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Se ha publicado recientemente el libro "Cerebros electrónicos. Historia de los orígenes de la informática en España", de José María López Sánchez y Alba Fernández Gallego (Editorial Comares, 2026). El volumen analiza la llegada y desarrollo de la informática en España con el objetivo de comprender el significado histórico y cultural de los distintos procesos que acompañaron la implantación del ordenador electrónico en nuestro país. Desde una perspectiva amplia, el estudio aborda este fenómeno atendiendo a sus dimensiones científicas, políticas, económicas y sociales, proponiendo una aproximación que va más allá de la historia técnica de la computación . El marco temporal se sitúa entre el final de la Guerra Civil y el último tercio del siglo XX, con especial atención a las décadas del franquismo, la transición a la democracia y los primeros años del nuevo sistema político. En este contexto, el libro examina la introducción de la informática en ámbitos como la administración d...

Autor: Jonathan Fuller Contemporary scientific medicine is a new modern medicine-one shaped by new disease epidemics, new norms of evidence, and the new sciences of epidemiology. Jonathan Fuller provides a philosophical treatment of this new modern medicine, an epidemiological medicine that has dominated healthcare for decades. Epidemiological medicine is a model of medicine calibrated to the management of epidemic noncommunicable diseases such as cancers and chronic conditions, reliant on evidence from epidemiological studies such as clinical trials and infused with epidemiological thinking. The New Modern Medicine utilizes resources from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of medicine to examine disease and evidence in the new modern medicine, particularly problems brought about by the twentieth century integration of medicine with epidemiology. Fuller explores topics such as the nature and evolution of modern scientific medicine, theories of contagion and cancer, the ca...

Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2026 Feedback: October 30, 2026 Deadline for completed contributions: April 30, 2027  As in literature, professional nursing is a constant, and sometimes even central, theme in art history: Professional nurses appear as characters in the visual arts, in films, and in typical soap operas—portrayed here as well as in these genres as compassionate heroines, dutiful shadow figures, or powerful antagonists to medical authority. Having explored the poetics of nursing in our initial approach to the topic of nursing in art, this next step will focus on visualizations of nursing in photography, painting, and film.  We are seeking contributions that, from a scholarly perspective, focus on professional nurses as individuals or collective bodies and analyze how they are visualized in the aforementioned (art) forms. We are interested in all questions that reveal the ideas, normative assumptions, conceptions, and social contexts underlying such visualiz...

Within the frame of  Cost Action CA23149 “Democratization at Stake? Comparing Anti-Gender Politics in Central East Europe and the Near and Middle East” , we aim at compiling a special issue on Health Feminism and Anti-Gender Politics: Knowledge, Body Politics and Reactions in a Historical Perspective Starting in the late 1960s, health books and other publications written ‘by women for women’, the practice of self-examination and the concept of women’s health centres stimulated demands for better and women-centred health care. This new focus on women’s health emerged as a transnational phenomenon from “Western” women’s movements to socialist feminism beyond the Iron Curtain, Hence, health issues stand at the core of feminist mobilization as well as they stand at the core of anti-gender mobilizations as the current refusals of gender-related medicine by antiliberal actors show. This issue wants to historicize and discuss these observations from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contr...

An international, interdisciplinary conference, organised by the SNSF Starting Grant Team “Matter of Distinction: Early Modern Hair, Race, Trade, and Multispecies History” (Annika Bärwald, Laura Schleiss, Sarah-Maria Schober) at the University of Lucerne on October 8–10, 2026. Hyper-present on almost all heads and bodies, hair is a forceful matter of difference. It signals gender, class, sometimes religion or politics – as well as racialised distinction. As such, hair connects and disconnects humans and other species across the globe and throughout history. The conference “Global Histories of Hair” aims to bring together researchers working on hair as a matter of distinction in the early modern and modern worlds.  One temporal focus is on the period between approximately 1500 and 1850, encapsulating the European and colonial “age of the wig”. Alongside various types of animal hair reaching their position as “commodities of empire” during this time, human hair was cut, collected and...

Ivitación a participar en la mesa «Médicos españoles en el exilio tras 1939: redes relacionales y circulación de conocimiento en América Latina», en el marco de las XIV Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de España «Mundos Hispánicos: Archivos, Fuentes y Métodos» (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Fundación para la Historia de España), las cuales tendrán lugar en modalidad virtual los días 2, 3 y 4 de septiembre de 2026. El objetivo de la sesión radica en reflexionar sobre las redes relacionales y la circulación de conocimiento de los médicos españoles exiliados a países de América Latina tras la Guerra Civil española. Adjunto pueden encontrar una descripción más detallada sobre los objetivos de la mesa y la segunda circular de las jornadas con la información relativa al envío de propuestas. Este es el enlace de la página web de las jornadas: https://www.fheargentina.com.ar/jornadas2026/ . Cada propuesta deberá incluir: título, resumen de hasta 300 palabras y palabras claves en español...

The Society for the History of Emotions (SHE) biennial conference will be held at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria, from June 2–4, 2027 . The theme is "Emotions in Adversity: Disease, War, Crisis." You can find more information and the Call for Papers (CFP) through this link: https://societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conference-2027/

Está abierto el plazo de envío de artículos para el próximo número de la revista Encuentros Multidisciplinares. Es por ello que te invitamos a considerar la posibilidad de que nos envíes/éis algún artículo relacionado con la DIDÁCTICA EN HISTORIA DE LA SALUD o con cualquier otra disciplina y ámbito del conocimiento de los que integran el gran Universo científico. En caso afirmativo, te indico que el plazo límite para el envío de artículos sería el próximo 5 de Julio, y la extensión del artículo podría ser bastante variable (2.500 a 4.500 palabras podría ser una referencia, pero podrían ser más o menos en caso necesario), y se podrían incluir gráficos, tablas, fotos, etc. Además, este próximo número de la revista va a seguir recogiendo artículos dedicados a las SOCIEDADES CIENTÍFICAS, así como a los CENTROS DE INVESTIGACIÓN punteros de nuestro país y que tanto hacen unos y otros por el avance de la Ciencia y el progreso y bienestar de nuestra sociedad. Y te recuerdo igualmente que en la...

The Centre for Historical Studies at the University of Northampton welcomes submissions for our interdisciplinary and panhistorical conference  Playing with History . This event brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners interested in examining how play—across its many forms—shapes, reflects, and reimagines the past. Play is often framed as leisure or diversion, yet it has long been central to cultural expression, technological innovation, learning, and socialization. From ancient board games to contemporary digital worlds, from childhood toys to serious games in education, play offers a rich archive for historical inquiry and creative engagement.   We welcome papers that address (but are not limited to) the following themes: 1. Histories of Games, Toys, and Play Archaeologies and material cultures of play Play and identity (gender, class, race, age) Collecting, preserving, and curating play artefacts Performance as play (acting, dressing up, theatre) 2. History an...

Contributions are invited for a thematic dossier for  The Journal of History of Science and Technology   focused on the Non-Aligned Movement as a significant framework for understanding the history of science and technology in the postwar Global South. This dossier will examine how non-alignment influenced the circulation of knowledge, technical expertise, and development initiatives. Key areas of interest include: The movement of experts and exchange of specialized knowledge Forms of technical cooperation across the Global South The role of scientists, engineers, and planners in state-building Infrastructure and development projects as sites of political and technical negotiation The institutional and political relevance of scientific and technological agendas By gathering case studies from regions such as Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa, this dossier aims to illustrate how the Non-Aligned world served not only as a geopolitical project but also as a space where sci...