Events Listing 4 August 2010

Halifax Situating Science Events

 4 August

Please send additions for the next circulation (18 August) to: megandean@dal.ca

1. Local Events

2. National/International Events and Conferences

3. Invitations to Publish

4. Jobs/Studentships/Opportunities

1. Local Events

New SituSci Website:  The new Node website is up and running!Suggestions for content are much appreciated. If you didn’t get your biography in on time and would like it to be posted, or have any comments, questions, or suggestions email Megan at megandean@dal. Check it out at http://www.situsci.ca/node/university-kings-college-0

Call for Situating Science Workshop Proposals: We wanted to give early notice to our members of an anticipated call for proposals for a grant in support of workshops sponsored by the National SituSci cluster. The description of the application from last year follows, in anticipation of its being quite similar this year. Although the grant is competitive it is not as competitive (or as arduous) as the official SSHRC grant for workshops and conferences. It is also worth noting that the SituSci grant has not precluded past grant-recipients from applying for and receiving a SSHRC grant. Feel free to contact Melanie Frappier or Letitia Meynell for advice.

2009-2010 Call for workshop proposals: The SSHRC-funded Situating Science: Cluster in the Humanist and Social Studies of Science is soliciting workshop proposals for its Fall 2009 programme.  The Cluster will fund up to two workshops for the 2009-2010 academic year (up to $10,000 each). Workshops should fall under any one of the four themes of the Cluster: Science and its Publics; Historical Epistemology and Ontology; Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices; Geography and Sites of Knowing, with the support of one or more of the six local nodes across Canada. The Cluster provides financial, organisational and student support, with the expectation of leveraging additional funding from partnering institutions. Situating Science emphasises outreach and interdisciplinary contact, and will support workshops that fit into the short and longterm plans of the national network and the humanist and social studies of science in Canada. The Proposal should be no more than three pages, including: Workshop Title, Thematic Rubic in Cluster that this fits under (the 4 themes on the website), Short description of workshop, Possible Participants, Preliminary Budget, Potential sources of outside funding, Possible Inter-disciplinary partnerships (eg., museums, journalists, etc.), Possible date.

2. National/International Events and Conferences

We invite you to submit a paper/abstract to The 2nd International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2011 (March 27th - 30th, 2011 - Orlando, Florida, USA).http://www.2011iiisconferences.org/IMCIC . Papers/Abstracts Submission and Invited Session Proposals are due August 25th, 2010.  Technical keynote speakers will be selected from early submissions because this selection requires an additional evaluation according to the quality of the paper, assessed by its reviewers, the authors' CV and the paper's topic. Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference (included those virtually presented) will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. For the full call for papers see http://www.iiis2011.org/imcic/website/CallForPapers.asp?vc=26

Missed Congress 2010 of the Humanities and Social Sciences?  Want to re-live the experience?  Offering videos, podcasts, articles and many links to news stories from around the world,the Experience Congress website is the destination for those who want to re-live some of the excitement and the best moments of Congress 2010 at Concordia University.  Download podcasts or watch videos of all of our Big Thinking lectures.  http://experience.congress2010.ca/

First Call for Registration: Arché 'Logic or Logics?' Mini-course and Workshop.  27 September - 1 October, 2010, University of St Andrews. The Arché 'Logic or Logics?' Mini-course and Workshop are organised by the members of the AHRC funded Foundations of Logical Consequence project. The Mini-Course is intended for graduate students and younger researchers (postdocs and junior faculty) working on related topics. The aim is to provide intensive graduate-level instruction on the latest thinking about pluralism and revision in logic. Topics will include the revision of logic debate, logical pluralism vs. absolutism (or monism), and combining logics. The week will conclude with a Workshop dedicated to contemporary research on the same theme. Visit the websites for the 'Logic or Logics?' Mini-course and Workshop at the following sites:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~arche/events/event?id=398
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~arche/events/event?id=399

