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PCST conference in Dunedin, New Zealand, April 2018

PCST2018.org

Next year’s Public Communication of Science and Technology conference will take place in Dunedin, New Zealand, in April 2018. PCST 2018 is organised by the PCST Network and hosted by The Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago. PCST conferences are a forum for discussing a wide range of issues in science communication practice, training and research but proposals for PCST 2018 are especially welcome on the conference's main theme, Science, Stories and Society. The closing date for proposals for presentation is 12 noon (GMT) on 1 October 2017.

Full details at https://www.pcst.co/proposals/call

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NEUROSCIENCE & SOCIETY: Ethical, Legal & Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research

NEUROSCIENCE & SOCIETY: Ethical, Legal & Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research

Sydney, 14–15 September 2017

Registration is now open for Neuroscience & Society, a conference exploring the ethical, legal, social and clinical applications and implications of neuroscience research.

The conference brings together leading national and international scholars and practitioners from the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, government, public policy, law, social sciences, ethics, and philosophy to discuss critical current and upcoming issues.

The dynamic conference program features:

  • Over 25 talks and panels on a range of topics including: ageing and dementia; addiction, love, and self-control; neurolaw; moral enhancement; brain-computer interfaces, and artificial intelligence.

  • International speakers including:

    • Prof Katrina Sifferd (Elmhurst College, USA)

    • Brian Earp, (Oxford University, UK)

    • Dr Katy de Kogel, (Ministry of Security and Justice, The Netherlands)

    • Prof Julian Savulescu (Oxford University, UK)

    • Prof Tom Buller (Illinois State University, USA)

    • Assoc Prof Gregg Caruso (SUNY Corning, USA)

  • A poster session showcasing 16 pieces of innovative research from across the globe.

  • A free public lecture ‘Is neuroscience relevant to criminal responsibility? Yes and No.’

  • Ample networking opportunities.

The conference will also launch the Australian Neuroethics Network, a collaboration between leading researchers and practitioners examining the implications of neuroscience for Australia.

Join us at this important event on 14 September (Sydney Law School) and 15 September (Dunmore Lang Conference Centre, Macquarie University) in Sydney (Australia).

Register online here.

Neuroscience & Society is supported by ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function Neuroethics Program, Centre for Agency Values and Ethics at Macquarie University, Sydney Law School and Brain and Mind Centre (USYD).

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Call for workshop proposals: InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi

InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi

(December 4–7, 2018)

Hosted by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

Organizers: Social Science Research Council InterAsia Program, Duke University Global Asia Initiative, Göttingen University Global and Transregional Studies Platform, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Seoul National University Asia Center, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, and Yale University.

Applications due October 31, 2017

InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi is the sixth in a series of conferences showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines that explores themes that transform conventional understandings of Asia. Crossing traditional area studies boundaries and creating international and interdisciplinary networks of scholars working to theorize the intersection of the “global” and the “regional” in a variety of contexts, the conference reconceptualizes Asia as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from West Asia through Eurasia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, to East Asia.

The 2018 Hanoi conference will be structured to enable intensive working group interactions on specific research themes as well as broader interactions/discussions on topics of shared interest and concern. Each workshop will have two directors with different institutional affiliations, preferably representing different disciplines.

Joint proposals are invited from scholars from any world region who are interested in co-organizing and codirecting a thematic workshop that addresses one of the following broadly conceived themes. All workshop directors must hold a PhD degree and have significant experience in conducting independent research, holding research workshops, and evaluating and commenting on a variety of research proposals and papers.

  1. Sites of InterAsian Interaction
  2. Territorial Sovereignties and Historical Identities
  3. Transregional Religious Networks
  4. Environmental Humanities in Asia
  5. Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks for the Rise of Asian Cities
  6. Infrastructures and Networks

We encourage creative proposals that explore innovative connections, convergences, and comparisons across InterAsia.

Selected directors will be expected to:
  • help recruit and choose ten to twelve international workshop participants (senior and junior scholars, graduate students, and other researchers) competitively from across relevant disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and related fields;
  • provide feedback and comments to all selected participants in advance of the conference; and
  • run all workshop discussions over the course of the three-and-a-half-day event.

The conference organizers will cover all directors’ costs of participation, including economy-class airfare and accommodations. Workshop directors will each receive a $1,000 honorarium.

Workshop proposals must be submitted electronically and are due October 31, 2017.

The full text of the request for workshop proposals, including detailed descriptions of the workshop themes, information on the application process, the application form, and eligibility guidelines, can be reviewed on the conference web page.

Details of the previous conferences in the series—held in Dubai (2008), Singapore (2010), Hong Kong (2012), Istanbul (2013), and Seoul (2016)—including workshop descriptions, conference programs, and presentation videos, can be found through the InterAsian Connections Conference Series page.

