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Confronting Decline (CONDE) – Challenges of Deindustrialization in European Societies since the 1970s Organization: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History / University of Luxembourg; Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich Venue: University of Luxembourg, Esch-Belval Date: 25–27 June 2025 Deadline: 30 June 2024 Since the 1970s, deindustrialization has fundamentally changed Western industrial societies. In North America and Europe, thousands of jobs have been lost in traditional industrial regions, in particular in the textile industry, coal mining, the iron and steel industry and shipbuilding. Even in the electronic consumer goods sector and the watch and photography industries, many millions of jobs have been eliminated or relocated to other regions of the world. There is no question that deindustrialization is one of the most far-reaching transformation processes in contemporary history, fundamentally changing landscapes, economic structures and socio-cult

Dates: 9 – 13 June 2024 Location: Washington D.C. & Open Gov Hub This is a hybrid meeting, therefore, one can attend or present in person or online. The conference will be followed by a one-day workshop on the 14th June on Cybernetics and Governance, and this will be followed 15 – 19 June by the American Society for Cybernetics Meeting and 15 – 18 June by the Archetypes conference… All in Washington D.C. THEME The theme for the conference is Influence and Responsibility. We all have our spheres of influence. As systems scientists we have a responsibility to let others know about the work we do. The world is a troubled place, and organizations are trying to navigate in a complex context. Successful navigation partly depends on having good conceptual tools that are suited to meet the challenges. Institutions and organizations have the responsibility to be as well informed as possible about utility and effectiveness of systems science, cybernetics and complexity theory. As a specie

4 year position as a PhD student (a 30 hour per week prae-doc university assistant, in the Austrian system), supervised by ( Sarah Davies ) at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna . Your planned research should fall under the theme ’Technosciences, materiality, and digital cultures’, and should explore aspects of the digital as material practice in contexts where technoscience is created or negotiated. The anticipated start date is October 2024, and you must have a completed Masters degree by this point. The deadline for applications is 30th April. The successful candidate will work on a PhD dissertation, participate in research activities of the group and department, and contribute to the organisation of the department and its teaching. For further details see the full job advertisement , which also explains how to apply (requested material includes a CV, motivation letter, 3-5 page outline of your proposed project, and 5 key references that you think

Call for Papers for the June 2024 issue Submission deadline: May 31st For the inaugural issue of Aion. Journal of Philosophy and Science , we choose to focus on the concept of “resistance.” We believe that this concept matches Aion’s concern with philosophical topics of major importance in the contemporary scientific and social realms. We would like to open the pages of Aion. Journal of Philosophy and Science for your reflections on the theoretical complexity of the concept of resistance. Aware of the many names and nicknames that surround the concept of resistance − dissidence, contestation, protest, civil disobedience, insurrection, revolt, rebellion, rejection, and also resilience, adaptability, flexibility, reaction, opposition, reluctance, etc. − we invite contributions that aim at shedding light on the theoretical and practical levels of the concept of resistance, in its epistemological, political, ontological, aesthetical dimensions. What does it mean to resist today? What do w

Proposed Panel: At the Crossroads of the History of Music and History of Science Music has often played a crucial role in scientific thought and practice. To give just two examples: in modern cosmology and natural magic, because of its digital nature; in medicine, because of its supposed power to alleviate ills or, conversely, to make one ill. Through music it is also possible to explore ways in which embodied knowledge circulates, how it defines sexual and cultural identities and subjectivities, etc. The epistemological potential of music lies also in its power to trigger emotions and conduct. We need only recall the supposed power of siren songs to bewitch seamen, of baroque polyphonic compositions to provoke mystical raptures, of lullabies to alleviate mental illnesses. This panel aims to explore the ways in which the history of music helps us to address complex problems in the history of science. For example, how can music help us to understand the role of the senses and emotions i

The conference aims to develop a multilevel reflection to prospect a socially sustainable evolution of the human-machine relationship, in which the construction of software, hardware, and wetware is realized based on conscious and critical modeling of the connection between mind and technology, to actively support forms of human-machine interaction consistent with the evolution of cognitive and social ecologies that follow the ideal of a human self-development that is not subjected to anything, but based on cognitive and social technologies, in particular those who deal with: the fear of a world without humans: a phobic image that reflects the fear of being kicked out of the human-machine relationship; the positivistic magnification and enthusiast storytelling of the radiant and unstoppable future made possible with machines, and of the generation of a new humanity (posthumanism, transhumanism): a maniacal image that leads to the mythification of technoscientific forms hiding animism a

Women have played integral roles in the history of medicine, often serving as healers, caretakers, midwives and guardians of traditional knowledge surrounding food, plants, remedies, and healing practices. It has always been the woman who looks after and cares for the sick (children, parents, husband), especially in the home. Since the 16th and 17th centuries, this tradition has been increasingly recorded in writing, which today gives us an invaluable insight not only into the household and the life of women, but also into their medical knowledge and the various illnesses and cures. However, women’s writings are often overlooked or marginalized in mainstream narratives because they did not write in the scientific language of Latin, and because their writings were not in the conventional form of a published book. We find their knowledge scattered in recipe or receipt books, in letters, diaries and even in prose or drama. On the one hand, this makes it difficult to research these contrib

CALL FOR PAPERS - RETHINKING THE SEXED BODY Faculty of Philosophy.  Universidad Complutense de Madrid.  Madrid, Spain.  16–17 October 2024 Conference organisers: Emma Ingala, Gavin Rae, Sara Fontanelli Contemporary philosophical debates on the sexed body are often marked by an underlying dichotomy or conflict between nature, biology, and matter on the one hand, and culture, language, discourses and symbolic regimes, epistemological frames and norms, sociocultural practices and conventions, and power relations, on the other. A number of thinkers insist, however, that this binary opposition is impoverishing and/or fundamentally mistaken, and seek to rethink the sexed body as a complex, plural, and plastic reality constituted and sustained by a manifold of processes, agents, dimensions, and differential relations that cannot be separated into water-tight compartments. The purpose of this international conference is to bring into dialogue different perspectives on the sexed body that can c

The Archives Poincaré (CNRS UMR 7117 / University of Lorraine / University of Strasbourg) welcomes applications from prospective PhD students for a fully-funded scholarship at the University of Lorraine. Each year the graduate school Sociétés, Langages, Temps, Connaissances (SLTC) at the University of Lorraine runs a campaign for fully-funded 3-year doctoral scholarships. The Archives Poincaré , a CNRS laboratory in history and philosophy of science, is a member of this graduate school. Candidates who would like to apply for one of these scholarships should contact a member of the Archives Poincaré who could serve as that candidate’s thesis director, in order to discuss their application. We are open to co-directed theses with another university as well, provided that the program of study is well-constructed. Normally in France a student starting doctoral work will already have a two-year masters degree. Please write to us if you have questions about this. The deadline for submitting d

A Trans-Disciplinary Conference, 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2024. University of Dundee & University of Edinburgh, Scotland Today, ‘energy’ is most often associated with the global North’s – and increasingly the global South’s – vital dependence on the combustion of fossil fuels needed for heating, transportation and food production. All are threatened – as we know all too well by now – by anthropogenic climate change. Although there is no shortage of ‘green’ energy innovations, many cause more problems than they solve, as the example of wind farms in Oaxaca, which caused aridification while reinstating colonial relationships, shows (Dunlap 2018). One reason for this is the sheer volume of energy extraction. The other is the conceptual framework that underpins this activity: this is a source-conversion-end-use concept of energy that is embedded in the Greco-monotheistic-scientific tradition. This conception views the world as composed of individual phenomena, separates animate from inanimate ex