Position Announcement: Assistant Professor of Sociology

Georgia Institute of Technology. The School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology, specializing in the Sociology of Technology, with an ability to teach graduate-level research methods. The position will begin Fall 2011. PhD must be completed by the time of appointment. Georgia Tech is a research university in the heart of Atlanta. HTS is an interdisciplinary unit composed of sociologists and historians. The successful candidate must demonstrate excellence in both research and teaching, and will be expected to contribute to the unit’s undergraduate program and Ph.D. program in History and Sociology of Technology and Science. More can be learned about our programs at http://www.hts.gatech.edu.

Review of applications will begin December 1 and continue until the position is filled. Application materials should be sent electronically. Send a letter of application, Curriculum Vitae, sample publications, and three letters of reference to: faculty.search@hts.gatech.edu. Items that cannot be sent electronically (e.g., copies of books) may be mailed to: Bill Winders, Chair, Sociology Search Committee, School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, 221 Bobby Dodd Way, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0225. The Georgia Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Members of historically excluded groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

Morgridge Institute for Research Ethics Scholar- in- Residence Program

The Morgridge Institute for Research (MIR), a private, non-profit medical research organization located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin—Madison (www.wisc.edu), is launching a program in ethics designed to provide an integrated ethics resource to complement the research conducted at this new interdisciplinary science research enterprise. The emphasis is on creating a culture, from the outset, that contemplates not just advances in research but also provides a framework for understanding, anticipating and addressing the potential ethical and social issues raised by the research conducted at MIR.

MIR is part of a new public-private research enterprise called the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. The new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery facility, opening in December, 2010, houses both MIR and its public university counterpart the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery as well as a large public engagement space called the Town Center. Visit www.discovery.wisc.edu for extensive background on the facility, the two research institutes housed within it and the Town Center.

A key element of the MIR ethics program is the ethics scholar-in-residence. This position is intended for a senior researcher who works broadly across the boundaries of science and ethics and is knowledgeable in areas relevant to the public-private research interface, technological innovation and/or translational medicine. Scholars may be from any of several fields of study, including the humanities or the social sciences, law, medicine or a relevant scientific discipline. This opportunity is available to junior and senior faculty as well as qualified academic staff and non-faculty scholars.

The scholar-in-residence will serve as an internal resource to scientists at MIR and will engage in helping develop ethics programs for both the campus and the broader community to take place in the Town Center.

This position may begin as early as June 1, 2011 but must begin no later than September 1, 2011 and may be held for as long as one full calendar year. The position may be renewable on an annual basis on June 1 of subsequent years.

Applications will be accepted through February 15, 2011. An award will be made by May 1, 2011.
Position responsibilities
Engage with scientists at MIR to identify and discuss ethics concerns that may arise in the course of their research
Help select MIR graduate student fellows to work with MIR scientists and support in conducting journal clubs and internal discussions at MIR on relevant topics in ethics
Work with the MIR ethics steering committee to develop campus and public programs in the Town Center including discussions, seminars and an annual conference on topics relevant to the University of Wisconsin—Madison campus, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery in general and MIR in particular

Nominees must fulfill the following eligibility criteria:
· PhD in a humanities discipline or social science and/or a terminal degree in one’s field, e.g. medicine, law, business etc.

· Be willing to maintain an office on-site at MIR on a regular basis throughout the fellowship year
· Be able to make at least a 50% commitment to this position for the entire academic year

Application materials:
Statement of Purpose speaking to the applicant’s vision for the launch and development of the ethics program, and how research interests and teaching competence will enhance this program. (No longer than three pages)
CV
Three letters of support

Compensation
Salary compensation for the scholar in residence will range from $30-65K for a 50% position with commensurate fringe benefits. Full-time compensation may be considered for those applicants able to make a full-time commitment.

Talk by Jonathan Zilberg, Oct. 21st 12:30-2:00

Jonathan Zilberg will be presenting a talk Thursday in the Spiro Library (Anthropology Department) on "The Indonesian Playboy Controversy: Pornography, Legislative Reform and the Rise of Sharia District Regulations." The talk is co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and Communication. All are welcome to attend.

Comm Dept Colloquium Oct. 20th 12:30-2 MCC201

UCSD Department of Communication
Colloquium Series

Peter Dimock
Writer and editor

"The Crisis of University Press Publishing and the Cash Value of Emancipative Literacy:
Proposal for an Alternative Business Model for Not-for-Profit Book Publishing"

When: Wednesday, Oct.20, 2010
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Where: Communication Building
The Herbert I. Schiller Room 201

Attend STS/HPS events via online live stream with Situating Science

Greetings from Situating Science,

Please disseminate the following live stream and event information for STS/HPS events. You can reach me, Emily, at 422-1271x200 or situsci@dal.ca, www.situsci.ca , and our Facebook Group “Situating Science” for more information.

