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El volumen está coeditado por Enrique Perdiguero Gil y José Martínez Pérez , y se inscribe en una línea de investigación historiográfica que analiza el cáncer desde una perspectiva social, cultural y política. A pesar de la enorme relevancia social y sanitaria del cáncer, sigue siendo escasa la bibliografía que estudia históricamente cómo se abordó esta enfermedad a lo largo del siglo XX en España. La obra parte de la premisa de que, para comprender hasta qué punto el cáncer ha contribuido a moldear la sociedad española contemporánea, resulta imprescindible un enfoque histórico que integre a los múltiples agentes implicados en la construcción de su significado: pacientes, profesionales sanitarios, administraciones públicas, asociaciones benéficas, industria tecnológica y medios de comunicación, que reflejan y a la vez configuran las percepciones sociales sobre la enfermedad. A través de diez estudios de caso , el libro ofrece una primera aproximación a un problema de gran complejida...

Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, Social and Cultural Perspectives  Workshop at the University of Helsinki, Finland  Monday, May 4, 2026 Deadline for submission: March 2, 2026 In recent years, there has been a significant growth in the fields of disability studies in the ancient world, with interdisciplinary approaches intersecting with gender studies, social history, legal history and material culture. These approaches allow a broad understanding of differences and responses to situations of vulnerability, based not only on individual experiences but also on social structures, cultural attitudes, and material conditions. Building on these perspectives, the workshop explores the intersection of gender and disabilities in ancient Rome, examining the situation of women with disabilities, their role as caregivers, and their position from social, juridical and economic standpoints. The aim of the workshop is to explore how Roman society addressed issues of care, prote...

The  Journal for the History of Knowledge  features an annual special issue, compiled by guest editors, which explores atheme central to the journal’s scope. The special issues of previous years have been  Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge (2020),  Histories of Ignorance  (2021),  Situated Nature  (2022),  Entangled Temporalities  (2023),  Mapping   Uncertain Knowledge  (2024), and  Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World  (2025). We are currently accepting proposals for the 2028 Special Issue. Proposals should contain the following: A description of the proposed theme (1500-2000 words) highlighting its significance for the history of knowledge A table of contents (typically 8-12 articles...

Impregnability has many strong meanings - not becoming pregnant but also capable of withstanding assault. It's a term that lives in connotative alignment with infertility, of non- and un-reproducibility, but it also carries presence over absence, power over victimization. Think protesters who link arms to create an impregnable wall of resistance. Think castles that cannot be stormed. Indeed, the word literally means “unable to be defeated or destroyed; unassailable.” Increasingly, we argue, to be impregnable is a position of political potentiality amidst a social and legal reality of restricted reproductive rights, rampant transphobia, heightened surveillance, brutal terrorization, and the removal of basic health care options that have made sexual experience and experimentation fraught for those who are fertile. We are interested in examining how media as largely imagined (film, television, the internet, podcasts, etc.) has recently become fixated with the impregnable body — from t...

The European Academies Research Initiative (EARI) organizes a Workshop at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale), 4–6 November 2026 on the topic " The Role of Academies in the Co-Evolution of Science and the State " The link below will lead you to a call to submit applications before 1 April 2026. https://www.leopoldina.org/ fileadmin/user_upload/ Dokumente/2026_Call_for_ papers_EARI_Workshop.pdf Propositions are welcome.

The  Libori Summer School 2026 is dedicated to the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The Summer School offers an interdisciplinary forum for critical inquiry into women’s intellectual contributions across historical periods, cultural contexts, and disciplinary boundaries.   The Libori Summer School invites applications from Bachelor’s, Master’s and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral researchers interested in exploring the rich, diverse, and often overlooked histories of women philosophers and scientists. We particularly welcome contributions that adopt innovative perspectives, engage with neglected figures or traditions, or challenge established narratives through interdisciplinary approaches.   Possible areas of interest include (but are by no means limited to): History of philosophy and science Economics and political thought Ecofeminism and environmental humanities History of medicine and health Theology, religious thought, and spiritual tradi...

The historical epistemology workshop  “Examining Contemporary Medicine through Historical Epistemology”,  will take place on  9–10 April 2026  at  MSH Paris Nord  (Paris, France). This workshop is the 11th edition of the annual meetings of the International Research Network on Historical Epistemology. Its aim is not so much to demarcate historical epistemology as a narrowly defined field by sharply distinguishing it from other approaches to the study of science, but rather to create a space for dialogue on a plurality of philosophical inquiries concerning the history of knowledge. What unites these approaches is their shared focus on the conditions under which scientific fields and their objects emerged. Historical epistemology, in this broad sense, aims to describe and critically assess the dynamics specific to the historicity of a scientific object in order to shed light on present questions. The aim of this 11th edition is to draw on the resources of his...

July 9–10, 2026, Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana.  Deadline March 15, 2026.   Research on experts and expertise in state socialism has developed, in recent years, from national case studies embedded in overarching accounts of “Cold War expertise,” to transnational histories of knowledge production, to a renewed appreciation for thick descriptions of the political, social, and epistemological contexts of expertise as developed in and for the purposes of socialism. In particular, work in social history and the history of labor, the history of science, and intellectual history has been addressing the role of experts in the political economy and class structure of socialist countries in the region. This has also inspired efforts to revisit the conceptual and theoretical approaches to expertise with the insight of the historical legacies of anti-capitalist political epistemologies from East Central Europe. At the same time, new research has focused on the 1980s and 199...

Medical images—such as X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, and increasingly AI-generated or AI-assisted visualizations—play a central role in contemporary medical knowledge and practice. These images are not merely neutral representations of bodily states; rather, they require complex acts of interpretation shaped by theoretical assumptions, technological mediation, professional expertise, and contextual judgment. The growing use of artificial intelligence in medical imaging further complicates traditional accounts of observation, interpretation, and epistemic authority. This two-day conference  at the University of Sheffield  wants to bring together philosophers of science, philosophers of medicine, and scholars from related fields to examine the interpretation of medical images by human experts and/or AI systems. The aim is to foster sustained philosophical discussion on how medical images are produced, interpreted, validated, and integrated into clinical reasoning and deci...

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge is still accepting applications for the Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine track on our interdisciplinary MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society. Deadline :  Feb. 26, 2026 This degree track is particularly well suited to interdisciplinary applicants who are looking to develop their interests in philosophy and ethics, and to those who are interested in exploring the intersections between philosophy, history, anthropology and sociology.  More information:  https://www.hms.hps.cam.ac.uk/ The MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society is a full-time 9-month course run jointly by the Departments of History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Social Anthropology. It introduces students from a range of backgrounds to research skills and specialist knowledge relevant to their research interests, and provides them with the opportunity to carry out focused research under close supervision by senior mem...