?The Centre d'Estudis d'Història de les Ciències (CEHIC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
celebrates its 10th anniversary:
Inaugural lecture PhD programme in History of Science UAB-UB-UPF:
D. Pestre (Centre A. Koyré, París), “Science, Science Policy, and History in the new European Higher
Education Area”
Research report: CEHIC 10 anys. Memòria 1995-2005
New site Archivos de Ciencia
Thursday 10 november, 16-18h, Sala de graus, Facultat de Ciències, UAB
Science week 2005, with the support of the Spanish Ministery of Education
http://www.uab.es/cehic/
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Dear Colleagues,
The European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) is organizing
two events in the next months: its 2006 conference in Cracow (6-9
Sept 2006), and a symposium in Oxford (24-25 March 2006). If you
intend to submit a proposal for the Oxford Symposium, or a proposal
for a session for the Cracow Conference, I remind you that the
deadline for both of these events is November 15th. Below I paste the
annoucements of the symposium and of the conference. Additional
information can be found on our webpage under the address
http://www.eshs.org
Sincerely yours,
Stephanie Dupouy,
Secretary of ESHS.
Second ESHS International Conference,
Cracow, (6-9/09/2006) : Call for papers
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
POLISH ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE JAGELLONIAN UNIVERISTY
INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
The Global and the Local: The History of Science and the Cultural
Integration of Europe
Cracow
6-9 September 2006
An international conference organized jointly by the European Society
for the History of Science, the Commission on the History of Science
of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Commission for
European Matters of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
Jagiellonian University, and the Institute for the History of Science
of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in co-operation with Czech,
Hungarian and Slovak institutions.
The European Society for the History of Science will hold its second
international conference in Cracow, a city located at the heart of
Europe that has long been a traditional place for ex-changes between
various parts of the continent. Beginning on the evening of Wednesday
6 September 2006 (with the opening plenary lecture and a reception
and get-together party) and ending, after three full days, on
Saturday 9 September, the conference is planned as an important event
within a series of initiatives aimed at creating a European community
in the history of science. The first conference of the ESHS, held in
Maastricht from 4 to 6 Novem-ber 2004, set the tone, and we now look
forward to building on the achievements of that con-ference in a
gathering that will bring together scholars from all parts of Europe,
from the West and East, North and South, and Centre of the continent.
Proposals for Sessions
On 7 and 8 September, the conference will be organized around
sessions or symposia devoted to specific themes (for which
suggestions are invited from potential participants). It is hoped
that these sessions will take advantage of the presence of scholars
from across Europe to break new ground in the fashioning of
comparative and integrative perspectives. It is pro-posed that one of
these sessions, or a group of sessions, should address the general
theme of communication and exchanges in science between European
countries, especially between the nations of Eastern, Western, and
Central Europe. Other sessions will be devoted to cur-rent areas of
research in the history of science, such as the relations between
science and re-ligion, science and the arts, women in science,
science and technology, science and society, and the role of
instruments and instrumentation. But suggestions for other themes and
histo-riographical debates would be welcome. All suggestions should
be sent to the Conference Office in Cracow by 15 November 2005.
The final day of the conference, 9 September, will be devoted to a
special symposium on the past, present, and future prospects of the
history of science in European higher education. Proposals for
sessions and detailed sub-themes of this symposium may be formulated
by rep-resentatives of national societies and other relevant academic
bodies, and by eminent indi-viduals. They should be addressed to the
Conference Office in Cracow by 15 November 2005. They should be
accompanied by a summary of the proposal (maximum of 100 words) and,
in the case of the individual proposer, a brief curriculum vitae.
The email address for all proposals is: [log in to unmask]
give as the subject 'R proposals' (for sessions on 'research
matters') or 'HE proposals' (for the symposium on 'higher education
matters').
Proposals should be prepared as Microsoft Word 97 documents. They
should be single-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman, except for the
title of the proposal (14-point bold) and the name(s) of the
institution(s) and email address(es) (10-point). The name(s) of the
au-thor(s) and institution(s) and the e-mail address(es) and the
title of the proposal should be centred. The main text should be
justified.
Proposals for individual papers
Scholars wishing to present a 20-minute contributed paper are invited
to submit a one-page abstract for consideration by the programme
committee. Abstracts, which should be sent to the Conference Office
in Cracow by 15 March 2006, should be presented in the same format as
the proposals for sessions and symposia (see above). Please give 'CP
proposals' as the subject for proposals for contributed papers. All
those submitting proposals will be informed of the programme
committee's decisions by 15 April 2006.
Deadlines
* Proposals for sessions and symposia: 15
November 2005
* Abstracts of contributed papers: 15 March 2006
* Notification of acceptance of contributed paper: 15 April 2006
* Deadlines for registration:
1 June 2006
* Deadline for hotel reservation: 1 June 2006
Conference fee: 99 euros, excluding conference dinner (21 euros).
The fee for participants registered after 1 June 2006 will be 140
euros, and 25 euros for the dinner.
Further details on the conference will be given (and systematically
updated) on the Conference website.
Please note that although this is a conference of the ESHS,
participation is not limited to members of the society.
On behalf of the Organizing Committees:
Prof. Robert Fox (Chairman of the Program Committee), Prof. Zdzislaw
Mach (Chairman of the Local Committee), Prof. Claude Debru
(Vice-chairman of the Program and Local Committees), and Dr Michal
Kokowski (Vice-chairman of the Program and Local Committees).
* * *
International Symposium : Oxford (24-25/03/2006) : Call for papers
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
SOCIÉTE FRANÇAISE D'HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES ET DES TECHNIQUES
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD
Franco-British interactions in science since the seventeenth century
Maison française, Norham Road, Oxford
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 March 2006
This international symposium is a joint initiative of the European
Society for the History of Science, the Société française d'histoire
des sciences et des techniques, the British Society for the History
of Science, and the Maison française, Oxford. It is the first in what
is intended to be a series of symposia organized by the ESHS in
collaboration with national societies or other appropriate bodies.
Proposals for papers on any aspects of communication and exchanges
between France and Britain in science, medicine, and technology
between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries are invited. The
profile of the sessions will be determined in the light of the
proposals that are received, but it is hoped that papers will treat
such topics as translation, travels, correspondence, and both
collaborations and rivalries.
The length of the papers has been fixed provisionally at 25-30
minutes, with 10-15 minutes for discussion in each case. Papers may
be delivered in either French or English. To ease the inevitable
linguistic problems, an extended summary of each paper will be made
available to all participants in advance.
The symposium will begin immediately after lunch on Friday 24 March
and will continue through the whole of Saturday 25 March, ending at
17.00.
A visit to the Museum of the History of Science has been arranged for
the early evening of 24 March; this will be accompanied by a brief
presentation of the collection by the Director, Dr Jim Bennett, and a
drinks reception. Following the visit to the Museum, a conference
dinner will be held in Oriel College, although participants in the
symposium will be free to make their own arrangements for dinner if
they prefer.
Proposals for papers should be sent by 15 November 2005 at the latest
to either of the following addresses:
* For proposals from participants in France:
Madame Anne Bonnefoy
Secrétaire générale de la SFHST
Espace Mendès France
1 place de la Cathédrale
BP 80964
86038 Poitiers Cedex
France
[log in to unmask]
* For proposals other than those from French colleagues:
Professor Robert Fox
Professor of the History of Science
Modern History Faculty
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BD
Britain
[log in to unmask]
Proposals should be accompanied by a summary of between 150 and 200
words and a brief curriculum vitae (one page maximum). Confirmation
of the acceptance of papers for the symposium will be sent out by 15
December 2005.
The symposium will take place in the Maison française, Norham Road,
Oxford. Accommodation will be available, mainly in Oriel College, for
the Friday night, 24 March, and (for those who wish to arrive early
or stay until Sunday) for the nights of Thursday 23 March and
Saturday 25 March as well. The conference fee of 37.50 euros (£25.00)
will cover the cost of lunch on 25 March and of coffee and tea
throughout the meeting. Details of the charges for the conference
dinner and overnight accommodation will be posted on the ESHS website
www.eshs.org as soon as possible.
The call for paper for this symposium is to be found on the ESHS
webpage under the address : http://www.eshs.org
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ESHS conferences
Dear Colleagues,
The European Society for the History of
Science (ESHS) is organizing two events in the next months: its 2006
conference in Cracow (6-9 Sept 2006), and a symposium in Oxford (24-25
March 2006). If you intend to submit a proposal for the Oxford
Symposium, or a proposal for a session for the Cracow Conference, I
remind you that the deadline for both of these events is November
15th. Below I paste the annoucements of the symposium and of the
conference. Additional information can be found on our webpage under
the address http://www.eshs.org
Sincerely yours,
Stephanie Dupouy,
Secretary of ESHS.
Second ESHS
International Conference,
Cracow, (6-9/09/2006) : Call for papers
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR
THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
POLISH ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE JAGELLONIAN UNIVERISTY
INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
The Global and the Local: The History of Science and the Cultural
Integration of Europe
Cracow
6-9 September 2006
An international conference organized jointly by the European
Society for the History of Science, the Commission on the History of
Science of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Commission for
European Matters of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
Jagiellonian University, and the Institute for the History of Science
of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in co-operation with Czech,
Hungarian and Slovak institutions.
The European Society for the History of Science will hold its
second international conference in Cracow, a city located at the heart
of Europe that has long been a traditional place for ex-changes
between various parts of the continent. Beginning on the evening of
Wednesday 6 September 2006 (with the opening plenary lecture and a
reception and get-together party) and ending, after three full days,
on Saturday 9 September, the conference is planned as an important
event within a series of initiatives aimed at creating a European
community in the history of science. The first conference of the ESHS,
held in Maastricht from 4 to 6 Novem-ber 2004, set the tone, and we
now look forward to building on the achievements of that con-ference
in a gathering that will bring together scholars from all parts of
Europe, from the West and East, North and South, and Centre of the
continent.
Proposals for Sessions
On 7 and 8 September, the conference will be organized around
sessions or symposia devoted to specific themes (for which suggestions
are invited from potential participants). It is hoped that these
sessions will take advantage of the presence of scholars from across
Europe to break new ground in the fashioning of comparative and
integrative perspectives. It is pro-posed that one of these sessions,
or a group of sessions, should address the general theme of
communication and exchanges in science between European countries,
especially between the nations of Eastern, Western, and Central
Europe. Other sessions will be devoted to cur-rent areas of research
in the history of science, such as the relations between science and
re-ligion, science and the arts, women in science, science and
technology, science and society, and the role of instruments and
instrumentation. But suggestions for other themes and
histo-riographical debates would be welcome. All suggestions should be
sent to the Conference Office in Cracow by 15 November
2005.
The final day of the conference, 9 September, will be devoted to a
special symposium on the past, present, and future prospects of the
history of science in European higher education. Proposals for
sessions and detailed sub-themes of this symposium may be formulated
by rep-resentatives of national societies and other relevant academic
bodies, and by eminent indi-viduals. They should be addressed to the
Conference Office in Cracow by 15 November 2005. They should be
accompanied by a summary of the proposal (maximum of 100 words) and,
in the case of the individual proposer, a brief curriculum
vitae.
The email address for all proposals is:
[log in to unmask].Please give as the subject 'R
proposals' (for sessions on 'research matters') or 'HE
proposals' (for the symposium on 'higher education matters').
Proposals should be prepared as Microsoft Word 97 documents. They
should be single-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman, except for the
title of the proposal (14-point bold) and the name(s) of the
institution(s) and email address(es) (10-point). The name(s) of the
au-thor(s) and institution(s) and the e-mail address(es) and the title
of the proposal should be centred. The main text should be
justified.
Proposals for individual papers
Scholars wishing to present a 20-minute contributed paper are
invited to submit a one-page abstract for consideration by the
programme committee. Abstracts, which should be sent to the Conference
Office in Cracow by 15 March 2006, should be presented in the
same format as the proposals for sessions and symposia (see above).
Please give 'CP proposals' as the subject for proposals for
contributed papers. All those submitting proposals will be informed of
the programme committee's decisions by 15 April 2006.
Deadlines
* Proposals for
sessions and
symposia:
15 November 2005
* Abstracts of
contributed
papers: 15 March 2006
* Notification of acceptance of contributed paper:
15 April 2006
* Deadlines
for
registration: 1 June 2006
* Deadline for hotel
reservation: 1 June
2006
Conference fee: 99 euros, excluding conference dinner (21
euros).
The fee for participants registered after 1 June 2006 will be
140 euros, and 25 euros for the dinner.
Further details on the conference will be given (and systematically
updated) on the Conference website.
Please note that although this is a conference of the ESHS,
participation is not limited to members of the society.
On behalf of the Organizing Committees:
Prof. Robert Fox (Chairman of the Program Committee), Prof. Zdzislaw
Mach (Chairman of the Local Committee), Prof. Claude Debru
(Vice-chairman of the Program and Local Committees), and Dr Michal
Kokowski (Vice-chairman of the Program and Local Committees).
* * *
International Symposium : Oxford (24-25/03/2006) :
Call for papers
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
SOCIÉTE FRANÇAISE D'HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES ET DES TECHNIQUES
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD
Franco-British interactions in science since the seventeenth
century
Maison française, Norham Road, Oxford
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 March 2006
This international symposium is a joint initiative of the European
Society for the History of Science, the Société française
d'histoire des sciences et des techniques, the British Society for the
History of Science, and the Maison française, Oxford. It is the
first in what is intended to be a series of symposia organized by the
ESHS in collaboration with national societies or other appropriate
bodies.
Proposals for papers on any aspects of communication and exchanges
between France and Britain in science, medicine, and technology
between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries are invited. The
profile of the sessions will be determined in the light of the
proposals that are received, but it is hoped that papers will treat
such topics as translation, travels, correspondence, and both
collaborations and rivalries.
The length of the papers has been fixed provisionally at 25-30
minutes, with 10-15 minutes for discussion in each case. Papers may be
delivered in either French or English. To ease the inevitable
linguistic problems, an extended summary of each paper will be made
available to all participants in advance.
The symposium will begin immediately after lunch on Friday 24 March
and will continue through the whole of Saturday 25 March, ending at
17.00.
A visit to the Museum of the History of Science has been arranged for
the early evening of 24 March; this will be accompanied by a brief
presentation of the collection by the Director, Dr Jim Bennett, and a
drinks reception. Following the visit to the Museum, a conference
dinner will be held in Oriel College, although participants in the
symposium will be free to make their own arrangements for dinner if
they prefer.
Proposals for papers should be sent by 15 November 2005 at the latest
to either of the following addresses:
* For proposals from participants in
France:
Madame Anne Bonnefoy
Secrétaire générale de la SFHST
Espace Mendès France
1 place de la Cathédrale
BP 80964
86038 Poitiers Cedex
France
[log in to unmask]
* For proposals other
than those from French colleagues:
Professor Robert Fox
Professor of the History of Science
Modern History Faculty
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BD
Britain
[log in to unmask]
Proposals should be accompanied by a summary of between 150 and 200
words and a brief curriculum vitae (one page maximum). Confirmation of
the acceptance of papers for the symposium will be sent out by 15
December 2005.
