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Fellowships at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering a one month research fellowship, to be held in 2016, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of 4,400 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in three areas: early modern medicine, early modern history of science and, given that Worth was a connoisseur book collector interested in fine bindings and rare printing, the History of the Book. Research does not, however, have to be restricted to these three key areas. Further information about the collection and our catalogues may be found on our website: http://www.edwardworthlibrary. ie/Home-Page The closing date is Monday 4 April 2016. For further details and application procedures please contact: Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, The Edward Worth Library, Dr St...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  July 26, 2016 to July 30, 2016 Location:  Portugal Subject Fields:  History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Extended deadline for the ICOHTEC Symposium 2016 : Porto : Portugal : 26-30 July. Submission Deadline: February 08, 2016 Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability: Historical and Contemporary Narratives Innovation and sustainability have become key words of our everyday life, extending from political and economic discourse to teaching curricula and from the lay public to academia. However, the use of these terms is often abstract and simplistic, ignoring the density of their interrelationships in different geographic, historical and civilizational contexts, and the boomerang character of today’s world. The 43 rd ICOHTEC meeting aims at addressing this complex relationship by encouraging papers that contribute to a deeper understanding of the multilayer cultural and material built m...

Type: Call for Papers Date: February 12, 2016 Subject Fields: Environmental History / Studies, Health and Health Care, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Cfp: Epidemics as technologies Session proposal for ICOHTEC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 23 to 29 July 2017 Chair: Prof. Mikael Hård Session organizers: Catarina Caetano da Rosa and Nils Kessel Deadline: February 12, 2016 Epidemics are recurrent phenomena in history. They transgress borders, move across time and space and affect different forms of life – both literally and metaphorically. Each epidemic disease poses specific challenges to societies such as Zika today. Hence, epidemic diseases and threats are perfectly suited for being analyzed in a global history perspective.[1] The scholarship on the history of epidemics is rich. Whereas many studies come out of the history of medicine and the social and political sciences, the prop...

Just a brief reminder that the deadline for the next round of research grants from the Scientific Instrument Society (SIS) is Tuesday 1st March 2016.   The SIS awards small grants, of up to £500 each, for research on the history of scientific instruments. Applicants do not need to have any institutional affiliation and applications that are for less than the full amount are just as welcome - a properly costed proposal with a clear relevance to the Society's interests in historic scientific instruments, a realistic timetable and a tangible result are the most important factors that the committee will be considering.   Please note that the grant awarded will be paid against actual expenditure and funds cannot be paid in advance.  The grant is intended to cover items such as travel, accommodation (excluding meals) and photocopying costs.   Please note that we cannot fund conference travel or contribute to the cost of outreach projects such as e...

Please consider using the IsisCB Explore History of Science Index ( isiscb.org/explore ) for your research, and encourage your library or department to add it to their list of resources. Accessible to anyone on the web, IsisCB Explore is a completely open access service made possible by the History of Science Society with support from the University of Oklahoma. IsisCB Explore opens up bibliographical research in the history of science, technology, and medicine. It is designed for students, scholars, librarians, and the general public. Users will find the data architecture intuitive and powerful, and librarians can trust that it will guide researchers to the best literature in the discipline. Based on the 100-year-old Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science —the largest and most comprehensive in its field—it is supported by the discipline's flagship society, the History of Science Society. It will be expanded and updated annually. Key features include...

Call for Papers: “Matter and Perception” Special Issue of Early Science and Medicine     Early Science and Medicine is seeking contributions for a special issue on “Matter and Perception”   Guest editors: Michael Deckard and Doina-Cristina Rusu Deadline: 1st of August 2016   The origins of thinking about matter in early modern Europe did not begin with Francis Bacon, René Descartes, or Anne Conway, but these thinkers formulated systems of matter that replaced Aristotelian form. The characteristics of matter began to be measured, studied, observed, anatomized, or imbued with life, essentially replacing form as an explanatory principle. This development in the history of philosophy, science and culture has been told in different ways, depending on from what perspective the story is based. One way of telling it is to look at the English experimental background starting with Bacon and continuing through Boyle, Newton, and the Royal Society. Another sto...

Please find below the call for contributors to our session on epidemics as objects of technological intervention at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST/ICOHTEC call) The deadline for proposals (250 words + CV) is February 12, 2016. Cfp: Epidemics as technologies Session proposal for ICHST/ICOHTEC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 23 to 29 July 2017 Chair: Prof. Dr. Mikael Hård Session organizers: Catarina Caetano da Rosa and Nils Kessel Deadline: February 12, 2016 Epidemics are recurrent phenomena in history. They transgress borders, move across time and space and affect different forms of life – both literally and metaphorically. Each epidemic disease poses specific challenges to societies such as Zika today. Hence, epidemic diseases and threats are perfectly suited for being analyzed in a global history perspective.[1] The scholarship on the history of epidemics is ri...

