Genealogies of Knowledge I Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space University of Manchester 7-9 December 2017 Lingua Francas of Knowledges Convenor: Karen Bennett Universidade Nova, Lisbon Call for Panel Papers (Adobe PDF) English is today the unrivalled vehicle for the transmission of knowledge, the language in which most scholarship is published, conferences are held, reading is done
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Genealogies of Knowledge I Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space University of Manchester 7-9 December 2017 The Magic of ‘Classical’ Languages Script, Sound and Sense in the Translation of Sacred Concepts Convenor: Hephzibah Israel University of Edinburgh Call for Panel Papers (Adobe PDF) What is the nature of a ‘sacred’ language? When we examine the translation of
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Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest 30 August – 2 September 2017 The state, as we have come to know it, is very much a 19th-century creation. After poverty, ill health was the dominant social issue targeted by the interventions of emerging -states. Following
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6-9 July 2017 University of York The BSHS Annual Conference will take place from Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 July 2017 at the University of York. The Conferences Committee now invites proposals for individual papers and for sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine, and from their colleagues in the wider scholarly community, on any theme, topic or period.
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VACANCY REF: HUM-09286 Apply here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=12614 Application Deadline: Midnight 15 December 2016 Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews: Professor Mona Baker (mona.baker@manchester.ac.uk) Professor Luis Pérez-González (luis.perez-gonzalez@manchester.ac.uk) Professor Peter E Pormann (peter.pormann@manchester.ac.uk) General enquiries: hrservices@manchester.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)161 275 4499 Technical support: universityofmanchester@helpmeapply.co.uk This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on 15 December 2016. slation Studies BACKGROUND The University
Read more7-9 December 2017 1st Call for Papers The production and circulation of knowledge across temporal and cultural spaces is a well-established research theme among classicists and historians of political thought, ideas, science and medicine, but recent developments have opened up new perspectives on this area of study. The study of social knowledge flows has advanced our understanding of these
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