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Dear colleagues, Registration for “ Materia medica on the move. Collecting, trading, studying, and using medicinal plants in the early modern period” to be held at the Museum Boerhaave and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre on April 15-17, 2015 is now open. Please find the conference programme and the registration form on our website: www.timecapsule.nu/materia-medica The final closing date for registration is April 1 st , 2015. Best wishes, Peter van den Hooff Utrecht University

The 10th UK Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop Sponsored by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the British Society for the History of Science, and Oxford University Press. 16-17th April 2015, University of Durham Venue: Department of Chemistry, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, Rooms CG83 and CG85 (See where this is: https://www.dur.ac.uk/map/) Plenary sessions: 50 minutes including Q&A (all in CG85) Parallel sessions: 30 minutes including Q&A (in either CG85 or CG83 – see below for details) Thursday 16th April 12.00-13.25 Lunch + registration (Scarborough Café) 13.30-13.40 Welcome 13.45-14.35 Plenary (i) – Hasok Chang (Cambridge) Location: CG85 (Chair: Peter Vickers) If you can spray phlogiston, is it real? Evidence and integrated HPS 14.40-16.10 2x3 parallel talks In CG85 (Chair: Holger Maehle): 14.40: Dolores Iorizzo (UCL): Cures for Madness, Menstruating Men, and An Account of a Child Being Taken out of the Abdomen, after Having...

AJS Annual Meeting 2015, Boston - Panel seeking participants (CFP) Jewish medical knowledge and rabbinic discourse(s) in Late Antiquity We are seeking participants for a panel on medical discourse(s) in Jewish traditions throughout (Late) Antiquity. The focus of the session(s) is on medical knowledge in rabbinic traditions (i.e. Talmudic literature and Midrash) against the foil of their literary and socio-cultural background(s). However, within a broader thematic focus also their relation to earlier traditions from the Bible and the post-biblical (Second Temple) literature can be discussed. Moreover, contributions on the legacy of those rabbinic medical discourses in post-Talmudic, early medieval (Sefer Assaf/ Targumim/ Late Midrash/ Geonic literature etc.) traditions may shed light on various ways of the transfer of knowledge on different paths. Contributions are encouraged to offer a comparative perspective by keeping an eye on their embeddedness in their surrounding cultures. This c...

Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum Workshop York University Toronto, 26th-28th May 2015 Early Career Researcher Bursaries: We have a number of bursaries available for Canada based PhD students and Early Career Researchers to attend and participate in the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum workshop. These bursaries will cover the cost of your registration, accommodation, all workshop meals and a significant contribution to some or all of your travel costs up to a value of $650 CAD. ‘Early-Career Researcher’ is defined as up to five years post-PhD (or equivalent taking into account career breaks for childcare etc.) We welcome applications from researchers who are just starting to develop an interest in this field as well as those who existing research directly relates to the project content. To apply for a Travel Bursary for the workshop at York University, Toronto please send a short 2 -3 page copy of your CV together with a statement of up to 300 words on why you ar...

Deadline: April 1 The Department of History at the University of Colorado will host the Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science (WHEATS) October 2-4, 2015. Now in its eleventh year, WHEATS brings together graduate students studying the history of the environment, agriculture, science, or technology. WHEATS is open to submissions from any discipline with interests in these fields. Papers — generally 25-30 pages — are circulated in advance to all participants, and at the workshop papers receive feedback from participants and senior scholars through a roundtable discussion. This format is well suited for works in progress. The workshop will have a session on publishing as well as opportunities to meet and engage with members of the environmental history community in Colorado. Confirmed faculty participants currently include University of Colorado faculty members Thomas Andrews, Elizabeth Fenn, Paul Sutter, and Phoebe Young; Lisa Brady of Boise State U...

he Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware is pleased to announce the recipients of our exploratory grants, H. B. du Pont Fellowships and the H. B. du Pont Dissertation Fellowships awarded in November, 2014.  Please note that the next deadline for the exploratory grants or the H. B. du Pont Fellowship is March 31, 2015. Exploratory Grants Bryce Evans Senior Lecturer in History Liverpool Hope University Food and Drink at the Irish Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair Kyle T. Evered Associate Professor Michigan State University Cultivating Consumption Amid Regulation:  Comparing the Historical Record of the Seagram Company, Ltd. With Past and Present Approaches Undertaken by the Efes Beverage Group Paul V. Kershaw Instructor Wayne State University Arrested Development:  Postwar Growth Crisis and Neoliberal Development in the US and Mexico Thomas Mills Lecturer Lancaster University British and American Busines...

We are pleased to draw your attention to the redesigned James Lind Library (www.jameslindlibrary.org), a website illustrating the development of fair tests of treatments in health care. The James Lind Library originated with support from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 15 years ago; the redesigned site has been developed with support to the James Lind Initiative from the National Institute for Health Research. The redesigned website will be formally launched on the 20 May - International Clinical Trials Day - under the aegis of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford (see attached flyer). This is very appropriate as the scope of the James Lind Library is being extended to add material relevant to the very recent history of efforts to ensure that health professionals, patients and the public will become more likely to benefit from reliable research assessing the effects of treatments. You may find it helpful to begin your exploration of the redesi...

July 16th-17th, Grey College, Durham University, UK. A workshop will take place on Hume and Naturalism at Durham University, July 16th-17th, 2015. We invite submissions of abstracts, 500 words max., for papers to present at the workshop.  The deadline to submit Abstracts is: 13th April, 2015. The deadline for registration for the workshop is: 18th June, 2015. Invited contributors: Dr. Lorenzo Greco (University of Oxford) Dr. Peter Kail (University of Oxford) Prof. Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)  Prof. Saul Traiger (Occidental College) Hume’s work has been regarded by many as a strong influence on the formation of philosophical naturalism, and it is clear that naturalism informs Hume’s work on epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics, amongst other topics. More generally some influential interpretations regard Hume’s naturalism as helping to lay the foundations for a ‘disenchanted’ conception of the world. However, recent w...

4S http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/ Denver, Colorado 11-14 November 2015 Abstracts due March 29, 2015 Organizers: Evan Buswell, UC Davis ( ecbuswell@ucdavis.edu ), Clarissa Ai Ling Lee, UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur ( leeal@ucsiuniversity.edu.my ) In the mathematical and scientific community, computers appear not as a collection of applications but as tools for running computations to produce knowledge. In certain respects, then, code has taken the place of mathematics as the epistemic basis and the medium of expression of knowledge. While code can be reasoned about mathematically, such that the correctness of a given program can be mathematically established, this is rarely done in practice. This has led to a miscognition and  misapplication of concepts such as "stochastic," "analytics," "probabilistic," "modeling," "optimization," and others. It is this panel’s goal to disrupt, dismantle, and dislocate these hyper-po...

Outside Technologies: Instruments and their Users in the Field Sciences Society for the History of Technology, Annual Meeting, 8-11 October 2015, Albuqerque, NM This panel will focus on the use and users of technologies in the field sciences from the second half of the nineteenth to the second half of the twentieth century. Following recent calls to pay more attention to the material context of scientific field work, the papers will address the ways in which practitioners from different disciplines selected and worked with scientific instruments in different places around the globe to gather environmental information and data. What kind of criteria did scientists employ in their choice of available technologies on expeditions into foreign environments? What kind of training and preparation did specialists and lay practitioners go through before setting out with their instruments? How did practitioners deal with the issues of adjustment and calibration in different and changing env...