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International Workshop. University of Florence, Department of Social and Political Sciences.  October 15th and 16th, 2024 This biennium (2024-25) marks the 50th anniversary of the end of authoritarian regimes in Greece, Portugal, and Spain. Their democratization processes have captured the attention of international and political historians, social scientists, and cultural researchers ever since. At the center of the inquiry have been questions related to the various and multifaceted changes ‘democratization’ brought to the public and private sphere, the legacies of anti-dictatorial struggles in forging new  ideas of modernization, transitional justice and the evolving memorialization of the period. More recently, research on Southern Europe’s transitions argued for the need to adopt more transnational and comparative perspectives, to include new actors and understudied dimensions, and to expand the chronologies and geographies under study (also including the former ...

The standing session in Science Fiction of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is now accepting proposals for the organization’s 121st annual conference. The PAMLA Annual Conference 2024 will be held at Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, CA, from Wednesday, November 6 to Sunday, November 10. The call-for-papers deadline is Tuesday, April 30, 2024. We invite proposals that engage with some aspect of Science Fiction in media and/or literature, including closely related fields such as Alternative History and Speculative Fiction. Special consideration will be given to proposals that center around the conference theme “Translation in Action,” but proposals not connecting to the conference theme are likewise welcome. Suggested topics about science fiction in relation to “translation in action” include but are not limited to: “Alien” languages (Mis)communication in science fiction Translation technology and politics of universal translation Translating “hard scie...

Farm animals have been important actors in the transformations of medicine and the environment. The industrialization of livestock farming has had a huge impact on health and disease management, both in the barn and in the clinic. In order to understand the farm animals’ roles in these processes, we need to historicize them. We are happy to announce an international workshop that aims to do exactly that by bringing together historians of medicine, agriculture and science. It will take place from the 11th to 13th June 2025 in Zürich and feature a keynote by Hannah Landecker. We plan to publish the presented papers as a special issue in a high-ranking journal. Contributions that offer critical reflections on new archival materials, unusual sources and different methodological approaches are particularly welcome. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered. URL:  https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/historyofmedicine/SNF-Projekt-Nutztiere-im-Anthropoz…

Editors: Manon S. Parry, Professor of Medical and Nursing History at VU Amsterdam and Associate Professor of American Studies and Public History at the University of Amsterdam and Leni Van Goidsenhoven, Assistant Professor of Critical Disability Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Critical Disability Studies at Ghent University Call for Proposals: Disability is “everywhere and nowhere” in heritage. Even in settings where disability is obviously embedded, as in collections and sites associated with war, medicine, and industry, the experiences of disabled people often go unacknowledged or uncritically presented in the service of another story. When they are included, their stories have often been pushed to the margins. Framing disabled people in this way, as a small (yet diverse) group separate from mainstream society, ignores the mutual constitution of the categories of disability and able-bodied or neurotypical and neurodivergent, and minimizes the presenc...

Fighting pandemics in South-East Europe: experts, infrastructure, and technologies in the long 19th century New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study Bucharest, 17–18 October 2024 States mobilised enormous human, material and financial resources in their fight against pandemic diseases such as plague or cholera. Not only medical professionals or public health officials, but also border guards, police and bureaucrats played their part in coordinating states’ pandemic efforts. Quarantine stations were set up on the frontlines of defence, at some of the busiest ports and border crossings, but were challenged by increased mobility, the transport revolution and market integration in an era of rapid globalisation. As quarantine restrictions became increasingly unpopular with both medical professionals and the general public, authorities turned to other preventive measures: from investment in urban sanitation infrastructure (sewers or waste disposal) to public health campaigns aimed a...

17 de mayo de 2024 Organizan  FERNANDO COLLANTES (Dpto. Economía, Univ. de Oviedo) JOSÉ M. MARTÍNEZ CARRIÓN (Dpto. Economía Aplicada, Univ. de Murcia) VICENTE PINILLA (Dpto. Economía Aplicada, Univ. de Zaragoza) JOSEP MARIA RAMON MUÑOZ (Dpto. Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Murcia) Url:  https://rednisaldes.es/jornadas-nisaldes-mayo-2024/

We warmly welcome submissions to a two-day conference in association with our Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award on charity and voluntarism in Britain’s mixed economy of healthcare since 1948. The conference will take place in central London, on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th October 2024. Abstracts are requested by Friday 10th May 2024 2024. In 1946, the Minister of Health for England and Wales, Aneurin Bevan, condemned the extent to which a significant part of the UK’s hospital system was dependent on the ‘caprice of private charity’. However, charity – and voluntarism more generally – have continued to play a significant role in the development of healthcare within the UK’s National Health Service. During the pandemic, the remarkable impact of NHS Charities Together’s Urgent COVID-19 Appeal demonstrated the continuing relevance of charitable money in the NHS today. We invite abstract submissions for papers from academic researchers, policy-makers and practitioners which actively enga...

