ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshops

The ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Committee has been hard at work, and we are pleased to announce two more workshops have been approved.  This brings the total number of 2022 ISHPSSB …

Session 5 Abstracts

Virtual and Visual Practices 1:30–2:00 Jolynna Sinanon and Gerhard Weisenfeldt– Trusting the sorcerer’s apprentice: Knowledge, magic and technology 2:00–2:30 Kevin Korb – Mechanical Eudaimonia 2:30–3:00 James Bradley – Richard Berry’s …

Session 4 Abstracts

Understanding Minds and Bodies 1:30–2:00 Gemma Smart – Limits to Mechanistic Models of Psychiatric Phenomena: the puzzle of (Internet) Gaming Disorder 2:00–2:30 Ian Robertson – “Considerable angst”: Recalcitrant emotions, insight, …

Funding opportunities (some closing soon)

Jacques Barzun fellowship for collections and programming in the history of biology American Philosophical Society, US This supports an advanced PhD candidate or recent MA or PhD recipient in improving …

Special event: Joint University of Sydney/University of Melbourne/AAHPSSS HPS Seminar

Rene Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Prehistory of the Microbiome Nicolas Rasmussen, School of Humanities & Languages, University of NSW 5pm Monday 26 April (Online) Only recently characterised by …

Call NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group 2021/2022

The NIAS-Lorentz Program calls for coordinators for the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group (NLTG) 2021/2022. The deadline for application with a pre-proposal is 15 February 2020. The NIAS-Lorentz Program is a collaboration established in 2006 …

Reminder: Call for Papers: Workshop “Probabilities in Cosmology” Groningen, 21 – 23 June 2019

In cosmology probabilities appear in multiple different guises. We use them when we assess the naturalness of a certain value of the cosmological constant, when we assign likelihoods to possible …

Call for Coordinators – NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group 2020/2021

The NIAS-Lorentz Program calls for coordinators for the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group (NLTG) 2020/2021. We kindly ask you to distribute this link (with a call poster) in your institute: https://nias-lorentz.nl/nltg-theme-groups/. The …