Call for aplicants: Asynchronous Histories Summer School

 Call for aplicants: Asynchronous Histories Summer School, 31 August – 4 September 2026

The Asynchronous Histories Summer School aims to explore regions and historical moments shaped by the coexistence of divergent and asynchronous sociopolitical processes. Such conditions often produce paradoxical outcomes, revealing unexpected tensions when seemingly well-established actors, institutions, and mechanisms are put into practice.

To examine these complex dynamics, participants will engage with a wide range of topics, including theories of historical time, unconventional transfers of ideas and practices between East and West, and alternative pathways of modernization. The programme will feature lectures, seminars, and discussions led by distinguished scholars, including participation of Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty. During AHSS he will deliver an open lecture and lead a seminar with the school’s students.

In response to numerous requests, we have decided to extend the application deadline until 30 June 2026.

More information: https://wsnsir.uw.edu.pl/asynchronous-histories-summer-school-2/

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Collective, and a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies. Through his scholarly work, Chakrabarty has both “provincialized Europe” and brought the contemporary humanities back down to Earth. Moving from social to planetary history, he has challenged historians to recognize that the significance of their work cannot be confined to the past alone. His writings have fundamentally reshaped the ways in which we problematize and interpret the present.

Drawing on philosophical reflection and the historical experience of the Global South, Chakrabarty argues that the teleological and Eurocentric narrative of progress and emancipation was never an autonomous or universal process. Instead, he advances a planetary perspective attentive to the operations of capital and the enduring structures of colonial power. In his more recent work, Chakrabarty emphasizes that humanity has profoundly transformed the conditions of planetary existence, exerting long-term effects on the Earth system itself. In his books he decentrers the privileged position of human agency in history and invites renewed reflection on politics, responsibility, and freedom from a perspective that exceeds the exclusively human point of view. From this perspective, planetary consciousness reveals both the limitations of the nation-state and the ambivalent role of the global capitalism. His understanding of political time ultimately compels us to conceive of “universal history” as a material phenomenon—an actual limit confronting our civilization.

Chakrabarty is the recipient of the Toynbee Prize and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of London, the University of Antwerp, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Among his most influential books are Rethinking Working-Class History (Princeton, 1989), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2000), The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories (Oxford, 2018), The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (Chicago, 2021), and One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (2023). 

Call for Participants: Tensions of Europe Summer School 2026

 Call for Participants: Tensions of Europe Summer School 2026

The Tensions of Europe Early Career Scholars Network is looking forward to seeing you at the summer school organized in connection to the XII Tensions of Europe Conference “The meaning of the past in sustainable futures,” Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 July, 2026.

The summer school will take place in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, July 6-7, 2026. It aims at introducing early career scholars to the Tensions of Europe community as well as to facilitate networking between scholars across borders, and support the consolidation and building of new academic skills.

The summer school is organised to a large extent around workshops and group discussions. Participants will be asked to do some preparatory readings (3 to 5 papers); to write a short text on their research which will be circulated before the summer school (300-500 words); and to prepare a very brief presentation on it (2-3 minutes). Additional information and materials will be provided after the notification of acceptance.

Confirmed guests include prof. Ruth Oldenziel (TU Eindhoven, Technology and Culture), prof. Nina Wormbs (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), dr. Anna Aberg (Chalmers University of Technology), dr. Emily Clark (University of Amsterdam), dr. Anne Helmond (Utrecht University). The full programme will be published in March.

We invite applicants to submit a short bio and a short text (300-500 words each) on their research project and their motivation for joining the summer school. Participation is open both to PhD and Postdocs.

Applications should be sent by March 22, 2026, 23:59 (CET), through this form:

https://framaforms.org/tensions-of-europe-summer-school-2026-participation-form-1771335576

Applicants will be notified of the results by early April, 2026. If you have questions, you can reach out to Ginevra Sanvitale (sanvitag[at]tcd.ie).

The participants of the summer school are expected to be on-site. Due to the highly interactive nature of most summer school sessions, we are unable to provide online participation.

The participation fee is 50 euro. It includes the welcome dinner, summer school lunches and coffee breaks, and the field trip. Participants will be responsible for their travel plans and accommodation. A limited number of travel grants will be offered to support participants without an institutional budget.

This Tensions of Europe Summer School is sponsored by the ToE network, alongside its institutional partners (Eindhoven University of Technology; Foundation for the History of Technology; European University Viadrina; KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Norsk Teknisk Museum), and by the 4TU History of Technology center (Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, the University of Twente, and Wageningen University & Research)

Programme (to be finalised in March)

July 6

Your PhD in 3 minutes - Guests to be announced

In this session, participants presents their PhD or postdoc project and receive feedback from experienced scholars in the history of technology, as well as other Summer School participants.