For additional inquiries, please contact us at interasia@ssrc.org

 

 

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One week left to submit for AAHPSSS Conference 2017

Only one week left until the deadline for submitting papers, sessions and workshop proposals for the 2017 AAHPSSS Conference.

To submit, and to find information on the conference, go here.

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Postdoctoral fellowship, Maastricht University

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, is currently looking for a historian to join an interdisciplinary research project in a post-doctoral researcher capacity. The position is for three years full time (see further details attached). The project, called Making Clinical Sense, is a comparative study of how technologies are implicated in learning sensory skills, through the case of medical education. Specifically, the project brings ethnographic and historical insights together to interrogate the role of pedagogical technologies in how doctors learn the craft skills of their profession.

Deadline for applications: 14th September 2017

More details about the study can be found on the project website: www.makingclinicalsense.com

Further details about the job application process can be found here: https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UM/vacancy/42128/lang/en/

Please contact Anna Harris with any inquiries about the position or the project: a.harris@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Assist. Prof. Dr. Anna Harris
Department of Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University
PO Box 616, 6200 MD
Maastricht, The Netherlands

Principal Investigator, Making Clinical Sense (ERC Starting Grant)
Global Young Academy
Further links: blog, personal website and university page
Recently published: “Embodiment” in Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology

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Call for papers: Asian Extremes: Climate, Meteorology and Disaster in History

Asia Research Institute, Seminar Room AS8, Level 4
10 Kent Ridge Crescent - Singapore

Date/Time
Date(s) - 17/05/2018 - 18/05/2018
All Day

Location
Asia Research Institute, Seminar Room AS8, Level 4

SUBMISSION DEADLINE | 17 OCTOBER 2017

The weather plays an often underestimated, yet vitally important role in human history. Climate has been considered an explanation for almost every aspect of society and culture, from causing disease to determining racial characteristics historically. Extremes of weather, especially those experienced in Asia including typhoons and monsoon rains, have also had a major impact on society. In urban areas, the weather has contributed to urban destruction and shaped resultant urban rebuilding and planning. In the port and coastal cities of Asia, the need to understand those extremes also led to pioneering scientific developments in the fields of meteorology and maritime science. In the modern Anthropocene, the need to understand the history of the climate and all its associated impacts is ever more critical.

Climate and weather history are still considered emerging fields despite some precedent from the sciences and arguably, studies in this field have disproportionately favoured Northern Europe, in large part because of the greater availability and accessibility of records for this region. There are still many knowledge gaps for Asia however, partly because of the paucity of records in comparison to Europe, because many archives have either been restricted or have only relatively recently been opened, but also because regional scholars have overly focused on teleological nationalistic explorations of the past.

The aim of this conference therefore is to explore the role of the weather in the history of anthropogenic Asia. It ties in with current historiographical trends that explore scientific history as a globally linked enterprise, one that crossed different national and imperial borders. It also sees Asia as critical to the development of global meteorological science: understanding extremes such as typhoons were essential to trade, economy and society. Despite the centrality of extreme weather to urban Asia historically (and in the present day) however, this field remains relatively under researched. The panels adopt an interdisciplinary approach, appealing to historians, social scientists and natural scientists with an interest in events and trends in the history of climate changes and extremes of weather, to suggest what an enhanced understanding of the past might teach us about managing and adapting to current climatic challenges. This helps us to fill a gap between different disciplines, especially meteorologists and scientist who are more concerned with quantified data and historian and/or social scientists who put more emphasis on socio-political aspects of climate and climate change.

In this conference, we seek to gain a better understanding of the following themes:

  • Asian Extremes: Weather as a Driver of Change
  • Imperial Meteorology: A Global Science
  • Culture, Climate and Weather
  • Weather History and the Modern-Day: Integrating History and Science in the Anthropocene

Full details

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Natural History in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science will run a workshop on:

Natural History in the Long Eighteenth Century

Speakers include:

  • Jennifer Mensch (Western Sydney) ‘Caught between Character and Race: The role of temperament in Kant’s lectures on anthropology'
  • Andrew Cooper (UCL) ‘A critical method for natural history: the development of Kant’s teleological principle'
  • Peter Anstey (Sydney) ‘The decline of Baconian natural history in Britain’

When: 2.00–5.00pm, 25 August 2017

Where: SOPHI Common Room, Level 8
Brennan MacCallum Building
Manning Road
University of Sydney

Cost: Free (but registration necessary)

Contact: james.dunk@sydney.edu.au

Visit: Workshop: Natural history in the long eighteenth century

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PSA2018: Call for Symposium Proposals

