Dear colleagues,
Please see the call for participation in a Summer School for PhD & master students on the topic “What Computers and AI can’t do: Reflecting on Errors, Malfunctioning, and Limitations of Technology in the Digital Age” (5 cp), organized and hosted by the Department of History at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, to take place June 17-21, 2024: https://www.geschichte.tu-darmstadt.de/unitesummerschool
Topics include: The Public Discourse on Errors, Limits, and Malfunctions in the Digital Age; Concepts of Error; Tackling Errors/Finding Errors/Scientific Culture of Error; and Ethical and Scientific Limits of Computers and AI: What They Can’t and Shouldn’t Do.
The deadline for applications is March 31, 2024. Please help spread in your networks.
All the best,
Sabine
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Dr. Sabine Höhler
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Head of Department of Philosophy and History
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
Department of Philosophy and History
Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
Teknikringen 74 D
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Fon: +46 8 790 87 41
Email: sabine.hoehler(a)abe.kth.se<mailto:sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se>
FYI
Dear friends and colleagues of medical history,
Thank you for a great congress in Helsinki last year.
We now look forward to welcoming you all to Lund, Sweden for the 29th Nordic Medical History Congress.
When: April 23 – 25 2025
Venue: Kulturen at Tegnérsplatsen 6, next to the cathedral in central Lund
The theme of the 29th Nordic Medical History Congress is Health and Medicine under Pressure – Challenges, Controversies and Collaborations
Please feel free to send this mail forward to friends and colleagues that might be interested in this event.
More detailed information, including call for abstract, will be distributed later this spring.
See you in Lund 2025!
/Stefan van der Pals Leander & Jonatan Wistrand
(on behalf of the organizing committee)
Call for papers
7th Digital History in Sweden Conference, 5–6 November 2026, Malmö University
The 7th Digital History in Sweden Conference invite paper, panel, roundtable and poster proposals on any aspect of digital history, while we especially encourage presentations related to the conference theme, Hic sunt dracones. Submissions presenting project ideas or sketching emerging work are welcome. Presentations should be circa 10–20 minutes long, in a Scandinavian language or in English. Posters will be on display for the duration of the conference. The conference will be held over two days, 5–6 November 2026, on-site at Malmö University. (The date has had to be changed from our save-the-date announcement. Apologies for any inconvenience.) There is no conference fee.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Hannu Salmi, University of Turku
Prof. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Malmö University
Submissions must contain:
• title of paper/panel/poster,
• abstract of 200–300 words,
• your name, affiliation and e-mail address.
Panel proposals must include the titles of all papers and the names of all participants. E-mail abstracts to digitalhistory2026(a)mau.se no later than 15 April 2026. Notification of acceptance will be given within a month.
On behalf of the organising committee,
Patrik Lundell
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https://mau.se/personer/patrik.lundell/
Hej!
Sista chansen att nominera till Althinpriset (Svenska Nationalkommittén för Teknik- och Vetenskapshistorias pris till Torsten Althins minne! Se bifogad inbjudan. Deadline infaller den 1 mars!
Vänligen,
Karin
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Karin Dirke
Professor, ämnesansvarig i idéhistoria
Institutionen för kultur och estetik
Stockholms universitet
Hur formulerar man ett idéhistoriskt forskningsproblem? Vilken betydelse kan plats ha i idéhistoriska undersökningar? Vilka digitala verktyg kan en idéhistoriker arbeta med? Hur skiljer sig idéhistoriska undersökningar inriktade mot medicinens, filosofins, politikens och vetenskapens historia från varandra? Den typen av frågor och fler därtill ger den nya antologin Att skriva idéhistoria (red. Bruno Hamnell & Frits Gåvertsson) svar på!
Boken kommer att kunna köpas fysiskt men kan redan nu läsas fritt tillgängligt online: https://books.lub.lu.se/catalog/book/348
Medverkande författare: Bruno Hamnell, Frits Gåvertsson, John Hennessey, Ingrid Dunér, Hjalmar Falk, Anton Jansson, Disa Runeby, Adam Furbring, Jimmy Jönsson, Mathias Johansson, Alexander Johansson, Emil Stjernholm och Matthew Norris.
Bästa hälsningar,
Bruno Hamnell
Ph.D. History of Ideas and Sciences
Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Lund University
Den 14–15 januari 2027 arrangeras en workshop på temat "Historiographies of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Nineteenth Century Germany" vid Gents universitet. Ambitionen är att samla forskare från olika länder och discipliner, och vi skulle gärna se att perspektiv från svenska idéhistoriker representerades.
Deadline för att anmäla intresse är den 15 april 2026. Vi hoppas kunna erbjuda hjälp med resekostnader.
Se bifogat dokument för mer information.
Vänliga hälsningar,
Fredrik Bjarkö (Södertörns högskola) och Benjamin Zonnekeyn (Ghent University)
