Berggruen Prize Essay Competition

Published On: May 22 2025

Deadline: Jul 31, 2025

The Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, in the amount of $50,000 USD, is calling for essay submissions in English and Chinese on the theme of consciousness. It is given annually by the Berggruen Institute with the goal to stimulate new thinking and innovative concepts while embracing cross-cultural perspectives across fields, disciplines, and geographies. Inspired by the pivotal role essays have played in shaping thought and inquiry, we are inviting essays that follow in the tradition of renowned thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Submissions s...

New Book | Decentralizing Knowledges: Essays in Distributed Agency

Published On: Jul 8 2025

In recent decades, there has been a call for decentering knowledge in the social sciences and humanities, bringing to light perspectives from previously ignored or undervalued groups or areas of the world. Feminist epistemologies and postcolonial studies have led this trend. However, there has been less interest in the specific infrastructures and practices that make decentering possible. Drawing from science and technology studies, Decentralizing Knowledges examines how to bring about such change. Contributors explore the multiple practices of knowledge production and circulation that favor a...

Call for Nominations: Engineering Studies Paper Prize

Published On: Jul 8 2025

Deadline: Sep 15, 2025

Please nominate publications for the International Network for Engineering Studies' 2025 Paper Prize. The prize celebrates an excellent refereed journal paper or book chapter addressing the relationships among the technical, social and philosophical dimensions of engineering practices, and how these relationships change over time and from place to place. This year, the prize committee is calling for articles published in 2024 or 2025 in media other than the Engineering Studies journal.

International Writing Workshops Awards

Published On: Jul 18 2025

Deadline: Sep 17, 2025

The intention of the Writing Workshops is to cultivate professional networks and mentorship and provide access for early career researchers in developing countries to the academic requirements of journals, including international journals, and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to publish in these journals. The British Academy is inviting proposals for Writing Workshops in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries. These workshops should aim to develop the skills of early career re...

Global Development Awards: Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage

Published On: Jun 10 2025

Deadline: Jun 18, 2025

The Global Development Awards Competition (GDAC) is GDN’s largest and longest-running programme that brings together a rich community of researchers and development practitioners. It is an award scheme that: Identifies talent and supports the career advancement of researchers in the Global South; Funds innovative social development projects implemented by NGOs that benefit marginalised groups in the developing world.
THEME - 2025 EDITION: Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage
Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare. Digital technologies ...

New Book | Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life

Published On: Jun 5 2025

For half a century, innovation served as a universal good in an age of fracture. That consensus is cracking. While the imperative to innovate for a better future continues to fuel systemic change around the world, critics now assail innovation culture as an engine of inequality or accuse its do-gooders of woke groupthink. What happened? Drawing on a decade of research, Every American an Innovator by Matthew Wisnioski investigates how innovation—a once obscure academic term—became ingrained in our institutions, our education, and our beliefs about ourselves.

New Book | Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Published On: Jun 5 2025

New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured, assumed, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Con...

Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference

Published On: Jun 3 2025

Deadline: Jul 9, 2025

On behalf of the Australian & New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM) we look forward to welcoming you to the 2025 conference. The conference will take place between 8-11 July at the University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus. The biennial ANZSHM conference provides a unique opportunity for anyone interested in the history of health and medicine to network and to explore medical histories of all kinds. The theme for 2025 will focus on how medical and health history continues to be made in our own times and what is its impact? Social highlights include Welcome Drinks on Tuesday...

New Book | Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine

Published On: May 22 2025

This groundbreaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding of social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East, and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community ini...

New Book | Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation

Published On: May 22 2025

Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here Manorial Capitalism. The second examines the exploitation and alienation that epitomize the logic of capitalism from the plantation economy to the present. And the third deploys retroactively the logic...

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