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Edited By Andrée Bergeron, Agusti Nieto-Galan, Jaume Sastre-Juan Routledge, 2026 Science Popularization as Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War UNESCO (1946–1958) highlights how, after World War II, science became a crucial tool in the reestablishment of international relations, but, at the same time, an open battlefield in which different nations and ideologies struggled for hegemony. This book explores for the first time, the international science popularization programmes at UNESCO (1946–1958) as cultural diplomacy – that is, as cultural instruments aimed at promoting certain views of science to shape international relations. Through the historical reconstruction of UNESCO’s science popularization policies and practices in its early years, this collective volume analyses in depth the ambiguous diplomatic nature of science, places science popularization in the broader history of the cultural Cold War and unveils its profound political nature. It provides a fresh historiographic perspective...

In 2028, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing will publish its 50th volume.  That is a time to reflect on the study of computing history: what it has achieved and what is yet to be done now and in the coming years. To mark the occasion, we will publish two special issues of essays on the historiography of computing.   Reflections On Computing History , the first, invites authors, particularly those who have already published work on computing history, to write on older and newer approaches—what the study has accomplished or on what they think it needs to do next—not solely with reference to Annals .  The issue will be guest edited by David Hemmendinger.  New Perspectives On Computing History , the second, invites authors who are new to the field or who come to it as "outsiders" to look ahead and focus on what computing history has not yet addressed and on how it may need to expand or change in the future. Mar Hicks is the guest editor for this issue. Interested a...

Philosophy of Biology: Organization, Agency, and Organismality in Living Systems This special issue welcomes contributions addressing contemporary debates in the philosophy of biology, including: Organization, agency, and autonomy Organismality and biological individuality Biosemiotics Evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo) Teleology and biological function Related topics in the foundations of biology The editors particularly encourage conceptual, historical, theoretical, interdisciplinary, and empirically informed studies that explore the nature of living systems and the foundations of biological organization. Accepted Contribution Types Research Articles Review Essays Book Reviews Critical Commentaries Short Notes Discussion Notes Languages English Turkish Important Dates Initial Submission Deadline: 15 November 2026 Final Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026 Expected Publication: December 2026 Manuscripts submitted after 15 November 2026 may be considered for publication in ...

11th Conference CITCEM – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Porto, Portugal CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Center for Culture, Space and Memory, invites researchers from across the world and from multiple disciplinary fields to reflect on the role of communities as spaces for the creation, transmission, and transformation of knowledge over time. This approach arises from ongoing discussions about the priorities of knowledge, its application, and its practices. Over time, who holds the power to determine the relevance and legitimacy of scientific production? The 11th CITCEM Conference is embedded within this broad conceptual framework and welcomes theoretical reflections and case studies that adopt comparative, diachronic, and multidisciplinary perspectives. We encourage contributions that bring different territories, epistemic traditions, and temporalities into dialogue, that value non-hegemonic practices, and that challenge narratives centred on dominant knowledge models. This confe...

We welcome contributions from historians as well as scholars working in adjacent disciplines, including science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, legal studies, and related areas. Unless otherwise specified, submissions may address any geographical region or historical period.  Upcoming themed issue topics (see below for more information about each): Drugs, Pharma, and the American State Minds and Medicines Potential contributors are encouraged to interpret these themes broadly. We are particularly interested in work that situates pharmaceuticals, medicines, and drugs within larger questions such as those involving power, regulation, consumerism, activism, identity, inequality, and everyday experience.  If you have a manuscript that fits one of these themes, you are invited to submit it through our submission manager between now and September 1. Scholars working on projects in progress are also welcome to submit abstracts for consideration by July 15 . The edi...

Pabellón del Carmen. Recinto Modernista de Sant Pau, Barcelona. 18 de junio de 2026- 01 de noviembre de 2026 El jueves 18 de junio de 2026, la exposición Fontilles. La ciudad escondida , llegará al pabellón Nuestra del Carmen del Recinto Modernista de Sant Pau, en Barcelona. En esta primera itinerancia, la exposición desanda el camino que recorrieron los veinte últimos habitantes del Hospital de San Lázaro de Horta, cuando fueron trasladados al Sanatorio San Francisco de Borja de Fontilles, en la Marina Alta alicantina, para continuar con su aislamiento, tras la clausura definitiva de la masía de Can Masdeu, en enero de 1961. Al igual que el viaje cambió la vida de los últimos de Can Masdeu y la de quienes les acogieron en Fontilles, su recuerdo ha transformado esta exposición, inundándola de sonidos. El sonido de las pequeñas radios personales, que los integrantes de la llamada “colonia catalana de Fontilles” trajeron consigo y con las que lograron romper la censura radiofónica ...