Sound Recording Technology, Modernity/Coloniality, and the Very Big Sonic Archive - dr. Emily Clark (University of Amsterdam)

With the invention of portable sound recording technology around the turn of the 20th century, early comparative musicologists imagined amassing a vast archive of sonic data recorded in “the field” that could answer big questions about human difference, the origins of creativity, and the nature of humanity. In the present age of digitization and datafication, the imaginary of a very big archive that represents the world’s musical diversity is closer to realization. But the use of historical sound recordings (especially ones from contested contexts) in contemporary knowledge-making practices requires critical reflections on scientific objectivity and sonic evidence of human difference and the past.

In this presentation, I share reflections from my currently ongoing research on ethnographic sound recording collections from the context of Dutch colonial history. Drawing from several collections that were created in the Dutch East Indies, South Africa, the Caribbean, and the rural Dutch countryside, I investigate themes including: the entanglement of methods and theories used in colonial ethnography and European studies of “the folk”; the histories of archival stewardship that make specific sound collections (in)accessible; the digitization and datafication of sound recordings, including for use in contemporary data-driven scholarship; and possibilities for critical reinterpretation of historical collections, for example through restitution or artistic reappropriation.

Digital Methods for Web History: Platform Historiography - dr. Anne Helmond (Utrecht University)

This session introduces digital methods for web history to study websites, platforms, and apps as evolving digital media objects and as key environments where social issues unfold over time. It addresses the challenge that these objects are continuously updated, often overwriting earlier states, while still leaving traces that can be repurposed for historical analysis. The session shows how archived web materials can be used to reconstruct change across multiple levels: (1) Socio-cultural: Using archived pages to track public discourse, controversies, and cultural phenomena unfold over time within archived web spaces. (2) Analysing front-end change, including interface design, platform affordances, and policy texts (for example Terms of Service or moderation guidelines) to examine how participation, visibility, and governance are reconfigured over time. (3) Excavating back-end histories through archived source code to trace the development of tracking and advertising technologies. Participants will learn how to work with web archives to build longitudinal datasets, analyse change across websites and platforms, and develop website or platform biographies. The aim is to provide a practical toolkit for doing historical research with digital traces and web archives, alongside a clear understanding of archival limitations, tool choices, and methodological trade-offs.

July 7

Oral histories in old and new ways. A workshop/discussion about different methods of oral history - dr. Anna Aberg (Chalmers University of Technology)

In this workshop we will discuss the different ways we do or could do oral history (including, but not limited to, through interviews, walks, collective biography writing, witness seminars, group interviews, etc.). You will be asked to present your own experiences with oral history methods, or why you do not use them, and we will touch upon their different challenges and uses.

Reaching beyond the academy - prof. Nina Wormbs (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

In this session I will share my experience working with non-academic audiences. This can be done in several ways, and on the basis of different kinds of expertise. One is to share research findings with people outside of academia, though popular writing, media participation or public lecture. Another is to put ones skills in reasoning and perspectivising in use in public inquiries, boards or advisory groups. These and other ways of thinking and communicating history of technology does not only profit society, but is also personally very stimulating and feeds back into research and innovation.

Closing lecture - prof. Ruth Oldenziel (TU Eindhoven, Technology and Culture)

Call for participants / Summer school: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History, 17th–20th centuries.

Call for participants / Summer school: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History, 17th–20th centuries. Prague, 23-25 October 2025, Deadline 15 August 2025.

Organisers: Austrian Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Johann Gottfried Herder-Forschungsrat (Johannes Feichtinger / Franz L. Fillafer, Vienna; Michael Wögerbauer, Prague; Steffen Höhne, Weimar-Jena)

Global history has established itself as a particularly fertile field of scholarly enquiry from which Habsburg Central Europe still remains strangely absent. To redress this imbalance, our summer school seeks to rediscover Habsburg Central Europe as a switchboard for the circulation of ideas, practices and objects across the globe. It tries to do so by bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines who work on the history of the region since the 17th century: Our event is geared to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the humanities (historians and literary scholars, historians of culture and the arts, of science and the humanities, anthropologists etc.) whose research resonates with the overall aim of our meeting described above. Our event will consist of two subsections: A mini-series of seminars hosted by our faculty in which a pre-circulated reader will be discussed and a subsequent set of workshops that will allow participants to present and discuss their research.

Faculty: Marketa Křížová (Praha), Johannes Mattes (Vienna), Ulrich Schmid (Basel), Jonathan Singerton (Amsterdam), Jan Surman (Praha)

We plan to cover participants’ travel and accommodation costs.

We invite papers by doctoral and post-doctoral researchers that contribute to one or several of the following thematic fields:

- the global history of Central European institutions (administrative bodies, learned societies, academies, universities, sacred institutions and religious orders, museums, theatres etc.)

- the social history of Central Europe’s interactions with the world, including, but not restricted to the activities of go-betweens, brokers, and liaison agents

- the interplay of regional and global literatures (translations, travelling forms, medias and genres)

- the practises of erudition, science, scholarship and cultural production

Special attention will be given to Bohemia as an interface between the various regions of the Habsburg lands and as a clearing house between Central Europe and the globe.

