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 andunsubscribe 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] ********************************************** Fellowship: Wittig Postdoctoral Fellowship in Feminist Biology (2016-17), Department of Gender & Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Open to both new PhDs and mid-career scholars. Deadline: 10 February 2016. http://goo.gl/jYYMsb Postdoc: Two two-year postdoctoral positions -- "Disentangling the Causes of Development" and "The 'Holobiont' and its Construction through the Integration of Microbes" -- with Thomas Pradeu at CNRS in Bordeaux, France. Deadline: 14 March 2016. http://thomaspradeu.com/erc-idem School: CNRS School "BioPerspectives": New Perspectives in Philosophy of Biology, Institut d’Études Scientifiques de Cargèse, Cargèse, Corsica, France, 29 March - 1 April 2016. Deadline: 15 February 2016. http://goo.gl/ZyXjhu School: "Function and Malfunction in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and the Social Sciences," European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Klosterneuburg, Austria, 5-9 September 2016. Deadline: 31 March 2016. http://goo.gl/fkeMRv Summer Institute: "Reconceiving and Explaining the Success of Science," Basel, Switzerland, 1-12 August 2016. Primarily for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Accepted participants will receive generous stipends to offset expenses associated with travel to and attending the Summer Institute. http://goo.gl/Uu9XUY Call for Abstracts: Third biennial meeting, "Philosophy of Biology in the UK" (PBUK), University of Bristol, 8-9 June 2016. Deadline: 15 March 2016. http://goo.gl/xo31FK Call for Papers: "Pragmatism and the Brain," University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2-4 June 2016. Abstracts (600-words) should be submitted to Brian Butler at [log in to unmask] Deadline: 1 April 2016 (extended). http://philevents.org/event/show/18687 Call for Interest: Summer schools (2017 & 2018) on "Active Matter," i.e., the science and philosophical implications of active matter in living cells. The organizers are seeking senior scholars in the Philosophy of Science and related fields with an interest in the burgeoning study of "active matter." For more information or to express interest in participation, please contact Pranab Das at [log in to unmask] https://goo.gl/5znxsC Meeting: Registration is now open for the "Three Societies 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 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 22-25 June 2016. https://goo.gl/lwF43D Workshop: "What Can the Philosophy of Biology Learn from the History of Biology?" Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 19-20 March 2016. http://goo.gl/DsWjEZ In Memoriam: John Farley, historian of medicine at Dalhousie University in Canada. http://goo.gl/AaU2hK Book: Brian Hall, *Bones & Cartilage: Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal Biology* (2nd ed., 2015). http://goo.gl/Rd3Pv9 **************************** 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, andSocial Studies of Biology http://www.ishpssb.org/ Listserv archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/ishpsb-l.html Email: [log in to unmask]