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Reading

Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in Early Modern Europe

Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in early Modern Europe. Annual Symposium of the Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, 26 April 2013.

London

Call for papers - Science studies

Ideas in movement: the role of conflict and commerce in the history of navigation

Following successful meetings in 2010 and 2012, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Royal Institute of Navigation are planning a third symposium to bring together current research in the history of navigation. 2014 sees the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. While this conflict provided a powerful stimulus for research and development in navigation, technological developments have also sprung from users and from commercial imperatives.

London

Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

Human Evolution : Past, Present and Future

Anthropological, Medical and Nutritional Considerations

An International Conference to review the current knowledge about Human Evolution. Special reference is made to consider how Man's evolution has possibly been influenced by a period of adaptation to an aquatic environment.

Greenwich

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Student research intern programme: History of science and technology

National Maritime Museum UK 2013-2014

The Museum created this intern programme to further develop its research activity in the vital fields of time, navigation, astronomy, cartography and nautical technology. Our collections in this area are world-class and we need to ensure they are well researched so that the Museum can make them accessible to a wide range of audiences.

London

Miscellaneous information - Epistemology and methodology

Hypotheses training session

OpenEdition and the King’s College London will hold a free training session in London this Friday 8th March for those who already have an academic blog and for researchers who wish to join Hypotheses. During one day, participants learn how to set up and customize their academic blog. Furthermore, the session gets onto scientific blog stakes and gives an overview of the practices in this domain, illustrated with several examples.

London

Seminar - Urban studies

Ambiances & Atmospheres in Translation

Many authors, from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, have struggled to implement a sensitive approach to urban modernity. How to be attentive to changes in the urban world and the minute variations of the ordinary? From the aesthetic thought of Simmel to Goffman’s ecological approach, the philosophies of everydayness in anthropology, from Laplantine to Kracauer and White, to Wittgenstein, Bégout, and Rancière, work has described, translated and called into question the role of ambiance and atmosphere in the construction of urban life. Coalescing around notions of ambiance or atmosphere, notable research trajectories have interlaced disciplinary concerns within urban studies, cultural geography, sociology and architecture, especially in relation to interconnected concepts such as affect, place, aura, and ecology. Rarely, however, have these trajectories actually met or collided.

London

Call for papers - Early modern

Healthy Living in Pre-Modern Europe. The Theory and Practice of the Six Non-Naturals (c.1400-1700)

Vivre sainement dans l'Europe moderne. Théorie et pratique des six choses non-naturelles (1400-1700)

This conference seeks to bring together scholars working on topics related to the role played by the six Non-Naturals in health maintenance in the late-medieval and early modern period. It is well-known that health was thought to depend on the regulation of the six key factors affecting body functions: the air one breathes, sleep, food and drink, evacuations, movement and emotions. In pre-modern medicine careful management of these spheres of life was regarded as crucial if one wished to prevent disease.

Exeter

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Guillaume de Machaut: Music, Image, Text in the Middle Ages

As part of a three-year Leverhulme-funded project on the musical and literary works and manuscripts of Guillaume de Machaut, led by Prof Yolanda Plumley at the University of Exeter, we are holding a conference drawing together all aspects of current Machaut scholarship.

Oxford

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Performing Medieval Text

Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

The conference Performing Medieval Text sets a broad framework for philologists, art historians, musicologists, historians, and theologians to discuss the multi-faceted relationships between text and performance in the European Middle Ages between ca. 1150 and 1400.

Oxford

Call for papers - Representation

Diasporic Subjectivity, Intimacy and Memory

This will be the fourth meeting in the series organized by the research centre EMMA (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France) over 2011-13 which has gathered leading scholars in the field to identify and assess the joint evolutions of “Diaspora Studies” and “Race studies” to better understand: 1) how these approaches can be cross-fertilising; 2) how socio-economic and political changes have affected race relations and diasporic communities; 3) how literature and the arts, the social sciences and cultural studies have seized that question. This project entails a redefinition of terms and concepts and the confrontation of different, but not necessarily divergent, perspectives.

