Whewell’s Gazette
Your weekly digest of all the best of
Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #02
Monday 29 August 2016
EDITORIAL:
Another week another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you all the histories of science, technology and medicine that social media filtered out of the Internet over the last seven days.
Two topics that made the rounds on Twitter in the last week attracted our attention. The first was yet another essay, this time by a professor, the last one was by a doctoral student, telling academics to stay away from social media because it’s bad for you. Now we at Whewell’s Gazette don’t agree with this sentiment at all because without social media we wouldn’t exist.
We are part of a world wide network of #histSTM historians and others interested in #histSTM, who communicate with each other via social media and it is in these very fruitful waters that we, as I said two weeks ago, gather up the contents of our humble weekly journal. Having been an academic historian working in a major research project before the age of the Internet and social media and now being an Internet historian I know which I prefer and which is the more productive for historians. My opinion of the article in nicely summed up by Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford) academic, scientist, broadcaster and author:
“I just reread this and it made me angry this time. Fatuous arsegass born of ignorance and supercilious gargling”
Historian of science Cornelius J. (Kees-Jan) Schilt (@KeesJanSchilt) had this to say on the subject and Ted McCormick (@mccormick_ted) contributed this.
The doctoral student who condemned social media stated in his piece that he was “a serious academic, not a professional Instagrammer”. Leading many academics who do use social media to make sarky comments about the seriousness or otherwise of their actions. This situation was exacerbated amongst historians following some negative comments made by a university teacher about the Guardian interview of the author of a popular history book. Somewhere down the line it was implied that the author a ‘mere’ doctoral student was not a proper historian, sparking another intense debate as to what qualifies somebody as a historian. A debate that particularly interests yours truly, as my only formal qualifications are a very ropey set of A-levels acquired sometime shortly after the last ice age. On this topic we particularly liked the following comment by navel historian Steven Gray (@Sjgray86):
“As I am a real historian I’m at the national archives today to do some research that I will put solely in a book no one can afford”
In my opinion the only acceptable definition of a historian is the tautological “A historian is somebody who does history”. Or as it was put slightly better by Meredith Hindly (@CapitolClio):
Are we really arguing over who gets to be a “historian”? Love your subject. Do good research. Share it with people. DONE. – Meredith Hindley (@CapitolClio)
Quotes of the week:
The email I got from my Dad today. You’re welcome. Kate Owens (@katemath)
“The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading” – Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
“Every time a dude says “but you don’t understand what I meant!” it’s typically him that doesn’t” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“If I never got another email in my life that’d be cool” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“Why does Eric Hobsbawm always say everything better than me? Usually in the space of a sentence, written 50 years ago, without a footnote” – Cath Feely (@cathfeely)
“Historians choose what they will write their poetry about…” —Ivan Illich h/t @publichistorian
“Can we call the current Presidential election a failed search and try again next year? Maybe we’ll get a better candidate pool” Professor Snarky (@ProfSnarky)
“I’m not procrastinating, I don’t care whether you crastinate or not” – Paul (@bingowings)
‘”I never can judge an experiment and make up my mind about it without doing it” – Michael Faraday
“When Ivan Illich told Erich Fromm his idea about schooling as a myth-making ritual, Fromm refused to speak to him for weeks” – Suzanne Fischer (@publichistorian)
“Having a high IQ doesn’t prevent you from being stupid. In fact, it lets you be stupid in ever more complex ways” – Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic)
Dorothy Parker
Birthdays of the Week:
James Cook set sail to observe the 1779 Transit of Venus 26 August 1778
Captain James Cook set sail on board HMS Endeavour 26 August in 1768. Here are some drawings from his voyage – The British Library
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Living and dying in Cook’s shadow
