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Greetings Israel Society for History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, New items have been posted matching your subscriptions. Table of Contents H-HistGeog: New posted content CFP: Le portefeuille sous toutes ses coutures. Submission deadline 30 September [Announcement] H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HistGeog: 18 September - 25 September [Announcement] Opportunities for Early Modern Scholars | Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowships [Announcement] Call for Editor-in-Chief: Terrae Incognitae, the Journal for The Society for the History of Discoveries [Announcement] Urban Blue Humanities Workshop [Announcement] H-Sci-Med-Tech: New posted content Flowers on Hecker, 'Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program' [Review] H-HistGeog: New posted content CFP: Le portefeuille sous toutes ses coutures. Submission deadline 30 September [Announcement] Simon Dolet Location France “The ‘Portfolio’ from Every Angle. Archiving and Preserving Working Documents (1680s-1820s)” Call for Proposals for the International Conference organised in Nice, at the University Côte d'Azur, CMMC-MSH Sud-Est, on 21-22 March 2024 by Simon Dolet For an extended version and/or in French : https://www.fabula.org/actualites/112339/le-portefeuille-sous-toutes-ses-coutures-archiver-et-conserver-ses.html   The storage of digital data has been at the heart of our concerns for the past 60 years. Technologies come and go - floppy disk, CD-Rom, USB stick, external hard drive, cloud computing - with greater storage capacity to meet the exponential growth in digital data production. The new ‘digital industry’ also has to respond to the growing fear of data loss as old storage formats become obsolete. However, the issue is older and deserves to be put into a longer perspective. In particular, there seems to have been an inflection in the 18th century, when the quantity of documents preserved and therefore available, compared to previous centuries, recorded an unprecedented growth. Three main axes have been selected for this scientific meeting in order to consider the role taken by portfolios in society as well as the inflection of uses and practices between the 1680s and the 1820s. The focus will be on case studies, not only of portfolios of famous figures but also of more modest and lesser-known actors. 1. The formation of portfolios If a material approach connects the historian with the archives, it is necessary to understand the uses and sensitivity of the actors to their portfolio(s): purchase, creation, insertion of papers, momentary or definitive extraction, filing, loss, destruction. 2. Within and outside portfolios This section will focus on the documents contained in the portfolios, which are associated with both the successes and failures of their owners. 3. Governing and existing through portfolios The focus here will be on portfolios in relation to the organs of power, without forgetting the power granted to the individual outside of institutions.   Submission Proposals in French or English, the languages of this international conference, should be between 1 and 3,000 characters in length and accompanied by a bio-biographical presentation. They should be sent before 30 September 2023 by email to dolet...@gmail.com. This international conference will be published. Contact Information Simon Dolet Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine Côte d'Azur University, Nice, France PhD Candidate simon...@univ-cotedazur.fr Contact Email simon...@univ-cotedazur.fr Contact Email dolet...@gmail.com URL https://calenda.org/1048654 Read more or reply Repost Back to top H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HistGeog: 18 September - 25 September [Announcement] H-Net Job Guide The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 18 September to 25 September. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-HistGeog. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobg...@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time. Geography Geography Colorado State University - Assistant professor in health geography https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66057 Contact Information Call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time. Contact Email jobg...@mail.h-net.org URL https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ Read more or reply Repost Back to top Opportunities for Early Modern Scholars | Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowships [Announcement] Keelin Burke Location IL United States The Newberry Library's long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to the library's collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment. The following short-term fellowships are intended to support Early Modern Scholars: The Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship is available to scholars who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry’s collection. This fellowship is open to all fields of study, with preference given to projects in the early modern period or Renaissance, as well as in English history, legal history, or European history. The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Fellowships support one postdoctoral scholar and one PhD candidate working on a project in medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies. The Anne Jacobson Schutte Fellowship for Early Modern Studies commemorates Schutte’s renowned scholarship and is available to early-career scholars studying the early modern period (1300-1700) who will make use of the Newberry’s rich holdings in this area. This fellowship is open to all fields of study with preference given to research related to women’s studies, spirituality, or