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 National Academy of Sciences 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. More information & free registration:   http://chaampconference.com/ African American health professionals, from doctors to dentists to nurses to lay midwives to public health professionals, have played a major role in improving the health of all persons in the US, especially those of color; yet little is known about these contributions. This free conference, sponsored by the University of Virginia and hosted by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (2101 Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC) is designed to disseminate resources focusing on the history and impact of African American health professionals, particularly in the 20th century. Speakers will address the need for greater diversity of the health professions and how the learning environment serves as a barrier to achieving this national goal. Educators actively engaged in teaching will describe their program...

Workplace Knowledge and Management Call for papers for an Economic History Network panel ESSHC Vienna, Austria 23 – 26 April 2013 This panel seeks to provide historical perspectives on the management of knowledge workers in the modern period. Technological change plays an essential role in explanations of modern economic growth. While economic historians debate the extent to which formal knowledge contributed to the early stages of industrialization, by the nineteenth century, public and private interests were recognizing the importance of formal knowledge production to promote technological development.   With the creation of industrial research laboratories, organizations became increasingly concerned with promoting and systematizing the production of “risky” as well as “useful” knowledge.   The demand for formally educated workers, engineers, and scientists has not diminished over time and neither has the need of those organizations who employ knowled...

*Nature, Society, and Culture*** A sophisticated and wide-ranging sociological literature analyzing nature-society-culture interactions has blossomed in recent decades.   This new series provides a platform for showcasing the best of that scholarship: carefully crafted empirical studies of socio-environmental change and the effects such change has on ecosystems, social institutions, historical processes and cultural practices. The series aims for topical and theoretical breadth.   Anchored in sociological analyses of the environment, the series will be home to studies that employ a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate the pressing socio-environmental questions of our time – from environmental inequality and risk, to the science and politics of climate change and serial disaster, to the environmental causes and consequences of urbanization and war-making, and beyond. *SERIES EDITOR* Scott Frickel, Washington State Un...

Call for Applications: Two doctoral positions (History of Medicine / History of Science, Berlin / QMUL) Applications are invited for 2 doctoral positions (50-65% E13) to be held for up to four years from 1 October 2013 at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité Berlin, for the research project “Ways of Writing: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950” funded by the European Research Council. Successful applicants will join the ERC research group to complete a seven-person team by focusing on one of the following areas: 1.      Physicians and the Baconian sciences in early modern Europe.   Of particular interest would be projects on writing practices of observation and evaluation at intersections of medical practice, state or local government, the household, natural history and Baconian sciences, “useful knowledge” and the practical arts, trade and materia medica, university or medical corporations, printing and the ...

Call for Applications: Two doctoral positions (History of Medicine / History of Science, Berlin / QMUL) Applications are invited for 2 doctoral positions (50-65% E13) to be held for up to four years from 1 October 2013 at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité Berlin, for the research project “Ways of Writing: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950” funded by the European Research Council.   Successful applicants will join the ERC research group to complete a seven-person team by focusing on one of the following areas: 1.      Physicians and the Baconian sciences in early modern Europe.   Of particular interest would be projects on writing practices of observation and evaluation at intersections of medical practice, state or local government, the household, natural history and Baconian sciences, “useful knowledge” and the practical arts, trade and materia medica, university or medical corporations, printing and the public sphere...