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1. Call for papers for a thematic special issue
of the journal Science & Education on "Genetics
and Society: Educating Scientifically Literate
Citizens." Researchers working on areas related
to genetics, bioethics and genetics education are
invited to contribute to this thematic issue.
Conceptual, theoretical, empirical or
position-based manuscripts are welcome.
Manuscripts should treat their topics with an
explicit connection to the topic of educating
scientifically literate citizens, or address
educational issues with respect to genetics and
society more generally. Submission Date: October
30, 2011.
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2. Call for expressions of interest and abstracts
for a new anthology, Origins of Mind, for
Springer's book series, Cellular Origin, Life in
Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. The book,
Origins of Mind, will address a question that is
fundamental to both philosophical and scientific
inquiry: how and why did the human mind as we
know it come to exist in the natural world?
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3. The 46th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for
History of Biology will be held Saturday, 9 April
2011 at Yale University in New Haven, CT.
Graduate Students and Younger Scholars are
encouraged to submit work for presentation.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 February 2011.
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4. The Israeli Society for History & Philosophy
of Science announces its eleventh annual
conference, March 6, 2011 at the Bloomfield
Science Museum Jerusalem. The conference
constitutes a meeting site for scholars from
different fields, such as history, philosophy,
sociology, anthropology, political science, the
natural and medical sciences, economics, and
literature, who are all engaged in studying
different aspects of the theoretical and applied
sciences, medicine, and technology. Deadline for
submission: January 1, 2011.
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5. Call for applications, "Biology and the
Publlc: Participation and Exclusion from the
Renaissance to the Present Day," The Twelfth
Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life
Sciences 'Villa Dohrn', Ischia, Italy, 26 June -
3 July 2011. This week-long summer school
provides advanced training in history of the life
sciences, a lively international field that
offers a long-term perspective on some of the
most significant ideas, practices and
institutions in the world today. Deadline for
applications: 31 January 2011.
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6. Position announcement: Senior
Lecturer/Administrative Director, Collection of
Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard
University. The Collection of Historical
Scientific Instruments is the oldest and most
extensive university-based collection of its type
in the United States, holding some 20,000
instruments dating from the 17th century to the
present. Closing date for applications: January
5, 2011.
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7. The December issue of the IHPST Newsletter is
now available on the web.
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8. Call for papers for an interdisciplinary
textual studies essay collection that explores
Darwinism in the American scene. Essays will
examine the ways in which Darwinian language and
theories have made their way into American
literary and cultural texts, initially providing
writers with a new vocabulary to describe human
affairs and interactions with other living
organisms, and continuing to shape the discourse
and debates of today. Deadline for
abstracts/essays: January 31, 2011.
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9. New book: A Foray into the Worlds of Animals
and Humans. Jakob von Uexküll embarks on an
exploration of the unique social and physical
environments that individual animal species, as
well as individuals within species, build and
inhabit. Uexküll's concept of the umwelt holds
new possibilities for the terms of animality,
life, and the framework of biopolitics.
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10. New book: The Tendency for Diversity and
Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems.
Daniel W. McShea and Robert N. Brandon argue that
there exists in evolution a spontaneous tendency
toward increased diversity and complexity, one
that acts whether natural selection is present or
not. This law unifies the principles and data of
biology under a single framework and invites a
reconceptualization of the field of the same sort
that Newton's First Law brought to physics.
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11. New book: Less Than Human: Why We Demean,
Enslave, and Exterminate Others, by David
Livingstone Smith. This is the first book-length
study of dehumanization. It draws on a rich mix
of history, psychology, biology, anthropology and
philosophy to document the pervasiveness of
dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain
how and why we so often resort to it.
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