Conference: Responsible Innovation(Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Innoveren), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) 18-19 April 2011, The Hague, Netherlands. The Responsible Innovation programme involves research into the ethical and societal aspects of new technologies (such as ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology and neural sciences) and of changes in technological systems (energy, transport, agriculture and water). The objective is to help ensure that technological and scientific know-how become properly embedded in society. Further details of the conference, as well as a Call for Papers, will be posted at the conference web site as well as circulated through mailing lists in the beginning of September 2010. If you would like to ensure that you do not miss the full conference announcement and CFP, then please email info@responsible-innovation.nl and ask to be added to our mailing list (this will only be used to send out official conference announcements). For more information, see http://www.responsible-innovation.nl/
 

3. Invitations to Publish

Philosophy & Technology(Springer) is now open for submissions. The range of coverage is very broad and interdisciplinary. It includes classic problems in philosophy of technology and original approaches to them, theories of technology, methods and concepts in technology, as well as theoretical topics and topics dealing with practical problems concerning the nature, the development and the implications of technologies. Particular attention is paid to new areas of philosophical interest, such as nanotechnologies, medical, genetic and biotechnologies, neurotechnologies, information and communication technologies, AI and robotics, or the philosophy of engineering and the philosophical discussion of issues such as environmental risks, globalization, security, or biological enhancements. The journal encourages submissions on the applications of philosophy of technology to other disciplines, such as computer science, cognitive science, jurisprudence, social studies of science, and the social sciences. ISSN: 2210-5433. Website: http://www.springer.com/13347. For submission visit: http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/.

Call for Paper Proposals: "Oil Culture," special issue under consideration with the Journal of American Studies.  For this special issue, we seek essays that explore the wide field of "oil culture" that has emerged around the American petroleum industry in the 150 years since its inception in northwestern Pennsylvania.More specifically, we are looking for articles that examine how painting, sculpture, video and digital art, film and photography, popular visual culture and music, television programming, the print and digital news media, literature, advertising, and other forms of public culture have contended with the volatile material of oil and the systemic shifts that it has produced, and in so doing contributed to, or contested, the reorientation of modern American life around oil consumption. We hope, ultimately, to assemble a roster of essays that elucidate the complex role that imaginative representations have played in the establishment of oil as the primary commodity underpinning modern economic expansion and a fundamental ontological construct shaping social and political life in the United States and beyond. For further information on the special issue, please see: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=177429

Call for Papers: Media/Culture 'pig' issue: Edited by Donna Lee Brian and Adele Wessell. This issue of M/C Journal will be organised around responses to these multiple meanings of 'pig'. As editors, we approach this topic from our own joint areas of research interest of food studies and writing, but we are equally interested in the symbolic importance of 'pig' in all current and past culture and media. That is, for example, in pigs as pets and wild pigs, their place in medical innovation - significant research, for instance, is investigating using pigs' hearts for human transplants, since the size and mechanism of an average-sized pig heart is very close to one of ours - in religion, and in the history of pigs in folklore and myth. Please send a 100-word abstract to the editors at pig@journal.media-culture.org.au. Articles of 3,000 words in length should be submitted online at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ and should be prepared in accordance with the M/C Journal style guidelines, available at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Article deadline: 20 Aug. 2010.

Call for Papers: C.L. Hamblin and Argumentation Theory, A special issue of Informal Logic. Guest editors: Douglas N. Walton and Ralph H. Johnson. Possible topics include, but are not be restricted to: Hamblin’s views on logic; Hamblin’s views on fallacies; Hamblin’s view on argument; Hamblin’s views on formal dialectic. Papers should be prepared for blind refereeing and include 100-word-limit Abstract and 10-word-limit Keyword list, and should meet the format requirements of the journal. URL http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/about  Click on Submissions>Author Guidelines.  Submission deadline:  30 June 2011.  Papers will be blind refereed.  Questions may be directed to either of the Guest Editors.  The paper should be submitted to either one of the Guest Editors.  Douglas N. Walton: walton@uwindsor.ca; Ralph H. Johnson: johnsoa@uwindsor.ca

