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Calls for Papers and ProposalsFind here non-event related calls for papers, such as special issue journals. All calls associated with meetings will be found on the Events page. Updated July 29, 2008 By Chris Kortright Call for Papers and Guest Editors: OsirisUpdated July 29, 2008 Deadline: October 1, 2008 The Editorial Board of Osiris, a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, solicits proposals for Volume 27, to appear in 2012. Volumes 17 to 27 of Osiris are designed to dissolve boundaries between history and history of science. The international dimensions of each volume’s topic are especially considered. Proposals that integrate issues in the history of science with those of “mainstream” history are especially encouraged, as are contributors from the historical discipline at large. The Board is also very interested in proposals which assess the “state of the field” in various areas of the history of science. The Board also welcomes proposals that deal with intersections between the history of science and the history of technology. Recent volumes include: The Self as Project (2007) and Intellegentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960 (2008). Forthcoming issues are: Science and National Identity (2009), Expertise and the Early Modern State (2010), and Climate Change (2011). Prospective guest editors should submit the following materials for consideration: 1) a proposal of approximately 2000 words describing topic and its relationship to the literature to date including the relationship of the topic to broader issues and the literature in mainstream history Guest editors and their contributors should be prepared to meet to the Osiris publication schedule. Guest editors must therefore choose contributors who are able to submit their essays by November 1, 2010. Volume 27 (2012) goes to press–after refereeing, author’s revisions, and copy editing–in late fall 2011. Proposals are reviewed by the Osiris Editorial Board at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in November 2008. Announcement of the next volume of Osiris will be made by January 1, 2009. Proposals and all supporting materials should be sent in hard or electronic copy by *October 1, 2008* to Kathryn M. Olesko, Osiris Editor, osiris@georgetown.edu. Call for Manuscripts: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and CollaborationUpdated July 29, 2008 Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration is soliciting manuscripts that consider “data-driven discovery” and “hypothesis-driven discovery” as strategies of scientific investigation. Manuscripts may employ a variety of perspectives, including informatics, computer science, statistics, sociology, cognitive psychology, scientometrics, rhetoric, and history and philosophy of science. Interested authors should please notify the journal (discovery@psych.uic.edu) of their intent to submit. JBDC is an Open Source journal (http://www.j-biomed-discovery.com/). Call for Papers: InfotainmentUpdated July 20, 2008 Deadline: September 15, 2008 * Analysis of infotainment discourse in Newsweek, Time, and other magazines with a mission to inform. Submit a 250-350 word abstract via email no later than September 15. Dr. Michael Meadows Call for Authors: The New Pioneer: A Vision for America's Place in the Emerging WorldUpdated July 20, 2008 A book author is looking for someone to write a brief chapter (3-5 pages) on the rise and fall of the inventor in America, esp in relation to business (and perhaps academia), for a book he's creating for philanthropists, venture capitalists, government, and the public called: The New Pioneer: A Vision for America's Place in the Emerging World. The book's aim is to use the information provided by historians, venture capitalists, inventors, student inventors, and academics involved in resuscitating the innovative spirit of American engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs for the challenge of rebalancing the ecology, technology and resource use in our present world crisis. This book should become an invitational handbook (very short, easy to read) for those in industry, academia and government who care about the world's future and America's place in it, with special emphasis on novel educational structures for those driven to invent and explore the frontiers of science and technology. If interested, please contact Norman Brown by e-mail at NPHbrown@aol.com or by cell phone at 386-316-5259. Norman Brown, Ph.D., Ph.D., LMFT Call for Authors: Environment, Geography, Population-ABC-CLIOUpdated June 10, 2008 ABC-CLIO, a leading publisher of academic reference works, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume Encyclopedia of World History. We are looking for interested scholars to prepare 500-1500 word articles with a global perspective in the area of environment, geography, and population. Compensation: contributors will have their names associated with the entries they contribute, and will receive access to the e-book version of the entire encyclopedia (list price $1,800) for personal use. Contributors assigned 3,000 words or more will also receive a credit of $300 towards purchase of ABC-CLIO books. In order to meet review standards, we do require that contributors hold a Ph.D., ABD , be currently enrolled in a doctoral program, or have recognized expertise in the field. If you are interested please send a c.v. to Fred