im also sending this as in uk its not that uncommon if fellows are not always present (we have one living in london, basically never showing up... its more about the output apperenty then the presence) and since they look for international teams it might be a nice bio-objects project...
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Dr. Niki Vermeulen, Wellcome Research Fellow
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Simon Building,
University of Manchester, Oxford Rd,
Manchester M13 9PL
Room 2.68 (2nd floor), Simon Bldg, Brunswick St.
phone +44 (0)161 275 0561
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www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
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Topics of the day:
1. CFP: SIC_sümpoosiumi_kutse
2. Durham: Emergence and Science Fellowships
3. Prof P Palladino and Lancaster.
4. Call for Papers (Second Call) 6th International Conference of the European
Society for the History of Science - Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:59:17 +0200
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Subject: CFP: SIC_sümpoosiumi_kutse
Forwarded, Regards
Raffaele Pisano, Ph.D.
Lecturer of History of Physics and History of Science & Society Studies
«Sciences, Sociétés, Cultures dans leurs Évolutions»
University of Lille 1 UFR Physique, Bât P5 bis, Bureau 168
e-mail: [log in to unmask] Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
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Dear Raffaele,
For your information and wide distribution.
Best wishes,
Peeter
Dear all,
We are delighted to announce that next
symposium of Scientific Instruments Commission will be held at the University of Tartu History Museum, Estonia, 25-29 August 2014. The Scientific Instrument Commission is a constituent organization of the International Union of the History and Philosophy
of Science (IUHPS). It seeks to encourage scholarly research on the history of scientific instruments, and the preservation and documentation of collections of instruments, as well as their use within the wider discipline of the history of science.
This is a wonderful opportunity to explore the many activities undertaken recently for the protection of the scientific heritage of the University and the surrounding region. The
historical observatory with its famed Fraunhofer refractor was refurbished and re-opened, and work is now being done on the instrument collections and anatomical theater. Rather helpfully, all of the University collections are situated in a compact area reachable
by foot and ample meeting space will be available for the Symposium sessions within University buildings. Nearby are also sites relating to the meridian arc established by Struve, now on the UNESCO World Heritage List, as well as several other collections
and historic sites that could be visited on an excursion – for example, Tallinn.
The date for the symposium has now been set for Monday, 25 August to Friday, 29 August with subsequent excursions to places further away currently under discussion. This date was
chosen for the following reasons:
1) In an attempt to keep costs down: Before 1 September cheap accommodation (for example in student housing) will be available from about €20 upwards - clearly a very attractive
option.
2) To permit more participants to take part, especially those coming from overseas who have frequently told us in the past that they were unable to attend if the symposium was scheduled
after 1 September.
3) To enable those who whish to do so to attend other relevant meetings before and after, namely
a) the Baltic Conference for the History of Science taking place the week before (21-23 August) in Helsinki (Finland)
b) the meetings of History of Physics and of the European Society for the History of Science the week afterward (4-5/6 Sept.) in Cambridge (UK) resp. Lisbon (Portugal)
4) To avoid certain religious holidays.
The topic of this meeting will be New Views on Old Instruments (working title!), with the potential to include sections such as:
- New analytic methods
- New ways of public engagement with instruments
- New political aims (for example UNESCO recognition for material heritage)
- New challenges posed through (mostly, but not exclusively) post-war scientific instruments (conservation, selection, issues of storage or preservation in situ, documentation etc.)
- New networks emerging
- Newly revealed sources
We will soon be announcing further details, but please save the date now. If you have never attended a symposium before be assured that the SIC is a very friendly and welcoming
group with no formal membership. All will be welcome - and the more participants we have the easier it will be to raise further funds and to help keep costs down!
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Informal pre-registration: To enable Dr. Lea Leppik and her colleagues to begin applying for grants, please send an e-mail to Janet Laidla on
[log in to unmask] with the simple (non-binding) sentence 'I intend to participate ...' by Monday,
28 October.
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With best wishes,
Silke Ackermann
President SIC, on behalf of the Board
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:28:07 +0000
From: "EDDY M.D." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Durham: Emergence and Science Fellowships
Call for Research Proposals
Durham Emergence Project: Call for Proposals
Fellowship Announcement
The Durham Emergence Project is pleased to announce its fellowship programme, supported by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Proposals are invited from either research teams or single researchers for scientific and philosophical research into the conceptual foundations and empirical possibility of strong emergence. Interdisciplinary proposals involving researchers from both philosophy and the sciences are particularly encouraged, as are proposals from early-career researchers.
Background
The Durham Emergence Project is an interdisciplinary research initiative involving collaboration between philosophers and physicists. Emergence, or dependent novelty, is of increasing interest to scientists and philosophers as a way of characterising relationships between complex entities and their parts, relationships between the sciences, and the place of the mind in the physical world. Weak emergence, which is uncontroversial, concerns knowledge of the world, or our description of it: unpredictability, or the applicability of new concepts. This project will focus on strong emergence, which involves novelty in the world itself: new properties or objects, laws or causal powers. Discussion of emergence is hampered by proliferating criteria for emergence, not all of which are readily interpretable in scientific terms. It is also hampered by the differing presuppositions that underlie the entrenched positions of emergentists and their opponents.
