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Introducing New Editors of Endeavour [Announcement]
Endeavour is pleased to announce the appointments of the journal's new co-editors-in-chief, Dr. Sarah Pickman and Dr. Edward Guimont. Their appointments went into effect on January 1, 2026.
Continuing to serve with them is associate editor, Dr. Michelle DiMeo and reviews editor, Dr. Claudia Cristalli. The journal thanks outgoing editor-in-chief Dr. Donald L. Opitz, who remains on the editorial board.
Dr. Pickman is a historian of exploration, the field sciences, and material culture, with a focus on the development of equipment for exploratory expeditions to extreme environments. An independent scholar and freelance writer and curator, she is working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, The Right Stuff: Material Culture, Comfort, and the Making of Explorers, 1820–1940, as well as a second research project on bioprospecting and the global cosmetic industry. She previously served as Endeavour's associate editor.
Dr. Guimont is chair of the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is a historian of colonialism and science, as well as a scholar on Providence weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft. With Horace Smith, he is coauthor of the monograph, When the Stars Are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023). His next book, The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. He has served as a longstanding member of Endeavour's editorial board.
A journal founded in 1942 as a means to promote international exchange of scientific knowledge amid wartime constraints, the journal has evolved into one of the field's leading history and philosophy of science journals. Known as a destination for visually rich and innovative scholarship, Endeavour welcomes submissions from students and early career scholars, as well as proposals for special issues. To learn more, contact the editors directly at pickman....@gmail.com and eguimont....@gmail.com.
Harvard S&T in Asia Zoom talk | Yu Wang on "Sonic Socialism" | Tuesday, February 10, 10:30–11:45 [Announcement]
I am pleased to invite you to this upcoming talk in the Harvard Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series next Tuesday, February 10, 10:30 –11:45 am ET over Zoom.
Our speaker is Yu Wang of Cornell University, and the details of his talk are as follows:
SONIC SOCIALISM: RADIO AND THE TECHNOPOLITICS OF LISTENING IN MAOIST CHINA
This talk is a condensed, selected presentation of my forthcoming book, Sonic Socialism: Radio and the Technopolitics of Listening in China, 1940-1976. In the book, I explore how radio unleashed its potential and limits in a series of engagements with the auditory sense and the production of reality during the Cold War. I ask: How did socialism manifest itself through sound and listening practices? What kind of technological and social relations did it inform? And how did such techno-sociological influence the forms of political consciousness? By unpacking radio technologies as socialism-that-was-made-durable, I reveal how diverse groups of listeners -from state authorities to institution actors and regular people- and their auditory practices actively constituted the daily experience of Chinese socialism. In so doing, this book reveals not only the ways in which auditory technologies informed socialism but also how the human ear became a critical site of auditory governance, informing the perception of reality, productivity, and social order.
About our speaker: Yu Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is deeply interested in the technologies of listening and their interaction with society and politics. His forthcoming book Sonic Socialism explores how listening to radio constituted the practice of everyday life in Mao’s China. His second book project concerns the global history of decibels, interrogating the layered, complex dynamics between the auditory sense and its standardization.
Zoom registration here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/Am69d6ZqTpGDjM4_75LqgQ
I hope that you will be able to join us for this and other talks this term.
February 17, 2026 | Merlyna Lim | "Fandom, Fear, and Feeds: Affective Politics in Algorithmic Southeast Asia" | Register
March 3, 2026 | Hyemin Lee | "Bureaucratic Roots: Certificate Governmentality and Multispecies Governance in Korean Ginseng Farming" | Register
March 17, 2026 | Taomo Zhou | "Soldiers and Cellphones: The Cold War Roots of the Consumer Electronics Industry in Shenzhen, China" | Register
March 31, 2026 | Ran Zwigenberg | "Cognitive Fallout: Psychology and Early Radiation Research in Hiroshima" | Register
April 14, 2026 | Michitake Aso | "After Agent Orange: How Dioxin Shaped Postwar Reconciliation Between the United States and Vietnam" | Register
April 21, 2026 | Gonçalo Santos | "Revisiting the Wasteocene: Shifting Circular Economies of Night-soil in Early 20th-Century China" | Register
April 28, 2026 | Hiromi Mizuno | TBD | Register
May 5, 2026 | Gita Chadha | "Repurposing an Idea: Scientific Temper in India" | Register
Victor Seow
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
Drexel University College of Medicine Research Fellowship - History of Women in Medicine [Announcement]
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United States
Research Fellowship in the History of Women in Medicine
The M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, M.D. Research Fellowship is offered annually by the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center, Archives, and Special Collections on Women in Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. A $4,000 stipend is awarded to one applicant for research completed in residence at the Legacy Center. The term of the fellowship is no less than four to six weeks to begin on or after June 1, 2026.
The deadline for current applications is April 15, 2026. A short essay summarizing research findings is required upon completion of the fellowship.
In addition to materials related to the history of the Woman's Medical College/Medical College of Pennsylvania, the collections have particular strengths in the history of women in medicine, nursing, medical missionaries, the American Medical Women's Association, American Women's Hospital Service, and other Women in Medicine organizations. The majority of the collections fall within the period 1850 to the present.
This fellowship was established in memory of M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, M.D., by her husband Frederick Gloeckner in recognition of her key leadership role in the medical profession. This is a competitive annual fellowship open to scholars, students, and general researchers.
Full information at http://bit.ly/wye5FM or email Margaret Graham at CoM_Ar...@drexel.edu.
Margaret Graham
Hagley Research Seminar/Date Change/February 18/Noon EST
Due to a call for jury duty, the date of Hagley’s Research Seminar has been changed to Wednesday, February 18th at Noon EST. C.
Carol Ressler Lockman
Manager, Hagley Center
Research Seminar:
“Calling All Jobs: Postwar Labor's Alternative Vision for the Automated Future”
Kevin Dwyre, University of Delaware
Virtual Event
February 18, 2026
Time 12:00-1:30
Registration via Eventbrite
In the post-World War II United States, unions and management waged an ideological struggle for control of automation. This paper will chart this struggle, outlining both management’s market-oriented position as well as how sections of the labor movement advanced their own vision of the automated future. Ranging from early retirement and worker retraining programs financed through automation funds to a Technological Clearing House for national planning, proposed by unions was a social democratic politics of expanded collective bargaining prerogatives and federal policy intervention. Harnessing automation’s development towards conscious social ends, this institutional framework aimed to shrink necessary working hours, mitigate labor market dislocation, and guarantee an equitable distribution of resources. Against labor’s expansive political vision, management asserted it was only through “economic natural selection”—i.e., the private investment decisions of firms and preferences of citizen consumers—that automation would serve the general interest. Any so-called artificial interference would only distort technology’s inherent logic to the detriment of both productivity and people. Management’s ultimate success instituting automation’s development under market guidance has today obscured those alternatives pressed by labor in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on these union initiatives, this paper seeks to recover such proposals and suggest their relevance for contemporary labor struggles and ongoing debates over automation.
Kevin Dwyre is a PhD student at the University of Delaware.
Rick Halpern of the University of Toronto will provide an introductory comment.
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