Applications are invited for a 2 year postdoctoral position as a part of the European Research Council funded project (H2020- ERC-StG-101042252), CLIMASAT. Remote-sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe (1980s-2000s). The project is coordinated by Dr. Gemma Cirac-Claveras and hosted at the Institut d’història de la ciència, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Position: Postdoctoral fellowship (24 months,… Continue reading 2-year Postdoctoral Position as a part of the European Research Council
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SISS Biennial Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science
Landscapes of Science. Places, Objects, Knowledge, Imaginaries University of Padua, 3-5 September 2025 (6 September 2025: Day trip) Organising Committee: Scientific Committee: Programme Book of Abstracts Call for papers Submission deadline: 30 aprile 2025You will hear back from the organising committee by 26 May 2025 Please send your proposal to: storiediscienza@societastoriadellascienza.it For futher information see:… Continue reading SISS Biennial Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science
12th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization on Science, History and Globalization
Maó, Menorca , 8-10 May 2025Call for Papers Since the beginning of the century, scholars have increasingly engaged with the global dimension of history. In 2004, Christopher Bayly highlighted the importance of connections between apparently unrelated phenomena and processes in his The Birth of the Modern World. Between the decade of the 1780s and 1914 a host of agents… Continue reading 12th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization on Science, History and Globalization
The 8th Notes and Records Essay Award
Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. The Essay Award is open to researchers from the above fields who have completed a postgraduate degree within the last 5 years. The previously unpublished essay of up to 8,000 words should be based on original research and it may… Continue reading The 8th Notes and Records Essay Award
Neuenschwander prize – 2024: Karine Chemla
The Council of the ESHS is delighted to announce that Karine Chemla has been awarded the Gustav Neuenschwander Prize for 2024. The ESHS Council recognizes Professor Chemla’s path-breaking, wide-ranging, and stimulating scholarship that has inspired generations of historians of science across the world to this day. Following the GN Prize award ceremony, Professor Chemla will… Continue reading Neuenschwander prize – 2024: Karine Chemla
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
The 7th Notes and Records Essay Award
Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. Our Essay Award is open to researchers from the above fields who have completed a postgraduate degree within the last 5 years. Further information is at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/essay-award and the previous winner/winning entry from 2021 at The Disputed Sound of the Aurora Borealis: Sensing Liminal… Continue reading The 7th Notes and Records Essay Award
ERC CLIMASAT – CALL FOR 2 POSTDOCS+ 1 PhD STUDENT
History of production, circulation and/or use of satellite data in relation to climate knowledge European Research Council funded project CLIMASAT. Remote-sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe, 1980s-2000s (H2020- ERC-StG-101042252) led by Dr. Gemma Cirac-Claveras Position: Two postdoctoral fellowships, 36 months each, fulltime Place: Institut d’història de la ciència, Universitat Autònoma de… Continue reading ERC CLIMASAT – CALL FOR 2 POSTDOCS+ 1 PhD STUDENT
MPIWG – Call research scholar “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”
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 in connection with the departmental research theme, “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”. (Starting date between May 1, 2023, and September 1, 2023) The MPIWG is a world-leading… Continue reading MPIWG – Call research scholar “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”
MPIWG – Two postdoctoral positions on “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”.
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Department II: Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, directed by Dr. Etienne Benson, seeks 2 Postdoctoral Fellows in connection with the research theme, “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”. (Starting date between May 1, 2023, and September 1, 2023) The MPIWG is a world-leading research… Continue reading MPIWG – Two postdoctoral positions on “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”.