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The Digital HPS Consortium is holding its annual conference from Friday morning August 26, through Sunday morning August 28, 2016 at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Register at http://dhps2016.eventbrite.com by May 31, 2016 . Conference title: "Varieties of Digital History and Philosophy of Science" Papers dealing with all types of digital projects in the history and philosophy of science are welcome, and participants are encouraged to address the conference theme: how can diverse, locally created projects can be made discoverable, interconnected, and sustainable? As we move further into the networked digital age, scholars are creating new types of digital scholarship with extraordinarily varied methods, structures, and presentations. When taken together, the richness of these diverse projects is extraordinary. Unlike traditional published works, however, many of these projects go unnoticed and often shut down for lack of support. The chal...

We are advertising a Postdoctoral Researcher in Information Ethics position at the University of Oxford. If you are interested in ethics and technology please apply, the position is completely open to a large spectrum of research interests and expertise. And please forward this to anyone who might be interested. The postdoc is a full-time research position for 18 months, no teaching no admin, and plenty of opportunities and support to develop new ideas. The postdoc will collaborate with me ( http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ people/floridi/ ) and my research group ( http://epic.oii.ox.ac.uk/ ) at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Department in the University of Oxford Social Sciences Division ( http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ ). For the formal advertisement, a full description of the job, and details about how to apply please check: http://tinyurl.com/jlbfg3e

Type:  Call for Publications Date:  May 16, 2016 to January 1, 2017 Location:  United Kingdom Subject Fields:  Humanities, Architecture and Architectural History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cultural History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Call for Papers for the Special Issue:  Food Packaging Design International Journal of Food Design (Intellect) The double-blind peer-reviewed  International Journal of Food Design (IJFD) seeks full articles (8,000 words) and case studies (4,000 words) on Food Packaging Design Food design extends beyond food itself to include its related artefacts and the meanings they communicate. For most people the first contact with food is packaging, framing its meaning before it is consumed. Packaging protects and preserves, but it also communicates powerful emotional messages whether associated with purity and strength or luxury and value. In the hands o...

Type:  Call for Papers Date:  July 1, 2016 Location:  Portugal Subject Fields:  Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Early Modern History and Period Studies, Humanities, Spanish and Portuguese History / Studies Anais de História de Além-Mar – Annals of Overseas History (AHAM) is a peer-reviewed journal published by CHAM, the Portuguese Centre for Global History. It aims to disseminate scientific work on the Portuguese expansion (15th – 20th centuries), its historical context, parallel phenomena, and the connections between the histories and the societies of all the spaces involved.  An upcoming volume of AHAM will include a thematic dossier on “Identity, Memory and History», edited by Francisco Zamora Rodríguez (CHAM) and Alberto Baena Zapatero (Universidade Federal de Goiás).  PRESENTATION  The concepts of identity and memory have achieved great relevance in the current h...

Archives & Special Collections at the Columbia University Health Sciences Library is happy to announce that we’ve completed our project to digitize the post-1922 annual reports of several hospitals that were/are major clinical affiliates of Columbia University’s medical school.  The work was made possible by a Mini-Digitization Grant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), for which we are grateful. Included are annual reports for: Babies Hospital, 1924-1942 New York Orthopedic Hospital (also known as New York Orthopaedic Hospital or New York Orthopaedic Dispensary & Hospital), 1925-1944 New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 1998-2008, 2010 Presbyterian Hospital, 1924-1997 (from 1959-1990 this was published as a “Combined Annual Report” with Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and School of Dental & Oral Surgery) They can be found on our Digital Collections page or in the Medical Heritage Library holdings in In...

Renaissance Society of America, Chicago March 30-April 1, 2017. This interdisciplinary session examines the role of cabinetizing and compartmentalizing visual and material knowledge, objects, and images in the early modern period. Through considering a wide range of media it aims to develop a theoretical and conceptual understanding of the various ways in which cabinets and cabinet-like spaces and formats, by means of boundaries, thresholds, and kinetic and haptic interaction, organize, frame, decontextualize, re-contextualize, activate, and transform their contents, and also guide, instruct, engage, and transfer knowledge to beholders. We welcome paper proposals that engage with concepts of early modern art and science especially. Suggested paper topics include but are not limited to: cabinets, boxes, specimen drawers, furniture, real and depicted collections, perspective boxes, dioramas, stage sets, gardens, architectural spaces, polyptychs, dollhouses, maps,...

Keeper of Technologies and Engineering Science Museum, London Salary: Excellent salary and benefits package Job Type: Full Time - Permanent The Science Museum is looking for an outstanding candidate to lead the group that curates the fields of technologies and engineering. As Keeper of Technologies & Engineering you will have an insightful and comprehensive overview of history and development in these areas, with proven academic achievement and publications in one or more specific fields. You should also have a driving interest in the interplay between technology and society. This broad cultural and historical perspective should be allied with an interest in, and good knowledge of, contemporary and developing practice in technology. As Keeper, you will play a major role in the intellectual stewardship of the collections. You will develop interdisciplinary approaches to the display and promotion of the Museum’s collection and its relevant fields of r...

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites participation for the following event:   The Physics of Society: Philosophy of Econophysics and Complex Social Systems MCMP, LMU Munich July 22-23, 2016 http://www. physicsofsociety2016. philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/ index.html Econophysics is a new and exciting cross-disciplinary research field involving the applications of techniques from statistical physics and complex systems theory to economic systems. In particular, econophysics models have been successfully applied to recover certain 'stylised facts’ about financial markets and about inequality in income distributions. There are a number of interesting and important methodological questions relating to the foundations of econophysics, and to the treatment of social systems as complex systems in general. For example: Are the idealisations and abstractions used in econophysics...

Type:  Call for Publications Subject Fields:  History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Labor History / Studies, Maritime History / Studies, Military History, World History / Studies Authors are invited to contribute to a high quality, peer-reviewed, open access textbook to meet the needs of History of Applied Science and Technology courses at colleges and universities around the world. Specifically, this textbook will center on the theme of the transformative impact of technological and epistemological changes on worldview and human behavior as they relate to every day life and global choices. More and more courses are moving toward Open Education Resources (OERs) to reduce and even eliminate the cost of textbooks to students. OERs with the Creative Commons–Attribution license also offer a freely accessible foundation for college courses, with the ability to be tailored each instructor's needs. However, such resources are few and far between...

La Fundación Juanelo Turriano convoca dos becas para la realización de tesis doctorales dotadas con 14.400 euros anuales cada una. La tesis debe versar sobre materias propias de la historia de la ciencia o de la técnica, valorándose la relación del tema con la historia de la ingeniería en los campos de la hidráulica, construcciones civiles, mecánica o arquitectura. El plazo para la presentación de solicitudes concluye el 16 de septiembre de 2016. Consultar bases Descargar formulario