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Fellowships at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering a one month research fellowship, to be held in 2016, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of 4,400 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in three areas: early modern medicine, early modern history of science and, given that Worth was a connoisseur book collector interested in fine bindings and rare printing, the History of the Book. Research does not, however, have to be restricted to these three key areas. Further information about the collection and our catalogues may be found on our website: http://www.edwardworthlibrary. ie/Home-Page The closing date is Monday 4 April 2016. For further details and application procedures please contact: Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, The Edward Worth Library, Dr St...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  July 26, 2016 to July 30, 2016 Location:  Portugal Subject Fields:  History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Extended deadline for the ICOHTEC Symposium 2016 : Porto : Portugal : 26-30 July. Submission Deadline: February 08, 2016 Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability: Historical and Contemporary Narratives Innovation and sustainability have become key words of our everyday life, extending from political and economic discourse to teaching curricula and from the lay public to academia. However, the use of these terms is often abstract and simplistic, ignoring the density of their interrelationships in different geographic, historical and civilizational contexts, and the boomerang character of today’s world. The 43 rd ICOHTEC meeting aims at addressing this complex relationship by encouraging papers that contribute to a deeper understanding of the multilayer cultural and material built m...

Type: Call for Papers Date: February 12, 2016 Subject Fields: Environmental History / Studies, Health and Health Care, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Cfp: Epidemics as technologies Session proposal for ICOHTEC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 23 to 29 July 2017 Chair: Prof. Mikael Hård Session organizers: Catarina Caetano da Rosa and Nils Kessel Deadline: February 12, 2016 Epidemics are recurrent phenomena in history. They transgress borders, move across time and space and affect different forms of life – both literally and metaphorically. Each epidemic disease poses specific challenges to societies such as Zika today. Hence, epidemic diseases and threats are perfectly suited for being analyzed in a global history perspective.[1] The scholarship on the history of epidemics is rich. Whereas many studies come out of the history of medicine and the social and political sciences, the prop...

Just a brief reminder that the deadline for the next round of research grants from the Scientific Instrument Society (SIS) is Tuesday 1st March 2016.   The SIS awards small grants, of up to £500 each, for research on the history of scientific instruments. Applicants do not need to have any institutional affiliation and applications that are for less than the full amount are just as welcome - a properly costed proposal with a clear relevance to the Society's interests in historic scientific instruments, a realistic timetable and a tangible result are the most important factors that the committee will be considering.   Please note that the grant awarded will be paid against actual expenditure and funds cannot be paid in advance.  The grant is intended to cover items such as travel, accommodation (excluding meals) and photocopying costs.   Please note that we cannot fund conference travel or contribute to the cost of outreach projects such as e...

Please consider using the IsisCB Explore History of Science Index ( isiscb.org/explore ) for your research, and encourage your library or department to add it to their list of resources. Accessible to anyone on the web, IsisCB Explore is a completely open access service made possible by the History of Science Society with support from the University of Oklahoma. IsisCB Explore opens up bibliographical research in the history of science, technology, and medicine. It is designed for students, scholars, librarians, and the general public. Users will find the data architecture intuitive and powerful, and librarians can trust that it will guide researchers to the best literature in the discipline. Based on the 100-year-old Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science —the largest and most comprehensive in its field—it is supported by the discipline's flagship society, the History of Science Society. It will be expanded and updated annually. Key features include...

Call for Papers: “Matter and Perception” Special Issue of Early Science and Medicine     Early Science and Medicine is seeking contributions for a special issue on “Matter and Perception”   Guest editors: Michael Deckard and Doina-Cristina Rusu Deadline: 1st of August 2016   The origins of thinking about matter in early modern Europe did not begin with Francis Bacon, René Descartes, or Anne Conway, but these thinkers formulated systems of matter that replaced Aristotelian form. The characteristics of matter began to be measured, studied, observed, anatomized, or imbued with life, essentially replacing form as an explanatory principle. This development in the history of philosophy, science and culture has been told in different ways, depending on from what perspective the story is based. One way of telling it is to look at the English experimental background starting with Bacon and continuing through Boyle, Newton, and the Royal Society. Another sto...

Please find below the call for contributors to our session on epidemics as objects of technological intervention at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST/ICOHTEC call) The deadline for proposals (250 words + CV) is February 12, 2016. Cfp: Epidemics as technologies Session proposal for ICHST/ICOHTEC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 23 to 29 July 2017 Chair: Prof. Dr. Mikael Hård Session organizers: Catarina Caetano da Rosa and Nils Kessel Deadline: February 12, 2016 Epidemics are recurrent phenomena in history. They transgress borders, move across time and space and affect different forms of life – both literally and metaphorically. Each epidemic disease poses specific challenges to societies such as Zika today. Hence, epidemic diseases and threats are perfectly suited for being analyzed in a global history perspective.[1] The scholarship on the history of epidemics is ri...

The University of Manchester, School of Environment, Education and Development, Geography. 28 October 2016 Water is a quintessential component for life and for the development of societies. Water is also an irreplaceable and transient resource, which crosses political boundaries in the form of rivers, lakes and groundwater aquifers. Due to its unique nature, governments tend to perceive and portray water as a national asset constituting an integral part of “the homeland”. Just like space, territory and society can be socially and politically constructed by a national elite to assert its power (Swyngedouw, 2007). This is also the case for the management of water resources. As a result, the construction of a large hydraulic infrastructure, such as for instance a major dam or a canal, can be surrounded by a rhetorical discourse that emphasises its contribution to a prosperous future and to the realisation of national goals while nurturing national development and pr...

Postdoc position History of Eighteenth Century Medicine (0,7 fte) (1 April 2016 - 30 September 2017). University of Groningen (NL) The Center of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, welcomes applications for an 18 month Postdoc position (0,7 fte) to conduct research in the history of Boerhaavian medicine in the eighteenth century. The postdoc project is embedded in the project “Vital Matters. Boerhaave's Chemico-Medical Legacy and Dutch Enlightenment Culture”, supervised by Dr. Rina Knoeff. For the job vacancy, see: http://www.rug.nl/about-us/ work-with-us/job- opportunities/overview? details=00347-02S0004TDP

Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero” ( IHMC ) University of Valencia Palau de Cerveró, Plaça Cisneros, 4. 46003-València SPRING 2016 SEMINARS More details: http://goo.gl/T1k9Ir G eneral outline of the 2016 IHMC Spring Seminars February: "Identities and identifications: Past & Present" March: Conference "The Languages of Science" 30 March-2 April: 2016 ESSHC, Valencia. April: "Women, children and health A transnational perspective." April 30: "Science, history and gender" May: Seminar Canguilhem May: Symposium Science and Art «Identi ties and identific ations : Pas t & Pres e nt» (Online streaming: encuentro.uv.es/hc...