Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in New Media, University of Amsterdam

Job Vacancy: Assistant Professor in New Media, Media and Culture,
University of Amsterdam - Full-time (38 hours per week) or Part-time
(32 hours per week)

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is a university with an
internationally acclaimed profile, located at the heart of the Dutch
capital. As well as a world center for business and research,
Amsterdam is a hub of cultural and media activities. The University of
Amsterdam is a member of the League of European Research Universities.

The Faculty of Humanities provides education and conducts research
with a strongly international profile in a large number of disciplines
in the field of language and culture. Located in the heart of
Amsterdam, the Faculty maintains close ties with many cultural

PhD Course - Nanotechnology in Society: Emerging Issues of Accountability, Responsibility and Citizenship

NANOTECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY: Emerging Issues of Accountability,
Responsibility and Citizenship

Organizer: Professor Andrew Jamison, e-mail: andy plan.aau.dk

Lecturers: Professor Andrew Jamison, Associate professor Niels
Mejlgaard, Aalborg University, and PhD fellow Mette Ebbesen, Center
for Bio- and Nanoethics, University of Aarhus

ECTS: 3

Time: October 27-30, 2008

Place: Aalborg University, Denmark

Deadline: October 1, 2008

Description: The rapid growth and development of nanotechnology raises
a number of significant ethical, social and political issues, which
are important for doctoral students to learn about in the course of
their professional training. Such issues as power over
nanotechnological decision-making, social and professional
responsibility, and the role of the nanoscientist in society are

Final Call for abstracts - "Care and the Art of Dwelling: Bodies, Technologies and Home"

Care and the Art of Dwelling: Bodies, Technologies and Home

Call for Papers

Guest Eds. Domenech, M., Schillmeier, M.

Manchester Wellcome Unit: Postdoctoral Positions -- ERRATUM

Manchester Wellcome Unit: Postdoctoral Positions — ERRATUM In yesterday’s announcement of two postdoctoral research positions at
the Manchester Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, we made a
little mistake:

RA1 (LS/80396) is a two-year appointment to work on the economic
history of medicine, and not, as announced yesterday, optionally on
medical sciences and technologies. Further details can be found online, at
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ab

Post-doc opportunity in Amsterdam, extended deadline

Subject: Post-doc opportunity in Amsterdam, extended deadline

Virtual Knowledge Studio, third 3-month Postdoctoral Fellowship, KNAW

Applications are invited for three-month fellowships within the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS) for Autumn 2008. The fellowship is designed for junior scholars who have recently received their PhDs in order to provide the following: experience of working within an interdisciplinary research group, an opportunity to prepare material for publication and to develop new research ideas. Deadline for applications is 15 May 2008.

UCL Global Citizenship programme

UCL Global Citizenship programme If you have undergraduates who would be interested in a year (or a term) in London
exploring STS issues in a global activist context then I’d be very grateful if you could
point them towards a programme UCL is launching under its Global Citizenship theme next
academic year.

For example they could take part in an action-based course where they collectively design
and promote a campaign around a global issue. (We were only half joking when we thought
we could assess this course by measuring the world before

In the Game: AoIR pre-conference workshop

CFP: In the Game: AoIR pre-conference workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS
In The Game: AoIR pre-conference workshop http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/projects/in-the-game.php
This event will be a pre-conference workshop at Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place, to be held on 15 October 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark. For information about the conference, please see the AoIR website (http://conferences.aoir.org/). It is co-organized by Anne Beaulieu (Virtual Knowledge Studio), Marinka Copier (Utrecht University), and T.L. Taylor (IT University of Copenhagen).

Science and the Public 2008 Conference, June 21-22

Science and the Public 2008 Conference, June 21-22 Science and the Public, 2008 Conference, 21-22 June
University of Manchester, UK

Today the sciences are linked to society through many different channels of
communication. The public interfaces with science during controversies that
involve scientists as well as journalists, politicians and the citizenry as
a whole. This interdisciplinary conference brings together diverse strands
of academia in order to consider science, technology and medicine as they
intersect with non-professional cultures in both contemporary and historical
settings.

We are fortunate to have obtained Manchester’s Victoria Baths, well known as
the winner of BBC2’s Restoration series, as our conference venue.

Manchester Wellcome Unit: Postdoctoral Positions in the History of Medicine

Manchester Wellcome Unit: Postdoctoral Positions in the History of Medicine Applications are invited for two postdoctoral research positions to work on
projects in the Centre’s Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine.
.       RA1 - Two-year appointment to work either on the economic history of
medicine or medical sciences and technologies. (LS/80396)
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=135447
.       RA2 - Two-year appointment to work on ecologies of disease.( LS/80397)
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=135448

These appointments are supported by a Strategic Award on ‘Medicine and
Modernity’ from the Wellcome Trust.  The appointees will act as research and
teaching assistants and have the opportunity to develop their own work.
Applicants should hold, or will soon be acquiring, a PhD in the history of
medicine or cognate area.  For details of the work of the Centre see:
www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm

Salary will be at Research Associate Scale Grade 6, point 29 - £27,466.

The posts are available from October 2008.

Postdoc position at Erasmus Studio, Rotterdam

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