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Novedad bibliográfica: Artesanías biológicas. Por qué la biología y la clínica necesitan a las culturas intersex

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Autor/a: Sam Fernández-Garrido Prólogo: Siobhan Guerrero Epílogo: Mer Gómez ¿Por qué biólogues y clíniques necesitan escuchar e incorporar a las personas, los colectivos y las culturas intersex? ¿Cómo transforma este contacto el conocimiento experto de la biología y las recomendaciones de la clínica? ¿Qué implicaciones presenta para definir cuál es la longitud «adecuada» de una vagina y cuánto debe dar de sí (biológica y existencialmente)? A través de estas preguntas, Artesanías biológicas invita a un diálogo sobre la biología y la medicina desde las epistemologías feministas, los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la diversidad corposexual. Sam Fernández-Garrido nos propone deshacer las divisiones rígidas entre los saberes biológicos expertos y los saberes «legos», como una práctica bioluminiscente a través de la que recuperar visiones de los tejidos, las hormonas y los cuerpos clínicamente significativas aunque históricamente subaternizadas. Esta obra es una aportación al campo de las...

CfP: Beyond the Cemetery: Vernacular & Ephemeral Death Memorials in Contemporary Latin American Public Spaces

Deadline:  Wednesday 22 October 2025, 23:59 (Mexico City) This is an open call for abstracts for inclusion in a Special Issue proposal for the journal Mortality: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cmrt20 Current status. The Mortality Editorial Board plans to review Special Issue proposals in November 2025. If our proposal is invited, we will request full papers. Any invited manuscripts will undergo double-anonymous peer review and be considered for publication according to the journal’s schedule. Scope This proposed Special Issue examines vernacular and ephemeral death memorials in contemporary Latin American public spaces, focusing on their unsanctioned, impermanent materiality and their roles as interventions in contested urban space. We especially welcome grounded analyses of public mourning that attend to fragility, mobility, and the often unequal distribution of the right to mourn in public.  Topics may include: Object-based tributes: roadside altars, animitas, crosses ...

CfP: Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science

SAHMS invites submissions for papers in the history of science, medicine, and nursing for the 28th annual meeting of the SAHMS, to be held at the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education in Fort Smith, Arkansas. We welcome submissions from students, professors, health care professionals, and independent scholars with an academic interest in the history of science, medicine, or nursing. We particularly encourage submissions that increase the methodological, thematic, chronological and geographical diversity of the history of science, medicine, and related fields. We also welcome librarians, archivists, and teachers to propose papers related to archives and collections, public history, and/or pedagogy. Despite the “Southern” component of our organizational name, papers need not focus on regional topics.  Submissions must include an abstract of no more than 350 words. Abstracts are due November 21, 2025. The Program Committee will notify you as to whether your paper has been accepted by ...

CfP XXI. Symposium of the Division for History of Physics, 16 to 18 March 2026 in Erlangen, Germany

We are pleased to announce the XXI. Symposium of the Division for  History of Physics  at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, to be held from  16 to 18 March 2026 in Erlangen , Germany.   The conference is thematically open  and welcomes contributions covering a broad range of physical subject areas and historical periods. Different historiographical approaches, ranging from social-cultural perspectives on the history of physics to technically more dense historical analysis, are equally welcome. Further details can be found in the CFP:  https://www.dpg-physik.de/ vereinigungen/fachlich/ohne- sektion/fvgp/aktuelles-2/cfp- xxi-symposium-2026 .   Submissions from early career scholars, at any stage of their careers, including discussions of research-in-progress, are particularly welcome. PhD students can receive financial support to attend the conference from the WE-Heraeus-Stiftung. Paper proposals (max. 250 words) should be uploaded to th...