In spotlighting the global entanglements of Habsburg Central Europe, our event pursues two broader agendas, the first is historiographical, the second methodological.

First, much of global history is still marked by a Franco- or Anglocentric bias: Its categories of imperial rule, national culture, sovereignty, and the production of scientific truth are derived from the study of Britain and France, as well as of their respective overseas possessions. Acting as a welcome incentive for further research, several excellent recent studies of Habsburg Central Europe show that these categories are not only inadequate for grasping the past of the region, but that the latter produced a set of alternative concepts, ideas and practises for engaging with the world whose trans-regional impact and ramifications are yet to be discovered. What does this rediscovery imply for a fresh understanding of modern history?

Second, the summer school will provide ample opportunity for reflecting on what a “global” perspective implies for the methods of the humanities: In what ways does this perspective force us to rethink our habitual units of enquiry (regions, empires, states, cultural systems, disciplines, genres and forms)? How can we avoid the pitfalls of connectivity talk, i.e. the appeal to allegedly self-propelled, benignly liquid “flows” and processes of effortless “circulation”? What conceptual lexicon and what explanatory devises do we find particularly helpful in researching and presenting our findings? What challenges and potential benefits does this global perspective entail for interdisciplinary work in the humanities?

Kontakt

Steffen Höhne (Weimar-Jena)

Franz L. Fillafer (Vienna)

Johannes Feichtinger (Vienna)

Michael Wögerbauer (Prague)

or: summerschool@oeaw.ac.at

Application: Abstract of your contribution/research project (250-300 words) and a brief CV (preferably as a PDF), please write to: summerschool@oeaw.ac.at

or to the organizers Steffen Höhne (Weimar-Jena), Franz L. Fillafer (Vienna), Johannes Feichtinger (Vienna), Michael Wögerbauer (Prague)

Deadline for submissions: 15 August 2025

Notification: 1 September 2025

EUI Summer School in: Environmental History: European and Global Perspectives

 EUI Summer School in: Environmental History: European and Global Perspectives

Programme Description

The Summer School will take place online from  17th of September  to the 19th of September 2025

For a long time environmental history was a relatively small and specialized field of historical research. Most historians interested in political, social, economic, or cultural issues did not incorporate the natural world into their accounts, nor did they consider environmental histories relevant to their own work. Growing concern about climate change and discussions about the notion of the Anthropocene have changed this situation dramatically. In recent years, environmental history has become a very popular field, with many historians from other backgrounds drawing on its findings and adapting their research agendas to include environmental questions.

In this summer school, we intend to provide participants with ideas on how environmental history can be brought into conversation with research on European and global history in the early modern and modern periods. Given the History Department’s expertise in these fields, we aim to highlight the opportunities to be gained from engaging with environmental history as a transversal approach. For example, we will investigate the ways in which European encounters with the early modern world can benefit from studying how notions of ‘exotic’ nature informed (or misinformed) colonial policies and approaches. We will study the role and perception of natural resources in mid-twentieth century international discussions about global trade and economic policies. Furthermore, we will analyze the history of transregional and transnational environmental protection efforts and their contributions to the emergence of a sense of planetary responsibility and international climate governance efforts.

Contributions by leading environmental historians will be combined with hands-on research opportunities. Participants will have the chance to work with digital visual sources related to environmental themes housed in the Historical Archives of the European Union. They will also be able to present their own research projects and receive feedback from their peers.Programme Description

More: https://www.eui.eu/apply?id=summer-school-in-global-and-transnational-history

International Summer School DISABILITY HISTORIES 21–27 SEPTEMBER 2025 KRAKÓW, POLAND

Diverse and written from different perspectives, disability histories are a fundamental and integral part of disability studies. To support young scholars - MA and PhD students - we are organising the DISABILITY HISTORIES SUMMER SCHOOL in cooperation with Wydział Historyczny Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego and Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej UJ. We invite students working on the social and cultural history of disability to join us in Krakow, Poland from 21-27 September 2025, together with an amazing line-up of tutors: Radu Harald Dinu, Katerina Kolarova, Robert Stock and Jaipreet Virdi. 

All the details can be found on our website: https://disability-in-easteurope.project.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/summer-school

Deadline for applications: 31st March 2025

The Summer School is possible thanks to generous support of Inicjatywa Doskonałości - Uczelnia Badawcza, Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Summer school: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History, 17th–20th centuries

Call for participants / Summer school: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History, 17th–20th centuries. Prague, 05.05.2025 - 07.05.2025, Deadline 28.02.2025. 