Royal Museums Greenwich: James Cook’s First Voyage
National Park Service America born 26 August 1916
Logo of the United States National Park Service
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Youtube: America’s National Parks: Celebrating 100 Years
Business Insider: 6 ways America’s national parks have dramatically shaped the history of science
BHL: The National Park Service, Historic Surveys, and the Hunt for Documentation
Youtube: Grand Canyon (1958) – Walt Disney/Ferde Grofé
Marketplace: At 100 years old, the National Parks need $12 billion of TLC
Denis Papin was baptised 22 August 1647
Denis Papin, unknown artist, 1689.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A household name
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Denis Papin
Yovisto: Denis Papin and the Pressure Cooker
Georges Cuvier born 23 August 1769
Georges Cuvier Portrait by François-André Vincent, 1795
Source: Wikimedia Commons
“The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions & forces her to reveal herself” – Cuvier
Yovisto: Georges Cuvier and the Fossils
ucmp.berkeley.edu: Georges Cuvier (1769–1832)
The New Yorker: The Lost World: The mastodon’s molars
Cuvier worked also on stratigraphy – from “Essai minéraligique sur les environs de Paris” (1808) h/t @David_Bressan
Hans Krebs Born 25 August 1900
Hans Adolf Krebs
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Nobelprize.org: Hans Krebs
The Scientist: Nature rejects Krebs’s paper, 1937
Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier, born 26 August 1743
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier by Jules Dalou 1866
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Modern Chemistry started with Lavoisier
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The father of…
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Today in Ladybird 28 Aug 1789, William Herschel, probably using this telescope, discovers new moon of Saturn
In Special Collections: The First Rochester Conference on High Energy Physics…… A Unique Discovery
AHF: Francis Birch
ESA: Space in Images: André Kuipers at the Centrifuge Building at the Gargarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Robert Serber’s Interview (1982)
Medium: A Physics Walking Tour of Washington, DC
Medium: A Quantum of Parody
Courtesy of the Niels Bohr Archive.
Voices of the Manhattan Project: David Hawkins’s Interview – Part 2
Yovisto: Charles Augustin de Coulomb and the Electrostatic Force
Yovisto: The First Image from Abroad – Earth Rising and Lunar Orbiter 1
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Jean Bacher’s Interview
Yovisto: Carnot and Thermodynamics
Science Museum: How the art of eclipses changed science
deepspace.ucsb.edu: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight
Vanity Fair: Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil
Katherine Johnson, photographed at Fort Monroe, in Hampton, Virginia.
Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.
Yovisto: Louis Essen and the Precise Measurement of Time
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Philippe van Lansberge
Medium: Emmy Noether: The Struggles of a Mathematical Genius
Yovisto: Frederick Reines and the Neutrino
Medium: Einstein’s Unending Quest for Privacy
AHF: James Frank
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Norris Bradbury’s Interview – Part 2
Physics World: Nobel laureate James Cronin dies at 84
Particle pioneer: James Cronin 1931–2016
Cronin at the 2010 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Markus)
A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: Eise Jeltes Eisinga and the Drawing Room Planetarium
AHF: Ernest O. Lawrence
AHF: Norman Ramsey
JSTOR: Why No One Believed Einstein
FAENA Aleph: The Philosopher Who Foresaw the Concept of Multiverse in the 13th Century
Forbes: Viewing The Earth From Space Celebrates 70 Years
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
British Library: Online Gallery: Map of Great Britain, ca. 1450
The H-Word: Not on a map: cartographic omission from New England to Palestine
Herman Moll’s 1729 map of New England and the adjacent colonies. The map shows few signs of indigenous presence, but a reference to the Iroquois is seen to the far left. Photograph: Wikimedia
Yovisto: George W. De Long and the ill-fated Jeanette Polar Expedition
TV 6: Historian sells large collection of survey maps
Brown University Library: Online Map Collection
Yovisto: James Weddell and the Southern Ocean
British Library: Online Gallery: Estate Map of Smallburgh, Norfolk 1582
Harvard Map Collection: Meet Our Staff: Zuzana Nagy
Zuzana Nagy
Photo Credit: Marc McGee
JCB Library: Fabulous Map Collection
