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Exposició: Del 10 de gener al 10 d’abril de 2018 al primer pis del Palau de Cerveró. Institut d'Història de la Medicina i la ciència "López Piñero"  A la fi de març passat, hem rebut dels seus hereus la donació de la biblioteca del metge legista i catedràtic de Medicina Legal de la Universitat de Sevilla, Antonio Lecha-Marzo. La donació consisteix d’una banda, en prop de 200 volums, sobretot, de la seua especialitat i, d’una altra, en materials i documents del seu arxiu. Destaca la correspondència que va rebre de metges i investigadors espanyols, europeus (italians, belgues, portuguesos i francesos, especialment) i llatinoamericans com Juan Vucetich. En total, hi ha prop de 500 documents diferents en la donació, en bona part, articles publicats prèviament en premsa ...

A Cultural History of the Universe in the Renaissance (1450-1700) will be an edited volume in a six-volume series published by Bloomsbury Publishing, expected in August 2020. This series will be a part of Bloomsbury’s The Cultural History Series . For more information, see: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/the-cultural-histories-series/ Aims and Scope of the Six-Volume Series, A Cultural History of the Universe : The universe is, literally, everything that there is. However, commonly defined it is outer space, beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, from the Moon to the farthest galaxies. A Cultural History of The Universe traces the ways in which individuals and societies have interacted with the universe from Antiquity to the present. The emphasis will be on the West, effectively Europe and North America, but will necessarily fully examine the ancient Near East and the Islamic world, and contributors will be encouraged to make connections with the wider world where usefu...

Está accesible en Internet nuestra   Biblioteca Virtual . Hace cuatro años nos embarcamos en este proyecto en el que, gracias a  la tecnología   DIGIBIS   y su programa de gestión bibliotecaria   DIGIBIB , y con el patrocinio de la   Fundación “Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno” , nos marcamos el objetivo de difundir los fondos de la Biblioteca y del Archivo de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, al que se van agregando día a día más contenidos digitales. En la actualidad, consta de cerca de 1.700 títulos y más de 130.000 objetos multimedia asociados que abarcan, con preferencia, aquellas materias relacionadas de alguna manera con la historia y la práctica de la Medicina, tanto impresos como manuscritos. Igualmente, se enlazan con otros repositorios aquellos documentos que previamente han sido digitalizados por los mismos, y acompaña a la descripción del documento una imagen de la portada en las nuevas adquisiciones. Todo este contenido, co...

Procesos de salud, enfermedad y prácticas de curar: miradas interdisciplinarias en la construcción del conocimiento.  Córdoba, Argentina,  10, 11 y 12 de octubre de 2018.   Organizan: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Sobre Cultura y Sociedad CIECS (CONICET y UNC). Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. A más de una década de la realización del primer TALLER DE HISTORIA SOCIAL DE LA SALUD Y LA ENFERMEDAD EN ARGENTINA, buscamos continuar fortaleciendo la construcción de conocimiento científico, la socialización y la discusión en torno a diversas problemáticas relativas a la salud, la enfermedad y las prácticas del curar. Esta vez la invitación está a cargo de Córdoba, en esta ocasión, potenciaremos las facilidades materiales y logísticas que posee el CIECS y la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la UNC, con espacios y otras condiciones infraestructurales y de funcionalidad óptimas para la reunión proyectada . No es casual...

The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), an independent research library in Philadelphia, PA, invites applications for new multi-year postdoctoral fellowships, as well as for one-year and short-term visiting fellowships in the history of science, medicine, technology, and industry. Two-Year 80/20 Postdoctoral Fellowships:  CHF is pleased to announce the launch of its new 80/20 postdoctoral fellowship program: these new fellowships reflect the Beckman Center’s commitment to providing career-launching fellowships for recent PhDs and its support for the career diversity initiatives of the American Historical Association and affiliated scholarly societies. The 80/20 postdoctoral fellowship program will allow the Beckman Center’s postdocs to build skills that can enhance ...

