The Australian Academy of Science has been impacted by the severe hailstorms that crossed Canberra on Monday 20 January, exposing the Academy’s nationally significant scientific archives to hail and rain.
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The deadline for application with a pre-proposal is 15 February 2020.
The NIAS-Lorentz Program is a collaboration established in 2006 by NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam) and the Lorentz Center (workshop center for all scientific disciplines, Leiden).
The NIAS-Lorentz Program promotes innovative interdisciplinary research that brings together perspectives from the social sciences and humanities on the one hand and the natural and technological sciences on the other. This program gives special attention to topics of societal importance that require extensive collaboration across traditional scientific boundaries in order to progress.
An NLTG can particularly benefit mid-career researchers who wish to explore and open a new interdisciplinary scientific field. We kindly ask you to draw the attention of possibly interested persons to the NLTG call. Thank you.
Information about the NLTG call as well as the partners of the NIAS-Lorentz Program can be found at the above mentioned NIAS-Lorentz website or you can contact us.
The Mike Smith Student Prize awards $3000 to an outstanding research essay addressing the history of Australian science or Australian environmental history.
Deadline: 9am AEDT Monday 20 January 2020
Criteria: The prize will be awarded for an essay based on original unpublished research undertaken whilst enrolled as a student (postgraduate or undergraduate) at any tertiary educational institution in the world.
The essay should be 4000–8000 words in length (exclusive of endnotes). Essays must be written in English and fully documented following the style specified for the Australian Academy of Science’s journal, Historical Records of Australian Science.
Essays may deal with any aspect of the history of Australian science (including medicine and technology) or Australian environmental history. ‘Australia’ can include essays that focus on the Australian region, broadly defined, including Oceania. Essays that compare issues and subjects associated with Australia with those of other places also are welcomed. The winning entry, if it is in a suitable subject area, may be considered for publication in Historical Records of Australian Science.
Past winners: Historical Records of Australian Science have published a virtual issue showcasing six previous essays awarded the Mike Smith Prize.
I hope this e-mail finds you well. I am enclosing a link to the CFP for next year's biennial meeting of the International Society of the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS). Due to ongoing unrest in Hong Kong, the HOPOS Steering Committee made the difficult decision to relocate the conference to Singapore and extend the deadline for submissions until Oct 31, 2019. It is important that we advertise the new venue and deadline, especially to those who do HOPOS related research in the Australasian region. I would therefore greatly appreciate it if you could spread the word and circulate the enclosed link to the conference web page to your colleagues and students. Thank you so much, and hoping we might meet in Singapore next summer.
HOPOS, the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, is devoted to promoting scholarly research on the history of philosophy of science. We construe this subject broadly, to include topics in the history of related disciplines and in all historical periods, studied through diverse methodologies.
Dr Helen Hattab
Full Professor of Philosophy
University of Houston
Past President of the International Society of the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
I would like to invite you to a special seminar by History and Philosophy of Science this week which will be held to commemorate the centenary of Diana (Ding) Dyason, former head of HPS at the University of Melbourne.
Details:
1pm Wednesday 18 September, Arts West North Wing-553 (Discursive Space)
History and Philosophy of Science has been taught in some form at the University of Melbourne since 1946, making it one of the oldest such Departments in the world. Dyason joined the Department – then known as the Department of General Science and Scientific Method – shortly afterwards, in 1950. In 1958 Dyason was appointed to be Senior Lecturer-in-Charge of the recently renamed Department of the History and Philosophy of Science. Ding led the Department until 1975 when she was succeeded by Rod Home. During this time, Dyason was also the first President of the Australasian Association for the History and Philosophy of Science (now AAHPSSS) and left an enormous legacy in the social history of medicine.
The Ding Dyason commemorative seminar will touch on all aspects of Dyason’s life, work and intellectual legacy with a series of short talks and panels from current, former and emerging scholars from HPS.
Speakers will include former heads of HPS, Janet McCalman and Howard Sankey, historian of the Dyason family Cecily Hunter, Lecturer in the History of Medicine and Life Sciences, James Bradley, and Postgraduate Research Fellow and this year’s Greg Dening Lecturer Fallon Mody.
The event will be lightly catered. All are welcome, no RSVPs necessary.
For further information about details of the event, please contact the HPS Seminar Co-ordinator, Martin Bush, at martin.bush@unimelb.edu.au.
This year's SAANZ (Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand) conference, which will be taking place in Auckland, New Zealand (December 3–6), and will feature a "Science and Technology Studies" stream.
Further information can be obtained at the following link:
We have extended the deadline for applications for the Ian Langham Bursary for student travel grants to the AAHPSSS 2019 Conference in Wellington until 15 September.
