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Queridos compañeros:  os adjunto el Call for papers del próximo V coloquio Els Abrils de L’Hospital que organizamos conjuntamente el IRCVM de la UB y el MARC entre el 19 y el 20 de abril. Os agradeceremos rertransmitais el llamamiento a vuestras respectivas redes. El 2 de enero mandaremos un Call for Papers en inglés y reexpediremos este y aun lo volveremos a hacer el 8 de enero.  ENVIO DE RESÚMENES Formatos Extensión máxima: 300 palabras. Formato de letra: Arial 12, párrafo 1,5. Márgenes: 2,5 Formato de Archivo: Documento de Word (.docx) Idiomas: catalán, castellano, portugués, italiano, francés e inglés (en el caso de francés e inglés es indispensable una traducción a una de las demás lenguas). Datos a incluir: [1] título de la comunicación; [2] nombre(s) de (los) autor/es y del grupo de investigación (si procede); [3] teléfono de contacto; [4] e-mail de contacto de la persona investigadora (en caso de que se trate de varios autores, indicar todos)...

Es posa en marxa una nova edició del projecte Theatrum Sapientiae dedicada a Pius Font i Quer  Barcelona, 23 de desembre de 2015 - Ja s’ha fet la preestrena del darrer espectacle del projecte Theatrum Sapientiae, que dedica l’edició d’enguany al botànic Pius Font i Quer. La representació, titulada Pius Font i Quer, passió per la botànica, repassa la vida d’aquest botànic vocacional que, tot i ser químic de formació, quan tenia vint anys, després d’assistir a un curset que impartia el doctor Manuel Llenas, va descobrir la seva veritable passió: estudiar les plantes i transmetre aquest coneixement. Autor, entre d’altres, dels llibres Plantas medicinales. El Dioscórides renovado i del Diccionario de botánica, la seva obra científica va suposar un gran avenç per a la botànica catalana i espanyola. En el camp docent, la seva metodologia pedagògica, rigorosa i apassionada, va crear escola, i projectes iniciats per ell, com ara l’Institut Botànic, el Jardí Botànic de Mo...

Job Summary We support 1 candidate to Juan de la Cierva Grant ( web MINECO ) to join our international team and carry out research on the History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe. Job Description The main objective of the research will be on nuclear energy as an integrative historical actor (science, technology, society, policy...). The candidates will carry out research on the history of nuclear science in parallel to the three-year project funded by the European Commission and EURATOM “History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt)” ( http://www.honest2020.eu/ ), which aims to conduct an interdisciplinary analysis on the historical experience of nuclear energy and the relationship between nuclear developments and European society over the last 60 years. The successful applicant will be supervised by Dr. Albert Presas i Puig, HoNESt's Coordinator and member of the History of the Science Research Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Nr of positions available ...

Dear all, Please see message below from Dr Jo Ashbourn at St Cross College. Please contact her directly [ joanna.ashbourn@stx.ox.ac.uk ] if you have any queries. Regards Alison The Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics (HAPP) at St Cross College, University of Oxford is able to offer one Visiting Fellowship a term for scholars coming to Oxford to carry out research on a topic in the history and philosophy of physics with details on how to apply at the webpage below: http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/happ/ happ-visiting-fellowships-st- cross-college

   INSTITUT D’HISTÒRIA DE LA MEDICINA I DE LA CIÈNCIA LÓPEZ PIÑERO In stitut d’història de la Medicina i de la Ciència “López Piñero” (IHMC) Nota: Totes les activitats al saló d’actes de l’IHMC (si no s’indica el contrari) Informació actualitzada a la pàgina web de l’ IHMC Esquema general dels seminaris Gener: Presentació de “Ciència i medicina a la València foral" Febrer : Cicle: “Identitats i identificacions: Passat & Present” Març: Conferència “Els llenguatges de la ciència” 30 Març- 2Abril: ESSHC Valencia 2016 Abril: "Women, children and health. A transnational perspective" 30 Abril : Matinada “Ciència, història i gènere” Maig: Seminari Canguilhem Maig: Simposi Ciència i Art Presentació de “Ciència i medicina a la València foral" 20 de gener 18 h: Presentació del volum 30, núm. 82 de la revista AFERS: fulls de recerca i pensament. Número monogràfic "Ciència i medicina a la València foral"...

CALL FOR PAPERS Hosted by New Bulgarian University The newly founded East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS) invites submission of contributed papers and proposals for symposia in the following sections: A General philosophy of science B Philosophy of natural sciences C Philosophy of cognitive and behavioral sciences D Philosophy of social sciences E Historical and social studies in philosophy of science Submission of contributed papers An abstract of up to 1000 words, prepared for blind review, should be sent as an attached doc or pdf  file to eenps.submission@gmail.com no later than the 1 st of March, 2016 . The e-mail message should contain <EENPS2016 abstract> in the subject line and the author’s names, affiliation and an e-mail address for contact in the main body. The attached abstract should contain the title of the relevant section, the title of the contributed paper and a short resume ...

Type: Call for Papers Date: March 15, 2016 Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Health and Health Care, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology The Southern Quarterly solicits carefully documented essays on the history of disease, medical care, and medical institutions in the antebellum and post-bellum South; health care and race;  the contributions of prominent 19 th - and early to mid-20 th -century health care practitioners in the South; health care and the Civil War; the rise of public health agencies in the South; health care and the environment;  health care and 19 th - and 20 th -Century Southern literature—representation of nurses, doctors, and disease in plays, poems, and fiction; health care and the visual arts; health care and popular Southern culture and media. Essays ranging from 20-30 pages (double-spaced) must be received before March 15, 2016 to be considered for this special issu...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  March 4, 2016 Location:  Chile Subject Fields:  Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Dossier: Science and Technology in Ibero-America Studies about science and technology have been captivating historiographic interest in Ibero-America. A series of important work has recently appeared related to the history of medicine, expeditions, cartography, information technology, the development of aeronautics and energy in addition to other fields which link technology and progress in Ibero-America. As a way to spur this emerging historiographic trend  Hib, Revista de Historia Iberoamericana,  will dedicate a special dossier to this topic accepting new approaches and perspectives on this theme, especially from young scholars. This dossier looks to expand the analysis and publish work that, for example: contributes to the understanding regarding...

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites abstracts for the following event: Infinite Idealizations in Science MCMP, LMU Munich  June 8-9, 2016 http://www.iis2016. philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/ index.html ****************************** *************** Infinite idealizations are assumptions that play an important role in physics, biology, economics, and many others sciences. Putative examples include an infinite population size in population genetics, an infinite number of components in the theory of phase transitions and an infinite number of persons consuming an infinite number of (infinitely divisible) goods in large-scale economic models. Although these idealizations are generally uncontroversial in the scientific community, they have been at the center of recent philosophical debates about reduction, explanation and the status ...

The series Cultural Dynamics of Science (CDS) just published its first volume: Bernard Lightman, ed. Global Spencerism. The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist . Leiden: Brill, 2015. See: http://www.brill.com/products/ book/global-spencerism A number of further titles are in preparation. Yet we would like to use this opportunity to remind interested authors to submit manuscripts to our series. http://www.brill.com/products/ series/cultural-dynamics- science CDS aims to contribute to on-going efforts in the history of science to understand the relations between the production, communication, consumption and use of knowledge without having recourse to the traditional equation of popularization with notions such as 'diffusion' and 'simplification'.  The same goes for the distinctions they imply between expert knowledge and practices, on one side, and lay communities and understanding on the other. Focused on the modern period, from the Enlight...