CFP Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions September 25-26 2025
CFP Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions September 25-26 2025
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Science took place both thanks to and in spite of the age of revolutions. In Philadelphia the era saw the creation of the American colonies first hospital and school of medicine. Collaboration between astronomers instrumentmakers and surveyors benefited from increased associationbuilding activity that marked the period. Engineers and electrical experimenters endeavored to solve problems like access to clean drinking water and energy storage. Yet the optimism and problemsolving impulses of this age of scientific revolutions also exploited inequalities and refracted power dynamics making science a useful lens for exploring the impact of the age of revolutions on science and society.
As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States this conference cohosted by the American Philosophical Societys Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APSs 2025 exhibition Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and Americas Scientific Revolutionaries a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
- Everyday scientific practices especially those that shed light on less prominent individuals and their networks
- Social aspects of scientific societies;
- Impacts of disease on society;
- Timely innovations in sciences like astronomy anatomy electricity evolution botany and others;
- Intersections between medical interventions and political ideologies;
- Advancements in medicine and technology especially as they relate to war;
- Contributions of scientific knowledge and expertise from historically underrepresented communities;
- New directions in histories of early modern science that engage with interdisciplinary methodologies including (but not limited to) disability studies medical humanities environmental humanities digital humanities research creation animal studies etc.;
- The afterlives of scientific developments with origins in the revolutionary era.
Applicants should submit a title and a 250word proposal along with a C.V. by March 3 2025 via Interfolio.
Decisions will be announced by April 2025.
The conference will be held Septemberin Philadelphia PA. All presenters will receive travel subsidies and hotel accommodations. Accepted papers will be due a month before the conference and precirculated to registered attendees. Papers should be no longer than 15 doublespaced pages. Presenters may also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APSs Transactions.
For more information contact Brenna Holland Assistant Director of Library & Museum Programs at .
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