Whewell’s Gazette
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Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #11
Monday 31 October 2016
EDITORIAL:
October closes out and November the season mists and mellow fruitfulness slips into its place bringing with it the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list containing within it all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could scare up from the four corners of the Internet over the last seven days.
A couple of days ago the following tweet made the rounds on Twitter:
No women ever invented an atomic bomb, built a smoke stack, initiated a Holocaust, melted the polar ice caps or organized a school shooting – Michael Moore (@MMFlint)
And yes it is that Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker, Cannes Film Festival prize winner and self appointed left wing conscience of the US. Now you might well ask why we are featuring this tweet in our editorial this week. The answer to this question is very simple and is provided by one of the editorial principles of Whewell’s Gazette.
There are an increasing number of historians, sadly nearly all female (come on men get in on the act), who have dedicated themselves to increasing the profile of the role that women have played in the histories of STEM and continue to play in its present and future. Whewell’s Gazette has always supported these endeavours and so long as we exist will continue to do so. So what has this got to do with Michael Moore’s tweet?
In the real world little girls are not made of sugar and spice and all things nice and the women that they grow up into aren’t either. Women like men are capable of doing much that is good but also equally capable of much that is evil. Implying that no woman was involved in the bad things in this world Michael Moore is not doing them a favour but reducing them to some sort of half human fable creatures.
Two of the leading female physicists of the twentieth century, Marie Curie and Lise Meitner, both did work that was essential to the development of the atomic bomb and numerous women worked on the Manhattan Project, not only as secretaries but also as engineers and scientists. In civil engineering there have been and continue to be many female architects and engineers and I’m certain that more than one of them has built a smoke stack. Although I can’t name a women who initiated a Holocaust many of the SS guards in the Nazi concentration camps were women and let us never forget Lynndie England notorious torturer of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. There are also female executives running major fossil fuel companies, which contribute to the melting of the ice caps. On his last point I recommend that Mr Moore listens to the Boom Town Rats biggest hit, and the song that made them a world wide phenomenon, I Don’t Like Mondays, the true story Brenda Anne Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, US on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. (Info from Wikipedia)
Whilst it is true that more men tend to be involved in the production of evil in this world it is a mistake to pretend that women are some sort of innocent angels incapable of such things. If we truly want equality for women, and here at Whewell’s Gazette we do, then we have to accept and acknowledge both the good and the bad.
Bailey Poland: Michael Moore’s Angel in the Tweets
Quotes of the week:
“The whole point of a telephone booth was not the provide privacy but to shield us from your bullshit phone conversations” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“Brexit walks into a bar. The barman says “why the long farce?”” – Robin Flavell (@RobinFlavell)
‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.’ – Mark Twain h/t @DannyDutch
“Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself” – Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) h/t @yovisto
“We are, each of us, products of about 10,000 fruitful coital relations, some dignified, some not, that go back to the dawn of humanity” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“People are excited about the new iPhone but no one has caught up with the awesome technology of using their blinker when they drive” – Senoté (@_senoté)
“If we are living in a simulation, the designers are not paying the writers enough” – Patrick LaForge (@palafo)
“Just seen a tribute to Edwin van der Sar, who apparently has “the most Dutch caps”. Perhaps “most caps for Netherlands” would’ve been better” – Kate Partridge ((@KatePartridge33)
“The last thing this year needed was an extra hour” – John Grindrod (@Grindrod)
“There are no foreigners, only people. The sooner we accept that the sooner we can get on with being human” – Peter Coles (@telescoper)
Birthday of the Week:
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek born 24 October 1632
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 1st to see microbes. Born OTD? Maybe. We know baptism was 4 Nov.1632 – Laura J. Snyder (@LauraJSnyder)
Google Doodles Archive: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek’s 384th Birthday
Independent: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 384th birthday: ‘Father of microbiology’ celebrated with Google Doodle
archive.org: The selected works of Antony van Leeuwenhoek: containing his microscopical discoveries in many of the works of nature
History of the Microscope: Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Laura J. Snyder: Eye of the Beholder
New York City Library: Laura J. Snyder: Eye of the Beholder
JSTOR Daily: Who Was Antony van Leeuwenhoek?
