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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 H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HistGeog: 21 June - 28 June [Announcement] CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Geohistorical Perspectives on Human and Natural Resources — Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027 [Announcement] Funded graduate assistantship [Announcement] H-Sci-Med-Tech: New posted content Marais on Glannon, 'Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain' [Review] H-HistGeog: New posted content H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HistGeog: 21 June - 28 June [Announcement] H-Net Job Guide The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 21 June to 28 June. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Announce. 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Contact Email jobg...@mail.h-net.org URL https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ Read more or reply Repost Back to top CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Geohistorical Perspectives on Human and Natural Resources — Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027 [Announcement] Elisa Ramazzina Announcement Type Call for Papers Call for Papers Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027 Theme: Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space Following the success of the previous edition, the Entangled Histories Seminar Series invites abstracts for its 2026–2027 cycle. This entire seminar series will be held fully online and offers a publication opportunity with a leading global academic publisher for a selection of the most significant contributions. We warmly welcome contributions from Historical Geography, Environmental History, Spatial History, Cartography, Folklore, and Local Histories, adopting an interdisciplinary, diachronic perspective that spans a wide chronological trajectory from prehistory and antiquity, through the medieval period and the early modern era, up to the modern and contemporary eras. In alignment with H-HistGeog’s mission to explore the intricate relationship between space and time, this series encourages proposals that investigate how human societies, regional networks, and vernacular cultures mapped, experienced, and negotiated ecological limits, resource management, and the shifting spatial dynamics of territorial, political, and natural boundaries. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sustainability, Resources, and Borders This edition explores sustainability not merely as a modern environmental framework, but as a multifaceted, historical, and deeply spatial concept intersecting with physical, regional, and conceptual boundaries. The series investigates these dynamics across multiple interconnected dimensions: Geopolitical Borders, Cartography, and Spatial Boundaries: The creation, enforcement, representation, and fluidity of territorial lines and administrative divisions; how maps, property boundaries, and boundary surveys documented or contested resource access before and after 1725; the spatiotemporal evolution of borderlands and cultural contact zones. Global Elemental Theory, Humoral Ecology, and Historical Climatology: Geohistorical and philosophical approaches to how past societies mapped the relationship between environmental elements (earth, water, air, fire), geographic topographies, and human health. We welcome proposals addressing Western classical/medieval elemental frameworks, the history of weather lore, theories of bodily or regional moisture, and how historical geography intersected with vernacular medical-dietetic traditions to mitigate environmental risk. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Landscape Resilience: The historical geography of how local, rural, and indigenous communities maintained and transmitted generational spatial knowledge regarding sustainable resource use, agricultural terracing, common pool resources (the commons), water rights, and riverine networks. Folklore, Spatial Myths, and Local Toponomastics: The preservation and transmission of regional identities, vernacular climate adaptations, local legends, and border mythologies through oral history and folklore; the study of place-names (toponymy) and folklore as alternative spatial archives of landscape change and memory. Textual Sustainability, Philology, and the Rewriting of Geographic Lore: The transmission, translation, and systematic reuse or repurposing of historical travelogues, chronicles, early modern maps, chorographies, and customaries; how spatial and environmental descriptions are rewritten and translated across changing linguistic and political frontiers. Ecological Sustainability, Material Reuse, and Modified Topographies: The historical geography of resource extraction, mining landscapes, deforestation, and shifting forest lines; the material recycling and structural reuse of architectural spaces, mills, granaries, and water infrastructures in the wake of political or geographic transitions. Socio-Institutional Sustainability, Foodways, and Agrarian Transitions: The long-term sustainability of traditional agrarian systems, trade networks, and regional foodways during transitions, environmental crises, and demographic shifts, looking closely at spatial patterns of food security and the protection of vulnerable social populations. Symbolic, Visual, and Performing Arts of Landscape: Artistic representations of wilderness, gardens, and community thresholds in literature, early cartography, and visual culture; the modern reception and cinematic representation of environmental trauma, historical topographies, and regional pasts. At the heart of the series lies the concept of borders, understood as dynamic, spatiotemporal thresholds—whether geographic barriers, political divides, linguistic frontiers, or the conceptual boundaries separating text and landscape—that have historically mediated access to resources, defined belonging, and shaped the shared, entangled histories of global societies. Topics of Interest We welcome contributions from a wide range of academic disciplines, including: Historical Geography and Spatial History: Spatiotemporal analysis of boundaries, borderlands, regional resource disputes, land-use change, and transnational geographic networks across all historical periods. Environmental History and Historical Ecology: Climate history, histories of forestry and agriculture, riverine and maritime histories, and the environmental footprint of state consolidation and urbanization. Cartography and Heritage Studies: The history of cartography, GIS applications in historical research, landscape preservation, early surveying techniques, and the heritage management of historical topographies. Folklore, Ethnology, and Local Histories: Oral histories, regional archives, family lineages, and the geographical mapping of historical rituals, myths, and vernacular ecological practices. Prehistory and Antiquity: Early human mobility, ancient frontiers, resource management prior to state consolidation, and the archaeology of early human landscape adaptation and tool reuse. Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies: Medieval borderlands, monastic land reclamation, early modern trade networks, commons management, manuscript culture, and the material or textual reuse and rewriting of classical, regional, or pre-modern geographical heritages. Literature, Philology, and Textual Transmission: Comparative literature, manuscript analysis, and the linguistic analysis of how concepts of identity, territory, nature, and elemental cosmologies are Leitmotifs written and rewritten through changing cultural frameworks across borders. Archaeology, Anthropology, and Material Culture: Frontier archaeology, historical archaeology of rural and urban settlements, the material culture of boundaries, and the bioarchaeology of diet and resource stress. Art History and Visual Culture: Iconography of landscapes, early architectural drawings of infrastructure, and the visual representation of boundaries and natural elements. Media Studies, Cinema, and Theatre: The cinematic representation of regional geography, historical frontiers, and eco-trauma; the staging of environmental and social relationships in drama; and the role of media in shaping historical spatial memory. Seminar Format & Schedule Format: Online seminar via Zoom (Approx. 30-minute presentation followed by discussion). Scheduling will take international time zones into account as much as possible. Schedule: October 2026 – Summer 2027. Submission Guidelines & Selection Rules Proposals must be submitted in English and include the following details: Title of the proposed paper. Abstract (250–300 words). Short biographical note (100–150 words). Institutional affiliation (if any) or independent scholar status. Contact email. Preferred months of availability (between October 2026 and Summer 2027). ⚠️ MANDATORY ABSTRACT CRITERIA: The abstract submitted MUST clearly explain how the proposed paper intends to address and integrate the central core topics of the series: Borders (confini) and Sustainability (sostenibilità) within your specific historical, geographic, or cultural framework. Proposals that fail to explicitly address this conceptual intersection will not be considered. ⚠️ CRITICAL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENT: All submission materials (title, abstract explaining the approach to borders and sustainability, bio, affiliation, and availability) MUST be compiled and submitted into a SINGLE file (either .doc, .docx, or .pdf). Multiple attachments will not be considered. Please submit your single-file proposal to: entangledhistories.seminars [@] outlook.com Important Dates Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2026 Notification of acceptance: By 30 September 2026 Publication Opportunity A selection of the most significant contributions will be published in a special issue or in a dedicated edited volume with a major, world-leading academic publisher. Contact Information Organised by: Dr Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi (Üsküdar University) Dr Elisa Ramazzina (University of Insubria) Under the patronage of: The Faculty of Communication and the Master’s Programme in Media and Cultural Studies at Üsküdar University. Contact Email: entangledhist...@outlook.com Official Website (URL): https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/home Contact Email entangledhist...@outlook.com URL https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/home Read more or reply Repost Back to top Funded graduate assistantship [Announcement] Vicky McAlister Location MD United States Dr. Victoria McAlister in the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts at Towson University is seeking a graduate student to support the research project “The Material Culture of Covid-19 in Baltimore: A Digital Survey.”  This 20 hour per week position comes with a stipend and fee waiver for a graduate program in the College of Liberal Arts at Towson University. The successful applicant will be in-person in the Baltimore region. Applicants must be accepted into a graduate program and have applied via the Handshake website by August 10, 2026. The full listing can be found at https://drvickymcalister.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/graduate-assistantship-2026-27-digital-archaeologies-of-covid/  or on the Handshake site at https://app.joinhandshake.com/jobs/11155988 Information on Towson University College of Liberal Arts graduate programs can be found at https://www.towson.edu/academics/graduate/programs/ Contact Email vmcal...@towson.edu URL https://drvickymcalister.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/graduate-assistantship-2026-2… Read more or reply Repost Back to top H-Sci-Med-Tech: New posted content Marais on Glannon, 'Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain' [Review] H-Net Reviews Glannon, Walter. Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain. : MIT Press, 2025. 282 pp. $20.