The call for papers / poster proposal deadline for the 2013 Association for Medical Humanities conference (8-10 July 2013) has been extended until 15 Feb.

For further details see: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/medical-humanities-2013/ for the call for papers and a draft programme (which will be expanded and re-jigged after 15 Feb)

Intercalating students are welcome to submit abstracts / poster proposals, and there will also be sessions for shorter papers by SSC students.

Conference dates: 24-26 July 2013, Münster, Germany

The discourse on sexual pathology claimed a central position in modern European culture almost as quickly as it began to establish itself as a scientific discipline. The bonds between science and culture seem all the more visible when it comes to the science of sexual deviance, as many sexual scientists were quick to point out in their works.

The 56th annual meeting of the Midwest Junto for the History of Science will take place at the University of Notre Dame on April 5-7, 2013. Papers in all areas of history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine are welcome.

To submit a paper for the program, please send a brief abstract (one page) and short CV by February 15, 2013 to: Junto13@nd.edu.

Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes.

Hotel and registration information will be available at a later date.

For the 2nd International Conference for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV we invite papers that address the theme of KNOWING PRACTICES. This dual concept poses questions about the multiple practices that comprise the dynamics of the epidemic and how the practice of knowing itself, is engaged and operationalised. KNOWING PRACTICES refers to:

1. The practices that produce, reproduce and transform the social
worlds in which people live. This includes what knowledge we have of
the forces shaping the epidemic - whether social, structural,