Future Live Streams and Live Question Submissions for STS/HPS events:

1. This weekend: Oct 15th-16th The Individual in Science and Philosophy Atlantic Region Philosophers Association (ARPA) conference at University of King’s College with Keynote lecture by Robert Wilson (University of Alberta) “Mind Spread: The extended mind thesis in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and philosophy of biology" Oct. 15 5:30pm ADT (4:30pm Montreal, 2:30pm Edmonton, etc.) Alumni Hall, University of King’s College. Press Release and more here.

2. Tuesday Oct. 26th 7pm ADT (6pm Montreal, 4pm Edmonton, etc.)

Philip Sloan (University of Notre Dame), Science, Philosophy, and Race: The Shaping of the Race Concept in the Late Enlightenment. Part of the Race Lecture Series at Alumni Hall, University of King’s College. More here.

3. Nov. 9th 7pm ADT (6pm Montreal,4pm Edmonton, etc) The launch of Science and its Publics lecture series! See below and poster link.

For Immediate Release

Science and its Publics: Lost in Translation

A moderated panel discussion exploring media translation of science knowledge to the public

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Alumni Hall,
University of King’s College
6350 Coburg Road, Halifax


Renowned science broadcaster Jay Ingram headlines the Atlantic launch of The Science Media Centre of Canada (SMCC). Ingram, who is a member of the Order of Canada for his lifetime service and contribution to the communication of science, will be joined by a panel of experts in a discussion about the translation of science in the public sphere. The event aims to stimulate the conversation about how, what, when and where we receive and understand knowledge of science.

This presentation is also the launch of a multi-part national series on Science and its Publics created by the Situating Science Knowledge Cluster, (www.situsci.ca) and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs, (www.ccepa.ca).


The panel:
· Jay Ingram, host of Discovery Channel Canada’s Daily Planet, author and science broadcaster
· Dr. David Secko, Department of Journalism, Concordia University
· Dr. Mary-Ann White, University Research Professor, Chemistry and Physics, Dalhousie University
· Pauline Dakin, award-winning CBC National Health and Medical Reporter

The Science Media Centre of Canada is an independent, not-for-profit organization that exists to raise the level of public discourse on science in Canada by helping journalists access the experts and evidence-based research they need to cover science in the news. (www.sciencemediacentre.ca).

Free admission with a reception to follow.

This event is supported by the generosity of Genome Atlantic; Halifax Global Inc.; novaknowledge; Quantum Communications; Dalhousie University; and the School of Journalism, University of King's College.

Poster

Dibner History of Science Program Fellowships

Dibner History of Science Program at The Huntington
2011-2012 Fellowships

The Dibner History of Science Program offers historians of science and technology the opportunity to study in the Burndy Library and the other history of science and technology resources at the Huntington.

Short-Term Awards
Eligibility: PhD or equivalent; or doctoral candidate at the dissertation stage.
Tenure of fellowship: One to five months.
Amount of award: $2,500 per month.

Long-Term Awards
Eligibility: PhD or equivalent. Applicants must have received the PhD by June of 2010.
Tenure of fellowship: Nine to twelve months.
Amount of award: $50,000.
Applicants can be conducting research or already be at the writing stage and need reference materials only.

The deadline for 2011-2012 fellowship applications is December 15, 2010. For information on how to apply, please go to the “Research” section of The Huntington’s website.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Opportunities at the Clark Library

Dear friend of the Center and the Clark

Please distribute this important announcement regarding our upcoming fellowship opportunities:

sponsored by
UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies
and the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Combined fellowship information can be found here.

Post-doctoral application forms can be accessed directly via this link.

Clark Short-Term Fellowships
Fellowship support is available to scholars with research projects that require work in any area of the Clark's collections. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are for periods of one to three months in residence.
Stipend: $2,500 per month in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011

ASECS/Clark Fellowships
Fellowships jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library are available to postdoctoral scholars and to ABD graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of ASECS. Awards are for one month of residency.
Stipend: $2,500 for one month in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011

Kanner Fellowship in British Studies
This three-month fellowship, established through the generosity of Penny Kanner, supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral scholars.
Stipend: $7,500 for three months in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011

Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship
Sponsored jointly by the Clark and the Huntington Libraries, this two-month fellowship provides support for bibliographical research in early modern British literature and history as well as other areas where the two libraries have common strengths. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or have appropriate research experience.
Stipend: $5,000 for two months in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011


Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships

This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center's yearlong core programs.

The core program for year 2011–2012:

Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean
directed by Clark Professor Barbara Fuchs (UCLA)

The program, which is based at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, invites applications from humanities scholars whose research interests relate to the representation of empire and imperial rivalry in the early modern Mediterranean. The field of Mediterranean studies has grown tremendously in recent years, with rich investigations both within the national disciplines and in a comparative framework, placing empires side by side. This series will focus on the imbrication and entanglement of the various actors in the early modern Mediterranean (the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires, Portugal, Morocco, France, England, Venice, and so forth). How is imperial competition managed in different genres? How do literary and cultural productions render the alterity and the attraction of the cultures encountered? Rivalry and Rhetoric will feature three symposia that take us from the broadest problems of representation to a case study—early modern England—for which the "Mediterranean turn" has radically changed the field.