We welcome abstracts for talks on any topic related to early modern philosophy, broadly understood (roughly the period 1500–1800 CE). We are especially interested in presentations that discuss philosophical issues or works that have received less sustained scholarly attention, including, but not limited to: non canonical authors and traditions, anonymous texts, methodological reflections on doing Early Modern philosophy.  Please submit abstracts (400 words max.) suitable for anonymous review in PDF to our EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/conferen ces/?conf=dsemp18 Deadline: 15 January 2018 Decisions will follow by early March. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. We will send reviewers’ reports with useful feedback on abstracts to all who wish to receive this. Attendance is free and all are welcome, especially students. No financial assistance can be provided to support travel expenses and accommodation. Contact Chris Meyns ( c.meyns@uu.nl / @chr...

We invite expressions of interest from scholars from any discipline who are working on histories of HIV and AIDS within Europe, to participate in a one-day symposium in London on 19 July 2018. Deadline: 29 January 2018. Research on HIV and AIDS in historical perspective has intensified recently, with new projects looking at the UK, Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, and more. This exciting work is not only painting a large and vibrant picture of the histories of AIDS and HIV, incorporating groups and experiences previously under-documented, but it is also beginning to signal the vital importance of local and national contexts. Responses to, and experiences of AIDS and HIV were modulated by features that varied from place to place, within and between countries, and reflected the importance of the social, cultural, and political settings in which AIDS and HIV emerged. This one-day symposium seeks to draw together these existing research projects, to encourage com...

Although the emerging post Cold War globalization process seemed to undermine the legitimacy of national categories, nationalisms and national identities are far from being surpassed. This is part of a broader public concern regarding the interactions between national identities, cultures, and transnational relations in a new global order. Similarly, History of Science, STS, and Policy Studies have expanded new questions about the means and mechanisms that produce, transfer, and transform expert knowledge within communities and political systems at different scales. Even when the history of science and technology, and national identities studies have increased their production and scope, there are still several questions on the connections and tensions between these disciplines. On the one hand, nations were considered projects in which societies articulated their vision of future. On the other, national identities were the places where individuals identified the...

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science  launched its third issue (December, 2017):  http://www. historiographyofscience.org/ index.php/transversal/issue/ view/8 Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science promotes scholarly research in the historiography of science and chronicles its history and criticism. Although historiography of science is a sub-discipline of History, we construe this subject broadly to include analysis of the historiography of science produced by history of science, philosophy of science, science education and related disciplines. By focusing its analysis on the different historical, social and epistemological implications of science, historiography of science is a transversal knowledge with respect to the production of science, hence the name of this journal. In order to accomplish its purpose, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science discusses historic...

The Activist History Review invites proposals for our February issue, “Engineering Freedom: Technology, Politics, and the Death of Net Neutrality.” On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (led by Republican chairman Ajit Pai) voted to repeal Obama-era “net neutrality” restrictions that prevented internet service providers from charging websites more to broadcast their content at faster speeds. They did so against the wishes of a majority of American citizens from both major political parties. Many of us fear that, in the wake of net neutrality’s repeal, our ability to freely acquire, disseminate, and exchange information will be increasingly restricted over time. This is a particularly alarming possibility when we consider the Internet’s role as a democratizing force in our society. The rise of the Internet has allowed Americans and many members of the global community to easily exchange ideas, access information, demand institutional transparenc...

Call for Papers-The Environmental History of the Pacific World An international workshop to be held at the Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China 24-26 May 2018 Sponsors: The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilians Univer-sity, Munich Department of History and The Center for Oceania Studies, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou The Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, Beijing The Pacific Ocean is the ancient outcome of plate tectonic movement, creating one of the largest eco-regions on earth. Although navigators explored those waters early on, and peoples spread to all the ocean’s shores and penetrated as far into the center as the Hawaiian archipelago, it was not until the 16th century that the great body of water was discovered as a whole and mapped at a global scale. Since then, the Pacific has become a place of increasing human-nature interaction—through international trade, warfare, cultural intercha...