Twenty-Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association

November 1 – November 4, 2018

Seattle, WA

Submission is now open for proposals for symposia to be presented at the PSA2018 meeting in Seattle, WA, on November 1-4, 2018. This will be the 50th anniversary of the first biennial meeting of the PSA. The deadline for submitting symposium proposals is January 5, 2018. Please note that there will be morning sessions on November 1 beginning at 9 am. PSA2018: Call for Papers is being issued separately. PSA2018 will once again include a poster forum; the call for posters will be issued separately. The call for session chairs will be sent out in late summer 2018. The PSA will once again be offering Dependent Care Subsidies of up to $200, and PSA registrants will also have access to on-site childcares services.

A symposium should involve several presenters, typically 4-5, organized around a topic of interest. Symposia may be on any topic in the philosophy of science. The PSA2018 program committee will strive for quality, variety, innovation, and diversity on the program; ideally the program will reflect the full range of current work in the philosophy of science. Symposia that make connections with, or include, working scientists, as well as symposia on topics in philosophy of science that also are of potential interest to members of the History of Science Society (HSS) – whose meeting will be held jointly with PSA2018 – are warmly invited. We will not be considering ‘Author Meets Critics’ sessions, but topical sessions that build upon recently published books are acceptable. At the time of submission, proposers may choose to have their proposals considered for the Women’s Caucus Prize Symposium; for more information please go to http://womenscaucus.philsci.org/prizes. Members of the PSA2018 Program Committee are listed here.

Proposals must include sufficient supporting material to permit the program committee to evaluate the quality and interest of the symposium. Proposals for symposia should include:

  1. The title of the proposed symposium
  2. A short descriptive summary of the proposal (100-200 words)
  3. A description of the topic and a justification of its current importance to the discipline (up to 1000 words)
  4. Titles and abstracts of all papers, with up to 500 words for the title and abstract of each paper
  5. A list of participants and either an abbreviated curriculum vitae or short biographical description (not to exceed 1 page) for each participant, including any non-presenting co-authors.
  6. Institutional affiliation and e-mail addresses for all participants, including any non-presenting co-authors.

The deadline for submitting symposium proposals is January 5, 2018. A selection of symposia will be accepted for presentation at the PSA2018 meeting. Symposium organizers will be informed of the program committee’s decision prior to the deadline for submitting contributed papers (March 1, 2018). Please see important information below on PSA policy regarding multiple submissions to PSA2018.

Proposals for symposia should be submitted to https://www.openconf.org/PSA2018/, a US-based conference management system. To submit a symposium proposal, click on PSA2018 Symposia. This is where the entire symposium proposal should be submitted, per the instructions given there. In addition, each symposium participant must click on PSA2018 Symposium Author Information and Abstracts, where they will find some additional questions and, if they are the presenting author on a paper, must also provide a short abstract of no more than 100 words; the abstract will appear in a book of abstracts for the conference if the symposium is accepted. Please note: although commentators on symposia are required to provide answers to the additional questions and are considered to be presenting authors, they do not need to submit the 100 word abstract.

After the conference, symposium presenters may submit their papers for review for publication in a supplementary issue of Philosophy of Science. The evaluation for publication will be of individual papers. Authors will be encouraged to post their symposium papers as PSA2018 Conference Papers at philsci-archive.pitt.edu (a publicly accessible digital archive) prior to the meeting. Authors who subsequently submit their paper for review for publication will also be encouraged to post their papers at philsci-archive.pitt.edu, whether or not they are accepted for publication. The submission deadline for symposium papers will be announced at a later date.

Please note that in accordance with current PSA policy:

  1. No previously published paper may be presented at the PSA meeting.
  2. No one will be permitted to present more than once at PSA2018. Thus, if a symposium proposal in which you are a presenting author is accepted, you cannot submit a contributed paper for which you are the presenting author. Commentators that are part of symposia are considered to be presenting authors. A scholar may appear as co-author on more than one paper or symposium talk, but may present at PSA2018 only once. This policy does not apply to the poster forum; a presenting author on a contributed paper or symposium paper may also present a poster in the poster forum.
  3. Any individual can be part of only one symposium proposal in which he or she is a presenting author. Note that this policy excludes the practice of being a presenting author for more than one symposium proposal and subsequently choosing to present in only one symposium if multiple proposals are accepted.
  4. If an accepted symposium subsequently loses participants, maintaining acceptance will become contingent upon the symposium organizer developing satisfactory alternatives to maintain the quality and coherence of the session.

All questions about submissions should be directed to the Chair of the PSA2018 Program Committee, Kevin Elliott, at psa2018@philsci.org.