Upcoming Opportunities

Call for Papers

American Behavioural Scientist is currently accepting submissions for a themed issue entitled: “Pre-Internet Networked Operations.”

They invite essays that explore the landscape of military operations during the 1960s-1970s, such as COINTELPRO (US), CHAOS (US), Phoenix (Vietnam), Condor (South America), ORDEN (El Salvador), Jakarta (Indonesia), OBAN (Brazil), and other similar operations that networked societies prior to the Internet era.

  • Focus areas include:
  • The nature of communications supporting these operations
  • Staffing and hardware involved
  • Utilization of operations
  • Contributions to social and financial inequality, and political polarization in monitored populations

For more details, abstract submission portal, and timeline, please visit the CFP list link.


PhD Scholarship in Ethnicity, Citizenship and Te Tiriti o Waitangi

The University of Waikato is offering a full-time research scholarship for a PhD student to undertake an interdisciplinary study on the topic of ‘ethnic communities, citizenship and Tiriti o Waitangi’.

Find more information here

Applications for the scholarship will be received on a rolling basis until the position is filled.


Call for Symposia
The 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology will be held 29 June – 5 July 2025 in Dunedin.

The call for symposia is now open.


Call for Papers

Research article proposals are invited for an issue of American Behavioral Scientist guest edited by Noel Packard Ph.D. Media, Film and Television, University of Auckland, N.Z. and Dr. Bradley Simpson, professor of history at University of Connecticut and author of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968. The issue is entitled: “A Sampling of Pre-Internet Networked Operations”. More information here.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 1, 2024


The Royal Society Te Apārangi is calling for nominations for Ngā Takahoa a Te Apārangi Companion for 2024.
The election of Companion (CRSNZ) recognises outstanding leadership in science, technology, or the humanities; and/ or eminent or sustained contributions to the promotion and advancement in New Zealand of science, technology, or the humanities.

Potential Companions are nominated by at least two (and up to five) nominators, who must provide the following information by the end of April each year.

More information: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-companions/how-companions-are-awarded/how-companions-are-nominated/