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Dossier planned for submission to the journal Esboços: histórias em contextos globais (UFSC, Brazil), with publication scheduled for 2027, within the framework of its editorial and peer-review process. GENERAL AIM: This dossier aims to place technical–labor internationalism at the center of global history debates, proposing it as an interpretive key for analyzing the transnational circulation of expertise, skilled labor, and political projects across the twentieth century. Rather than treating it merely as a form of professional mobility, the dossier understands technical–labor internationalism as a site of mediation in which applied knowledge functioned as a strategic resource. These circulations brought together material needs, institutional frameworks, and political projects that had to position themselves vis-à-vis major global transformations: from the Great Depression, protectionist backlash, the rise of totalitarianisms, and multiple strands of proletarian internationalism in th...

Understanding the relationships between  knowledge  and  resilience  is essential for examining complex societies and their responses to short-term events and longer-term processes of  environmental change . This conference, organised by  SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE   (ERC Consolidator Grant 101044437), aims to address the relationships between knowledge and resilience in relation to climatic and environmental conditions in the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, particularly focusing on how people in this period responded in different ways to environmental fluctuations and challenges. We invite proposals for papers and posters which address issues relating to knowledge and/or resilience in relation to the environment in the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, and especially encourage submissions which examine social and/or intellectual responses to environmental changes. We aim to open u...

Some 25 years ago Richard Rogers proposed an urban renaissance for cities across the UK. That vision of regeneration was primarily focused on the role of design in creating a more livable city for people. However, this conference is premised on a different reading of the city – one that sees it as a site in which multiple disciplines are involved in making it ‘livable’. This includes designers, engineers, business people and service providers of every sort including those involved in various aspects of public health and accessibility studies.  Dedicating strands to each of these disciplinary areas, this conference seeks to invite a deeper disciplinary understanding of how we each contribute to making the cities we inhabit ‘livable’ but, importantly, also seeks to foster discoveries and exchanges of ideas across fields.  To that end, this call is directed to URBAN HEALTH professionals. For details, see:  https://amps-research.com/livable-cities-health-wellbeing/  

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of  Environment, Extraction, Evolution .    “What do I want from literature, anyway?  A new way of living, a new way to talk   About the trees that doesn’t endanger them”  - Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Endnotes”     In “Endnotes”, Billy-Ray Belcourt meditates on the project of writing Indigiqueer poetry in a colonial language in so-called Canada. Belcourt points towards two significant practices of extraction: colonial language as an erasure of Indigenous languages and histories, and the creation of taxonomies that delimit the environment into human categories of ‘knowabi...

Hasta el próximo día 31 de marzo inclusive, está abierto el plazo de presentación de candidaturas para poder optar a uno de los premios que anualmente convoca la Sociedad Española de Historia de la Medicina: el premio Hernández Morejón a la mejor tesis doctoral, el premio al mejor trabajo de fin de grado y el premio al mejor trabajo de fin de máster. Más información en la web de la SEHM:  https://sehm.es/ premiosshem/

Throughout history, islands have functioned as both isolated laboratories of evolution and central hubs of global maritime networks. From the earliest known navigations, to the European expansions in the "Age of Discovery", and contemporary deep-sea charting, the act of "discovering" an island is a complex event involving story-telling, encounters, scientific inquiry, and mapmaking. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the multifaceted history and ongoing process of island exploration. We invite scholars from history, geography, cartography, maritime studies, and related fields to submit proposals that interrogate how islands and island encounters relate to global exploration, exchange, and discovery. Suggested Topics for Submission We welcome individual papers, 20-minutes in length, and pre-constituted panels (three 20-minute papers) on themes including, but not limited to: Pre-Modern Navigations, Indigenous Practice, Cartography and the "Imagina...

We invite you to participate in the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) by submitting a session proposal or paper to the  Childhood and Youth Network of the SSHA . The conference will take place at the Hilton Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, between November 19-22, 2026. For more information on the conference, please see the SSHA website:  ssha.org . The deadline for full panel or individual paper proposals is  March 1, 2026.     The association particularly emphasizes interdisciplinary and transnational research, and the annual meeting provides a very supportive environment in which to present new work. The theme of the 2026 conference is  “Decentering Modernity”  though papers on  any other aspects of the history of children and childhood are also certainly welcome . Some possible topics include (but are not limited to): Finding Children in the Archive Children’s Letters and Writings Teaching the History of Childh...

Framing Mathematics.  Early Career Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Mathematics September 10-11, Université Paris Cité What is mathematics? From a contemporary perspective, one might be led to believe that mathematics is what mathematicians do. They write down formulas, think in front of blackboards, prove theorems. Mathematics appears to be objective and rigorous, to make true statements, and to deal with specific objects and their properties, or to deduce new meanings from axioms. But who counts as a mathematician in the first place? What counts as mathematical practice and content? And how did we get to this point to begin with? These questions are prompted by the sentiment that at least as of today, mathematics is a consistent and dynamic epistemic system, a field of inquiry that, while being self-containing, continuously extends its reach and reshapes its nature also by application. While contemporary mathematical practices seem rather rigid—with a narrow understandin...