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We are delighted to invite papers for the international conference  Between Marginal and Mainstream: Negotiating Experimental Practices and Medical Knowledge , to be held at the  University of Helsinki  on  11–13 March 2026. The question of experiment is at the core of knowledge and practices of healing. Following the so-called ‘scientific revolution’, new medical knowledge has increasingly been both gained and tested through experimentation, but development of cures through trial-and-error has a much longer, transnational, and epistemologically multivalent history.  This conference explores how different forms of experimental practices have been used to gain knowledge around healing and the human body at large in different historical societies both within and outside scholarly medicine. Our goal is to access and examine how experimentation has taken place and shaped knowledge around questions of health and healing roughly between the years 1600 and 1900.  ...

This panel seeks papers that address any aspect of mapping the early modern world (ca. 1450-1750) for the Sixteenth Century Society’s annual conference in Portland, Oregon (October 30 – November 1, 2025). In his seminal  Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps , philosopher Edward Casey juxtaposes the geometry of space with the phenomenology of place. In this analysis, he laments the loss of a sense of place in modernity. How might the study of early modern maps, mapping technologies, and other renderings of place (literary; visual; religious; secular; legal; real; imagined) further complicate our assumptions about early modern space? The panel welcomes papers from scholars of all disciplinary backgrounds, as the question at hand fundamentally transcends conventional scholarly boundaries.  Please send a paper abstract (250 words maximum) and short bio to Hayley Cotter (hcotter@umass.edu) by April 10, 2025. Please note that the submission of a proposal constitutes a com...

Organiser: 𝐎𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬 Sponsors: 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 (𝐄𝐑𝐂) 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐂𝐒𝐌𝐁𝐑) Deadline for submitting Abstracts: 𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Project ATLOMY (Anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome: An Interactive Visual and Textual Atlas), invites submissions for a conference on the history of medicine and science at the intersection of digital humanities. The ATLOMY research project places at the core of its investigation the heuristic value of images and visual information. We are creating 3D models of ancient anatomical ideas, developing an interactive atlas of the history of anatomy, and re-enacting ancient dissections – to improve our understanding of the ancient ideas and practices, and develop interactive means to publish research results and data. In the spirit of fostering interdisciplinary dialogue we invite proposals that engage wit...

The Bertrand Russell Research Centre and the Philosophy Department at McMaster University invite applications for a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship in the history and philosophy of psychology. Philosophy of mind that engages research in cognitive psychology is flourishing. But approaching philosophical questions in an empirically-informed way is not a new thing on the intellectual stage. Empirical psychology gained a foothold as an independent scientific discipline around the turn of the 20th century. For reflection on mind conducted before that time, it can be intriguingly difficult to draw a clean line between the philosophical and the (natural) scientific.   We are building a new project at McMaster aimed at excavating philosophically-rich empirical work on mind from prior centuries. The project aims to address two key questions. 1. What can today’s philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists learn from forgotten, empirically-informed work from the past? 2. How did the ris...

Proposal for a symposium at the HSS Annual Meeting in   New Orleans, LA, USA, 13-16 November 2025.  “Satellite data, environment, and infrastructures of power”   Today, data generated with Earth orbiting satellites is essential for producing scientific, economic, and governance-related knowledge about the oceans, the atmosphere, the land surfaces and the ice, as well as the communities inhabiting and managing them. These data are not neutral: they are actively collected, analysed, maintained, and shared through a vast knowledge infrastructure. Infrastructure that must be historically situated and involves complex negotiations among data, technologies, practices, institutions, and knowledges between various social groups. Connecting satellite data back to the context in which they were produced, disseminated, maintained, and used allows us to emphasize how satellite data were defined, who controlled them, and why they matter today. We invite empirical studies that cri...

The present proposal aims to collect articles that analyse the perception and response to changes in maritime transport at the harbour level, with respect to port cities considered both as individual cases and as groups of cities belonging to a regional geographic area or connected in a network, and finally as case studies in a comparative perspective. In particular, contributions should address the following issues: The gap between development expectations and actual reality in various harbour contexts. On the one hand, there are the rhetorics (economic, geopolitical, scientific, literary, iconographic, etc.) through which port communities think of themselves, represent themselves, and perceive themselves in relation to technological advances and the potential development opportunities they offer (e.g., entry into new circuits of global trade, expansion of trade, revolutionising urban hierarchies and the division between centres and peripheries, etc.). On the other, the reality th...

Building the Non-Aligned World: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Urban Development in the Global South  We invite scholars exploring the intersections of technology, urbanism, and knowledge production in the Global South, particularly within the context of the Non-Aligned Movement. This panel will examine how infrastructure and technological networks shaped postcolonial development and transnational solidarities. Submission Deadline: April 4, 2025 Contact Information Tijana Rupčić (The Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences) URL https://www.historyoftechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025_shot_rupcic…

“Sound, Space, and the Home: A Virtual Symposium”  Dates: September 5–6, 2025  Location: Virtual  CfP deadline: April 18, 2025  Organizing Committee: Candace Bailey (North Carolina Central University), Emily Eubanks (Florida State University), Sarah Koval (University of Mississippi)   Scholarship on at-home music-making has given much attention to the repertoire, musicians, and hosts central to domestic music traditions. The roles that the domestic spaces themselves play in the cultural, philosophical, and political nature of these musical gatherings, however, remains largely underexplored. The vast range of size, grandeur, and objects found in salons, music rooms, and other domestic sites across historical and geographical contexts offers a rich avenue for considering how the spatial properties of homes influence behavior, agency, creativity, and the private/public characteristics of at-home music-making. In this two-day virtual symposium, we seek to better und...

In light of a dwindling public trust in science (Oreskes 2019) and ambiguous calls for a ‘return to truth’ (Cain et al. 2019), understanding the relationship between science and a democratic public, the delineation of appropriate scientific practices, and how to reconcile conflicting interpretations of reality seems to be more relevant than ever. In the 1990s, struggles over these issues culminated in the Science Wars that consisted of a series of heated academic-public discussions, among them the infamous ‘Sokal Hoax’. The Science Wars represent a historic peak and intersection of academic, political, and epistemological debates that had been smoldering for decades before, leaving a contested legacy. A fresh perspective on the Science Wars – one that acknowledges their historical complexity, moves beyond a dualistic framing, and situates them firmly in their historical moment – promises to illuminate the social, political, and cultural ramifications on academia and beyond. The worksho...

We invite  Bachelor’s and Master’s students  to submit their abstracts for a talk at the student conference  Science and Philosophy - Shared History, Diverging Paths?  which will take place on  25-26 July 2025  at  Leibniz University Hannover, Germany . Participation in the conference is free for everyone and  some financial support   is available for international participants . Please find the full call for abstracts and more information, in  our website . Description: The question of the relationship between philosophy and science is as old as the respective practices themselves. In recent debates, however, it may seem as if both have grown out of sync, talking past each other, often with little or no respect for each other’s realm and method, their arguments and positions. Our conference focuses on three main themes to address this gap: I. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS We will examine  the relationship between philosophy a...