The symposium will take place in the Maison française, Norham Road,
Oxford. Accommodation will be available, mainly in Oriel College, for
the Friday night, 24 March, and (for those who wish to arrive early or
stay until Sunday) for the nights of Thursday 23 March and Saturday 25
March as well. The conference fee of 37.50 euros (£25.00) will cover
the cost of lunch on 25 March and of coffee and tea throughout the
meeting. Details of the charges for the conference dinner and
overnight accommodation will be posted on the ESHS website
www.eshs.org as soon as possible.
The call for paper for this symposium is to be found on the ESHS
webpage under the address : http://www.eshs.org
Apologies for those that have already received this email.
We are currently making a BBC television science documentary looking into the early portrayal of enlightenment and science experiments through the 18th Century paintings of Joseph Wright of Derby. We are keen to film any original apparatus or documents that relate to early orreries, air pumps, vacuums or alchemy in general. We would be keen to hear from anyone who could help us practically demonstrate or illustrate. (I've written in brackets the people we're already speaking to)
1. Early vacuums, barometers, air pumps or respiration experiments as per the Bird In The Air Pump experiment. (Von Guericke Society)
2. The distillation of phosphorus or the burning of phosphorus as per the Alchemist painting. (UCL and Larry Principe)
3. Any early alchemy experiments, medieval alchemy "laboratories" or anything related to the evolution from alchemy to chemistry esp Paracelsus
4 An early orrery as per the Philosopher and the Orrery painting. (Greenwich and the Armagh Observatories.)
5. Generally with the Enlightenment experiments and their impact on society esp the Lunar society
6. The work of Blaise Pascal or the cartographer Peter Perez Burdett
Many thanks for your help.
James Marshall
BBC4 "Bird In An Air Pump"
BBC Science
W 0208 752 5641
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Subject: Conference Reminder: History of Altitude Medicine and Physiology,
Manchester, 5 December 2005
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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to remind you that on 5 December 2005, the Centre for the
History of Science, Technology at the University of Manchester is
hosting a one day conference on the history of high altitude medicine
and physiology, *Challenging the Altitudes*. If you are interested in
attending please contact the organiser, Jorge Lossio. Participation is
free, but we need to confirm numbers to order the right amount of coffee.
CONTACT: [log in to unmask]
WEB: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/events/conferences/altitude/
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*Programme*
9.00-9.30 am: Coffee and Registration
9.30-11.30 am:
Alex McKay (Wellcome Trust Centre, UCL): Fit for the Tibetan frontier:
European understandings of the Tibetan environment.
George Rodway (OHIO State University): Prelude to Everest: Alexander M.
Kellas and the 1920 High Altitude Scientific Expedition to Kamet.
Jorge Lossio (CHSTM, University of Manchester): Medical practice in the
high Andes and the construction of a 'High-altitude pathology'.
12.00-1.00 pm:
John West (University of California San Diego): High Points in the
History of High Altitude Medicine and Physiology.
1.00-1.45 pm: Lunch
1.45-3.00 pm:
Susan Heydon (University of Otago, New Zealand): High Places: medical
services at Khunde Hospital in the Everest area of Nepal, 1966-1998.
Vanessa Heggie (CHSTM, University of Manchester): Athletes at Altitude;
the science of success at the Mexican Olympiad, 1968.
3.00-3.30 pm: Coffee
3.30-5.30 pm:
Alexander von Lunen (University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany): The
Secret Test that America Banned. Mark Ridge, John Scott Haldane and
High-Altitude records in the 1930s.
David Kirby (CHSTM, University of Manchester): Unsung Heroes: Flight
Surgeons, High-Altitude Physiology and Military Science in Hollywood's
"Dive Bomber" (1941 Film).
--
Carsten Timmermann, PhD
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
The University of Manchester, Simon Building, Room 2.36
Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
Phone +44-(0)161-275 7950 Fax +44-(0)161-275 5699
Department Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
Project Website: http://www.cancer-history.org
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Subject: Final Reminder of Conference 11-12 November 2005 University of
Kent
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This is a reminder that the Medicalization of Spaces, Spaces of Medicalization Conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury, will be taking place this coming weekend, 11-12 November 2005.
The conference is being held in Lecture Theatre One of the Electronics Building located behind the BioScience Building on theUniversity of Kent, Canterbury Campus. I have pasted a web map
link below. http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/
Papers from scholars and postgraduates, both home and abroad, are scheduled and it is anticipated that this will be an interesting multi-disciplinary conference incorporating broad perspectives within the general field of medicine and health care. Themes include mental health, nursing and science.
All are wellcome to attend, for a nominal fee of £10 to cover both days;advance booking is not necessary.
If you require any further information, please contact:
Tal Bolton [log in to unmask]
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Dr Patty Baker [log in to unmask]
Many thanks
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This is a reminder that the Medicalization of Spaces, Spaces of Medicalization Conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury, will be taking place this coming weekend, 11-12 November 2005.
The conference is being held in Lecture Theatre One of the Electronics Building located behind the BioScience Building on theUniversity of Kent, Canterbury Campus. I have pasted a web map
link below.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/
Papers from scholars and postgraduates, both home and abroad, are scheduled and it is anticipated that this will be an interesting multi-disciplinary conference incorporating broad perspectives within the general field of medicine and health care. Themes include mental health, nursing and science.
All are wellcome to attend, for a nominal fee of £10 to cover both days;advance booking is not necessary.
If you require any further information, please contact:
or
Many thanks
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Subject: Siem Reap - Preliminary program
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> Please find a preliminary program for our conference on the
> history of medicine in Southeast Asia to be held in Siem Reap next
> January. For registration and accommodation, please contact Lesley
> Perlman at [log in to unmask]
>
> If you have any questions about the programme, please contact
Laurence MONNAIS
Professeur adjoint
Département d'histoire - Centre d'Etudes de l'Asie de l'Est (CETASE)
Chercheur, Groupe de Recherche sur les Aspects sociaux de la Santé et de la
Prévention (GRASP)
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA H3C 3J7
Tel: (514) 343-6544
e-mail: [log in to unmask] me.
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FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES
SIEM REAP (CAMBODIA)
JANUARY 9-10 2006
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
JANUARY 8th 2006
16:00-17:00
Early registration
JANUARY 9th 2006
7:30-8:30
Registration
8:30
Welcoming Address and Opening
Prof. Rethy CHHEM
General Introduction
Prof. Hal COOK & Laurence MONNAIS
9:00-11:00
Session 1. Historical Perspectives on Medical Traditions in Southeast Asia
Rethy CHHEM, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)
"Bhaisajyaguru and Tantric medicine in Jayavarman VII (1181-1220 CE)
hospitals"
Christophe POTTIER, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (Siem Reap, Cambodia)
"Looking for Angkor hospitals"
Frédéric BOURDIER, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) (Paris,
France)
"Some Historical and Theoretical Issues Based on a Classical Indian
Medicine: The Science of Siddha in Tamil Nadu"
Nurdeng DEURASEH, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
"The Impact of Medicine of the Prophet and Practices on Malay Traditional
Medicine in Malaysia"
11:00-11:30 : Break
11:30-12:30
Session 2. From Mapping "Tropical" Diseases in Southeast Asia to Fighting
Against Them
Peter BOOMGAARD, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and
Caribbean Studies (KITLV) (Leiden, The Netherlands)
"Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, and Yaws in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1500-1950"
LEE Jong-Chan, Harvard-Yenching Institute (Cambridge, USA)
"Locating and Mapping Tropical Diseases in Southeast Asia. A Historical
Geography Perspective"
12:30-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-15:00
Session 2 (bis). From Mapping "Tropical" Diseases in Southeast Asia to
Fighting Against Them
Thomas B. COLVIN (Mexico/ Philippines)
"Arms around the world: The introduction of smallpox vaccine into the
Philippines and Macau in 1805"
C. Michele THOMPSON, Southern Connecticut State University (New Haven, USA)
"Jean Marie Despiau: Much Maligned French Physician in the Royal Medical
Service of the Nguyen Dynasty"
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00
Session 3. "Medical Encounters" in Colonial Southeast Asia (1)
Medicalisation and Social Control in the Context of Western Domination
Warwick ANDERSON, University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA)
"The hospital as colonial microcosm: conflict and corruption at the
Philippine general hospital"
Hans POLS, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
"The Nature of the Native Mind. Contested Views of Dutch Colonial
Psychiatrists in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924"
Michael G. VANN, California State University (Sacramento, USA)
"Hanoi in the Time of Cholera: Epidemic Disease and Racial Power in the
Colonial City"
18:00-20:00
Cocktail at FCC Angkor
JANUARY 10th 2006
8:30-10:30
Session 4. "Medical Encounters" in Colonial Southeast Asia (2)
Medicalisation, Professionalisation, and the "(Re)invention" of Tradition
Liesbeth HESSELINK (Leiden, The Netherlands)
"Dokters-djawa and Doekoens. The positioning of western educated Indonesian
doctors towards the native healers in the Dutch East Indies round 1900"
OOI Keat Gin, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia)
"The Anti-Opium Campaign of Colonial Malaya. Between Economics, Public
Health and Chinese Nationalism, ca. 1890s-1941"
Raquel REYES, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) (London, UK)
"Science and Superstition: pregnancy and birth in 19th century Philippines"
Sokhieng AU, University of California (Berkeley, USA)
"Motherhood and Medical Work in French Colonial Cambodia"
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30
Session 5. International Health Care and History of Health Care in Southeast
Asia
Annick GUÉNEL, CNRS - LASEMA (Paris, France)
"The Conference on Rural Hygiene in Bandung of 1937 : towards a new vision
of health care ?"
HUANG Yu-Ling, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, USA)
"AIDS, Access to Essential Medicines and Global Patent Regime: The Case of
Thailand"
LIEW Kai Khiun, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at
University College London (London, UK)
"Patron and partner, the "Quiet Americans": The activities of the
Rockefeller Foundation's, International Health Board in Southeast Asia
(1915-1940)"
12:30-14: Lunch break
14:00-15:30
Session 6. Traditional Medicines vs Biomedicine in Southeast Asia: Some
Pluridisciplinary Perspectives
Pollie BITH-MELANDER, San Jose State University (San José, USA)
"Cambodian Health Care History: Khmer Medicine, the Language of healing, and
AIDS Therapy"
D. Kyle LATINIS, HeritageWatch/ Royal University of Fine Arts (Phnom Penh,
Cambodia)
"Medicinal knowledge transfer in Maluku, East Indonesia"
Ayo WAHLBERG, BIOS / London School
of Economics (London, UK)
"A revolutionary movement to bring traditional medicine back to the
grassroots level" - on the bio-politicisation of herbal medicine in Vietnam"
15:30-16:00: Break
16:00-17:30
Wrap -round session: What's next?
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> Please find a preliminary program for our conference on the
> history of medicine in Southeast Asia to be held in Siem Reap next
> January. For registration and accommodation, please contact Lesley
> Perlman at [log in to unmask]
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> If you have any questions about the programme, please contact
Laurence MONNAIS
Professeur adjoint
Département d'histoire - Centre d'Etudes de l'Asie de l'Est (CETASE)
Chercheur, Groupe de Recherche sur les Aspects sociaux de la Santé et de la
Prévention (GRASP)
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA H3C 3J7
Tel: (514) 343-6544
e-mail: [log in to unmask] me.
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FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
CENTER FOR KHMER STUDDIES
SIEM REAP
(CAMBODIA)
JANUARY 9-10 2006
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
JANUARY 8th 2006
16:00-17:00
Early registration
JANUARY 9th 2006
7:30-8:30
Registration
8:30
Welcoming Address and Opening
Prof. Rethy CHHEM
General Introduction
Prof. Hal COOK & Laurence MONNAIS
9:00-11:00
Session 1. Historical Perspectives on Medical Traditions in Southeast Asia
Rethy CHHEM, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)
"Bhaisajyaguru and Tantric medicine in Jayavarman VII (1181-1220 CE)
hospitals"
Christophe POTTIER, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (Siem Reap, Cambodia)
"Looking for Angkor hospitals"
Frédéric BOURDIER, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) (Paris,
France)
"Some Historical and Theoretical Issues Based on a Classical Indian
Medicine: The Science of Siddha in Tamil Nadu"
Nurdeng DEURASEH, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia)
"The Impact of Medicine of the Prophet and Practices on Malay Traditional
Medicine in Malaysia"
11:00-11:30 : Break
11:30-12:30
Session 2. From Mapping "Tropical" Diseases in Southeast Asia to Fighting
Against Them
Peter BOOMGAARD, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and
Caribbean Studies (KITLV) (Leiden, The Netherlands)
"Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, and Yaws in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1500-1950"
LEE Jong-Chan, Harvard-Yenching Institute (Cambridge, USA)
"Locating and Mapping Tropical Diseases in Southeast Asia. A Historical
Geography Perspective"
12:30-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-15:00
Session 2 (bis). From Mapping "Tropical" Diseases in Southeast Asia to
Fighting Against Them
Thomas B. COLVIN (Mexico/ Philippines)
"Arms around the world: The introduction of smallpox vaccine into the
Philippines and Macau in 1805"
C. Michele THOMPSON, Southern
Connecticut State University (New Haven, USA)
"Jean Marie Despiau: Much Maligned French Physician in the Royal Medical
Service of the Nguyen Dynasty"
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00
Session 3. "Medical Encounters" in Colonial Southeast Asia (1)
Medicalisation and Social Control in the Context of Western Domination
Warwick ANDERSON, University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA)
"The hospital as colonial microcosm: conflict and corruption at the
Philippine general hospital"
Hans POLS, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
"The Nature of the Native Mind. Contested Views of Dutch Colonial
Psychiatrists in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924"
Michael G. VANN, California State University (Sacramento, USA)
"Hanoi in the Time of Cholera: Epidemic Disease and Racial Power in the
Colonial City"
18:00-20:00
Cocktail at FCC Angkor
JANUARY 10th 2006
8:30-10:30
Session 4. "Medical
Encounters" in Colonial Southeast Asia (2)
Medicalisation, Professionalisation, and the "(Re)invention" of Tradition
Liesbeth HESSELINK (Leiden, The Netherlands)
"Dokters-djawa and Doekoens. The positioning of western educated Indonesian
doctors towards the native healers in the Dutch East Indies round 1900"
OOI Keat Gin, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia)
"The Anti-Opium Campaign of Colonial Malaya. Between Economics, Public
Health and Chinese Nationalism, ca. 1890s-1941"
Raquel REYES, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) (London, UK)
"Science and Superstition: pregnancy and birth in 19th century Philippines"
Sokhieng AU, University of California (Berkeley, USA)
"Motherhood and Medical Work in French Colonial Cambodia"
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30
Session 5. International Health Care and History of Health Care in Southeast
Asia
Annick GUÉNEL, CNRS - LASEMA (Paris,
France)
"The Conference on Rural Hygiene in Bandung of 1937 : towards a new vision
of health care ?"