Venice. The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Fellowships provides two one-month fellowships to a postdoctoral scholar and a PhD candidate from an institution outside of the Chicago metropolitan area participating in the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium. Applicants must be working on a project in medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies. Full-time faculty members, adjunct faculty, librarians, and curators are eligible as postdoctoral scholars; preference will be given to non-tenured faculty. The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Fellowship is available to scholars who wish to study the period between 1660 and 1815 and demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry’s collection. Applicants must be members of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the application, and, if awarded, through the period of their fellowship. Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $3,000 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry's collection. The deadline for short-term opportunities is December 15. Visit our website for information on How to Apply. Questions? Email rese...@newberry.org. Contact Information The Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL 60610 Contact Email rese...@newberry.org URL https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships Read more or reply Repost Back to top Call for Editor-in-Chief: Terrae Incognitae, the Journal for The Society for the History of Discoveries [Announcement] Lydia Towns Announcement Type Call for Volunteers CFP: Position: Editor-in-Chief for Terrae Incognitae, the journal for the Society of the History of Discoveries In print for 60 years, Terrae Incognitae focuses on the history of exploration and is published by Taylor and Francis. Over the years, the journal has expanded from one to three issues per year. Its present editor, Richard Weiner, wishes to retire from the post to pursue other projects and seeks a replacement.  The editor oversees all operations of the journal, including the reception of manuscripts, communication with authors, oversight of the peer review process, and CFPs for thematic issues, among other duties. She or he also manages the editorial team, which is presently comprised of one associate editor and a book reviews editor, who prepare the Book Reviews and the Recent Literature sections and assist with the peer review and copy-editing process. The editor also works with associated contributors who translate abstracts and perform other tasks, and she or he liaises closely with the production team at our publisher. The publisher provides an editorial allowance, and the editor will serve on the Society’s council in an ex-officio and advisory capacity. The editor is expected to provide the Society with an annual report of the journal’s activities, needs, and accomplishments, and whenever possible attend the meeting. While varying throughout the production cycle, the position averages 5-10 hours per week. The ideal candidate will be a mid-career scholar whose first language is English and who possesses a tenure-stream or its equivalent position at a university. An essential quality will be the ability to manage and operate the journal using email and software. The candidate should possess excellent interpersonal skills and be able to frame scholarly feedback for authors so to allow them to develop their research in productive and exciting ways. The editor must possess exceptional editorial skills, both in terms of language and bibliographical consistency, and the ability to cultivate leading scholarship on exploration history. Interested individuals should submit a letter of introduction outlining their fit for the position. After perusing the journal and its web presence, please identify within the letter the top three priorities for the journal to be pursued over the term of the editorship (3 years, subject to renewal by the Society). Individuals should also include an updated CV, and package these documents together as a single PDF. Proposals for the editorship of Terrae Incognitae may be sent to its editor, Dr. Richard Weiner (wei...@pfw.edu)  before November 1, 2023. Queries concerning the position may also be sent to the editor. Read more or reply Repost Back to top Urban Blue Humanities Workshop [Announcement] Alessandro Antonello Workshop Urban Blue Humanities Colleagues are warmly invited to virtually participate in the workshop "Exploring an Urban Blue Humanities". The workshop is hosted at the Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol, and is supported by a British Academy Visiting Fellowship held by Dr Alessandro Antonello. The program below includes Zoom links. 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Workshop Exploring an Urban Blue Humanities 12 – 13 October 2023 Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol PROGRAM (All times British Summer Time UTC+1) Thursday, 12 October Zoom - Meeting ID: 992 4521 6887 - Passcode: 832371 11:30 am – 12:00 pm - Workshop Opening and Introductions Alessandro Antonello, Flinders University Paul Merchant, University of Bristol 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm – Collaboration, Engagement, Imagination Jemima Matthews, King’s College London “Silt and Other Matters: Early modern riverine histories and present-day collaborative practice” Minna Valjakka, University of Helsinki (V) “Sustaining Seashores: Contemporary Arts within and for Coastal Ecologies” Camilla Bertolini et al., Ca' Foscari University and We Are Here Venice “Venice is a testing site for citizen engagement as a unified solution for degradation of both city and environment” 2:15 pm – 3:30 pm – Planning, Controlling, Modernity Claire Campbell, Bucknell University (V) “The Making and Meaning of a Foreshore: St. John’s, Newfoundland and the