CfP: Biographies in the History of Physics: Actors, Objects, and Institutions


Call for Papers from Nachwuchs (Graduate Students, Post-Docs, and Assistant Professors)

Biographies in the History of Physics: Actors, Objects, and Institutions:

A Workshop for Young Academics from the German Physical Society’s Section for History of Physics

May 22-25, 2018

Physics Center, Bad Honnef, Germany

Accommodation will be provided by the Physics Center. Travel expenses will be reimbursed up to 1,000 Euro for scholars based in the United States, and up to 500 Euro for scholars based in European countries outside of Germany.

Speakers will be asked to submit manuscripts of their talks ahead of time. Each talk will be followed by a prepared commentary by a senior colleague who has read the manuscript. The language of the workshop will be English.

The goal of this workshop is to support younger scholars in the history of physics, both inside and outside of Germany.

Please send a paper title and abstract to:

Dr. Christian Forstner