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At a time of environmental crisis, studying histories of the manipulation of natural resources has never been more important. While our ancestors used different terms to talk of such matters, they engaged with (or stridently disengaged from) the same questions.   This symposium, which has been generously supported by the Institute of Humanities at Northumbria University, aims to draw together expertise from across disciplines to engage with managed and mechanical water systems in the period 1500-1800. Our focus for this multidisciplinary symposium is on how humans have sought to make water work for them—for not only practical but also artistic purposes.   While water’s centrality to life has long made it a rich source for metaphor and symbolism, Thomas Willard notes that the period between 1500 and 1800 ‘saw a breakthrough in the understanding of water: what it was and how it blended with other substances to form waters of great variety’ (‘Testing the Waters’ in Clas...

Zoom webinar: Sharing histories of women in engineering and applied science from around the world   Date: Friday April 8th 2022 (two sessions: 10.00-12.00 GMT and 15.00-17.00 GMT)   Are you active in researching the history of women in engineering and applied science? Are you interested in talking to others working on this topic across the world? We invite you to join us for this inclusive webinar, which is an opportunity to share your stories and plans.   If you want to participate, please email   EWinternational2021@ gmail.com   with a 200-word summary of your work by  March 20 th .  To be in the audience, please sign up via Eventbrite   here . If preferable, pre-recorded presentations are welcome.     This event will be hosted by the  Electrifying  Women International project at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with the  Women’s Engineering Society  (UK) and the  International Network of Women Enginee...

We’re advertising two funded MA studentships, supported by Wellcome funding, for September 2022 entry to the History of Medicine MA programme at Newcastle University. Please forward on to anyone you think might be interested. I’ve summarised the main details below; full details can be accessed at: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=H0000006 The deadline for applications is March 11th 2022 at 5pm. The scholarship includes the home rate of tuition fees, plus an annual living allowance of £16,000 and a personal research and development fund of £250. Successful international candidates will be required to fund the difference between home fees and international fees. Please note that the living allowance component of the award cannot be used for this purpose. The studentships are open to UK, EU and international applicants who: Have applied for, or hold an offer of admission for the MA History of Medicine Hold, or expect to achieve, a 1st class honours degr...

V CONGRESO DE POSTGRADO DE LA SLMFCEVALLADOLID 2022 EL V Congreso de Postgrado de la SLMFCE (Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de Ciencia en España) se celebrará en Valladolid los días 13 y 14 de junio de 2022. Las ediciones anteriores tuvieron lugar en Granada (2010), Sevilla (2013), Valencia (2016) y Donostia-San Sebastián (2019). El objetivo es reunir a investigadores/as jóvenes para explorar propuestas dentro de las áreas temáticas de interés de la SLMFCE, que incluyen:  A. Lógica, historia y filosofía de la lógica, B. Filosofía del lenguaje, C. Filosofía de la mente y  epistemología, D. Filosofía y metodología de la ciencia, E. Historia de la ciencia, F. Ciencia, tecnología y sociedad, G. Argumentación. Página web: https://5postgradoslmfce.wixsite.com/es-22 El llamamiento se dirige a estudiantes de Máster y Doctorado, y también a quienes presentaron su tesis doctoral en los últimos tres años en las áreas de investigación mencionadas. 1. Envío de Propuestas: Los ...

The European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) invites submissions to its 41st conference to be held from August 30 to September 2, 2022. The conference is hosted by the Sigmund Freud Private University Berlin, which is located at the former airport building Berlin Tempelhof, and will be held in person. Oral presentations, posters, sessions or workshops may deal with any aspect of the history of the human, behavioural and social sciences or with related historiographic and methodological issues. Guidelines for submission Any submission should include the following: name, email and institutional affiliation of the first author. Please indicate clearly on the top of the page the submission type: oral presentation, poster, session or workshop. Proposals for oral presentations should contain a 500-600 word abstract in English plus a short bibliography. If the presentation itself will be given in another language, please indicate this in your proposal. Proposals for post...

