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20 May. Ms Anna Winterbottom (Queen Mary, University of London) “Botanical networks and materia medica of Madras 1660–1720”
26 May. Naomi Oreskes (University of California, San Diego) “Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences”
Further Information: http://www.nyas.org/merchantsofdoubt
30 May. Annual Conference of the Israeli Society of History and Philosophy of Science. Further Information: http://www.ishps.org/default.asp
3 June. James Delbourgo (Rutgers University) “Sir Hans Sloane’s milk chocolate and the whole history of the cacao.”
7-8 June. “Hans Sloane Conference,” British Library
Further Information:
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/...
15 June. Kelly Joyce “Creating Networks and Social Worlds: The Rise of the Category Autoimmune Disease in the United States” AAAS-CHF History Seminar
Further Information: http://archives.aaas.org/seminar/acrumpto@aaas.org
16 June. Re-Envisioning the Science and Religion Dialogue
Further Information:
http://www.membersaaas.org/...
22-27 June: “The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) 2010 Meeting,” Budapest, HU.
Further Information: http://www.hopos.org
26-30 June: 12th International Conference on the History of Science “Multi-Cultural Perspectives on the History of Science and Technology in China.”
Further Information: http://english.ihns.cas.cn/ns/am/200901/t20091014_45083.html
28 June-2 July. “Encounters of Sea and Land”, Turku, FI
Further Information:
http://eseh2011.utu.fi/cfp, timmyl@utu.fi
Frank.Uekoetter@carsoncenter.lmu.de
8-10 July. Circulating Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Networks, Knowledge, & Forms
Further Information:
http://royalsociety.org/circulating-ideas/
9-11 July. Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) Conference in Sydney
Further Information: http://www.usyd.edu.au/aahpss/AAHPSSS2010-conference.html
12 July-6 August 10 NEH Summer Seminar Series “Descartes, Galileo, Hobbes: Philosophy and Science, Politics and Religion during the Scientific Revolution”
Further Information: www.princeton.edu/~neh
http://www.neh.gov//projects/si-university.html dgarber@princeton.edu

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The 26th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science.

10/22/2010–10/24/2010
Special Keynote Speakers: Naomi Oreskes, University of California (San Diego) and Peter Ward, University of Washington (Seattle)
Papers should be of suitable length for a thirty-minute presentation. Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to submit. Graduate students whose submissions are accepted for presentation will receive $100 US towards their travel expenses.
Deadline: 9/1/2010

CFP: Berlin Roundtables on Global Health Politics “Health Politics in an Interconnected World:The Production of Evidence—Negotiating Access - The Politics of Locality”

12/01/2010–12/05/2010
Up to 50 successful applicants of the essay competition will be invited to discuss their research with prominent scholars at the Social Science Research Center Berlin. The Irmgard Coninx foundation will cover the costs for travel and accommodation.
Deadline: 9/3/2010
Further Information: http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/index.php?id=234

CFP: 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine

04/28/2011–05/02/2011. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Abstracts deadline 9/15/2010.
Further information: selederer@wisc.edu,
http://histmed.org

CFP: Uncovering the Tradition of Vitalism in 20th Century Literature,

04/07/2011–04/10/2011
This panel seeks to examine literary texts that may be termed “vitalist,” as well as to account for the historical rise of vitalism and its influence on modernist literature.
Deadline: 09/30/2010
Further Information: plongo@gmail.com

11th EMBL/EMBO Science and Society Conference The Difference between the Sexes—From Biology to Behavior

11/05/2010–11/06/2010, Heidelberg, Germany.
This well-established conference series brings together a wide range of scientists, philosophers, science communicators, policy makers, and members of the public in engaging debate. In total, four sessions with keynote talks and panel discussions are planned for the two days at the 2010 conference
Deadline 10/15/2010
Further Information: ruth.hazlewood@embl.de
http://intranet.embl.de/training/courses_conferences/conference/2010/SNS10-01/index.html

Chemical Weather and Chemical Climate: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective, Gordon Cain Conference on the history of atmospheric chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

March 31–April 1, 2011.
The 2011 Gordon Cain Conference seeks papers and posters that present original research, examine historiographical issues, and/or pursue historical syntheses in the field of atmospheric chemistry (broadly defined). Special consideration will be given to contributions addressing issues of scale—for example lungs, locales, and trans-boundary issues—and exploring interdisciplinary perspectives involving literature, art, architecture, and related fields. Papers may also involve case studies of chemical industries, governance, regulation, and litigation. Presenters are encouraged to emphasize the social relevance of their research and to communicate the results of their research in forms accessible to the interested public.
Deadline 11/1/2010
Further information: Professor James R. Fleming, jfleming@colby.edu

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