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Fab Sketch found in student’s notebook (c1868) of Joseph Lister disappearing through a trapdoor after his lecture h/t RCPSG Library
Thomas Morris: The man with 87 children
Dataisnature: Benjamin Betts – Geometrical Psychology
BBC News: Files reveal approved school drug trial plans in 1960s
Slate: The Vault: How Left-Handed Penmanship Contests Tried to Help Civil War Vets After Amputation
Yovisto: Astley Paston Cooper – A Pioneer in experimental surgery
Dr. Alum Withey: ‘Gymnasticks’ and Dumbbells: Exercises in early modern Britain
image from Google Books
Yovisto: R.D. Laing and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement
AHF: Stafford L. Warren
Atlas Obscura: Why Doctors Once Treated Fevers and Hysteria with Mashed-Up Bedbugs
Dr Alun Withey: Concocting Recipes: The early modern medical home
Thomas Morris: On flatulence and Darwin
NYAM: Ambroise Paré on gunshot wounds
Wellcome Collection Blog: The art of medicine
Yovisto: Charles Richet and Anaphylaxis
Yovisto: Theodor Kocher and the Thyroid Gland
Science Museum: Women at the front line
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANYs) in ambulances. © NMeM/Daily Herald Archive/ SSPL
Wellcome Library: What did Victorians make of spectacles?
Anita Guerrini: Vesalius and the beheaded man
The Francis A, Countway Library of Medicine: The Archives for Women in Medicine
Blink: The rise of the cocaine soufflé
Mass Moments: Flu Epidemic Begins in Boston August 27 1918
The Spectator: Doctor in disguise: the secret life of James Barry
Science: To study ancient cancer, this scientist made her own mummies
JSTOR: The Little-Known History of the Forced Sterilization of Native American Women
3 Quarks Daily: Brain, Liquefaction of
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse-designed by civil engineer Joseph Totten – born 23 August 1788. h/t @Ben Gross
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Joseph Totten
Yovisto: Paul Nipkow and the Picture Scanning Technology
Conciatore: Franklin and Glass
Conciatore: Glass salt
Popular Science: Read Nikola Tesla’s Drone Patent…From 1898
Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Biography: James Hillier 22.08.1922–15.01.2007
Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Oral-History: James Hillier
The Finds Research Group AD 700–1700: Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels
Yovisto: E.F. Codd and the Relational Database Model
British Library: Online Gallery: Proposal of a New Model for Rebuilding the City of London… 1666
History and Technology: How not to build a world wireless network: German-British rivalry and visions of global communications in the early twentieth century
CBC News: Check out the world’s 1st web page, from 25 years ago, on Internaut Day
The Guardian: Facebook forgot the web’s birthday and now it’s trying to pretend it remembered
The first web server, originally at CERN in Switzerland. Photograph: By Coolcaesar at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=395096
laststandonzombieisland: Warship Wednesday Aug 24, 2016: 100-feet of Turkish Surprise
OUP Blog: 15 surprising facts about Guglielmo Marconi, the man behind radio communication
Scientific American: Publishing on Printing: Learning from Scientific American’s 171 years of covering advances in printing technology
New Statesman: How Linux conquered the world without anyone noticing
Science Museum Group Journal: Watt’s workshop: craft and philosophy in the Science Museum
http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/2014/watts-workshop/
Ptak Science Books: Skinny III: Skinny Water: An Extremely Thin Shower Apparatus, 1888
Concertina.com: Wind Musical Instruments: Wheatstone’s
http://www.concertina.com/wheatstone/Wheatstone-Concertina-Patent-No-5803-of-1829.pdf
Yovisto: Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis
http://blog.yovisto.com/charles-lindbergh-and-his-spirit-of-st-louis/
Yovisto: Lee De Forest and the Audion
http://blog.yovisto.com/lee-de-forest-and-the-audion/
Yovisto: More than just hot air – the Montgolfier-Balloons
http://blog.yovisto.com/more-than-just-hot-air-the-montgolfier-balloons/
Ptak Science Books: Edison’s Anti-Gravity Underwear Kite Babies, 1879
Sapiens: Curiosities: Forget Not the Mighty Zipper
High Country News: William Henry Jackson’s history-making photos
The Telegraph: Why Britain became the first rich nation
Atlas Obscura: Meet One of the World’s Few Female Clock Whisperers
Lili von Baeyer carefully examines an old timepiece. (Photo: Lili von Baeyer)
laststandonzombieisland: Protecting HMs frontiers, via Vickers
laststandonzombieisland: Blades, blades, everywhere there’s blades
Distilations: Tough Stuff
The Paris Review: Sitting Up: A brief history of chairs
Chair with lumbar support (after Hans Strasser).
