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Salvatore, Ricardo D., Moramay López-Alonso, Manuel Llorca-Jaña y José-Miguel Martínez-Carrión (eds.)  (2025).  The Biological Welfare of Ibero-America: A New Anthropometric History .  Palgrave Macmillan. El libro ofrece una perspectiva de largo plazo sobre el bienestar biológico en Iberoamérica a partir de evidencias históricas antropométricas, con especial atención a la estatura como indicador de nutrición neta, condiciones sanitarias y desigualdad. Url:  https://link.springer.com/ book/10.1007/978-981-95-1509-7  

Dossier planned for submission to  Esboços: histórias em contextuales globais  (UFSC, Brazil) with publication scheduled for 2027, within the framework of its editorial and peer evaluation process. GENERAL AIM This dossier aims to place technical–labor internationalism at the center of global history debates, proposing it as an interpretive key for analyzing the transnational circulation of expertise, skilled labor, and political projects across the twentieth century. Rather than treating it merely as a form of professional mobility, the dossier understands technical–labor internationalism as a site of mediation in which applied knowledge functioned as a strategic resource. These circulations brought together material needs, institutional frameworks, and political projects that had to position themselves vis-à-vis major global transformations: from the Great Depression, protectionist backlash, the rise of totalitarianisms, and multiple strands of proletarian internationalism i...

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh invites applications for the 2026  Physicians’ Collections Research Grant .   Deadline: 1 April 2026 Grant amount: £3,000   The  Physicians’ Collections Research Grant  aims to encourage new research into, and engagement with, the College's archive and library collections. The recipient is expected to share their research with the public through a variety of channels.   More details on the grant and how to apply are available at:  https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/ education/physicians- collections-research-grant

Call for Papers – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026) ; submissions due  31 January 2026 Medicine, Sciences and Knowledge in Biblical and Talmudic Traditions (and beyond) Chairs: Mark Geller (London) & Lennart Lehmhaus (Tübingen) For our annual focus area  “Popularization of Knowledge” , we invite scholars to comparatively explore the diffusion of medicine, sciences and other (scientific) knowledge (including magic, divination, dream interpretation etc.) beyond the confines of technical texts or groups of experts, with a specific focus on its applicability and socio-cultural utility in Jewish (also in Judeo-Arabic, Ladino or Yiddish), (early) Christian (in Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Latin etc.) and Islamic(ate) (con)texts as well as in ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and other cultures (Syriac, Persian, Mandean, South-Asian, East-Asian etc.)  Scholars may address – with a focus on a single text/tradition or a comparative approach, sync...

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World SHNH International Summer Meeting in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London Huxley Lecture Theatre, Zoological Society of London, London Wednesday 1 st  July to Friday 3 rd  July 2026.   This three-day international meeting, held in SHNH’s 90 th  year, will mark the bicentenary of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and delve into its history and impact on our knowledge of the natural world. Founded in the age of empire and Enlightenment science, ZSL has shaped – and been shaped by – transformations in zoological knowledge, conservation practice, and human-animal relations. The bicentenary offers a timely opportunity to explore ZSL’s history and to reflect on its legacy in Britain and beyond.   Founded in 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles, the ZSL became a cornerstone of British scientific life. Within just a few years it had opened the London Zoo (1828), received a...

Autora: Carmen Guillén Lorente De entre todos los fragmentos que componen la compleja historia del siglo XX español, pocos capítulos resultan tan oscuros y reveladores como los vinculados a las instituciones represivas del franquismo. La más longeva y, sin embargo, la menos conocida es el Patronato de Protección a la Mujer. Desde 1941 hasta bien entrada la democracia, esta institución apuntaló su labor sobre cuatro pilares: trabajo y oración para redimir; disciplina y castigo para adoctrinar. En el cruce de intereses entre Iglesia y Estado, la doctrina católica sirvió para legitimar este control femenino. Miles de mujeres de todas las edades, procedencias y contextos socioeconómicos fueron entonces condenadas sin delito y encerradas sin juicio en nombre de esa moral. Bajo un disfraz de caridad se ocultó una realidad llena de abusos, trabajos forzados, robo de bebés y violaciones sistemáticas de los derechos humanos. Este libro analiza el Patronato como una pieza clave en la arquite...

Dossier planned for submission to the journal Esboços: histórias em contextos globais (UFSC, Brazil), with publication scheduled for 2027, within the framework of its editorial and peer-review process. GENERAL AIM: This dossier aims to place technical–labor internationalism at the center of global history debates, proposing it as an interpretive key for analyzing the transnational circulation of expertise, skilled labor, and political projects across the twentieth century. Rather than treating it merely as a form of professional mobility, the dossier understands technical–labor internationalism as a site of mediation in which applied knowledge functioned as a strategic resource. These circulations brought together material needs, institutional frameworks, and political projects that had to position themselves vis-à-vis major global transformations: from the Great Depression, protectionist backlash, the rise of totalitarianisms, and multiple strands of proletarian internationalism in th...

Understanding the relationships between  knowledge  and  resilience  is essential for examining complex societies and their responses to short-term events and longer-term processes of  environmental change . This conference, organised by  SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE   (ERC Consolidator Grant 101044437), aims to address the relationships between knowledge and resilience in relation to climatic and environmental conditions in the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, particularly focusing on how people in this period responded in different ways to environmental fluctuations and challenges. We invite proposals for papers and posters which address issues relating to knowledge and/or resilience in relation to the environment in the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, and especially encourage submissions which examine social and/or intellectual responses to environmental changes. We aim to open u...

Some 25 years ago Richard Rogers proposed an urban renaissance for cities across the UK. That vision of regeneration was primarily focused on the role of design in creating a more livable city for people. However, this conference is premised on a different reading of the city – one that sees it as a site in which multiple disciplines are involved in making it ‘livable’. This includes designers, engineers, business people and service providers of every sort including those involved in various aspects of public health and accessibility studies.  Dedicating strands to each of these disciplinary areas, this conference seeks to invite a deeper disciplinary understanding of how we each contribute to making the cities we inhabit ‘livable’ but, importantly, also seeks to foster discoveries and exchanges of ideas across fields.  To that end, this call is directed to URBAN HEALTH professionals. For details, see:  https://amps-research.com/livable-cities-health-wellbeing/  

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of  Environment, Extraction, Evolution .    “What do I want from literature, anyway?  A new way of living, a new way to talk   About the trees that doesn’t endanger them”  - Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Endnotes”     In “Endnotes”, Billy-Ray Belcourt meditates on the project of writing Indigiqueer poetry in a colonial language in so-called Canada. Belcourt points towards two significant practices of extraction: colonial language as an erasure of Indigenous languages and histories, and the creation of taxonomies that delimit the environment into human categories of ‘knowabi...