HUANG Yu-Ling, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, USA)
"AIDS, Access to Essential Medicines and Global Patent Regime: The Case of
Thailand"
LIEW Kai Khiun, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at
University College London (London, UK)
"Patron and partner, the "Quiet Americans": The activities of the
Rockefeller Foundation's, International Health Board in Southeast Asia
(1915-1940)"
12:30-14: Lunch break
14:00-15:30
Session 6. Traditional Medicines vs Biomedicine in Southeast Asia: Some
Pluridisciplinary Perspectives
Pollie BITH-MELANDER, San Jose State University (San José, USA)
"Cambodian Health Care History: Khmer Medicine, the Language of healing, and
AIDS Therapy"
D. Kyle LATINIS, HeritageWatch/ Royal University of Fine Arts (Phnom
Penh,
Cambodia)
"Medicinal knowledge transfer in Maluku, East Indonesia"
Ayo WAHLBERG, BIOS / London School
of Economics (London, UK)
"A revolutionary movement to bring traditional medicine back to the
grassroots level" - on the bio-politicisation of herbal medicine in Vietnam"
15:30-16:00: Break
16:00-17:30
Wrap -round session: What's next?
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This is a reminder that the Medicalization of Spaces, Spaces of Medicalization Conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury, will be taking place this coming weekend, Saturday 12-Sunday 13 November 2005.
The conference is being held in Lecture Theatre One of the Electronics Building located behind the BioScience Building on theUniversity of Kent, Canterbury Campus, commencing at 9 am. I have pasted a web map
link below. http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/
Papers from scholars and postgraduates, both home and abroad, are scheduled and it is anticipated that this will be an interesting multi-disciplinary conference incorporating broad perspectives within the general field of medicine and health care. Themes include mental health, nursing and science.
All are wellcome to attend, for a nominal fee of £10 to cover both days; advance booking is not necessary.
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This is a reminder that the Medicalization of Spaces, Spaces of Medicalization Conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury, will be taking place this coming weekend, Saturday 12-Sunday 13 November 2005.
The conference is being held in Lecture Theatre One of the Electronics Building located behind the BioScience Building on theUniversity of Kent, Canterbury Campus,
commencing at 9 am. I have pasted a web map
link below.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/
Papers from scholars and postgraduates, both home and abroad, are scheduled and it is anticipated that this will be an interesting multi-disciplinary conference incorporating broad perspectives within the general field of medicine and health care. Themes include mental health, nursing and science.
All are wellcome to attend, for a nominal fee of £10 to cover both days; advance booking is not necessary.
If you require any further information, please contact:
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UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
DIVISION OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
MA IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
The Division of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of
Leeds welcomes applications for the 2006/07 class of our MA Programme in
the History and Philosophy of Science.
This one-year (two years part-time) degree brings together the history
of science and the philosophy of science in a stimulating and supportive
environment. Students take a core set of modules in both the history and
philosophy of science and may then specialise in either, or continue to
study both. Together with a research based dissertation it offers an
excellent grounding for further (PhD) study in the field, or related
careers in museums work, science journalism etc.
STRUCTURE OF THE HPS MA
The programme has four components:
[1] The CORE, comprising two compulsory modules:
* Modern Science: Historical Emergence and Philosophical Interpretations
* Current Research in History and Philosophy of Science
[2] OPTION: one of the following two modules:
* Historical Skills and Practices
* Issues in Philosophy of Science
[3] ELECTIVE: one of the following modules:
* Advanced Topics in History and Philosophy of Biology
* Concepts in Gender, Science and Technology
* The Development of Modern Science Communication
* History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
* Science and Religion Historically Considered* Historiography of
Science
* The Origin of Modern Medicine (Birth of the Clinic)
* Whichever of Historical Skills and Practices and Issues in Philosophy
of Science was not taken as an OPTION
[4] DISSERTATION [60 credits]:
* Dissertation Semesters 1 and 2
The Dissertation is 60 credits; all other modules are 30 credits each.
THE HPS DIVISION
The Division is situated within the School of Philosophy and students
can draw on all the support and resources such a large, thriving School
can offer. There are two sets of 'senior' seminars with external
speakers in Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science and a wide
range of weekly informal seminars, research workshops and reading
groups. The School received the highest mark in the 2001 teaching
assessment (QAA 24 points) and the high evaluation of 5 in the 2001
national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
The research interests of members of the Division include:
Philosophy of Science, especially models and scientific realism
Philosophy of Physics, especially quantum mechanics, quantum
information theory and space-time physics
History of Physics, especially 19th and early 20th century
History of Chemistry
History and Philosophy of Biology and Evolution
History of Medicine, especially 18th century
History and Philosophy of Technology
Science and Religion
Related research interests in the School of Philosophy include
metaphysics, modality, truth, causality and laws, the nature of time,
medical ethics, aesthetics and representation and the history of
philosophy.
ASSOCIATED COURSES
* MA in Philosophy of Physics: The Division intends to offer this new
course for the first time in 2006-07 (details are currently being
finalised).
* MA in Gender Studies with HPS: This MA, which has been running for
several years, is administered by the Centre for Interdisciplinary
Gender Studies (CIGS). For details see the website
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gender-studies/study/mahps.shtml.
* MA in Science Communication: This degree, which started in 2005, is
offered jointly by the HPS Division (which administers the programme)
and the Centre for Communication Studies. See the website
http://www.hps.leeds.ac.uk/HPSPostgraduateInfo/sciencecommunication.htm
LEEDS AND THE UNIVERSITY
Leeds University is one of the largest in the country and offers
excellent resources for study in the history and philosophy of science.
Its library has extensive and in some cases unique holdings in the
history of science and the Boston Spa annex of the British Library is
only a short drive away. Leeds itself is a large, thriving city with a
vibrant culture and a wide range of music, theatre, clubs and
restaurants on offer. It is within easy reach of Manchester, Edinburgh
and London (2 1/2 hours by train) and sits on the doorstep of the
Yorkshire Dales, an area of outstanding natural beauty.
ADMISSION
The MA programme in History and Philosophy of Science admits students
from a wide variety of backgrounds, including science, philosophy and
HPS itself. In some cases we may invite applicants to visit the Division
and there is an annual Postgraduate Open Day (February 18th 2006) at
which potential applicants can meet the staff and current students and
obtain further information about postgraduate study in HPS.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The School of Philosophy offers up to four postgraduate studentships
each year, and students taking the HPS MA and the MA in Science
Communication are eligible to compete for these awards. The deadline for
applications is 10 March 2006. In addition, outstanding candidates are
encouraged to apply for support from the AHRC (for which the deadline is
the same; applications for AHRC awards have to proceed through the
School of Philosophy).
APPLYING
Intending applicants are strongly urged to attend the HPS
Postgraduate Open Day, to be held on Saturday 18 February 2006.
Details from the HPS MA Director, Adrian Wilson
([log in to unmask]). Travel bursaries are available for this event.
* How to apply for the MA: You can apply either through the School of
Philosophy, or online at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/students/apply.htm
* How to apply for studentships: Contact Katie Lanceley at the address
given below.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact Katie Lanceley, Postgraduate Secretary, School of Philosophy
(tel 0113-343-3263; e-mail [log in to unmask]).
Website: http://www.hps.leeds.ac.uk
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*CALL FOR PAPERS: MEPHISTOS 2006*
Mephistos in an international graduate student conference in the
History,
Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine. It is a
premier opportunity for graduate students to present papers, participate
in
discussions, and collaborate with other students in the
interdisciplinary
field of science studies. The twenty-fourth annual edition of the event
will
take place at the University of Chicago, an internationally renowned
bastion
for interdisciplinary pursuits and scientific achievements, on *April
7-9,
2006*.
The Mephistos Organizing Committee welcomes proposals for individual
papers
from graduate students working on projects related to science, medicine,
and
technology. Please submit a Cover Letter and an Abstract (200-300 words,
separate attachments preferred) by email to [log in to unmask]
*DEADLINE* is *January 1st, 2006*.
Letters of Acceptance will be emailed to applicants in February.
Mephistos
presentations are expected to be to be 20 minutes in length. In
accordance
with Mephistos tradition, modest travel grants will be provided to each
of
the conference speakers.
For more information, please consult the 2006 Mephistos Website at
http://mephistos.uchicago.edu or contact Christina Fradelos, Chair of
the
Organizing Committee, at [log in to unmask]
Christina Fradelos
Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone 773-702-8391
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Organization: University of Manchester
Subject: Cardwell Lecture on the History of Science and Technology
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Tuesday 29 November, at 6 pm
Lecture Theatre C 2, Renold Building, University of Manchester
Professor John Heilbron will speak on 'Air-pumps, cyclotrons and black-boxes: experimental apparatus as nascent technology'
Preceded by tea from 5-30, and followed by wine reception (in Barnes Wallis Building) All at the University of Manchester North Campus (formerly UMIST).
Directions see: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/
The lecture commemorates Professor Donald Cardwell who established the study of History of Science and Technology in Manchester and was the chief founder of the Museum of Science and Industry. He taught at what was then UMIST, but had close links with the Victoria University, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.
The speaker this year is Professor John Heilbron who taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Museum for the History of Science.
This year's lecture is jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, the Faculty of Life Sciences, and the Centre of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
________________________
Michael Worboys
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Wellcome Unit,
Simon Building (2.56)
University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL
Tel 44 (0)161 275 5431/5850
Fax 44 (0)161 275 5699
email [log in to unmask]
www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
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Organization: University of Manchester
Subject: CfP: Centre and Periphery in the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine, Manchester, March 2006
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Centre and Periphery in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Call for Papers
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK, is organising a conference on "Centre and periphery in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine" in early March 2006.
This is a workshop-style conference geared towards postgraduates in the fields of History of Science, Science Studies, and cognate disciplines. The keynote speaker will be Professor Roy MadLeod, from the University of Sydney.
The centre is issuing a call for papers for postgraduate students in the relevant fields on topics relating to issues concerning the role of centres of innovation or construction of knowledge as well as associated periphery areas, in their identification, their interdependence, and their importance in shaping science, technology and medicine. The talks should be twenty minutes in length. The deadline for applications is January 15th, 2006.
If you have any further queries or would like to send an abstract for a presentation, please contact [log in to unmask]
Gaël Lancelot
PhD Student
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Simon Building University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Tel: (00 44) 161 275 59 29
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Scotland
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From: Alison Morrison-Low [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 November 2005 16:48
Subject: Curatorial posts in science at the National Museums of Scotland
Colleagues,
There are two vacancies in the Science Section, in the Department of
Science + Technology at the National Museums of Scotland. These will be
advertised in the very near future, probably early next week, in a
number of places, including the NMS website at www.nms.ac.uk
and www.museumsjobs.com
The positions are at Curator/Senior Curator level, and Assistant Curator
level. Interviews will be held in the week beginning 12 December. Do
please draw this to the attention of any of your colleagues who you feel
might be interested.
Dr A.D. Morrison-Low
Principal Curator, History of Science and Photography
National Museums of Scotland
Chambers Street
Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Tel +44 (0) 131 247 4248
Fax +44 (0) 131 247 4312
e-mail [log in to unmask]
http://www.nms.ac.uk
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Subject: HOPOS 2006 - 2nd Call for Papers / 2e Appel
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Please circulate this notice on your organization's website or electronic mailing list!
Much thanks, Saul
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Saul Fisher
President
HOPOS, the International Society for
the History of Philosophy of Science
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) will hold its sixth international congress in Paris, France, in cooperation with the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS).
Dates: June 14-18, 2006
Location: École normale supérieure, Paris
Conference languages: English and French
The Congress invites contributions to the history of philosophy of science from all time periods and from all scholarly approaches.
Plenary speakers: Anne Fagot-Largeault (Collège de France), Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto), Catherine Wilson (Graduate Center of The City University of New York).
Program Committee
Jean Gayon, Co-Chair, Université Paris I
Doug Jesseph, Co-Chair, North Carolina State University
Roger Ariew, University of South Florida
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Université Paris X
Joël Biard, Université François-Rabelais-Tours
Janet Folina, Macalester College
Dan Garber, Princeton University
Don Howard, University of Notre Dame
Paolo Mancosu, University of California at Berkeley
Marco Panza, CNRS (RESHEIS) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Warren Schmaus, Illinois Institute of Technology
Local Organizing Committee
Anastasios Brenner, Chair, Université Montpellier III
Daniel Andler, Université Paris IV and École normale supérieure
Anouk Barberousse, CNRS (IHPST)
Michel Bourdeau, CNRS (IHPST)
Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos, Université Paris I
Jean Gayon, Université Paris I
Michaël Heidelberger, Universität Tübingen
Thierry Martin, Université de Franche Comté
Pierre Wagner, Université Paris I
With the coordination and organizational assistance of Marthe Tournou and the Centre Georges Canguilhem – Université Paris VII, and the support of the Archives - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche Henri-Poincaré (ACERHP), Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), École normale supérieure, Université Montpellier III, and Université Paris IV.
Submission guidelines
1. Symposia
Symposia will comprise 3-4 papers, each 30 minutes (including 10 minutes discussion) on a given theme.
2. Individual papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion).
The Program Committee will decide on acceptance of proposals for symposia and individual papers, and assign the place of individual papers within the program.
Proposals may be submitted in English or French and must reach the Program Committee by December 15, 2005 at the latest. Submissions should be sent via email (rtf or word format), with “HOPOS Submission” in the “Subject” line, to Jean Gayon ([log in to unmask]) or Doug Jesseph ([log in to unmask]). If email is not possible, please direct submissions by regular post to: Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS), 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France.
Notification of acceptance will be provided by the Program Committee by February 15, 2006.
Proposals for symposia should include:
- title of symposium;
- symposium summary statement (maximum 500 words);
- abstracts (maximum 500 words for each paper);
- address of each participant including email, phone and institution;
- identification of symposium organizer, who will serve as contact with the Program Committee.
Proposals for individual papers should include:
- title and abstract of the paper (maximum 500 words)
- address of the participant including email, phone and institution.
Inscription fee 40 € for HOPOS members and for SPS members (20 € if student or unemployed); 85 € for non members (concerning membership, please visit http://www.umkc.edu/scistud/hopos and http://www.sps.ens.fr).
Registration and further information Details regarding registration, housing, etc. will be provided soon on the HOPOS 2006 conference website, at http://www.sps.ens.fr/activites/hopos2006/indexhopos.html.