VF: The 14 Synthesizers That Shaped Modern Music
Atlas Obscura: How Photographers Captured Electricity When It Was New
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
In 1790s LM was into America. In May 1794 readers learned about the alligator, “a very large and terrible creature”
Yovisto: Johann Ludwig Burckhardt and the discovery of Petra
Yovisto: Karl Gegenbauer and Comparative Anatomy
Maris Piper: Breeding Maris Piper
Story Maps: Alexander von Humboldt’s Whole Earth Vision
Mary Gillham Archive Project: Harvesting Turf
Forbes: Geology Scene Investigation: An Eruption In 1902 Revealed How Volcanic Firestorms Kill
Sequence showing a pyroclastic flow, photographed December 1902 by French volcanologist A. Lacroix (from LACROIX 1904).
Smithsonian: Project: Gonolobus Set 1
Indian Country: Science Catches Up With Inuit Oral History, ‘Discovering’ Ancient Paleo-Eskimos
The Atlantic: The Internet Is Obsessed with a Video Feed of Bears Eating Salmon
Yovisto: William Buckland and the Dinosaurs
The Conversation: Italy’s deadly earthquake is the latest in a history of destruction
Why Evolution is True: What if Wilkins and Franklin had been able to work together?
BBC News: Happy birthday weather forecast
BBC News: Rare dodo skeleton to be auctioned in West Sussex
Rejected Princesses: Mary Anning
Smithsonian.com: Ancient Maya Bloodletting Tools or Common Kitchen Knives? How Archaeologists Tell the Difference
Historical Dewitticisms: Why Wilderness? Why, Indeed.
Deep Time Dispatches: The Boy Who Dreamt of Dinosaurs
Forbes: How A Harvard Doctor’s Sordid Murder Launched Modern Forensic Anthropology
Left: Dr. George Parkman. Right: Dr. John Webster. Images from: Trial of Professor John W. Webster, for the murder of Doctor George Parkman. Reported exclusively for the N.Y. Daily Globe (1850). Images in the public domain, via NIH National Library of Medicine.
History of Geology: Does praying help prevent natural disasters?
Inference Review: The Genus Homo
The New York Times: A New Dolphin Species, Long Gone, Found in a Drawer
Earth: In 250 million years Earth might only have one continent
Natural History Museum: Britain’s first geological map
Geschichte der Geologie: William Smith und der Versteinerte Code
Ptak Science Books: History of Lines – Naïve Rivers and Trees, 1670
The Huffington Post: Women in Paleontology: A Celebration of Female Field Scientists
CHEMISTRY:
The Guardian: Ahmed Zewail obituary
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Making Science Public: Science, utility and responsibility
The National Archives: In our minds: creative responses to mental health records
Medium: What we know about mobile experiences in Museums after 6 years of research
Disability History Museum: Online Presence
“Playing Polio,” The Polio Chronicle, 1933.
