Call for ABSTRACTS:  Southwest Colloquium in the History and 
Philosophy of the Life Sciences.  Deadline:  February 1, 2006.

Sponsored by the University of California Davis (Science and 
Technology Studies; Department of Philosophy) and Arizona State 
University (Center for Biology and Society).

This is the fourth year of the Southwest Colloquium in the History 
and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, an annual event that includes a 
one-day Graduate Student Symposium and a one-day Faculty/Graduate 
Student Workshop devoted to a specific topic.  The SCHPLS was 
founded in 2001 by Sahotra Sarkar and Manfred Laubichler.

The annual Graduate Student Symposium takes place over two days and 
features presentations by graduate students on any topic in the 
history and philosophy of the life sciences, although preference is 
given to papers that are related to the topic of the 
Faculty/Graduate Student Workshop.  All submissions are subject to 
peer review, and will be circulated before the meeting.  The 
symposium also includes a keynote address by an outstanding 
researcher.

The 2006 meeting will be held April 1-2 on the campus of the 
University of California, Davis. One hallmark of the SCHPLS has been 
the extent to which practitioners of various disciplines attempt to 
translate others' work into their own disciplinary context.  Because 
there are no concurrent sessions, every paper is delivered to an 
audience that is made up of individuals from various fields.  This 
year, these 'translations' will be the topic of the workshop portion 
of the meeting, and special attention will be given throughout the 
event to communication and collaboration across disciplines, both in 
the humanities and in the biological sciences.

The keynote address will be given by Dr. Robert E. Page, Jr., 
Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Life Sciences at 
Arizona State University and former Chairperson of the Department of 
Entomology at UC Davis.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 1, 2006.  
Abstracts should be submitted to Andrew Hamilton 
(alhamilton@ucdavis.edu) for distribution to the reviewers.

Limited funds are available to support graduate student travel to 
attend the meeting.

For more information, please contact the organizers:
Andrew Hamilton, University of California, Davis (alhamilton@ucdavis.edu)
Manfred Laubichler, Arizona State University (manfred.laubichler@asu.edu)

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