If you have further questions, contact Anastasios Brenner ([log in to unmask]) or Marthe Tournou ([log in to unmask]); please refer to “HOPOS 2006” in your mail.
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The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is an international society of scholars with special interest in research on the history of philosophy of science and related topics in the history of natural and social sciences, logic, philosophy, and mathematics. This shared interest includes all historical periods, geographical regions, and diverse methodologies. The activities promote historical work in a variety of ways, including the sponsorship of meetings and conference sessions, the publication of books and special issues of journals, maintaining an e-mail discussion group, and the dissemination of information about libraries, archives and collections, and bibliographic information. For further information, please go to http://www.umkc.edu/scistud/hopos.
The Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS) was founded in Paris in 2003, following broad consultations among French-speaking philosophers of science and logicians. Its purpose is to promote philosophy of science. While its geographic and linguistic anchoring is French, it aims at an international constituency, hoping to attract colleagues from everywhere. The focal discipline is philosophy of science, with a privileged connection to other areas in philosophy, but historical and other approaches of science are taken in, and the contribution of the sciences themselves is deemed essential. Finally, although academic research constitutes the core of its activities, the Society hopes to attract professionals from other areas, such as secondary school teachers, journalists and other media specialists, science museum personnel, industrial researchers and engineers, and workers in the medical and legal professions. For further information, please go to http://www.sps.ens.fr.
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SECOND APPEL À CONTRIBUTION
The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) tiendra son sixième congrès international à Paris, France, en collaboration avec la Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS).
Dates : 1418 juin 2006
Lieu : École normale supérieure, Paris
Langues : français et anglais
Le congrès accueillera les travaux portant sur l’histoire de la philosophie des sciences, toute époque et toute approche disciplinaire étant les bienvenues.
Conférences plénières : Anne Fagot-Largeault (Collège de France), Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto), Catherine Wilson (Graduate Center of The City University of New York).
Comité de programme :
Jean Gayon, coprésident, Université Paris I
Doug Jesseph, coprésident, North Carolina State University Roger Ariew, University of South Florida Bernadette BensaudeVincent, Université Paris X Joël Biard, Université François Rabelais, Tours Janet Folina, Macalester College Dan Garber, Princeton University Don Howard, University of Notre Dame Paolo Mancosu, University of California at Berkeley Marco Panza, CNRS (RESHEIS) et Universitat Pompeu Fabra Warren Schmaus, Illinois Institute of Technology
Comité local d’organisation
Anastasios Brenner, président, Université Montpellier III Daniel Andler, Université Paris IV et École normale supérieure Anouk Barberousse, CNRS (IHPST) Michel Bourdeau, CNRS (IHPST) Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos, Université Paris I Jean Gayon, Université Paris I Michaël Heidelberger, Universität Tübingen Thierry Martin, Université de Franche Comté Pierre Wagner, Université Paris I
Avec la participation du Centre Georges Canguilhem – Université Paris VII : Marthe Tournou (coordination et logistique).
Et d’ores et déjà le soutien de : Archives - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche Henri-Poincaré (ACERHP), Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), École normale supérieure, Université Montpellier III (EA 738), Université Paris IV.
Propositions de communications
1. Symposiums :
Les symposiums forment un ensemble de 3 à 4 communications de 30 minutes chacune (dont 10 minutes de discussion) sur un thème donné.
2. Communications individuelles (20 minutes plus 10 minutes de discussion). Le comité de programme décidera de l’acceptation ou non des propositions de symposiums et de communications individuelles. Il définira la place des symposiums et des communications individuelles dans le programme du congrès.
Les propositions, en français ou en anglais, devront parvenir au Comité de programme au plus tard le 15 décembre 2005, de préférence par courrier électronique (RTF ou Word), à Jean Gayon [log in to unmask] ou à Doug Jesseph [log in to unmask], avec “HOPOS submission” en objet. À défaut, elle seront adressées par courrier postal à la Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS), École normale supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France. Le Comité de programme fera part de sa décision au plus tard le 15 février 2006.
Chaque proposition de symposium doit inclure :
- le titre du symposium ;
- l’argumentaire (500 mots maximum)
- les titres et résumés de chacune des communications (500 mots maximum)
- l’adresse de chaque participant, y compris adresse électronique, téléphone et affiliation institutionnelle ;
- la désignation de l’organisateur du symposium, qui sera en relation avec le comité de programme.
Chaque proposition de communication individuelle doit inclure :
- le titre et le résumé de la communication (500 mots maximum)
- l’adresse du participant, y compris adresse électronique, téléphone et affiliation institutionnelle.
Droits d’inscription
40 € pour les membres d’HOPOS et pour les membres de la SPS (20 € pour les étudiants et les demandeurs d’emploi) ; 85 € pour les nonmembres (pour toute demande d’adhésion, consulter les sites respectifs des sociétés http://www.umkc.edu/scistud/hopos et http://www.sps.ens.fr).
Conditions matérielles d’accueil
Des précisions concernant l’inscription au congrès, l’hébergement etc. seront fournies prochainement sur le site de la conférence http://www.sps.ens.fr/activites/hopos2006/indexhopos.html.
Pour toute question complémentaire, contacter Anastasios Brenner [log in to unmask] ou Marthe Tournou [log in to unmask] avec “HOPOS 2006” en objet.
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The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) est une société internationale regroupant des chercheurs dont l’intérêt principal est l’histoire de la philosophie des sciences, comprenant les sciences de la nature et les sciences de l’homme, la logique, la philosophie et les mathématiques. Cet intérêt partagé inclut toutes les périodes historiques, les diverses aires géographiques et les différentes méthodologies. La société encourage la recherche historique dans ses différents aspects. Ses activités comprennent le parrainage de conférences et de colloques, la publication d’ouvrages, de numéros spéciaux et de journaux, l’organisation d’un groupe de discussion en ligne et la diffusion d’informations sur les bibliothèques, les archives, les collections et les sources bibliographiques. Pour plus d’information http://www.umkc.edu/scistud/hopos.
La Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS) a été fondée à Paris en 2003, après une large consultation entre philosophes des sciences et logiciens francophones. Son but est de promouvoir la philosophie des sciences. Si son ancrage géographique et linguistique est français, elle cherche, en tant que société internationale, à attirer des chercheurs de tous les pays. Son domaine principal est la philosophie des sciences, avec une relation privilégiée avec les différents domaines de la philosophie. Cependant, l’histoire ainsi que les diverses approches scientifiques sont prises en compte, et l’apport des sciences en tant que telles est considéré comme essentiel. Enfin, si la recherche académique est au cœur de ses activités, la société encourage les acteurs professionnels d’autres domaines à la rejoindre : professeurs du secondaire, journalistes, personnel des musées de sciences naturelles, chercheurs industriels, ingénieurs, travailleurs dans les professions médicales et juridiques etc. Pour plus d’information http://www.sps.ens.fr.
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Organization: Cambridge University
Subject: Job: Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology,
University of North Carolina
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The following position may be of interest to job-seekers. Jim
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Dr Jim Endersby
Research Fellow, Darwin College
Affiliated Lecturer, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
* Postal address: Darwin College, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EU
* Work phone: 01223-740 216
* Home phone: 01223-690 362
* Web: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/endersby.html
Assistant Professor - History of Science and Technology Department of
History (http://www.uncw.edu/hst/index.htm)
The history department of the University of North Carolina Wilmington
invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the
history of modern science and technology (excluding medicine), beginning
August 2006. Area of specialization is open. Teaching responsibilities
include upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in specialty,
participation in the university's "Science, Humanities and Society" Minor,
and introductory survey in either U.S. history, western civilization, or
global history since 1500. Strong commitment to teaching and scholarship is
required. Candidates must have the Ph.D. in history or related field at the
time of appointment. Salary competitive. A comprehensive university situated
in the historic port of Wilmington, UNCW enrolls approximately 11,000
students and offers an M.A. in History.
The search committee will begin reviewing applications on 9 December.
Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the AHA annual meeting, although
the position will remain open until filled. Send letter of application,
c.v., transcripts, and three letters of reference to:
Robert Mark Spaulding
Chair, Science and Technology Search Committee
Dept. of History
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 S. College Rd.
Wilmington, NC 28403-5957
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Apologies for those who have already received this announcement
BULGARIAN SOCIETY FOR THE CHEMISTRY EDUCATION AND HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF
CHEMISTRY (CE&HPC)
CONSTITUENT MINUTES
(excerpt)
On 29th September 2005 THE BULGARIAN SOCIETY FOR THE CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
AND HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY (CE&HPC) was constituted.
The main objective of this Society is to foster interest both in chemistry
education and history and philosophy of chemistry with their social
and cultural dimensions and influences. We want to provide a forum for
discussion
and to promote scholarly research in these fields. The Society will
pursue these objectives by publications in Khimiya/Chemistry.
Bulgarian Journal of Chemical Education ISSN 0861-9255, by the
support of other forms of scholarly publication, by the organization
of scientific and public meetings, by fostering the career
developments of its members and by cooperation with other learned and
scientific research units and societies.
Any person desirous of furthering the stated objects of the Society shall
be admitted to membership. For citizens outside Bulgaria the membership is
FREE. Please, contact Professor B.V. Toshev, University of Sofia, 1 James
Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, BULGARIA, tel.: +359 2 8629049, E-Mail:
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The founder-members of the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education
and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC) are 75 – 67 from Bulgaria,
1 from Canada, 2 from FR Macedonia, 1 from Greece, 1 from Sweden, 1 from UK
and 2 from USA.
(The List of founder-members is not close and other persons could be added
if they apply for it).
Professor B.V. Toshev,
President of the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education and History
and Philosophy of Chemistry
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QUICK NOTICE: GRADUATE CONFERENCE AT THE SANDBJERG ESTATE, DENMARK
___________________________________________________________________________
IS THERE A LIFE AFTER THE PHD?
- ON HOW TO GET A JOB & ACADEMIC WRITING
It is still possible to sign up for this year's Graduate Conference,
December 2-3 at the Sandbjerg Estate, under the venue of the Danish
Research School for Philosophy, History of Ideas and History of Science.
The theme is "Life after the PhD" and includes discussions about how to
build the ideal PhD-education, on how to get a job and a workshop on
academic writing.
For more information and online registration please visit
www.phis.ruc.dk/graduate/ as quickly as possible.
Cheap flights from Stanstead to Aarhus Airport are available from
ryanair.com. Transport from The University of Aarhus to the Sandbjerg
Estate is organised by the Research School.
All PhD-students and post.docs are welcome!
(APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS)
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Peter C. Kjaergaard
Associate Professor, MA, PhD
History of Ideas
University of Aarhus
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7
DK-8000 Aarhus C
DENMARK
Phone: +45 8942 2123
Fax: +45 8942 2210
Web: www.hum.au.dk/idehist/kjaergaard
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Science in the Age of Extremes: The Cultures and Politics of Re-search in
the 20th Century
Public Lectures and International Conference
Frankfurt am Main, Winter and Spring 2005/2006
During the next few months, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University invites to
participate in a series of lectures devoted to a major topic of the history
of knowledge cultures in the 20th century: What were and what are the
functions and possibilities of scientific research in this century of
extraordinary social and cultural changes, that has just passed? In a period
in which historians and sociologists discuss whether recent social
formations are best under-stood as 'knowledge societies', a competent
analysis of the production of scientific knowl-edge gains importance. Few
decades ago, the possibilities for such an analysis were still limited by
rather rigid epistemological, philosophical and sociological conceptions of
sci-ence. Today, the discussion can draw on an impressive variety both of
detailed historical studies and of innovative theoretical approaches which
explore the manifold ways in which scientific research is woven into modern
culture and society. Gradually, it also becomes possible to delineate the
contours of what we perceive as the 'contemporary history' of sci-ence, half
past and half present. In particular, the ways in which scientific research
was in-volved in the events of what has been called the Age of Extremes have
become the object of numerous recent investigations.
The series of lectures, initiated by the Netzwerk Wissenschaftsgeschichte of
Frankfurt Uni-versity and funded by the Stiftungsgastprofessur “Wissenschaft
und Gesellschaft” of Deutsche Bank AG in cooperation with the Collaborative
Research Center (SFB 435) “Cul-tures of Knowledge and Social Change”,
intends to bring to Frankfurt some of the authors who made original,
empirically detailed, and widely discussed contributions to this histori-cal
and theoretical analysis of science. With a focus on the state of the art
and the impor-tance of research-based large technological systems, the main
objective will be analyses of the natural sciences. However, the series will
not address these sciences in the fashion of traditional disciplinary
histories. Rather, a deliberate emphasis on the cultural embedding of
science aims at developing a broader and more unified perspective.
Indeed, one of the most consequential interventions, common to many
contributions to the field under consideration, consists in increasing the
awareness of the reciprocity of relations between scientific research,
culture, and society. Not only is research always done in set-tings
structured by social and cultural conditions. Research practice itself also
creates and requires specific patterns of social and cultural practice by
means of which it participates in society at large. The sciences, which have
grown to social systems of substantial size, bring about their own cultures
and politics. By analysing the joint emergence of scientific knowl-edge and
of the cultures and politics of science the series hopes to contribute to a
better un-derstanding of the roles of science in the upheavals of the
twentieth century.
The following lectures will be held:
23. November 2005
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
Berlin: "Die Kunst der Exploration des Unbekannten: Ein Blick auf die
Lebenswissenschaf-ten im 20. Jahrhundert"
7. Dezember 2005
Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University, Corvallis: "Science and Politics in
the Phi-losophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi"
21. Dezember 2005
Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh: "Performing Economics: How Option
Theory has Shaped the Markets for Financial Derivatives"
18. Januar 2006
Margit Szöllösi-Janze, Universität Köln: "Das Zeitalter der Experten?
Wissenschaft und Politik in Deutschland in der ersten Hälfte des 20.
Jahrhunderts"
25. Januar 2006:
Dominique Pestre, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris: "The
Tech-nosciences Between Markets, Social Worries and the Political: Which New
Regime of Science Production and Regulation Today?"
8. Februar 2006
Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.:
"Contenders for Life at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Physics, Biology, and
Engineering"
All lectures take place on Wednesdays, 18-20 ct, in Room Casino 1.811. Each
lecture will be followed by a Discussion seminar with the lecturer the next
Thursday morning, 10-12. For the locations of these seminars and for further
information, see:
web.uni-frankfurt.de/Netzwerk_Wissenschaftsgeschichte/
The series will conclude with an
International Conference
Modernism in the sciences, ca. 1900-1940
Frankfurt am Main, 22 – 24 March 2006
In 6 sessions (Physical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Life Sciences and
Chemistry, So-cial Sciences, Humanities, Science/Literature/Art), the
conference will discuss the mutual relations between reconfigurations of
scientific research and modernist trends in early 20th century culture.
