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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG) welcomes applications for one Predoctoral Scholarship Applicants are expected to propose a project related to the research project of the Max Planck Research Group on Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe (Director: Sven Dupré). Projects on optical knowledge in the context of the visual and decorative arts in the fifteenth to seventeenth century are especially encouraged, but all other proposals relevant to Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe will be considered. For more information on the Max Planck Research Group on Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe, please see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/MRGdupre. The proposed research project should result in a doctoral dissertation supervised by Sven Dupré, appointed as professor of history of knowledge at the Free University of Berlin from 1 October 2011. The selected candidate will need to fulfill all necessary conditions for the doctoral p...

University of Liverpool, 2-4 April 2012 Paranoia and Pain: Embodied in Psychology, Literature, and Bioscience (University of Liverpool, 2-4 April 2012) is an international cross-disciplinary conference, seeking to raise an awareness of various intersections of literature and science. The conference aims to explore overlapping paradigms of paranoia and pain in psychology, biological sciences, and literary texts/contexts. How is paranoia related to pain? How is pain expressed with/without paranoia? How are these two terms exposed in various contexts? How does our understanding of the psychophysiology of pain interrelate with literary accounts of paranoia and pain? What does research in the field of paranoia offer to literary studies surrounding this concept and vice versa? To what extent does pain echo paranoia; and is this echo physiological, stylistic, psychological, symbolic, or literal? How do these terms regulate our behaviour and expression of emotions in relation to broader...

La Universidad de Zaragoza, en colaboración con la Université de Pau y el Centro de Estudios y Recursos de la Memoria de las Migraciones de Aragón, organiza en la ciudad de Jaca, entre los días 7 y 9 de septiembre de 2011, el curso “Migraciones y exilios España-Francia”. Información en: http://moncayo.unizar.es/cv/cursosdeverano.nsf/CursosPorNum/34 Un cordial saludo, Víctor Pereira (Université de Pau et des Pays de L´Adour) Roberto Ceamanos (Universidad de Zaragoza)

We are pleased to announce that the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies will be held in Paris, France, from July 2nd to 6th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO. SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL NOW USING THE ONLINE FORMS! The call for papers and organized panel proposals is now open. Check the submission guidelines and submit a proposal using the online forms - session submission or paper submission - before September 30th, 2011. http://www.crossroads2012.org/

Alexandra M. Lord.   Condom Nation: The U.S. Government's Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet.   Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.   xi + 224 pp.   $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-9380-3. Reviewed by Tamara Myers (Department of History, University of British Columbia) Published on H-Education (May, 2011) Commissioned by Jonathan D. Anuik In _Condom Nation_,_ _Alexandra M. Lord explores the Public Health Service's (PHS) often frustrated and many times cowardly and inadequate attempts to eradicate sexual illiteracy in the United States. Over the course of the twentieth century, government officials mounted various sex education campaigns, usually with an ambition to eliminate venereal diseases (VD). Teaching the public how to avoid contracting VD required straight talk about sexuality and ran contrary to political expediency. This resulted too often in campaigns advocating twin lofty and unrealistic goals: chastity and fidelity. S...

The National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and a component of NIH, announces the release of "Medicine in the Americas."   A digital resource encompassing over 350 early American printed books, Medicine in the Americas makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century. Drawing on the collections of NLM's History of Medicine Division and including works from the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, this initial release of Medicine in the Americas encompasses monographs dating from 1610 to 1865. Additional titles, dating up to 1920 and drawing further upon NLM's comprehensive collection of early American printed books, will be available on an ongoing basis in the future. Medicine in the Americas will be of interest to scholars, educators, writers, students and others who wish to use primar...

Arts and Humanities Research Council - Collaborative Studentship ‘Handle with Care: Developing Creative Strategies for “Difficult” Natural History Museum Collections’ School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Museums/Glasgow Life About the Award: Following the award of an AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship, the University of Glasgow, in partnership with Glasgow Museums, is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified applicant for a doctoral studentship for three years commencing on 1 October 2011. Principal supervisor: Dr Hayden Lorimer; 2nd supervisor: Professor Chris Philo.  Glasgow Museums supervisors: Dr Helen Watkins; Richard Sutcliffe. This collaborative doctoral project focuses on Glasgow Museums’ internationally significant collections of birds’ eggs and aims to locate them within their wider cultural and historical settings of collecting, natural history and wildlife crime. Analysing egg collections at Glasgow Museums Resource Ce...

Reminder: the deadline for applications for these awards is 26 May. The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at (CHoSTM) at Imperial College London invites applications for a two 3-year doctoral studentships funded by the AHRC to begin in October 2011. Members of staff of the Centre are highly research active, currently hold a major grant from the Wellcome Trust, and were judged to be the top history department in the United Kingdom in the 2008 RAE. Areas of research strength are history of modern medicine and medical and veterinary science; science and technology in the twentieth century; government and scientific expertise; the military and war; agriculture. Recent alumni of the Centre’s PhD programme hold positions at Birkbeck College, York University, King’s College London, ETH Zürich. For further information about the Centre, visit: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience .   Standard tuition fees and a maintenance grant will be paid by the AHRC...