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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG), Department II (Director: Prof. Lorraine Daston), offers two six-month predoctoral fellowships for outstanding students in the final stage of completing their dissertations. The fellowships are open to doctoral candidates of all nationalitites and disciplines, except those who have already received three years of Max Planck Society predoctoral fellowship funding. Department II holds a bimonthly colloquium in English, and candidates are expected to be able to present and discuss their work and that of others in that language. Applications, however, may be submitted in German, French, or English. The fellowships run from 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2014. Applicants should submit the following materials: 1.     Curriculum vitae and list of publications. 2.     Brief (maximum 750 words) description of dissertation. 3.     A letter of recommendation from...

Making love, making gender, making babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s 6-7 September CRASSH, Alison Richard Building West Rd, Cambridge Registration is now open. Please visit http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2080/ By the end of the twentieth century, a combination of profound social changes and major techno-scientific innovations had reorganized 'the sexual field' into three separate systems. The early twentieth century distinction between sexual pleasure and reproduction was supplemented by one between biological 'sex' and social 'gender', in which the figures of 'the transsexual' and 'transgender' were central, with the category of 'gender' eventually peeling off to have an entirely different historical destiny. While the phrase 'Sexual Revolution' once evoked changes in sexual mores and contraceptive practices of the 1960s and after, this 'revolution' may have been part of a larger reconfigurat...

Dear All, We are glad to bring you news on the 2nd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (28-31 October, ENS Paris). First of all, we are glad to announce that registration for HaPoC 2013 is now open: http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org/registration/index Further, you will find that we updated the website of the conference. It now features our sponsoring institutes and institutions as well as the list of all accepted contributions. best regards, and hoping to see you in Paris, the organisers, Maarten Bullynck (Paris 8 & SPHERE) Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Lyon 3, IRPhil & CIRPHLES) History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013, 28-31 October, Paris) http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org/

The Forum for the History of Science in Asia is proud to announce a competition for a best essay prize, to be awarded at the annual HSS meeting. Through a generous donation of an anonymous donor, the Forum will award $250 to an author of an essay that has the best potential to show how the study of the history of Asian science can methodologically contribute to the general field of History of Science, Technology and Medicine. In order to be considered for the prize, please submit an essay   (a recently published or still unpublished article, or a book/dissertation chapter) on the topic of history of science, technology, or medicine in Asia (including South, South-East and East Asia) to fhsasia@gmail.com by October 15, 2013. The essay should be in English, and should not exceed 40 double-spaced pages (not including images). In a separate document please submit a 250-words abstract, or, in case of a book/dissertation chapter, please submit a short overview of the whole pr...

The Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is seeking a          Digital Content Curator Department III Artefacts and Action in Systems of Knowledge Accountable to: Director, Head of Library, Head of Information Technologies Responsible for: communicating with depositors and potential depositors, curating, organizing the uploading, and review of digital and material resources on the History of Science, East Asia; further development of dynamic infrastructure for content management. Tenure: A full time position with tenure, initially for 2 years. Pay Scale: TVöD E13/E14, roughly comparable to assistant/associate professor. (For further reference see http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tvoed/bund/ ) Job Summary: The digital-content-curator will organize the content collection of historical sources on East Asian science and technology in close collaboration with the director of Dep. III, the head of library an...