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Call For Papers: Laughter is the Best Medicine? Visual Histories of Humour and Health

December 1, 2022

Co-editors Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow, and Laura Cowley are pleased to announce a call for chapter abstracts for a new edited volume on the intersection of visual culture, medicine, and humour. The CFP can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17a7WiOc4JfNKXmsNk9YivaVaaZyQcIpjvI_sV3Si4Uk/edit This volume examines what role visual humour has had and continues to play in healing and healthcare, … More Call For Papers: Laughter is the Best Medicine? Visual Histories of Humour and Health

Call For Papers: ‘Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy’, 3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy

December 1, 2022

Call for Papers 3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy:  Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy 19-21 July 2023 | University of São PauloCo-hosted with the Department of Political Science of University of São Paulo (DCP/FFLCH-USP) The DHST Commission of Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) exists to promote and coordinate … More Call For Papers: ‘Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy’, 3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy

MPIWG Colloquium Series 2022–23: Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War

November 28, 2022

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is pleased to announce its Institute’s Colloquium series 2022–23: “Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War.”  The series will take place in a hybrid format (on Zoom and at our institute in Berlin-Dahlem). The colloquium series is dedicated to the rethinking of science and … More MPIWG Colloquium Series 2022–23: Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War

CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Culverting Divine Power: Drainage Systems, Water, and the Monastic Imagination, c.1350-1550, 6th December, 1pm

November 25, 2022

‘Culverting Divine Power: Drainage Systems, Water, and the Monastic Imagination, c.1350-1550 ‘, Alex Hibberts (Durham University) Why doesn’t the sea flood the earth? What holds back the waves from drowning the land? To us, these questions may seem trivial and irrelevant, but they were matters of great concern to the late medieval mind. Following patristic exegesis, embodied … More CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Culverting Divine Power: Drainage Systems, Water, and the Monastic Imagination, c.1350-1550, 6th December, 1pm

CHSTM Research Seminar, University of Manchester: Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure: Engineering the containment of nuclear waste, 6th December, 4pm

November 25, 2022

‘Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure: Engineering the containment of nuclear waste’, Professor Penny Harvey, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester 6 December 2022, 4pmCHSTM Seminar Room: Simon 2.57 [maps and travel]Seminars will also be streamed. URL to be announced. Keep an eye on the seminar webpage for more details. Abstract: In the UK a search has … More CHSTM Research Seminar, University of Manchester: Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure: Engineering the containment of nuclear waste, 6th December, 4pm

Call For Papers: Science and/or Poetry: Interdisciplinarity in Notebooks (July 2023)

November 24, 2022

Science and/or Poetry: Interdisciplinarity in NotebooksLancaster University26-27 July 2023 What role do notebooks play in the shaping of literary and scientific history? How and why should difficult-to-decipher manuscripts be interpreted, particularly when their contents cross genres, disciplines, and time periods? What is the relationship between poetry and science in notebooks? This two-day conference hosted by … More Call For Papers: Science and/or Poetry: Interdisciplinarity in Notebooks (July 2023)

Register for the Last Cross-Pollination Event of the Year, 30 November.

November 23, 2022

We have one more Cross-Pollinations in our series this year! A new registration link was created so you will have to re-register to attend. Who: Helen Humphreys and Catherine DhavernasWhen: Wednesday, November 30, 6-7pm ESTWhere: Register on Zoom here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqde2vqj0sEtYaQfM3sScnBJbE8rl2F0_A In this groundbreaking new series, health humanities and poetry come together under the same scope, combining … More Register for the Last Cross-Pollination Event of the Year, 30 November.

Call For Papers: Workshop on The Gravitational Constant, from the Local to the Universal, St Andrews, UK, 20-21 April 2023

November 22, 2022

The workshop is part of The Gravitational Constant, from the Local to the Universal, an interdisciplinary collaborative project between St Andrews and the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics, University of Bonn (https://www.gravconstant.net/ ). The project brings perspectives from transnational history, philosophy, mathematics and physics to bear on the question of how the constant, G, was transformed from a controversial … More Call For Papers: Workshop on The Gravitational Constant, from the Local to the Universal, St Andrews, UK, 20-21 April 2023

AHRC ECR Fellowships at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

November 21, 2022

We’re contacting you about a new initiative at Kew to fund ECR fellowships, funded by AHRC. We’re participating in an AHRC call for ECR postdoctoral fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions. Further details about the scheme here: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/early-career-fellowships-in-cultural-and-heritage-institutions/ .  We are now looking for potential candidates and project ideas in the arts and humanities and welcome enquiries … More AHRC ECR Fellowships at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Enduring Patterns: The History of Psychiatry in Uganda, 29th November, 1pm

November 18, 2022

‘Enduring Patterns: The History of Psychiatry in Uganda’, Alma Ionescu (Institute of Global Health, UCL) TBC Registration: This Seminar will be held virtually on Zoom. Please email alice.naisbitt@manchester.ac.uk – for the Zoom link Details of seminar programme can be found here.