The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, offers several Postdoctoral Fellowships (residential, 12+ months), to take place within the period from 1 August 2023 to July 31 2024. As part of the Max Planck Sabbatical Award Program, we invite scholars to apply for participation in the Working Group “Time Scales: Historicizing Deep Time,”… Continue reading MPIWG – Call Postdoctoral Fellowships
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Five new doctoral positions@International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities”
The International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities” (IMPRS-KIR) invites applications for 5 doctoral positions, to begin on September 1, 2023. Each position will run for 3.5 years, with the possibility of extending once by six months. The IMPRS-KIR is a new, research-driven PhD program based in the history and philosophy… Continue reading Five new doctoral positions@International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities”
Biennial Call for Special Issue proposals for Centaurus
Centaurus, the official Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, regularly publishes issues dedicated to a special theme. Recently published Special Issues include: • Science at the Zoo: Producing Knowledge about Exotic Animals (Sept. 2022)• Making power visible. Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy (Nov. 2021)• The Material Culture and Politics of… Continue reading Biennial Call for Special Issue proposals for Centaurus
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral position on the History of satellite data and climate knowledge
Call for Applications: 1 postdoctoral researcher – ERC StG – History of satellite data and climate knowledge The CLIMASAT Project (Remote-Sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe, 1980s-2000s) at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (iHC) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona(UAB), funded by the European Research Commission (Starting Grant), is seeking: Led by Gemma Cirac-Claveras,… Continue reading Call for Applications: Postdoctoral position on the History of satellite data and climate knowledge
Call for Applications: PhD position on the History of satellite data and climate knowledge
Call for Applications: 1 PhD student – ERC StG – History of satellite data and climate knowledge The CLIMASAT Project (Remote-Sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe, 1980s-2000s) at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (iHC) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), funded by the European Research Commission (Starting Grant), is seeking: · 1 Doctoral candidate (full… Continue reading Call for Applications: PhD position on the History of satellite data and climate knowledge
Conference: “Beyond Quantity. Research with Subsymbolic AI”, October 21-23, 2022, Paris
Accounts of machine learning, especially artificial neural networks, are currently considered to be the dominant approach in artificial intelligence. How does this form of AI challenge research, ways of knowing, and scientific practices? What problems need to be identified and what critical perspectives are appropriate to describe and evaluate the ambivalences, potentials, and risks of… Continue reading Conference: “Beyond Quantity. Research with Subsymbolic AI”, October 21-23, 2022, Paris
Documents for the ESHS GA@ESHS2022
The documents related to the General Assembly of the ESHS to be held on Saturday September 10 from 17h30-19h30 during the ESHS 2022 conference are online:
New issue Centaurus
We ar every happy to announce the new issue of the Centaurus journal. A video presentation of the issue by Erika Charters is available here.
HoST: New issue
New issue HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology 16.1, June 2022 HoST—Journal of History of Science and Technologyis a peer-reviewed open access journal, published online in English by Sciendo and results of a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, ICS e IHC). CONTENTS OF VOLUME 16.1 Thematic Dossier “The History of… Continue reading HoST: New issue
Neuenschwander prize 2020: Plenary address at ESHS Brussels 2022
It is with great pleasure that we announce that the historian Kostas Gavroglu, who was awarded the 2020 Gustav Neuenschwander Prize, will deliver his plenary during the ESHS Brussels 2022 conference.