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CfP: Families and Health: Historical Perspectives

On-line conference, Tuesday 9 November 2021 University of Wolverhampton, UK https:// familiesandhealthconference. wordpress.com/ You are invited to submit a proposal for a conference that seeks to explore the relationship between family life, family relationships and health from a historical perspective. Proposals that focus on mental or physical health are equally welcome. We invite proposals focusing on any historical period or geographical area. We welcome both experienced and new speakers, including speakers without an institutional affiliation. Potential speakers are welcome to discuss their ideas with the organiser before submission (please see details below). Some of the themes that might be considered include (but are not limited) to: Families as carers Inheritance and disease Families in medical thought and practice The medical profession and family succession Family planning, maternal and child health The politics of family, health and wellbeing Domestic violence, abuse and h

CfP: Interdisciplinary Analyses of Medicalized Human Bodies and Parts

One-sex/two-sex/sex-spectrum,  Anatomized or amputated parts,  Contamination of and by bodily fluids,  Plastic surgeries,  Bionic integration,  Human drug trials,  In vitro embryology,  Genetic engineering,  Organ markets,  Vaccinations... These are models, circumstances, and concepts that describe and represent our understandings of human bodies, and indicate ways to change, repair, and improve human bodies: perhaps we are attempting to reach human corporeal perfection or immortality; perhaps we are trying to avoid extinction. These modes, circumstances, and ideas are not just medical questions. They are also cultural questions, frequently examining and balancing the multifaceted beneficial advancements with highly problematic or even devastating repercussions. The medicalizing of human bodies and body parts exists in various discourses and media, and demands interdisciplinary analyses across time, space, media, and imagination. In a time when mere drops of exhaled breath threaten

ASEH 2022 Call for Proposals

March 23-27, 2022 The  CALL FOR PROPOSALS   is now open! While programming in Eugene 2022 will emphasize the theme of  disaster and renewal , this conference, like all ASEH meetings, will feature research on all facets of environmental history, from any geographical or temporal context. The Program Committee welcomes traditional panels, individual papers, teaching and pedagogy sessions, innovative formats, and sessions that encourage active audience participation.  Click the button below to view the entire Call for Proposals and submit complete panels, roundtables, experimental sessions, individual papers, and posters.   The deadline for submissions is July 16, 2021. We look forward to seeing you in March in Oregon! Contact Info:  https://aseh.org/aseh-2022-conference/   

CfP: History of Emotions Conference, June 2022, George Mason University

Call for Papers The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) will be holding its next conference June 3-4, 2022, on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals, for single presentations or for panels. The conference is open to proposals dealing with any region or time period; interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. The conference is co-chaired by Susan Matt and Peter Stearns. Due date for proposals is Sept. 15, 2021. Decisions will be made by Oct. 1, and a conference program will be set by Nov. 15, at which time firm commitments will be required. Conference details will be available on the NACHE website or by request by May 31. We are aiming to keep costs low, primarily to cover meals and very modest staffing expenses; hotel rooms will be available at discounted rates. Send paper proposals to Peter Stearns or Susan Matt . Contact Info:  Susan Matt,  Peter Stearns URL:  https://nachemotion.wordpres

Festival: Call for Public Engagement Proposals

The Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters project , based at Birkbeck, University of London, is pleased to share details of a Call for Proposals for public engagement activities for an upcoming festival we're co-producing with   WOW - Women of the World . Please see the details below and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.    This is a call for public engagement proposals for the  Shameless!  Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence , which aims to bring together diverse communities of interested persons, researchers, survivors, artists, activists, and medical, psychiatric, and legal professionals in a transformative programme of talks, performances, workshops, “how to” clinics, and wellbeing spaces.   Shameless!  is a Wellcome Trust-funded programme of public engagement, co-produced by  the SHaME project   at Birkbeck, University of London,  and  WOW - Women of the World . The festival will be held in person at a major London arts and cultural venue (to be annou

CfP: The Measurement of Discrimination and Inequality (Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics), deadline November 21, 2021