The success of science is often attributed to "the" scientific method, yet the definition and nature of this method remains a subject of philosophical debate. While traditional philosophy sought to establish a normative, static and universal account of the scientific method, more practice-oriented philosophers have stressed the dynamic nature of scientific method(s) since the post-positivist turn in philosophy of science. Recent developments in fundamental physics (String Theory, the Standard Model of particle physics and its extensions, early universe cosmology, etc.) offer promising case studies for investigating (the) scientific “method(s)” and its alleged dynamic and plastic nature. This workshop therefore proposes to review recent developments in fundamental physics (since the second half of the 20th century), in order to evaluate whether these developments entail significant methodological breaks with respect to the past. “Methods” is to be understood in a broad sense, ...

Confronting Decline (CONDE) – Challenges of Deindustrialization in European Societies since the 1970s Organization: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History / University of Luxembourg; Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich Venue: University of Luxembourg, Esch-Belval Date: 25–27 June 2025 Deadline: 30 June 2024 Since the 1970s, deindustrialization has fundamentally changed Western industrial societies. In North America and Europe, thousands of jobs have been lost in traditional industrial regions, in particular in the textile industry, coal mining, the iron and steel industry and shipbuilding. Even in the electronic consumer goods sector and the watch and photography industries, many millions of jobs have been eliminated or relocated to other regions of the world. There is no question that deindustrialization is one of the most far-reaching transformation processes in contemporary history, fundamentally changing landscapes, economic structures and socio-cult...

Dates: 9 – 13 June 2024 Location: Washington D.C. & Open Gov Hub This is a hybrid meeting, therefore, one can attend or present in person or online. The conference will be followed by a one-day workshop on the 14th June on Cybernetics and Governance, and this will be followed 15 – 19 June by the American Society for Cybernetics Meeting and 15 – 18 June by the Archetypes conference… All in Washington D.C. THEME The theme for the conference is Influence and Responsibility. We all have our spheres of influence. As systems scientists we have a responsibility to let others know about the work we do. The world is a troubled place, and organizations are trying to navigate in a complex context. Successful navigation partly depends on having good conceptual tools that are suited to meet the challenges. Institutions and organizations have the responsibility to be as well informed as possible about utility and effectiveness of systems science, cybernetics and complexity theory. As a specie...

Archives of IT (AIT) has published an in-depth feature documenting the rise of the mobile phone from status symbol to the world's most ubiquitous personal technological device. From bricks to bendables:40 years of Mobile Phones https://archivesit.org.uk/from-bricks-to-bendables-40-years-of-mobile-phones/ Using interviews from the AIT archive, From bricks to bendables: 40 years of Mobile Phones reveals the journey from the emergence of the first cellular systems to support mobile phones in 1984 and the first mobile call in the UK the following year to today's smartphones and our hyperconnected world. It traces the technology back to the Victorian telegraph, which tranformed international communication and how mobile phones emerged from this and the wireless car phones of the 1950s-80s. The article also highlights many of the key developments including the successive generations of cellular networks, the move from analogue to digital, GSM, the first text message, Arm processors, ...

4 year position as a PhD student (a 30 hour per week prae-doc university assistant, in the Austrian system), supervised by ( Sarah Davies ) at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna . Your planned research should fall under the theme ’Technosciences, materiality, and digital cultures’, and should explore aspects of the digital as material practice in contexts where technoscience is created or negotiated. The anticipated start date is October 2024, and you must have a completed Masters degree by this point. The deadline for applications is 30th April. The successful candidate will work on a PhD dissertation, participate in research activities of the group and department, and contribute to the organisation of the department and its teaching. For further details see the full job advertisement , which also explains how to apply (requested material includes a CV, motivation letter, 3-5 page outline of your proposed project, and 5 key references that you think...