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. **Please include a link to details, as we only send out a digest of brief descriptions.** Thanks! Trevor Pearce Listserv Moderator, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology [log in to unmask] ********************************************** Job: Carleton College seeks to hire a Full, Associate or advanced Assistant Professor whose work focuses on the humanistic dimensions and implications of new and emerging technologies. Deadline: 8 December 2018. https://bit.ly/2FUh74w Postdoc: Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, University of Sydney. The three-year appointee will work with Chief Investigator Professor Warwick Anderson and collaborators to applying humanities or social science methods to the analysis of biomedical science and health policy. Deadline: 16 December 2018. https://bit.ly/2SpoxOz Call for Abstracts: Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, 1-3 June 2019, Vancouver, Canada. Deadline: 11 January 2019. https://bit.ly/2zwkN8N Call for Abstracts: "Bridging the Philosophies of Biology and Chemistry," 25-27 June 2019, University of Paris Diderot, France. Deadline: 15 January 2019. https://bit.ly/2Sudx2B Call for Abstracts: Biennial meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB 2018), 7-12 July 2018, Oslo, Norway. Deadline: 18 January 2019. https://bit.ly/2SpylrS Call for Papers: Special issue of *Disputatio* on "The Upsurge of Irrationality: Pseudoscience, Science Denialism, and Post-Truth." Deadline: 15 March 2019. https://bit.ly/2AKIN69 Call for Papers: WORDS 2019, a biennial international conference covering the mathematical theory of words (sequences of symbols) from all points of view: combinatorial, algebraic, algorithmic, as well as its applications to biology, linguistics, physics, and others, 9-13 September 2019, Loughborough, UK. Deadline: 11 April 2019. https://bit.ly/2G68150 Workshop: There will be a workshop on Jacob Stegenga's book *Medical Nihilism* on 17 December 2018 at the Université de Bordeaux, France. Registration is free. https://bit.ly/2FUhvA0 Book: Maria Kronfeldner, *What's Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept* https://bit.ly/2BMMJVI **************************** 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]