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Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World. 9th-10th June 2025 John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, UK Keynote speakers: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute) PhD students and ECRs are particularly encouraged to apply. Reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for speakers will be covered. Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short bio (100 words) to Eleanor Shaw by 3 February 2025. Scholarship on early modern embodiment has emphasised the body’s porosity, permeability and instability. Early modern bodies did not end at the skin, but rather their interior and exterior worlds were in constant material exchange. Close engagement with, and management of, the body’s surroundings was thus essential for ensuring health and wellbeing. We invite papers examining the relationship between bodies and environments in any context and geographical location c. 1500-1750. Topics may include but are not limited to: Practic...

On Monday 12 May 2025, University College London’s Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Science Museum, London, will mark the 40th anniversary of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's field-changing Leviathan and the Air Pump with a landmark celebration of history of science, the field, and its future. Keynote: Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer in conversation with John Tresch at the Science Museum, London. Forty years ago, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's Leviathan and the Air Pump approached ranges of scientific methods as integrated within contrasting patterns of behaviour and ways of life. Their suggestion was that solutions to the problems of knowledge are solutions to the problem of social order. That suggestion becomes ever more significant in periods of dramatic social and political transformations and of shifting models and standards of knowledge. Four decades after the appearance of that book, we invite up and coming researchers to consider how the relat...

Editors: Clara Florensa, Agustí Nieto-Galan, José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez.                                RESUM/ABSTRACT No conviene despreciar lo que se ignora. Así lo afirmó Antonio Machado hace más de un siglo y también lo confirman las recientes investigaciones en historia social y cultural de la ignorancia. Hace más de una década que se emplea la expresión "agnotología" (estudio de la ignorancia) como imagen especular de la epistemología (estudio del conocimiento). En este libro se utiliza esta reciente historiografía para analizar diversas formas de ignorancia en la España del siglo XX. Algunos conocimientos nunca llegaron a sus potenciales destinatarios porque se ocultaron, expurgaron o tergiversaron. Otros saberes nunca se produjeron por falta de interés académico, apoyo institucional o falta de recursos materiales y humanos. Algunos fueron desautorizados o transformados en falsas controversias públicas, en incertidumbre manufacturada, a menudo concebida para evitar qu...

Contributions are invited to an organised session at the upcoming European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) conference in Coímbra, Portugal (9-12 September 2025). EURHO 2025 event page: https://ruralhistory2025.org/ . Session title: S38 | Engineers and the rural environment in 20th century Europe Organizers Iñaki Iriarte – Universidad de Zaragoza Francesco D´Amaro – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Judit Gil-Farrero – Universidad de Zaragoza Since the late 19th century, different corps of engineers have intervened in European rural environment and, consequently, on European rural societies. Agronomists sought to modernize production by analysing the best farming systems or livestock management practices and recommending or, in some cases, imposing the techniques that should be adopted by farmers. Civil engineers, on the other hand, planned and developed transport networks or irrigation systems, which could include the construction of large reservoirs, significantly impacting the affect...

Call for Papers for Scientiae 2025: Annual Conference, which will be held from 16 to 19 September 2025 in Istanbul, Türkiye, and hosted by the Department of the History of Science at Istanbul University. Situated at the intellectual crossroads of Europe and Asia, this year’s conference will focus on global connections, with an emphasis on, but not limited to, the early modern period (1400–1800). Enriched by worldwide scholarly communities, the study of early modern science, literature, and scholarship has become increasingly global since the founding of Scientiae in 2012. Building on Scientiae’s interdisciplinary legacy, the conference will underscore the interconnectedness of regions, periods, cultures, and material and intellectual traditions. We welcome proposals for individual papers, organised panels, roundtables, and workshops on all topics related to the 1400–1800 period. The submission deadline is 1 March 2025. For additional information about the Scientiae 2025 Annual Conferen...