Institution Max Planck Society in Cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin Presentation text The candidate will lead a Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) and is expected to teach and conduct research in the History of Science and the History of Knowledge at the Freie Universität Berlin.… Continue reading Leadership of a Max Planck Research Group (at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
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The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Author(s) Benjamin Breen Title The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press Presentation text Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an… Continue reading The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences
Organisers Joanna Behrman, Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics Christian Joas, Niels Bohr Archive Greg Good, Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics Rational The American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for the History of Physics and Niels Bohr Library & Archives are pleased… Continue reading Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences
History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University + Lecture by Lorraine Daston (Thursday 12 March 2020)
Organising institution Utrecht University / Descartes Centre Organiser(s) Lukas M. Verburgt Dates and time of the event Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00 Place of the event Academiegebouw (University Hall), Domplein 29, Utrecht Rational CfA: Launch of History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University + Lecture by Lorraine Daston (MPIWG) on Thursday 12 March 2020… Continue reading History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University + Lecture by Lorraine Daston (Thursday 12 March 2020)
Outer Edge: Queer(y)ing STEM Collections
Organisers Dr Sophie Gerber, TMW Eleanor Armstrong, UCL Rational How can the science and technology museum, as a cultural and social institution, explore the opportunities of reflecting and developing a plural society? In what ways are these museums still bound by existing collecting, labeling, and exhibiting practices? How are museum curators, practitioners, scholars grappling with… Continue reading Outer Edge: Queer(y)ing STEM Collections
“How Disciplines Interact” (University of Amsterdam, 7-8 May 2020)
Organisers Sjang ten Hagen & Emma Mojet (Vossius Center, University of Amsterdam) Rational The University of Amsterdam will host a two-day workshop on 7-8 May 2020, entitled “How Disciplines Interact”.* Format of the workshopHistorians of the sciences and the humanities have described many interactions between disciplines. One frequently occurring form of interaction concerns the transfer… Continue reading “How Disciplines Interact” (University of Amsterdam, 7-8 May 2020)
Two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Digital Philosophy and/or History of Biology
Institution Université catholique de Louvain Presentation text The FNRS MIS project Digital History and Philosophy of Biology (DHPB), led by Prof. Charles Pence at the Centre de philosophie des sciences et sociétés (CEFISES) and Institut supérieur de philosophie (ISP) at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) is advertising *two* two-year post-doctoral fellowships in history and/or… Continue reading Two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Digital Philosophy and/or History of Biology
Postdoctoral fellowship ERC Early modern Cosmology (Venice)
Dear friends and colleagues, please, find attached the call for one postdoctoral fellowship (1 year with the possibility of an extension of one extra year) linked to the research ERC endeavor EarlyModernCosmology – “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe” (GA 725883) which has received funding from the European Research Council –… Continue reading Postdoctoral fellowship ERC Early modern Cosmology (Venice)
Collections in Circulation: Mobile Museum Conference
Organising institution Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Organiser(s) Harriet Gendall (RBG, Kew) Dates and time of the event 9-10 May 2019 Place of the event Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Rational We are pleased to announce that registration has opened for this Conference, to be held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Thursday 9th and Friday… Continue reading Collections in Circulation: Mobile Museum Conference
Two Postdoctoral Fellows, three years – MPI for the History of Science, Berlin, Dept. III
Institution The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Department III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof Dagmar Schäfer Presentation text The positions are in close conjunction with the research agenda of Dept. III(https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/page/dept-iii-0). Outstanding junior scholars with suitable experience in science-, technology-, economic history, STS, anthropology, regional studies or other relevant fields… Continue reading Two Postdoctoral Fellows, three years – MPI for the History of Science, Berlin, Dept. III