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Type:  Call for Papers Date:  October 15, 2016 Location:  United States Subject Fields:  History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Intellectual History To follow the publication of our recent book, Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives (Rutgers UP, 2016) and in honor of the upcoming bicentennial of the publication of Frankenstein , Les Friedman and I are proposing an edition of the history of science journal Osiris to be devoted to iterations of the Frankenstein story in the history of science and medicine.  We are still searching for a few contributors who would be interested in writing on any aspect of this in any region at any time. Possible themes include but are not limited to experimentation, scientific institutions and universities, Arctic exploration, the search for the "spark of life," Galvinism, anatomy, the rise of scientific disciplines, and the formalization of scientific practice/the formati...

Drinking and Drug Policies in History: Contextualizing Causes and Consequences Call for papers  Alcohol and Drugs History Society  conference, 22-25 June 2017, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.  The twentieth century dawned with an unparalleled drive to regulate the production, distribution, and consumption of alcohol and other psychoactive substances . Many countries have developed their own specific historical trajectories of substance regulation, consumption, and user cultures.  This regulatory drive continued into the 21 st century, where today we live once more in a period of decisive regulatory changes and discussion. For instance as can be seen in the submission of national regulations in Europe to EU directives. On the other hand, the ‘war on drugs’ is now more contested than ever before.   Global discussions have intensified concerning the consequences, feasibility, and desirability of drug prohibition. Moreover, the rise of virtual...

2016 AHLiST International Conference in University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Dates: November 17 to 19, 2016;  Birds of a Feather: November 21 to 22, 2016 Paper Submission by: Extended 30th September, 2016 Download the Call for Papers in Pdf: Udpated Short Version of CfP 2016 AHLIST Updated Long Version – 2016 AHLiST CfP General Topics Traversing Peripheries and Centers: Confluence, Empowerment and Innovation Recent technological and scientific enhancements have benefited us in various aspects, yet they also have deepened the dichotomy of core versus periphery while in certain cases resulting in the (un)expected growth of periphery. Thus, a number of regions in the world are still faced with structural predicaments and deep-rooted marginality, due to socio-political, economic and cultural consequences at the regional, national and global levels. These dilemmas and issues manifest themselves in various ...

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Indianapolis in  Indianapolis, Indiana, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track  position in cultural/medical anthropology to begin in fall 2017.  We seek  applicants whose research expertise critically engages processes of  globalization, inequality, and health.  Candidates whose research blends  qualitative and quantitative research methods are especially welcomed to  apply.  Geographic area is open, but candidates with research experience  outside the US are preferred. Applicants should be prepared to prioritize  teaching at the undergraduate level and to contribute to the creation and  offering of a graduate track in cultural anthropology. Appointment will be  over the nine-month academic year (late August to late May). Appointment  will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor. The University of Indianapolis is a private, compre...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  March 18, 2017 Location:  United Kingdom Subject Fields:  Art, Art History & Visual Studies, British History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Intellectual History, Religious Studies and Theology Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being One-Day Conference Saturday 18 March 2017 Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and Centre for Visual Arts and Culture Durham University, UK Keynote Address: Professor Peter Bowler (Queen’s University, Belfast) CALL FOR PAPERS Amongst the paradigms current in nineteenth-century culture the Great Chain of Being frequently held pride of place, vying against Darwinian approaches in what historian of science Peter Bowler described broadly as the ‘non-Darwinian revolution’. Arming scientists with a scale of nature - a fixed hierarchical arrangement of the natural world from the lowest rudimentary ...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  July 22, 2017 to July 29, 2017 Location:  Brazil Subject Fields:  Business History / Studies, Environmental History / Studies, Economic History / Studies, European History / Studies Call for papers - Panel: Electric energy in history: social, economic and cultural issues Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,  23 to 29 July 2017 PANEL COORDINATION: Nuno Luis Madureira, Lisbon University Institute, Portugal; Guildo Magalhães, São Paulo University, Brazil. Topics to be presented include the historic appreciation of the development of the following subjects, but need not to be limited to them: Integration of electrical networksand the economic policies ofinterconnected grids Transmission line developments, from point to point transmissions to smart systems Planning of energy consumption and production The landscapes and the environment of energy production, transmission and local distribution Energy issues fr...

