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The Forum for the History of Science in Asia is proud to announce a competition for a best essay prize, to be awarded at the annual HSS meeting. Through a generous donation of an anonymous donor, the Forum will award $250 to an author of an essay that has the best potential to show how the study of the history of Asian science can methodologically contribute to the general field of History of Science, Technology and Medicine. In order to be considered for the prize, please submit an essay   (a recently published or still unpublished article, or a book/dissertation chapter) on the topic of history of science, technology, or medicine in Asia (including South, South-East and East Asia) to fhsasia@gmail.com by October 15, 2013. The essay should be in English, and should not exceed 40 double-spaced pages (not including images). In a separate document please submit a 250-words abstract, or, in case of a book/dissertation chapter, please submit a short overview of the whole pr...

The Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is seeking a          Digital Content Curator Department III Artefacts and Action in Systems of Knowledge Accountable to: Director, Head of Library, Head of Information Technologies Responsible for: communicating with depositors and potential depositors, curating, organizing the uploading, and review of digital and material resources on the History of Science, East Asia; further development of dynamic infrastructure for content management. Tenure: A full time position with tenure, initially for 2 years. Pay Scale: TVöD E13/E14, roughly comparable to assistant/associate professor. (For further reference see http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tvoed/bund/ ) Job Summary: The digital-content-curator will organize the content collection of historical sources on East Asian science and technology in close collaboration with the director of Dep. III, the head of library an...

http://www.northernrenaissance.org/call-for-papers/ Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance: Numbers in Early Modern Writing Submission deadline: 1 December 2013. Estimated date of publication: September 2014 Early modern books are full of numbers, representing both practicality and mystery. The Journal of the Northern Renaissance invites contributions for a special issue exploring numbers in early modern literature and textual culture. How were numbers and numerical techniques used in drama, dance, and music? What were the practical issues arising from printing numerical texts, and how were numbers represented on the page? How were the index and the cross-reference created and used? To what extent would an early modern audience recognize mathematical references in literary texts and performance? Who would buy an arithmetic book and how might they use it? Articles are invited on, but not confined to, the following subject ar...

UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program – Social Sciences Track UCLA invites highly-qualified applicants to the Social Sciences Track of its well-regarded, NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). Trainees in the full-time 8-9 year program will pursue the MD degree concurrently with a PhD in the social sciences field of their interest – History, Anthropology, Sociology, or a related discipline.   They will be prepared to carry out interdisciplinary research studies of medical and health services problems within their cultural, historical, and socioeconomic contexts.   Applicants should indicate their interest in MSTP in their AMCAS application, due November 1, 2013, and will then be asked to submit a supplemental application by December 1.   For more information, see http://mstp.healthsciences.ucla.edu or contact Joel Braslow, MD, PhD, jbraslow@mednet.ucla.edu .

CALL FOR PAPERS Early Modern Women, Religion, and the Body 22-23 July 2014, Loughborough University Plenary speakers: Professor Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins) and Dr Katharine Hodgkin (University of East London) With public lecture by Alison Weir (evening of 22 July, Martin Hall Theatre): ‘“The Prince expected in due season”: The Queen’s First Duty’ This two-day conference will explore the response of early modern texts to the relationship between religion and female bodily health. Scholars have long observed that understandings of the flesh and the spirit were inextricably intertwined in the early modern period, and that women’s writings or writings about women often explored this complex relationship. For instance, how did early modern women understand pain, illness, and health in a religious framework, and was this different to the understanding of those around them? Did women believe that their bodies were sinful? And were male and female religious experi...