Organisers: Austrian Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Johann Gottfried Herder-Forschungsrat (Johannes Feichtinger / Franz L. Fillafer, Vienna; Michael Wögerbauer, Prague; Steffen Höhne, Weimar-Jena)

Global history has established itself as a particularly fertile field of scholarly enquiry from which Habsburg Central Europe still remains strangely absent. To redress this imbalance, our summer school seeks to rediscover Habsburg Central Europe as a switchboard for the circulation of ideas, practices and objects across the globe. It tries to do so by bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines who work on the history of the region since the 17th century: Our event is geared to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the humanities (historians and literary scholars, historians of culture and the arts, of science and the humanities, anthropologists etc.) whose research resonates with the overall aim of our meeting described above. Our event will consist of two subsections: A mini-series of seminars hosted by our faculty in which a pre-circulated reader will be discussed and a subsequent set of workshops that will allow participants to present and discuss their research.

Faculty: Amy Colin (Pittsburgh), Marketa Křížová (Praha), Johannes Mattes (Vienna), Ulrich Schmid (Basel), Jonathan Singerton (Amsterdam), Jan Surman (Praha)

We plan to cover participants’ travel and accommodation costs.

We invite papers by doctoral and post-doctoral researchers that contribute to one or several of the following thematic fields:

- the global history of Central European institutions (administrative bodies, learned societies, academies, universities, sacred institutions and religious orders, museums, theatres etc.)

- the social history of Central Europe’s interactions with the world, including, but not restricted to the activities of go-betweens, brokers, and liaison agents

- the interplay of regional and global literatures (translations, travelling forms, medias and genres)

- the practises of erudition, science, scholarship and cultural production

Special attention will be given to Bohemia as an interface between the various regions of the Habsburg lands and as a clearing house between Central Europe and the globe.

In spotlighting the global entanglements of Habsburg Central Europe, our event pursues two broader agendas, the first is historiographical, the second methodological.

First, much of global history is still marked by a Franco- or Anglocentric bias: Its categories of imperial rule, national culture, sovereignty, and the production of scientific truth are derived from the study of Britain and France, as well as of their respective overseas possessions. Acting as a welcome incentive for further research, several excellent recent studies of Habsburg Central Europe show that these categories are not only inadequate for grasping the past of the region, but that the latter produced a set of alternative concepts, ideas and practises for engaging with the world whose trans-regional impact and ramifications are yet to be discovered. What does this rediscovery imply for a fresh understanding of modern history?

Second, the summer school will provide ample opportunity for reflecting on what a “global” perspective implies for the methods of the humanities: In what ways does this perspective force us to rethink our habitual units of enquiry (regions, empires, states, cultural systems, disciplines, genres and forms)? How can we avoid the pitfalls of connectivity talk, i.e. the appeal to allegedly self-propelled, benignly liquid “flows” and processes of effortless “circulation”? What conceptual lexicon and what explanatory devises do we find particularly helpful in researching and presenting our findings? What challenges and potential benefits does this global perspective entail for interdisciplinary work in the humanities?

Kontakt

Steffen Höhne (Weimar-Jena)

Franz L. Fillafer (Vienna)

Johannes Feichtinger (Vienna)

Michael Wögerbauer (Prague)

or: summerschool@oeaw.ac.at

Application: Abstract of your contribution/research project (250-300 words) and a brief CV (preferably as a PDF), please write to: summerschool@oeaw.ac.at

or to the organizers Steffen Höhne (Weimar-Jena), Franz L. Fillafer (Vienna), Johannes Feichtinger (Vienna), Michael Wögerbauer (Prague)

2025 HSS Interdisciplinary Summer School Applications are Open

 2025 HSS Interdisciplinary Summer School Applications are Open

What

A 4-5 day intensive workshop on the history of science for up to 12 graduate student and early career scholars, whose work intersects with the history of science.*

Featuring:  Masterclasses, professionalization sessions, and the opportunity for each participant to either (a) workshop an article/dissertation chapter; or (b) to give a workshop length presentation/mock job talk. Participating students will be mentored by 4–6 faculty participants.

* Participants must be HSS members, but need not be members at time of application

Where

University of Bologna

When

24-27 June 2025

Eligibility

The Summer School program is open to Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars* at any institution whose work intersects with the history of science.

We encourage applications from participants who hail from historically excluded communities, especially those belonging to underrepresented racial minority (URM) groups - including African American, Latinx, and Native American. We also strongly encourage applications from scholars whose institutions do not otherwise provide them with mentorship opportunities in the history of science.

Applicants who have a dissertation chapter or an article in progress will be given priority. However, applications from graduate students who have not yet advanced to candidacy, who would use the Summer School to workshop their dissertation prospectus will be considered.

The HSS SummerSchool is fully funded. This includes accommodation for four nights, travel to/from Bologna, and most meals.

Deadline to submit an application 6 January 2025.