Social Cognition: Mindreading and Alternatives, Special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology.CALL FOR PAPERS. Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2010.  Human beings, even very young infants, exhibit remarkable capacities for attending to, and engaging with, other minds. A prevalent account of such abilities is that they involve “theory of mind” or “mindreading”: the ability to represent mental states as mental states of specific kinds (i.e., to have concepts of “belief,” “desire,” etc.) and the contents of such mental states. A number of philosophers and psychologists question the standard mindreading and wider representationalist framework for characterizing and explaining our everyday modes and methods of understanding other people. One possibility is that infants may be exhibiting sophisticated yet non-conceptual, and possibly non-representational, mind tracking abilities that do not equate to any sort of mindreading. Proponents on both sides of this debate must adequately accommodate recent work in developmental psychology. Experiments involving a variety of nonverbal tasks—e.g., the “violation of expectation” paradigm and anticipatory looking tasks, as well as nonverbal tasks involving more active responses—suggest that young infants can understand others’ goals, intentions, desires, knowledge/ignorance, and beliefs. Perhaps most prominent are studies suggesting infants as young as 13 months of age are selectively responsive to the false beliefs of others, well before they are able to reliably pass standard verbal false belief tasks around 4 years of age. This special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology aims to create a dialogue between the mindreading and non-mindreading approaches to basic social cognition. Contributors are asked to clarify their theoretical commitments; explain how their accounts compare with rivals; and how they propose to handle the emerging empirical data, particularly that from human developmental psychology. How to submit: Prospective authors should register at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/ropp to obtain a login and select “Social Cognition: Mindreading and Alternatives” as an article type to submit a manuscript. Manuscripts should be no longer than 8,000 words. Submissions should follow the author guidelines available on the journal's website: http://www.springer.com/13164  Any questions? Please email the guest editors: d.d.hutto@herts.ac.uk, mherschb@ucsd.edu, v.southgate@bbk.ac.uk

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2010-11 Charles S. Peirce Society Essay Contest.Topic: Any topic on or related to the work of Charles Sanders Peirce. Awards: $500 cash prize; presentation at the Society's next annual meeting, held in conjunction with the Pacific APA (in San Diego, California, April 20-23, 2011); possible publication, subject to editorial revision, in the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (http://www.peircesociety.org/transactions.html). Submission Deadline: January 23, 2011. For more details see: http://groups.google.com/group/fa.philos-l/browse_thread/thread/5183a89d...

4. Jobs/Studentships/Opportunities

Teaching Assistant Positions in the History of Science and Technology Programme, University of King’s College.  The History of Science and Technology Programme (HOST) at the University of King's College invites applications for Teaching Assistant positions for "Introduction to the History of Science" (HSTC 1200, cross-listed with HSTC 2200, SCIE 2000, HIST 2074, and BIOL 3503) in the 2010-2011 academic year. Candidates may come from various fields (this is a widely interdisciplinary programme) but should have at least an undergraduate degree. Deadline is Friday, August 6, 2010. http://ukings.ca/teaching-assistant-positions-history-science-and-technology-programme

Charles Wankel at St. John's University, New York, has started a new email-based discussion list (listserv) called MANAGING-FOR-SUSTAINABILITY.  It is to discuss ecological, social and economic sustainability from the perspective of business management opportunities/threats and related decision-making.  To join/leave easily use the link: http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=MANAGING-FOR-SUSTAINABILITY&A=1  Discussions of teaching and researching sustainability and calls for papers and other announcements will be featured.

Postdoctoral Positions in Catastrophic Risk Research at the Wharton School. The Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is seeking applicants for one or two postdoctoral fellowship positions in the area of catastrophic risk, with a particular focus on natural hazards and environmental risks. Fellows would work on NSF and foundation-funded projects covering a range of topics related to catastrophic risk, including psychological studies of risk perception, adaptation to natural hazards, and the economic management of disasters. Researchers from a broad range of disciplines are encouraged to apply, including experimental psychology, economics, geography, and environmental science. Fellows will work at the Wharton School under the supervision of the Center’s co-directors Howard Kunreuther and Robert Meyer and managing director Erwann Michel-Kerjan. Positions will begin Fall of 2010 or sooner. Please email your C.V. and 1-2 representative publications to the attention of Chioma Fitzgerald ccf@wharton.upenn.edu.

