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Politics, Power, Patronage: Funding Medicine and Science in the Renaissance   This CFP invites proposals for 15- to 20-minute papers that consider the entanglements that bound financial or political capital to the production of medical or scientific knowledge in the Renaissance. Papers may consider how Renaissance practitioners navigated these entanglements: how they weathered changing dynastic or political regimes; how they leveraged their knowledge-making in service to private or corporate enterprise; or, how they sought to insulate the endeavor of knowledge-making from the instability of these systems of power. Alternatively, they might explore knowledge-making practices that resisted the disciplining forces of politics, power, and patronage, or examine Renaissance practitioners who participated in or imagined knowledge-making outside of these structures. Finally, papers might survey the material legacies of these entanglements: how did the production or deployment of scientific...

El Departament d'Història de la Ciència i Documentació de la Universitat de València convoca 2 places de Professor/a Ajudant Doctor/a . Convocatòria oficial (PDF - UV) Publicació al DOGV (PDF) Termini de presentació de sol·licituds: fins al 26 de juny de 2025 Guia per a la presentació de sol·licituds: Guia per a contractes temporals (PDF)

The ATI conferences are organized by the Department of Architecture, Yasar University in Izmir, Turkey. The ATI2026 Conference ( https://ati.yasar.edu.tr/ ) addresses the use of innovative technologies in architectural design and education, through the following main themes: Production, Design and practice, Building science and technology, Community, space and culture, and Education. Important dates are as follows: 1st Round Abstract Submission Deadline - July 15, 2025 1st Round Abstract Acceptance Notification - September 1, 2025 2nd Round Abstract Submission Deadline - November 1, 2025 2nd Round Abstract Acceptance Notification - December 5, 2025 Full Paper Submission - March 1, 2026 Full Paper Acceptance Notification - May 15, 2026 ATI2026 Conference - October 7-9, 2026 The authors of selected papers will be invited to prepare an improved manuscript, to be submitted to the following Open Access Journals: VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability...

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 the relationship between the living and the dead. The creation of cemeteries introduced a new ‘necrogeography’ (Laqueur 2015) and funeral trappings in turn reflected the social status of the departed. Death was further embodied in material objects, some of which were worn for th...

The  Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association (CSTHA-AHSTC ) invites proposals for its biennial meeting, to be held at York University, 7–9 November 2025.  We encourage scholarship that engages broadly with the topics of nations and nationalism as they relate to scientific and technological change. These are classic questions for Canadian historians of science and technology, but also timely ones in the current era of profound, rapid, and unpredictable global change.  Proposed topics include   but are not limited to the following: Where and when have Indigenous knowledges or practices intersected or interacted with colonial scientific or technological ones?  What roles have political or geographic borders played in the development of science and technology in Canada, nationally, internationally, or provincially?  How have different sciences and technologies interacted with the way Canadians have understood and aligned themselves with their nat...

The significance of law enforcement for public health has recently been spotlit by the policing of Covid-19 lockdowns, and the impact of police violence on minoritised populations. Public health and policing have been entwined since the early 1800s, evolving together as characteristics of the modern nation state. Sex work and sexual health, environmental harms and nuisances, unsafe workplaces, substance misuse, mental health crises, interpersonal violence, road collisions, and unintended injuries have long interested public health experts and been central to policing. Moreover, police personnel are themselves at risk of occupational harms, presenting a particular public health challenge.   With sparse exceptions, histories of modern policing and public health rarely meet. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers from both fields, situating the police officer as a key figure in histories of public health and medicine, and public health as integral to the evolution ...

Accounts of journeys and expeditions have long been seen as articulations of a hunger for knowledge about other places, climates and peoples. In the early modern period, the establishment of scientific associations and learned societies, the accelerated production of print artefacts and the drive for colonial expansion saw non-fictional travel writing became one of the most widely read genres in the Western world. Only relatively recently has attention turned to the ways in which travel writing problematises the creation, organisation and dissemination of knowledge. In line with studies into how factual information is acquired, processed and diffused (Winchester, 2023), but also the role played by ignorance, uncertainty and non-knowledge as productive driving forces (Burke, 2023; Gross and McGoey, 2023), this conference explores the challenges to forging knowledge in the period between 1600 and 1820.    Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: the tensions between ...

This call for papers aims to prepare a collective publication focused on the actors and practices of assistance to migrant populations in Europe and the Middle East between 1945 and 1970. The project adopts an innovative perspective, emphasizing on-the-ground dynamics and the interactions among the various actors involved in migration-related aid, between cooperation, competition and entanglement. It also seeks to shed light on lesser-known figures—third-party actors in the field of displacement assistance—whose roles, though significant, have often remained marginalized in historical scholarship. An editorial workshop, designed to coordinate and refine the submitted texts, will be held at the German Historical Institute in Paris on December 3-5, 2025 (exact day to be confirmed). Selected contributors will have reviewed the draft papers of the other participants ahead of time, so that the workshop can be fully dedicated to collectively aligning and revising the contributions. All parti...

DYNAMIS Volumen 45 (1) — 2025 SUMARIO DOSSIER: Disease Landscapes Beyond the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic (1889-1960s) Guest editors: Francisco Javier Martínez y Matheus Duarte da Silva Disease landscapes beyond the “Spanish flu” pandemic: temporal patterns, re-centered narratives (1889-1970s) Francisco Javier Martínez y Matheus Duarte da Silva By the rivers of Babylon: 1889-cholera outbreak in Iraq, production of medical knowledge and construction of scientific periphery Neta Talmud Inventing aerosols: Auguste Trillat (1861-1944) and the medical meteorology of influenza Etienne Aucouturier Devil’s choice: Ricardo Jorge, the ‘Spanish flu’ and the pneumonization of plague Francisco Javier Martínez Towards a complex ecology: an essay on plague history in Brazil (1890s-1970s) Matheus Duarte da Silva ARTÍCULOS Salud y desequilibrios en la centuria de las Luces: hospitales y médicos en Cádiz a t...

Today, as we navigate increasingly polarized discussions about science’s role in society, the scientific community must address the complicated history of scientific triumphalism. The long twentieth century undeniably saw science transform societies and deliver significant improvements in human welfare. This success story has fostered a pervasive belief that every question and problem can be solved through the continued expansion of scientific knowledge.  Recent developments have cast doubt on the validity of this narrative. Looming environmental crises have prompted critical questions about whether science has truly led to unambiguous progress. While ongoing breakthroughs in artificial intelligence exemplify scientific achievement, they also raise serious concerns about broader societal implications. At the same time, the authority of scientific discourse is being challenged by alternative frameworks. From one perspective, science denialism and pseudoscience have eroded public tru...