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Autora: María Isabel Porras Gallo La pandemia de gripe de 1918-1919 está considerada la crisis epidémica mundial más mortífera del siglo XX. Marcada por el influjo de la Gran Guerra (que movilizó mercancías, soldados y trabajadores por países como China, Estados Unidos, Francia o Sierra Leona), más de cien años después, investigadores y especialistas continúan preguntándose por su origen y las razones de su intensidad. Pese al injusto sobrenombre de “española” (a causa de la censura militar impuesta en los países beligerantes), esta enfermedad también hizo estragos en nuestro país, donde contó con hasta tres grandes brotes, que se ensañaron especialmente con la capital y sus alrededores.  La experiencia de la pandemia transformó la sociedad en casi todos los órdenes y su impacto pervivió décadas y condicionó la respuesta a las siguientes pandemias, pero pasada la urgencia, parte de las reformas sanitarias y sociales propuestas para modernizar y mejorar el país se demoraron, otras s...

  Acción médica humanitaria transnacional e innovación tecnológica en espacios de confinamiento (1870-1950)  (PID2019-104581GB-I00)    1 contrato pre-doctoral de cuatro años  en el marco   de la  convocatoria de Ayudas para la formación de doctores 2020 (FPI-2020)  al objeto de realizar una tesis doctoral adscrita a un Programa de Doctorado de alguna universidad española, preferentemente en el ámbito de la Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia. El proyecto se inscribe en una línea de investigación sobre humanitarismo, guerra y medicina en el mundo contemporáneo, centrada en el impacto de la acción humanitaria en la producción de innovaciones tecnológicas y en la construcción de nuevos valores sociales en Europa, con ocasión de distintos conflictos violentos (guerras internacionales, civiles y coloniales, movimientos insurreccionales). Se focaliza en la acción médica por agencias humanitarias transnacionales, en favor de personas recluida...

En el marco de una convocatoria propia de ayudas predoctorales, la Universidad de Cantabria ofrece un contrato específico para realizar un doctorado en el ámbito de los estudios de las mujeres y de género, con una duración máxima de 4 años. Desde el proyecto de investigación   Hermenéutica del cuerpo visible: conceptualizaciones y prácticas en la medicina medieval de tradición latina   (PID2019-107671GB-I00) apoyaremos la candidatura de un/a medievalista, con conocimientos de latín, que desee formarse en el Area de Historia de la Ciencia de la Universidad de Cantabria e investigar la cualidad visible del cuerpo sexuado en la Edad Media en colaboración con nuestro equipo.   Las personas interesadas deben asegurarse que cumplen los requisitos de la convocatoria, disponible en  https://web.unican.es/ investigacion/convocatorias/ detalle?c=482&a=413 , y enviar su expresión de interés y currículum vitae  antes del 24 de octubre  a Montserrat Cabré.

Deadline for abstracts: November 30th, 2020 Deadline for manuscripts: July 31st, 2021 About the Workshop The "European Association for the History of Nursing" and the “European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics” invites to submit contributions to an international workshop on this topic, where precirculated papers will be discussed. Depending on the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exchange can thus take place in person or online. It is desirable that the original papers will be published in the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics, 4th issue 2022 (see:  https://www.enhe.eu/ ) . About the topic The COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge of historical significance. For the first time since the 1950s and 1960s, the persuasion of being an immunized society was shaken. Diseases and pandemics were long portrayed in public history as historical events that modern scientific medicine was able to happily overcome thanks to the invention of antibiotics and...

Submissions Open September 1, 2020 Submission Deadline: November 13, 2020 For the 2021 Conference, SWPACA is going virtual! Due to concerns regarding COVID-19, we will be holding our annual conference completely online this year. We hope you will join us for exciting papers, discussions, and the experience you’ve come to expect from Southwest. Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 42nd annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit  http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/ The area chair for Zombie and Pandemic Culture seeks paper or panel proposals on any aspect of the zombie and/or pandemics in popular culture and history. The zombie has always been pop culture’s premier allegory for infection and disease. 2020’s unprecedented events hav...

  Guest Editors: Caroline Koegler & Marlena Tronicke 2021/22 Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies ( http://neovictorianstudies.com ) Commentators on the Covid-19 crisis have repeatedly evoked comparisons with the Spanish Flu of 1918-20, but parallels could also be drawn with four influenza epidemics that occurred between 1830 and 1848, the first of which medical historians likewise suspect of originating in China. All four epidemics resulted in high mortality rates, particularly among the elderly, vying with other invidious period ‘killers’, such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. The nineteenth-century spread of diseases underlines the interconnectedness of Western empires, their antagonists, and colonial peripheries long before the advent of globalised capitalism, exposing the Eurocentric threats as much as benefits of free trade and so-called progress and world improvement. This special issue will explore neo-Victorian representations of epidemics, the impact of uncontroll...

  The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2021-22 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related STS fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. The Linda Hall Library holds over half a million monograph volumes and more than 48,000 journal titles documenting the history of science and technology from the 15th century to the present. Its collections are exceptionally strong in the engineering disciplines, chemistry, and physics. The Library also boasts extensive resources related to natural history, astronomy, environmental and earth sciences, aeronautics, life sciences, infrastructure studies, mathematics, and the history of the book. Due to the public health risks associated with the coronavirus pandemic, all Linda Hall Library fellowships during the 2021-22 academic year will be virtual.  ...

  ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Conference, April 8-11, virtual event Abstracts due: October 31, 2020 Co-organizers: Sarah Ensor, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Steven Swarbrick, Baruch College (CUNY)   Let’s begin with the obvious: we’re tired. From the waning of affect (Massumi, 2002) to the waning of sleep (Crary, 2014), and from the debilitation of bodies in societies of control (Puar, 2017) to the ever renewed demands of the neoliberal university to measure and extract intellectual labor under increasing levels of austerity, being ‘tired’ today is no longer just an isolated condition; it accounts for an entire political strategy of violence against the weary—against all those Beckettian subjects who now say, “I can’t go on, I  must .” In  Capitalist Realism  (2009), Mark Fisher diagnoses this widespread fatigue as a political strategy for evanescing the future. “It could well be the case that the future harbors only reiteration a...

  For those interested in doing a PhD in the history of science and technology, AHRC funding at the Department of History at the University of Warwick is available via the Midlands4C. Further details here:  https://warwick.ac.uk/ fac/arts/history/news/? newsItem= 8a1785d77520fbbd01752c4f21644a 6a At Warwick, we have a range of expertise in the history of science and technology, including a new  History of Science and Technology Hub . Midlands4C doctoral awards can also be co-supervised across the other M4C institutions ( https://www.midlands4cities. ac.uk/find-a-supervisor/ ), so expertise can be combined if there are different supervisors you would like to work with. If you’re interested in applying for a PhD, I’d be very happy to speak informally and help put you in contact with a relevant supervisor. You can also see a list of staff working in the history of science and technology at Warwick here:  https://warwick.ac.uk/ fac/arts/history/sat/people/