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262553520. Reviewed by Johanné Marais (WITS NeuRL, School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (June, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62783 Neuroethics is the sixty-odd-year-old field of normative ethics which discusses critical questions within the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. In his most recent book, Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain, Walter Glannon expresses a focus toward the ethics of neuroscience, though a multitude of examples in this seven-chapter exploration showcase how easily these complementary aspects overlap, muddle, then become discrete again. Normative ethics is constructed by the morally expected behaviors dictating the actions and choices humans take. Health ethics, more generally, prioritizes beneficence and autonomy; distinguishing this from our personal attachment to “right” and “wrong” is tantamount when reading about the implications of mapping and changing the brain. Glannon frames the modern considerations of neurotechnology, cognitive health, moral deliberation, and states of awareness, contextualizing neuroethics questions, reflections, and uncertainties. Glannon begins with a foundational lesson on the history, definitions, and theories of neuroethics in chapter 1. The reader is primed with patient and detailed language to better digest each anticipated chapter. The Brain-Mind Relation, for example, is explained with reference to substance dualism, nondualism, and reductive and nonreductive materialism. If these philosophies of science are unfamiliar to you, rest assured that Glannon guides the reader to understanding before weaving through the last twenty-five years of ethics in neuroscience in chapters 2 to 7. Neuroimaging, interrogated in chapter 2, has informed neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and even medical ethics since the age of the computer began. Historically, not all data gathered from studies that image structures and functions of the human brain have been (or will be) ethical. Glannon does not merely declare this—he maps out case studies of the past, enriched by the full suite of techniques applied in such cases, to pose practical and theoretical ethical questions that informed the expansion of neuroimaging as a field. The cases exemplify the current queries that must be taken into account to retain ethical soundness in neuroimaging, particularly with decoding thought, predictive diagnostics, and neurodata ownership, as we engage neurotechnology more casually in society. Chapters 3 and 4 deliver a more meaningful exploration of disorders of consciousness, awareness, and brain death classification than I have previously encountered. In the book, Glannon stresses how quantum activity in the brain that permits life (or the end of life) is more than a biological phenomenon. Consciousness, awareness, and indeed death are spiritual experiences in many parts of the world. However, interpersonal definitions and cultural histories have mostly remained unconsidered by medico-scientific institutions. Glannon’s articulate maneuvers across whole-brain, higher-brain, and whole-body death categories beg the question: How have we built the comfort to declare someone as an existing being through only the myopic lens of mechanistic biology? This line of questioning then encourages the reader’s reflective inquisition into the ethics of organ harvesting in neurologically unresponsive persons, life-sustaining therapy’s appropriateness, communication across minimally conscious states, and when death conclusively occurs. Glannon reminds the reader of that stark difference between empathy and ethics: Simply empathizing that a scenario feels uncomfortable to witness does not immediately deem the scenario unethical. If you have known a person in compromised neurological health, you may—as I did—find yourself taking moments to close the pages and ponder the gravity of ethics and empathy, of the definitions of what it truly means to be alive. The pivot from the decay of brain activity to cognitive and moral enhancement in chapter 5 is an ode to the spectrum of neuroethics questions interchanged by thinkers on any given day. The reader is walked through stimulatory and molecular categorizations of cognitive enhancement: from electromagnetic fields pulsed across the cortex, to concentration supplements, through to dosing up on prescription pharmaceuticals. The chapter describes the neurobiological mechanism of these actions and lands on an interesting outline of the social effects of these choices, too. Glannon then opens the idea of morality as neuroethics by expanding on theories of morality, altruism, and even posthumanism. In the sixth chapter—an extension of morality from enhancement to reasoning—Glannon climbs into the behavioral and rational aspects of morality and neural devices. The reader is reminded that “how a problem is described can influence how one responds to it” (p. 164). Indeed, as one comes to understand through the neuroscience of ethics in this book, we cannot truly be emotionless when deliberating morality, since there are cognitive, emotional, and volitional components to the very decisions we make. Glannon makes use of an example from philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah (Experiments in Ethics, 2008), to support how moral reasoning assumes that we would act how we imagine we might, given moral dilemmas. An interesting set of topics which Glannon has broadened my perspectives on is neural implant innovation, forensic psychiatry, and the legal ramifications of accessing, gathering, or storing (potentially) incriminating neural data. Even in criminal cases, neuroethics demands that neural information can only be shared with consent of the implant wearer. Neurodata, neurolaw, and neural devices are also integral to the closing chapter on neural prosthetics. In many instances, prosthetics are not an enhancement first, but a necessity. Yet, this arm of neuroethics brings its own complex questions of accessibility, affordability, and sustainability: Prosthetic systems must be maintained at a cost; someone must be liable when things go awry. For example, if so-called brain hackers meddle with capabilities of prosthetics, who holds responsibility for the consequences? Two regions of neuroethics I still feel hungry for are case studies experienced in global-majority populations (where brain-computer interfaces and wearable electroencephalogram headsets are not standard) and a deeper unpacking of the ethics of brain organoid research. That said, Glannon does wonders to make the daunting abstractions of neuroethics tangible, even actionable. Where are the boundaries? Where are the overlaps? What can we do? Humans have autonomous responsibility to themselves and each other to participate in neuroethics discussion more confidently. Start here. Consider experiential and critical interests when contemplating cases to ultimately encourage that each life—and death, as far as possible—be treated with dignity. Citation: Johanné Marais. Review of Glannon, Walter. Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain. H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews. June, 2026. 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