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Organize a session for the next CSHPS Meeting (Toronto May 30-June 1, 2025)

The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) is holding its annual conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 30 – June 1, 2025 at George Brown College (GBC), St. James and Waterfront campuses, in Toronto, Ontario. The meeting will be in person with some hybrid/online elements. (https://cshps.ca/annual-conference/; https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025)

This year’s Drake Lecture will be given by Pierre-Olivier Méthot(Canada Research Chair in Medical Humanities and History of Biological Thinking, Université Laval).

We will also be organizing a session to celebrate the work of Kathleen Okruhlik (1951-2024).

The Program Committee invites scholars working on the history and philosophy of science (broadly construed) to submit abstracts for individual papers or proposals for sessions (typically 3 papers). Program slots for individual papers are 30 minutes in length (20 minutes to present with 10 minutes for questions) while program slots for sessions are 90 minutes in length (including time for questions). All topics in the philosophy and history of science and science and technology studies more generally are welcome. Additionally, we encourage proposals that engage diverse perspectives, especially the voices, perspectives, and scientific projects of those who, historically, have been overlooked in our disciplines.

Meeting languages: CSHPS is a bilingual society. Individual papers may be given in English or French, but efforts to broaden participation are appreciated (e.g. a presentation in English could be accompanied by a PowerPoint in French, and vice versa). Similarly, sessions can be presented in either English or French, but bilingual sessions are especially welcomed.

Joint sessions: The CSHPS meeting overlaps with the meeting dates of a number of other member societies of the CFHSS. We welcome proposals for joint sessions with these and other societies (please mention this specifically in your session proposal). However, no talk will be separately accepted for presentation at more than one society.

Hybrid presentations: Presentations may be in person or hybrid. While we understand that attending in person will not be possible for all participants, we may not be able to accommodate all requests for hybrid sessions due to the technical and personnel requirements of good hybrid meetings. In hybrid sessions, to enable fruitful discussions, at least 2 (out of 3) speakers need to present their papers in-person. All session chairs should be present in Toronto. The schedule of all presentations, including hybrid ones, will be adapted to the meeting location in Toronto.
Number of submissions: Individuals can only submit one abstract for the CSHPS meeting (i.e. either an abstract for an individual paper or an abstract as part of a session proposal).

Submissions via Google Forms:
- In order to preserve the anonymity of authors, it is important that contact information and other identifying information be excluded from the entry containing the abstract.
- Individual paper submissions should include
  - a title
  - a brief abstract (150-250 words),
  - the corresponding author’s name and contact information
  - the name and contact information of any other author(s)
  - A list of keywords.
- Session proposals should include
  - The session’s title
  - As a single entry: titles and brief abstracts (100-150 words) for each paper
  - The session organizer’s name and contact information
  - The name and contact information of the other presenters.
  - A list of keywords.
- Authors will be expected to paste the abstracts into the Google form. If symbols are required that are not supported by this platform, please send an anonymized, pdf version of the abstract to program.cshps@gmail.com, from the email address of the corresponding author.
- Deadline: January 13, 2025
- Submission Portal: https://forms.gle/BkeZf13NVNgSszfa9

All presenters must be members of CSHPS at the time of the meeting. For more information about CSHPS membership, consult https://cshps.ca/membership/.

Student Prize: CSHPS offers the Richard Hadden Award, a book prize for the best student paper presented at the meeting. This is now associated with the Graduate Merit Award (value, $500), which is sponsored by the CFHSS. To be considered for these awards, students should submit a copy of their paper by e-mail to program.cshps@gmail.com by March 15, 2025. Details of this prize and instruction on manuscript preparation can be found at https://cshps.ca/richard-hadden-award/.

Bursaries: For the 2025 meeting, CSHPS is offering bursaries of up to $150 to graduate students and independent scholars to help defray the costs of registration fees and travel, on condition that they apply for Early Bird registration for Congress prior to March 31 (to get the discounted rate). Up to 30 awards will be offered and will be available upon request on a first come first served basis. Applications may be submitted to the CSHPS Treasurer either before or after the 2025 meeting. Receipts for registration and travel expenses are required, but may be provided after the 2025 meeting. Applications and receipts must be received by July 1, 2025.
Registration: Information about Congress registration will be available at the CFHSS congress website: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025.

For more information: program.cshps@gmail.com

Program Committee (2024-2025): Delia Gavrus (Winnipeg), Mélanie Frappier (King’s) (Co-chair), Molly Kao (Université de Montréal), Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie) (Co-chair)

Local Arrangements: TBA

The Things They Carried: Unveiling the Place of Objects in the Global Circulation of Knowledge

This virtual exhibit is a key component of the Circulating Knowledge: 20 Years On project and is being undertaken in partnership with Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. We are keen to make this a global exhibit, curated by researchers and institutions around the world.

Our team with the help of many global scholars have compiled digitized versions of objects/ artifacts related to the conference’s theme along with an accompanying paragraph or two that explains its significance to institutions and/or to the global circulation of knowledge. Many artifacts have already been submitted to this on-going exhibition which range from manuscripts, scientific instruments, artworks, works of translation, historical documents, among many others that enrich our exploration of the circulation of knowledge.

Join the project at circex.ca

Forestry Timeline – A research and pedagogical tool

Help us tell the history of forest stewardship across time and borders by adding to our interactive forestry timeline, currently hosted at: https://modelsen.gea.mpg.de/timeline/

To insert entries into the timeline please use this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUEK1AQOYXzLf3mGLsIxqSnYDTJp-h8Bu2HutBSgE_oypNyA/formResponse The form consists of three pages, but only the fields marked with a red asterisk must be filled in.

To format the text in the form (and thus the timeline), you can:

Wrap paragraphs in tags to create line breaks.
Wrap text in tags for bold text
Wrap text in for italics.

You can add pictures, photos, videos, text files, audio and sources in various other formats to the timeline.

If you would like to find out more about the different media types that can be added to the timeline, visit this page: https://timeline.knightlab.com/docs/media-types.html .

It is easiest to work with files uploaded on the internet already. You could, for example, use Instagram or Wikipedia images or most other images available online. Right-click on the image and select “Open image in new tab” – this should take you to a page displaying only the image. Use this URL to upload the image to the timeline. Use the “Group” section on page 3 of the form to tag your entries with a topic/theme/keyword of your choice. This will help you to find them more easily in the completed timeline. In the “Background” section on page 3, you can type in a colour (e.g. “green”) to change the background colour of your entry, or you can add a link to an image (see media types above).