Monthly Archives: July 2013

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Society of Fellows in the Humanities (Columbia)

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 12, 2013

The fellowship competition at Columbia University for the Society of Fellows in the Humanities is now open. The fellowship is a two or three-year, Mellon-grant funded fellowship that allows recent PhD graduates to do research and teach at Columbia. It is one of the oldest fellowship programs in the United States. The current competition is for […]

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PhD Studentship: “In the footsteps of Newton? ‘s Gravesande’s Scientific Methodology”

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 11, 2013

Four-year PhD Studentship “In the footsteps of Newton? ‘s Gravesande’s Scientific Methodology” (1 January 2014 – 31 December 2018; full-time) Based at the Free University of Brussels (Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science) the project “In the footsteps of Newton? ‘s Gravesande’s Scientific Methodology” runs from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2018. The […]

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CFP: Shakespeare and Natural History

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 11, 2013

Shakespeare and Natural History As a part of the Shakespeare 450 conference in Paris from 21-27 April 2014, this panel (10) seeks to extend our understanding of how Shakespeare’s time was teeming with would come to be known as natural history. Today, 450 years after Shakespeare’s birth, we are the beneficiaries of more than just […]

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CFP: Printing Mathematics in the Early Modern World

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 9, 2013

Printing Mathematics in the Early Modern World 16 December 2013, All Souls College, Oxford The early modern period saw the printing, in large numbers, of mathematical tables, primers, textbooks and practical manuals, as well as the incorporation of mathematical notation into a wide range of works on other subjects. Algebraic notation, diagrams and even printed […]

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Ancient Cosmos: Concord among Worlds

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 8, 2013

Ancient Cosmos: Concord among Worlds A CAMNE Conference at Durham University, 20-22 September 2013 Cosmos is a term that encompasses a wide variety of meanings and applications in the ancient world, each of which, broadly speaking, implies the ‘order’ that things can have.  As the sophist Gorgias of Leontini attests, cosmos can refer to the most proper (or best) […]

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CFP: Galileo: Science, Faith and the Arts

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 3, 2013

Call For Papers: Galileo: Science, Faith and the Arts An international Conference at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto 3-4 October 2013. The purpose of this conference is twofold: (i) to gather together scholars interested in revisiting Galileo’s thought on the relationship between science and faith, and in exploring his reflections on the arts, language and […]

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