Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
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Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Calls and Grants
Call for Summer School Applications: Challenging the Sites of Knowledge: Medial and Pluri-Medial Configurations and Transformations
New Blog: ‘Migrant Knowledge’
The German Historical Institute Washington has launched a new blog, Migrant Knowledge, at migrantknowledge.org. Begin with the “About” page there to understand what is animating the project.
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Call for Proposals: Journal for the History of Knowledge
The Journal for the History of Knowledge will be launched in 2020 and is now soliciting proposals for its first annual special issue in Fall 2020. The proposal deadline is January 15, 2019. This...
CfP: Global Knowledge, Global Legitimacy? Transatlantic Biomedicine since 1970
Washington, DC, Sept. 6-7, 2019
Application deadine: Dec. 15, 2018
When the French pharmaceutical company Roussell Uclaff, a subsidiary of the German chemical giant Hoechst AG, was ready to introduce an abortion pill in 1988, American activists flooded the company’s headquarters near Frankfurt with protest letters. In response, the company’s German CEO mandated to stop the project. But the French state, a Hoechst minority shareholder, took the idea across the border, patented it, and embarked on medical trials for the new product in France. Ten years later, scientists in the United States successfully isolated human embryonic stem cells. The country’s regulatory framework had left them free to let the cells proliferate indefinitely. But researchers adopted concepts implemented in Britain to limit the cells’ growth to 13 days after gestation. Continue reading…
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