Responsible: Netzwerk Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Coordination: Prof. Dr. Moritz Epple, Historisches Seminar, Arbeitsgruppe
Wissen-schaftsgeschichte
Contact: [log in to unmask], Phone (069) 798 32415
http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb08/HS/epple/
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Subject: Exhibitions officer wanted
The History of Technology Department at the Technical University of Denmark
seeks an exhibitions officer. Knowledge of Danish is requisite. Please see
the full job description at:
http://www.dtu.dk/Om_DTU/Ansattelse_paa_DTU/Ledige_stillinger/udstillingsmed
arbejder_dtv.aspx or http://www.dtv.dk/om/job/tekhist.aspx
Yours sincerely
Jan Tapdrup
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The Department of History at the University of Southampton would like to
hear from potential applicants for a Wellcome University Award.
The Department's research interests range over a wide chronological and
geographical span. Expressions of interest are invited for any period or
area, but a focus on the middle ages, the early modern periods, the USA, or
on Jewish history and culture would be particularly welcome. The Department
is looking for an energetic and committed scholar who will complement and
expand its current interests in the history of medicine, and who will
contribute in due course to its undergraduate and postgraduate courses and
research degrees.
Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of Department, Prof Anne Curry
([log in to unmask]) of Dr Waltraud Ernst ([log in to unmask]).
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Subject: FW: The Virtual Laboratory - Essays and Resources on the
Experimentalization of Life
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(cross-posted from Hopos-L, with usual apologies)
Dear Madam, Sir,
perhaps the following project could get your attention: the Virtual
Laboratory (VL) is a digitalization project at the Max-Planck-Institute
for the History of Science (Berlin/Germany) devoted to the history of
the experimentalization of life (http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/). Its
main focus is the interaction between the life sciences, arts and
architecture, media and technology. It consists of two related parts,
an archive and an essay section. As an archive, the VL offers numerous
scans of texts and images concerning experiments, instruments,
buildings, scientists and artists between 1830 and 1930. The essay
section constitutes a platform where historians of science, culture and
technology as well as students can present their recent research on the
experimentalization of life and explore new modes of writing history.
Your sincerely
Daniel Mätzschker
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Daniel Mätzschker
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Wilhelmstraße 44
D-10117 Berlin
Germany
p. +49 (030) 22667-171
f. +49 (030) 22667-299
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International workshop “Isotopes: science, medicine and industry in the 20th century”
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (December 1-3, 2005)
The Centre d’Estudis d’Història de la Ciencia (CEHIC) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
announces the international workshop “Isotopes: science, medicine and industry in the 20th
century”, to be held in Barcelona (Spain) in December 1-3, 2005.
Aims
The workshop will focus on the role of isotopes as objects of research, research tools and techno-
scientific commodities in 20th century science, technology and medicine. A broad timescale is
considered, bringing into focus both the early history of radioactivity and post-World War 2
developments. Analysis of particular local and national contexts are also encouraged.
We are interested in reflecting on the institutional aspects of the emergence of techno-scientific
systems around radioactivity, as well as examine case studies about particular applications and
technologies. Participants are invited to explore the following questions: how isotopes were
constructed as scientific objects? How isotopes and radio-elements circulated? How expertise on
isotopes was built? Which role did clinic and industrial uses of isotopes played in the justification
of nuclear programmes? How isotopes shaped the emergence of contemporary biomedicine? We
also consider analysis covering the relationship of isotope technology with the emergence of
scientific disciplines and research schools.
The workshop has been thought of as a space for informal discussion on pre-circulated papers. Its
is organised in sessions consisting of two short presentations (20-25 minutes maximum),
followed by a comment by a specialist, and allowing plenty of time for comments, criticism and
suggestions.
Organising committee
The workshop is organised by the Centre d’Estudis d’Història de les Ciències (CEHIC) of the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Grup de Recerca Consolidat “Francesc Salvà: Història
de la Ciència, la Tecnologia i la Medicina”, with the collaboration of the Catalan Society for the
History of Science and Technology and the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and
Education and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Webpage
http://einstein.uab.es/suab237w/alt/isotopes.htm
Programme
Thursday, 1 (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultat de Ciències)
10h30 – 11h30 Registration and coffee
11h30 – 13h Presentation and inaugural lecture
Presentation
Xavier Roqué
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jeff Hughes
University of Manchester
“Making Isotopes Matter: Francis Aston and the Mass-Spectrograph”
13h – 15h Lunch
15h – 17h Early History of Radioactivity
Gábor Palló
The institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Science
“Isotope Researches Before Isotopy: George Hevesy’s Early Radioactivity Research in Hungarian
Context”
Xavier Roqué
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
“Meitner in Weimar: A Radioactivist and Her Sources”
Friday, 2 (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultat de Ciències)
10h – 11h30 The Isotope Business
Simone Turchetti
University of Manchester
“The Invisible Businessman: Nuclear Physics, Patenting Practices and Trading Activities in the
1930s”
Mathew Adamson
MacDaniel College, Budapest
"The core of production: Pile 2 and French radioisotopes during the 1950s"
11h30 – 12h Coffee break
12h – 13h30 Isotopes in Industry and Society
Néstor Herran
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
“Isotope Networks: Training, Sales and Publications on isotopes, 1946-1960”
Francesc X. Barca Salom
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
“Dreams and Needs: The Application of Isotopes to Industry in Spain in the 1960s”
13h30 – 15h30 Lunch
15h30 – 17h Isotopes in Biomedicine: the Political Role of Radioisotopes
Soraya Boudia
Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg
“The role of biomedical sciences in the nuclear field: what reassessment of nuclear sciences
historiography”
Angela N. H. Creager
Princeton University
“Radioisotopes as Political Instruments in Post-war Biomedicine”
Saturday, 3 (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Sala Nicolau Olwer)
10h – 11h30 Isotopes in Biomedicine: Medical Physics
Allison Kraft
University of Nottingham
“Between clinic and commerce: Medical physics and the rise of the radioisotope, 1945-1965”
Soraya de Chadarevian
University of Cambridge
“Radioisotopes from fallout: diet, body and the environment.”
11h30 – 12h Coffee break
12h – 13h30 Isotopes in Biomedicine: Biological Studies
María Jesús Santesmases
CSIC, Madrid
“Peace and endocrinology: Tracing radioiodine in Spain “
Alexander Schwerin
TU Braunschweig, Berlin
“Isotope Economy and Organisation of Biological Research in Germany 1947-1963”
13h30 – 15h30 Lunch
Attendance to the conference
Attendance to sessions is free.
Any questions regarding the meeting should be addressed to members of organising committee
Xavier Roqué or Néstor Herran via e-mail.
Néstor Herran
Centre d'Estudis d'Història de les Ciències
Facultat de Ciències
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
[log in to unmask] http://www.uab.es/cehic/
Xavier Roqué
Centre d'Estudis d'Història de les Ciències
Facultat de Ciències
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
[log in to unmask] http://www.uab.es/cehic/
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University of Cambridge
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
** First Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine **
On Thursday 1 December 2005
Helen King (University of Reading)
will speak on
'Women's bodies in sixteenth-century medicine: using the classical
tradition'.
The lecture, which doubles as the last Departmental Seminar of Michaelmas
Term, will start at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 2. There will be tea from
4.15 in Seminar Room 1, and a drinks reception there at 6.00.
At a workshop to be held the same day at 11.30 a.m. in Seminar Room 1
Professor King will introduce a discussion of a paper that can be
downloaded from .
The title is 'William Smellie vs. John Burton: using the history of
medicine in eighteenth-century obstetrics'.
Supported by the Wellcome Trust.
All welcome!
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BULGARIAN SOCIETY FOR THE CHEMISTRY EDUCATION AND HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF
CHEMISTRY (CE&HPC).
On 29 September 2005, the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry
Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC) was
constituted.
The main objective of this Society is to foster interest both in
chemistry education and history and philosophy of chemistry with
their social and cultural dimensions and influences. The Society
wishes to provide a forum for discussion and to promote scholarly
research in these fields. The Society will pursue these objectives
through publications in Khimiya/Chemistry. The Bulgarian Journal of
Chemical Education ISSN 0861-9255, by the support of other forms of
scholarly publication, by the organization of scientific and public
meetings, by fostering the career developments of its members and by
cooperation with other learned and scientific research units and
societies.
ANY PERSON WHO WISHES TO FURTHER THE STATED OBJECTIVES OF THE SOCIETY IS
ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP.
FOR CITIZENS OUTSIDE BULGARIA THE MEMBERSHIP IS FREE.
Please contact:
Professor B.V. Toshev
University of Sofia
1 James Bourchier Blvd.
1164 Sofia
Bulgaria
tel.: +359.2.8629049
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Of the founding 100 members of the Bulgarian Society for Chemistry
Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC), 78 are
from Bulgaria, one is from Argentina, two are from Canada, one is from Czech
Republic, two are from FR Macedonia, two are from Germany, three are from
Greece,
one is from India, one is from Israel, one is from Lithuania, two are from
Sweden,
two are from the U.K. and four are from the U.S.
PROVISIONAL COUNCIL:
Prof. B.V. Toshev, President
Members:
Ms. Margarita Yotova - teacher (Sofia);
Dr. Juliana Kavalova - teacher (Varna);
Professor Ivelin Kuleff (University of Sofia);
Dr. Mihail Igov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences);
Academician Evgeny Golovinsky (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences);
Dr. Liliana Boyanova - treasurer.
This provisional council is supposed to govern the Society and to
organize its First Annual Conference at Varna in the autumn 2006
where the council will be officially confirmed or changed.
Ms. Yotova and Dr. Kavalova both represent the Bulgarian teachers in
chemistry. Dr. Boyanova will be a treasurer of the Society. The basic
components in the activity of the Society will be realized by: Prof.
B.V. Toshev - links to similar research units/societies abroad; Prof.
Ivelin Kuleff - history of chemistry; Dr. Mihail Igov - philosophy of
chemistry; Prof. Evgeny Golovinsky - public relations and links to
the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khimiya
Khimiya E-Mail List at Yahoo belongs both to our journal Khimiya/Chemistry.
Bulgarian Journal of Chemical Education and to the Bulgarian Society for
the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC) as
well. Such a co-existence will be of use for the both institutions, we
hope. By making use of this List the CE&HPC’ members as well as Khimiya’s
readers, authors and friends will receive an up-to-date information about
events, conferences, papers, books, job announcements, etc, concerning the
basic branches of our activity – chemistry education and history and
philosophy of chemistry. Join that List and the information presented there
will be of use for your research and career.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khimiya
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Durham University
Wolfson Research Institute
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease
Wolfson Research Fellowship in Public Health Ethics
Post reference: 1114
The Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (CHMD) seeks
applications for a 5-year Wolfson Research Fellowship in Public Health
Ethics (tenable from October 2006). Candidates must hold a PhD or
equivalent doctorate degree in Ethics or Public Health or Social Science
or Medicine and have a significant publication record relevant to the
field of ethics in public health. The successful applicant will carry
out research in public health ethics, in co-ordination with staff of the
CHMD and the Centre for Public Policy and Health. He/she will also
contribute to postgraduate teaching in Ethics and Public Health.
The Post
The successful applicant will be appointed as a fixed-term (5 years)
Research Fellow (Grade II) in the Centre for the History of Medicine and
Disease (CHMD), Wolfson Research Institute. He/she will be a member of
the Board of Studies of the School for Health.
The postholder will:
. carry out research in the field of public health ethics, in
consultation with staff of the CHMD and of the Centre for Public Policy
and Health. By the end of the five-year period he/she is expected to
have produced and have accepted for publication a number of articles and
to have submitted the manuscript for a monograph to a publisher
. contribute to postgraduate teaching in Ethics and Public Health
. contribute to developing a taught Master's and/or Continued
Professional Development programme in Public Health Ethics
. develop a research programme and apply for external funding in the
area of ethics and public health
. undertake such other organisational duties as may be required from
time to time by the Directors of the CHMD and the Wolfson Research
Institute
Person Specification
Essential
The successful applicant
. will have a PhD or equivalent doctorate degree in Ethics or Public
Health or Social Science or Medicine
. will have a significant publication record relevant to the field of
public health ethics
. will be able to demonstrate the ability to carry out innovative
research in public health ethics
. will be able to demonstrate the ability to co-operate in research
within the Wolfson Research Institute, in particular with the Centre for
the History of Medicine and Disease and the Centre for Public Policy and
Health, with other relevant University departments and centres, and the NHS
. will be able to demonstrate the ability to contribute to
postgraduate teaching in Ethics and Public Health
Desirable
The successful applicant
. will have teaching experience relevant to postgraduate teaching in
Ethics and Public Health
Terms and Conditions
The main terms and conditions of employment are as follows (the person
appointed will receive a full written statement of the Terms and
Conditions of Employment):
. The post is full-time and fixed-term for five years
. The salary £27,929 - £32,490 per annum
. The post is subject to a probationary period of three years
. The post is pensionable
Informal enquiries may be made to the Director of the Centre for the
History of Medicine and Disease, Professor A H Maehle. Tel.
0191-334-0701 or -6557. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Applications
Closing Date: 7 December 2005. Please quote reference number: 1114
In the interests of efficiency, we request that you apply for this
vacancy using the on-line application form. If you prefer, we can post
an application pack to you, if you telephone our answering service on
0191 3346499
Durham University
The University was founded in 1832, and in 1908 incorporated within a
federal structure King's College Newcastle, that was later to become the
University of Newcastle. In 1963 the Universities of Durham and
Newcastle Act provided for the separate establishment of the two
universities. The Vice-Chancellor and Warden is Professor Sir Kenneth
Calman.
Durham University is one of the UK's leading universities. We have
9,584 full-time students following three- and four-year degree
programmes, 1,522 full-time postgraduate students and c. 2,500 part-time
and distance learning students a year. Our research and teaching covers
a broad spectrum of academic disciplines. We pride ourselves on the
quality of our teaching, as confirmed by national assessments. Of the
23 departments which have been assessed on teaching quality, 15 achieved
the rating of excellence or scored grade 4 (the highest score) in at
least 4 of the 6 assessment criteria. Details at website:
www.dur.ac.uk/undergraduate/quality.htm
The University is one of Britain's best research universities. We place
great emphasis on our research activities and the results of the last
research assessment exercise placed two-thirds of our departments
containing 80% of our staff in grades 4 or 5, the top two rankings.
Durham University Queen's Campus (DUQC)
A new campus of the University was opened in 1992 twenty miles south of
Durham at Thornaby, Stockton on Tees, in purpose-built accommodation of
very high quality, as a key component in the region's economic
development strategy with the general aim of making the resources of
Durham University more widely available to the region. From 190
students in 1992/3, the Campus grew to over 1,600 full-time students in
2001/2002 with about 286 part-time students. Around half the student
population is made up of mature and non-traditional entrants from the
region.
We plan to grow to about 2,000 full-time students in the next few
years. All the degrees based at Queen's Campus which have been
externally reviewed have been highly commended, as has the Campus as a
whole following a visit of the Quality Audit Agency as part of the
review of Durham University.
