The Technical University of Darmstadt, near Frankfurt, Germany, announces a two-year post-doctoral position, beginning 1 October 2020. The successful candidate will become a member of a larger project called “A Global History of Technology, 1850–2000”. The project investigates the history of material culture and artifacts in various parts of the world from 1850 to 2000.

En la carta del editor de la edición actual de HCSM, Marcos Cueto los invita a visitar nuestra sección sobre la pandemia desde la historia.

Our latest issue (Apr./June 2020) features a dossier on the famous building at Fiocruz’s headquarters.

Una reseña del libro Darwin y el darwinismo desde el sur del sur

Alejandra Josiowicz, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Gender Studies (IIEGE-CONICET) and postdoctoral fellow at CPDOC- FGV, examines the understanding of childhood in the columns and texts published in broadly circulating Brazilian magazines and newspapers.

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on the Historiography of Science and History of Science

The British Journal for the History of Science Themes invites proposals from prospective ‘special editors’ for its the next issue.

Domingo Fernández Agis, Profesor de Filosofía en la Universidad de La Laguna, España, analiza las ideas de Michel Foucault sobre la medicina, su historia y su impacto en la sociedad.

En la nota editorial “Política y experticia en tiempos de coronavirus,” las editoras de la revista Natacha Bacolla, Jimena Caravaca, Claudia Daniel, Virginia Mellado y Karina Ramacciotti analizan el contexto pandémico en la Argentina.

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University, Japan, has launched an online platform to collect and disseminate various perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic. Marcos Cueto, editor of HCSM, shares his thoughts on Brazil’s obsession with chloroquine.