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Global History of Medicine Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012-14 Cogut Center for the Humanities and History Department Brown University The Cogut Center and Department of History at Brown University invite applications for a two-year Mellon post-doctoral fellowship in the Global History of Medicine. The field is defined as any sub-set of the history of medicine that explores connections or interactions in more than one region, or that compares the history of medicine between two or more regions. Applicants must have received their degrees from institutions other than Brown within the last five (5) years. The successful candidate must show exceptional scholarly promise and will be expected to teach one course a semester to complement courses in the history of medicine already offered at the university (these will be listed by the History Department and cross-listed with the Cogut Center). The Fellow will also be affiliated with the Cogut Center, where s/he will participate in...

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe; Director: Prof. Dr. Sven Dupré) announces three postdoctoral fellowships for up to three months between July 1 and December 31, 2012. Outstanding junior and senior scholars are invited to apply. Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science, the history of art, technical art history or related field (with a dissertation topic relevant to the history of knowledge) at the time of application and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications and other achievements. Research projects should address the history of art and knowledge up to the eighteenth century (with a preference for the period between 1350 and 1750), and may concern any geographical area within Europe, and any object of the visual and decorative arts. Possible topics include: - The mediation of the transmission of knowledge in and beyond the artist’s workshop...

A reminder to members that the December 31 deadline for proposals for the London 2012 meeting "Science, Space, and the Environment" is approaching - please see the attachment for details. Simon Werrett Deadline: December 31, 2011 Call For Papers: Conference: Science, Space, and the Environment Location: Smith Centre, Science Museum, London Date: Tuesday/Wednesday July 17-18, 2012 Sponsor: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich Organizers: Helmuth Trischler, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich; Ludmilla Jordanova, King’s College London Department of History; Simon Werrett, University of Washington Department of History/ Science Studies Network, Seattle; Science Museum, London. Although the sciences have provided critical resources in environmental debates, their own role in environmental change has been little studied. This conference will explore how the sciences have affected the physical environment. How have scientific practic...

Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its fifth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the Historical Library. The Medical Historical Library, located in New Haven, Connecticut, holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Haller, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation and vaccination. The Library owns over fifty medieval and renaissance manuscripts, Arabic and Persian manuscripts, and over 300 medical incunabula.   The notable Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings has over 2,500 fine prints, drawings, and posters from the 15th century to the present on medical sub...

Call for Papers for a Workshop on The Rise of Child Science and Psy-Expertise May 29-30, 2012 London, United Kingdom Sponsored by The Brunel Centre for International Medical Anthropology (CRIMA) and the Royal Anthropological Institute Organizers: Dominique Béhague and Guntars Ermansons Since the Enlightenment, the child and his or her journey to adulthood has served as a prism for philosophical and scientific formulations of what it means to be human. Like other objects of expert attention that arose in the 19th and 20th centuries, the child’s maturation process has been approached through distinct intellectual traditions, with each generation of experts drawing from evolutionary, psychoanalytic, sociological, biopsychiatric, cognitive, epigenetic, and neuroscience ways of reasoning. Relative to other heuristic anchors, however, child science has changed in less paradigmatic ways and has, rather, retained a markedly layered and multi-vocal quality. The extent to which this mult...

University at Buffalo Libraries Special Collections Fellowships The UB Humanities Institute, in collaboration with the UB Libraries, is offering two fellowships for visiting scholars and graduate students working on their dissertations to use the UB Libraries' outstanding special collections, which include the Poetry Collection, University Archives, Rare Books, the Music Library, the Polish Collection, and the History of Medicine Collection. Follow this link to find out more about some of the more notable collections in the UB libraries: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/LibraryCollectionsDescriptions.shtml The fellowships provide stipends of up to $4,000 ($5,000 for the James Joyce Fellowship) to cover the cost of fellows' travel to Buffalo and accommodation and expenses during the time of their stay. In addition to the stipend, Fellows will receive library and parking privileges at UB and are invited to participate in any Humanities Institute ev...