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 Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Fashion Practice: Fashion, Health, and Wellbeing Spring 2013 Fashion and health are symbiotic; each affects the other. Fashion can make us stand straighter and help prevent osteoporosis. Fashion can also damage our feet and our balance through a choice of shoes or it can exercise our leg muscles and improve our gait. Fashion can protect us from the harsh rays of the sun or monitor our health through embedded electronic sensors. Fashion is a visualization of how we choose to live our lives. The fashion choices we make affect our thoughts and feelings (emotionally, spiritually, physically). This issue will connect fashion to the topic of health and wellbeing. Manuscripts are requested that explore, define, and document the interconnections between fashion and health. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: * Fashion design and wellbeing * Fashion and sports * The relationship between healthy lifestyles and fashion design ...

Hello all, The preliminary programme for the upcoming conference at the University of Edinburgh, Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment, is now online at http://sensualisingdeformity.blogspot.co.uk/p/conference-programme.html, and registration is live. We are currently offering reduced rates for anyone who books before 15 April. For more details, visit http://sensualisingdeformity.blogspot.com . Our keynote speakers include Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University), Margrit Shildrick (Linköping University), Peter Hutchings (Northumbria University) and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University). We hope to see some of you there! Best, Ally -- Ally Crockford A.N.Crockford@sms.ed.ac.uk Final-Year PhD Candidate English Literature The University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh University - Science, Technology and Innovation Studies - studentship for joint PhD with the National University of Singapore. The topic area is open but priority will be given to candidates whose work would benefit from having a co-supervisor in Singapore (for information on the STS faculty in Singapore see http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/sts/members/index.html ). The studentship covers fees at the home/EU rate, but it is open to applicants from all countries. There is also a £5000 per year supplement towards living costs for three years. The deadline for full applications (which need to be submitted online on Edinburgh's EUCLID system) is 30 March 2012 For further information and instructions on how to apply, go to http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/news/2012/post-graduate_funding_opportunities_2012- 13 Anyone interested should send an email to Dr Jane Calvert   < mailto:Jane.Calvert@ed.ac.uk > < Jane.Calvert@ed.ac.uk > stating that they wish to be considered for th...

The Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Social Studies of Science (100% FTE). The successful candidate is expected to complete outstanding research and to teach courses in social studies of science. We are particularly interested in appointing a scholar with research and teaching expertise at the interface of science and technology governance with sociology or social studies of science. The duties of the post will include teaching on the department’s undergraduate and graduate programmes, supervising graduate students and contributing to administrative, pastoral, and engagement activities in the department. Closing date: 23 rd April 2012; interviews to be held in May For further details and links to the online application system: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/vacancies About the department: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Joe Cain (Head of Department) J.Cain@ucl.ac.uk Kate Hickson Department of S...

Las editoriales de la Universidad del Rosario y de la Universidad Javeriana publicaron el libro de Stefan Pohl-Valero, Energía y cultura. Historia de la termodinámica en la España de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Informes: http://www.siglodelhombre.com/details.asp?prodid=CEJ10345 http://www.gesctp.com/libros/ Resumen: Además de representar uno de los principales desarrollos científicos del siglo XIX, la termodinámica jugó un papel fundamental en la configuración del pensamiento social occidental moderno. Energía y cultura analiza en detalle los procesos de comunicación y apropiación de esta nueva ciencia del calor en la España del último tercio del siglo XIX y destaca cómo las reelaboraciones culturales de sus leyes fueron fundamentales para entender el mundo natural y la sociedad española en un periodo crítico de su historia. La conceptualización en términos energéticos, no solo del cosmos y de los fenómenos naturales sino también de la sociedad, permeó profundamente los ...