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Opportunity to undertake funded training to teach philosophy at pre-tertiary level

As a part of the Philosothon Project, FAPSA (Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations) is offering some small grants for Australian post-graduate philosophy students wishing to undertake a Level One “Philosophy in Schools” qualification in their closest State.

After a postgrad has a Level One qualification, they may facilitate at a Philosothon, or be inspired to further pursue vocational work teaching philosophy in pre-tertiary settings.  The link to apply is here, and the Philosophy Project leader is:

Matthew Wills
Project Leader - Email: matwills59@hotmail.com
The Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations (FAPSA) Philosothon Project
Proudly supported by the Templeton Religion Trust
Email: philosothon@yahoo.com
Philosothon website: www.philosothon.org

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Invitation to nominate and apply for Australian Academy of Science awards

Opportunities for scientists

Nominations and applications are open for the 2019 Australian Academy of Science:

  • honorific awards

  • research conferences

  • research awards

  • travelling fellowships.

Full guidelines and nomination or application details are on the relevant pages.

Download and share the 2019 awards fact sheet

The Academy’s honorific awards are open to senior scientists as well as early- and mid-career researchers who are making outstanding contributions to Australian science across a range of disciplines in the physical and biological sciences.

The closing date is Tuesday 1 May 2018 for Honorific award nominations and Friday 1 June 2018 for research, conference and travelling fellowship funding request.

A particular award that may be of interest to members is the Moran Award for History of Science Research.

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CFP: History of Science Society, Seattle meeting

DEADLINE: 15 APRIL 2018

Science History in Seattle

The History of Science Society (HSS) will hold its annual meeting on November 1–4, 2018 at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Seattle, WA . This will be a joint meeting with the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA).

Keep apprised of all meeting news by visiting our brand new meeting website. The site provides account creation, abstract submission, meeting program (when available), meeting registration (when available), and more.

Call for Papers Now Available!

HSS welcomes submissions on all topics. To submit, visit the meeting websiteand create an account (New Account). Upon account creation, you will be redirected to your Abstract Submission dashboard. (You can also access the submission system by clicking Abstract Submission in the navigation bar.)

We are currently accepting four types of proposals:

Individual Paper
Presentations on the history of science around 20 minutes long
Organized Sessions
Sessions of four to five papers about a common theme, submitted by an organizer
Roundtable
Facilitated discussions about the history of science or the state of the discipline
Flashtalks
Special Presidential Session
Presentations of 5 minutes or less, followed by discussion

Collaboration

Anyone with a panel, paper, or roundtable idea seeking like-minded presenters should consult the Discussion page on the meeting website (account required). You can make, consult, and follow posts. Organized sessions enjoy much higher acceptance rates than individual papers.

Additional Guidelines and Instructions: https://hss2018.hssonline.org

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

Call for Papers

For more information, you may also consult the full call for papers, which contains additional instructions and guidelines for abstract submission. The CFP is available as a PDF for download and distribution. Please share widely.

Have a suggestion for the meeting? Want to promote your panel? Looking for recommendations for a good cup of coffee in Seattle?

Let us know on Twitter! You can use the official meeting hashtag—#HSS18—or tweet us @hssonline.

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Stand Up Philosophy at Melbourne International Comedy Festival

My name is Mitch Alexander, and I’m bringing across the UK show “Stand Up Philosophy” for two nights at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Stand Up Philosophy teams the funniest comedians with the smartest philosophers to lecture, joke, pontificate and ruminate on a different topic each show. Each performer has about twenty minutes to present whatever they feel is most relevant and interesting for the crowd, with an audience Q&A, involving both comedians and academics, to end the night.

The show is a great way to get philosophy in front of people who might not normally be interested, as well as presenting it in a more approachable and light-hearted (though still respectful) way. At the same time, philosophy enthusiasts are very rarely catered for outside of the serious lecture or conference – it’s not all dour beard stroking!

The two themes for the Melbourne Comedy Festival are

  • “Sexbots And Self Driving Cars: Autonomy, AI and Ethic” and
  • “Love, Life, And Loss.”

The themes are kept somewhat vague to allow myriad different opinions and arguments, and to ensure that no one feels stymied for their performance.

So far the line ups include comedians Corey White (ABC, Best Newcomer MICF 2015) Alice Fraser (BBC, The Bugle, multiple 5 star reviews), Kirsty Webeck, Martin Dunlop and Lauren Bok, and philosophers such as Prof Robert Sparrow, Prof Suzy Killmister and Prof Oisin Deary.

The two shows take place at 08:30pm at The Spotted Mallard on Sydney Rd, Brunswick, on the 29th of March and the 12th of April respectively.