Chamada até 12/10: “Profissões intelectuais” e mudança política em Espanha e Portugal, nos anos sessenta e setenta (UAMadrid, 10-11/12/25)

Chamada para contribuições   Colóquio internacional    Faculdade de Filosofia e Letras   Universidade Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)    10-11 de dezembro de 2025     “Profissões intelectuais” e mudança política em Espanha e Portugal, nos anos sessenta e setenta  Contextualização:    Durante o outono de 2024, a RTVE transmitiu  Las Abogadas , livremente inspirada na trajetória de algumas advogadas especializadas em direito do trabalho, comprometidas na oposição à ditadura franquista nos anos sessenta e setenta, e cuja trajetória foi marcada pelo atentado de Atocha de 1977, perpetrado por militantes de extrema-direita com o objetivo de enfraquecer o processo de transição democrática em curso ( https://www.rtve.es/play/ videos/las-abogadas/ ). Esta série de televisão, que destaca figuras femininas da oposição ao franquismo, lembra o papel singular desempenhado por alguns atores profissionais — individuais ou coletivos — nos anos de tran...

CFP: Showing Death in the 19thc: Bodies, Matter, Representations - National Academy of Medicine, Paris

Showing Death in the Nineteenth Century: Bodies, Matter, Representations National Academy of Medicine, Paris, 26 March 2026 Invited speakers Anne Carol, Aix-Marseille Université Eloïse Quetel, Sorbonne-Université Michael Sappol, Visiting Researcher, Uppsala University   Call for Papers   As Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, ‘to be dead is to be a prey for the living’ (1956, 593). The vulnerability of the dead, described by the French philosopher, applies to their memories as well as their bodies. Death is, indeed, not merely absence but requires us to face the materiality of the corpse. This one-day international conference intends to show that studying the nineteenth-century relationship to death, as an omnipresent – destructive, but familiar – reality, can inform our own contemporary attitudes and reveal how nineteenth-century representations still shape our own death culture.  The nineteenth-century Western world witnessed a shifting interest in the materiality of death and in t...

2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting Submission Site Open

The submission website of the joint European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society meeting to be held from 13–16 July 2026 in Edinburgh with the support of the British Society for the History of Science, is now  open. The conference theme is “Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences.” We welcome submissions on any topic in the history of STM and aim for an ensemble of contributions on diverse geographical, thematic and methodological perspectives.  The deadline for proposals is  Monday  1 December 2025, 11:59 pm PST (Tuesday 2 December 2025, 7:59 am UTC) .  For more information, please visit the website of the Call for Proposals:  https://hssonline. org/page/2026cfp To submit your proposal, please, visit:   https://tinyurl.com/ ESHSHSS26   For questions, contact the Program Co-Chairs at:  info@hssonline.org

New book (open access) Negotiating in/visibility: Women, science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century

Editors: Amelia Bonea and Irina Nastasă-Matei. This volume explores, from global, multilingual and intersectional perspectives, the experiences of women in science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century. Some, like the American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, were fairly visible actors in the academic and public arenas of professional science. Others, like the doctors working in secondary schools in interwar Romania or those who struggled to alleviate ‘women’s illnesses’ in famine-stricken rural areas during China’s Great Leap Forward, have been largely invisible – as medical practitioners, creators of knowledge, educators and subjects of historical inquiry. The volume investigates the nature and extent of women’s in/visibility in science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century, seeking to document the factors that underpinned it and understand how women navigated their circumstances. When and why did women become invisible? When and how did they seek visib...

Novedad bibliográfica online

El libro de homenaje a Francesc Bujosa, La historia de la ciencia en las Islas Baleares: desde la Guerra Civil hasta la creación de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares, editado por Joan March y Guillem X. Pons y presentado el pasado 18 de septiembre, se puede descargar en la web de la Sociedad de Historia Natural de las Baleares. Link:  https://www.shnb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Historia-de-la-Ciencia-Bujosa-Monografia-SHNB-36-2.pdf

CFP: Science Diplomacy ECS Seminar Series

STAND (Historical Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy) Early Career Research Seminars 2025-2026   Call for Participants – Deadline 20 September 2025   This is an open call for participants for the STAND (Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy) Early Career Researchers Seminar series for 2025-2026. The commission and its members examine the broad history of science, technology and diplomacy and are looking for post-grads and early career researchers to present during next year's online seminar series. We are looking for researchers who address the history of science, technology and medicine in their broad international contexts. Topics include but are not limited to: science diplomacy, international cooperation in fields related to science, technology and medicine, and the transnational circulation of technoscientific and medical knowledge, materials and expertise. Please see our website for more information on previous presenters, and the work we do: ...