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Please see the Science Museum Group website for two exciting new job opportunities at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Associate Curator of Science and Technology https://vacancies.nmsi.ac.uk/VacancyDetails.aspx?FromSearch=True&MenuID = 6Dqy3cKIDOg=&VacancyID=809 Content Developer (Graphene) https://vacancies.nmsi.ac.uk/VacancyDetails.aspx?FromSearch=True&MenuID = 6Dqy3cKIDOg=&VacancyID=808 Kind regards Jack Jack Kirby Head of Collections The Science Museum Group consists of: Science Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, National Railway Museum York, National Media Museum, National Railway Museum Shildon

Extended Deadline for Paper Submissions to 21st November 2014 6th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science Norwegian Museum for Science and Technology, Oslo, 11-13 February 2015 (Please circulate in your departments, academic networks, and on mailing lists.) ------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to invite proposals for the 6th Norwegian conference on the History of Science, which will take place in Oslo, Norway, 11-13 February 2015, and is organized by the Norwegian Museum for Science and Technology. The conference will bring together scholars working on the history of science, medicine and technology on any theme, topic or period to discuss historical, epistemological, political, institutional and ethical issues of relevance to both a Scandinavian and international audience. Building upon the success of the previous meetings, which encouraged national cooperation and the strengthening of ties with the broader international co...

A new volume of Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine is freely available to download at the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website: The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) http://www.histmodbiomed.org/witsem/vol51 The variation of mood with the seasons has been acknowledged for a long time. It was in 1984 that the term Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) was first used in a paper by Norman Rosenthal and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD. This Witness Seminar looked at the research leading up to that paper and the thirty years of subsequent investigations into the disorder which affects a significant proportion of the population. Chaired by Professor Sir Brian Follett, participants, some of whom suffered from SAD, included two of the scientists involved in the early SAD research in the USA – Alfred Lewy and Norman Rosenthal, biologists studying photoperiodism, and representatives ...

Call for papers (with apologies for cross posting) 10 th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (10 th ICHC) CHEMICAL BIOGRAPHY IN THE 21 ST CENTURY University of Aveiro, Portugal, 9 th to 12 th September 2015 Conference website: http://10ichc-2015.web.ua.pt/ This interdisciplinary conference welcomes participants from a range of academic disciplines including history of science and technology, science and technology studies (STS), economic and business history, and the history of material culture and museum studies. We also warmly welcome participants from chemistry and related disciplines with an interest in the history of their discipline. Biographies—whether in the form of books or articles—have always been an important genre in the history of chemistry. General histories of chemistry have often taken a biographical approach, most notably the four volume work of J. R. Partington. Many chemists, especially in the Ge...

Oxford Brookes University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of History, Philosophy and Religion To mark its 150 th Anniversary, Oxford Brookes University is pleased to offer a number of full-time PhD Studentships across a range of subject areas in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, starting in January 2015. Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship in Gendered Perspectives on Death, Illness and Loss. The supervisory team will be led by Professor Beverley Clack, Professor in the Philosophy of Religion, with Dr. Molly Cochran (International Relations) and Dr. Victoria Browne (Politics). The team supporting this research project possesses expertise in a number of disciplines, notably philosophy, politics and international relations that will allow for a rich conceptual exploration of how gender intersects with death, illness and loss within the interdisciplinary frame of medical humanities. A full project description will be provi...