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2-3 September 2026,  Spanish National Research Council, Madrid Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers Organisers: ‘Commodities of Empire’ British Academy Research Project, ERC Consolidator Grant WILDHIST, and the AMBTEC project funded by the Spanish State Research Agency. Deadline for abstract submissions: 14 February 2026. The scientific and technological dimensions of commodity history have long attracted attention, with recent work offering comprehensive accounts of the transnational movement of experts, technologies, and scientific ideas. Yet the skills, techniques, and expertise required for resource extraction and processing in and around commodity frontiers remain less thoroughly explored. This workshop seeks to redirect attention to these frontiers of commodity production as sites of knowledge generation, codification and exchange from early modern times to the present. While remaining attentive to imperial, trans-imperial and transnational knowle...

Annual Conference of the  Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte  (gtg) 2026 LWL Museum Zeche Zollern (Zollern Colliery), Dortmund, Germany, 7–9 May 2026 Mines, coal cellars, pipelines, server farms and coffee machines – these are all part of complex energy networks that shape people’s political, economic and cultural activities. Energy sources, their infrastructures and forms of use, energy landscapes and linguistic images of energy shape the material and cultural conditions of human life, are historically changeable, and arise from the interactions between people and the environment. In recognition of these connections, energy humanities has recently established itself as a dynamic field between the humanities and social sciences that examines energy in its material, political, cultural, ecological and technological forms. Whether energy history has the potential to become an independent historical sub-discipline and what consequences this would have for the history of technolog...

After what was a very successful Michaelmas term, we are thrilled to announce our  Call for Papers  for Lent. We welcome presentations on  all aspects of Oceanic and Maritime History across all periods , including (but not limited to): Encounters  - maritime worlds, cross-cultural interactions, the subaltern sea; Spaces  - litoral, coastal, and insular communities, the terraqueous globe, sacred maritime geographies; Exchanges  - migration and trafficking, flows of goods and ideas, maritime knowledge networks; Cultures  - maritime identities, seafaring traditions; Environmental Histories -  human-sea ecologies, oceanic transformations. This is a great opportunity to share completed research or receive feedback on a work-in-progress.  MPhil and PhD students  at all stages, from any institution in the UK or abroad, are encouraged to apply. The workshop will meet for several sessions througho...

The board of the Society for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (GWMT) invites you to the 2026 annual conference in cooperation with the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and the Prague department of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO). The conference will take place 9–11 September 2026 in Prague and will focus on the theme: Epistemic Passages: Knowledge in Translation Taking the opportunity of convening in a city that over centuries experienced has the positive as well as the negative aspects of the encounter of different cultures, confessions, ideologies, or nations, the GWMT annual conference will focus on  scholarly translation practices and their consequences . While translation is usually associated with so-called natural languages, our conference will extend beyond this to include knowledge moving across time, space, ideologies, religions a...

Mad Science: Biology, Technology, Systems of Power  International Interdisciplinary Conference ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ Technical University of Iași, Romania, 5th-7th June 2026   We are delighted to launch the call for papers for the second edition of the international interdisciplinary  Mad Science  conference, to take place in 2026 at ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ Technical University of Iași. This year’s topic is  Biology, Technology and Systems of Power , exploring current debates and points of inflection at the intersection of various disciplines. We welcome papers and workshop proposals in panels in Romanian, English, French and German.  The conference topic is inspired from the social and political events of the recent years, which have brought the social, political, cultural and ideological implications of technology to the fore. As the technological burrows ever so deeply into our lives, the questions that we raise are inevitably connected to the changing status of t...

The conference  The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice   will explore how theoretical and technical knowledge of natural properties was shaped through transmission, translation, and adaptation, as well as the impact of its practical applications in crafts and artisanal practices. By tracing these trajectories across time (6th – 15th century), space (Mediterranean area, Near East, Iran and Central Asia), as well as cultures and languages (Greek, Latin, Arabic, Middle Persian and Persian, Hebrew, Syriac, and Turkish), the conference seeks to illuminate the pathways of transmission through which mediaeval understanding of natural properties and their applications was shaped and circulated.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:  Theories of properties:  explicit formulations or implicit theories, encoding, the conceptual space of properties...

Call for Papers What are inferences? Reflections from philosophy and cognitive science Estudios de Filosofía No 76, June-December 2027 Philosophy journal       Inference lies at the heart of cognition, yet what counts as an inference —and how it ought to be analysed— remains a contentious philosophical topic. The classical view frames it as a conscious, rule-governed transition between propositionally structured beliefs, carried out at the personal level and accountable to logic. New work across philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence reveals a more complex picture: sub-personal systems that draw conclusions without reflective oversight, non-linguistic representations, like maps, diagrams, and vector spaces, that underlie different reasoning processes, and ampliative or probabilistic transitions that escape from strict logical analysis. This special issue aims to explore the diverse forms that inference can take and to examine how this plurality challenges the...

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy  invites submissions for the following conference: The Epistemology of Medicine 25–26 June 2026 Siemens Foundation , Südliches Schlossrondell 23, 80638 Munich, Germany https://www.philosophie.lmu. de/mcmp/en/latest-news/news- overview/news/call-for-papers- the-epistemology-of-medicine- conference.html Rationale: This international conference brings together leading philosophers to explore foundational questions in the epistemology of medicine. How do we generate, evaluate, and integrate knowledge in medical science and practice—especially in an era shaped by big data, advanced statistics, and artificial intelligence? By examining the nature of evidence, causal reasoning, and explanatory models in health and healthcare, the event aims to clarify how different sources of knowledge can be combined to guide effective medical decision-making and policy. Through interdisciplinary dialogue, The Epistemology of Medicine seeks to advance philoso...

The website for the 53rd International Congress of the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) Annual Meeting 2026, to be held in Alexandroupolis, Greece from 8th to 11th October 2026, is now live. Please see  https://icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr  and submit your abstracts by 31 January 2026. Contact Information Animesh Chatterjee -- Chair of Organising Committee for the  53rd International Congress of the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) Annual Meeting 2026. URL:  https://icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr