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  Autor: Juan Pimentel Este es un libro que aborda ocho episodios de la ciencia española a través de algunas imágenes, la sinuosa historia de una presencia fantasmal a partir de unos rastros igualmente espectrales. Las imágenes aparecen y desaparecen, nos convocan y actualizan cosas muertas o sumergidas. La ciencia ha sido y sigue siendo vista como una presencia incierta, reivindicada y postergada en el contexto de nuestra cultura. ¿Hubo ciencia en España? ¿Por qué nos cuesta verla? Como los muertos mal enterrados, la ciencia golpea nuestro subconsciente y aguarda un funeral digno, una reubicación al lugar que merece en la memoria y en nuestro imaginario colectivo. Desde el avistamiento del Mar del Sur hasta una reciente exposición naturalista en el Museo del Prado, por este libro se pasean dibujos, óleos, mapas, fotografías, láminas botánicas y estampas microscópicas de nuestro pasado, imágenes intermitentes y luminosas, fantasmas de la ciencia española. Url:  ht...

  Autor: Rafael Huertas Con la propuesta de construir una historia de la locura “desde abajo”, y con un marco teórico próximo a los Mad Studies, este libro da cuenta de experiencias, subjetividades, formas de expresión y aspiraciones, vividas y narradas en “primera persona” por personas psiquiatrizadas, institucionalizadas o con malestar psíquico. Se recurre para ello al análisis de cartas, obras literarias, diarios, fanzines, etc., intentando valorar los testimonios e interpretaciones sobre la locura propia en contextos diferentes. Pensar la locura a través de las expresiones escritas de los locos y las locas nos llevará a transitar desde las letras cautivas (de internas anónimas) en la institución total del manicomio —que nos ilustrarán sobre las condiciones de vida en su interior y sobre complejos procesos de negociación y resistencia—, hasta otros escritos que ponen de manifiesto el esfuerzo subjetivo de sus autores (Schreber, Joyce, Pessoa, etc). Por último, se presta especial...

 La revista MUSAS: Revista de Investigación en Mujer, Salud y Sociedad abre un nuevo "Call for Papers" para publicar trabajos científicos sobre el impacto de la Covid19 en la Mujer, tanto en la salud como sus repercusiones sociales. Abierto plazo para el envío de trabajos hasta el 15 de junio de 2021. Url:  https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/MUSAS/announcement/view/504

 The  Department of Science and Technology Studies  at the University of Vienna is currently recruiting for  one post-doc (6 years)  and  one pre-doc (4 year PhD)  position! These posts will join a group focusing on STS research in  Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures . We are looking for scholars whose research explores interactions between  technoscience and digitisation inside universities, research organisations, and other spaces and practices of knowledge production . Their interests may include, but are not limited to: The relation between digitisation and the contemporary conditions of academic labour; Digitisation within scientific knowledge production, including studies of data deluges, the co-production of digital technologies and academic work, and mundane use of digital tools; Relations between (the rise of) digital tools and scientific responsibility and research integrity; The co-production of d...

 Big data, smart systems, machine learning – it is inevitable that these new technologies will change the way we study, build and manage our cities. At the same time resurgent interest in consensus and contributive action seems to oppose an exclusively data-driven urbanism. Is the opposition of machine intelligence and democracy inevitable, or are shared trajectories possible? Politicians, social scientists, urbanists, and architects find their working methods and disciplinary knowledge challenged by insights derived from big data, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). As both citizens and experts in the many respective fields, our mission must be to bring in our disciplinary knowledge and civic engagement to support the appropriate development and discussion of data-driven tools, to consider both their biases and potentials, and to promote broader social literacy and criticality. Ultimately, it is a question of both decanting the technical quality of ...

  Organized by the ERC funded research project FORCE (Forensic Cultures in Europe, 1930-2000):  https://force. sites.uu.nl  and on Twitter: @ERC_FORCE   This call for papers can also be found here:  https://force.sites.uu.nl/ call-for-papers-conference- forensic-cultures/   26-28 August 2021 Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University In recent years research into the history of forensic science has expanded. In addition to institutional developments and advances in technology, increasingly the entanglements between legal frameworks, forensic institutes, technology and culture have been explored by historians and scholars from other disciplines (e.g. Burney and Hamlin 2019; Watson 2010 and 2020; Adam 2016 and 2020). These entanglements come together in the notion of ‘forensic cultures’, which may be defined as the theory and practice of forensic science, medicine and psychiatry as they come to the fore in specific locations such as the courtro...

 The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Villanova University invites submission for a virtual Conference in Honor of Harriet Goldberg (1927-2000).  In 2002, Alan Deyermond described his relationship with Harriet Goldberg as one of admiration “for the quality of her scholarship and her range of interests.” These interests focused on popular sayings and traditions, dreams, sexual humor, and riddles. Goldberg also noted how images of societal inversion or role reversal of could be conformed to express anxieties over gender and social identity. Inspired by Harriet Goldberg’s work on Iberian traditions, this conference seeks to examine different forms of bodily transformation, to map out the limits of gender, and to think of the ways in which current discussions on gender and identity intertwine with our understanding of the past.  The keynote address will be given by Michelle Hamilton (University of Minnesota), author of  Beyond Faith...

  Scholars in the emerging field of digital environmental humanities (DEH) observe that  “the idea of nature is becoming very hard to separate from the digital tools and media we use to observe, interpret, and manage it.” [1] The ‘digital turn’ of the last quarter century, and the existential threat of climate change are converging and forcing our species to “reorient  . . . profoundly in relation to the world, to one another, and to ourselves.” [2] Whilst external environments are roiling due to global warming and socio-political conflict, the inner “saturation of our intimate and physical lives by digital, wireless, and virtual technologies,” [3] are causing adaptations on personal, regional, social, theoretical, technological, and ideological scales. Our ideas, our standards, for what is natural are distributed and maintained in digital tools and media like databases, computer models, geographical information systems and so on.” [4]  Though an au...