Situating Science Call for Workshop Proposals revision

This is a brief message to inform you of a revision to the Situating Science Call for Workshop Proposals, which was recently announced. Please disseminate.

The timeframe has been extended. The new timeframe of the Call for Workshop Proposals is: Jan. 1 2011 to March 31, 2012.

Deadline remains Friday, Oct. 1, 2010.

Details are available to view here

More information on Situating Science is available at our new website

Lecture & Booksigning: America @ The Pill

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
6:00-7:30pm
San Diego History Center
Casa de Balboa, Balboa Park
Cost $5 SDHC members

$8 general. Book purchase additional.
Reservations requested!

Call (619) 232-6203, or send an email to register.

Fifty years ago, the FDA announced approval for the birth control pill. Within a few years, millions of women were "on the pill," making it the most popular form of contraception in the country and one of the best-selling drugs in U.S. history. But the road has not always been smooth, as historian Elaine Tyler May, Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota, reveals in her new book.

Join us for an engaging look into the political climate that greeted the pill, the women who are responsible for the pill's success, men's changing relationship with the pill, and the myths and realities that continue to surround it.

Booksigning will follow the lecture.

Call for Papers: "Reading the Middle Ages"

The Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

invite submissions for the

UC Berkeley conference on the practice of reading in the Middle Ages

25-27 March 2011

UC Berkeley

Keynote Address by

Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn

Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities

at the University of Pennsylvania

Our knowledge of late antique and medieval culture derives primarily from the way in which we read today the manuscripts, images, and artifacts that were created and read in the past. The various intersecting and discrete social strata spanning the Middle Ages each practiced radically different methods of reading, in the broadest possible sense of the term. From the monasteries where the writings and stories of the classical period were transmitted and preserved, to the stained-glass windows greeting worshipers of even the lowest social classes, each reading practice provides us with invaluable information about what the people we study may have valued as well as how they lived and communicated with one another.

This conference will take up the variety of reading practices at play in the Middle Ages as the cornerstone to an exploration of medieval culture. However, proposals are encouraged to push our modern conceptions of reading into new territory, finding medieval reading practiced in ways we would not expect, challenging the way in which we read now, and asking questions of our relationship to medieval texts. Above all, we invite papers from a wide range of disciplines, especially ones that do not limit themselves to a treatment of literary or textual reading, but instead reach beyond the scope of the manuscript page to archeology and the reading of time through physical remains, art and the reading of images, et cetera.

We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful campus for what promises to be an exciting and intellectually stimulating weekend.

Please send 300-word abstracts for twenty-minute papers to Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley (graduatemedievalists@gmail.com) by Friday, 12 November 2010

Opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication

In partnership with the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication we have begun work on a project supported by an NSF-funded planning grant titled Making the Global Local: Unusual Weather Events as Climate Change Education Opportunities. A postdoctoral research fellow, to be based out of GMU, is sought by October 1st to collaborate on research and educational programming with us and America’s broadcast meteorologists. If you know potentially interested candidates, please alert them to the opportunity. Information about the position can be found here. If you have trouble accessing the job description from the link, please go to https://jobs.gmu.edu and search on Job Number F9401z. Thank you.

International Colloquium - Assembling Colombia (1): natures, cultures, technologies

Dear Friends and Colleagues in Science Studies and related areas, worldwide

We wish to announce a forthcoming colloquium, Assembling Colombia (1): natures, cultures, technologies

What? This colloquium constitutes the launch of the major research project, directed by Professor Olga Restrepo Forero, “Ensamblado en Colombia: Producción de saberes y construcción de ciudadanías” (Colombia assembled: production of knowledges and construction of citizenships). It is the first of a prospective pair, the second being planned for 2011. These events, and the research they project, are related to the 'celebrations' of the bicentenary of the Colombian state

Where? Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá

When? August 10 - 13, 2010

Who? 51 prospective authors of 38 papers, mostly Colombian but including 6 International Guests: Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Duke University, USA), Charis Thompson (UC Berkeley, USA), Pablo Kreimer (Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Argentina), Ana María Talak (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Dominique Vinck (Université Pierre Mendès-France, France), David Turnbull (University of Melbourne, Australia)

For more information, see www.ensambladoencolombia.org

Naomi Oreskes' book discussed in The Guardian

A dark ideology is driving those who deny climate change.

People who claim that climate science is a conspiracy or the work of charlatans are talking rubbish.

Robin McKie
Sunday August 1, 2010
The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/01/climate-change-robin-mckie

IHC Geographies of Place

For the *2010-2011 academic year*, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center will sponsor a series of events entitled "*Geographies of Place*." The series will explore ideas of place and how they have been produced through mapping, media, and imaginative labor. The work of settlement and statecraft, social practice and cultural perception, place has historically been the source of both solace and struggle.

