Calls for Papers
The Sigerist Society for the History of Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine has started a student-run journal dedicated to the history of medicine, entitled Historia medicinae. The journal is open to all students of medical and dental students, residents/interns, health professions students (RN, PA, MPH, etc.) and also history students across the globe. and is presently seeking submissions and reviewers to take part in the first issue of Historia medicinae.
Our mission is to publish articles which cover a unique topic in the history of medicine from an innovative and informed perspective. The journal will cover all periods of medical history from classical and ancient medicine to historical developments in modern medicine. It will consist of short letters written on important individuals, inventions, and developments in medicine as well as longer analyses related to the history of medicine.
Any interested students should visit the website: http://www.medicinae.org/ or contact editor@medicinae.org with inqueries.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from all those interested in the history of medicine,
Andrew Degnan, Editor-in-chief, Historia medicinae
The Sigerist Society for the History of Medicine
The George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, DC, USA
Contact: editor@medicinae.org
Website: http://www.medicinae.org/
Calls for Paper
The Agnes Dillon Randolph Inaugural International Nursing History Conference
Joan Lynaugh PhD, RN, FAAN Keynote Speaker
March 20-21, 2009
The University of Virginia
Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Charlottesville, Virginia
Abstracts Due: November 15, 2008
For further information: www.nursing.virginia.edu/Research/CNHI/Events
Call for Papers
Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences holds its annual conference on June 25-28, 2009 at Penn State University (University Park). Proposed papers, posters, symposia and workshops may be submitted by January 9, 2009. Contact Sarah E. Igo, Vanderbilt University, Department of History, at sarah.igo@vanderbilt.edu or see the Cheiron website (http://people.stu.ca/~cheiron/) for more information.
Calls for Paper
The 2009 meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology will take place from Sunday, 12 July, through Thursday, 16 July, at Emmanuel College, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia, hosted by the University of Sydney: http://www.ishpssb2009.org
ISHPSSB brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, including the life sciences as well as history, philosophy, and sociology of science. The ISHPSSB biennial summer conferences are known for their innovative, transdisciplinary sessions and for fostering informal, cooperative exchanges and on-going collaborations among a variety of international scholars. This will be the first meeting to be held in the southern hemisphere.
The aim of the conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields. The submission of papers and sessions on any topic within the society's scope is welcomed. We also encourage the submission of posters, workshops, and general interest sessions based on themes identified in session proposals. It is our goal to develop a program that will allow maximal interactions, while also giving people the chance to present their ideas to their colleagues.
Meeting near the Great Barrier Reef in the year of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the publication of Jean Baptiste Lamarck's Philosophie Zoologique, we suggest some possible ideas for proposals, including:
(1) Darwinism from different perspectives, including future perspectives on Darwinism;
(2) The history, philosophy, social studies, and theory behind current debates about the genetics of evolutionary change;
(3) The history, philosophy, social studies, and biology of coral reefs-a subject that engaged Darwin and which is now the subject of much attention related to the global environmental crisis;
(4) The nature of amateur participation in science, especially "citizen science" that encourages stakeholders of various kinds to protect the coastal environment, and the role of NGOs in shaping science policy; and
(5) Topics such as biodiversity, biogeography, and systematics. Submissions on other subjects that reflect an individual's current area of research, however, are also welcomed. Scholars wishing to attend the meeting are invited to submit session and paper proposals on the ISHPSSB website: http://www.ishpssb.org/meeting.html.
Deadline for submissions is 1 February 2009. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words; instructions for using the abstract submission system can be found at: http://www.ishpssb.org/meetingsubmissioninstructions.html.
To facilitate collaboration in putting together sessions, a forum is available on the ISHPSSB website to post ideas and solicit participants for sessions and discussion panels: http://www.ishpssb.org/phorum/index.php?18
Acceptance decisions will be communicated in early March. Graduate students are especially encouraged, and there will be opportunities available for obtaining travel funding. Information on registration and accommodation will be provided on the conference website. Please direct any inquiries to the Program Co-Chairs:
Manfred Laublicher: Manfred.Laubichler@asu.edu
Marsha Richmond: Marsha.Richmond@wayne.edu
Calls for Paper
Special Issue: ‘A Hundred Years of Evolutionary Psychiatry (1872–1972)’
Guest editors: Pieter R. Adriaens & Andreas De Block
To be published in early 2010, this Special Issue seeks to explore the history of evolutionary accounts of mental disorders. For convenience, it will focus on the period 1872–1972 marked by the publication of Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and Tinbergen’s Early Childhood Autism – An Ethological Approach, respectively. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the correspondence between Darwin and Sir James Crichton-Browne; the phylogenetic speculations of Freud and other psychoanalysts (e.g., Imre Hermann, Sandor Ferenczi and Carl Gustav Jung); John Bowlby’s attachment theory; postwar evolutionary attempts to make sense of the persistence of mental disorders (including the 1964 Nature paper on schizophrenia, written by Julian Huxley, Ernst Mayr, Abraham Hoffer and Humphry Osmond); and Tinbergen’s theories on childhood autism. Contributions on other ‘evolutionary psychiatrists’ – such as Paul Broca, Wilhelm Fliess, Havelock Ellis, Gilbert Hamilton, Harry Harlow and Paul D. Maclean – are also welcome. Papers should be historical in nature. Scholars are invited to send a 500-word proposal to Pieter R. Adriaens at Pieter.Adriaens@hiw.kuleuven.be by 1 November 2008. Final contributions should not exceed 7500 words inclusive of notes and references. The deadline for final submissions is 1 April 2009.
Calls for Paper
Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist White Paper Award
Research on Policies for Providing Universal Access to Healthcare in the United States
Prize: $1000. We invite social science scholars familiar with health care policy research to provide an accessibly written critical overview of the policy options available to the United States in providing universal access to healthcare. We are particularly interested in coverage of relevant feminist scholarship, including consideration of the impact of various policy options on women. The white paper should include a data-based analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of models adopted in other industrialized nations as well as a consideration of the logistics and costs of providing health care in the United States.
Limit: 10 pages, exclusive of references and tables
Papers should be submitted electronically in a Word document or RTF format to
sws@etal.uri.edu
On Subject Line put: Feminist White Paper Competition
Deadline: January 1, 2009