Este encuentro nace de la necesidad de fomentar un diálogo interdisciplinar sólido entre las Humanidades y las Ciencias de la Salud, y se alinea con la corriente conocida como Humanidades Médicas (o Medical Humanities ). En un contexto académico y social en el que la Medicina busca rehumanizarse y las letras persiguen aplicaciones prácticas, esta propuesta ofrece una oportunidad única para analizar la enfermedad y la curación no solo como hechos biológicos, sino también como fenómenos culturales, históricos y lingüísticos complejos. Los objetivos principales son dotar al alumnado de herramientas críticas para interpretar las fuentes médicas originales, comprender la evolución diacrónica de los conceptos de salud y enfermedad, y reflexionar sobre los desafíos éticos contemporáneos desde una perspectiva histórica. Se busca que el estudiantado tenga una visión global de la Medicina y las Ciencias de la Salud como herederas de una tradición textual y filosófica de largo alcance. Respe...

The Journal of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science is expanding our coverage to include reviews of museum exhibitions, podcasts, virtual projects, documentaries, and other media designed for a popular audience.  Editors are looking for reviews of ~750 words of current work or future projects that will be launched by the time of publication in spring 2027. Reviews can take any form (narrative, comic—feel free to surprise us!) but should cover the project’s form, aim, where it succeeds or struggles, and who might find it helpful.  We encourage submissions across a wide geographic range, and also encourage writers to consider projects based in Pittsburgh, the site of next year’s SAHMS conference. Before composing a draft, writers are encouraged to send a one-paragraph pitch to Jessica Hester. Contact Information Jessica Leigh Hester, PhD candidate, History, Johns Hopkins University URL:  https://journals.troy.edu/index.php/JSAHMS/about/submissi...

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Learning to Cut: Surgical training and practice, 1450–1800 edited by Maria Pia Donato, Elaine Leong and Tillmann Taape.   This is the first publication in a major new open access history of science series edited by Simon Werrett: Opening up the History of Science  Download it free: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/learning-to-cut/

A three-year PhD position is available in Paris for a research project on the history of the chemical bond and the history of its teaching. The position is aimed at candidates with a background in history of science and chemistry, and applicants should have at least a passive knowledge of French. Applications are open until 22 June 2026, and the successful candidate will begin the PhD on 1 October 2026. Further information and the full announcement are available at: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7219-VIRMAO-023/Default.aspx .

Se encuentra abierto el plazo de inscripción y de envío de comunicaciones para las XIV Jornadas de la Sección de Historia de la Psiquiatría de la Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría–Profesionales de Salud Mental (AEN-PSM). Las jornadas se celebrarán en Ourense del 22 al 24 de octubre de 2026 y constituirán un espacio de encuentro para investigadores e investigadoras interesados en la historia de la psiquiatría, la salud mental y disciplinas afines. Las personas interesadas ya pueden formalizar su inscripción y presentar propuestas de comunicación para participar en el encuentro. URL:  https://sites.google.com/view/xivjornadasdehistoriaaen/inicio?authuser=0

Guest editors: Alexandra Bacalu & Dragoș Manea   The rising popularity and speedy proliferation of social media in the 2010s and 2020s has resulted in the revival of a large-scale cultural interest in self-care and self-help —now reconceptualized as digital practices of self-improvement and virtual means of performing individual authenticity, in the context of increasingly blurred boundaries between the public and the private. This concern with caring for the self and preserving mental health has only peaked during moments of political crisis and social unrest, with the 2016 and 2024 elections of Donald Trump, the 2020 global pandemic, and the recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East being repeatedly referenced in popular discussions around the—highly debatable—therapeutic need for occasional political disengagement. The birth of the sociological study of therapeutic culture(s) in the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the recognition of America as a particularly intriguing...

A conference taking place on 20 November 2026 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG, London 9.30am – 5.00pm   Deadline for submissions: Friday 26 June 2026     2026 sees the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough FRS, perhaps the greatest exponent of natural history through television. His work is part of a long tradition of communicating often-complex ideas to a wider public. Scientists have used a variety of media to make a case for science: most traditionally in printed works, but also through anecdotes, lectures, demonstrations, exhibitions, press articles, radio and television. Today, our scientists may create websites or take to social media to gain a wider audience for their work, or to explain the work of many others. But who have been the most successful communicators and why? What narrative techniques made them effective? In an era of good and bad influencers, distortion or rejection of science, fake news, and information overload, what can...

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will receive proposals for articles that seek to reflect Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Science from the 16th through the 18th Centuries for the issue of June 2027. Full details regarding the scope, submission guidelines, and deadlines are available on the journal’s website. Call for Papers - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Science from the 16th through the 18th Centuries | Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this call with colleagues and potential contributors who may be interested in the topic.

