2013 International Congress: symposium proposals


Dear all

Final reminder: the call for symposium submissions for the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine will close on Monday 30 April. If you are preparing a symposium, please make sure you are familiar with the proposal submission arrangements:

Our suggestions and planning page currently has active suggestions on the following symposium topics:

* Patents, ownership and invention in the history of medicine (James Stark)

* Computers, IT, and information cultures (James Sumner)

* Chemistry and industry (Andrew Butrica)

* Prophecy and precognition (Katy Price)

* Thinking through the visual, explaining with the visual (Amir Teicher)

* Putting the human sciences to work (Alice White and Michael Kliegl)

* Journal editors' meeting (Robert Fox)

* Doctor as hermeneutes (Vassilka Nikolova)

If you might be interested in contributing to any of these themes, visit the page at http://ichstm2013.wikispaces.com/ and contact the proposers at the addresses given.

General details of the Congress, as ever, are at http://www.ichstm2013.com/ . Please forward this announcement to any appropriate lists.

Best regards,
James Sumner (for the iCHSTM2013 Local Organising Committee)