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The School of History is pleased to offer  one  50th Anniversary PhD Research Scholarship beginning in September 2015. The successful candidate will be part of the Centre for the History of the Sciences and supervised by  Dr Rebekah Higgitt . The proposed research must suit Dr Higgitt's broad interests and, if appropriate, there would be the opportunity to be co-supervised by Dr Louise Devoy , Curator of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, and to make use of the object collections and other resources at  Royal Museums Greenwich . Applications are particularly encouraged in the following areas: History of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Royal Greenwich Observatory, especially in the 20th century Science and/or scientific training in the Navy, 18th/19th centuries Museology and history of science History of astronomy and observational sciences in the 18th/19th centuries Scientific institutions and government funding in the 19th century...

La Fundación Juanelo Turriano convoca dos becas para la realización de tesis doctorales dotadas con 14.400 euros anuales cada una. La tesis debe versar sobre materias propias de la historia de la ciencia o de la técnica, valorándose la relación del tema con la historia de la ingeniería en los campos de la hidráulica, construcciones civiles, mecánica o arquitectura. El plazo para la presentación de solicitudes concluye el 30 de abril de 2015. Consultar bases Descargar formulario

The deadline for submission of paper proposals for the 10th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (Aveiro, Portugal, 9th to 12th September) has been extended to 30th April. The theme of the conference is "Chemical Biography". To submit proposals and register, please go to the conference website: http://10ichc-2015.web.ua.pt/?page_id=211 We look forward to seeing you there. Peter Morris Programme Chair

First Announcement Over the past twenty years, the Conference of Researchers in Francoism has become a quality reference for specialists from many fields. In its ninth edition, the organizing committee wants to contribute to the consolidation of a space for the debate and update of approaches and lines of research focused on the analysis of the Franco dictatorship. Under the subtitle "80 years since the beginning of Franco Regime", the research meeting will aim to achieve the following: First, it will show the centrality of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) as a foundation of the Franco regime and its consolidation. Second, as done in previous meetings, we will reiterate the need for comparative analysis of other fascist regimes in the European inter-war period, now expanding our attention to other non democratic contexts both in the old continent as well as in Latin America. Finally, the conference will attempt to tackle new subjects and perspectives that accommodate the cur...

We are now in a golden age for science in entertainment. Academy Award winning films such as   Gravity   and   The Theory of Everything , and television ratings titans like  The Big Bang Theory  have proven that science–based entertainment products can be both critically acclaimed and financially successful. In fact, many high profile scientific organizations including the US National Academy of Sciences and the Wellcome Trust in the UK now believe that science communication can, and perhaps should, be both informative and entertaining. These groups have embraced movies and television as legitimate vehicles for science communication by developing initiatives to facilitate scientific involvement in the production of films and television programs. Science communication scholarship on entertainment media has been slow to catch up with the enthusiasm shown by these scientific organizations, as science communication studies of science in mass media still predominant...

Please find below details of a conference in medical humanities I am organising in Leicester (apologies for cross-posting). When is Death?: Three Day International Conference This three day international and interdisciplinary conference will focus on the question ‘When is Death?’ Keynote speakers include: Professor Douglas Davies, Professor Thomas W. Laqueur, Dr John Robb, Associate Professor Sarah Ferber, Jonathan Ree, Dr Julie-Marie Strange When is Death?: Three Day International Conference People tend to instinctively think of death as something that is certain and absolute, a one-way journey away from the world of the living. Where people in the medieval period saw Death striking the hour in public clocks, people in the twenty-first century can now log on to The Death Clock, which estimates our remaining time alive – down to the hours, minutes, and seconds. Can we think of death as a becoming rather than an ending? Whether we think of death as an event, as a state, or as a movement...

Epistolary cultures - letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe Call for papers The University of York is pleased to announce Epistolary cultures - letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe, a two-day conference (Humanities Research Centre, 18-19 March 2016).   From the place of Cicero’s intimate letters in the development of Renaissance humanism, to the knowledge networks of merchants, collectors and scientists, to the role of women in the republic of letters, recent years have seen a flowering of studies on the practice of letter-writing in Early Modern Europe, as well as major editing projects of early modern letters - Hartlib, Comenius, Scaliger, Casaubon, Browne, Greville, and the EMLO and Cultures of Knowledge projects. This conference will explore the manifold aspects of early modern letter-writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth century in its Latin and vernacular forms. It will consider topics such as the intellectual geographies of letter-wri...

The Birkbeck History, Classics and Archaeology Department is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded three-year doctoral grant to work on a project that falls within the scope of Professor Daniel Pick's five year senior investigator award, entitled ‘Hidden Persuaders? Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, c. 1950-1990’. The doctoral studentship will be supervised by Professor Daniel Pick and is funded by the Wellcome Trust. It includes some travel funds to attend conferences and consult key archives abroad. The team consists of the principal investigator, two post-doctoral researchers and three doctoral students as well as visiting scholars. Further details of the project and its various research strands can be found on the Hidden Persuaders website http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/ and an online profile of Professor Daniel Pick and the project http://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2014/06/30/research-spotlight-prof-daniel-...