The Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
The latest HPS & ST Note is now up.
We're excited to announce that first articles of the new volume of Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology - its first volume under the new title - are published. They're listed below, and the volume is still growing. Visit the journal at its new URL: http://ptpbio.org.
Our main goal in relaunching the journal was to jump-start its publishing rate without compromising on quality. The higher publishing rate will make PTPBio eligible for inclusion in more indexes. At the same time, we have expanded its scope to explicitly include scientific practice, added new publication-types, made submitting manuscripts easier, enhanced transparency, and updated the article-design.
What hasn't changed is that PTPBio remains a high-quality, fully open-access publication, freely accessible to readers worldwide. It also remains free to authors, eschewing the "article processing charges" and submission fees imposed by some OA journals and for OA publishing in commercial journals. PTPBio continues to be published and archived on the stable platform of University of Michigan Library. We prioritize efficient review, and we publish continuously.
I believe that a functional, thriving journal with these features represents an asset for our intellectual community worth building and maintaining. The editors (Joanna, Roberta, Jonathan, and I) hope you will consider PTPBio a possible home for your work.
Best, Christopher H. Eliot
Workshop
7-9 December 2017
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Invited speakers: Brett Neilson, Jack Qiu, Ned Rossiter, Nishant Shah, Ravi Sundaram
Workshop organizers: Rolien Hoyng, Iam-chong Ip, Lisa Leung, Yvonne Yau
Sponsored by: Lingnan University and Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme.
Digital communication, despite its apparent immateriality, remains dependent on infrastructure placed somewhere. This workshop focuses on the intersection of urban situatedness and geo-location in order to examine the spatial relations that digital infrastructures either make part of or generate, especially in Asia. The internet features a layered design, including undersea cables, Cloud architecture, platforms, and apps. In what ways does this design reproduce or undo borders and territories? Relinquishing assumptions of a singular global regime of cybernetic power, how does the internet as stack transform the governance of populations, now addressed as “users,” and what contradictions emerge in this process? Moreover, considering that different bodies relate to digital infrastructure differently, how do users negotiate and exploit the modes of power afforded by digital infrastructure? How do these processes amount to either the reproduction of dominant formations of citizenship or alternative identifications and subjectivities, for instance for migrants or “uncivil” users?
We welcome critical scholarship and non-traditional inquiries that help us reflect on digital infrastructures and practices in relation to the production of space and the particularities of place and context in Asia and beyond.
Topics include but are not limited to:
A conference dinner is planned for the evening of 7 December. On the morning of the 9th we invite you to join a local excursion exploring digital infrastructure and borders in Hong Kong. There is no conference fee.
Abstracts of max. 500 words are due by 15 July and should be sent to digitalmediaonsite@gmail.com. Authors will be notified of acceptance via email by the end of July. Full papers are expected no shorter than 10 days before the start of the workshop. Please provide full name, affiliation, contact information, and a short bio with your abstract submission. Guidelines for presentation will be provided upon acceptance of the abstract.
Event webpage: http://www.ln.edu.hk/ihss/crd/CFP2017.html
Inquiries: digitalmediaonsite@gmail.com
The Society for the History of Technology is pleased to announce its new Small Grants Award. SHOT will consider proposals from external individuals and organizations to endorse events relevant to SHOT’s mission, which is to advance the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts. We welcome applications such as a workshop on Southeast Asian History of Technology that is scheduled to take place in Malaysia or a Cold War technology conference that will be held in an American city.
SHOT will consider unfunded endorsements as well as proposals for funded endorsements no greater than $3000. As the budget of the Small Grants is limited, the Small Grants Committee will consider applications for and make recommendations to the President. Deadlines for submitting proposals for funded endorsements are March 15 and September 15 of each year, and should be sent by email directly to each member of the Small Grants Committee. The 2017 Small Grants Committee members include Mara Mills (mmills [at] nyu.edu), Jenny L. Smith (jenny.smith [at] ust.hk), and Honghong Tinn (chair) (tinnho [at] earlham.edu). Applications for non-funded SHOT endorsements will be considered all year round, independent of the specific deadlines.
To apply, please see the Small Grants sections on our Awards, Prizes, and Grants page.
| Location: | Oxford |
| Salary: | £31,076 to £32,958 per annum (pro-rata) (Grade 7) |
| Hours: | Part Time |
| Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
| Placed on: | 27th June 2017 |
| Closes: | 7th July 2017 |
Gibson Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Oxford
The Faculty of Theology and Religion is seeking to appoint a Departmental Lecturer to play an active role in the teaching of the popular undergraduate and graduate courses in Science and Religion. The appointee will become part of a vibrant research environment and will have opportunities to develop their career in research, teaching and collaborative work.