Ticketing link: www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/stand-up-philosophy/101512

Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2010649419149386/

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Inaugural PEiPL Lectures: Philosophical Perspectives on Biosciences, by Kim Sterelny and Paul Griffiths

March 13-14, 7–8.30pm: Philosophical Perspectives on Biosciences, two public lectures organized by the Philosophy and the Sciences working group of PEiPL (Philosophical Engagement in Public Life) network and co-sponsored by HPS/Philosophy, University of Melbourne.

Malaysian Theatre B121 and the Singapore Theatre B120, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne.

Tues March 13 Kim Sterelny: Moral Minds: Norms and their Evolution

Wed March 14 Paul Griffiths: What is Biological Essentialism?

All welcome: these are public lectures.  Reception to follow the talk on the 14th.

March 15, 11.30am – 1pm

Human Nature: A Conversation.  Paul Griffiths and Kim Sterelny.

Sponsored by PEiPL.   Politics and Philosophy Lounge, 324 Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.  Light lunch provided, spaces limited, all welcome.

RSVP rwilson.robert@gmail.com by March 9th.

Posters:

Phil Perspectives on Bio Sterelny

Phil Perspectives on Bio Griffiths
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4sSydney Update

August 29-Sep 1st
Sydney International Convention Centre

Call for Submissions closing next – February 1st

Now is the time to check our submissions page and decide how you would like to participate in 4sSydney.

You can submit closed panels and single papers, a paper to one of the 115 open panels, a Making and Doing session; or submit to an exciting new addition to the 4S program, the STS Across Borders Exhibit, which includes the opportunity to be part of the Contributing Editors program.

Our exciting program of affiliated events includes pre-conference workshops STS Underground, STS Africa, 6S and Brave New Law, and post-conference events Toxic Sydney and the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne.

Please consider contributing to what is certain to be a rich and diverse regional conference – by submitting, by adding to our collection of translations of the conference (currently 19 languages) or by contributing to the blog highlighting our two plenary themes, Indigenous STS and Querying STS Genealogies.

Share this call to your networks far and wide, email us with any questions, and follow us on twitter or join our mailing list for updates.

Emma Kowal and Matt Kearnes, Program Chairs

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Best wishes to all

 

Isaac Newton: Not born on 25 December, 1642.

We at AAHPSSS wish all our members and subscribers a great break. See you next year!

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Narratives of Climate Change Symposium

Narratives of Climate Change Symposium

5-6 JULY 2018 University of Newcastle, NeW Space Campus


Greenland iceberg floating past the village of Narsaq. Photo taken by Brendan Mackey

The struggle to solve the problem of human-forced climate change - which requires us to stop using fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas and end deforestation - has become an ever-present backdrop to political discourse, an intermittent topic in popular media, a central concern for community and social movements in the Global South and North, and a magnet for scholarly engagement.

The climate change problem is a disruptive, and potentially creative force that challenges, among other things, diverse ways of living, expectations of a good life, the dominant patterns of production and consumption, dominant frameworks of knowledge and the political, the fundamental precepts of legal systems, and the presupposition that our children’s children will inherit a world in which humans and the greater community of life can flourish.

At the same time, discourses around climate change risk invisibilising other histories of power and exploitation, such as colonialism, that have long inflicted violences upon First Nations peoples and their lifeworlds, and which underpin the reality that both the impacts and root causes of climate change are experienced disproportionally by the most vulnerable. Indeed, some climate change interventions serve to undermine rather than sustain Earth.

Contact

Law-School@newcastle.edu.au

Our Sponsors

About the Symposium

This symposium will be an interdisciplinary collaboration inspired by the possibility that the gap between scientific knowledge and effective political, legal and social action can be bridged by alternative forms of narrative, incorporated into and developed by artistic creations, works of fiction, social and other media, performances of all types including theatrical, activist and absurdist, visionary planning and innovative litigation such as the Children’s Trust lawsuits. In this collaboration, we envisage a partnership in which representatives from different communities and across academia work with diverse narratives, in particular the scientific narratives, to develop ways to ignite the public imagination and bring about effective action on climate change.

The collaboration acknowledges and seeks to support First Nations peoples’ ways of knowing and being, diverse forms of story-telling, and collaborations that support pluralistic, flourishing lifeworlds, both human and more-than-human.

The insidious process of cognitive dissonance renders many scholars incapable of contributing their expertise to the critical issues of our times, such as climate change. The academy continues to labour within the confines of coloniality and within a politics of knowledge which transforms subjects worthy of our moral consideration into objects and thus contributes to social alienation and political disempowerment. To paraphrase Mary Midgely, we are not aliens on a strange planet: our history and biology, which place us here, ensure that the facts of this planet have abundant meaning for us.

Download the Symposium Flyer