Friends of Cancer Research, Arlington, VA, is hiring a Science Policy Analyst.  Through close coordination with the Executive Director, the Science Policy Analyst will play a key role in implementing a range of exciting advocacy initiatives designed to create a policy dialogue between scientists, advocates, and policy makers in an effort to overcome barriers to cancer research. For details, see https://www.training.nih.gov/jobs/view/_10/67/Science_Policy_Analyst

Public Affairs Internship. Are you looking to enhance your Public Affairs career in a challenging and rewarding position?  At AGU, an international non-profit association, you will help to promote the understanding of Earth and space for the benefits of humanity.  You will work in a collaborative environment with dedicated professionals who are interested in making a difference. We are seeking a college student, a graduate student, or a recent graduate.  Preferred majors include Earth or space sciences, public policy, and communications.  Good online research and organizational skills are a must.  Coursework related to Earth or space science, political science, and communications are a plus. The anticipated start date of the internship is September 7, 2010 and the internship duration is three months. For details see https://jobs.agu.org/ext/detail.asp?jobid=aguorg127

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership is pleased to announce the search for a Program Specialist, National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP).This is a regular, full-time, exempt position. The position will report to the Program Manager, NOPP. Qualified applicants must possess a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a scientific or policy field, and at least three years relevant work experience. Familiarity with ocean science and federal agencies or Master’s degree in a technical field such as physical oceanography, marine renewable energy or global climate change are desired. For details please see http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/portal/jobs/program-specialist.

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) is currently seeking a Policy Associate.This position is located at NSAC’s DC Office on Capitol Hill. NSAC’s Policy Associate helps develop policy and strategy for specific issue areas and advocates before the US Congress and executive branch agencies, particularly the US Department of Agriculture. The Policy Associate will staff and help lead at least one NSAC Issue Committee. She or he will draft documents, including policy papers, testimony, and comments, contribute to the organization’s annual planning and priority setting, budgeting, and fundraising, participate in the planning and execution of coalition-wide meetings, assist with grassroots and grasstops outreach, write policy blogs, and represent NSAC at events and to the media. The Policy Associate reports to NSAC’s Policy Director. For details see http://sustainableagriculture.net/about-us/jobs/

Manager of Educational and Career Development Programs.The American Association of Immunologists, a non-profit professional biomedical research association, seeks motivated individual to plan, direct, and administer educational and career development programs. Duties include management and administration of society awards program, professional courses, and career programs at annual meetings. Individual will also serve as liaison to various committees; seek new opportunities and prepare proposals; manage grants, endowments or other program support; and prepare project assessments, reports and promotional materials. In addition to managing existing programs, individual will assist in developing new programs. Qualified applicants should have a PhD in immunology or related discipline, and have completed a postdoctoral fellowship. Applications are also invited from non-PhD managers with at least 3-5 years experience in same/similar programs. Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills required as well as the ability to multitask. Excellent writing skills mandatory. Competitive salary and outstanding benefits. Please send a resume and cover letter with salary requirement to: FASEB, Human Resources, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20814, or FAX: 301-634-7354 or e-mail: hr@faseb.org. EOE.

Manager, Govt Affairs - MEDTRONIC, INC., headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is seeking an individual to manage the government affairs internal and external communications program, including content development for the company’s soon-to-be launched web-based employee grassroots tool, its federal and state government affairs policy intranet site, as well as its voluntary, non-partisan political action committee website. The candidate will also be responsible for keeping abreast of leading best practices in PAC and grassroots communications. The ideal candidate will possess a bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Government, Political Science or History; 2+ years of experience with website development/content; and/or press releases; and/or major speech writing skills; 2+ years of communications experience (internal/external); and experience with customized/tailor writing to very discreet audiences (internal/external). TO APPLY: Submit your resume at http://www.medtronic.com/careers . Select Career Opportunities - US & PR. Enter Requisition: 72838. Click on the job title and select "Apply Now" to route your resume directly to the hiring department. No telephone calls or e-mail please!

