HOPOS 2018 letters of interest
HOPOS 2018
The 12th Biennial Meeting of the International Society of the History of Philosophy of Science
Call for Expressions of Interest to Host
The HOPOS Steering Committee invites expressions of interest to host
HOPOS 2018, the 12th biennial meeting of the International Society for
the History of Philosophy of Science. Traditionally, HOPOS meetings
have alternated between Europe and North America but other expressions
of interest have not thereby been precluded from consideration. We thus
invite expressions of interest from potential hosts in Europe and other
suitable locations outside of North America for HOPOS 2018.
HOPOS biennial meetings are held in late June or early July, from
Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday, and are sponsored by one or more
academic institutions. HOPOS meetings attract a thriving international
community eager to hear each meeting’s approximately one hundred and
twenty scholarly talks, including plenary talks from the field’s most
distinguished historians and philosophers. For further information about
past HOPOS meetings, see http://hopos.org/conferences.
Institutions interested in hosting HOPOS 2018 should send a brief (less
than three- page) letter to that effect to Helen Hattab, HOPOS Vice
-President, at hhattab@uh.edu by
January 25, 2016. The Steering Committee will invite full proposals from
selected institutions by February 15, 2016; full proposals will be due
by May 15, 2016. The Steering Committee anticipates selecting a location
for HOPOS 2018 at its June meeting during HOPOS 2016 in Minneapolis/St.
Paul.
Letters of interest should briefly describe the institution’s resources
and experience with respect to the hosting of a four-day conference for
two hundred people, mentioning, for example, the range and quality of
the institution’s conference facilities, its ability to offset meeting
costs via sponsorship or fund-raising, the strength of its HOPOS
community, accommodation options and local resources of interest to
HOPOS members.