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1.  Nicholas C. Mullins Award

The Nicholas C. Mullins prize is awarded each year by the Society for
Social Studies of Science (4S) for an outstanding piece of scholarship
by a graduate student in the field of Science and Technology Studies.
The winner receives a check for $US 1,000 and a plaque.  The
submission deadline is September 1, 2011.  To submit a paper, send a
PDF or Word file of the paper (or a functioning URL where it can be
accessed).  For further details on submission guidelines, please see
the Mullins Prize page on the 4S website:
http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/mullins.

Members of the 2011 Mullins Award Committee are:

Laurel Smith-Doerr, Committee Chair
Boston University
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Paul Mbatia
University of Nairobi

Stephen Zehr
University of Southern Indiana

2.  The University of Cambridge invites applications for a doctoral
studentship funded by a Wellcome Trust strategic award in history of
medicine. We seek outstanding candidates whose research would fall within
the theme 'Generation to Reproduction'.

Possible areas for doctoral projects include, but are not limited to:

- patient–practitioner relations around fertility and other encounters that
framed the generative body;
- the influence of diseases, including venereal diseases, on reproductive
behaviour and demographic patterns;
- representation and communication of generation and reproduction;
- ancient, medieval and early-modern investigations into generation;
- generation and childbirth in medical cases and casebooks;
- the reorganization of knowledge of generation/reproduction, especially in
the age of revolutions;
- such sciences as embryology, obstetrics, gynaecology, evolutionary
biology, reproductive physiology, genetics and developmental biology;
- reform movements around birth control, population control and sexual
science;
- twentieth-century transformations in techniques, experiences and
regulation;
- networks linking academic biology to reproductive medicine and public
health, agriculture, especially animal breeding, and/or pharmaceutical
industry;
- techniques for monitoring and manipulating pregnancy, hormones, genes,
gametes and embryos, e.g., genetic screening, in vitro fertilization and
embryo transfer;
- sexology, psychology and psychoanalysis, including social and
psychological practices for making babies and families.

The three-year studentship pays a generous stipend plus University and
College fees at the home rate only. Candidates will usually be expected to
hold a Master's in the history of medicine or with strong emphasis on the
history of medicine.

Informal inquiries may be made to the award holder with the most relevant
interests. A list of award holders can be found at:
www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.**uk/team.html<http://www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk/team.html>

Formal applications should be submitted through the relevant Department or
Faculty in the usual way, indicating an interest in the studentship. The
deadline for applications to be admitted in October 2012 is 15 February 2012
(1 February if online), but since other funding deadlines are earlier,
candidates are advised to make contact as soon as possible. Further details
of how to apply can be found at: www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.**
uk/studentships.html<http://www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk/studentships.html>
Communicating Reproduction
5–6 December 2011

3.  A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of
Science, University of Cambridge.

Scholars have explored continuities and discontinuities in theories of sex
and gender; knowledge of entities such as seeds, germs, embryos, monsters
and clones; concerns about creation, evolution, degeneration and
regeneration; investments in maternity, paternity and heredity; practices of
fertility control, potency and childbirth; and health relations between
citizen and state, individual and population. But we have paid much less
attention to the huge changes in processes and media of communication. There
is important work on specific practices, from education to advertising,
conversation to mass entertainment, and on specific media, from ritual
objects to printed books, films to the internet. But we lack synthetic and
comparative accounts. This conference aims to explore how we might best
ground debates about reproduction in changing practices of communication
over the long term, though primarily within the Western tradition. Nor is
reproduction just a lens through which to view the history of communication.
For generation and reproduction are themselves potent metaphors for
communication. Richard de Bury wrote in /Philobiblon/ (1345) of the making
of books as a form of generation across time and modern authors often frame
the distribution of identical copies in terms of mechanical reproduction.

The conference will bring together scholars representing ancient to modern
periods and various disciplines. Talks will be 20-minute summaries of
pre-circulated papers, followed by commentary and discussion in one-hour
slots in such a way as to promote dialogue and critical engagement between
fields and approaches.

Speakers and provisional titles:

Helen King (Open University): Educating Lucina: midwives and the
communication of reproductive knowledge, ancient and early modern
Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain): Iberian recipes and the
appropriation of knowledge in relation to human reproduction
Catherine Rider (University of Exeter): Communicating religious views of
infertility in the Middle Ages
Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University): 'Issue dangerous to the Queen':
pregnancy and politics in the Elizabethan polity
Mary Fissell (The Johns Hopkins University): Making a masterpiece from bits
and pieces
Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter): Reproduction and the
post-Darwinian novel
Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter): Reproducing species
Wendy Kline (University of Cincinnati): Coming home: modern midwifery and
the controversy over home birth
Solveig Jülich (Stockholm University): The Lennart Nilsson-industry:
remediating images of life before birth
Uta Schwarz (Cologne): Introduction to the film Helga (1967)
Ludmilla Jordanova (King's College, London): Closing comments

Organisers: Nick Hopwood, Peter Jones, Lauren Kassell, Francis Neary, Jim
Secord

To register, please follow the instructions at:
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/**medicine/communicating.html<http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/communicating.html>

Funded by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in the History of Medicine on
'Generation to Reproduction'
http://www.reproduction.group.**cam.ac.uk/<http://www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk/>

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