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Please find here the program and abstracts of the conference "Electric Worlds. Creations, Circulations, Tensions and Transitions (19th-21st C.)", organized by the Committee for the History of Electricity and Energy, to be held in Paris, 18-19 December 2014:  http://histoire.edf.com/manifestations-scientifiques/mondes-electriques-/-electric-worlds-... Best regards, On behalf of the Committee for the History of Electricity and Energy, Leonard Laborie

The Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (SLMFCE) and the Facultat de Filosofia of the Universitat de Barcelona organize the VIII Congress of the society to be held in Barcelona from 7 th to 10 th July 2015. The congress will host the second edition of the Lullius Lectures , which will be in charge of Prof. Hartry Field (New York U.).  The steering committee of the society will organize a symposium on H. Field’s work. General information: Date: 7-10 July 2015 Venue: Facultat de Filosofia (Universitat de Barcelona), 4th floor C. / Montalegre 6 08001 Barcelona Organizing Committee: Concepción Martínez Vidal (President SLMFCE, USC), Antonio Blanco (U. Complutense), María Caamano (U. de Valladolid), Maria Cerezo (U. de Murcia), Valeriano Iranzo (U. València), Inmaculada Perdomo (U.Laguna), Francisco Salguero (U. Sevilla). Local Organizing Committee (UB): José Martínez, Manuel García-Carpintero, José Díez and Sergi Om...

Conference: Publish or Perish? The past, present & future of the scientific periodical The Royal Society, London:   19-21 March 2015 Registration is now open for ‘Publish or Perish’, an international conference on the history of the scientific periodical.   As a major activity to mark the 350th anniversary of the Philosophical Transactions, the world’s oldest scientific journal, the Royal Society is hosting a history of science conference in spring 2015. At a time when the future of scientific publishing is in flux, this conference will take the long perspective by examining the transformations and challenges in scientific journal publishing over the last three and a half centuries, and into the future. The conference features research on all aspects of scientific journals from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first – their production, editorial practices, techniques of illustration, patterns of dissemination, reading, reception, and commercial viab...

We're pleased to announce the call for papers for Health History in Action, the SSHM Postgraduate Career Development Workshop and Conference, to be hosted by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian Universities) and to be held at Ross Priory on Loch Lomond from 26-28 August 2015. We are accepting abstracts for 20-minute papers on any topic in the history of health and medicine. Please send a 200-300-word abstract and 100 word biography to m.smith@strath.ac.uk by 31 January 2015. Full details can be found on our website. We hope to see you there! http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/schoolofhumanities/history/healthhistoryinaction/

A brief essay, "Genetics as a Historicist Discipline: A New Player in Disease History," has just been published in Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association: http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-20.... (This is accessible even to readers who are not members of the AHA.) This derives from my work editing the recently published collection: Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, The Medieval Globe 1 (2014), http://www.arc-humanities.org/inaugural-issue.html, which was published open-access thanks to the generosity of the World History Center, University of Pittsburgh. I argue that "The particular relevance of genetics for the narrative of disease history . . . goes beyond simply confirming the presence of particular pathogens at certain times and places in the past. More profoundly, the new molecular genetics creates an evolutionary history of the pathogen:...

Invitation to Apply Conference Workshop on Contested Expertise and Toxic Environments Claremont, California September 18-19, 2015 Proposals Due January 10, 2015 This 2-day working conference seeks to workshop a small number of unpublished papers by scholars whose research engages the intersections of contested science, expertise, and toxic environments. We are interested in papers employing historical methods which look at the relationship of technical practices to environmental harms. In particular, we hope to explore moments in which the roles of scientific experts in understanding and reacting to these harms have been challenged, disputed or disrupted in some way. Our conception of the environment here is purposefully broad in scope—encompassing both the natural world and built environments—and scale—ranging from weapons’ testing grounds and toxic dump sites to scientific laboratories, hospitals, and the human body itself. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Secrecy and atom...

It is a pleasure to announce the publication of the special issue of the Journal of Transport History on the histories of transport, mobility, and environment. Please find the table of contents below or visit the journal website here: http://manchester.metapress.com/content/u61422830676/?p=e5f2d6997156429897813b8f8ac46c04&pi=0 Thomas Zeller, University of Maryland, Guest Editor (tzeller@umd.edu) Journal of Transport History Volume 35, Number 2, December 2014 Histories of Transport, Mobility and Environment Thomas Zeller, “Editorial: Histories of Transport, Mobility and Environment,” iii-v. Victor Seow, “Socialist drive: The First Auto Works and the contradictions of connectivity in the early People's Republic of China,” 145-161. Cory Parker, “Negotiating the waters: Canoe and steamship mobility in the Pacific Northwest,” 162-182. Christopher Wells, “Rebuilding the city, leaving it behind: Transportation and the environmental crisis in turn-of-the-century American cities,” 183-1...

FP Reminder: deadline 10 January “Worlds of Welfare: An Interdisciplinary Conference at the Free University of Berlin” 9-10 July 2015, Berlin, Germany Western welfarism has constituted statemaking in the most capacious sense; it has been both a culture and a politics, indeed a human event of epoch-making proportions, the more so retrospectively as it confronts renewed challenges post-2008. A fuller, clearer picture of the welfare state in Europe and North America—one better adapted to the conceptual and moral demands of the twenty-first century—can be won only if we consider the welfare state as a simultaneously transnational and whole-society endeavor, taking into account ties and transfers between and within borders, groups, networks and ideological registers. Thus prompted by the dual imperative of contemporary politics and developments in scholarship over the past fifteen years, this two-day conference at the Free University of Berlin aims to cull the latest research on the Western...

JMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, based at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History is now accepting submissions for articles and book reviews for its second edition. The journal, an online interdisciplinary publication authored and edited by postgraduate students, will be publishing professional peer-reviewed research and book reviews on all topics relating to the medical humanities. Original articles should be between 5000 and 8000 words, including footnotes and bibliography, and book reviews should be between 500 and 1000 words. Please refer to the MRHA Style Guide for style requirements and use British spellings in all cases except for direct quotations which use alternative spellings. Please email all submissions as Word attachments to pgmedhums@gmail.com. Please ensure that your name is not written anywhere on your document in order in order to ensure a blind peer review process. If you have any questions about the editorial process or PJMH: The Po...

Africanizing Technology Wesleyan University, March 5-6, 2015 Keynote: Julie Livingston (Rutgers University) author of Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (2012) Africa has long been a space of technological innovation and adaptation despite popular Western media depictions to the contrary.  In fact, Africa is at the center of global technology stories such as the history of nuclear proliferation (Hecht, 2012).  Recently scholars have documented novel uses of contemporary media technologies on the continent, as well as older adaptations of hi-fi stereo systems, all of which have had rich and complicated social impacts (Larkin, 2008; Jaji, 2014).  Artisans and industrial workers have also created new technological cultures, while many African medical professionals have responded to technologically 'poor' environments by improvising basic solutions (Livingston, 2012).  Africanizing Technology aims to highlight and interrogate th...