Proposal for a symposium at the 11th ESHS Conference, Barcelona 4-7 September 2024. Science, technology, humanity and the Earth. Title of the symposium: Data, satellites and environmental knowledge Scientific, economic and political knowledge about the environment today relies enormously on satellite data about the oceans, the atmosphere, the land surfaces and the ice. These data… Continue reading Data, Satellites, and Environmental Knowledge
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Decentralising the history of knowledge: The co-construction of knowledge through discussions on the importance of informal agents and circulation processes (16th to 19th centuries).
Over the last twenty years, from a fundamentally historical perspective, the production of knowledge and its circulation have been understood as an essentially communicative practice. From this communicational process, we can understand the dynamics surrounding the production of knowledge, its acceptance and validation. These new forms of knowledge production are analysed today based on the… Continue reading Decentralising the history of knowledge: The co-construction of knowledge through discussions on the importance of informal agents and circulation processes (16th to 19th centuries).
ESHS – Barcelona: Call for abstracts for a symposium at the conference.
“Decentralising the history of knowledge: The co-construction of knowledge through discussions on the importance of informal agents and circulation processes (16th to 19th centuries)”. Over the last twenty years, from a fundamentally historical perspective, the production of knowledge and its circulation have been understood as an essentially communicative practice. From this communicational process, we can… Continue reading ESHS – Barcelona: Call for abstracts for a symposium at the conference.
Ramón y Cajal Fellow (CSIC, Barcelona)
Please find below a call for contributions for the 11th European Society for the History of Science (Barcelona, September 2024), on “The ‘Other’ Genius: A Historical Approach to Genius, Giftedness, and Gender”. Interested scholars are invited to send a paper proposal (title, abstract of 150 words, name, affiliation, and short biography) before the 13th November… Continue reading Ramón y Cajal Fellow (CSIC, Barcelona)
Call for abstracts: Networks of knowledge transmission in times of crises
The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent example of a global health crisis that revealed multiple social challenges and demanded cooperation between different domains, such as scientists, governments, policy-makers, science communicators, and the publics. Considering the continuous and growing challenges our societies face and the crucial role of science in the organization of knowledge and… Continue reading Call for abstracts: Networks of knowledge transmission in times of crises
symposia about “History of polarization of light”
Dear ESHS community, I recently came across the 11th ESHS Conference that will be celebrated in Barcelona 4-7 September 2024. I saw the possibility of organizing symposia, and I thought this confereence can be a good framework to propose a Symposia on the “History of polarization of light”, a topic I am very interested as… Continue reading symposia about “History of polarization of light”
Challenger expedition conference announcement
Registration is now open! Royal Museums Greenwich, with support from the Challenger Society for Marine Science and the UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies, are pleased to announce that registration is now open for ‘Beyond the Ocean’s Depths: Revisiting the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) Interdisciplinary Conference’, to be held 7-8 November 2023 at the National… Continue reading Challenger expedition conference announcement
CLIMASAT Workshop – 6th October 2023 – Barcelona and online
The ERC StG CLIMASAT invites you to join our workshop on “Data, Satellites and the Environment”: When: 6th October 2023, 8:30-18:00. Where: Institut d’història de la ciència at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. You are also welcome to join us online here. The program is available here. All times are CET. More info: gemma.cirac@uab.cat
New history of science platform Science in the making
We are happy to announce that the Royal Society Publishing recently launched the new history of science platform Science in the making that allows free access to digitised versions of over 30,000 archival items related to the publication of our journals from the past 400+ years. This is an extremely important and ambitious digitisation programme that presents the complex material… Continue reading New history of science platform Science in the making
Call for appications Research Scholar Max Planck Institute for the history of science
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Department II: Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, directed by Dr. Etienne Benson, seeks a Research Scholar to head the department’s laboratory for oral history and experimental media, with a starting date of September 1, 2023, or earlier. The MPIWG is a world-leading research institute… Continue reading Call for appications Research Scholar Max Planck Institute for the history of science