To apply follow the button below and fill out the form with:

-A 500 word letter with the following:

(1) outline your research,

(2) provide the selection committee with a brief (intellectual) biography,

(3) explain why you think participating in the HSS Summer School will advance your research and/or what you will bring to the program

-Estimated Costs of travel to Bologna

-Proof of eligibility as a PhD student, PhD candidate, or Early Career Scholar

Apply: https://airtable.com/app7DdpYVgdxk8riz/pagiZRFtpe5ZyD1rq/form

*We define an early career scholar as anyone who has received their dissertation within the last five years and is not in a tenure track position. Applicants who received their PhD more than five years prior to the application deadline, but who took leave for caregiving or medical reasons, are eligible to apply if your time active in academia amounts to less than five years. Please address your leave and its duration in your application materials.

CROATIA LIBORI SUMMER SCHOOL 2023 Women Philosophers and Scientists on Psychology, Mind, and Body Awareness

CROATIA LIBORI SUMMER SCHOOL 2023

Women Philosophers and Scientists on Psychology, Mind, and Body Awareness

Zagreb, 19–22 June 2023

URL: https://cizuf.ifzg.hr/croatia-libori-summer-school-2023/

Long before the advent of psychology proper, psychologic issues were essential concerns of women philosophers. Beginning with authors of the 17th century, this summer school will retrace the development of ideas concerning mind, emotions, introspection, psychic causality, moral principles of psychology, identity, and the awareness and description of the body. Culminating in the early 20th century, we will address and discuss perspectives that preserve the philosophical heritage of psychology vis-à-vis the development of clinical psychology and physiology. Since Descartes, the importance of the continued effort to connect questions about body and mind remains as a central philosophical concern. We are inviting contributions dealing with women thinkers in the context of the history of psychology, psychological philosophy, theory of emotions and values, and ethical questions related to psychology ranging from 17th to early 20th century.

The Libori Summer School is co-organized by the Research Centre for Women in Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy in Zagreb and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University.

Organizing Committee:

Dr. sc. Luka Boršić, Institute of Philosophy

Prof. dr. Ruth Hagenbruger, Paderborn University

Dr. Jil Muller, Paderborn University

Dr. sc. Ivana Skuhala Karasman, Institute of Philosophy

Summer School "Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Science and Technology "

Summer School "Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Science and Technology ", 24-29 Sept. 2023 in Wuppertal (Germany) at the Flemings Express Hotel. The Research Training Group GRK 2696 “Transformations of science and technology since 1800: topics, processes, institutions”, in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Summer School Series in Higher Education Research and Science Studies (https://www.herss-summer.eu) invites applications for the Summer School "Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Science and Technology ", taking place 24-29 Sept. 2023 in Wuppertal (Germany) at the Flemings Express Hotel. COLLABORATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Science as a social system has grown rapidly during the 20th and the early 21st centuries. This growth involved processes of cognitive and social differentiation, resulting in an increasing variety of scientific disciplines and research fields. Thomas Kuhn argued that similar to the speciation of new biological organisms, new disciplines emerge when scientists increasingly rely on a new lexicon that excludes non-specialists from scientific communication. In his view, such “lexical diversity” permits the sciences to solve more complex scientific puzzles than a lexically homogeneous science. In contrast, Peter Galison argued that “trading zones” between fields can bridge gaps in communication through interdisciplinary collaboration. The summer school will examine both collaboration and interdisciplinarity from the perspectives of history, philosophy and sociology of science and technology. We will discuss state-of-the-art theories, methods and research designs that aim at better understanding the complex web of scientific collaboration, the costs and benefits of interdisciplinary research, the competition between research fields, institutional conditions for successful collaboration, and their impact on scientific careers. The summer school will give early career researchers the opportunity to discuss these issues with leading scholars and probe new ideas for their own projects. Confirmed Lecturers and Working Group titles: Daniel Acuña, University of Colorado Boulder (Computer Science, Science of Science): tba Hanne Andersen, University of Copenhagen (Philosophy of Science): Title: Studies of interdisciplinarity: Questioning the legends Hunter Heyck, University of Oklahoma (History of Science and Technology): tba Erin Leahy, University of Arizona, Tucson (Sociology of Science): Title: Collaboration is hard. Interdisciplinary research is hard. What does it get us? Cyrus Mody, University of Maastricht (History and Sociology of Science): Title: Scientific “Bubbles” in Nanotechnology and Beyond Hannah Rubin, University of Missouri (Philosophy of Science): Title: Modeling scientists’ social interactions and their consequences We invite contributions from advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from history, philosophy and sociology of science and technology as well as the fields of science of science and science & innovation studies. We are interested in both theoretical as well as the empirical contributions addressing various aspects of collaboration and interdisciplinarity in science and technology. To apply, please send the following material in a single pdf file by May 31st 2023 to grk2696-summerschool@uni-wuppertal.de: - Letter of motivation - Short CV The application process will be competitive and participants will be selected according to qualification and research interests. The cost of participation will be € 250 and includes full board and lodging. A selection of participants will be given the opportunity to give short presentations of their own work as part of the school. The presentations will be followed by a commentary from a faculty member of the graduate school or one of the invited speakers. In case you intend to give a presentation, please include in your application: - Title of your talk - Long abstract (approx. 1000 words) focusing on work in progress from ongoing research projects addressing the above issues. We offer a small number of stipends to participants with limited funding opportunities. To apply for a stipend, please also prepare and submit a letter, no longer than one page, explaining your financial situation. The research training group is strongly committed to creating equal opportunities. In case of equal qualification, preference will be given to underrepresented groups. We are organizing on-site child care. Please indicate in your application if you intend to bring your child or children. You can contact the organizers of the summer school using the email address grk2696-summerschool@uni-wuppertal.de.

