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Comença la quarta temporada de FEM ciència?, una iniciativa d’entrevistes a historiadores de la ciència sobre el paper que ocupen les dones a la cultura científica, a càrrec de Mar Rivera Colomer. Aquesta quarta temporada posarà el focus en la història mediambiental en diverses de les seves vessants. En total hi hauran unes 8-10 entrevistes, i possiblement alguna taula rodona. Tens alguna idea de dona que encaixaria com a entrevistada? Alguna perspectiva que t'interessa en especial? Alguna idea de format per interactiu? Envia les teves propostes a femciencia2@gmail.com

Every other year the EuChemS Working Party on the History of Chemistry organizes an international conference on the history of chemistry, open to colleagues from all over the world. The general aim of the conferences organised by the WP is to facilitate communication between historically interested chemists, museum curators, science educators and historians of chemistry, and to gather the community on a regular basis. The 14th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (14 ICHC) will take place from 11 to 14 of June, 2025 in Valencia, Spain, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The 14 ICHC will be hosted by the Lopez Piñero Inter-University Institute - University of Valencia , an academic institution which supports research projects and outreach activities on historical and social studies on medicine, technology, science and the environment. The Institute is located in a restored 18th century palace in the centre of the city of Valencia, where the Historical-Medical Libra...

Vernon Press invites monographs or edited volume proposals on the subject of Emerging Technologies in Education. As we progress through the 21st century, the blend of technology and education is opening up unique and exciting opportunities for innovation and transformation. The "Emerging Technologies in Education" series aims to capture this dynamic evolution, offering educators, researchers, and policymakers the insights needed to effectively utilize these technologies. Our goal is to explore the impacts of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), chatbots, digital storytelling, gamification, learning analytics, and more on educational practices. This series will not only investigate the practical applications of these technologies but also address the critical pedagogical, ethical, and social questions they raise. By making these discussions accessible and relevant to a broad audience, we aim to equip educators with th...

Expeditions are not just a thing of the past. While the word “expedition” may conjure up the scientific and colonial practices of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they remain an important and highly visible way of organizing field research, communicating scientific results to the public, and raising awareness of researchers’ work. For example, consider the Mosaic Expedition to the Arctic, which took place between 2019 and 2020. Its leaders intentionally froze the German research vessel Polarstern into the Arctic pack ice near the North Pole, with which it drifted for more than a year. While the primary goals of the expedition were to study the processes of anthropogenic global warming and to increase public understanding of this pressing issue, the Mosaic Expedition is also part of a long tradition of expeditionary science. And because expeditions remain important to the practice and image of science, historians are continually compelled to explore the historical context of vo...

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is excited to announce the launch of the “ kn/own/able Project ,” an interdisciplinary communications initiative towards social change around knowledge and its ownership. About the kn/own/able project: “Knowing” and “owning” seem like two separate things in our modern globalized world, with “science” often viewed as the main form of knowledge and law (such as intellectual property) as the dominant form of ownership. But are knowledge and ownership really separate? The goal of the kn/own/able project is to demonstrate how “knowing” and “owning” are indivisible, or kn/own/able. This spans academic and wider social spheres, and has impacts across (de)colonialism, heritage, law, environmental change, science development and more. Through this collaborative project we seek to spark further discussion, empower researchers and practitioners with new interdisciplinary methods, and instigate social change around knowledge and ownership. LEARN...

The 2024 CILIP Library & Information History Group conference will take place at the Linnean Society on Friday 4th October 2024, and will be held in association with Archives of Natural History, the journal of the Society for the History of Natural History. The theme of the conference is ‘Libraries, Archives and Natural History’. Proposals for twenty-minute papers are welcomed on any aspect examining Natural History within the history of libraries and archives. These proposals might address, but are not limited to, any of the following topics: The libraries and/or archives of individual naturalists The library, information and archival history of institutions and/or societies for the promotion of the study of Natural History The challenges of working with libraries and archives that have been disconnected from their associated specimen collections The historic impact of Library spaces on research/collaboration/advancement Historic information management in the study of Natural His...

Kunsttexte – Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte is among the oldest and most established academic open access journals from the German-speaking countries. The journal welcomes proposals from all fields, including art history, history, visual studies, anthropology, architectural history and literature studies. For the special issue „Epidemics and Cultural Rebirth in Early Modern Worlds“, the journal accepts submissions that investigate epidemics and their repercussions from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Epidemics – viewed as transformative events – are on the frontier between nature and culture, and offer unique epistemological opportunities to understand cultural processes, traditions and vulnerabilities. In the Early Modern era, the ubiquitous search for meaning in the aftermath of such events relied heavily on the visual and literary arts. Expanding the concepts, ideas, images and objects of cultural rebirth with a particular focus on the transformative impacts of epi...

The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) , in collaboration with the Allard Pierson of the University of Amsterdam and the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP) , invites abstract submissions for its Annual Autumn Meeting, to be held at the Allard Pierson on 11 October 2024. The meeting will be hybrid, although we strongly encourage in-person attendance. In its extensive collections, the Allard Pierson holds the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica State collection of around 4,400 rare manuscripts and printed works relating to the hermetic tradition, assembled by Dutch businessman Joost Ritman. For this meeting, we invite proposals for papers related to the alchemical material in the collection. The keynote speaker will be Prof. Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London). There will be an exhibition of some of the highlights of the collection. Submissions can be individual presentations, panels with 3 speakers, or roundtable pr...