  The   Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics   invites submissions for a forthcoming   special issue devoted to the philosophy and economics of measuring discrimination and inequality .    We are especially interested in contributions (4,000–8,000 words)   that take an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of philosophy and economics, and we welcome texts by authors from across the disciplinary spectrum.   We invite submissions from the following broad categories of possible (but non-exhaustive) questions:   Methodology of economics : What are the (normative and descriptive) assumptions underlying approaches to measuring and measures of discrimination and inequality? What explains the different methodological choices (for measuring discrimination/inequality) by researchers in various fields? Ethics and political philosophy : What kind of inequality and discrimination is morally, or politically, relevant? How should researchers adjudicate among different definitions of

16 PhD positions in Philosophy (13 Scholarships)_ FINO Consortium

The Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO) is now accepting applications for the academic year 2021/2022.  Phd Curricula : 1) Mind, Science and Language; 2) Ethics and Political Philosophy; 3) History of Philosophy and Science; 4) Theoretical Philosophy   Available PhD positions :  16 (13 scholarships) . Deadline for applications :  05 July 2021, 12:00 (noon).   Call for applications available at :  https://www.finophd.eu/? page_id=2047   How to apply :  https://www.uniupo.it/ en/courses/research- doctorates/enrolment-doctoral- programmes

CfP: Peer Review and the Pandemic

Title: Peer Review and the Pandemic Deadline: 1 September 2021 How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the peer review process?  Or the expert review of grant applications?  How have pandemic-related changes in peer review affected research on the virus and its impact on society?  How has this impacted publication of research on other subjects?  What strategies or innovations have been introduced to address problems in the peer review system during the pandemic?  How have authors, publishers, editors and reviewers adapted to changes in working conditions and workflow?  Have some researchers and reviewers been more seriously impacted by the pandemic and life in lockdown?  What are the long-term implications of the pandemic for researchers and peer reviewers?  This collection aims to build an evidence base of data and analysis on 'Peer Review and the Pandemic', so that we can begin to understand the true impact of COVID-19 on research and researchers.  The aim is to support and

Call for Papers for 2021-22 Working Groups

Submission Deadline: Thursday, July 15, 2021 The Consortium’s working groups bring together scholars from around the world for monthly meetings in specialized fields related to the history of science, technology and medicine to share their works in progress. All interested scholars are welcome online via web conferencing software. Submit Paper Proposal We are currently soliciting paper proposals for the 2021-2022 academic year in the following working groups: Applied Historical Methods for the Environment Collections and Collecting Digital History of Science Early Modern Science Earth and Environmental Sciences Energy History History and Politics of Immunity

CfP: "History of Ecological Economics and Theory of Natural Capital"

Call for Papers for an online conference devoted to the "History of Ecological Economics and Theory of Natural Capital". The conference will take place digitally from January 28 to 29, 2022. Although it had important antecedents in the nineteenth century, ecological economics is usually related to the thinking of twentieth century biologists and economists, including Kenneth E. Boulding, Howard T. Odum, Robert Costanza, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Herman E. Daly, among many others. The initial debate on the entropic nature of the economic process gave rise to a systematic questioning of neoclassical economics and its basic foundations, such as the assumption of the circular flow of exchange value. A new generation of economists sensitive to environmental issues sought to elaborate alternative economic models based on steady-state economics and on a theory of natural value. The successive energy crises of 1973 and 1979-1980 gave definitive impulse for institutional support

New open access book: Alexander Williamson (UCL Press)

Takaaki Inuzuka and translated by Haruko Laurie:  Alexander Williamson.  A Victorian chemist and the making of modern Japan Alexander Williamson was professor of chemistry at UCL (1849–87) and a leading scientist of his time. He taught and cared for visiting Japanese students, thereby assisting them with their goal of modernising Japan. This short, accessible biography explores his contribution to nineteenth-century science as well as his lasting impact on Japanese society. In 1863 five students from the Chōshū clan, with a desperate desire to learn from the West, made their way to England. They were put in the care of Williamson and his wife. Their mission was to learn about cutting-edge Western technology, science, economics and politics. When they returned home they rapidly became leading figures in Japanese life at a particularly turbulent time, one of them serving as the country’s first prime minister. Subsequently many other Japanese students followed in their footsteps and studi