Geographies of Place will examine the ways in which space is demarcated by identity and memory, possession and destination. In a moment when globalization, environmentalism, cognitive science, and networked media are transforming our notions of geographical space, it is crucial to contemplate our historical and contemporary perceptions of place. For more information on the series, visit:

http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/geographies

*We are seeking faculty and graduate students who might like to
collaborate with the IHC on events in this series. Please contact IHC
Acting Director Ann Bermingham or Associate Director Emily Zinn with suggestions or ideas for potential collaboration.*

Integrated History & Philosophy of Science

This September 23-26, the Indiana University Department of History and Philosophy of Science will host a three day conference on “Integrated History and Philosophy of Science.” This is the third in a series of meetings devoted to the topic, and it coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the Indiana HPS Department. The paper topics range from a discussion of seventeenth-century comet theory to history and philosophy of contemporary embryology. For complete information on the conference, including abstracts of papers and details on lodging, go to
http://www.indiana.edu/~andhps/

Post-Doctoral Social Scientist: Impact Evaluation (WWF, Washington DC)

WWF is re-opening the application process for a post-doctoral social scientist.

We seek a highly motivated researcher early in his/her career to join our team. The successful applicant will have strong statistical skills, international field experience, and a passion for policy-relevant conservation science. (See below and attached for official announcement.)

The post-doc will join the science program at WWF in Washington, DC, working with me, Helen Fox (WWF-US), Arun Agrawal (U. Michigan), and colleagues around the world to evaluate the ecological and social impacts of marine protected areas (MPAs) and other conservation interventions. This exciting portfolio is part of the emerging WWF
Conservation Impact Initiative, which seeks to catalyze rigorous evaluation of conservation interventions and, thus, provide the scientific evidence for more effective conservation policy and practice.

The application deadline is August 13. All applications should be submitted via the WWF website.

CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WES

New Academic Building, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
July 21-23
with FREE public evening lecture July 21st, 7pm!

FREE PUBLIC EVENING LECTURE
Wed. July 21st 7P.M.
Alumni Hall, New Academic Building, University of King’s College

Dr. Sundar Sarukkai, Manipal University,
“Nature of Knowledge in Indian Intellectual Traditions”

Exploring the extensive debate on the nature of knowledge in Indian philosophical and medical traditions and its significant influence on the nature of discourse about the world.

http://www.manipal.edu/Institutions/UniversityDepartments/MCPHManipal/KnowMCPH/Pages/Leadership.aspx

CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WEST
July 21-23

Inspired by Dalhousie University's online launch of their Dinwiddie Archives*, this conference aims to further international dialogue and scholarly exchange between those working on the history of science in Asia, Europe and North America by examining the global circulation of scientific knowledge from the Early Modern Period to today.

For further details – including the poster and information on registration – please visit: http://www.situsci.ca/ and http://www.situsci.ca/en/conf.html

Note: Early registration rates for the conference end July 1st.

SPEAKERS AND TITLES
(Program available online)

Arun Balasubramaniam, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
“Bringing Eastern Science to the West: Portuguese Voyages of Intellectual Discovery”

Paola Bertucci, Yale University
“Enlightenment and the Secret Knowledge Economy”

Fa-ti Fan, State University of New York at Binghamton
"Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Science of Antiquities in Modern China"

Yves Gingras, l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
“Changing Networks of Collaboration Between Countries in the Sciences from 1980 to 2008”

Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire
“From Calcutta to London: James Dinwiddie’s Galvanic Circuits”

Savithree Preetha Nair, Independent Scholar
“Bungallee House set on Fire by Galvanism”: Exhibition, Electricity and the Social Life of the Voltaic Pile in India (1794-1806)"

Khyati Nagar, York University
“Between Calcutta and Kew: The Divergent Circulation and Production of Hortus Bengalensis and Flora Indica”

Jahnavi Phalkey, Imperial College London
“From Origins to Practice: Problems in the Historiography of Science”

Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University
“18th Century Jesuit Astronomy, Pere Boudier and Jai Singh’s Astronomers”

Veena Rao, National Institute of Advanced Studies
“J.B.S. Haldane’s Indian Period”

Sundar Sarukkai, Manipal University
“Translating Concepts”

Grace Shen, Max Plank Institute for the History of Science
“Meetings and Metonymy: Geology and Representations of China on the International Stage”

Larry Stewart, University of Saskatchewan
“The Spectacle of Experiment: From Dumfries to Calcutta and Back”

Jon Topham, University of Leeds
“Print and the Circulation of Knowledge between the UK and Continental Europe in the Early Nineteenth-Century”

Haiyan Yang, Peking University
“Knowledge across Borders: Encounter, Transmission and Interaction of Darwinism in the Chinese Context”

CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WEST will culminate in a half-day facilitation workshop to plan for further Science Studies dialogue and exchange, “East” and “West”, with future conferences in Bangalore and Singapore.

Sponsored by the Situating Science Knowledge Cluster, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of King’s College)

*The James Dinwiddie (1746-1815) papers were donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 1999 and are prepared for online access. Dr. Dinwiddie (1746–1815) was the scientific attaché of the first British embassy to the 18th Century Chinese imperial court, and the first Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at the College of Fort William in Calcutta, India. One of the most important of the new itinerant Newtonian natural philosophers and lecturers of the Early Modern Period, the bulk of Dinwiddie’s papers consist of his scientific observations, experiments, lecture notes, and journals with dates ranging from 1767 to 1815.

See more at: http://www.library.dal.ca/archives/dinwiddie/din_bio.htm