CFP: Early modern Baconians: science, politics and philosophy

de lavi | ian. 14, 2013 | Call for papers

Call for papers: Early modern Baconians: science, politics and philosophy

This special issue of SOCIETY AND POLITICS aims to gather together articles dealing with the formation, evolution and influence of Francis Bacon’s thought. We are particularly interested in articles exploring the influence of Francis Bacon’s ideas upon seventeenth and eighteenth century European thought: from science to politics, and from religion to the evolution of literary forms and genres. Our purpose is to accommodate a diversity of approaches, coming from different fields. We welcome articles on experiment and experimental science, natural history, medicine of the mind, the Baconian ‘method’, the advancement of learning, religion and theology, politics and the reformation of law, fables and projects for ‘scientific’ or ‘esoteric’ societies (inspired by Francis Bacon’s writings). SOCIETY AND POLITICS welcomes research coming from different fields and strongly encourages cross-disciplinary approaches.‬

SOCIETY AND POLITICS is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad, Romania. See http://uvvg.ro/socpol/. Papers no longer than 8.000 words and book reviews no longer than 800 words should be submitted by email to Dana Jalobeanu, dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro and Oana Matei, oanamatei@yahoo.com by the 10th of February 2013.
For the authors guidelines see:
http://uvvg.ro/socpol/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=53

CFP CfP 19e Colloque bilatéral Franco-Roumain en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication

de lavi | nov. 5, 2012 | Call for papers

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL

_ACTUALITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE _
_EN COMMUNICATION DES ORGANISATIONS : _
_QUESTIONNER LES NOUVEAUX ENJEUX, PROBLÉMATIQUES _
_ET PRATIQUES _

19E COLLOQUE BILATÉRAL FRANCO-ROUMAIN
EN SCIENCES DE L’INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION.

Bucarest, 14-16 Mars 2013
APPEL A COMMUNICATION

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Call for papers: a 12-a conferinta ISIH – The Importance of Learning: Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective

de lavi | oct. 19, 2012 | Call for papers

The Importance of Learning Poster

The Importance of Learning: Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective
Princeton University, 5–7 June 2013
Keynote Speakers: William Clark (UCSD), Anthony Grafton (Princeton)
Organized by Daniel Garber, Howard Hotson, Dana Jalobeanu, and James Lancaster
It is an inescapable fact of contemporary life that the idea of a liberal education, an education
that aims primarily at the cultivation of the intellect and sensibility rather than at preparation
for a particular vocation, is widely under attack all over the world. In country after country,
the idea of learning for its own sake is being swept aside, as institutions of higher education
are pressured to devote themselves primarily to preparing students for careers in practical
areas. The global membership of the International Society for Intellectual History is in a
unique position to illuminate these questions from a genuinely historical and cosmopolitan
perspective.
Call for Papers
The first and principal form of contributions will be brief papers relating to the theme of liberal
education, scholarship, and their place in society. Papers can concentrate on any period, region, tradition
or discipline, including the arts, humanities, sciences, and various forms of professional learning. As well
as individual papers, we welcome proposals for panels of up to three papers and a commentator.
Individual papers will be twenty minutes long, followed by ten minutes of discussion. The second set of
contributions will be posters designed to draw on the international scope of the Society. The purpose of
the posters is to document the various attempts to reform higher education being pursued simultaneously
in various countries. For more information, please see the conference website.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words for each paper or poster. Proposals for panels
featuring a maximum of four papers should not exceed 2500 words. All proposals – for papers, panels,
and posters – should be accompanied by a brief CV or biographical statement. Individual contributors are
welcome to present both a paper (or panel) and a poster at the conference. All proposals are due by 4
January 2013. Decisions will be announced by 1 February. Please send proposals to James Lancaster
(james.lancaster(at)postgrad.sas.ac.uk), to whom you should also address any queries.

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The Journal of Early Modern Studies – Call for papers

de lavi | sept. 21, 2012 | Call for papers

The Journal of Early Modern Studies is seeking contributions for its second issue (Spring 2013). It will be a special issue, devoted to the theme:

Creative experiments:
Heuristic and Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science

Editor: Dana Jalobeanu

The past decade has seen a renewed interest in multiple aspects of early modern experimentation: in the cognitive, psychological and social aspects of experiments, in their heuristic and exploratory value and in the complex inter-relations between experience, observation and experiment. Meanwhile, comparatively little has been done towards a more detailed, contextual and specific study of what might be described, a bit anachronistically, as the methodology of early modern experimentation, i.e. the ways in which philosophers, naturalists, promoters of mixed mathematics and artisans put experiments together and reflected on the capacity of experiments to extend, refine and test hypotheses, on the limits of experimental activity and on the heuristic power of experimentation. So far, the sustained interest in the role played by experiments in early modern science has usually centered on ‘evidence’- related problems. This line of investigation favored examination of the experimental results but neglected the “methodology” that brought about the results in the first place. It has also neglected the more creative and exploratory roles that experiments could and did play in the works of sixteenth and seventeenth century explorers of nature.

This special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies aims to bring together articles devoted to the investigation of particular cases of early modern experiments or early modern discussions of experimental methodology. We aim to put together a selection of interesting and perhaps relevant case studies that would further what might prove to be an interesting line of research, namely the investigation of the heuristic, analogical and creative role of early modern experiments.

JEMS is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe. It is edited by the Research Centre “Foundations of Modern Thought”, University of Bucharest, and published and distributed by Zeta Books. For further information on JEMS, please visit http://www.zetabooks.com/journal-of-early-modern-studies.html.

We are seeking for articles no longer than 10,000 words, in English or French, with an abstract and key-words in English. Please send your contribution by the 1st of November 2012 to dana.jalobeanu@gmail.com.