This is a part-time, fixed-term post available for 21 months from 1 October 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Details here.
Call for papers for a special issue of the EASTS Journal
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2017
In the twenty-first century, East Asian societies encounter diverse predicaments in terms of modern science, technologies, and medicine. Since the late twentieth century, organ transplantation, genome research and euthanasia have been argued widely in the politics, society, and culture of countries in East Asia. The research environment around science and technology became more competitive, which sometime caused manipulation of, or fabrication of, experimental results. In 2011 Japan experienced a series of breakdown of nuclear power plants in Fukushima, in which extensive parts of east Japan struggle with radioactive contamination. All these situations urge us to reconsider our belief in, and ethics of, life, science and power. It is certainly necessary that science and technology studies and medical humanities consider this topic.
This special issue “Life, Science and Power in History and Philosophy” is to re-construct, extend, and develop the humanities perspectives to understand medicine in East Asia. In so doing, it promotes further development of interdisciplinary studies of science, technology and medicine from the viewpoints of humanities. Papers will examine modern medicine in East Asia from for perspectives, namely, 1) philosophical dimensions, 2) cultural dimensions, 3) social dimensions, 4) epistemological dimensions.
Among the questions that papers might explore are:
We welcome papers from a range of disciplines, including STS, sociology, history, and anthropology.
Papers should be between 8,000 and 12,000 words including reference and other text, clearly addressing the theme and focus of the subject issue. Please submit your paper to both of the following e-mails: eastsjournal@gmail.com and atakabayashi@rikkyo.ac.jp. Please indicate in the email title that your submission is for the Life, Science and Power in History special issue.
For inquiries concerning the themes of this issue, please contact Dr. Akinobu Takabayashi atatakabayashi@rikkyo.ac.jp. For other editorial inquiries, please contact Ms. Yen Ke at eastsjournal@gmail.com.
East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) is an interdisciplinary quarterly journal based in Taiwan and co-edited by editorial boards in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the West. For more about the journal: https://www.dukeupress.edu/East-Asian-Science-Technology-and-Society
Call for Papers: "On the Nature of Variation: Random, Biased, and
Directional," 3–4 October 2017, University of Lisbon. This conference
aims to provide an interdisciplinary context for uncovering and
critically evaluating the rationale behind the hypothesis of variation
randomness in the light of new developments in the evolutionary
sciences. Deadline: 15 July 2017.
goo.gl/BsrHRs
Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Holobionts, 6–8
November 2017, University of Bordeaux. This workshop will bring
together researchers from diverse disciplines working on holobionts
and host-microbe associations, in order to foster interdisciplinary
communication. Deadline: 16 July 2017.
goo.gl/1X8841
Call for Papers: Philosophy of Epidemiology, a Special Issue of
Synthese. Guest Editors: Sean A. Valles (Michigan State University)
and Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University). Deadline: 9 October
2017.
goo.gl/BL9Rfy
POBAM News: POBAM (Philosophy of Biology at Madison) has been
reincarnated as POBAM (Philosophy of Biology at the Mountains). The
first in a new series of biennial meeting at the University of Utah
will be 17–18 May 2018. A call for abstracts will be issued this
summer, with abstracts due this fall. Elliott Sober thanks past
attendees and program committees, along with all the UW-Madison
graduate students who made POBAM possible.
Lakatos Award: The LSE is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015
and 2016 Lakatos Awards. The 2015 award goes to Thomas Pradeu of CNRS
and the University of Bordeaux for his book The Limits of the Self:
Immunology and Biological Identity (OUP, 2012). The 2016 award goes
to Brian Epstein of Tufts University for The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the
Foundations of the Social Sciences (OUP, 2015).
goo.gl/ehKAPk
Special Issue: "Ontologies of Living Beings," a special issue of the
open-access journal Philosophy, Theory and Practice in Biology.
goo.gl/oxQzEU
Book: Luca Tonetti and Nicole Cilia (eds.), Wired Bodies: New
Perspectives on the Machine-Organism Analogy.
goo.gl/6sYNJ9
Book: Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards (eds.), Exploring Inductive
Risk: Case Studies of Values in Science.
goo.gl/947rv6
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