London

Call for papers - Geography

Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013

Recent work on affect in Anglophone human geography has opened up new material frontiers by theorizing affective atmospheres (Anderson 2009; Bissell 2010; McCormack 2008). In such work we see an adjustment of thinking towards and around the relations between bodies and their environment by considering the ways in which bodies are situated within diffuse, distributed, sensible, and potentially turbulent volumes. Such an emphasis on the atmospheric, taken in both its meteorological and felt/affective sense, is in many ways tied to an expanded conception of materiality that draws attention to “the vibrant, constitutive, aleatory, and even immaterial indices” of materiality and materialization (Coole and Frost 2010: 14; Bennett 2010).

London

Call for papers - Urban studies

Ambiance and Atmosphere in Translation

After "Ambience and Urban Practices", and "Ambience and Criticism", this third meeting of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded project "Enigmas of contemporary urban mobility”, organized within the framework of the International Ambiances Network, will develop a conversation between ambiance, atmosphere and translation. But how to translate? If translation is understood as a practice of "linguistic hospitality", as an experience of transition and mediation, what form might translation take? How might, in other words, the transition occur between the "daily" word and the word of the "expert", between that of the "living" and that of the "foreign"? How to make shareable experiences beyond the singularity expressed in different languages and cultures? What media or combination of media could help us achieve this?

London

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Epistemology and methodology

Postdoctoral Research Associate position for tranScriptorium Project

Bentham Project – Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London

The Bentham Project, in association with UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities, is advertising for a postdoctoral Research Associate position, starting 1 February 2013. This post is to work on an exciting European Commission-funded project, led by the University of Valencia, entitled tranScriptorium. The project intends to develop innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions for the indexing, search and full transcription of digital images of manuscripts, using modern, holistic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) software.

London

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

Research Developer

King's College London-Digital Humanities (CeRch)

The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) is seeking a Research Developer in dynamic web development including implementation of front-end interfaces. The Researcher will work across two major European Commission funded research infrastructure projects: the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) (www.ehri-project.eu) and Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Dasish) (www.dasish.eu) projects. Her/his role will be to analyse research practices and translate and implement these in a Virtual Research Environment and research registries.

London

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

Visiting Professorships at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015

Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Visiting Professorships at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015 The deadline for all professorship applications is January 15, 2013. Two professorships are available at the Courtauld Institute to present the best recent scholarship on historical American art. A twelve-week professorship requires administering one full-term course integrated with the institute’s curriculum and participating in other scholarly activities. A one-week intensive professorship entails a public scholarly event, a seminar, and a special visit to a London gallery, archive, collection, or library relevant to American art history. Stipends are determined by seniority of the scholars. For more information, please visit courtauld.ac.uk.

London

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015

Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015 The deadline for all fellowship applications is January 15, 2013. This two-year postdoctoral fellowship supports advanced inquiry in the history of American art, conservation, and museum studies and is integrated with the postdoctoral fellowship program of the Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum. The selected fellow teaches three historical American art courses, participates in scholarly activities organized by the institute, and organizes an international scholarly event. Fellow receives a $134,564 stipend (over two years). For more information, please visit courtauld.ac.uk.

Oxford

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

The Deakin Fellowship (St. Antony's College, Oxford University)

Applications are invited for the Deakin Fellowship for the academic year 2013-2014. The Fellowship is intended to support scholarship related to France in the College's areas of interest: modern history, politics, international relations, economics, anthropology, sociology, social policy.

Edinburgh

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

University of Edinburgh: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies as applied to the challenges of environmental sustainability.

Oxford

Conference, symposium - History

Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

Scientific Communication and its History – III

This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, the climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history.

Liverpool

Seminar - Urban studies

Rails and urban development. A Comparative Approach between France and the United Kingdom

In many countries, the challenges of sustainable urban development along with preoccupations about energy costs, are leading developers and urban planners to place rail transport at the centre of their concerns. During 2012 members of the French and British Planning Studies Group based at the University of Liverpool and University of Paris 1-Sorbonne have been collaborating on hosting two seminars dedicated to the theme of rail transport and urban development. The intention has been to bring together academics with practitioners and also incorporate visits to view rail investments ‘on the ground’. The first event took place in Paris in May 2012 and addressed light rail development in Europe with a particular focus on the situation in the UK and France. The second seminar will take place in Liverpool on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November 2012 and consider heavy rail as a means of serving urban development in metropolitan areas.

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