His-GenderGap, an International Summer School on Gender and Science,

 His-GenderGap, an International Summer School on Gender and Science, aims to place these efforts in a historical context and create a formative space for early career scholars to exchange their academic work in progress.

His-GenderGap

According to the 2021 edition of the European Commission’s She Figures report––the main source of pan-European, comparable statistics on the state of gender equality in research and innovation––there has been considerable progress in gender parity with regard to doctoral graduates in STEM subjects. However, there is still a clear gender gap in the majority of EU countries when it comes to professionals in the sciences, engineering, and information/communication technologies. Despite the persistent efforts of individual universities, university alliances, and the gender policies of the EU, gender equality is not yet fulfilled. His-GenderGap, an International Summer School on Gender and Science, aims to place these efforts in a historical context and create a formative space for early career scholars to exchange their academic work in progress.

When?

May 29 – June 2, 2023

Where?

Universidad de Granada, Spain

Who?

Up to 20 early-career scholars (PhD candidates or postdocs) in gender science studies, science and technology studies, history of science/technology/medicine or any related fields

What is covered?

Allowance for inner-European travel to/from Granada (max. € 425) and pre-booked accommodation at the University of Granada guest residence for five nights

Deadline for applications: January 30, 2023

Please send your application to: ralf.mitschke@fau.de

Please include the following in your application:

- cover letter

- short CV with publications

- research exposé (1,500 to 2,000 words) that directly addresses one of the four thematic sections of the summer school:

1. Debating New Approaches to Gender in Science and Technology Studies

2. Objects, Materiality, and the Female Body in the Sciences

3. Research Spaces Revisited

4. Gender and Engineering: Precedents and Perspectives

If successful, you will be formally invited to attend (by February 28) and asked to submit a more developed exposé (5,000 to 7,000 words; by March 31) that will be discussed and presented during the summer school.

His-GenderGap is organized by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Prof. María Jesus Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council), and Dr. Ágata Ignaciuk (University of Granada).

It is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and supported by the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA) as well as the Commission on Women and Gender Studies in History of Science, Technology and Medicine of IUHPST/DHST.

Call for papers: International Summer School on Gender and Science (Granada, Spain, May 29 – June 2, 2023)

According to the 2021 edition of the European Commission’s She Figures report––the main source of pan-European, comparable statistics on the state of gender equality in research and innovation––there has been considerable progress in gender parity with regard to doctoral graduates in STEM subjects. However, there is still a clear gender gap in the majority of EU countries when it comes to professionals in the sciences, engineering, and information/communication technologies. Despite the persistent efforts of individual universities, university alliances, and the gender policies of the EU, gender equality is not yet fulfilled. His-GenderGap, an International Summer School on Gender and Science, aims to place these efforts in a historical context and create a formative space for early career scholars to exchange their academic work in progress.

When? May 29 – June 2, 2023

Where? Universidad de Granada, Spain

Who? Up to 20 early-career scholars (PhD candidates or postdocs) in gender science studies, science and technology studies, history of science/technology/medicine or any related fields What is covered? Allowance for inner-European travel to/from Granada (max. € 425) and pre-booked accommodation at the University of Granada guest residence for five nights

Deadline for applications: January 30, 2023 Please send your application to: ralf.mitschke@fau.de<mailto:ralf.mitschke@fau.de>

Please include the following in your application:

* cover letter

* short CV with publications

* research exposé (1,500 to 2,000 words) that directly addresses one of the four thematic sections of the summer school:

* Debating New Approaches to Gender in Science and Technology Studies

* Objects, Materiality, and the Female Body in the Sciences

* Research Spaces Revisited

* Gender and Engineering: Precedents and Perspectives

If successful, you will be formally invited to attend (by February 28) and asked to submit a more developed exposé (5,000 to 7,000 words; by March 31) that will be discussed and presented during the summer school.

His-GenderGap is organized by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Prof. María Jesus Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council), and Dr. Ágata Ignaciuk (University of Granada).

It is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and supported by the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA) as well as the Commission on Women and Gender Studies in History of Science, Technology and Medicine of IUHPST/DHST.

https://www.stgs.fau.de/2022/12/13/call-for-papers-his-gendergap-international-spring-school-on-gender-and-science/

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HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD SUMMER SCHOOL, Veliko Tarnovo, 18–22 July 2022, deadline 29 April 2022

We are starting something new and very special.