The Queen's Campus at Stockton, both a teaching and residential site, is
a 21st Century environment. The recent completion of the £15m second
phase of development has doubled the previous facilities together with
superb computer technology, state-of-the-art laboratories and 515
en-suite student bedrooms. Staff are developing research at Stockton
focused on regional problems and priorities. The £12m Wolfson Research
Institute accommodates 10 multi-disciplinary Research Centres focusing
on Health and the Environment.
The present range of degree courses at DUQC is as follows:-
Applied Psychology Human Sciences
Biomedical Sciences Medicine
Business Finance Sport, Health & Exercise
Education Teacher Training (primary)
Heakth and Human Sciences Teacher Training (JCT)
Teacher Training (general)
In 1997 a Foundation Programme qualification was introduced as an
alternative route for entry for those with non-traditional
qualifications. In 2002 a Foundation Programme specific to Medicine
commenced as one element of our programme for Widening Access to Medicine.
The School for Health (SfH)
The School for Health comprises Undergraduate Medicine, the Centre for
Public Policy and Health, the Centre for Clinical Management
Development, the Centre for Integrated Health Care Research, the Centre
for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine, the North East Public
Health Observatory and the Centre for the History of Medicine and
Disease. The SfH collaborates closely with other University Departments
some of which are in other Faculties, including the Biological and
Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Anthropology.
Many of these groups are linked through the Wolfson Research Institute
with allied subjects such as geography, environmental studies and
infectious diseases.
An important initiative from the SfH is the development of research
groupings to capitalise on strengths within the University and to link
them with the NHS. These include Cardiovascular Disease, Mental Health,
Primary Care and Public Health. The success of these groupings will
depend on our capacity to deliver research expertise, ranging from
initial training to grant proposals and research management.
Wolfson Research Institute
The Wolfson Research Institute is based in a purpose-built £12m
building, including 23 laboratories and 60 offices, on Durham
University's Queen's Campus, at Stockton-on-Tees but also involving a
considerable amount of research at its Durham campus. The Institute
forms the research division of the University's Health Strategy Board
and as such provides the inter-disciplinary framework within which all
health and medically-related research from the three Faculties of the
University is brought together and interfaces with the NHS and other
partners in the region. This research is organised around four broad
themes - clinical and health services; the Life Cycle and the life
sciences; medical humanities; and public policy, health and well-being -
and involves around 200 research staff and students, working at both the
Durham and Stockton campuses of the University. The Institute's prime
aim is to play a key role in meeting two of the University of Durham's
strategic goals: international excellence in agenda-setting research;
engagement with policy communities and groups beyond the University,
particularly in the north east of England, in influencing policy
formation and implementation. Thus the emphasis is upon the impact of
research, on making a difference, both within and outside the academy.
The Centre
Established in 2001 as an interdisciplinary University Research Centre,
the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (Director: Professor
Andreas-Holger Maehle, Dr.med.habil., PhD) provides a focus for research
and postgraduate education in the history of medicine, health and
disease, and medical ethics. It unites staff and postgraduates from the
Department of Philosophy (graded 5 in RAE 2001) and the School for
Health, and has associated members in several other University
departments. Current major areas of research are the history of medical
professional ethics and the history of sex education in the twentieth
century. The Centre has recently (October 2005) launched a new taught
Master's programme in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.
The CHMD regularly organises workshops and research seminars, and hosts
conferences. For further details see http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd
--
Dr Matthew D Eddy
Director of Postgraduate Studies in HPSM
University of Durham
Department of Philosophy
50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN
United Kingdom
(44) 191 334 6554 (Office)
(44) 191 334 6551 (Fax)
http://www.durham.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/
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Durham University
Wolfson Research Institute
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease
Wolfson Research Fellowship in Public Health Ethics
Post reference: 1114
The Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (CHMD) seeks
applications for a 5-year Wolfson Research Fellowship in Public Health
Ethics (tenable from October 2006). Candidates must hold a PhD or
equivalent doctorate degree in Ethics or Public Health or Social
Science or Medicine and have a significant publication record relevant
to the field of ethics in public health. The successful applicant will
carry out research in public health ethics, in co-ordination with staff
of the CHMD and the Centre for Public Policy and Health. He/she will
also contribute to postgraduate teaching in Ethics and Public Health.
The Post
The successful applicant will be appointed as a fixed-term (5 years)
Research Fellow (Grade II) in the Centre for the History of Medicine
and Disease (CHMD), Wolfson Research Institute. He/she will be a member
of the Board of Studies of the School for Health.
The postholder will:
• carry out research in the field of public health ethics, in
consultation with staff of the CHMD and of the Centre for Public Policy
and Health. By the end of the five-year period he/she is expected to
have produced and have accepted for publication a number of articles
and to have submitted the manuscript for a monograph to a publisher
• contribute to postgraduate teaching in Ethics and Public Health
• contribute to developing a taught Master’s and/or Continued
Professional Development programme in Public Health Ethics
• develop a research programme and apply for external funding in the
area of ethics and public health
• undertake such other organisational duties as may be required from
time to time by the Directors of the CHMD and the Wolfson Research
Institute
Person Specification
Essential
The successful applicant
• will have a PhD or equivalent doctorate degree in Ethics or Public
Health or Social Science or Medicine
• will have a significant publication record relevant to the field
of public health ethics
• will be able to demonstrate the ability to carry out innovative
research in public health ethics
• will be able to demonstrate the ability to co-operate in research
within the Wolfson Research Institute, in particular with the Centre
for the History of Medicine and Disease and the Centre for Public
Policy and Health, with other relevant University departments and
centres, and the NHS
• will be able to demonstrate the ability to contribute to
postgraduate teaching in Ethics and Public Health
Desirable
The successful applicant
• will have teaching experience relevant to postgraduate teaching in
Ethics and Public Health
Terms and Conditions
The main terms and conditions of employment are as follows (the person
appointed will receive a full written statement of the Terms and
Conditions of Employment):
• The post is full-time and fixed-term for five years
• The salary £27,929 – £32,490 per annum
• The post is subject to a probationary period of three years
• The post is pensionable
Informal enquiries may be made to the Director of the Centre for the
History of Medicine and Disease, Professor A H Maehle. Tel.
0191-334-0701 or –6557. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Applications
Closing Date: 7 December 2005. Please quote reference number: 1114
In the interests of efficiency, we request that you apply for this
vacancy using the on-line application form. If you prefer, we can post
an application pack to you, if you telephone our answering service on
0191 3346499
Durham University
The University was founded in 1832, and in 1908 incorporated within a
federal structure King’s College Newcastle, that was later to become
the University of Newcastle. In 1963 the Universities of Durham and
Newcastle Act provided for the separate establishment of the two
universities. The Vice-Chancellor and Warden is Professor Sir Kenneth
Calman.
Durham University is one of the UK’s leading universities. We have
9,584 full-time students following three- and four-year degree
programmes, 1,522 full-time postgraduate students and c. 2,500
part-time and distance learning students a year. Our research and
teaching covers a broad spectrum of academic disciplines. We pride
ourselves on the quality of our teaching, as confirmed by national
assessments. Of the 23 departments which have been assessed on
teaching quality, 15 achieved the rating of excellence or scored grade
4 (the highest score) in at least 4 of the 6 assessment criteria.
Details at website:
www.dur.ac.uk/undergraduate/quality.htm
The University is one of Britain’s best research universities. We
place great emphasis on our research activities and the results of the
last research assessment exercise placed two-thirds of our departments
containing 80% of our staff in grades 4 or 5, the top two rankings.
Durham University Queen’s Campus (DUQC)
A new campus of the University was opened in 1992 twenty miles south of
Durham at Thornaby, Stockton on Tees, in purpose-built accommodation of
very high quality, as a key component in the region’s economic
development strategy with the general aim of making the resources of
Durham University more widely available to the region. From 190
students in 1992/3, the Campus grew to over 1,600 full-time students in
2001/2002 with about 286 part-time students. Around half the student
population is made up of mature and non-traditional entrants from the
region.
We plan to grow to about 2,000 full-time students in the next few
years. All the degrees based at Queen’s Campus which have been
externally reviewed have been highly commended, as has the Campus as a
whole following a visit of the Quality Audit Agency as part of the
review of Durham University.
The Queen’s Campus at Stockton, both a teaching and residential site,
is a 21st Century environment. The recent completion of the £15m
second phase of development has doubled the previous facilities
together with superb computer technology, state-of-the-art laboratories
and 515 en-suite student bedrooms. Staff are developing research at
Stockton focused on regional problems and priorities. The £12m Wolfson
Research Institute accommodates 10 multi-disciplinary Research Centres
focusing on Health and the Environment.
The present range of degree courses at DUQC is as follows:-
Applied Psychology Human Sciences
Biomedical Sciences Medicine
Business Finance Sport, Health & Exercise
Education Teacher Training (primary)
Heakth and Human Sciences Teacher Training (JCT)
Teacher Training (general)
In 1997 a Foundation Programme qualification was introduced as an
alternative route for entry for those with non-traditional
qualifications. In 2002 a Foundation Programme specific to Medicine
commenced as one element of our programme for Widening Access to
Medicine.
The School for Health (SfH)
The School for Health comprises Undergraduate Medicine, the Centre for
Public Policy and Health, the Centre for Clinical Management
Development, the Centre for Integrated Health Care Research, the Centre
for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine, the North East Public
Health Observatory and the Centre for the History of Medicine and
Disease. The SfH collaborates closely with other University Departments
some of which are in other Faculties, including the Biological and
Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Anthropology.
Many of these groups are linked through the Wolfson Research Institute
with allied subjects such as geography, environmental studies and
infectious diseases.
An important initiative from the SfH is the development of research
groupings to capitalise on strengths within the University and to link
them with the NHS. These include Cardiovascular Disease, Mental Health,
Primary Care and Public Health. The success of these groupings will
depend on our capacity to deliver research expertise, ranging from
initial training to grant proposals and research management.
Wolfson Research Institute
The Wolfson Research Institute is based in a purpose-built £12m
building, including 23 laboratories and 60 offices, on Durham
University’s Queen’s Campus, at Stockton-on–Tees but also involving a
considerable amount of research at its Durham campus. The Institute
forms the research division of the University’s Health Strategy Board
and as such provides the inter-disciplinary framework within which all
health and medically-related research from the three Faculties of the
University is brought together and interfaces with the NHS and other
partners in the region. This research is organised around four broad
themes - clinical and health services; the Life Cycle and the life
sciences; medical humanities; and public policy, health and well-being
- and involves around 200 research staff and students, working at both
the Durham and Stockton campuses of the University. The Institute’s
prime aim is to play a key role in meeting two of the University of
Durham’s strategic goals: international excellence in agenda-setting
research; engagement with policy communities and groups beyond the
University, particularly in the north east of England, in influencing
policy formation and implementation. Thus the emphasis is upon the
impact of research, on making a difference, both within and outside the
academy.
The Centre
Established in 2001 as an interdisciplinary University Research Centre,
the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (Director: Professor
Andreas-Holger Maehle, Dr.med.habil., PhD) provides a focus for
research and postgraduate education in the history of medicine, health
and disease, and medical ethics. It unites staff and postgraduates from
the Department of Philosophy (graded 5 in RAE 2001) and the School for
Health, and has associated members in several other University
departments. Current major areas of research are the history of medical
professional ethics and the history of sex education in the twentieth
century. The Centre has recently (October 2005) launched a new taught
Master’s programme in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.
The CHMD regularly organises workshops and research seminars, and hosts
conferences. For further details see http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd
--
Dr Matthew D Eddy
Director of Postgraduate Studies in HPSM
University of Durham
Department of Philosophy
50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN
United Kingdom
(44) 191 334 6554 (Office)
(44) 191 334 6551 (Fax)
http://www.durham.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/
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From: Harold Cook <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Wellcome Trust Centre at UCL announces New Appointment
Comments: To: Swiss STS <[log in to unmask]>,
Caduceus <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
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The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that Dr. Sonu Shamdasani has been appointed to a Readership in Jung History, which he will take up early in the new year. Sonu has edited several volumes, and is the author of Cult Fictions: C. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology. The position was made possible through a gift from a non-profit foundation based in the USA, the Philemon Foundation, and we would like to express our gratitude for its generosity.
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Harold J. Cook, Professor and Director
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
210 Euston Rd.
London NW1 2BE
Please visit our website at www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed.
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From: Jim Bennett <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 10/10 STAR at MHS, Oxford
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The Museum of the History of Science will hold its third 10/10 day on
Saturday 3 December.
Open from 10 am to 10 pm, there will be a programme of events and
activities on the theme STAR
(following in the spirit of former days on BLUE and VENUS)
talks, films, trails, music, poetry, exhibitions, tours, workshops ...
20 glass stars by artist Andrew Logan
'Equatorial Stars' by Brian Eno
Allan Chapman on the Star of Bethlehem
starfish, star-struck, Star Chamber, supernovae, shooting stars, black
holes ...
... and in the evening 'Starcrash'
Full programme at http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/star/
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There are two vacancies in the Technology section of the Department of Science and Technology at the National Museums of Scotland. These are being advertised on the NMS website at www.nms.ac.uk and www.museumsjobs.com. Please note that these vacancies are in addition to the two Science curator posts advertised recently.
The positions are at Principal Curator level and Curator/Senior Curator level. The closing date for applications is 4 January 2006. Do please draw this to the attention of any of your colleagues who you feel might be interested.
Thank you
Alexander Hayward
Keeper of Science and Technology
National Museums of Scotland
Chambers Street
Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Tel +44 (0) 131 247 4456
Fax +44 (0) 131 247 4312
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Dear colleagues,
The Science Museum, London, is looking for a curator of the history of
science. This role is for an individual with a good knowledge of the history
of science and, ideally, experience of working with museum objects. A
commitment to developing and communicating knowledge of the history of
science and its associated material culture using all media - exhibition,
publication, web, presentation and broadcast - is essential. The closing
date is 20 December 2005.
Full details will be found at the Science Museum's website
and at museumjobs.com
Regards,
Peter Morris
Principal Curator, Science
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Subject: Symposium announcement - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
London, 16 November 2006
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"Navigational instruments as a source of historic information"
National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London, on Thursday 16 November 2006
Please send all enquiries to: [log in to unmask]
Over the last twenty or so years, museum artefacts and material culture have come to play important roles in explaining historical and scientific developments. Historians from a number of disciplines are increasingly engaging with scientific instruments and learning to interpret them in similar ways to archival and printed sources. Artefacts found in shipwrecks by maritime archaeologists have played an important role in this process.