“Envisioning Empire in the Old World,” the first and broadest meeting, will consider problems of visual, material, and textual representation of contact zones and encounters among the Mediterranean empires. Topics include: Spain in Italy, Spain on the Ottomans, versions of Lepanto, North African Borderlands, travel writing, captive’s tales, merchants and ambassadors, citational and textual traditions, lingua franca and the problems of communication, and contested spaces on the page and the stage.

“Black Legends and Domestic Dissent” explores the intersections between the discourses that discredit Spain or the Ottomans as imperial actors and the contestation of orthodoxy in the domestic sphere. How is anti-Spanish sentiment used across Europe, and how does it enable local or national forms of resistance? How do conceptions of the Ottomans intersect with or influence conceptions of Spain? What is the role of race in the black legends? Conference sessions will focus on different iterations of black legends across Europe and the Americas, as well as on their interpenetration.

“Imagining the Mediterranean in Early Modern England” explores how England engages the Mediterranean as conceptual space, and how this engagement intersects with those of other European nations. What role does the representation of Mediterranean empire serve in thinking through England's own expansion? How is the threat of the Mediterranean negotiated in various genres? How has the canon of early modern English writing changed in response to the Mediterranean turn of recent years? Topics include: the geography of revenge tragedy, Iberian tragedies, Shakespeare's Mediterranean, Machiavellianism on stage, Spanish plots and plotting Spaniards, translation and appropriation.

Scholars will need to have received their doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than July 1, 2005 and no later than September 30, 2011). Scholars whose research pertains to the announced theme are eligible to apply. Fellows are expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s workshops and seminars. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark.

Stipend: $37,740 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Opportunities at the Clark Library

Please distribute this important announcement regarding our upcoming fellowship opportunities:

sponsored by
UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies
and the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Combined fellowship information can be found here.

Post-doctoral application forms can be accessed directly via this link.


Clark Short-Term Fellowships
Fellowship support is available to scholars with research projects that require work in any area of the Clark's collections. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are for periods of one to three months in residence.
Stipend: $2,500 per month in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011

ASECS/Clark Fellowships
Fellowships jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library are available to postdoctoral scholars and to ABD graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of ASECS. Awards are for one month of residency.
Stipend: $2,500 for one month in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011

Kanner Fellowship in British Studies
This three-month fellowship, established through the generosity of Penny Kanner, supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral scholars.
Stipend: $7,500 for three months in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011

Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship
Sponsored jointly by the Clark and the Huntington Libraries, this two-month fellowship provides support for bibliographical research in early modern British literature and history as well as other areas where the two libraries have common strengths. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or have appropriate research experience.
Stipend: $5,000 for two months in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011

Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships

This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center's yearlong core programs.

The core program for year 2011–2012:

Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean
directed by Clark Professor Barbara Fuchs (UCLA)

The program, which is based at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, invites applications from humanities scholars whose research interests relate to the representation of empire and imperial rivalry in the early modern Mediterranean. The field of Mediterranean studies has grown tremendously in recent years, with rich investigations both within the national disciplines and in a comparative framework, placing empires side by side. This series will focus on the imbrication and entanglement of the various actors in the early modern Mediterranean (the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires, Portugal, Morocco, France, England, Venice, and so forth). How is imperial competition managed in different genres? How do literary and cultural productions render the alterity and the attraction of the cultures encountered? Rivalry and Rhetoric will feature three symposia that take us from the broadest problems of representation to a case study—early modern England—for which the "Mediterranean turn" has radically changed the field.

“Envisioning Empire in the Old World,” the first and broadest meeting, will consider problems of visual, material, and textual representation of contact zones and encounters among the Mediterranean empires. Topics include: Spain in Italy, Spain on the Ottomans, versions of Lepanto, North African Borderlands, travel writing, captive’s tales, merchants and ambassadors, citational and textual traditions, lingua franca and the problems of communication, and contested spaces on the page and the stage.

“Black Legends and Domestic Dissent” explores the intersections between the discourses that discredit Spain or the Ottomans as imperial actors and the contestation of orthodoxy in the domestic sphere. How is anti-Spanish sentiment used across Europe, and how does it enable local or national forms of resistance? How do conceptions of the Ottomans intersect with or influence conceptions of Spain? What is the role of race in the black legends? Conference sessions will focus on different iterations of black legends across Europe and the Americas, as well as on their interpenetration.

“Imagining the Mediterranean in Early Modern England” explores how England engages the Mediterranean as conceptual space, and how this engagement intersects with those of other European nations. What role does the representation of Mediterranean empire serve in thinking through England's own expansion? How is the threat of the Mediterranean negotiated in various genres? How has the canon of early modern English writing changed in response to the Mediterranean turn of recent years? Topics include: the geography of revenge tragedy, Iberian tragedies, Shakespeare's Mediterranean, Machiavellianism on stage, Spanish plots and plotting Spaniards, translation and appropriation.

Scholars will need to have received their doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than July 1, 2005 and no later than September 30, 2011). Scholars whose research pertains to the announced theme are eligible to apply. Fellows are expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s workshops and seminars. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark.


Stipend: $37,740 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar.
Application deadline: 1 February 2011