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Dear Colleagues,
   Here are the March 2022 announcements. Please let me know if you have any you would to send out in a second email.
ISHPSSB



Expressions of Interest for Hosting ISH 2025



Members are invited to propose potential sites for the 2025 conference. Our tradition of alternating sites suggests that the 2025 meeting should be held in Europe, Asia, or Africa. A location that can be easily accessed by rail, bus, or car for many members is especially desirable to minimize our carbon footprint.

Initial expressions of interest for hosting the 2025 conference should be sent to the Site Selection Committee Chair, Betty Smocovitis: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, who is happy to answer questions. More details will follow in the Spring Newsletter and subsequent mailings.

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Professor, History of Science
Departments of Biology and History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611

MARCH 1 Deadline (Sorry for the late notice)

Ann Johnson Institute Call for Book Manuscript Workshop

The Ann Johnson Institute (AJI) for Science, Technology and Society at the University of South Carolina welcomes applications for a one-day book manuscript workshop to be held in the Winter/Spring Term 2023.

This workshop is targeted towards individuals at any career stage who have not previously published a monograph. We are happy to consider individuals with or without publishing contracts. The successful applicant will have a first-time book manuscript near completion at the time of applying. He or she will invite, and the AJI will fund, up to three senior experts in the author’s field. A small group of relevant experts within the South Carolina community may also attend.

The purpose of this workshop is to support stronger and more rigorous manuscripts from first-time STS authors. Equally, it is geared toward developing communities of colleagues from different disciplines and geographical locations. The AJI is committed to building such communities from the bottom up, seeding them and positioning them to question and reframe complex problems. The AJI takes a broad approach to STS, envisioning it in partnership with historical, philosophical, scientific, engineering and medical approaches, because at the AJI community is the method.

Workshop format

  *   The successful applicant will be expected to deliver a full draft of their manuscript to all workshop participants no later than one month before the workshop convenes
  *   During the workshop five hours will be devoted to a chapter-level discussion of the manuscript, with a break in the middle for lunch
  *   There will be a notetaker and moderator for the duration of the workshop
  *   The workshop will end with a dinner
  *   Invited experts will provide written feedback to the author after the workshop

Application
The deadline for submissions is 1 March 2022. Please apply via email to [log in to unmask]<about:blank> with “AJI book manuscript workshop” in the subject heading. In the attachment to your email, please include:

  *   Short CV
  *   One-page description of the book project, including its current stage of development
  *   Four to five names of senior experts to invite, please include their rank, University or home department, their field/specialty, and briefly why you would like to invite them (two sentences)

WORKSHOPS/SCHOOLS/CONFERENCES

The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections, 24th  – 25th March 2022
The overall goal of this workshop is to address the riddle of organismal agency through the lenses of philosophy, history, and the biological sciences. By bringing together scholars from different disciplines, we aim to (1) clarify the epistemological and ontological underpinnings of organismal agency; (2) contextualize this problem in the history of philosophy and biology in fruitful new directions; and (3) delve into the consequences of embracing organismal agency for the study of development and evolution, its formal integration into biological theories, and translatability into scientific practice.

Participants:
Bendik Hellem Aaby (KU Leuven), Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (Ruhr University Bochum), Andrea Gambarotto (UCLouvain), Gregory M. Kohn (University of North Florida), Anne Sophie Meincke (University of Vienna), Francesca Michelini (University of Kassel), Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin), Samir Okasha (University of Bristol), Gregory Radick (University of Leeds), Sonia Sultan (Wesleyan University), and Denis Walsh (University of Toronto), Jan Baedke (Ruhr University Bochum)

Organization:
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Guido I. Prieto & Jan Baedke, Department of Philosophy I,
Ruhr University Bochum

Location: Beckmanns Hof, Ruhr University Bochum, and Zoom, 24th  – 25thMarch 2022

For more info, the programme, and registration: https://rotoworkshop2022.wixsite.com/agency

Jan Baedke
Ruhr University Bochum
Department of Philosophy I
Universitätsstrasse 150
D-44801 Bochum

Philosophy in Biology and Medicine Summer School

The PhilinBioMed network, the University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux Summer Schools, are pleased to announce the launch of the Philosophy in Biology and Medicine Summer School (https://bss-philinbiomed.u-bordeaux.fr/en/).

Taking place in the historic city center of Bordeaux, France, from June 7th to June 10th 2022, this summer school welcomes Master 2 students, PhD students, and postdocs, from the fields of philosophy, life sciences and medicine. Participants will learn to use interdisciplinary methods to address conceptual issues in scientific research.

Course leaders will be present throughout the week providing examples of interdisciplinary research based on their own experience, as well as interacting and advising participants on their projects. Course leaders include Angela Potochnik (Cincinatti), Elliott Sober (Wisconsin), Paul Griffiths (Sydney), Alan Love (Minnesota), along with local organizers.

Course leaders will be present throughout the week providing examples of interdisciplinary research based on their own experience, as well as interacting with and advising participants on their projects.

The deadline for registration is March 23rd, 2022. The fees are 440€.

Note that this is a ISHPSSB off-year workshop. A limited number of grants will be available upon demand.

If you are interested, please visit the webpage mentioned above.

I would like to announce two events on your calendar/mailing list:

Astrobiology and Society
Third Conference on History and Philosophy of Astrobiology
Höör, Sweden, 3 - 4 June 2022
http://www.nordicastrobiology.net/Hoor2022/

Life on Earth and Beyond
The History and Philosophy of the Origin of Life
Ven Island, Sweden, 30 May - 1 June 2022
http://www.nordicastrobiology.net/Ven2022/

Best, David Dunér, prof. of history of science, Lund University, Sweden


POSITIONS

Fulbright Chair in Science and Values

The University of Calgary will have a Fulbright Visiting Chair in science and values. I am writing you with the hope you can post the ad below in a SHPSSB  Listserve mailing. I think this would come under the heading of Job Postings.

The Philosophy Department at University of Calgary will have a Fulbright Visiting Chair in Values and Science for the academic year 2023-2024. The Fulbright Visiting Chair is a four-month appointment with a stipend of 25,000 USD. That stipend can be combined with any sabbatical or other awards the Chair might receive while being a Fulbright Chair. The Philosophy Department at Calgary has a strong philosophy of science and biology program, and there is a keen interest in the area of science and values among faculty and students. The Fulbright program will accept applications for this Chair until September 15, 2022. For more information contact Megan Delehanty ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Marc Ereshefsky ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).

Thank you, Marc

Marc Ereshefsky, Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary.

END OF ANNOUNCEMENTS


Lloyd Ackert, Ph.D.
Department of History
Drexel University

ISH Listserve Moderator
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