Special issue coordinated by Pierre Petit, Alain Delattre, and Xavier Luffin Talismans are attested in the most diverse societies, spanning every epoque from prehistory to the present day, where they are being reinvented in the context of advanced capitalism and the digital world (Jackson 2022; McBain 2024). However, Japanese omamori are neither the hirizi of the Arab-Swahili world, nor the magical gems of Greco-Roman antiquity, nor the Saint Benedict ‘exorcist’ medals: the historical trajectories and cultural contexts of talismans are culturally specific. In the search for an Urreligion, many authors over the past two centuries have ignored these trajectories and contexts, adopting a generic approach to the topic (Lévy-Bruhl 1925, Marquès-Rivière 1938). By contrast, this special issue of Civilisations seeks to highlight approaches rooted in ethnographic and historical contexts, engaging reflexively in broader analytic considerations by comparing societies and periods. Talismans – or...

The Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University will host the 18th annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (JAS-Med) on September 25th and 26th, 2026, in Baltimore, MD. Originally founded in 2002 with a mission of fostering a collegial intellectual community amongst graduate students and providing an engaging forum for graduate research, JAS-Med is proudly student-led and student-organized. We welcome interest and participation from graduate students pursuing research in the history of medicine and related fields, including anthropology, sociology, public health, bioethics, law, gender and sexuality studies, political science, as well as ethnicity, race, and migration studies.   We invite all interested graduate students — Master’s, PhD, and MD/PhD — to submit an abstract by June 1st, 2026 . Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. JAS-Med...

Editores: Carmel Ferragud i Alfons Zarzoso ISBN: 978-84-1396-107-1 https://doi.org/10.4995/9788413961071edUPV L’obra ofereix una visió de llarg recorregut sobre l’impacte de les epidèmies a les societats mediterrànies, especialment als territoris de l’antiga Corona d’Aragó, des del segle XV fins al XX, posant l’accent en el paper central dels municipis. Les epidèmies es presenten com a crisis globals que afecten tots els àmbits de la vida social i que revelen tant les fragilitats com les capacitats d’organització col·lectiva. El llibre defensa que, davant l’absència d’estats forts, l’administració local va esdevenir l’espai clau de resposta política, sanitària i social, amb mesures que van evolucionar però que mantingueren una continuïtat notable al llarg dels segles. A través d’estudis de cas locals, es mostra com medicina, religió, economia i poder municipal interactuaren en la gestió del contagi. El volum recorre les grans pestes medievals, la pesta de 1647-48 i les epidèmies contem...

Presentació de: "Artesanías Biológicas. Por qué la biología y la clínica necesitan a las personas intersex" (Sam Fernández, 2025) i  "Listening to the Cervix: a Handbook on Early-Stages Cervical Cancer, Embodied Knowledge and Power" (Còmic, Laia i Lyona, 2026) 10 de juny / 19 h / Casal Popular Sageta de Foc, (c/Sant Domènec, Baixos 1 i 2, Tarragona) Organitzen:  Casal Popular Sageta de Foc, Llibreria El Soterrani, Grupo SALHISOC-UCLM, MARC-URV i DAFITS-URV.  Més info:  sam.fernandez@uclm.es    Vivències i sabers és un espai de conversa entre perspectives que rarament dialoguen juntes. Des de les intersexualitats fins al càncer de cèrvix, pensem què ens revelen aquestes experiències i sabers sobre la ginecologia i la cura ... i imaginem altres ginecologies iformes de cura possibles i desitjables  

This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs. This panel seeks to explore wellness culture influencers, trends, and movements in order to better understand what forces, values, and beliefs give rise to competing definitions of "health" and "wellness" and to explore the...

In the early modern period (c. 1500-1700), Iberian religious refugees, scholars, merchants, and diplomats took up residence in Tuscany. In search of protection or fame, they weaved a network that linked Iberia, Tuscany, and wider imperial territories. New Christians, Moriscos, and other communities displaced by persecution—as well as intellectuals, philosophers, medical practitioners, envoys, diplomats, and other intermediaries—mediated the circulation of knowledge, materials, and political interests between courts, universities, and religious institutions. By taking a broad view of these encounters, this workshop aims to explore the multiple and layered presence of Iberian agents in early modern Tuscany between c. 1500 and 1700. Papers may also address the reception and assimilation of knowledge, materials, and ideas from the Portuguese and Spanish empires within Italian contexts. WE PARTICULARLY ENCOURAGE CONTRIBUTIONS WHICH ADDRESS TOPICS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Mobility, exi...