The Conversation: Fabricating science: discussing fraud can rebuild community confidence and deepen understanding of how science works
Lee Vinsel: People and Things: An Introduction to Technology Studies Syllabus
Keywords: Technology
Scientific American: A Short History of the Future: Forward-looking stories from Scientific American, 1845 to 2016
Himetop: The History of Medicine Topographical Database
Medium: How digitized changed historical research
Teaching the Codex: Teaching Palaeography – A public engagement approach
The Recipes Project: Exploring CPP 10A214: Enter Lady Honywood, Continued; Getting it on Paper
The Multidisciplinarian: Feynman as Philosopher
CHF: Distillations
Taylor & Francis Online: Science as Culture Volume 25, 2016 – Issue 3: Introduction: Contesting Science and Technology, from the 1970s to the Present
Whipple Library Book Blog: R is for the Royal Society and the History of Thomas Sprat
Lady Science: Well, Actually: Mythbusting History Doesn’t Work
AEON: Bruno the brave
British Records Association: Archives – The Journal of the British Records Association
Blink: The rosary of knowledge
Ptak Science Books: Timelines in the History of Science from Thomas Young, 1807
Mashable: Amazing STEM heroes of #BlackWomenDidThat
Notches: The Notches blog has been renovated!
American Scientist: Stop Using the Word Pseudoscience
The Society for the History of Collecting:
Mother Jones: The Secret Life of Science Museums
Wellcome Collection Blog: Oops!…I wrote a Britney blog post
BBC Culture: The secret libraries of history
Medium: The Science Behind the Names of Philadelphia’s City Squares
CSTHA I AHSTC: Scientia Canadensis
ESOTERIC:
Yovisto: Franz Josef Gall – the Founder of Phrenology
Franz Joseph Gall examining the head of a pretty young girl
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian.com: A Guide to Ancient Magic
The Recipes Project: How to Establish Trust
Yovisto: Allessandro Cagliostro – Imposter and Adventurer
Conciatore: The Dregs of Alchemy
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“The struggle of fixed and volatile”
allegorical illustration from
Splendor solis [detail] 16th C.
H-Net Reviews: Jennifer Tyburczy: Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display
The New York Times: Overselling A.D.H.D.: A New Book Exposes Big Pharma’s Role
BBC Culture: The mysterious ancient origins of the book
MAHB: Awe, Despair, and the Annihilation of Nature
English Studies Blog: Disgust in Early Modern English Literature, edited by Dr. Natalie K. Eschenbaum and Dr. Barbara Correll
neverimitate: Neurotribes
The Times: 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal
The Guardian: Rebecca Rideal: The time of the grand histories is coming to an end
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
Birlinn: Scotland: Mapping the Islands
Manchester University Press: Scientific governance in Britain, 1914–79
Historiens de la santé: Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada
Historiens de la santé: Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Historiens de la santé: Une correspondance entre deux médecins humanistes. Johann Crato von Krafftheim, Girolamo Mercuriale
Historiens de la santé: Bodysnatchers. Digging Up The Untold Stories of Britain Resurrection Men
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990
blog.umass.edu: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
COMING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
Natural History Museum: Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature 15 July–6 November 2016
Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England Runs till 2 October 2016
Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016
The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016
George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London
CLOSING SOON: Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18th and 19th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016
Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017
The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20th July 2016
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016
Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts
Science Museum: Robots
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:
Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017
AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016
Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017
CLOSING SOON: Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016
Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
CLOSING SOON: Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
CLOSING SOON: Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic 1 August–31 December 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: How spiders linked the world together, and the man at the centre of it all 26 July–27 September 2016
COMING SOON: Boolean Libraries: Tuberculosis: milestones of discovery and innovation 9September–16 October 2016
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: How spiders linked the world together, and the man at the centre of it all 26 July–27 September 2016
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Shine: Watch: “Hidden Figures” Tells the Untold Story of NASA’s Black Women Mathematicians
ars technica: New movie celebrates the true geniuses behind Apollo: NASA’s mathematicians
Youtube: Pathé: La glace et le ciel – Bande-annonce Officielle HD
Vanity Fair Hollywood: Kirsten Dunst Joins Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janellle Monae in Feminist Space Race: The actresses will tell the untold story of the mathematicians who helped make space travel possible.
Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata
NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary
SFGate: Doc resurrects weird 20th century con man
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde 6-10 September 2016
COMING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist 2 September–1 October 2016
COMING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus 7 September–1 October 2016
COMING SOON: Taliesin Arts Centre: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 9 September 2016
COMING SOON: Hull Truck Theatre: Faustus 14 October 2016
COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde 6–10 September 2016
https://www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk/event/jekyll-and-hyde/
EVENTS:
Natural History Museum: Behind-the-Scenes Spirit Collection Tour Daily 31 August to 4 September 2016
LSE: Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture 28 September 2016
Eric Scerri: Speaking in the UK (History & Philosophy of Chemistry) 2, 5, 8 September 2016
University of Cambridge: Open Cambridge: Lost and found: the little-known Japanese Antarctic Expedition and Shackleton’s forgotten film 9 September 2016
University of Birmingham: Professor Alice White: The genius of Vesalius 13 October 2016
Geelong Regional Libraries: Steve Silberman – NeuroTribes 4 September 2016
UCL: Spices and Medicine: Food and Medical Traditions from the Plant World: Exploring Herbal Uses 12 October 2016
University of Bristol: Cotham Hall: Talks: Eric Scerri ‘A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science’ Geoff Blumenthal `Some implications of a holistic and unificatory approach to the period 1770-1815 in chemistry’ 5 September 2016
Bklyn Public Library: James Gleick, National Book Award nominated science writer, on his new book, Time Travel 27 September 2016
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016
Linda Hall Library: The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language 8 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Museum Late: ‘By Permission of Heaven’: The Story of the Great Fire of London 5 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Study Tour: ‘Flight from the Flames’: Recovering London from The Great Fire 5 September & 5 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘Medicinal Plant Afternoon: A Chinese triumph and an American awakening’ 19 September 2016
IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October
Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016
New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££
Martin Randall Travel: History of Medicine – Florence, Bologna & Padua in the Age of Humanism 12–18 September 2016 $$$
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events
Victoria Baths – Hathersage Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock: Talk: “The Evils of Dirt and the Value of Cleanliness:” a history of Manchester’s early baths and wash-houses, 1840-1876 10 September 2016
Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”
Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War
Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding
Lecture: Maria Sibylla Merian as a Printmaker 1 September 2016
Bath Preservation Trust: Lecture: How Outer Space looked to the Georgians 13 September 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind : The Air Loom 3 September 2016
Taliesin Theatre: Stars and spades: women in the history of science – British Science Festival
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Song Ci, the “father of forensic medicine/science”
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Vimeo: Linda Hall Library: Explore & Create: From the Beginnings of Computer Games to Private Space Flight
Open Culture: The History of Photography in Five Animated Minutes: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone
Youtube: Hidden Figures: Happy Birthday Katherine Johnson – Make It Count
Laughing Squid: 19th Century Scientist James Prescott Joule Explains the Concept of ‘Work’ to a Robot Puppet
Create: The Truncheon and the Speculum
Youtube: Leon Theremin playing his own instrument
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: Natural History Heroes
The Philosophers Zone: The Scientific Revolution
Newstalks.com: Keith Houston: The Evolution of Books
soundcloud: Music Box c.1900 Playing “Wedding March”
BBC World Service: Elements
BBC Radio 4: Inside Science: Includes Tom Levenson on The Hunt for Vulcan
h-madness: Du fou au malade mental, une histoire de la psychiatrie en quatre épisodes radiophoniques
BBC Radio 3: Private Passions Steve Silberman
Bletchley Park: ENIGMA from the Other Side
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Swansea: CFP: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe: 10th Anniversary Meeting: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016
Osiris: Proposals for next Osiris volume due 15 October 2016
Bodleian Libraries: Women in science in the archives 8 September 2016
University of Geneva: Conference: Ground in Philosophy of Science 13–14 September 2016
University of Manchester: Update: Medical Humanities Laboratory Workshop: Bodies, Technologies, Objects 6 September 2016
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
10th World Conference of Science Journalists: Call for Proposals: San Francisco 2017 Deadline 30 September 2016
University of Toronto Press: CfP: Edited Collection: Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present
Techne: CFP: Special Issue on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene
University of Exeter: Medical Practice in Early Modern Britain in Comparative Perspective 4–6 September 2016
St Catherine’s College Oxford: Advanced Studies Seminar: The Montgomery Ruling: Impacts on Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics 9 November 2016
University of Paderborn: History of Women Philosophers and Scientists 10–14 October 2016
Penn Libraries: The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge: Image-Text-Book 30 September–1 October 2016
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Johns Hopkins University: Call for Participation & Program: The Making of the Humanities V 5–7 October 2016
Coastal Carolina University: CfP: SAHMS Nineteenth Annual Meeting 16–18 March 2017 Deadline 31 October 2016
l’Abbaye de Hambye (près d’Avranches): 15e réunion d’histoire de la santé 10 septembre 2016
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
The Hakluyt Society Blog: Hakluyt@400 Quartercenteneary programme Autumn 2016
University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017
RSA: Call for Submissions: Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Edited Volume)
UCL: The Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1-2 September 2016
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016
University of York: CfP: Workshop: The Medieval Brain 10-11 March 2017
Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
Westminster Quakers Meeting House: Workshop: A Many Sided Crystal: Celebrating Silvanus Phillips Thompson 16 September 2016
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
