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Second Call for Papers SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION    Annual Conference of the History of Education Society (UK) Liverpool Hope University 20 th -22 nd November 2015    Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Ruth Watts, Emeritus Professor of History of Education, University of Birmingham Dr Claire G. Jones , Teacher and Honorary Fellow, University of Liverpool Jonathan Reinarz, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham Too often the history of science and technology and the history of education have been written at a remove from each other despite being intimately connected. It is an important aim of this conference to bring these two significant and related areas of historiography into closer dialogue with one another. While we welcome papers which examine theoretical, methodological and historiographical aspects of the relationship between science, technologies and ed...

Cher tous,  La 26 ème Novembertagung on the History of Mathematics , dévouée au theme Transfer of Mathematical Knowledge in Journals, Correspondence and Scientific Societies , aura lieu le 26 -28 novembre 2015,  dans le palais de l’Université de Turin (Via Po 17 - Via Verdi 8), dans la salle Principi d’Acaja. Les participants seront invités à visiter la Bibliothèque royale, les archives historiques de l’Université de Turin, ou bien le Musée égyptologique (13€). Pour le programme, les résumés et tous les informations logistiques voir le site www.novembertagung2015.unito.it . Les dates limites pour l’Enregistrement et pour l’Appelle à communications sont, respectivement, fixées aux 30 juillet et 30 septembre 2015. S’il vous plaît, aidez-nous à diffuser l’annonce de la Novembertagung aux PhD et post-doc étudiants! En attendant le plaisir de vous rencontrer à Turin, bien amicalement, Chiara et Erika

CALL FOR PAPERS Cultures of Harm in Institutions of Care: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives 15-16 April 2016 Birkbeck, University of London In 1921, Dr Montagu Lomax published a searing indictment of Prestwich Asylum exposing an entrenched sub-culture of malpractice, negligence and abuse. Recent historical research has shown that many of the same practices were still taking place at Prestwich fifty years later. Similar abuses continue today. Stafford Hospital, Winterbourne View and the crimes committed by Jimmy Savile are among the more recent examples of how systemic violence and neglect can be visited upon some of society’s most vulnerable individuals in institutions that have been charged with a special duty of care. This two-day conference will explore the shifting political, socio-economic, cultural and medical influences that have formed and perpetuated cultures of harm from the eighteenth century to the present day across the world. We are particularly i...

nterdisciplinary Conference in Arts and Science Theme: Memory Venue: Southern Regional College, Newry, Northern Ireland Date: 13th- 14th November 2015 The School of Academic Studies and Applied Science at Southern Regional College calls for papers for a two day interdisciplinary conference on Memory. Key note speakers: Prof. Nigel Fabb, University of Strathclyde The theme of memory is a current preoccupation of a diverse range of fields from neurolinguistics to cultural studies. It pervades notions of identity, authenticity, re-presentation of the self and our perceptions of others. The paradox however, that characterises memory is that it can function to serve opposing desires: a retainer of truth but a composer of lies; a reliable and unreliable system. Memory can connect us beyond temporality and bounded environments yet can be fragmented, disconnected in itself. To understand this paradoxical structure, critical discourses may need to look beyond their own field of study. ...

Dear colleagues, Hello! My name is Ashton Merck.  I am a doctoral student at Duke University and the newest book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech. I expect to be joined by a co-editor very soon, and then we will begin commissioning book reviews for H-Sci-Med-Tech! To get things going, we're offering an open call for reviewers.  If you have a background in the history of science, medicine and/or technology, and would like to review books for H-Sci-Med-Tech, we want to hear from you! Send a CV, a short summary of your interests (500 words), and 3-5 "keywords" to  editorial-sci-med-tech@mail.h-net.msu.edu .  If you would also like to review non-print media, including museum exhibitions, websites/blogs, or films, please indicate this interest in your email. If you have general questions about the reviews process, please see the  review guidelines  or write to me at  awb27@duke.edu . I look forward to hearing from you! Ashton Mer...

The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at The University of Manchester is still accepting applications for its taught Master's programmes until Friday 31 July . CHSTM offers taught Master's (MSc) study on three interconnected pathways: Science communication : a new programme combining a theoretical grounding in history and policy studies with practical insight and experience from print and broadcast journalism, museums and public events, public policy and advocacy, and other professional fields. History of science, technology and medicine : a wide-ranging investigation of the ideas, people, institutions and controversies that created some of the definitive expert cultures of our time, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical humanities : a strongly interdisciplinary pathway combining historical understanding of medicine and healthcare with approaches from literary stud...

I would like to call attention to two new books related to object-centered history based on major exhibitions at Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. (1) Time and Time Again: How Science and Culture Shape the Past, Present, and Future , by Sara J. Schechner.  Published by the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. This is a lavishly-illustrated, 296-pp exhibition catalog for an exhibition by the same name in 2013 ( http://chsi.harvard.edu/chsi_tta.html ). Drawing upon collections in Harvard’s scientific, historical, archaeological, anthropological, and natural history museums and libraries, the book examines time finding from nature and time keeping by human artifice.  Readers of this book will explore cultural beliefs about the creation and end of time, the flow of time, and personal time as marked by rites of passage. They will take time out and examine the power of keeping time together in music, dance, work, and faith. They will...