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Presentación El decimoquinto Congreso de la SEHCYT se celebrará en la ciudad de Gijón (Asturias) entre el miércoles 18 y el sábado 21 de junio de 2025. La junta directiva de la SEHCYT convoca a sus integrantes y a la comunidad interesada en la historia de las ciencias y de las técnicas a reunirse en esos días para abordar problemas relacionados con la dimensión espacial de la generación y apropiación de saberes que están en permanente circulación entre diversos territorios y diferentes grupos sociales. El congreso se organiza en torno al lema “De lo local a lo global”. Con su desarrollo se aspira a estimular la reflexión sobre el papel desempeñado por los lugares en los que se producen los conocimientos científico-técnicos, su circulación transnacional y la formación de redes de alcance global en las que se desenvuelven las instituciones y las actividades científico-técnicas. Incidir en el estudio del papel de la ciencia y de la técnica en los entramados locales y en su proyección plan...

Technology and Film Labour: Crafting the Look of the Film. Investigating the impacts of technological change on below the line film labour. Recent technological developments such as the widespread adoption of virtual production processes and the use of generative AI have had a transformative effect on film production workflows and below the line film craft. The relationships between production departments as well as the roles and functions of cinematography, production design, sound design costume, location and visual effects have all been affected by technological change. At the same time, such transformations in production practices are nothing new, with historical precedents including the impact on film craft of the transition to sound, the impact of colour on costume and set design and the emergence of lightweight camera technology. Whilst each of these shifts has altered the skill sets and daily work practices of film practitioners, such changes have been equally subsumed into end...

26–27 February 2025, University of Konstanz and Online Organisers: Dr. Joyce Dixon, Dr. Giulia Simonini Guest Speaker: Dr. Alexandra Loske From the first instances of coloured engravings depicting botanical and zoological subjects, the usefulness and effectiveness of the printed image was transformed. In the seventeenth century the practice of hand-painting prints in watercolour was pioneered in luxurious and costly works such as Basilius Besler’s Hortus Eytettensis (1613). A century later this technique allowed for the publication of Maria Sibylla Merian’s exquisite Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705), and the first British collection of hand-coloured zoological engravings, A Natural History of English Insects (1714–1720) by Eleazar Albin. Colour, pictorially represented, had become crucial to the project of natural knowledge-making: as Mark Catesby commented in 1731, “a clearer Idea may be conceiv’d from the Figures of Animals and Plants in their proper Colours, than from t...

Proposals are invite from prospective ‘special editors’ for the next issue of The British Journal for the History of Science - Themes. BJHS Themes is a collaborative venture between the British Society for the History of Science and Cambridge University Press. Themes is an open access journal that is published annually. Each issue is dedicated to a specific theme in the history of science, broadly defined. Past issues can be found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjhs-themes/all-issues Deadline for proposals: 15 July 2024. Further instructions for submitting proposals can be found here : https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjhs-themes/information/about-this-journal

Organizing committee: Claudia Cristalli, Ties van Gemert Important dates: Deadline for submissions: the 25th of July Notification of acceptance: 1st of August Description: This workshop seeks to bring together historians, philosophers, psychologists and museum curators interested in the question of the role of instruments in nineteenth-century experimental psychology as well as in contemporary cognitive science. The aim of this event is twofold: (1) to foster interdisciplinary research on psychology’s objects, its techniques, and its history; and (2) to contribute to our current understanding of the value of history for both philosophy of science and scientific practice. Contemporary science (and particularly psychology) has been witnessing a “replication crisis,” which stimulated methodological remedies (Shrout and Rodgers 2018) and philosophical reflection (Wiggins and Christopherson 2019). Historians and philosophers of science working with historical experiments have generally refr...

24th-25th of October 2024 Medical Museion and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen Despite being a critical part of the clinical practice, diagnosis has received relatively little attention in the philosophy of medicine literature, especially when it comes to diagnosis of somatic diseases. Nonetheless, as a central concept and tool in both medical practice and biomedical knowledge/research, diagnosis offers several exciting epistemological and ethical questions. In history of science, studies have often limited themselves to very specific historical settings to avoid anachronism. Diagnoses are however historical constructs that carry their history with them in their extension and use. Drawing on historical perspectives yield fruitful avenues for understanding how diagnoses come to be and are used. In this conference we therefore wish to talk across philosophical, historical and sociological approaches to diagnosis to investigate their...