Funded 3 year PhD studentship - Securing Life: Biosecurity, Biopolitics, Biopower
University Funded 3 year PhD studentship Department of Geography, The Open University
Securing Life: Biosecurity, Biopolitics, Biopower
Securing life has become a key problematic in contemporary societies. Increasingly involving the differential valuing, promoting, and regulating of various forms of life and living as much as the attempt to make matters safe through the halting of movement, how to manage the vitality and circulation of human and nonhuman bodies is now a constant challenge in all kinds of spaces.
Following the award of an ESRC grant entitled Biosecurity Borderlands, a linked but independent university-funded PhD studentship with no nationality or residence restrictions is available to investigate such concerns for three years starting in October 2009 (or as soon as
revised deadline New MA programme in Digital Anthropology at UCL
New MA programme in Digital Anthropology at University College London
Revised application deadline: 28 September 2009
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/digital-anthropology/
Digital technologies have become ubiquitous. From Facebook, YouTube and Flickr to PowerPoint, Google Earth and Second Life. Museum displays migrate to the internet, family communication in the Diaspora is dominated by new media, artists work with digital films and images. Anthropology and ethnographic research is fundamental to understanding the local consequences of these innovations, and to create theories that help us acknowledge, understand and engage with them. Today’s students need to become proficient with digital technologies as research and communication tools. Through combining technical skills
Position: PhD Socio-spatial effects of video-surveillance in urban nightscapes- The University of Twente-SMG/ST?PS

09/145 - PhD Socio-spatial effects of video-surveillance in urban nightscapes:
JOBS: 1 PhD, 1 Postdoc at Eindhoven University
(Apologies for cross-postings.)
Mullins Prize - deadline July 7th
Mullins Prize deadline - July 7th
The Nicholas C. Mullins Award is awarded each year by the Society for
Social Studies of Science (4S) for an outstanding piece of scholarship by
a graduate student in the field of Science and Technology Studies. The
prize consists of a check for $US 1,000 and a plaque.
The competition is for graduate student papers in the field of science and
technology studies, including unpublished papers, published articles, and
dissertation chapters. Dissertation chapters should be adapted so as to
make them “stand-alone.” The work may not be older than two years at the
time of submission. A graduate student can only make one submission a
Vacancy for an Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam
Please see this announcement for an
assistant professorship at the University of Amsterdam.
Candidates with expertise in Science & Technology Studies or, more
generally, sociology, philosophy or anthropology are particularly welcome
to apply.
A successful candidate working in these areas will join the Information
Management section of Amsterdam Business School, Department of Business
Studies.
For detailed information, see: http://www.abs.uva.nl/abs/vacancies.cfm/0F711C31-1321-B0BE-68E9F2BE7230862D
MA in Innovation Studies @ UEL & Masters Bursaries
Applications are invited for the MA in Innovation Studies at the University of East London (UEL), and for a competitive Masters Bursary offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UEL.
The MA in Innovation Studies at UEL explores the complex, dynamic relations between social and technological forces shaping innovation processes in an international context. As part of the European Society, Science and Technology (ESST) framework, full-time students have the option of moving to another European university in the second semester, each offering different specialisations. Funding for student exchanges is available to EU nationals under the Erasmus scheme.
The MA core curriculum draws upon the sociology of scientific knowledge; information society theory; the economics of technical change; regulatory and political theory; policy evaluation; and other perspectives associated with innovation systems and processes. The MA is offered in both full-time and part-time mode for those remaining at UEL for both semesters, but all students benefit from the European ESST partnership through exchange of educational resource materials, visiting lecturers and on-line discussion fora.
More information is available from:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/programmes/postgraduate/innovation_studies.htm
The Masters Bursary is available to full time UK, EU and International students. The award is set at UK/EU level, so covers only part of the fees for International students.
The deadline for Masters Bursary applications is 15 JULY 2009.
For further information and informal enquiries, please contact:
Dr Josephine Stein
stein@uel.ac.uk
Extended Deadline - CFP - Spontaneous Generations - Volume 3: Epistemic Boundaries
Extended Deadline - Call
for Papers - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and
Philosophy of Science - Volume 3: Epistemic Boundaries
The deadline for submissions for Volume 3 has been extended to July 10, 2009.
We are accepting submissions of short papers (1000-3000 words) for our
focused discussion section on epistemic boundaries as well as longer
papers (5000 - 8000 words) on any subject in the history and philosophy
of science. If you are interested in reviewing a recent book, published
in the last 5 years, please contact our book reviews editor, Isaac
Record (isaac.record@utoronto.ca).
Spontaneous Generations is an open, online, peer-reviewed academic
journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History
and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.
New Book: The Origins of Sociable Life
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the UK release of a new book by Myra J. Hird, The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies. The book will be available in the US and Canada in July 2009.
Please see attached pdf for more information.
Enjoy.
The Book:This ambitious book considers social scientific topics such as identity, community, sexual difference, self, and ecology from a microbial perspective. Harnessing research and evidence from earth systems science and microbiology, and particularly focusing on symbiosis and symbiogenesis, the book argues for the development of a microontology of life.
2nd Cfp - Urban Laboratories: Towards a Science and Technology Studies of the Built Environment
Please circulate