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Africanizing Technology Wesleyan University, March 5-6, 2015 Keynote: Julie Livingston (Rutgers University) author of Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (2012) Africa has long been a space of technological innovation and adaptation despite popular Western media depictions to the contrary.  In fact, Africa is at the center of global technology stories such as the history of nuclear proliferation (Hecht, 2012).  Recently scholars have documented novel uses of contemporary media technologies on the continent, as well as older adaptations of hi-fi stereo systems, all of which have had rich and complicated social impacts (Larkin, 2008; Jaji, 2014).  Artisans and industrial workers have also created new technological cultures, while many African medical professionals have responded to technologically 'poor' environments by improvising basic solutions (Livingston, 2012).  Africanizing Technology aims to highlight and ...

Call for Abstracts (deadline approaching) Opportunities in Crises: Technogoverning Sustainable Landscapes University of Virginia, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 We propose an interdisciplinary workshop exploring the place of science and technology in the environmental and energy crises. Coinciding with the 2015 annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) in Washington, DC, March 18-22, this one-day workshop will be based on the theme of technogovernance. Addressing the creation and transformation of the heterogeneous practices of industrialists, environmentalists, and regulators in utilizing technology to render sustainable modes of manufacturing, consumption, and living during the long twentieth century, the workshop will embrace conferees from a variety of humanities and social science disciplines in analyzing energy and environmental governance in multiple geographical and temporal contexts. Key sub-themes will include climate science, envir...

Lokman Hekim Journal of History of Medicine and Folk Medicine has just published its latest issue at http://lokmanhekim.mersin.edu.tr/index.php/lokmanHekim . We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Prof. Dr. Tamer Akça Mersin University Medical Faculty lokmanjournal@gmail.com Lokman Hekim Journal of History of Medicine and Folk Medicine Vol 5, No 1 (2015): January-April 2015 Table of Contents http://lokmanhekim.mersin.edu.tr/index.php/lokmanHekim/issue/view/17 Editor's Note - Editörden -------- Table of Contents - İçindekiler (i-i)         Tamer Akça Editorial Board - Danışma Kurulu (ii-ii)         Tamer Akça Whole Journal - Tüm Dergi (iii-iii)         Tamer Akça Review - Derleme -------- Fenugreek in The Past and Today: Trigonella Foenum-Graecum L. - Geçmişte ve Gü...

ISHPSSB 2015: Call for abstracts Extended Submission Deadline & Keynote Speakers The International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology would like to announce an extended deadline for submissions for its 2015 meeting, to be held in Montréal, Québec, 5-10 July, 2015.    We are also pleased to let you know of the following keynote speakers for the conference: Sandra Harding (UCLA) Ford Doolittle (Dalhousie University) Further information about the keynote speakers and their talks will be available shortly at the ISHPSSB conference site. ISHPSSB meetings are known for bringing together scholars in humanities interacting with the life sciences, notably historians, philosophers, and social scientists, but also scientists themselves involved in such life sciences. The submission of organized sessions and individual papers on any topic within the society’s scope is welcome. We also encourage the submission of posters. ...

From Intuition to Indexicality: New Perspectives on Peirce's Theory of the Index ( http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/research/conferences/2015_charles-sanders-peirce-workshop  ) A two-day workshop organised by Chiara Ambrosio (UCL), Mats Bergman (University of Helsinki and UCL) and Gabriele Gava (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) 21 and 22 January, University College London The workshop is free and open to all. For information and enquiries please contact Chiara Ambrosio ( c.ambrosio@ucl.ac.uk ) The division of signs into icons, indices, and symbols is one of the bedrocks of C. S. Peirce’s general theory of representation. While recent work on the topic has tended to focus on questions of iconic representation and its relation to symbolic or conventional modes of signification, indexicality has been relatively neglected. Yet, if Peirce is right, then indexicality is an essential ingredient of both pictorial and scientific representation; t...