Position announcement: Post-doctoral Social Scientist, Impact Evaluation. World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the global conservation organization, in partnership with the University of Michigan, seeks a post-doctoral social scientist to work with an interdisciplinary team to monitor and evaluate the social and biological impacts of conservation interventions, initially focusing on marine protected areas (MPAs).  The initial geographic focus will be Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesia), but may be expanded to include related projects in other locations. Basic requirements: Ph.D. or related experience in a social science (economics, sociology, political science, etc.) or an interdisciplinary Ph.D. with substantial social science training; strong quantitative and statistical skills; and ability to work both independently and in a team.  Additional qualifications include: evaluation training and experience; two years international experience in conservation or related field; experience with qualitative data and interdisciplinary research; foreign language skills. Ability to travel to Indonesia is required.  Please submit a cover letter and CV by August 13, 2010. For more information visit http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/careers/jobs.html , job # 10073

Anne Wexler Masters Scholarships in Australian-American Public Policy Studies. Two Anne Wexler Scholarships are to be awarded annually. One scholarship is for an American scholar to undertake an Australian Masters program in Australian-American Public Policy Studies at an Australian university or research centre; and one scholarship is for an Australian scholar to undertake a U.S. Masters degree program in Australian-American Public Policy Studies at a US university or research centre. Applications are invited 1 July-30 Sept 2010 for the inaugural Anne Wexler Scholarships in 2011.  The scholarships are valued at A$70,000 per year for up to two years. More information on the Anne Wexler Scholarships is available from the Fulbright website at www.fulbright.com.au/scholarships/AnneWexlerScholarships.html

Grants - History of Electricity.The EDF Foundation offers grants to graduate students. The selection will be based on the following criteria: originality of the subject, preparation and quality of presentation of the project. The project must deal, at least partly, with the history of electricity in France, Europe or elsewhere in the world (but with a comparative approach with Europe in this case).Four grants of 2500 euros each and three to six grants, varying from 1250 up to 2500 euros each, will be awarded under the supervision of the Committee for the History of Electricity of the EDF Foundation. Deadline: October 29 2010. http://www.hssonline.org/profession/support/detail.lasso?-Search=Action&...

American Association for the History of Medicine Award - William H. Welch Medal, 2011. Deadline: October 31 2010 http://www.histmed.org/awards.htm. The William H. Welch Award is named in honor of a major American figure in the history of medicine and public health, who was among the first faculty at the Johns Hopkins medical school. The Medal was first presented in 1950, to Henry Sigerist, and is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the five calendar years preceding the award. Hence, books published during 2005–2009 inclusively will be eligible for the 2011 Medal. Previously nominated books should be re-nominated each year that they are eligible; they will not be considered automatically. The Medal will be presented at the next annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 April – 1 May 2011. The chair of the Welch Medal Committee, Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., welcomes suggestions of books to consider for the award. To nominate a book, contact Dr. Wailoo at Department of History, Princeton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1017 (e-mail: kwailoo@princeton.edu). Deadline for nominations: 31 October 2010.

American Association for the History of Medicine Award - Shryock Medal Essay Contest, 2011. Graduate students in the United States and Canada are invited to enter the Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The award is given for an outstanding, unpublished essay by a single author on any topic in the history of medicine. The essay (maximum 9,000 words, including endnotes) must be the result of original research or show an unusual appreciation and understanding of problems in the history of medicine. In particular, the committee will judge essays on the quality of writing, appropriate use of sources, and ability to address themes of historical significance. This competition is open to students enrolled in a graduate program in any discipline, including medicine, in the United States or Canada at the time of submission. Complete contest information may be viewed on the AAHM Web site (www.histmed.org/Awards) or obtained from the Shryock Medal Committee Chair: Alexandra Stern, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Center for the History of Medicine, 100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-0725 (e-mail: amstern@umich.edu). Essays must be postmarked or submitted electronically via e-mail (which is the preferred method of submission) no later than 15 January 2011.