Nadis (Project Editor) and/or Jeanie Azizian (Project Coordinator): FNadis@abc-clio.com JAzizian@abc-clio.com Call for Papers: EMOTION, SPACE AND SOCIETYUpdated April 15, 2008 New Journal for 2008 The editors of Emotion, Space and Society invite submissions from across the full spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. Research articles and opinion pieces should investigate the multiplicity of spaces and places that produce and are produced by emotional and affective life. We encourage a broad range of theoretical and methodological engagements with emotion as a social, cultural and spatial phenomenon, and welcome innovative presentational formats. To submit your article online, go to: http://ees.elsevier.com/emospa/ For more information on Emotion, Space and Society, please email one For queries about book reviews and review articles, please contact: Bettina van Hoven, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Deborah Thien, California State University, USA Call for Papers: East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS)Updated March 16, 2008 About EASTS EASTS wishes to promote STS studies not only in East Asia but also around the world. Although there are several well-established STS journals in the English-speaking world, most are published in North America and Europe and mainly aim at academic readers in western society. EASTS on the other hand, aspires to coordinate and facilitate networks form Northeast Asian STS communities, and to promote Southeast Asian STS and even expand Asian STS studies into an internationally open and inclusive STS community. Editor-in-Chief: Associate Editors: Future Special Issues Technology, Family and Gender in East Asia, (Issue 4, 2008) Gender and Reproductive Technologies, (Issue 5, 2008) Nanoscape of East Asia, (Issue 6, 2008) Information for contributors and Manuscript format and other details, If you want to know more about EASTS journal, welcome to visit the Call for Papers: 'Nonhuman Feminisms' Special IssueUpdated February 15, 2008 Forthcoming special issue of Feminist Theory The Deadline: December 1 2009 Feminist Theory is inviting papers for a special issue on feminism and the nonhuman, to be edited by Myra J. Hird and Celia Roberts. Feminist scholars and activists recognise that ‘the human’ materially encompasses a very small proportion of the enormous diversity of living and nonliving matter on Earth. Environmental feminists, for instance, have long attempted to engage with the biosphere from the perspective of humanity as a recently arrived, temporary and rather unruly tenant. At the same time, feminists are cognizant that fetishistic engagements with science and technology (for instance in calls to address environmental crises through technological fixes and in assumptions that solutions to world problems such as poverty will come from scientific ‘discoveries’ such as genetically modified foods) necessitate remembering the majority of humanity, whose poor material conditions demonstrate that techno-scientifically-driven ‘progress’ is unevenly distributed and can work to entrench existing inequities. These tensions necessarily engage long-standing philosophy of science debates concerning larger ontological and epistemological assumptions, to which feminist scholars have provided significant, timely and diverse inputs. We particularly welcome theoretical and/or empirical interdisciplinary contributions from emerging and established scholars interested in engaging different conceptualisations of what constitutes the nonhuman (can the nonhuman be ontologically differentiated from the human, for instance?) and different epistemological approaches, including standpoint approaches to the body, posthumanism and so on. We also encourage contributions concerned with visual cultures (film, video, art and other media) and the visual forms the non-human might take. Some questions you might consider: · What does feminist theory have to offer to debates about the nonhuman? · Is there a nonhuman feminist perspective? · What are the feminist implications of the nonhuman? · How might feminist theory move beyond the conflation of nonhuman with animal? · How might a feminist ethics approach the nonhuman? · How might we theorise sexual difference from a nonhuman perspective? Does sexual difference make a difference from a nonhuman perspective? · How might the nonhuman contribute to longstanding debates about race, class, disability and so on? · How might feminists visualise the non-human? The deadline for submission of articles is 1 December 2009. Refer to the journal for submission guidelines regarding length and format. Please send your article electronically and with six hard copies to Myra J. Hird, email hirdm@queensu.ca and Celia Roberts, email celia.roberts@lancaster.ac.uk. Mailing address: Myra J. Hird, Sociology Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6. Call for Manuscripts/Proposals: Louisiana State University PressUpdated September 19, 2007 Louisiana State University Press is accepting book-length
manuscripts and proposals on a wide range of topics in science and
technology studies. If you have a completed manuscript or proposal,
please contact acquisitions editor Joseph B. Powell at LSU Press
(jpowell@lsu.edu)(http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/) or contact Dr. Wesley
Shrum (shrum@lsu.edu) for further information and inquiries.
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