The National Maritime Museum Greenwich, keeper of the world's largest, and perhaps pre-eminent collection of navigational instruments, announces a call for papers for a symposium that will explore the topic: 'using navigational instruments for historical research'. The Museum invites maritime historians, historians of science and exploration, museum curators and maritime archaeologists to use the meeting to exchange their experiences and views on the subject. The aim of the symposium is to improve our understanding of the ways in which navigational instrument collections can illuminate history and historical process.
Papers should be for a maximum of 30 minutes. Those wishing to attend, and those interested in speaking at the conference are invited to submit a proposal of no more than 250 words to Mrs Janet Norton, Research Administrator, National Maritime Museum, LONDON SE10 9NF, by 1 May 2006. e-mail [log in to unmask]
The symposium will be held at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London, on Thursday 16 November 2006. If there is sufficient response the meeting may be extended over the morning of Friday 17 November. That evening the Annual Lecture of the Scientific Instrument Society will be given by Dr Willem Mörzer Bruyns, who holds the National Maritime Museum's 2005-07 Sackler Research Fellowship in the History of Astronomy and Navigational Sciences, and will focus on the Museum's collection of navigating instruments.
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University of Birmingham School of Medicine [Founded 1825]
CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, DIVISION OF IMMUNITY AND INFECTION
DARWIN DAY 2006: A BIRTHDAY SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE THE WORK AND INFLUENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN
Birmingham Medical Institute
36 Harborne Road
Birmingham B15 3AF
Friday, 10 February 2006
09.00 - 17.00 hours
Symposium Organisers:
Professor Mark Pallen, Robert Arnott
Division of Immunity and Infection Centre for the History of Medicine
The Medical School University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
Telephone: 0121-414 7163 Telephone 0121-414 6804
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This birthday symposium is being held as part of the
International Darwin Day Programme (see http://www.darwinday.org)
PROGRAMME
08.45-19.10 Arrival and Coffee
09.10-09.15 Welcome
Session 1: Darwin and the Humanities
Chairman: Professor Mark Pallen (Division of Immunity and Infection)
09.15 - 10.00 Keynote Speaker: Dr Nick Matze (NCSE, USA)
News from the Panda Tria in Dover, Pennsylvania:
The Evolutionary Origin of Intelligent Design
10.00 - 10.30 Dr John van Wyhe (University of Cambridge)
Where did Darwin's finches come from?
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.30 Dr David Toke (Department of Sociology)
Wind farms, GM and Darwin: politica and public perceptions
11.30 - 12.00 Dr Barbara Bordelejo (ITSEE)
E-Origin: a digital genetic version of Origin of Species
12.00 - 12.30 Dr Thorsten Schnier (School of Computer Science)
Evolutionary Art
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
Session 2: Darwin and Science
Chairman: Robert Arnott (Centre for the History of Medicine)
13.30 - 14.00 Dr Peter Rock (School of Dentistry)
The evolving shape of the human face
14.00 - 14.30 Dr Colin Rowat (Department of Economics)
The evolution of evolutionary game theory
14.30 - 15.00 Dr Susannah Thorpe (School of Biosciences)
Walking the walk: the evolution of human bipedalism
15.00 -15.30 Coffee
15.30 - 16.00 Dr Jason Hilton (GEES)
Coral reefs as documents of evolutionary history
16.00 - 16.30 Dr Yenory Morales Chaves (GEES)
The Zebra mussel ecology of an invasive species
16.30 - 17.00 Dr Peter Balfe (Immunity & Infection, University of Birmingham) Molecular evolution of hepatitis C
17.00-18.30 Wine Reception, including: The Origin of the Species in Dub: Live and re-mixed by the Genomic Dub Collective. Further musical
celebration of Darwin's masterpiece, realized through the medium of
reggae music
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DARWIN DAY 2006 REGISTRATION FORM
Please complete this form and return it to: The Secretary,
Centre for the History of Medicine, The Medical School,
University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT by 31 JANUARY 2006 at the latest.
I wish to participate in the above symposium:
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Registration Fee [This includes lunch, teas and coffees]
Cheques should be made payable to "The University of Birmingham"
I enclose my registration fee
? £25.00
? £10.00 (Students)
Once the organisers receive this form, you will be sent full details, together with a location map for the BMI.
Data Protection Act 1998: The University of Birmingham will keep this information you have supplied in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. It will not be passed onto third parties and will only be used for the organisation of this conference or your notification of similar events.
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>EASST Conference 2006, University of Lausanne,
>EXTENDED DEADLINE: Paper and session proposals
>will now be accepted up to the new deadline of
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>"Reviewing humanness: bodies, technologies and spaces"
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>What is it to be human today? How are developments in science and
>technology affecting the human experience? Developments in the life
>sciences offer new ways of understanding and intervening in bodily
>processes. Human influence is distributed through socio-technical
>networks and artifacts. Transnational connections and imaginings extend
>our conception of humanness. What concepts do we need to understand
>these processes and to address their practical and political
>consequences?
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>European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, to be held
>in Lausanne, Switzerland from 23rd to 26th August 2006. Paper and
>session proposals addressing any aspect of the theme are welcomed. All
>members of the science, technology and innovation studies community are
>invited to attend and there will be open paper sessions for topics
>outside of the theme.
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accepted up to the new deadline of January 16th, 2006
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The Call for Papers
(reminder)
"Reviewing humanness: bodies, technologies and
spaces"
What is it to be human today? How are
developments in science and
technology affecting the human experience? Developments in the
life
sciences offer new ways of understanding and intervening in bodily
processes. Human influence is distributed through socio-technical
networks and artifacts. Transnational connections and imaginings
extend
our conception of humanness. What concepts do we need to
understand
these processes and to address their practical and political
consequences?
"Reviewing Humanness" forms the
theme for biennial conference of the
European Association for the Study of
Science and Technology, to be held
in Lausanne, Switzerland from 23rd to 26th August 2006. Paper and
session proposals addressing any aspect of the theme are welcomed.
All
members of the science, technology and innovation studies community
are
invited to attend and there will be open paper sessions for
topics
outside of the theme.
See the full Call for Papers and all
information on the conference web site
http://www2.unil.ch/easst2006/
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communications de masse (ISCM)
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Subject: CFP: COLLABORATIONS ACROSS THE DIVIDE (RGS conf 2006)
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RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2006 Call for Papers
Kensington Gore, London, 30th August - 1st September 2006
Collaborations across the divide: Sustainable urban environments
(Session sponsored by the Urban Geography Research Group)
Understanding what makes a city sustainable requires a dialogue between a
huge variety of researchers. Geographers, architects, planners, designers,
engineers, ecologists and sociologists all conduct research in an effort to
better understand the sustainable city. Geographers are currently
collaborating with people in all these disciplines and this session is for
those geographers (and others) who are working in multidisciplinary groups
on issues of sustainable urban environments. In this session we seek to
explore the pros and cons of working in these large transdisciplinary
groupings.
Six years ago Doreen Massey (1999) initiated a conversation on the
relationship between human and physical geography that has expanded and
developed in the interim period. Raper and Livingstone (2001) and Lane
(2001) took up her challenge and a thought-provoking dialogue ensued,
demonstrating a commitment within geography to understanding and interacting
across the whole discipline. Geography as a discipline is very well placed
to foster discourse across the divide between physical and social sciences
and constructive 'conversations across the divide' have taken place at RGS
IBG conferences since (Harrison, Massey et al, 2004). One location where
these conversations can (and indeed are required to) flourish is within the
large scale interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research projects,
networks and consortia being supported by research funders. Within these
projects there is the expectation of outputs that integrate knowledges
created from a multitude of disciplinary perspectives and it is timely to
consider the success of such transdisciplinary projects in order to see what
lessons have been and can be learned (and what limitations there are) to aid
further such collaborative efforts.
This session seeks to move beyond the conversations within geography to
acknowledge the interdisciplinary conversations taking place between
geographers and other disciplines. To focus the session we will concentrate
on the conversations taking place between researchers working in the area of
sustainable urban environments.
Focusing on multi- and trans-disciplinarity can help us analyse how
sustainability of the urban environment is framed by addressing questions
about: how different disciplines interact to develop understandings of the
city; how disciplinary knowledges complement each other in producing a
perspective of the urban; along what new trajectories can research into
urban sustainability evolve to produce richer understandings of the urban;
what are the effects of the multiple articulations of sustainability on
understandings of the sustainable city; what are the methodological,
empirical, theoretical and ethical implications of collaborative research on
the city?
The session organisers invite proposals for papers that present research
falling within this broad theme of sustainable urban environments.
Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcomed that:
* Identify ways in which qualitative and quantitative data can be
managed and usefully integrated to provide a greater output than the sum of
the parts
* Report on transdisciplinary research in the area of sustainable
urban environments (empirical studies, case studies etc)
* Focus specifically on the experiences (both positive and negative)
of transdisciplinary collaboration and the lessons that can be learned from
such research
* Demonstrate a commitment to understanding and interaction across the
physical /social divide in relation to research on urban sustainability
* Discuss problems with definitions, language and terminology across
disciplines collaborating on the city
* Discuss the implications for individual disciplines if boundaries
are transcended and blurred
This call is open to all, particularly scholars working in collaborative
groups with a multidisciplinary agenda.
Proposals for papers, with a short abstract (250 words), should be sent to
either of the co-organisers, Mags Adams ([log in to unmask]) or Gemma
Moore ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 13th January 2006
Addresses:
Dr Mags Adams, School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of
Salford, Salford M5 4WT
Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0) 161 295 4599
Gemma Moore, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT
Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 8236
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RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2006 Call
for Papers
Kensington Gore, London, 30th August - 1st September 2006
Collaborations
across the divide: Sustainable urban environments
(Session sponsored by the Urban Geography Research Group)
Understanding what makes a city sustainable requires a dialogue between
a huge variety of researchers. Geographers, architects, planners,
designers, engineers, ecologists and sociologists all conduct research in an
effort to better understand the sustainable city. Geographers are
currently collaborating with people in all these disciplines and this session
is for those geographers (and others) who are working in multidisciplinary
groups on issues of sustainable urban environments. In this session we
seek to explore the pros and cons of working in these large transdisciplinary
groupings.
Six years ago Doreen Massey (1999) initiated a conversation on the
relationship between human and physical geography that has expanded and
developed in the interim period. Raper and Livingstone (2001) and Lane
(2001) took up her challenge and a thought-provoking dialogue ensued,
demonstrating a commitment within geography to understanding and interacting
across the whole discipline. Geography as a discipline is very well placed to
foster discourse across the divide between physical and social sciences and
constructive ‘conversations across the divide’ have taken place at
RGS IBG conferences since (Harrison, Massey et
al, 2004). One location where these conversations can (and
indeed are required to) flourish is within the large scale interdisciplinary
and multi-disciplinary research projects, networks and consortia being
supported by research funders. Within these projects there is the
expectation of outputs that integrate knowledges created from a multitude of
disciplinary perspectives and it is timely to consider the success of such
transdisciplinary projects in order to see what lessons have been and can be
learned (and what limitations there are) to aid further such collaborative
efforts.
This session seeks to move beyond the conversations within geography to
acknowledge the interdisciplinary conversations taking place between
geographers and other disciplines. To focus the session we will
concentrate on the conversations taking place between researchers working in
the area of sustainable urban environments.
Focusing on multi- and trans-disciplinarity can help us analyse how
sustainability of the urban environment is framed by addressing questions
about: how different disciplines interact to develop understandings of
the city; how disciplinary knowledges complement each other in producing a
perspective of the urban; along what new trajectories can research into urban
sustainability evolve to produce richer understandings of the urban; what are
the effects of the multiple articulations of sustainability on understandings
of the sustainable city; what are the methodological, empirical, theoretical
and ethical implications of collaborative research on the city?
The session organisers invite proposals for papers that present
research falling within this broad theme of sustainable urban
environments. Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcomed that:
- Identify ways in
which qualitative and quantitative data can be managed and usefully
integrated to provide a greater output than the sum of the parts
- Report on
transdisciplinary research in the area of sustainable urban environments
(empirical studies, case studies etc)
- Focus specifically
on the experiences (both positive and negative) of transdisciplinary
collaboration and the lessons that can be learned from such research
- Demonstrate a
commitment to understanding and interaction across the physical /social
divide in relation to research on urban sustainability
- Discuss problems
with definitions, language and terminology across disciplines
collaborating on the city
- Discuss the
implications for individual disciplines if boundaries are transcended and
blurred
This call is open to all, particularly scholars working in
collaborative groups with a multidisciplinary agenda.
Proposals for papers, with a short abstract (250 words), should be sent
to either of the co-organisers, Mags Adams ([log in to unmask])
or Gemma Moore ([log in to unmask])
by Friday 13th January 2006
Addresses:
Dr Mags Adams, School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford,
Salford M5 4WT
Email: [log in to unmask] Tel:
+44 (0) 161 295 4599
Gemma Moore,
The Bartlett School
of Graduate Studies, UCL, London,
WC1E 6BT
Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44
(0) 20 7679 8236
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The British Society for the History of Mathematics: www.bshm.org
Research in Progress Meeting: Saturday 4 March 2006, 10.30 am to 5.30
pm, The Queen’s College, Oxford
An annual meeting for postgraduate students to talk about their
research.
Keynote speaker: Rüdiger Thiele (University of Leipzig): 'Fabricated
reality: historians and their interpretations of original sources'
Student speakers:
Mario Alosio, Warwick;
Charlie Care, Warwick: 'Re-inventing the integrating wheel: the
independence and interdependence of early planimeter design';
Stamatina Mastorakou, Imperial College;
Amirouche Moktefi, Strasbourg: 'Lewis Carroll and British symbolic
logic';
Heather Murray, Open University;
Irene Polo, Groningen: 'Models of sections of polytopes, by Boole
Stott';
Denise M. Sumpter, Imperial College: 'Preservation, innovation,
transformation … ? Ancient science in the late antique commentary
tradition';
Benjamin Wardhaugh, Oxford: 'The Musical Compass, and other oddities of
17th-century musical science'.
Cost (including coffee, lunch and tea): BSHM members £15 / non-members
£18. Deadline for registration is 25th February 2006.
Registration forms are available at www.bshm.org
Organisers: Jackie Stedall and Benjamin Wardhaugh
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Entries for the BSHS Slade Prize should be received by 15 December 2005.
Full details are available on the BSHS website at
http://www.bshs.org.uk/bshs/prizes/ivan_slade_prize/index.html
Entries should be sent to:
BSHS Secretary, Dr Sally Horrocks, School of Historical Studies,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)116 252
5070; fax: +44 (0)116 252 5081
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Post-Colonial Victorians?
A Conversation across Borders
Linacre College, Oxford, 2 June 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
The shaping force of Empire on nineteenth-century British and colonial
cultures, as well as on the developing cultures of post-colonial states,
has
been the subject of much of the most exciting recent work in both Victorian
and Postcolonial studies. The heavy traffic in themes and motifs, and in
genres, narratives and plots between the metropolis and the colonies that is
evident across the nineteenth century, and which persists in residual and
reactive ways in post-colonial cultures suggests that there are multiple
points of overlap and interaction, of historical continuity and contrast.