The University of Manchester, School of Environment, Education and Development, Geography. 28 October 2016 Water is a quintessential component for life and for the development of societies. Water is also an irreplaceable and transient resource, which crosses political boundaries in the form of rivers, lakes and groundwater aquifers. Due to its unique nature, governments tend to perceive and portray water as a national asset constituting an integral part of “the homeland”. Just like space, territory and society can be socially and politically constructed by a national elite to assert its power (Swyngedouw, 2007). This is also the case for the management of water resources. As a result, the construction of a large hydraulic infrastructure, such as for instance a major dam or a canal, can be surrounded by a rhetorical discourse that emphasises its contribution to a prosperous future and to the realisation of national goals while nurturing national development and pr...

Postdoc position History of Eighteenth Century Medicine (0,7 fte) (1 April 2016 - 30 September 2017). University of Groningen (NL) The Center of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, welcomes applications for an 18 month Postdoc position (0,7 fte) to conduct research in the history of Boerhaavian medicine in the eighteenth century. The postdoc project is embedded in the project “Vital Matters. Boerhaave's Chemico-Medical Legacy and Dutch Enlightenment Culture”, supervised by Dr. Rina Knoeff. For the job vacancy, see: http://www.rug.nl/about-us/ work-with-us/job- opportunities/overview? details=00347-02S0004TDP

Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero” ( IHMC ) University of Valencia Palau de Cerveró, Plaça Cisneros, 4. 46003-València SPRING 2016 SEMINARS More details: http://goo.gl/T1k9Ir G eneral outline of the 2016 IHMC Spring Seminars February: "Identities and identifications: Past & Present" March: Conference "The Languages of Science" 30 March-2 April: 2016 ESSHC, Valencia. April: "Women, children and health A transnational perspective." April 30: "Science, history and gender" May: Seminar Canguilhem May: Symposium Science and Art «Identi ties and identific ations : Pas t & Pres e nt» (Online streaming: encuentro.uv.es/hc...

We are seeking a post doctoral fellow in Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science broadly conceived.  We are especially interested in philosophers concentrating on one (or more) of the special sciences (biology, physics, psychology, neuro-science, etc.), and/or the history and philosophy of the science (or sciences) in question.  But we shall also consider applicants doing methodological work in general philosophy of science, including formal work in logic, probability, or epistemology in connection with such methodological issues. The appointment term is September 1, 2016-August 31, 2017.  The initial term may be renewed for an additional year.  Applicants must have completed all requirements for their PhD by June 30, 2016.  Candidates must also be no more than 3 years from the awarding of their degree (i.e., September 2013). The application deadline is March 11, 2016 (5:00 pm Pacific Standard Time). Stanford University is an affirmative actio...

la redacción de Panace@ anuncia que el próximo número monográfico, que se publicará en diciembre de 2016, coordinado por Isabel García-Izquierdo y Vicent Montalt, estará dedicado al tema La comunicación escrita para pacientes . El objetivo de este número es reflexionar acerca del funcionamiento de los procesos de comunicación escrita, tanto en contextos monolingües como multilingües, que afectan a la interacción entre pacientes y profesionales sanitarios en contextos clínicos.  En este monográfico se abordarán aspectos como los siguientes: Funcionamiento de géneros textuales concretos en contextos específicos Traducción heterofuncional y adaptación para pacientes Aspectos cognitivos como la legibilidad y la comprensibilidad Aspectos culturales que afectan al proceso comunicativo Aspectos emocionales relacionados con el proceso comunicativo Aspectos institucionales sobre la gestión de la información y la comunicación para paciente...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  February 29, 2016 Subject Fields:  Anthropology, Health and Health Care, Social Sciences, Sociology Dear Colleagues, The International Review of Social Research ( www.irsr.eu ) seeks for articles for a special issue on food and culture to be published in May 2016. We are interested in an extended spectrum of research themes, mostly including: food, identity and social change, food heritage and culinary practices, marketing and food markets, quality of food and health issues , the politics of food production and consumption, food security: issues of quantity and quality, food safety regulations and standards, etc. Some possible topics of the articles can be related to food and group identity: food as manifestation of cultural origins and influences food as transmigration, diaspora and de-colonialism, food and ritual, the histories of food; repasts of the past, food at the interface with class and culture, and so...