Question of Limits” Kristian Mennen, Utrecht University (V) “Encroachments upon the seashore: The port of Rotterdam and the emergence of spatial planning in the Netherlands (1945–1970)” Alexei Kraikovski and Ilona Kraikovskaia, University of Genova “The urban seascape re conceptualized: coastal experience and societal imagination in the long-term perspective” 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Urban Blue Texts Abbie Pink, University of Exeter “‘Trying something different’: Intertidal Futures in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140” Juliette Bretan, University of Cambridge - virtual “Urbanity, the nearshore, and post-war transition in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land” Athira Unni, Leeds Beckett University “The Metaphorical Ocean: Narrating Littoral Mumbai in Contemporary Indian Fiction”   Friday, 13 October Zoom - Meeting ID: 910 1403 5703 - Passcode: 768559   9:00 am – 10:30 am – Settling and Imagining Asia-Pacific Cities Kate Stevens, University of Waikato (V) “The view from Nubukalou: refracted histories of Suva” Mars Edwenson Briones, University of Cologne “A Storied Sea: Aquatic Imaginaries and Hydrological Hazards of the Cancabato Bay” Aireen Grace Andal, Macquarie University (V) “Oceanic imaginaries through fiction: Examining the fictional city of ‘Masayá’ created by slum-dwelling children in the Philippines” Stefan Huebner, National University of Singapore (V) “The Age of Coal’s Urban Legacy: Seeing Floating Settlements and the Energy-Intensive Built Environment from an Oceanic Perspective” 11:00 am – 12:45 pm – Time and Tide Anindita Ghosal and Arindam Modak, National Institute of Technology Durgapur (V) “Imag(in)ing Plasticene: Exploring the Ecological Challenges and Urban Innovations in Marine Ecosystem” Maria Khristine Alvarez, University College London “Imaginaries of a flood-resilient Manila” Raina Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University (V) “Time and Space in River-Cities: Everyday Hydrosocial Relations along Kolkata’s Ghats” Rhys Anil Madden, London School of Economics “Thinking about time in the urban intertidal zone”   1:30 pm – 3:15 pm – Change and continuity at the coast   Craig Colten, Louisiana State University and Rachel Carson Center “Landscapes of Unsettling and Resettling Coastal Cities” Morgan Daniels, Arcadia University “Wires and whales” Katarzyna Jarosz, International University of Logistics and Transport, Wrocław (V) “Abandoned ships. Exploring aging dockyards in the post-Soviet space” Elsa Devienne, Northumbria University (V) “Coastal (Urban) Warriors: An Urban History of Coastal Activism (1960s-2020s)” 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm - Closing discussion and remarks Alessandro Antonello, Flinders University Paul Merchant, University of Bristol Contact Information Dr Alessandro Antonello Contact Email alessandro...@flinders.edu.au Read more or reply Repost Back to top H-Sci-Med-Tech: New posted content Flowers on Hecker, 'Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program' [Review] H-Net Reviews Hecker, Siegfried S.. Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 360 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503634459. Reviewed by James Flowers (Brain Pool Program Research Fellow, The Institute of Climate-Body, Kyung Hee University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2023) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59165 In Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program, nuclear scientist Siegfried S. Hecker traces the development of North Korea’s nuclear program from its beginnings in the 1950s to the present day. As a veteran scientist and former director of twelve years duration at the US nuclear program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hecker received an invitation from the North Korean regime to visit its nuclear facilities. As the nuclear expert delegate, he participated in seven official US visits to North Korea from 2004 to 2010. In addition to visiting nuclear facilities, most notably the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center, he met North Korean nuclear scientists and officials for lengthy, detailed discussions on technical aspects of the nuclear program. Due to his firsthand knowledge of the nuclear program beginning in 2004, he also continuously played a role in discussions and briefings with senior US officials, as well as featuring as a regular media commentator on North Korean nuclear issues. The issue of North Korea as a nuclear state continues to challenge policymakers and the academic community, since we have very little access to solid information or material to work with. Hecker’s book may be read alongside work by scholars including Victor Cha, Brian Myers, Andrei Lankov (The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia, 2014), and Gregory Moore (ed., North Korean Nuclear Operationality: Regional Security and Nonproliferation, 2014). In the Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (2013), academic and US government official Cha historicizes the North Korea regime while warning that the United States may not be prepared for the former's political collapse. In The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters (2011), Myers argues that North Korea is better understood not through a Marxist lens but rather through ethnonationalism, building on race ideology learned as part of the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth century. As a scientist, Hecker writes neither as a historian of science nor a political scientist. Instead, he has crafted an extended op-ed, interspersed with interesting technical information on nuclear weapons production and policy debates. I learned a lot from reading Hecker’s account, as would all readers with an interest in Korea. This account