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The  Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association (CSTHA-AHSTC ) invites proposals for its biennial meeting, to be held at York University, 7–9 November 2025.  We encourage scholarship that engages broadly with the topics of nations and nationalism as they relate to scientific and technological change. These are classic questions for Canadian historians of science and technology, but also timely ones in the current era of profound, rapid, and unpredictable global change.  Proposed topics include   but are not limited to the following: Where and when have Indigenous knowledges or practices intersected or interacted with colonial scientific or technological ones?  What roles have political or geographic borders played in the development of science and technology in Canada, nationally, internationally, or provincially?  How have different sciences and technologies interacted with the way Canadians have understood and aligned themselves with their nat...

The significance of law enforcement for public health has recently been spotlit by the policing of Covid-19 lockdowns, and the impact of police violence on minoritised populations. Public health and policing have been entwined since the early 1800s, evolving together as characteristics of the modern nation state. Sex work and sexual health, environmental harms and nuisances, unsafe workplaces, substance misuse, mental health crises, interpersonal violence, road collisions, and unintended injuries have long interested public health experts and been central to policing. Moreover, police personnel are themselves at risk of occupational harms, presenting a particular public health challenge.   With sparse exceptions, histories of modern policing and public health rarely meet. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers from both fields, situating the police officer as a key figure in histories of public health and medicine, and public health as integral to the evolution ...

Accounts of journeys and expeditions have long been seen as articulations of a hunger for knowledge about other places, climates and peoples. In the early modern period, the establishment of scientific associations and learned societies, the accelerated production of print artefacts and the drive for colonial expansion saw non-fictional travel writing became one of the most widely read genres in the Western world. Only relatively recently has attention turned to the ways in which travel writing problematises the creation, organisation and dissemination of knowledge. In line with studies into how factual information is acquired, processed and diffused (Winchester, 2023), but also the role played by ignorance, uncertainty and non-knowledge as productive driving forces (Burke, 2023; Gross and McGoey, 2023), this conference explores the challenges to forging knowledge in the period between 1600 and 1820.    Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: the tensions between ...

This call for papers aims to prepare a collective publication focused on the actors and practices of assistance to migrant populations in Europe and the Middle East between 1945 and 1970. The project adopts an innovative perspective, emphasizing on-the-ground dynamics and the interactions among the various actors involved in migration-related aid, between cooperation, competition and entanglement. It also seeks to shed light on lesser-known figures—third-party actors in the field of displacement assistance—whose roles, though significant, have often remained marginalized in historical scholarship. An editorial workshop, designed to coordinate and refine the submitted texts, will be held at the German Historical Institute in Paris on December 3-5, 2025 (exact day to be confirmed). Selected contributors will have reviewed the draft papers of the other participants ahead of time, so that the workshop can be fully dedicated to collectively aligning and revising the contributions. All parti...