The aim of the project is to build on recent scientific and philosophical research, including mathematical methods in condensed matter physics, powers theories in the metaphysics of causation, and analyses of intertheory relations in the philosophy of science, to advance understanding of the possibility and plausibility of strong emergence. It will address the following research questions:
1. How should ‘strong emergence’ be understood? How is it related to the existence of downward causation? What is downward causation, and how is it related to the completeness of physics, or the causal closure of the physical (CCP)? How should CCP be formulated? Is it an a priori or an empirical claim? If CCP is (or involves) an empirical claim, what kind of evidence is there for it? What kind of evidence could there be for it? How should criteria for emergence be expressed in the mathematical language of physics? And how do such criteria relate to relations of emergence in the real world?
2. How do recent developments in the metaphysics of causation affect the formulation and plausibility of emergentist positions, and the formulation and plausibility of CCP? How do these developments bear on the possibility of downward causation, or mental causation?
3. How do these developments bear on the formulation of new emergentist positions in the philosophy of mind? Do these new positions address such longstanding issues as the problem of mental causation in new ways?
4. How do explanatory relationships between different scientific theories bear on claims for the existence (or non-existence) of strong emergence, the truth and falsity of CCP, and the possibility of mental causation? Specific examples to be considered should include cases from chemistry and condensed matter physics.
5. How do the various interpretations of quantum mechanics bear on the existence (or non-existence) of strong emergence, the truth and falsity of CCP, and the possibility of mental causation?
6. How do theoretical accounts of (i) symmetry-breaking; (ii) the emergence of structure in materials; and (iii) the behaviour of macromolecules bear on the existence (or non-existence) of strong emergence, the truth and falsity of CCP, and the possibility of mental causation?
Proposals should make clear how they would address at least one of these groups of questions. A full description of the project is available here<http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/emergence/DurhamEmergenceProjectDescription.pdf>. A non-exhaustive list of suggested sub-projects is available here<https://www.dur.ac.uk/emergence/positions/subprojects/>.
Fellowship Description
Applications are invited for up to £50,000, for research projects lasting up to a year. Up to ten awards will be made. Applications from interdisciplinary teams of scientists and philosophers are especially encouraged. Fellows need not spend all their funded research time at Durham University but would be welcome to do so, especially during July 2014 and 2015, when Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study will host key project events. Fellows will be expected to attend the project’s final conference in July 2016, and contribute a paper to an edited collection addressing the project’s core research questions.
How to Apply
A two-stage international funding competition will be administered by Durham University, according to the following timetable:
15th November 2013: deadline for outline proposals.
December 2013: invitations to submit full proposals.
31st March 2014: deadline for full proposals.
June 2014: notification of funding decisions.
1st October 2014: earliest date for funded research to begin.
30th September 2015: latest date for funded research to conclude.
Outline Proposals
By 15th November 2013, applicants should submit, to the project leader Robin Hendry ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), an outline of their proposed research not exceeding 1000 words, which should describe the research questions to be addressed, how they will be addressed, and an outline budget. This should be accompanied by a short curriculum vitae for each of the main participants in the research, covering their educational and employment history, and a list of relevant publications. Outline proposals will be reviewed by the project leader and other members of the steering group, which is listed on the project website.
Full Proposals
Full proposals will be accepted only by invitation. By 31st March 2014 applicants should submit, to the project leader Robin Hendry ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), an expanded description of their proposed research, not exceeding 3000 words, which should describe the research questions to be addressed, how it is proposed to address them, and the planned outcomes of the research, including any publications. This should be accompanied by a full budget setting out the costs of the research and, and a narrative explaining why they are justified. Full Proposals will be reviewed by the project leader and other members of the steering group, which is listed on the project website, with the help of a panel of external expert referees. If a proposal involves content or methods for which these reviewers do not have adequate expertise, additional ad hoc reviews may be sought.
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant subject and be affiliated to a recognised institution of higher education. They should have, or be able to demonstrate the potential for, a record of excellent academic research and publication in areas relevant to the Emergence Project. Applications will be judged according to the following criteria:
* the rigour and currency of the proposed research,
* the feasibility of the research,
* its relevance to the aims of the Durham Emergence Project,
* the career stage of the applicants and the expected effect that the fellowship would have on their career development,
* the value for money it demonstrates in relation to the research outputs and outcomes.
Conditions of Funding
* PIs of funded projects must submit interim and final reports, as well as interim and final expenditure reports. The interim and final reports should not exceed 5 pages, and should detail the results of the funded project. Reports must be submitted after six months and at the conclusion of the project.
* Funded projects must notify the Durham Emergence Project via email of all conference presentations, papers, books and additional funding that arise from the funded research.
Dr Matthew D Eddy
Durham University, Department of Philosophy, 50/51 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/ http://durham.academia.edu/MatthewEddy
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:03:35 +0000
From: "Palladino, Paolo" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Prof P Palladino and Lancaster.
Dear all,
I am grateful to John Pickstone for the support shown, but I would also like to clarify the following, very important matters, which also prompted my public response. I also wish to apologise to those members who are fortunate enough to work outside the British academic system.