Assistant Professor in Environmental Sociology at Rutgers University. Deadline: October 18 2010. http://sociology.rutgers.edu/facjob.html. The Department of Sociology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor specializing in environmental sociology, broadly defined. The position will begin Fall 2011 pending budgetary approval. Research and teaching interests could include (but are not limited to) environmental change, sustainable development, population and environment, environmental knowledge production, information technology, environmental justice and inequality, environmental networks, and social movements. Theoretical and methodological orientations are open. We will begin reviewing applications on October 18, 2010. Applications received after that date cannot be assured full consideration. Please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and 1-2 writing samples to us at rusocsearch@sociology.rutgers.edu. We also require three recommendation letters; letters should be sent to rusocsearch@sociology.rutgers.edu as well. Rutgers has a historical commitment to hiring a highly diverse faculty. We are also an NSF ADVANCE institutional transformation university, working to support the careers of women faculty, especially in the science and engineering disciplines.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ohio State University. The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Anthropology beginning academic year 2011-2012, pending availability of funds. The position is for a cultural anthropologist whose research and teaching focus on cultural, social, and biocultural approaches to infectious disease in particular and to health in general. The anthropologist recruited will use ethnographic and epidemiological methods of data collection and analysis. This position helps to widen the scope of analysis beyond the traditional framework of biomedicine, and link the cultural, social, and economic landscape in order to understand disease origin, spread, transmission, mitigation, and prevention. The hire will join a department having an empirical, quantitative orientation and wider focus on ecology, evolution, health, and diet. Priority given to applicants emphasizing ethnographic fieldwork and demonstrated ability to interact creatively with colleagues in archaeology and physical and cultural anthropology. Geographic area open. Ph.D. required. Evidence of productivity and excellence in research and teaching required. Ability to teach introductory sociocultural anthropology, anthropological theory, and an ethnographic area/regional course highly desirable. Deadline for applications is November 1, 2010. For more information please visit http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/3456089/assistant-professor

Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology, Stanford University. The Department of Anthropology at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment in medical anthropology. The appointment will be made at the Assistant Professor rank. Applicants with a broad range of geographical and topical interests will be considered. For full consideration, materials must be received by November 15, 2010. The term of appointment would begin September 1, 2011. We strongly urge candidates to apply before November 1, 2010, so they can be screened for possible interviews at the AAA Meetings in New Orleans, November 17-21, 2010. Send vita, letter describing qualifications and interests, one example of written work and the names of three referees to Professor Tanya Luhrmann, Chair, Medical Anthropology Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Building 50, Main Quad, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2034. http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/3457722/assistant-professor-medical-...

Dibner 2011-2012 Fellowships. Deadline: December 15 2010. The Dibner History of Science Program offers historians of science and technology the opportunity to write and to study in the Burndy Library and the other history of science and technology resources at the Huntington. Short-Term Awards: Eligibility -  PhD or equivalent; or doctoral candidate at the dissertation stage. Tenure of fellowship: One to five months. Amount of award: $2,500 per month. Long-Term Awards: Eligibility - PhD or equivalent. Applicants must have received the PhD by June of 2010. Tenure of fellowship: Nine to twelve months. Amount of award: $50,000. Applicants can be conducting research or already be at the writing stage and need reference materials only. http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=566#dibner

Wagner Fellowship in Philosophy of Risk, University of Pittsburgh. Deadline: November 15 2010. The Center for Philosophy of Science seeks applications from scholars in philosophy of science for a fellowship in philosophy of risk for the academic year 2011-2012. The Wagner Fellow will reside in Pittsburgh for the term of the fellowship and work in the Center for Philosophy of Science. The Fellow will: undertake an original research project in the philosophy of risk from a philosophy of science perspective; participate as a fellow in the intellectual life of the Center for Philosophy of Science; organize an open call conference on the philosophy of risk to be held in the Center for Philosophy of Science at the conclusion of fellowship period. Applicants should: have a doctorate in philosophy, in history and philosophy of science, or in a closely related field; be a more senior scholar at least five years past the awarding of their doctorate; have an established record of scholarship pertinent to philosophy of risk. Fellowship stipend: US$65,000, to be paid in eight monthly installments between September 2011- April 2012 and also a supplementary budget to support the conference. http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Joining/wagner_risk_fellow_application.html

2011-12 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice. Deadline: September 13 2010. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/fellowships. The Commonwealth Fund invites applications from mid-career professionals (e.g. academic researchers, government policymakers, clinicians, managers, and journalists) from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the U.K. Harkness Fellows spend up to 12 months in the U.S. working with leading experts to conduct a research study that addresses a critical issue on the health policy agenda in both the U.S. and their home country. The Fellowship awards up to U.S. $107,000 which covers roundtrip travel to the U.S., a living allowance and project-related funds. For more details about the Fellowship program, application process, and suggested project themes, please visit the Fund’s web site at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/fellowships

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