The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow, whose research and teaching will enrich the university’s new interdisciplinary minor, for undergraduates, in Capitalism Studies.

Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. at the time of appointment in an appropriate discipline, such as anthropology, economics, geography, history, public policy, or sociology. Applicants must have an active research agenda that engages directly with the specific theme chosen for 2020-22: capitalism and environmental sustainability. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are prepared to teach upper-level topics courses for undergraduates, on subjects related to their own research, as well as an “Introduction to Capitalism Studies” course, required of all minors. Applicants must also show potential for professional development as a scholar and teacher. They must also demonstrate a commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, as values in the college and the university. Applicants should discuss that commitment in the initial application materials; further discussion will be expected at the interview stage.

The postdoctoral fellow will be appointed for a two-year term, with teaching responsibilities of one course per semester. The fellow is expected to reside in the Charlotte area during the academic year and to participate in scholarly activities and programming associated with the interdisciplinary minor, one or more departments that align most closely with the fellow’s training and research, the college, and the university. The salary for the postdoctoral fellow is $50,000 per year, plus benefits, with an additional research and travel account of $2,000 per year.

UNC Charlotte is a rapidly growing doctoral-granting urban university located in the largest metropolitan area between Washington DC, and Atlanta. The University is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement campus. Over 29,000 culturally diverse students currently are enrolled at the University. As the largest college at UNC Charlotte, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences houses 21 departments in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and military sciences, as well as 25 applied research centers and interdisciplinary programs. It offers eight doctoral degrees, 24 master's degrees, 12 graduate certificates, and 32 undergraduate degrees.

As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups.

Screening of applications will begin February 15, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications must be made electronically at https://jobs.uncc.edu. Applicants should be prepared to submit three letters of recommendation, but these will be requested only after the initial rounds of screening. The candidate chosen for this position will be subject to a criminal background check.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59749

A HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology é uma revista de acesso aberto com arbitragem científica, disponível em linha, publicada em inglês pela De Gruyter/Sciendo, em resultado de uma parceria de quatro unidades de investigação portuguesas (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, e Instituto de História Contemporânea). 

CONTEÚDOS DO NÚMERO 13.2

· Número temático "Animals, Science and Technology: multispecies histories of scientific and sociotechnical knowledge-practices", com introdução pelo editor convidado Richie Nimmo aos cinco artigos que o compõem. São estudos de caso que se debruçam sobre animais não humanos e as suas relações com a ciência e a tecnologia e os humanos, do ponto de vista da história (HCTM) e da sociologia (estudos sobre animais e STS). O número temático termina com um posfácio:

o "Introduction: Taking animals seriously in studies of science and technology", Richie Nimmo

o "Elemental problems, methodical solutions: expertise, ecology and entertainment in the study of marine mammals", Amanda Rees

o "The Silver Spring monkey controversy: changing cultures of care in twentieth-century laboratory animal research", Robert G. W. Kirk

o "Measuring ephemera: finding the “qualitative” in Qualitative Behaviour Assessment as a “whole-animal” science of animal welfare", Maisie Tomlinson

o "The Social Evolving: Sociogenomics on the Wings of Social Insects", Sainath Suryanarayanan

o "Biopolitics and Becoming in Animal-Technology Assemblages", Richie Nimmo

o "Postscript. Fur, feather, teeth and skin: How do technologies and ontologies meet in time and space?", Lindsay Hamilton

· Um "work in progress" do doutorando Hugo Soares sobre o seu trabalho em curso "The National Institute for Scientific Research (INIC): Pathway and Influence in Portuguese Science Policy (1976-1992)"

· Três recensões de livros

o "Book Review: Audra Wolfe. Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science", Clara Florensa

o "Book Review: Álvaro Girón, Oliver Hochadel, and Gustavo Vallejo (eds.). Saberes transatlánticos. Barcelona y Buenos Aires: conexiones, confluencias, comparaciones (1850–1940)", Antonio Carbone

o "Book Review: Hugh Cagle. Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700", Luís Tirapicos

New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (13.2, December 2019) online

HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed open access journal, available online, published in English by De Gruyter/Sciendo, as a result of a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, Institute for Social Sciences, and Institute of Contemporary History).

