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Call for Papers: Bodily Functions: The Corpus and Corpora in Ancient Literature The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature Ioannou Centre for Research in Classical and Byzantine Studies University of Oxford,, United Kindom 8th-9th September 2012 'Bodily Functions: The Corpus and Corpora in Ancient Literature' The AMPAL is a two day residential conference which brings together post-graduates from across the international classical community. The event offers a unique opportunity for graduates to present their work, to meet other researchers and academics from across the discipline and to engage in lively and stimulating discussion on a significant critical theme. In particular, the AMPAL offers an encouraging environment for post-graduates to present their first paper and for speakers and chairs to receive peer review. Previous conferences have also included the opportunity for publication. Our keynote speaker for the event will be Prof. Matthew Leigh of ...

Call for Papers: Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 2-4 November 2012 We invite the submission of extended abstracts (approximately 1000 words) for individual paper presentations (reading time should be 30 minutes). The aim of the conference is to bring to the fore the medical context of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ and to explore the complex connections between medicine and natural philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Medicine and natural philosophy interacted on many levels, from the practical imperative to restore and maintain the health of human bodies to theoretical issues on the nature of living matter and the powers of the soul to methodological concerns about the appropriate way to gain knowledge of natural things. And issues of life, generation, ageing, medicine, and vital activity were important topics of investigation for canonical actors of the Scientific Revolution, from Boyle, Hook...

Podeu consultar a Ictíneu la crònica de Miquel Carandull, de les dues xerrades que va fer James Moore a Barcelona fa dues setmanes: http://blocs.iec.cat/ictineu/

The New Books Network has just launched New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (NBSTS), a podcast channel devoted to in-depth interviews with authors who have recently published books related to science studies. You can find us here: http://newbooksinscitechsoc.com/ Many more interviews are coming this spring and summer. Please feel welcome to be in touch to suggest a recently published book for an interview, including your own. We aim for a broadly interdisciplinary coverage of the field. Enjoy! Carla Nappi Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia Co-Host, New Books in Science, Technology, and Society carla.nappi@ubc.ca -- Carla Nappi 那葭 Assistant Professor of History University of British Columbia Host, New Books in East Asian Studies http://newbooksineastasianstudies.com/ Co-Host, New Books in Science, Technology, and Society http://newbooksinscitechsoc.com/

5th International Workshop on the History of Human Genetics The Biological Future of Man: Continuities and Breaks in the History of Human Genetics, Before and After 1945 https://www.eshg.org/satmeetings2012.0.html June 21-23, 2012 Nuremberg, Germany Deadline for Abstract Submission: March 31, 2012 Human Genetics is a science with two sides: on one side concepts of human genetics have often influenced social and political events, on the other side the development of human genetics has been influenced by various political forces. At the end of the 19th century, heredity was dominated by Mendel’s gene concept and Galton’s biometrical approach (according to A. Motulsky). These were followed by early achievements in human genetics like the identification of chromosomes as the carriers of genetic information (1888), the discovery of the ABO blood group system (Landsteiner 1900) and the inheritance of blood types (von Dungern and Hirschfeld 1911), and the fundamental theorem of pop...