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Con ocasión del 50 aniversario de la publicación de   La evolución,  el Instituto de Humanidades Ángel Ayala de   la Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera   (Valencia)   está organizando el congreso internacional  LA EVOLUCIÓN TRAS  LA EVOLUCIÓN   con la intención de reevaluar este libro, situándolo tanto en el contexto de su génesis como en la influencia que ejerció. Al mismo tiempo, se pretende ofrecer un foro donde reflexionar sobre el camino transitado por los saberes evolucionistas desde entonces y hasta ahora, y donde discutir sobre los retos científicos y sociales que es necesario encarar en el momento presente, cuando la desconfianza hacia la ciencia y las actitudes hostiles al conocimiento vuelven a contar con cierta audiencia en nuestro medio social. Esta reunión científica se celebrará en Valencia del 26 al 28 de octubre de 2016. PROGRAMA MIÉRCOLES 26 DE OCTUBRE 9:15 – Acto inaugural PRIMERA SESIÓN CIENTÍFICA: HISTORIOGRAFÍA DEL...

A new volume of Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine is freely available to download at the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website: Air Pollution Research in Britain c.1955–c.2000 http://www.histmodbiomed.org/ witsem/vol58 '… that whole shift in our understanding of how air pollution can have effects on systems beyond the respiratory system has led not only to studies of perinatal outcomes, but to cognitive defects, rheumatoid arthritis, appendicitis. Anything is possible.' Professor Ross Anderson A Witness Seminar on the history of air pollution research in the UK, with discussion on investigations by the MRC Air Pollution Unit at Barts (1955–1978) into impacts on respiratory health, and more recent research into cardiovascular events and other long-term effects of particulate matter, such as lung cancer. Chaired by Professor Anthony Seaton (Aberdeen) with an introduction by Professor Jonathan Grigg (QMUL). Jones E M, Ove...

CALL FOR PAPERS   Representing scientific results: Forms of knowledge Workshop, November 18-19, 2016 - University of Kassel, Germany Organized by Nina Kranke and Robert Meunier   Investigating the forms as well as epistemic and social roles of scientific representations has been an important part of science studies in the last 30 years. Representations in science are as heterogeneous as science itself. Accordingly, the literature is vast and there is no unique definition, but, at best, some family resemblance between the things we address as representations in science. This workshop takes a more specific look at scientific representations, while remaining open to the variety of formats and media used. It focusses on a specific role of representations: Representing results of research.   Representation in research and representing results of research The category of a result of scientific research is at the same time the most obvious and a so...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  April 1, 2016 Subject Fields:  Area Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Humanities, Popular Culture Studies, Film and Film History MediAbility: Transforming Disability in the Media Critical disability studies has been a continually growing field of academic study. Its intersectional approach is frequently used in political and philosophical theorizing. However, very few scholars have paid attention to how disability has been constructed by dominant media institutions in the 21 st century. This is true even when scholars focus on the social model of disability since they very often ignore how the social is formed out of the discursive representations that surround society. This collection, designed for publication with McFarland Press, is meant as a correction to this absence. This collection seeks to demonstrate how media images influence disability and people with disabilities are viewed, or underviewed,...

Type: Call for Papers Date: March 15, 2016 Location: Iowa, United States Subject Fields: British History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Literature, Popular Culture Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies I am putting together a panel on science/medicine and popular culture for the Midwest Conference on British Studies, September 16-18, 2016 in Ames, Iowa. I have a panelist and a commentator and I am searching for the third panelist. One panelist is working on masculinity and madness, and I am working on nutrition science and marketing food to women as consumers. I am open to framing the panel broadly to accomodate all panelists' work. Please email lacey.sparks@uky.edu if you are interested in joining.  Contact Info: Lacey Sparks Contact Email:  lacey.sparks@uky.edu

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites participation for the following event: Evidence, Interference, and Risk MCMP, LMU Munich March 31- April 2, 2016 http://www.must2016.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html Methodological issues emerging in the practice of risk prevention and  management in diverse domains are strictly related to philosophical and theoretical problems such as the foundations of statistics and probability, scientific inference and discovery, as well as various accounts of evidence and evidence amalgamation. The conference aims at investigating such interplay and to foster reciprocal inspiration among philosophers and scholars of diverse disciplines from the natural and social sciences, e.g. economics, history, law, environmental studies, climate science, medicine, epidemiology, and in particular pharmacology.  Dates: March 31- April 2, 2016 Registration Deadline: 21 March 2016...

Announcing: The Germ of an Idea: Contagionism, Religion, and Society in Britain, 1660-1730 by Margaret DeLacy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016  Germ of an Idea shows how a belief in contagion began to spread among a group of medical reformers who had been forced by nationality and religious nonconformity to follow alternative pathways to medical education and professional status in early eighteenth century Britain. It explains how contagionism shaped their ideas about the nature and behavior of diseases such as smallpox, plague, syphilis, and consumption and how it interacted with the belief that diseases were not imbalances, but specific entities. http://www.palgrave.com/us/ book/9781137575272

Type: Conference Date:  November 7, 2016 to November 9, 2016 Location: Turkey Subject Fields: Educational Technology, Public Health Conference series feel proud and honored to invite the attendees across the globe to its premier 15th International Conference on Food Processing & Technology (Food Technology-2016) to be held during November 07-09, 2016 at Istanbul, Turkey. With researcher and nutritionist working on the science of future food we will form a traverse between the academic and industry peers. This year agenda will focus mainly on investigating the Interrelationships of Food, Nutrition and Health to feed our Future. With researcher and nutritionist working on the science of future food we will form a traverse between the academic and industry peers. Turkey is considered to be one of the leading countries in the world in the field of food and agriculture. Turkish food sector employs more than 100 thousand registered workers and techn...

Type: Grant Date:  February 16, 2016 to April 19, 2016 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Subject Fields: Canadian History / Studies, Health and Health Care, Graduate Studies, Public Health Objective The Associated Medical Services (AMS) Project Grant is designed to support small budget proposals on projects in history of health care, disease,  medicine with special interest in, but not limited to, Canadian history of health care, disease, medicine. Such projects might include requests for seed money to develop research initiatives. Proposals are expected to advance an aspect of the history of health, health care or disease or the education of health professionals that could benefit the broader community of practitioners in the field. There is an expectation that during the period of these grants or within a year of their completion, one or more conference papers or publications/presentations will result from this funding. URL:  ...

he CEU Summer University has extended the deadline for applications to the course " Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe "  to take place in Budapest, 18-27 July 2016 .  New deadline for applications: 15 March 2016 This interdisciplinary summer course will bring together senior and junior scholars of urban history, the history of science, and other related fields in order to exchange ideas in developing new research agendas with an aim to expand the “urban variable” in the history of science and to designate a space for the sciences in urban history from the early modern period to the early 20th century. While the summer school will have a distinct interdisciplinary and trans-epochal character, and encourages practitioners of other fields, such as environmental studies, gender studies, literature, science and technology studies, sociology, cultural or social anthropology, to ...