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Biennial Call for Special Issue proposals for Centaurus

Centaurus, the official Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, regularly publishes issues dedicated to a special theme. Recently published Special Issues include: • Science at the Zoo: Producing Knowledge about Exotic Animals (Sept. 2022)• Making power visible. Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy (Nov. 2021)• The Material Culture and Politics of… Continue reading Biennial Call for Special Issue proposals for Centaurus

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral position on the History of satellite data and climate knowledge

Call for Applications: 1 postdoctoral researcher – ERC StG – History of satellite data and climate knowledge The CLIMASAT Project (Remote-Sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe, 1980s-2000s) at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (iHC) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona(UAB), funded by the European Research Commission (Starting Grant), is seeking: Led by Gemma Cirac-Claveras,… Continue reading Call for Applications: Postdoctoral position on the History of satellite data and climate knowledge

Call for Applications: PhD position on the History of satellite data and climate knowledge

Call for Applications: 1 PhD student – ERC StG – History of satellite data and climate knowledge  The CLIMASAT Project (Remote-Sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe, 1980s-2000s) at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (iHC) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), funded by the European Research Commission (Starting Grant), is seeking: ·      1 Doctoral candidate (full… Continue reading Call for Applications: PhD position on the History of satellite data and climate knowledge

Conference: “Beyond Quantity. Research with Subsymbolic AI”, October 21-23, 2022, Paris

Accounts of machine learning, especially artificial neural networks, are currently considered to be the dominant approach in artificial intelligence. How does this form of AI challenge research, ways of knowing, and scientific practices? What problems need to be identified and what critical perspectives are appropriate to describe and evaluate the ambivalences, potentials, and risks of… Continue reading Conference: “Beyond Quantity. Research with Subsymbolic AI”, October 21-23, 2022, Paris

Documents for the ESHS GA@ESHS2022

The documents related to the General Assembly of the ESHS to be held on Saturday September 10 from 17h30-19h30 during the ESHS 2022 conference are online:

New issue Centaurus

We ar every happy to announce the new issue of the Centaurus journal. A video presentation of the issue by Erika Charters is available here.

HoST: New issue

New issue  HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology 16.1, June 2022 HoST—Journal of History of Science and Technologyis a peer-reviewed open access journal, published online in English by Sciendo and results of a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, ICS e IHC). CONTENTS OF VOLUME 16.1 Thematic Dossier “The History of… Continue reading HoST: New issue

ESHS 2022: Registration open

The registration for the ESHS Brussels 2022 is now open, check the website https://eshsbrussels2022.com/ .  Speakers and participants who will chair a symposium and/or present a paper should register no later than 7 July 2022. Attendees who will neither chair a symposium nor present a paper during the conference should register by 25 August 2022 and will… Continue reading ESHS 2022: Registration open

Gustav Neuenschwander prize 2022

The Council of the ESHS is delighted to announce that Simon Schaffer has been awarded the Gustav Neuenschwander Prize for 2022. The ESHS Council recognizes Professor Schaffer’s path-breaking, wide-ranging, and stimulating scholarship that has inspired successive generations of historians of science across the world to this day. Following the GN Prize award ceremony, Professor Schaffer… Continue reading Gustav Neuenschwander prize 2022