nuestro sitio web. Cualquier consulta no duden en escribirnos a submit@ea-journal.com . *  *  * Eä se encuentra disponible de forma permanente, libre y gratuita en www.ea-journal.com y busca situarse en la confluencia entre la excelencia académica y el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y las redes sociales. Cuenta con un prestigioso comité editorial, arbitraje internacional y reúne los req...

The Etienne Baluze Prize for European local history rewards a PhD thesis in history that contributes to the knowledge and understanding of the constitution of the European space from a localized perspective. The Etienne Baluze Prize is open to individuals working in any historiographical tradition. It will be awarded for work which makes an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the processes leading to the constitution of European space, including its most recent configurations. Unpublished doctoral theses dealing with the European space between the 14th and the 21st centuries will qualify for consideration. Only theses examined since 2008 are eligible. Languages accepted are English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Applicants must submit an abstract of their work, on paper and electronically, (3-5 pages together with a table of contents), no later than 10 April 2010 to the following address: (Prize Executive :Jean Boutier,Ecole des Hautes Et...

The Modern Global History Program is a 2-year MA program designed for an international student body. It combines the expertise of historians from Universität Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen. Students are enrolled in both universities. Students who are currently studying in the M.A. program Modern Global History come from around the world to advance their studies in a unique international, multicultural and personally rewarding environment. The language of instruction is English. This is a tuition-free program. What This Program Is About: Have you ever asked yourself…When did globalization begin in Asia? How did migrants’ experiences in the 19th century differ from those of the 20th century? Why is Latin American history part of the history of the “West” and to what degree does it differ from it? How did the sciences influence colonialism and how did colonialism impact on the sciences? What is the difference between global history and the history of globalization...

Estimados amigos y colegas, Antíteses anuncia la publicación de su Vol. 2, número 4, de jul-dez de 2009, con 21 colaboraciones de autores brasileños, argentinos y de un portugués. La novedad del momento son los 2 artículos traducidos al inglés. Invitamos a todos a navegar por el sumário da revista para conocer los artículos. Esta invitación también es extensiva al Ahead of Print del Vol. 3, n. 5, correspondiente a jan-jun de 2010, con colaboraciones de autores argentinos, mexicanos y brasileños. Igualmente informamos que está abierta la convocatoria para el Dossiê “Diálogos Europa América. Pasado y presente”, coordinado por la Dra. Gabriela Dalla Corte Caballero, Profesora Titular de História de América en la Universitat de Barcelona, correspondiente al Vol. 4, n. 7, jan.-jun. de 2011; así como aceptamos otras colaboraciones en flujo continuo. Agradecemos a todos que, de múltiples formas, nos auxilian para el crecimiento de la revista. Colocamos en el final...

Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, is looking for applicants for two new positions as asst./assoc. professor in medical science communication and medical heritage production, respectively. Medical Museion is an integrated research and museum unit for promoting medical science communication based on the material and visual medical heritage. The research profile is centered around the contemporary history of the biomedical sciences, medical science communication studies, and studies of the production of the material and visual medical scientific heritage. The museum has a world-class collection of historical medical artefacts and images, an active program for the acquisitioning and preservation of the contemporary biomedical and biotechnological heritage, a permanent medical-historical public gallery, and an innovative temporary exhibition program. The museum is looking for two new members of faculty to contribute to our integrated research, teaching, heritage and outreach p...

The Excellence Cluster 264 "TOPOI - The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations", which has been set up in the framework of the Excellence Initiative at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is offering 3 doctoral stipends (DS/WiG/01.2010) in various aspects of "Wissensgeschichte”, concentrating on the Near East from Antiquity through Middle Ages. Possible fields of study will include: Cuneiform medicine and magic comprising healing therapies from Mesopotamia. Babylonian science represented in the Babylonian Talmud. Medieval Arabic and Hebrew traditions on astronomy/astrology and cosmology. Information regarding proposed projects, expected profile of candidates, amount of stipend and supervising research group can be found on the internet ( www.topoi.org ). Support for the doctoral students lasts for up to three years (two years plus one after evaluation). The stipend is to b...

Sabanci University, Istanbul - Faculty Position in Science, Technology and Culture Position Type: Assistant Professor Submitted: Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 Main Category: General Social Sciences Secondary Categories: Philosophy The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancý University, invites applications for a faculty position in social and cultural dimensions and politics of science and technology. The position is open as of September 2010 to mid-career candidates as well as candidates who have recently completed their Ph.D or are near completion. We seek a scholar with a strong publication potential and excellent research record, good grounding in the philosophical debates in science and technology as well as social and cultural theory, and a desire to contribute to an interdisciplinary scholarly environment. Candidates must be committed to high standards in teaching general introductory courses as well as more specialized, upper level courses. Applicants ...

Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, is looking for applicants for two new positions as asst./assoc. professor in medical science communikation  and  medical heritage production , respectively. Medical Museion is an integrated research and museum unit for promoting medical science communication based on the material and visual medical heritage. The research profile is centered around the contemporary history of the biomedical sciences, medical science communication studies, and studies of the production of the material and visual medical scientific heritage. The museum has a world-class collection of historical medical artefacts and images, an active program for the acquisitioning and preservation of the contemporary biomedical and biotechnological heritage, a permanent medical-historical public gallery, and an innovative temporary exhibition program. The museum is looking for two new members of faculty to contribute to ou...