History of Science Communication, special issue of JCOM, the Journal of Science Communication. The public communication of science and technology began, many centuries ago, with the process of creation and production of modern science. The study of its historical aspects can help us to understand how its forms change according to philosophical suppositions concerning science, the scientific contents, the underlying culture, the political and economic interests and the media available in different times and places. The history of science communication is “an indispensable complement to the history and philosophy of the sciences, insofar as it gives rise to new questions: why, for whom and how a science, at a particular time, was spread through the social fabric of an era; who made this science theirs in a particular era and by what mean" (D. Raichvarg et J. Jacques, Savants et Ignorants, Paris: Éd. Le Seuil, 1991, p. 8). However, there are not many books or papers analyzing ho...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  September 23, 2016 Location:  Netherlands Subject Fields:  Humanities, Literature, Music and Music History, Theatre & Performance History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies In the past decades, the encompassing interaction between literature and media in live performance has paved the way for epistemologies centered on vocality, performativity, and embodiment. More recently, Jelena Novak’s notion of ‘Postopera’ (2015) raises questions about the role of the body in contemporary technoculture and the traditions technologies transmit and adapt: “the relationship between the body and the voice [in their digital remediation] is the  locus  for a redefinition both of opera itself and our understanding of it.” This panel will further explore redefinitions of the voice-body interrelation as staged in literature, music, and performances, both historical and contemporary. As with pos...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  September 1, 2016 to September 23, 2016 Location:  Netherlands Subject Fields:  Humanities, German History / Studies, Philosophy, Literature, Cultural History / Studies ACLA 2017 Panel Proposal: Towards an Anatomy of Injury: The Figure of the Wound in Literature, Art and Theory American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 6-9, 2017 Panel Organizers: Ian Fleishman (University of Pennsylvania), Nicole Sütterlin (Harvard University) Call for Papers: This seminar will investigate the figure of the wound in literature, film, art, philosophy and theory. From medieval traditions of stigmata to the graphic depictions of violence in postmodern cinema, the topos of the wound has always challenged the very limits of representation. Our seminar intends to interrogate both the formal and thematic stakes of th...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  November 10, 2016 to November 11, 2016 Location:  New York, United States Subject Fields:  Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies, Literature November 10-11, 2016 Department of Comparative Literature The Graduate Center, CUNY; New York, NY Possible topics include but are not limited to: Art, advertising, brands, products, food, consumption and the consumer Identity within pop culture, including race and gender Music Technology Comic books, Anime, and narrative forms across media Television Film, including Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood, YouTube Popular magazines, journals, sports, and news media Video games and gaming culture Image, the body, and pornography in various media forms Myth and mythology Camp and kitsch The internet and social media Questions of discourse and intellectual property Science fiction, fantasy, h...

Type: Call for Papers Date: November 1, 2016 Location: Spain Subject Fields: Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Spanish and Portuguese History / Studies, Archaeology, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology OPEN CALL SYMPOSIUM. Museo de América. Madrid, Spain. April 5-7, 2017 In this two-days event, LAGLOBAL network plans to deal with the objects and subjects of knowledge. The idea is to propel the discussion about  collecting objects and the registries made from the experience of chroniclers and explorers in the early modern and modern period in Hispanic American colonies. These expeditions demanded the employment of conditions of storage and transport, and in some cases to develop methods to ‘preserve’ specimens in drawings, paper museums, encyclopedic maps, and books, thereby integrating collecting and display practices with the empirical deman...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  October 1, 2016 Location:  United States Subject Fields:  Immigration & Migration History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, World History / Studies, Public Health, Health and Health Care Submissions are invited for a series hosted by the REMEDIA blog on the theme of ‘Migration’ in the history of medicine. The pieces we choose will imaginatively and rigorously tackle topics including (but by no means limited to) the challenges of moving populations in the sphere of public health; notions of risk, prevention, contamination and containment; impact of wars and natural disasters on medical aid provision; differences in health-seeking behaviors between cultures; patterns of migration among healthcare professionals; the ethical and legal challenges of migrants seeking clinical attention; the influence of international organizations in shaping global health policies for migrants; vac...

One-Day Conference.  Saturday 18 March 2017 Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and Centre for Visual Arts and Culture Durham University, UK Keynote Address: Professor Peter Bowler (Queen’s University, Belfast) CALL FOR PAPERS Amongst the paradigms current in nineteenth-century culture the Great Chain of Being frequently held pride of place, vying against Darwinian approaches in what historian of science Peter Bowler described broadly as the ‘non-Darwinian revolution’. Arming scientists with a scale of nature - a fixed hierarchical arrangement of the natural world from the lowest rudimentary forms of life to its apogee in man – the Great Chain helped Victorian Britain reassert order and control in the face of perceived threats by the inherent randomness, chance and uncertainty of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Paradoxically, in the battle between The Great Chain and Darwin, it was the Great Chain of Being that was frequently the fittest survivor. Th...

In homage to Pierre Duhem on the centennial of his death,  Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science  is pleased to announce a Call for Papers dedicated to the topic “Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science”. All best, on behalf of the TIJHS editorial board, Mauro Condé www.historiographyofscience. org Call for Papers: special issue Pierre Duhem Deadline for paper submission:  Mach   30th ,  2017 . Publication of the issue:  July, 2017 . We are expecting to receive submissions related to Duhemian History of Science, and the impact it caused in the subsequent historiography. Thus comparative analysis between Duhem and other authors is welcomed, as well as case studies that search to evaluate the conception of scientific development advocated by the French author, exploring its current relevance and intrinsic limits. Considering the characteristic of Duhem’s unity of thought, articles address...

Deadline 19th September Job title : Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology Job reference : SMG00022 Application closing date : 19/09/2016 Location : National Media Museum - Bradford Salary : Competitive Full time , Permanen t Could you be the future of photographic collections? We hold one of the best collections of photography and photographic technology in the world, and we're looking for a dynamic and innovative curator to join our team. The museum has always been at the cutting edge of museum innovation, and we're looking for someone who can find new ways to bring our collections to life for a contemporary audience, take our collections into the 21st Century, and rise to the challenge of collecting digital photography. With GBP 7.5m investment in the future of the museum, ambitions plans for new galleries and a contemporary exhibition programme, there's never been a better time to join the team at the National Media Museum...