UCSD's Science Studies Program comprises four departments: communication, history, philosophy, and sociology. Graduate students and faculty in Science Studies are committed to working toward deeper understanding of scientific knowledge in its full cultural and historical context, while receiving a thorough training at the professional level in one of those disciplines.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Visiting faculty search in STS at Wesleyan University
The Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) seeks a one-year visiting assistant professor or instructor beginning July 1, 2012, with teaching and research interests in social and cultural studies of science and/or medicine. Ph.D. or ABD in STS or related field is required. To apply please visit:http://careers.wesleyan.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51555. The application process will require you to upload a letter of application, CV, statement of teaching interests (with course syllabi if available), and provide email addresses for 3 letters of reference. Applications received after May 1, 2012 may not receive full consideration. Wesleyan University is a highly selective liberal arts college with strong support for both research and teaching. SiSP is a vibrant interdisciplinary program with 60+ majors, who study history, philosophy and social studies of science and medicine together with a science. Teaching load for visitors is 3-2. Wesleyan University is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes applications from women and historically underrepresented minority groups. Inquiries regarding Title IX, Section 504, or any other non-discrimination policies should be directed to: Sonia Mañjon, PhD, Chief Diversity Officer, 860-685-4771.
Call for UC Graduate participants: "Indisciplines of Enlightenment: Firsts, Origins, Foundations" (seminar, July 19-22)
This seminar will be at UC Berkeley this summer. Applications are due by May 1, 2012. For details: http://uchumanitiesforum.org/exchange/research-collaboration/call-for-graduate-participants-indisciplines-of-enlightenment-firsts-origins-foundations-seminar-july-19-22/
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Lecturer/Associate Director, STS program, Stanford
Lecturer and Associate Director
Program in Science, Technology and Society - Stanford University
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in a cognate discipline at the time of appointment. They should have an excellent record of undergraduate teaching and a forward-looking research agenda related to STS. Fields of special interest include social and cultural approaches to information technology; sociology of innovation; bioethics and biopolitics; science, technology and the environment; and security studies. Applicants should also be able to build bridges across multiple intellectual communities and possess exceptional communication and organizational skills.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
CFP: Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy at University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2012-13/11-02-12_early_modern_medicine/11-02-12_early_modern_medicine.html
Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
Friday - Sunday, 2-4 November 2012
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Call for Papers
We invite the submission of extended abstracts (approximately 1000 words) for individual paper presentations (limit 30 minutes).
The aim of the conference is to bring to the fore the medical context of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ and to explore the complex connections between medicine and natural philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Medicine and natural philosophy interacted on many levels, from the practical imperative to restore and maintain the health of human bodies to theoretical issues on the nature of living matter and the powers of the soul to methodological concerns about the appropriate way to gain knowledge of natural things. And issues of life, generation, ageing, medicine, and vital activity were important topics of investigation for canonical actors of the Scientific Revolution, from Boyle, Hooke and Locke to Descartes and Leibniz. Recent efforts to recover the medical content and contexts of their projects have already begun to reshape our understanding of these key natural philosophers. Putting medical interests in the foreground also reveals connections with a wide variety of less canonical but historically important scientists, physicians, and philosophers, such as Petrus Severinus, Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Lodovico Settala, William Harvey, Richard Lower, Thomas Willis, Louis de la Forge, and Georg Ernst Stahl. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars of Renaissance and Early Modern science, medicine and philosophy to examine the projects of more and less canonical figures and trace perhaps unexpected interactions between medicine and other approaches to studying and understanding the natural world.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University)
Antonio Clericuzio (University of Cassino)
Dennis Des Chene (Washington University)
Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)
Cynthia Klestinec (Miami University, Ohio)
Gideon Manning (Caltech)
Jole Shackelford (University of Minnesota)
Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia University, Montreal)
Submission Guidelines
Please submit an extended abstract of approximately 1000 words and a 1-2 page CV to Peter Distelzweig at pmd17@pitt.edu. Submission should have full institutional and contact information and should be in doc/docx or pdf format.
Deadline for submissions is 1 June 2012.
Decisions will be announced by 30 July 2012.
Partial funding will be available for accepted papers.
Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
Friday - Sunday, 2-4 November 2012
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Call for Papers
We invite the submission of extended abstracts (approximately 1000 words) for individual paper presentations (limit 30 minutes).
The aim of the conference is to bring to the fore the medical context of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ and to explore the complex connections between medicine and natural philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Medicine and natural philosophy interacted on many levels, from the practical imperative to restore and maintain the health of human bodies to theoretical issues on the nature of living matter and the powers of the soul to methodological concerns about the appropriate way to gain knowledge of natural things. And issues of life, generation, ageing, medicine, and vital activity were important topics of investigation for canonical actors of the Scientific Revolution, from Boyle, Hooke and Locke to Descartes and Leibniz. Recent efforts to recover the medical content and contexts of their projects have already begun to reshape our understanding of these key natural philosophers. Putting medical interests in the foreground also reveals connections with a wide variety of less canonical but historically important scientists, physicians, and philosophers, such as Petrus Severinus, Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Lodovico Settala, William Harvey, Richard Lower, Thomas Willis, Louis de la Forge, and Georg Ernst Stahl. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars of Renaissance and Early Modern science, medicine and philosophy to examine the projects of more and less canonical figures and trace perhaps unexpected interactions between medicine and other approaches to studying and understanding the natural world.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University)
Antonio Clericuzio (University of Cassino)
Dennis Des Chene (Washington University)
Patricia Easton (Claremont Graduate University)
Cynthia Klestinec (Miami University, Ohio)
Gideon Manning (Caltech)
Jole Shackelford (University of Minnesota)
Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia University, Montreal)
Submission Guidelines
Please submit an extended abstract of approximately 1000 words and a 1-2 page CV to Peter Distelzweig at pmd17@pitt.edu. Submission should have full institutional and contact information and should be in doc/docx or pdf format.
Deadline for submissions is 1 June 2012.
Decisions will be announced by 30 July 2012.
Partial funding will be available for accepted papers.
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