York Medical Society: CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies 1600–1800 10 November 2016
ICHST 2017 Rio: CfP: XXXVI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission Deadline 25 November 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World
University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17
King’s College London: Workshop: Popularising Palaeontology: Current & Historical Perspectives 14–15 September 2016
Medieval Institute Publications: Call for proposals: History and Cultures of Food 14th–18th Centuries New Series
ICM Leeds 2017: CfP: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West Deadline 9 September 2016
University of Sheffield: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
The Ordered Universe Project: Space and Place: Ordered Universe Symposium Durham University 1-3 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
University of York: International Workshop: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 14-16 September 2016
BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016
Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Gravity Fields Festival 2016: 21–25 September: Tickets are now on sale
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Reproductive politics in France and Britain 5–7 September 2016
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
University of York: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop 14 September 2016
International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 September 2016
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period
University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016
University of Kalamazoo: 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies: Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture 15 September 2016
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open
University of Mainz: Conference: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14–16 September 2016
University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016
The Medical School of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez: 7th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM) & 4th Congress of Fez on the History of Medicine 24–28 October 2016
University of St. Andrews: Conference: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016
Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016
Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
Urbino & Cesena: XIX Summer School in Philosophy of Physics 5-9 September 2016
Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016
Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
Wellcome Collection London: The Physiological Society: Physiology: An Historical Perspective 13 September 2016
Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
ECHOPHYSICS Pöllau Austria: 2nd International Conference on the History of Physics 5–7 September 2016
The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016
Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017
Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016
CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017
American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants
Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries Oxford: Women in Science in the Archives 8 September 2016
University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016
The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016
Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016
HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences
Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016
University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017
IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016
Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques
BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series
Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017
Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016
Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016
HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize
ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016
New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science
UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016
Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016
San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016
Westminster Quaker Meeting House: ‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916) A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his Death 16 September 2016
Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context
The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London
ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016
Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP: “Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives – Translations and Receptions” Deadline 30 August 2016
HPDST: 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars
BSHS: Great Exhibitions Competition 2016
Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016
King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016
Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference
University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »
Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016
Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016
Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017
University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016
Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users
Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
BSHS: Prizes
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016
Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016
University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016
New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016
Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017): CfP: Blood, Food, and Climate: Historical Relationships Between Physiology, Race, Nation-Building, and Colonialism/Globalization
IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016
Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST): Invites submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2017.
Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature
University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016
University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew: Project Officer: Mobile Museum
University of Utrecht: PhD Position: The historical development of animal testing and alternatives to animal testing in the Netherlands (1950–2016)
The Royal Society: Local Heroes: Science in a community near you
Smithsonian Institution: Librarian
Humber: HRS: Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre: Curatorial Assistant
University of London: Long Term Research Fellowships in Cultural and Intellectual History
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Positions and Scholarships
BSHS: Fund the placement of Master’s or PhD students with heritage organisations and museums
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