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Artículos originales Impacto inicial de la noticia del descubrimiento de los rayos X en la sociedad española Javier Gómez-Selles Una etapa de la historia reciente del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (1970-1985) contada por sus protagonistas Carolina Martín Albaladejo y Soraya Peña de Camus Sáez Argos. La puesta en marcha de un reactor nuclear experimental en Barcelona Faustino Acosta Ortega Madrid Científico (1894-1936): defensa de la ingeniería profesional, instrucción técnica y comunicación científica Javier Sierra de la Torre Resistentes y resistencia a la campaña vasca de inoculación de viruelas de 1771 Javier Esteban-Ochoa-de-Eribe Darwinismo social y alimentación: la aportación de Fernando Monckeberg al programa de erradicación de la desnutrición en la dictadura militar chilena César Leyton Robinson El gas de agua: entre la alternativa y la decepción a mediados del siglo XIX Francesc X. Barca Salom Necrológica Ernesto García Camarero (27 de enero de 1932 – 26 de noviembre de...

Organizers: Stefano Gulizia (Milan); Leonie Hannan (Belfast) This project is sponsored by the association Scientiae, and it is proposed as a special issue at Notes and Records, the journal of the Royal Society in London. The submission of complete papers will be expected in February 2025. We will select contributions according to the following outline. In recent years, the study of early modern experiments highlights the importance of individuality and self-preservation, including the preservation of food and scientific materials (Guerrini 2016; Werrett 2019), in connection with empiricism and the art of thinking; similarly, the imagination’s role, solitude, and emotions in general also gained a wider currency. In themselves, these trends represent a significant enlargement in a research field which, for many years, remained anchored to the socio-literary technologies of witnessing or to the display of courtly culture, and which has known only a belated engagement with the structural...

Historiography has long investigated – also through interdisciplinary approaches – the theme of Italian energy policies, paying particular attention to stakeholders and to scientific debates regarding the use of nuclear power as an energy source. In this context, the theme of anti-nuclear mobilizations has remained largely unexplored, despite contributions made by some of their protagonists and numerous studies on the 1970s and 1980s movements. Firstly, this special issue addresses this gap and aims to investigate the heterogeneous components in Italian society that have contributed to anti-nuclear mobilizations, highlighting their protagonists, ideas, and values. Secondly, it aims to offer an adequate contextualisation via an exploration of political and organisational ties of such movements, and tools and communication strategies they employed. Structure-wise, the special issue will be articulated in two sections: the former hosting research papers; the latter including testimonies f...

What: 2-day Workshop at the University of Birmingham, funded by the Wellcome Trust as part of ProjectEPIC When: 23rd-24th September 2024 Where: University of Birmingham Info: Research within distributed cognition and affectivity emphasises the essential role of other people in realising various cognitive and affective states. Similarly, work on epistemic injustice in healthcare has drawn attention to the influence of other people on our practices of cultivating, sharing, and communicating knowledge about our bodies. In this workshop, we pursue interesting possibilities for future research at the intersection of these research areas. Some researchers have begun to look at the “dark side” of distributed cognition, scaffolding, and other distributed cognitive and affective practices to develop more socio-politically situated analyses. Following this turn, we seek to investigate how we use other people to understand our own experiences of ill-health, and how such dynamics may relate to ins...

A conference to be held on March 29-30, 2025 Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, USA What is disaster? What is this present moment if not a time of disasters? Identifying the omnipresent and omnivorous presence of “our presentism” in 2015, François Hartog wrote, “Not to forget a further aspect of our present: that the future is perceived as a threat not a promise. The future is a time of disasters, and ones we have, moreover, brought upon ourselves” (Hartog 2015, xviii). Different writers have been pinpointing and/or offering existing and potential ways of conceiving the present and the future (Koselleck 1979, 2002; Berlant 2011; Horn 2018). “The shock of a closed future” (Furet 1995) is both the anticipation of the future and the experience of the present as a time of disasters: an experience of the present as saturated with the future, as a “noneventful intensity” (Povinelli 2021) that challenges the ‘enlightened’ and capitalist conception of progressive time. In t...

Throughout its evolution, the Star Trek franchise has worked to tell stories about diversity on several levels, and a key element of several episodes has been disability. For example, from Captain Pike to Lieutenant Detmer, Star Trek offers many opportunities that provide for deeper discussions of disability. At the same time as Star Trek’s legacy has expanded, definitions and models of disability representation have continued to shift in new ways. Additionally, as disability theorist Dan Goodley (2017) suggests, theories have become multi-dimensional, and disabilities are now better understood to coexist alongside other markers of diversity (p. 44). Because both Star Trek and disability studies continue to shape how we think about the present as well as what we can imagine about the future, the Special Issue editors are seeking submissions for the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS) that highlights the ways that disability influences, impacts, and operates within the Star Tr...

Journal Website: https://link.springer.com/collections/hgegehbdde Guest Editors: Harald A. Wiltsche (Linköping), Karen Crowther (Oslo), Richard Dawid (Stockholm) & Samuel Schindler (Aarhus) Deadline for Submission: November 1, 2024 Description of the Topical Collection Empirical constraints are pivotal in the development and assessment of scientific theories, with experimentation being the quintessential arbiter of science. Despite their fundamental role, experiments only became the subject of serious philosophical analysis relatively late. It was through the works of authors such as Ian Hacking, Allan Franklin, David Gooding, Hans Radder or Peter Galison that experimentation grew into a dedicated topic in its own right during the 1980s and 1990s. However, while many classical works from that period focused on traditional laboratory experiments, cutting-edge research in fields like high-energy physics, astrophysics or cosmology present distinct challenges. Experiments are not only...