4ª entrega de la 2ª edición de “FEM ciència?” Entrevista a Darina Martykánová: “Los profesionales científicos tienen que ser conscientes de la inmensa repercusión social de su práctica y la deben gestionar.” En esta entrevista hablaremos con Darina Martykánova sobre la masculinización de la ciencia y las profesiones científicas y la importancia de la historia de la ciencia en les acciones políticas y en la sociedad. https://blogs.iec.cat/schct/fem-ciencia/ https://youtu.be/Jhef6p3F_SM Darina Martykánová es investigadora al grupo de Historia Social y Cultural Contemporánea de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y profesora a la misma universidad. Es licenciada en Estudios Turcos en la Universitas Carolina de Praga y doctora europea en Historia Contemporánea por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.  En la su trayectoria ha trabajado en numerosas universidades europeas y ha publicado artículos especializados en la historia de las profesiones tecnocientíficas, en la producción y circulació...

Philosophy of Organismal Biology: From Ontogeny to Ecology and Evolution  Guest editors: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (Ruhr University Bochum) & Mariano Martín-Villuendas (University of Salamanca-ECyT)  Submission deadline: 29.07.2022  The notion ‘philosophy of organismal biology’ is an apt term to characterize a heterogenous, yet overlapping set of debates inside the landscape of contemporary philosophy of biology that stand in connection with recent advances and controversies of the biological sciences, but that are usually treated separately within scholarly work (e.g., the broader discussions on what constitutes ‘biological individuality’ in contrast to ‘organismality,’ the metaphysics of symbiosis and holobionts, debates revolving around the consequences that obtain by highlighting the role of organisms as agents and contributors in ecology and evolution, controversies on the boundaries between ‘development’ and ‘reproduction,’ and discussions pertaining to levels o...

Submission deadline: February 28, 2022 The Hi-Phi International Conference aims at fostering the debate between the History of Science and the Philosophy of Science communities by integrating not only independent studies of both disciplines, but also those that stand at the interface of History and Philosophy of Science. The idea for this conference stems from the joint forces of the two research units – the Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) and the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) – associated to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Ciências ULisboa). This conference will be held in Lisbon on June 23-24, 2022. The goal of this meeting is to re-link different communities and facilitate the dialogue between senior and junior researchers, but also between historians and philosophers that often work apart. Therefore, the dialogue between Histo...

Please consider submitting a paper abstract or session proposal to the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), scheduled to be held in Chicago on November 17-20, 2022. The final deadline for submissions is Friday, March 4, 2022. By that deadline, the Labor Network welcomes individual paper submissions, full paper panel submissions, book ('author-meets-critic') sessions, and roundtable sessions. The submission portal, through which you may submit proposals, is here: https://ssha2022.ssha.org// Details for conference can be found here: https://ssha.org/conference/ The Conference Theme, “Reverberations of Empire: Histories, Legacies & Lineages” and SSHA-wide call can be found here: https://ssha.org/files/2022_SSHA_CFP.pdf The Labor Network of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) brings together scholars interested in work, labor, and working-class and labor movements, as they interact with and are formed by class, race, and gender identities a...

The Lisa Jardine Grant of the Royal Society is designed to offer the opportunity for early career scholars to exploit history of science collections, including the Royal Society’s own, in support of their research in the field of intellectual history.  (closing deadline Weds 2 March 2022, 3pm). Full details here:  http://bit.ly/LJRSMai The grant is available to support travel for PhD students and early career researchers in history of science, and other interdisciplinary studies combining humanities and the natural sciences. The scheme offers funding for: Extended research trips for UK and overseas-based researchers to use the Royal Society’s own rich historical collections (up to £8,000 available for travel and subsistence costs depending on destination and length of research, 1 - 3 months (£2,000 international travel, £2,000/month subsistence)). UK based students wishing to travel overseas to carry out short, exploratory archival research trips (up to £2,000 available for tr...