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Rural History 2015 Conference 7-10 September 2015, Girona, Spain Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, Rural History 2015 is the second conference held under the auspices of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO). It is organised by the Spanish Agricultural History Society (SEHA) and the Rural History Research Centre of the University of Girona (CRHR) and it will take place at the University of Girona, Spain from 7-10 September 2015. The conference is open to historians studying all periods as well as to scholars who approach rural history from a variety of other disciplines. While it focuses on the rural history of Europe it also welcomes contributions dealing with aspects of rural history in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australasia. The conference is structured around panel sessions on a specific topic. 71 panels were selected after the call for panels announced in May 2014. We invite historians and related scholars to submit proposals for paper...

2-year postdoctoral fellowships available within Project based at Univ. Sevilla, Spain Expressions of interest are invited for a postdoc grant (financed by Junta de Andalucia) associated with the following research project:  “THE GENESIS OF MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE: COGNITION, HISTORY, PRACTICES” (P12-HUM-1216).  Main researcher: Jose Ferreiros Contact:  josef@us.es The grant consists in a 2-year research contract to be held at the University of Sevilla. Salary is in the range of 84000 euros for 24 months. Holders must have obtained their PhD before the start of the grant, and at most 10 years ago (exceptions apply in case of maternity leave). They will be doing research along the lines of this interdisciplinary project -- devoted to philosophy of mathematics, links between cognition and mathematical practice, and the interactions logic/mathematics and physics/mathematics.  Knowledge of Spanish is desirable, although...

Ya está publicado en RECYT   el Índice (con resúmenes y palabras clave en español e inglés) de Llull Vol. 37, Nº 80 (2º semestre de 2014) , así como el texto completo de Llull, Vol. 35, Nº 76 (2º semestre 2012) .   Saludos cordiales, Elena -- Dra. Elena Ausejo Directora de LLULL

Dear Colleagues, A new journal of medieval studies, *The Medieval Globe*, edited by Carol Symes of the University of Illinois, has just been launched:  http://www.arc-humanities.org/the-medieval-globe.html . As its name implies, the journal is dedicated to opening up connections between different aspects of the pre-modern world. The journal's inaugural double issue is devoted to the topic of "Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death." A central objective of the volume is to show how the new science of plague (particularly the new genetics) opens up an expanded view on the largest pandemic in human history, pushing us to expand our vision of it geographically as well as chronologically. We are particularly concerned to explore how traditional humanistic historical methods can seize on the narratives proposed by evolutionary science and move from reconstructing the history of the single-celled pathogen to that of all the human relations t...

A position as Associate Professor in Cultural History specialized in orders and histories of knowledge, with an emphasis on the cultural history of nature, is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1282484/62042?iso=no A position as Associate Professor in Museology and Cultural Heritage, with emphasis on contemporary perspectives and material culture, is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1282468/62042?iso=no