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News 6/21/09: The The Newton Project Canada is searching for a transcriber to transcribe from
Newton's theological manuscripts (reproductions in microfilm and colour scans)
into XML.
6/15/09: The deadline for submissions for Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science - Volume 3: Epistemic Boundaries has been extended to July 10.
6/15/09: Registration now open for Origin of Species at 150: a celebratory conference, to be held November 21-24 at the University of Toronto.
5/08/09: Situating Science's Lesley Cormack busts the myth that the ancients thought the world was flat, in Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion, a collection of essays edited by Ronald Numbers.
5/06/09: Register now for the Summer Institute. The deadline for registrations is June 19.
16/3/09: Situating Science announces its first Summer School
4/5/09: New postdoctoral position with Situating Science at the University of Alberta.
4/5/09: The University of Toronto hosts the fifth annual HAPSAT conference, "Evidence in Context", May 23.
Gordon McOuat, Director of the Situating Science Cluster, will give a talk, "The Political Origins of Natural Kinds", at the University of Alberta, April 28.
1/4/09: York University will be hosting the second annual GTA Symposium on History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, May 8.
30/3/09: The complete CCEPA Trust in Science series is now available to watch online.
30/3/09: The University of British Columbia announces a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in science and technology studies, funded by the SSHRC Cluster Grant, Situating Science.
16/3/09: Situating Science announces its first Summer School
6/3/09: Call for Papers, Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History
and Philosophy of Science - Volume 3: Epistemic Boundaries.
6/3/09: The deadline to submit papers for the fifth annual HAPSAT conference, "Evidence in Context" has been extended to March 22.
14/2/09: The next Situating Science-sponsored workshop, Reassessing the Governance of Clinical Trials: "Preventing Real World Risks at the Gate" will be held March 9-10 at Dalhousie University.
6/2/09: Read a review of Situating Science workshops, "Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art, and Culture" and "Critical Debates in Evidence-Based Medicine" in the current issue of Spontaneous Generations, the online journal produced by the graduate students of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
26/1/09: Read the January issue of L'espreST, the bulletion of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie.
16/1/09: The complete text of "The Effects of Aging on Researchers' Publication and Citation Patterns" by Yves Gingras et al. is now available at PLoS ONE.
13/1/09: Situating Science presents Part 1 of the Trust In Science lecture series, featuring Dr. Steven Shapin.
7/1/09: New call for papers.
10/12/08: Situating Science announces its workshops for 2009. More information will be posted in the coming months.
3/12/08: York University proudly announces the establishment of a new Graduate
Program in Science and Technology Studies, now fully approved by the
Ontario Council of Graduate Studies. The Program will offer advanced
training leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. The Program's mandate
will be to produce graduates equipped to utilize the rich tools afforded
by scholarship in the history, philosophy, social studies, and cultural studies
of science and technology, with an emphasis on four fields: Biosciences and
Biotechnologies; Human-Machine Interactions; Public Science; and Physical
Systems. Over thirty-five faculty are participating in the Program.
Applications are now being accepted tobegin study in the Program in the fall of
2009. The deadline is February 15th, 2009.
1/12/08: Nature publishes an article on research led by Yves Gingras, Director of Situsci's Node at the University of Quebec at Montreal, showing that older researchers are at least as productive as their younger counterparts.
19/11/08: Grande Rencontre — Survey Results
Articles and more information
29/9/08: Schedule for York University 2008-2009 STS Seminar Series
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19/9/08: We are pleased to announce the launch of the Technoscience Salon - a forum for entangling intellectual and political questions about technoscience while remixing the disciplines composing Science and Technology Studies. Meeting on the last Thursday evening of the month, the Salon aims to create a lively community of thinkers with interests in technoscience from around the GTA and Southern Ontario. In the spirit of lively intellectual engagement, the Salon will be hosting a series of "mix and stir" discussions this fall, where invited contributors seek to playfully and productively entangle topics. The meetings will be potlucks and open to all.
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