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• New Blog for the history of science: “Entropie” (ETH Zürich)

  
  Science has been at the center of social debate since well before Covid-19.

  “Climate skepticism”, “fake news”, gender issues, the return of cultural goods from the colonial era … A look at the headlines shows that there are currently intensive exchanges and debates around science. Entropie is a platform on which ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology or Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) students in the natural sciences, technology and humanities contribute their expertise to these discussions at the interface between university and society. Read more…

• [Call for Papers] Axiomatics: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives (Berlin, November 26th–28th 2020; Deadline 1 July 2020)

  

  The Novembertagung is an international graduate conference on the history and philosophy of mathematics and neighbouring fields. It aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students at all levels to present and discuss their research in an informal and safe environment. It also allows young researchers to share experiences, get advice and establish new contacts. Read more…

• Boekpresentatie: ‘Een oorlogsplaquette ontrafeld. Het herdenkingsmonument 1940-1945 van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’ (Amsterdam, 1 April 2020)

  

  Tegenover de aula van de Vrije Universiteit bevindt zich een herdenkingsmonument met daarop de namen van de oorlogsslachtoffers van de Vrije Universiteit. Over dit monument verschijnt het boek Een oorlogsplaquette ontrafeld. Het herdenkingsmonument 1940-1945 van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam: Boom 2020). De presentatie van dit boek vindt plaats op 1 april 2020.

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• Jobs (Phds and Postdocs): Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures (University of Vienna; Deadline: 1 April 2020)

  

  The Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna is currently recruiting for one post-doc (6 years) and one pre-doc (4 year PhD) position.

  These posts will join the research group of Prof Sarah Davies, which focuses on Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Culture. The university is looking for scholars whose research explores interactions between technoscience and digitisation in public spaces, cultures, and digital environments. Read more…

• Jobs: Postdoc/PhD Candidate, “Managing Scarcity” (Maastricht University; various deadlines)

  

  The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University is hiring two PhDs and one postdoc (four-year appointments) for an NWO-funded project on the history of the oil industry, resource scarcity, and alternative energy in the long 1970s. Read more…

• CFP: Symposia of Science and Literature & Scientific Instruments Commissions for the Prague 2021 DHST/IUHPST Congress (25-31 July 2021; Deadline: 10 April 2020)

  

   

  The Scientific Instruments Commission  and the Commission of Science and Literature invite papers for two special sessions in the 26th International   History of Science and Technology Congress organized by DHST/IUHPST in Prague, 2021. Read more…

• CfP: “How Disciplines Interact” (UvA 7-8 May 2020; Deadline 15 January 2020

  The Vossius Center at the University of Amsterdam will host a two-day workshop on 7-8 May 2020, entitled “How Disciplines Interact”.

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  Historians of the sciences and the humanities have described many interactions between disciplines. One frequently occurring form of interaction concerns the transfer of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries. Examples include the influence of modern historical thinking on geology, the influx of physicists in molecular biology, or the use of the linguistic notion of grammar in computer science. Read more…

• Call for Symposia: European Society for the History of Science Meeting 2020 (Bologna, 31 August – 3 September 2020; Deadline 15 December 2019)

  

  The Scientific and Organizing Committees of ESHS 2020 invites proposals for symposia to be held during the conference. The theme of the 2020 meeting is “Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science”, a very broad and inclusive topic. Sessions and talks might address the history of the sensory approaches to scientific objects, their material culture, as well as the building of scientific practices based on the use of the senses (vision, hearing, touch and smell), with particular attention to the history of the relationship between the visual arts and the sciences across nations, periods, and historiographies; visual epistemologies and the cultural practice of thinking scientifically with images; and the relationship between different media (print, photography, digital imaging, etc.) and scientific disciplines in various social, political, and economic contexts. Read more…