From Rivers to Oceans: Inland Maritime History and the Nexus of Fresh and Salt Water St. Charles, Missouri, May 20-23, 2018 North America’s many navigable lakes and rivers have played defining roles in the history of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. War, commerce, exploration, recreation, and leisure, all played out over time on their banks and waters. Under the theme “From the Rivers to the Oceans,” the 2018 annual conference of the North American Society of Oceanic History (NASOH) seeks paper and panel proposals that explore the rich history of inland waters and spaces of convergence between fresh and salt waters. The program committee is particularly interested in papers and panels that address questions of freshwater environments, the relationship between inland water-borne commerce and urban growth, the place of rivers and lakes in the inland transportation system of indigenous and colonial peoples, the movement of people, goods, and ideas in the maki...

Technologies of Knowledge in the Global South This edited volume interrogates the technologies of knowledge and its impact in structuring lives in the Global South as shaped through the common experience of empire and imperialism, colonialism and post colonialism. This volume enquires into technology as a mode of knowledge production and also draws upon the use of technology in the colonial context where it not only functioned as an element of imperial domination but was also appropriated in the everyday lives of people. Additionally, explicit engagement with technology in the form of census, surveys, transportation, medicine and public health measures brought the colonial population to face with massive state ventures as a mode of governance. In equal measure, technology was also invoked in the production of culture and historicizing, commemorating and preserving the past through archaeological excavation, architectural preservation and the maintenance of heritage ...

Applications are invited for two fully funded +3 studentships for Home/EU students who already have a relevant Masters’ degree. The studentships are to start in October 2018. Further details and information about applying are available at: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/ elizabeth-shove/research- students/   Transitions in the technologies and practices of office work:  Manchester’s administrative industries (1960-2017) With Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. This project investigates the relation between innovations in office technology - from filing cabinets and fax machines through to hard drives and email – and changing competencies and experiences of office work.  The research will makes use of the Museum of Science and Industry’s  (MSI) collection of office-related objects, and of secondary sources together with interviews and focus groups to find out how innovations in office technology have affected the nature and location of office work and...

Papers are invited (for oral or poster presentation) for a conference “Science, Imagination and Wonder: Robert Grosseteste and His Legacy” organised by the Ordered Universe Research Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, and the International Grosseteste Society. An interdisciplinary project is dedicated to new editions and translation of the scientific work of Robert Grosseteste. The conference will be the Fourth International Grosseteste Conference and will take place at Pembroke College, Oxford, UK, 3–6 April 2018. The conference will celebrate the life and works of Grosseteste, especially in their response to natural phenomena. A principal aim of the conference is a confluence of disciplinary perspectives on this remarkable thinker. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines and from all career stages. Some suggested areas for subjects are listed below, but please be in touch with the organising committee to run ideas past us: - t...

As part of a series of Europe-wide conferences on the history of science during the First World War, this 1-day conference will be held at the Royal Society on Thursday 13 September 2018. We invite papers from historians of the early 20 th century. We wish to focus on science and society in the later stages of WW1 and the longer-term consequences of conflict into the 1920s. Topics of interest include how international scientific relationships, both personal and institutional, reasserted themselves – or perished – after the Great War. Papers that reflect upon how European and other scientific academies acted to reunite, or divide, common activities along national lines would be welcome; we are also interested in war-related social change, notably how women in science and engineering fared in the post-War landscape. Conference information The conference is the third and final event in a series organised by the Leopoldina Academy, the Académie des Sciences ...

The Science Museum's Medicine Galleries are due to launch in late 2019. We are looking for a Research Curator to lead on the development and delivery of the Medicine Collection Research Strategy, a multi-strand £300,000 research programme to grow our understanding of the Medicine Collection. To apply and find out more, please read the Information pack found here: https://ce0111li.webitrent. com/ce0111li_webrecruitment/ wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open? VACANCY_ID%3D97033726O6&WVID= 7271880URt&LANG=USA