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Location:  Warburg Institute, University of London Conference date:  24 October 2025 Submission deadline:  15 June 2025 Organiser : Sergei Zotov (Frances Yates Fellow, Warburg Institute) Keynote : Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge, Trinity College) on how emblematic worldview shaped early modern scientific thought and representation, from Vesalius and Brahe to Gessner, Camerarius Jr, and Boyle. Zodiac Man as medical microcosm, Christ’s limbs symbolising chapters of the Bible, alchemical androgyne embodying sulphur and mercury, four demons representing cardinal winds, compass legs as lovers, the labyrinth as a path to divine truth — there are many examples illustrating how pre-modern sciences employed allegory to visualise and organise knowledge. This conference investigates the multifaceted roles of allegory within scientific and intellectual traditions from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern period in Europe. Focusing on a wide range of disciplines — including anatomy, a...

El próximo 21 de mayo de 2025 , se celebrará una nueva sesión de los Seminarios Concepción Arenal , bajo el título "El patrimonio cultural de la salud. Fontilles y las memorias de la lepra" . El evento tendrá lugar de 12:00 a 13:00 horas en el Seminario Concepción Arenal , ubicado en el Edificio de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Alicante , y también podrá seguirse en línea . Este seminario contará con la participación de Inés Antón Dayas y Antonio García Belmar , ambos profesores de Historia de la Ciencia en la Universitat d’Alacant y responsables del Fontilles Heritage Project , una iniciativa de recuperación de la memoria histórica vinculada al sanatorio de Fontilles, un lugar emblemático en la historia del tratamiento y estigmatización de la lepra en España. La actividad está organizada por el Grupo Balmis de Investigación en Historia de la Ciencia, Cuidados en Salud y Alimentación (BALMIS) , y se enmarca en los esfuerzos por visibilizar el papel del patrimonio...

Meeting 9–10 September, 2025 at the Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum, Ingolstadt, Germany Invitation and call for papers Medical wax model collections have been the subject of renewed scientific interest since the turn of the millennium. As part of the material turn, scholars in history and cultural studies increasingly study historical objects in museums and university collections. Wax moulages in particular, with their specific characteristics, have attracted attention from medical professionals and historians alike. A German-speaking Moulages Working Group was formed in Berlin in 2013, following a major international conference in Dresden 2009. Ten years later, at a meeting in Zurich in 2023, the circle of participants was expanded to represent collections from all over the world. As an international working group, we now take the next step and join the newly founded International Association of Medical Museums and Collections (IAMMC) as the International Working Group on Medica...

Acaba de publicarse el ensayo "Las locas que no lo eran" ("As tolas que non o eran" en su versión en gallego), de la autoría de Carmen V. Valiña, doctora en historia contemporánea y profesora en la UEMC. La obra rastrea la historia de las mujeres internas en Conxo, el gran manicomio del noroeste peninsular, entre su fundación en 1885 y la Guerra Civil. Todas ellas reunían los ingredientes que condenan a una persona al margen: mujeres, aldeanas, pobres, analfabetas. Estudiar sus casi 500 historias clínicas para ir más allá de las palabras de los médicos permite recuperar las historias de cada una a través de sus cartas y relatos, perdidos entre toda esa documentación que, cuando la miramos atentamente, muestra su humanidad. En "Las locas que no lo eran" vas a descubrir, además, que muchas de estas mujeres, y de ahí el título, no tenían ninguna enfermedad mental que justificase su encierro en un psiquiátrico: algunas eran madres solteras; otras, alcohólicas;...

2-3 October 2025 , Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus Digital technologies have profoundly transformed human life, in ways that remain, despite the rising interest, still largely uncharted and insufficiently understood – partly because these technologies continue to evolve at an extraordinary pace. Humanity is undergoing an unprecedented digitization of the lifeworld. Our reliance on digital technologies is so pervasive and far-reaching that one could argue they have already transformed human nature – fundamentally altering lived experience, whether by creating new forms of experience or by reshaping existing ones. Sometimes, these transformations are conspicuous; at other times, they remain inconspicuous. It has become increasingly clear that the Humanities have acquired a new momentum of relevance coupled with a challenge that might define their value in this new setting. This challenge, however, presupposes and demands a reconsideration of our overall theoretica...

Norsk Teknisk Museum  (the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology) announces that the next and 30th meeting of ARTEFACTS will be held in Oslo, Norway,  12–14 October 2025 . ARTEFACTS is an international network of academic and museum-based scholars of science, technology, and medicine, who share the goal of promoting the use of objects in research. The consortium was established in 1996 and since then has held annual conferences examining the role of artefacts and collections in the making of science and technology and related areas. See  https://www. sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/our- work/research-public-history/ artefacts-consortium . The theme of the 2025 meeting is  CARE AND REPAIR , and we encourage proposals (see formats below) concerning how erosion, breakdown, and maintenance, instead of progress and innovation, can be starting points for research. What are the limits of our fragile world, and what work does caring do? We characterize ‘care and repair’ broad...

We are so familiar with extinction that it is hard to imagine a world where nothing was believed to be extinct. Up until the eighteenth century, well-known losses, such as the Mauritian dodo, were attributed to human actions. In the later eighteenth century, scientific research helped establish the notion that extinction was inherent in the natural world and quickly underpinned new ideas about loss and endangerment. In the twentieth century, the emergence of ecology and new conservation movements heightened awareness of anthropogenically-induced species loss. Concerns about the growing rates of extinction from the 1960s onwards, coupled with the realisation that not all endangered species could be saved, prompted questions about conservation priorities and why some animals are valued more than others. More recently, enthusiasm for rewilding and the serious prospect of de-extinction have created new conservation strategies and the prospect of redefining extinction itself, reflecting hum...

Edited by Alice Fleerackers and An Nguyen.  Deadline for Abstracts: 1-15 October 2025  |   Deadline for Articles: 15-28 February 2026 Media and Communication , peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Web of Science (Impact Factor: 2.7) and Scopus (CiteScore: 5.8), welcomes article proposals for its upcoming issue "Journalism as a Science Watchdog: Theories, Practices, and Implications," edited by Alice Fleerackers (University of British Columbia / Simon Fraser University) and An Nguyen (Bournemouth University). Investigative science journalism plays an increasingly vital role in shaping the science–society relationship. This thematic issue invites scholars to consider theories, practices, and implications of  watchdog   science   journalism — broadly understood here as journalism that investigates, exposes, and warns society of the misuses and abuses of science methods, processes, outcomes, and authority by those practicing, funding, and/or using science in th...

Workshop: Feminist Philosophy of Science – Contemporary Trends and Debates When: July 14-15, 2025 Where: Ruhr University Bochum, Wasserstr. 221, 4th floor Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2025 How to submit: Please send an abstract of up to 500 words to   fem.philosophy.of.science@ gmail.com   by May 15, 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out shortly thereafter. Keynote speakers • Julie Jebeile (University of Bern) • Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki) • Federica Russo (Utrecht University) The Research Group for Reasoning, Rationality and Science ( https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum. de/rrs-philosophy/ ) invites submissions for the upcoming workshop "Feminist Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Trends and Debates", to be held at Ruhr University Bochum on July 14–15, 2025. The workshop aims to explore recent developments in feminist philosophy of science, bringing together work that examines the role of values, power dynamics, and situated knowledge in scientific in...

Date:  March 11, 2026 - March 13, 2026   Location:  Finland   Subject Fields:  History of Science, Medicine, and Technology ,  Disability Studies ,  Early Modern History and Period Studies ,  Modern European History / Studies ,  Intellectual History 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 kno...