For the reasons outlined very cogently in Professor Derek Sayer's exposition (http://coastsofbohemia.com/2013/08/13/the-kafkan-world-of-the-british-research-excellence-framework/), I have refused to appeal. To appeal is to endorse an audit that operates according to wholly corrupt and corrupting rules. I am instead hoping that others, and there will be many of us hiding in shame, will start to speak up because, while the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) is beginning to voice doubts and concerns (see, most recently, http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/leader/more-than-a-game-of-numbers/2008203.article), academics continue to acquiesce and hide: we ourselves, not the managers we decry, are destroying the idea of a 'university'.
Finally, let me remind you that, while the British government will not fund any work rated at grade 2, contrary to common opinion, this grading is not any indication of poor quality, but of 'quality that is recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour', which, in other words, means that the item so scored has passed peer-review in an internationally recognised forum. By any other standard, this is in fact a very good score. What is absolutely perverse is that a small, hand-picked group of British academics, who, for the most part, are not the outstanding members of the profession, have been granted leeway to determine whether the same item deserves not one, but two more points (and the scale is, effectively, not linear, but logarithmic) and they will do so on the basis of their own reading and their subjective judgment, regardless of their specific expertise! This, I think, is the fundamental problem and principal motivation for my evocation of Marin Mersenne and republic of letters.
Best wishes,
Paolo
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Sent: 18 October 2013 17:01
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Subject: Prof P Palladino and Lancaster.
I know nothing of any vendettas and do not need to: Palladino makes a strong case.
If a university raises a staff member to a chair, and the professor publishes four papers in good journals, then exclusion from the REF will seem very odd. Paolo is a well-regarded, if sometimes controversial, contributor to the international and cross-disciplinary community of history and social studies of science. He deserves, at least, a review of the case.
Universities depend on the reputation of their academics, and the protection of those reputations should be a primary concern. Managerial reliance on a single external referee, with no right of appeal, does not begin to meet the duty of care which a good university owes its staff.
John Pickstone, Emeritus, Manchester.
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:06:46 +0100
From: Fatima de Haan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Papers (Second Call) 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science - Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014
Call for Papers (Second Call)
6th International Conference of the
European Society for the History of Science
Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014
Communicating Science, Technology and Medicine
The 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of
Science will be held in Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014 and is organized by the
Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology(CIUHCT),a
research centre associated with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of
Lisbon and the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of
Lisbon.
The theme of the conference is "Communicating Science, Technology and
Medicine.
Communicating science, technology and medicine has always been central to
the scientific and technological enterprise, but across ages and spaces
agents, audiences, means, aims and agendas behind this complex process have
varied considerably. The interpretations put forward by historians of
science, technology and medicine have also changed considerably. Historians
have been compelled recently to move away from former historiographical
categories opposing creative producers to passive recipients and consumers,
and contrasting the production of knowledge with its transmission. The
vertical model of diffusion has been superseded by a horizontal conception
of circulation and appropriation of science, technology and medicine, which
gives voice to various actors and to their different, often contradictory,
agendas. Within this framework, practices of science, technology and
medicine appear as involving in an essential way forms of communication, to
such an extent that the distinction between the making and the communicating
of science, technology and medicine is ultimately blurred.
The 6th ESHS aims at stimulating historical and historiographical studies
and debates on the communication of science, technology and medicine along
the following sub-thematic clusters.
1) Human and non-human agents: experts, amateurs, and institutions;
2) Networks of circulation and communication of knowledge;
3) Means of communication: correspondence, papers, books, textbooks,
popularization outlets, newspapers, radio, theatre, films, cartoons and
internet;
4) Spaces and modes of communication: conferences, classrooms, public
demonstrations, exhibitions, instruments, collections and museums;
5) Audiences: lay and specialized audiences, consumers;
6) Rhetorical devices;
7) Communication in the European Periphery;
8) Communication in a globalized world: challenges and constraints;
ideology of communication, hegemonic values and commercialized science,
technology and medicine
Deadlines NEW
Symposia Submission (theme and rationale of symposium and abstract of
papers) 10 Jan 2014
Decision regarding accepted symposia 10 February 2014
Abstract Submission for stand-alone papers) 10 March 2014
Decision regarding accepted papers 10 April 2014
Language
Abstracts, presentations and proceedings should be in English, preferably.
Fees
ESHS member
Non ESHS member
Non ESHS member who joins ESHS (*)
deadlines
Early registration fee
Euro 150
Euro 170
Euro 180
30 April 2014
Standard registration fee
Euro 200
Euro 240
Euro 250
30 June 2014
Late and onsite registration fee
Euro 220
Euro 260
Euro 270
After 1 July 2014
(*) Non ESHS members who want to join ESHS benefit from a special offer of
one year membership including the online ESHS journal, CENTAURUS.
Website address <http://www.eshs.org/> http://www.eshs.org/ and
http://eshs2014.ciuhct.com/
For any other information please contact the local secretariat Fátima de
Haan ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> )
Looking forward to seeing you in Lisbon
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee
Ana Simões
Maria Paula Diogo
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