Huygens ING and the Scaliger Institute (Leiden University Libraries) present an ‘edition-in-progress’ of the correspondence of Carolus Clusius, using the collaborative editing tool eLaborate. Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) was one of the central figures of the so-called botanical renaissance of the sixteenth century. His vast correspondence has already gained considerable attention from biologists and historians, but a complete edition was never realized.   Huygens ING and the Scaliger Institute made a big step towards a complete digital edition of the Clusius correspondence by assembling and digitizing all existing transcriptions of the letters in eLaborate (an online transcription tool developed by Huygens ING). The work now includes metadata belonging to all known 1600 letters, scans of 1170 letters and transcriptions at different stages of completion of almost 1000 letters. Most of these are written by Clusius and a range of persons from all social layers ...

"Science and the city" has become a trending topic in recent historiography, both in history of science, technology and medicine (STM) as well as in Urban Studies. So far there has been a strong focus on the metropolis and their multifaceted scientific culture. Yet what about "peripheral cities" in Eastern and Southern Europe? Are they only smaller copies of London, Paris and Berlin? What is to be gained from studying the scientific culture of "non-metropolitan" cities? So far these cities have been described as being on the receiving end.-Knowledge in STM, blue prints for scientific institutions, urban models and other practices were created and tested in the metropolis and then passed on. This postulates a transfer from the center to the periphery and hence a clear epistemological hierarchy. The double workshop, organised in Germany by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Germany) and in Spain by the Institució Milà ...

ICOHTEC Symposium 2016 : Porto : Portugal : 26-30 July Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability: Historical and Contemporary Narratives Innovation and sustainability have become key words of our everyday life, extending from political and economic discourse to teaching curricula and from the lay public to academia. However, the use of these terms is often abstract and simplistic, ignoring the density of their interrelationships in different geographic, historical and civilizational contexts, and the boomerang character of today’s world. The 43 rd ICOHTEC meeting aims at addressing this complex relationship by encouraging papers that contribute to a deeper understanding of the multilayer cultural and material built meaning of innovation and sustainability and on the various roles played by technology in enabling or preventing such interplay. The symposium covers all periods and areas of the globe. We invite submissions of new, original and unpublished work that ...

As you may have seen on our blog and Twitter the Wellcome Library is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence: http://blog.wellcomelibrary. org/2016/01/wikimedian-in- residence-at-the-wellcome- library/ For a bit of background on what Wikimedians do on their residencies have a look here: https://outreach.wikimedia. org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_ Residence If you’d like any more details about the Residence please feel free to contact me directly via email. The closing date for applications is February 12th. All the very best for now! Phoebe Phoebe Harkins Communications Co-ordinator Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE T: +44 (0) 20 7611 8628 M: +44 (0) 7739 194907

Fourth European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS) Function and Malfunction in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and the Social Sciences Klosterneuburg, September 5–9, 2016 Directors: Jean Gayon (Paris) – Alvaro Moreno (San Sebastian)  Co-organizing institutions  * Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter * IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind & Society, University of the Basque   Country, San Sebastian * Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology   (IHPST), Paris-1 Sorbonne * Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover * Faculty of Sciences and Department of Philosophy/Faculty of   Humanities, University of Geneva * KLI, Klosterneuburg/Vienna     Call for papers   The European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS) will hold its fourth meeting on September 5–9, 2016 at the KLI in Klosterneuburg near Vienna,...

Colleagues: You can view the latest batch of recent doctoral dissertations harvested from the issues 76-04 A and B of Dissertation Abstracts pertaining to aspects of the broad scope of the history of medicine and health care at the following URL:  http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/ histmed/dissertations ProQuest has altered how they put out their individual issues.  No longer do they correlate to one month, so the dating is more random.  Thus titles will range from 2015-yes they have some 2015 dates-back into the1930’s. Because ProQuest has begun downloading a large number of earlier dissertations from many institutions a decision has been made to only include titles going back to 2010 in this database.  Anyone who wants the complete list of titles on this topic should email me directly at erlen@pitt.edu and I will email you the full list. Please share this information with your colleagues and students. As always your comments and corrections are alw...

3 rd  POSTGRADUATE Conference on LOGIC and PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2016 Date: 30 May – 1 June, 2016 Venue: Palazzo Albani, Univ. of Urbino, via Timoteo Viti 10, Urbino, 60129 Italy CALL for PAPERS ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 MARCH, 2016 We are pleased to announce the 3rd Postgraduate Conference on Logic and Philosophy of Science  entirely devoted to young researchers. The conference is intended to gather young researchers working in the field of logic and philosophy  of science and to offer them the opportunity to present and discuss their papers in an informal and stimulating environment. The conference is divided into five different sessions, namely: 1) Non-Classical Logics: semantics, proof theory and applications 2) Philosophy and Foundations of Physics 3) Philosophy of Biology and Health Sciences 4) Philosophy of Formal and Cognitive Sciences 5) Models and Foundations of Computing The sessions will be chaired, respectively, by th...