Join us in Veliko Tarnovo, this summer, between 18–22 July 2022 for the Pilot Edition of the HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD SUMMER SCHOOL

Deadline for submitting an application: 29 April 2022.

There is no registration fee.

Full schedule: https://www.uni-vt.bg/res/14892/SSHistMedSci_Final_Program.pdf

Please address your informal inquiries and your application materials to Dr Divna Manolova at dvmanolova@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

Summer School Philosophy and Vision

The School studies the wider medieval world of Afro-Eurasia and aims to shed light on Byzantium and the Slavonic world, and their intellectual heritage as agents in the development of medieval science, which, though significant, nevertheless remain largely unknown to the scholarly community. Even though current scholarship is focused on the so-called ‘Global Medieval’, the medieval Slavonic, Byzantine and Black Sea regions remain a blind spot for both the researchers and the general public outside of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Thus, the School aims at positioning Byzantium and the Slavonic world on the map of history of medieval science, thus offering the participants the rare opportunity to get acquainted with their respective heritage.

In its pilot edition, the Summer School will problematize the medieval manuscript and approach it as a space and as a territory. Building upon this conceptual premise, the School will also introduce students to the medieval epistemic fields (sciences) which study the natural world (the kosmos) as a space, namely geography, cosmography and astronomy. Students will acquire fundamental knowledge concerning the place and role of the sciences in the intellectual world of the Middle Ages. They will also develop an understanding of premodern science as a spectrum of disciplines wider than the late antique framework of the four mathematical sciences (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) and inclusive of all epistemic domains dedicated to the intellectual exploration of the natural world (the kosmos) and of humanity. The School relies on a discussion-based and experiential / experimental format. That is, the School includes workshops, which will guide the students into the use of medieval instruments and maps as preserved in the surviving manuscripts.

The common discussion language of the School will be English.

If the participants know a medieval scholarly language (for this pilot edition: Latin, Greek and/or Old Church Slavonic, but in the future also Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Classical Armenian, and so forth), this would be an advantage, but it is not an essential requirement for participation.

During the selection process, preference will be given to MA and PhD students, but researchers with interest in the Middle Ages and / or History of Science can also apply.

Available places: The School offers twelve places for in-person participants wishing to attend both the morning (lectures) and afternoon (workshops) sessions.

There is no limit for the number of online participants, but their registration is restricted solely to the morning sessions.

We cannot offer any financial support to cover travel and accommodation expenses.

There is no registration fee.

In order to apply, please send a short bio and description of what motivates your application (maximum one page altogether). Please indicate in your application whether you would like to attend the Summer School in person or online.

Call for Papers - Summer School “Spatial turn to the wrong place? A dialogue between interdisciplinary research fields”. Tyumen State University & Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, HSE Moscow, 23 – 28 August 2021, Deadline: July 1, 2021

 

Dear colleagues,

Center "Human, Nature, Technology" invities students, bachelors, M.A. and PhD students to our Summer school “Spatial turn to the wrong place? A dialogue between interdisciplinary research fields”

Send your abstracts and cv to spatialschoolutmn@gmail.com

See the CfP below

The coronavirus pandemic has unexpectedly aggravated the issue of space and place in our global and interconnected world. Last spring the countries all over the world were closed their borders, while movement between states and provinces was strictly limited, if not prohibited. Lockdowns and quarantines forced many people to isolate themselves in their apartments and houses. It meant a massive job loss since many people could not afford the privilege of working from home. In other words, a cohesive space between work and home were disintegrated at once causing big social problems for local neighborhoods, communities and businesses. Such an unprecedent situation has raised the question of new meanings of space in the epoch of global lockdown.

Nevertheless, this urgent issue has not appeared out of nowhere.

A French historian Fernand Braudel in his works underpinned the role of environment and space as the most important factor to analyze historical development of society. The fundamental works of Henry Lefebvre (1974) and Foucault (1972) outlined the thesis that the organization of space lies to the core of structure and functioning of modern capitalism. Harvey brought up a question of a critical revaluation of space and spatiality in the social theory. The spatial turn changed the perception of time and space, had been trying to assert a new meaning of space in its interaction with time and social structures (Soja).

Besides that, the significance of the spatial turn can be associated with the development of the postcolonial theory, that casts doubt on the familiar concepts such as “East”, “West”, “North”, “South”, ‘Center”, “center-periphery model”.

However, most of the debates on the role of space takes place out of Russia. It seems to us that the ideas and concepts of the “spatial turn” could be useful for historians and social researchers of Northern Eurasia. We want Summer School to set up this framework for exploring various spaces with a special emphasis on Ural and Siberia. Although the school is focused on a broad chronological framework, we are especially interested in the role of space and place in the history of Late Soviet and post-Soviet Siberia and Ural. We would like to specifically discuss how the Soviet development of these territories changed both their natural landscapes, urban spaces, the perception of these places and the identity and subjectivity that were formed around these perceptions. Another important problem is the presence or absence of regional specificity of the transition from the Late Soviet to the post-Soviet in Ural and Siberia.