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME 13.2

· Special issue "Animals, Science and Technology: multispecies histories of scientific and sociotechnical knowledge-practices", with an introduction by the Guest Editor Richie Nimmo to the five articles that it contains. They are case studies dealing with nonhuman animals and their relationships with science and technology and humans, with approaches ranging from history (HSTM) to sociology (animal studies and STS). The special issue ends with a postscript:

o "Introduction: Taking animals seriously in studies of science and technology", Richie Nimmo

o "Elemental problems, methodical solutions: expertise, ecology and entertainment in the study of marine mammals", Amanda Rees

o "The Silver Spring monkey controversy: changing cultures of care in twentieth-century laboratory animal research", Robert G. W. Kirk

o "Measuring ephemera: finding the “qualitative” in Qualitative Behaviour Assessment as a “whole-animal” science of animal welfare", Maisie Tomlinson

o "The Social Evolving: Sociogenomics on the Wings of Social Insects", Sainath Suryanarayanan

o "Biopolitics and Becoming in Animal-Technology Assemblages", Richie Nimmo

o "Postscript. Fur, feather, teeth and skin: How do technologies and ontologies meet in time and space?", Lindsay Hamilton

· A "work in progress" by the PhD candidate Hugo Soares about his ongoing work "The National Institute for Scientific Research (INIC): Pathway and Influence in Portuguese Science Policy (1976-1992)"

· Three book reviews

o "Book Review: Audra Wolfe. Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science", Clara Florensa

o "Book Review: Álvaro Girón, Oliver Hochadel, and Gustavo Vallejo (eds.). Saberes transatlánticos. Barcelona y Buenos Aires: conexiones, confluencias, comparaciones (1850–1940)", Antonio Carbone

o "Book Review: Hugh Cagle. Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700", Luís Tirapicos

MATTERS OF CONTAINMENT

Material approaches to the handling of threats in the modern world

3rd International Conference of the Quarantine Studies Network

Lisbon-Évora (Portugal), 28-29 May 2020

Past conferences of the QSN network in Malta and Mallorca explored an expansion of the classical study of quarantines and sanitary cordons into an interdisciplinary field of “quarantine studies” so that their multiple political, military, social, economic and, of course, health dimensions were systematically brought to the foreground. In this third conference, we intend to take a more decided step in that direction by exploring the material realities of containment anywhere in the world and preferably for the period 1750-today.

The word “containment” is usually given two meanings: 1: the act of keeping a hazard within limits, for example, an epidemic disease or a radioactive leakage; 2: the policy of preventing an hostile military, economic or ideological expansion. Both meanings could be - and usually are - intertwined, as can be seen, for example, in the scientific and political measures taken to check the “threats” associated with the Mecca pilgrimage in the 19th century, the Soviet Revolution in 1917 or the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986.

This transversal nature of containment can be better grasped through a focus on its often neglected material aspects. Containment ultimately consists of the handling of threatening human bodies, living beings, objects and ideas, which is always performed by specialized groups of humans who use various tools and techniques to carry out different types of actions in a large variety of spaces. In this sense, for example, the detention and examination of the bodies of migrants aims to provide at the same time sanitary, ideological and economic “protection”; measuring tools used in customs’ laboratories may guard the health of a country’s population against adulterated products and the country’s industry or agriculture against the “damage” caused by the “invasion” of another country’s products. Materiality can also provide a more accurate picture of the actual scope, the effectiveness and consequences (social, political, economic, spatial or environmental) of containment measures, as well as of historical continuities and the collective memory about them.

We invite researchers from any disciplinary background to present their contributions to this conference, by sending a 250-word abstract and a short CV to the following email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The deadline for receiving abstracts will be 20th December 2019. Although the conference official language is English, papers in other languages would be considered.