Despite much shared ground, however, the current constitution of the
academic
fields of the historicist and British-focused Victorian studies and the more
theoretically self-conscious and globally oriented Postcolonial studies has
meant that conversations between the two areas have sometimes been difficult
or disrupted. In this one-day symposium on metropolitan, colonial and
post-colonial cultures, we wish to stage a conversation between Victorian
and
Postcolonial studies at the present time, to consider areas of overlap and
indebtedness, as well as points of contest and disavowal. What are the
points of recognition and misrecognition?
At its most obvious level then, we want to address the question, how does
Victorian culture look under the lens of Postcolonial theory? In what
ways
do critical concepts regarding, for instance, race, hybridity, marginality,
cosmopolitanism, etc., add to our understanding of Victorian literature and
culture? But we also want to reverse the question and interrogate the
Victorian colonial legacy in Postcolonial studies: for instance, to what
extent do the critical vocabulary and the political strategies of
Postcolonial studies draw on concepts which originate in a
nineteenth-century colonial context? How far is the analytical work of
Postcolonial studies framed by nineteenth-century literary and scientific
discourses? How useful has the notion of 'writing back' to the Empire
been
as either a political tactic or an analytical tool?
We are looking for 250 word proposals for 20 minute papers on any topics
relating to the interrelationships between Victorian and Postcolonial
Studies. Specific topics might include, but are not restricted to
a.. Repression and resistance within nineteenth-century colonial discourse
b.. Post-colonial rewritings of nineteenth-century literary texts c.. Body,
sexuality and/or health in colonial and post-colonial contexts d.. Race
and/or class in colonial and post-colonial contexts
e.. Colonial/post-colonial cities / spaces / maps
f.. Decolonisation and the Victorian heritage
g.. Migration / mobility / diaspora / settlement / home
h.. Media / book circulation / networks / reception
i.. Colonial and post-colonial visual cultures
j.. Language/ translation
The event aims to bring together scholars from literary, cultural and
historical studies, and other disciplines, at different stages of their
career. We welcome proposals from established academics as well as graduate
students working in these fields. The conference programme will leave ample
room for discussion and debate.
Please send proposals to [log in to unmask], or
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Deadline for submission: 31 January 2006.
Conference committee:
Stefano Evangelista, Stuti Khanna, Bianca Jackson, Josephine McDonagh, Emma
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STUDENTSHIPS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London is pleased to announce the availability of one or more studentships to support students enrolling for the MA in the History of Medicine in September 2006. The value of the studentships will be c.£17,000 plus payment of fees at the "home" student rate. Details of the course may be found on www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed . Enquiries and applications should be submitted to Adam Wilkinson, MA Administrator, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. ([log in to unmask]). The closing date for applications is 1 June 2006.
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STUDENTSHIPS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London is pleased to announce the availability of one or more studentships to support students enrolling for the MA in the History of Medicine in September 2006. The value of the studentships will be c.£17,000 plus payment of fees at the "home" student rate. Details of the course may be found on www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed . Enquiries and applications should be submitted to Adam
Wilkinson, MA Administrator, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. ([log in to unmask]). The closing date for applications is 1 June 2006.
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Subject: PhD studentship in the history of science and technology in
modern East Asia
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The object of this fully funded studentship is to support PhD work
in the history of science and technology in modern East Asia. Could I
ask colleagues to post this announcement to any e-lists that they
think might be useful for publicising this opportunity, and otherwise
to circulate it as they see fit?
Thanks!
Christopher Cullen
Director, NRI
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Studentship in the History of East Asian Science and Technology
The Trustees of the Needham Research Institute Cambridge ("the
Trustees") invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for
a Studentship in the History of East Asian Science and Technology, to
be held in the University of Cambridge.
The purpose of the Studentship is to support students who have been
admitted to work for a PhD degree in the University of Cambridge in
the areas of study specified below. In the case of a student admitted
directly to work for the PhD degree, the award shall be for three
years at maximum. In appropriate cases, where the student is
initially admitted to work for an MPhil preparatory to beginning work
for a PhD, the Trustees may be prepared to consider making the award
for up to four years at maximum. In all cases the continuation of the
award from year to year will be conditional on the student making
satisfactory progress in the view of the Trustees. The successful
candidate will be given working space in the Needham Research
Institute (www.nri.org.uk), which has unparalleled research
facilities in the fields of the history of science, technology and
medicine in East Asia. The Studentship is associated with Darwin
College, and the successful award holder will normally be admitted to
full membership of the College for the tenure of the Studentship.
The amount of the Studentship will consist of payment of university
fees and college dues for the candidate, plus an amount for
maintenance. Where appropriate, fees will be paid at the rate for
non-EU students.
Priority in making awards of Studentships will be given to to
applicants who propose to carry out research in the following areas,
which are given in order of priority:
(1) The history of science and technology in modern Korea
(2) The history of science and technology in modern Japan
(3) The history of science and technology in modern China, or the
history of modern medicine in any of the above three countries
The word ‘modern’ here designates the period after 1850, and
‘science’ is taken to include mathematics, whether pure or applied.
Strong preference will be given to projects centring on the 20th
century or later. Any holder of a Studentship who wishes to make a
substantive change in the topic of his or her research after taking
up the Studentship must first obtain the agreement of the Trustees,
failing which the Studentship may be withdrawn.
Given the subjects covered by the award, the normal expectation will
be that applicants will seek admission to the Department of History
and Philosophy of Science of the University of Cambridge (http://
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/).
Applications for this award will be treated separately from
applications for admission to the University of Cambridge.
Candidates should therefore;
(a) Apply as soon as possible for admission to the University of
Cambridge in the normal way. For guidance, see the University website
at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/gradstud/admissions/; please
address all queries about the University admission process to the
appropriate part of the University, not to the Needham Research
Institute. Candidates may however mention in their application that
they are applying for this Studentship. Candidates should normally
give Darwin College as their first choice of college. Candidates
should note carefully the University's requirements in regard to
English language ability: see http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/
gsprospectus/applying/entry.html#english.
(b) Apply simultaneously to the Needham Research Institute for the
Studentship. Candidates should send a full curriculum vitae, a
detailed research proposal, and the name of two academic referees who
are prepared to report in confidence on the candidate's work. In
most cases the best thing will be for the candidate to send the
Needham Research Institute a hard printed copy of their University
application, together with any further material necessary to give a
clear impression of the research they intend to carry out.
Candidates should ensure that they produce evidence that they possess
the language skills required for the purpose of their research.
All applications will be carefully considered. No announcement or
notification of award of the Studentship will be made before
University admission procedures have been completed and candidates
have been told whether they have been given a place at Cambridge.
The Trustees reserve the right to make no award if in their opinion
no suitable candidate of sufficient merit applies.
All enquiries and applications should be addressed to:
The Institute Administrator
The Needham Research Institute
8 Sylvester Road
Cambridge CB3 9AF
UK
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Subject: Roy Porter Studentship in History of Medicine
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ROY PORTER MEMORIAL STUDENTSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London is pleased to
invite applications for the Roy Porter Memorial Studentship in the History
of Medicine. The award commemorates the distinguished historian and scholar
who died in 2002, and is intended to support a PhD candidate enrolled at the
Centre. The award is for 3 years and is tenable from September 2006. The
value is the award is c.£18,000 plus the payment of fees at the "home" rate.
Initial applications should consist of a cv and a one page outline of the
proposed research topic. The closing date for applications is 1 February
2006;
please submit them to Adam Wilkinson, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History
of
Medicine, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE ([log in to unmask]).
Please visit our website at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/
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ROY PORTER MEMORIAL STUDENTSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Histtory of Medicine at University College London is pleased to
invite applications for the Roy Porter Memorial Studentship in the History
of Medicine. The award commemorates the distinguished historian and scholar
who died in 2002, and is intended to support a PhD candidate enrolled at the
Centre. The award is for 3 years and is tenable from September 2006. The
value is the award is c.£18,000 plus the payment of fees at the "home" rate.
Initial applications should consist of a cv and a one page outline of the
proposed research topic. The closing date for applications is 1 February
2006;
please submit them to Adam Wilkinson, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History
of
Medicine, 210 Euston Road,
London NW1 2BE (
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*SIMON RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS*
(2 available) in any of the Social Sciences, _including the history of
science, technology and medicine_, tenable for up to 3 years from
October 2006. The Fellowships are intended for outstanding researchers
who have completed a doctoral degree or research to an equivalent
standard. A record of research and publications or demonstrated
potential for research in relevant subject areas is essential. These
are competitive fellowships, where you will be in a field with
applicants from across the Social Sciences. However, CHSTM sponsored
applicants have won two fellowships in the past decade.
Salary within the range £20,044 - £36,959 per annum according to
qualifications and experience.
Interviews for the *Simon Fellowships* will be held on *Thursday, 6
April 2006*
Please note that these Fellowship schemes are not intended to support
postgraduate students.
*Potential applicants should contact an appropriate member of staff at
CHSTM (see http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/
) or Professor Michael Worboys
([log in to unmask] ) to discuss
their proposal before making a formal application. *
Closing date for applications is: *18 January 2006. A*pplication forms
and further particulars are now available from our jobs website at
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/vacancies/research.html
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Carsten Timmermann, PhD
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
The University of Manchester, Simon Building, Room 2.36
Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
Phone +44-(0)161-275 7950 Fax +44-(0)161-275 5699
Department Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
Project Website: http://www.cancer-history.org
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University of Surrey
Lifestyles, Values and Environment
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic social scientists to
join a new cross-departmental Research group on Lifestyles, Values and
Environment (RESOLVE) at the University of Surrey. Funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under the TSEC programme
(‘Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy’), the overall aim of RESOLVE is
to develop a robust understanding of the links between lifestyles,
societal values and the environment. In particular, RESOLVE aims to
provide robust advice to policy-makers seeking to understand and to
influence the behaviours and practices of ‘energy consumers’. Suitably
qualified, highly-committed researchers are invited to apply for the
following posts:
Senior Research Fellow (5 years, Salary up to £32,490)
You will take a leading role in the RESOLVE work-programme and play a
vital part in communicating the work to the user community. You will
already possess several years’ post-doctoral experience in energy or
environmental issues and have a sound understanding of social scientific
research skills and methods. You must have a proven academic record and
the ability to inspire and to guide less experienced researchers. Ref:
5225
3 Research Fellows (4/5 years each, Salary up to £27,929)
You will have a key role in developing one of the three ‘vertical’
themes in the RESOLVE work programme: energy-economic lifestyle
‘mapping’ (Ref: 5226), psychological understandings (Ref: 5227) and
socio-cultural underpinnings (Ref: 5228) of energy-related behaviours.
You will already possess a doctorate (or equivalent experience) in a
relevant discipline. You must be able to work effectively in a
multi-disciplinary team and deliver high-quality academic research.
2 Research Assistants (3 years each, Salary up to £23,182)
You will have a unique opportunity to develop research experience in a
multidisciplinary team working either on the social/psychological
aspects of energy-related behaviours (Ref 5229) or on developing
scenarios for lifestyle change (Ref: 5230). You will have a good first
degree in a relevant discipline.
Applicants interested in applying for any of these positions can apply
online from the University of Surrey recruitment page, www.surrey.ac.uk
(Working at UniS) or alternatively contact Hilary Mitchell or Val
Horsfield by email ([log in to unmask]), quoting the appropriate
reference number.
RESOLVE is also looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Administrative
Coordinator. Funding is also available to support several one-year
post-doctoral fellowships and three-year PhD studentships.
For an informal discussion about any of these posts please contact Prof
Tim Jackson ([log in to unmask]).
Closing date for applications is: January 16th 2006; Interview date:
week commencing 6th February 2006
The University is committed to an Equal Opportunities Policy
Christine Hine
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
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http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/christine_hine.htm
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*** apologies for cross posting ***
"From the Cradle to the Grave: Future perspectives on the Social History of
Health and Healthcare". The Society for the Social History of Medicine will be
holding its postgraduate student conference for those working in all fields of
the History of Medicine/Health/Healthcare subject area in Jan 2006 in Glasgow.
With the growth of social history of medicine research in the UK over the last
twenty-five years, the subject area has expanded in terms of methodological
perspectives, geographical interests and chronological coverage. This conference
seeks to explore the ways in which these developments have shaped current
doctoral research. The broader objective is to stimulate a dialogue among
emerging scholars in the social history of medicine community about the origins
of the subject area, its current preoccupations and possible directions. The
conference will be hosted at Glasgow Caledonian and Strathclyde Universities by
the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow
(http://www.gcal.ac.uk/historyofhealth/index.html) and will be held on
11/12 January. Please see
http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/History/conf/home.htm for details.
Bursaries for student members of the Society for the Social History of Medicine
are available on request, with further details available at
http://www.sshm.org/bursaries.html. Membership benefits of the Society also
include subscription to the journal "Social History of Medicine" and "The
Gazette" which contains information about professional events, reduced
registration fees at Society conferences, 30 per cent off titles in the
Society's Routledge series, 25 per cent off titles in Ashgate's series
"History of Medicine in Context", as well as discounts on selected books
from Manchester University Press. Details of how to join the Society, and
information about membership benefits are available at http://www.sshm.org or
from David Cantor, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute,
Executive Plaza North, Suite 2025, 6130 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda MD
20892-7309. U.S.A.
Keir Waddington
Senior Lecturer in History
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Cardiff School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)29 20876103
Web page: http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/people/kw
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Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowships "History of Scientific Objects"
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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science announces two
postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with the Research Network
„History of Scientific Objects“. (For a research outline please
visit: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/networh.pdf)
The fellowship will be granted for two-year period, beginning March
2006.
The project includes scholars of the humanities and natural sciences.
Fellows will participate in the Wandering Seminar of the Network,
which will work at different member stations in Europe in May and
June 2006. Fellows will also be involved, with other participants of
the Seminar, in the planning for a workshop on the results of the
Seminar to be held in summer 2007. The working language of the
Network is English.
For further information about the Institute, please visit our
homepage http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. For information on the
Wandering Seminar please visit http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/
WANDERINGSEMINAR.pdf or contact the Network Coordinator Hannah Lund
([log in to unmask]).
Fellowships are awarded to outstanding young scholars of all
nationalities who have received their PhD in the History of Science
or related field after 31 December 2003.
Women are especially encouraged to apply. The Max-Planck-Society is
committed to employing more handicapped individuals and especially
encourages them to apply.
Applicants are invited to submit a curriculum vitae, a brief research
statement describing their project and interest in the network (max.
1.000 words ), a sample text (dissertation chapter or article) and
two letters of reference
by
February 1, 2006
to:
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
Administration/ Research Network
Wilhelmstr. 44
D- 10117 Berlin