We will try to elaborate next topics. How to study Ural and Siberia from the point of view of spatial turn? Should the space of Ural and Siberia denote only as a metaphor for the study of modernization and transformation processes in the history of Russia in the 19th - 21st centuries? How to apply modern approaches to the study of space to Ural and Siberia and what scholar outputs could be achieved?

The Summer School is open both for young social science scholars and natural scientists (master’s students, PhD candidates). 

Please send your proposals including an abstract (300 words), motivation letter, and CV. (name, email address, institutional affiliation, research interests, and disciplinary anchoring) to spatialschoolutmn@gmail.com by July 1, 2021. 

Working languages are English and Russian

We welcome abstracts related to the topics listed below: 

Approaches and methods to analyze social and natural space relying on data and sources from Ural and Siberia

Nature as a "natural" space in Ural and Siberia

Cultural landscapes, environment and man-made objects

Geoengineering projects and their role in transforming the spaces of Ural and Siberia

The importance of space in the formation of identities and subjectivity

The city as a new space

Call for Papers: "Knowledge Organization in the Middle Ages: The Universitas" (Kompetenzzentrum Zürcher Mediävistik, Summer School)

 

This non-profit summer course event (not recurrent) is looking at the topic of "Knowledge Organization in the Middle Ages: The Universitas" from an information-historical point of view. Briefly about the term: Outside the context of the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, we understand information very broadly as an etic (externally applied) reference term to describe and analyze a group of concepts, formats, objects, practices and processes. Information is understood here as a meaningful message that is passed on by means of various media, with the media and their technological systems of transmission quite often playing a prominent role in the interpretation of the message.

Taking into account a variety of different religious and cultural areas of the medieval period, we have structured the five days of the summer course around the following six categories. 

Orality, written exchanges, and the question how information circulates

School objectives and the classification of teaching disciplines

Compendia

Visualizations, translations, and passages of knowledge

Libraries, archives, bureaucracy

Domains of information generation and dissemination

 

Please email koordination@mediaevistik.uzh.ch for more information.

Session Topics

Anja-Silvia Goeing (UZH/Harvard, History of Humanism and Higher Education): Institutions, Networks, and the Creation of Academic Information and Knowledge (Introductory Session)

Kathryne Beebe (University of North Texas, Medieval History): Orality, Religion and Circulation of Information: Pilgrimage and Travel

Marc Winter (UZH, Sinology): Teaching Confucius: Higher Education in China

Andreas Sohn (Sorbonne, Paris, Medieval History): Benedictine Teachers and the Monastery Library of Admont

Inga Mai Groote (UZH, Musicology), Hein Sauer (UZH, Musicology): Manuscripts of Musical Theory

Iolanda Ventura (University of Bologna, Medieval Studies): Medical Compendia in and outside the Late Medieval Classroom

Paul Michel (UZH, German Studies): Visualizations of Abstract Concepts

Urs Leu (ZB Zürich, Director of Rare Books): Storage: Early Libraries and Archives

Henrike Gaetjens (UZH, German Studies), Anja-Silvia Göing (UZH/Harvard), Eveline Szarka (University of Cambridge, History): Domains of Information Generation and Dissemination (Concluding Session)

 

Excursions:

Central Library Zurich: Medieval Manuscripts and Early Prints

On the Way of St. James to Rapperswil and Einsiedeln. Places of Pilgrimage, Institutions of Learning, and the Circulation of Information: Needs, Knowledge, Care and Spirituality

11th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization PANDEMIC PASTS, PANDEMIC FUTURES: Sources, histories, imaginations

 Call for Papers for the 11th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization  PANDEMIC PASTS, PANDEMIC FUTURES: Sources, histories, imaginations, Institut Menorquí d’Estudis, Mahón (Balearic Islands, Spain), 11-13 November 2021 (alternative date, 26-28 May 2022), Organized by the Catalan Society for the History of Science

Coordinated by Francisco Javier Martínez, Celia Miralles-Buil, and Quim Bonastra

All the information about the School's topics, schedule and program (keynote lectures, workshops and poster sessions) is available at the following website:  https://blogs.iec.cat/schct/11th-european-spring-school/ 

The 11th ESS is open to junior scholars and postgraduate students of both social sciences/humanities and scientific background, who will have a great opportunity to engage with cutting edge work and present their own contributions. The School will particularly favour proposals that cross boundaries between disciplines, temporal focus and working spaces. All participants are expected to take part in the discussions of the lectures and workshops, to visit and comment the posters exhibit and to engage in the mentoring and artistic sessions. 

The deadline for proposals to the workshops and poster sessions is 21 May 2021. Please, send a 200-word abstract and a 1-page CV to 11thspringschool@gmail.com

A limited number of grants will be available for graduate students and early career researchers.