Rice University is pleased to announce that the 2025 Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology will be held on its beautiful campus in Houston, with support from the Humanities Research Center, the Program in Science and Technology Studies, and the Department of the History.
This one-day workshop offers graduate students in the history of the life sciences the opportunity to present their work to a well-informed audience of faculty and fellow students in an informal and encouraging setting. For many of us, it was the place where we presented our first scholarly paper. The seminar format highlights the work of graduate students and early-career scholars, and introduces JAS-Bio presenters to an engaged community of relevant scholars drawn from key scholarly institutions across the Atlantic seaboard and beyond.
Later this fall we will be soliciting abstracts from graduate students and early career scholars, within and beyond the academy, for this event. Papers addressing all areas of the history of biology, broadly construed, are welcome. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Luis Campos (lac16@rice.edu). Please include your name, institutional affiliation, the title of your proposed talk, and your preferred email address. The deadline for proposals will be February 1, 2025.
Attached here are programs for 2023 and 2024 meetings to provide a sense of the exciting research that JAS-Bio fosters. For more information on the history of the Joint Atlantic Seminar, please see Mary P. Winsor’s article in Isis 90 (1999): 219-225, also attached.
Registration is free for all participants. Thanks to the generosity of the Humanities Research Center and the Program in Science and Technology Studies, all students whose papers are accepted will have their domestic travel and lodging expenses covered (or at least subsidized in the case of international students coming from farther away). Senior faculty generally cover their own expenses. Be on the lookout for more information as the date approaches about the program, location, lodging, and transportation. If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to reach out to Luis Campos (lac16@rice.edu).
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