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Biennial Call for Special Issue proposals for Centaurus

Centaurus, the official Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, regularly publishes issues dedicated to a special theme. The ESHS and the Editorial Board of Centaurus are now soliciting proposals for Special Issues to be published in 2024 and 2025. Proposals should include the following: A description of the topic and its significance (less than 200 words). A short description of (a) the topic’s relationship to the literature; (b) the degree to which the  proposal links history of science to other fields of knowledge; (c) the audience that is targeted by the volume; (d) the main innovations of the proposal; (e) why the volume is especially relevant, timely and important (less than 500 words). A list of (approximately) 6 to 10 contributors, together with a title and a short paragraph  describing each contributor’s individual essay. A brief CV of the guest editor(s). A schedule of production (time needed for internal review by the guest editors; date of first  submiss

Call for Book Proposals: Humanities and Social Sciences

Cambridge Scholars Publishing are inviting proposals for academic books and edited collections in  Humanities and Social Sciences .   We publish in all major fields of academic research and practice, including   Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences ,   and  Health Sciences.   To submit a book proposal, please visit our website, where you can complete a   Book Proposal Form   and read our   publishing guidelines  . Since our foundation in Cambridge, UK, more than 20 years ago, Cambridge Scholars Publishing have grown to be one of the world’s leading scholarly book publishers, with more than 700 academic books due to be published this year and a backlist of more than 8000 titles. Please note that we are fully independent, and are not affiliated to, or associated with, the University of Cambridge or Cambridge University Press in any way. We always aim to put our authors first in everything we do , and we bring that ambition into our publishing operations with o

CfA: "From Science to Metaphysics? On the use of scientific knowledge and practices in order to propose an ontology of nature"

The 4 th  workshop of the OLOFOS group will take place on  May 11-12 2023   in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) at the  Institut Supérieur de Philosophie  of the  Université Catholique de Louvain . The theme for this year will be:   From Science to Metaphysics? On the use of scientific knowledge and practices in order to propose an ontology of nature . We are also honoured to announce that  Professor Anjan CHAKRAVARTTY  (University of Miami) and  Professor Michela MASSIMI  (University of Edinburgh) will be our invited speakers for this workshop. On this occasion, we invite abstracts of no more than  1000 words  to be entered  before December 21 2022  directly on the submission platform via the following link:  https://sciencemeta. sciencesconf.org/  (you will have to create an account to submit) Note that any approach to the theme is potentially acceptable. However, contributions about the justification of using science in a metaphysical project will have the preference of the selection comm

CfP: The Water Cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean, 1500-1900, Three-Day International Conference, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 13-15 September 2023

What would a history of society and culture look like with water placed at its core? This three-day international conference aims to shed light on the forms of human interactions with water over time in Europe and the Mediterranean. The intention is to explore the history of different societies, the construction of their identities and forms of self-representation, based on their changing relationships with water: the ways of controlling, using and conceiving it; the religious, symbolic and knowledge dimensions it assumes, and the forms of cultural production it leads to. Human-water interactions offer a unique key to understanding society and culture. By ‘water cultures’, we mean both material aspects (such as hydraulic engineering or water capture techniques) and non-material features (symbolic responses, beliefs and practices, changing knowledge and legal structures). Fruitful comparison can be made across a wide range of different times and places. This is possible for two reasons.

Durham Residential Research Library Fellowships for the academic year 2022 - 2023

The Durham Residential Research Library ( http://durham-rrl.org.uk/ ) is delighted to invite applications from researchers for Visiting Fellowships of one month in duration. The Durham Residential Research Library aims to enable and foster research across the historic collections of Durham, notably Palace Green Library, the Oriental Museum, the Library of Ushaw College (the former Roman Catholic seminary just outside the City), and the medieval Priory Library and the archives of Durham Cathedral. The resources available to scholars include not only libraries and archives, but also collections of visual and material culture, and architectural assets. The purpose of the Visiting Fellowships is to support research into these globally significant collections. The Barker Visiting Fellowships are intended to support research into any of the collections held in Durham and there are a number of Lendrum Priory Library Fellowships available specifically to support work on the surviving contents