Listserv for the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (see the end of this message for directions on how to subscribe and unsubscribe from this listserv) ********************************************** This listserv sends out brief descriptions only. For further details, follow the link provided. Please send me items at [log in to unmask] to post to the list that would be of interest to Society members: position announcements, postdoctoral announcements, grant and funding opportunities, conference announcements, calls for papers, and brief queries on research topics. The sooner you send me something, the more likely that I will be able to have it posted before its deadline. Thanks! Trevor Pearce Listserv Moderator, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology [log in to unmask] ********************************************** ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop: The ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Committee invites proposals for off-year workshops to take place in the summer of 2016. While the society cannot provide financial support for off-year workshops, it will provide publicity, advice to organizers, and some funding to support graduate student travel. Proposal deadline: 31 January 2016. Details in the Fall 2015 newsletter at http://goo.gl/tMmxYx. Job: Assistant Professor in the Ethics of Emerging Science and Technology, Program in Science, Technology & Society (STS) and Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University. **DEADLINE FOR FULL CONSIDERATION: 25 NOVEMBER 2015** https://goo.gl/8deEuI Call for Papers: Three Societies Conference, Eighth Joint Meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society, 22-25 June 2016, University of Alberta, Canada. Deadline: 7 December 2015. https://goo.gl/gnMzqi Call for Abstracts: Biennial meeting of HOPOS: The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 22-25 June 2016, Minneapolis, MN. Deadline: 4 January 2016. http://hopos2016.umn.edu/ Call for Abstracts: Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), 28-30 May 2016, Deadline: 15 January 2016. http://goo.gl/cIc5S0 Call for Papers: *Biosemiotics* (Springer), special issue on "Constructive Biosemiotics." The constructive perspective opposes the view where organisms are seen mainly as patients passively reacting to the external forces. Deadline for tentative titles and abstracts: January 2016. http://goo.gl/81aVqA Seminar: "Why Marine Studies?" ASU-MBL Seminar in the History of Biology, 18-25 May 2016, Woods Hole, MA. Application deadline: 1 February 2016. https://goo.gl/mE6V2j Fellowships: The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Philadelphia offers short-term Research Fellowships, nine-month Dissertation Writing Fellowships, and a nine-month NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship. Application deadline: 5 January 2016. http://goo.gl/B9BBpS Editor Position: The *Journal of the History of Biology* is seeking candidates for its next Editor-in-Chief. The five-year term will begin in January 2018. Candidates will be considered by the current Editor-in-Chief (Michael Dietrich) and the Associate Editors who will forward a recommendation to the JHB’s publishers at Springer. Review of candidates will begin in March 2016. For more information e-mail [log in to unmask] Journal: *Reproductive BioMedicine & Society* (RBMS) is a new open-access journal dedicated to interdisciplinary discussion and debate of the rapidly expanding field of reproductive biomedicine. http://www.rbmsociety.com/ **************************** End of announcements ************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS FOR SUBSCRIBING Send an email message to: [log in to unmask] with the following in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE ISHPSB-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname For example, if your name were Gregor Mendel: SUBSCRIBE ISHPSB-L Gregor Mendel DIRECTIONS FOR UNSUBSCRIBING Send an email message to: [log in to unmask] with the following in the body of the message: SIGNOFF ISHPSB-L ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trevor Pearce Listserv Moderator, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology http://www.ishpssb.org/ Listserv archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/ishpsb-l.html Email: [log in to unmask]