provides chronological detail on the steps in the North Korean nuclear program in concert with the tortuous twists and turns in the US-North Korea negotiations, all in one place. In short, from nothing in the 1950s, over the next few decades the North Koreans developed a program enabling nuclear missiles that could hit the United States. Over several presidential administrations, the United States looked on in frustration and sometimes in fury as North Korea defied UN resolutions on nuclear weapons nonproliferation. Hecker’s core argument is that US failure to prevent the North Korean program stemmed from its refusal to understand Pyongyang’s intentions. He directly lays the blame on multiple US administrations, ranging from George W. Bush and Barack Obama to Donald Trump. According to Hecker, if at any stage the White House had been more understanding and accommodating to Pyongyang, the North Koreans would not have proceeded with weapons development. He believes the North was only acting in its nervousness at the instability of its security environment. In Hecker’s telling, North Korea followed a dual-track strategy of diplomacy and nuclear development. The United States failed to focus on the diplomatic track, thus ignoring six key opportunities, or "hinge points," when North Korea hoped to walk away from nuclear weapons development. The first was in 2002 when the George W Bush administration withdrew from the 1994 Agreed Framework. The Bush national security team accused Pyongyang of breaking its promises, but Hecker argues this was a significant and unnecessary diplomatic faux pas. The second was in 2005 when talks broke down over details of an agreement. The third hinge point was the incoming Obama administration’s frustration and anger in 2009 at North Korea’s attempted satellite launch. Obama saw the launch as a personal slap in the face, but Hecker thinks he should have been more understanding. Obama condemned the launch, in turn angering Pyongyang, meaning that the Obama administration and North Korea never even came close to reaching any type of agreement. Hecker thinks Obama should not have condemned the launch but instead reached out to Pyongyang with a solution. Hecker identifies 2012 and 2015 as additional years when the White House could have reached a rapprochement with North Korea, who would then have stopped their nuclear weapons program. Hecker seems to ignore that the North Koreans have often publicly boasted that they hoodwinked the Americans with incessant talks that go nowhere. Hecker reserves particular resentment for the Obama administration for neglecting to make stronger efforts at reaching a deal with Pyongyang. Finally, Hecker expresses some praise for Donald Trump for sitting down with Kim Jong Un in Singapore and Hanoi. However, he again identifies Trump walking away from the talks in Hanoi as a terrible hinge point. For this mistake, he mostly blames US National Security Advisor John Bolton, whom he identifies as a special nemesis of any agreement with North Korea. An excellent scientist, Hecker provides readers with interesting insights into the nuclear program. For example, he conveys his shock at his visit to Yongbyon in 2010. Expecting to see a few dusty old centrifuges, he instead found approximately two thousand centrifuges in a modern, clean plant. The North Koreans never invited him again, so Hecker knows only that they built a sophisticated nuclear program, but not who helped them and why. As an author, though, he knows little about Korea, including its history and culture. He accuses policymakers in Washington, DC, of not knowing about Korean history, but he apparently accepts Pyongyang’s version as related to him by officials who almost certainly had been briefed on what to tell the American scientist. Upon his first visit to North Korea in 2004, when he was already in his sixties, he writes that he expected to see automatons but was pleasantly surprised to learn that North Koreans are people too. Hecker’s belated introduction to Korea means that much of his information comes from the mouths of North Korean officials. Thus, Hinge Points fits in the genre of the writings of well-meaning Americans who aim for cultural sensitivity in East Asia, choosing to trust rather than judge. For example, on his visits he unfailingly expresses his appreciation for the rich variety of goods and food on display in the street markets. He is so impressed that he does not believe that his visits have been carefully choreographed for his benefit. From Hecker’s tailored perspective, North Korea has been wronged, while South Korea is a hard-line, hostile neighbor with little agency except as a player in Washington’s political orbit. Hecker would have shown more balance had he considered more the perspective of South Koreans, who actually live with hundreds of North Korean missiles permanently pointed at them. Hecker is correct to suggest that the Korean question is the most urgent unsolved long-term crisis in global politics. Hinge Points serves as a very useful overview of the problem. Anyone concerned with international politics needs to read this study drawing the general public's attention to the potential tinderbox of war that is East Asia. Historians of science will also find this work of interest, as it gives a real-world example of how science and technology need to be understood in the context of geopolitics. Select chapters would be suitable for undergraduate classes in the history of East Asia and the history of science. Clearly, the North Korean nuclear weapons issue affects us all. Citation: James Flowers. Review of Hecker, Siegfried S.. Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program. H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews. September, 2023. 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