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Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Awards Scheme The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites applications for its award scheme for 2013. Two types of award are available: support for research into the history of chemistry or history of alchemy by New Scholars and support for Subject Development of either history of chemistry or history of alchemy. The New Scholars Award is open to post-graduate students (both masters and doctoral students) and those who have obtained a PhD within five years of 1 January of the year in which the application is made. Awards of up to £1000 will be made to cover research expenses, including travel, accommodation, subsistence, the reproduction of documents, and library fees. Applications may also include the costs of reproducing images for publication. The scheme will not fund the purchase of equipment or course fees. In addition, post-graduate students only may apply for the costs of travel to conferences and...

  Call for Papers: Visual Illusions - Past, Present and Future Use http://uolmedicalhumanities.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/visual-illusions/ Conference at the Centre for Medical Humanities University of Leicester, United Kingdom 7th June 2013 This conference will examine the medical, psychological, historical and religious use of visual illusions, and their influence on the arts and society. Recent findings that visual illusions can alter brain function and pain have led to insights of how they have been used - whether consciously or not - in arts and religion. Examples of how illusions can benefit in further areas are welcomed for this conference. We also welcome proposals for papers which, through general surveys or particular research of individuals or groups, address topics such as * Visual illusions in medical history and in the literature * Neuroscientific insights into the working mechanism of visual illusions * Insights within the therapeutic u...

I am working with a project that I thought might be of interest to the Science, Medicine and Technology Community. I work for WGBH, Boston in the Media Library and Archive and the Archive has been funded by the Mellon Foundation to work with academic scholars who have interest in utilizing our moving image and sound materials through the course of their research. We hope to increase public awareness of the vast collections that digital repositories hold by publishing our entire archival catalogue online, for open access and use. Placing the catalogue online however is only the first step, as records may be incomplete or misleading. To help enhance the quality of our records, we are inviting scholars, teachers and students to research our catalogue and contribute their own discoveries and findings back to us. There are even limited opportunities there to catalogue and curate an online collection specific to your field of research as part of Open Vault ( http://openvault.w...

IFRIS Call for Applications for Post Doctoral positions http://ifris.org/appels/appel-doffres-bourses-post-doctorales-de-lifris/ Deadline: May 31 2013 4 post-doctoral positions are available at the French Institute Research, Innovation, Society (Institut Francilien Recherche, Innovation, Société) - www.ifris.org

La Faculté de biologie et de médecine de l’Université de Lausanne, Suisse, et le Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV) mettent au concours un poste de Maître d’enseignement et de recherche type 1 à l’Institut universitaire d’histoire de la médecine et de la santé publique Entrée en fonction : à convenir. Taux d’activité : 100%. Lieu de travail : Lausanne, quartier CHUV (chemin des Falaises 1) Profil souhaité : ·        Doctorat en médecine, sciences du vivant, sciences humaines et sociales ou titre équivalent. ·        Expérience substantielle sur le plan de l’enseignement universitaire dans le   domaine de l’histoire et des études sociales de la médecine et des sciences du vivant. ·        Activité passée et présente en recherche (publications, expérience dans la responsabilité de projets de recher...