Youtube: BBC Documentary – The Cell 1 of 3 The Hidden Kingdom
A portrait of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) by Jan Verkolje
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
CHF: Distillations: Bug Hunters
Why Evolution Is True: Google celebrates Antonii van Leeuwenhoek
ucmp.berkeley.edu: Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)
Philosophical Transactions: An Abstract of a Letter from Mr. Anthony Leewenhoeck at Delft, Dated Sep. 17. 1683. Containing Some Microscopical Observations, about Animals in the Scurf of the Teeth, the Substance Call’d Worms in the Nose, the Cuticula Consisting of Scales
Othniel Marsh born 29 October 1831
Othniel Charles Marsh
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History: The O.C. Marsh Story
Linda Hall Library: Paper Dinosaurs 1824–1969
Illustration of Stegosaurus ungulates for U.S: Geological Survey by O.C. Marsh
Source: Wikimedia Commons
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
ESA: Space Science: 24 October 1851
RINPR: Brown University’s Ladd Observatory Celebrates 125 Years Studying The Stars
Postcard of Ladd Observatory
AHF: German Atomic Bomb Project
Atlas Obscura: The Exquisite Drawings from the First Map of the Entire Sky
AHF: William “Willy” Higinbotham
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Marvin Wilkening’s Interview (1995)
Quanta for Breakfast: Emmy’s beautiful mathematics
Popular Mechanics: Two Satellites Have Spent 10 Years Staring at the Sun
Motherboard: Seventy Years Ago, Humans Saw Earth from Space for the First Time
First photo of Earth from space, taken October 24, 1946. Image: US Army/White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory
Yovisto: The Peltier Effect
Physics Today: Imagining Humans on Mars
ESA: Space Science: 28 October 1971
Yovisto: Hipparchus of Nicaea and the Precession of the Equinoxes
University of Cambridge: Photographs of instruments and stations (RGO 6/276)
AHF: Hydrogen Bomb – 1950
AHF: Tsar Bomba
Tsar Bomba
Source: Wikimedia Commons
De Gids: De Hand Van Galilei
APS: The Sad Story of Heisenberg’s Doctoral Oral Exam
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
USGS: The National Map: Historical Topological Map Collection
Sotherby’s: Maps – The Islamic World
Museen der Stadt Nürnberg: Wohin des Weges? Nürnberg war ein Zentrum der Kartographie
Johann Baptist Homann: Europäische Flußkarte, um 1710 (Reproduktion).
The Public Domain Review: Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel
The Spectator: Maps are as much about art – and lies – as science
Map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, by Heinrich Berann, for National Geographic Magazine, June 1968. Photo: National Geographic
Independent: Back on the map: Why paper sometimes isn’t enough to help you find your way
British Library: Maps and views blog: Magnificent Maps that didn’t make the exhibition #2: The Red-Lined Map
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
The Lancet: Histories of medical lobbying
CBS News: Almanac: Birth of plastic surgery
Hand-colored engravings from Joseph Constantine Carpue’s treatise, published in 1816, on the first example in Western medicine of nasal reconstruction surgery. WELLCOME LIBRARY, LONDON
Thomas Morris: A hopeless case
Remedia: The Scale of Blood
AHA: Perspectives on History: Silence = Death: It’s Time to Teach AIDS History
Yovisto: Marian Koshland and Effects of Different Compositions of Amino Acids
Thomas Morris: Incorrigible
Early Modern Medicine: Dead Useful II: operating on the dead
L0029916 Francois Tolet, Lithotomy operation.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
Nursing Clio: Are Women Human? A Historical Mystery with Medical Interruptions
Pink News: Butt plugs used to be sold as a ‘miracle cure’ for headaches and acne
xsierrav.blogspot.de: Prótesis y sentido del tacto
Atlas Obscura: The Inept Story Behind 100 Missing Brains at the University of Texas
The Washington Post: Mythology of ‘Patient Zero’ and how AIDS virus travelled to the United States is all wrong
Old Operating Theatre: Dr. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, a.k.a. “Mummy Pettigrew”: A Short Biography
Dr. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
ODNB: Sir (William) Richard Shaboe Doll (1912–2005)
The Quack Doctor: Victorian asthma cigarettes: who was Dr Batty?
Smithsonian.com: Healers Once Prescribed Chocolate Like Aspirin
PNAS: Climatic and evolutionary drivers of phase shifts in the plague epidemics of colonial India
Thomas Morris: A leech in the throat
Blood Bones and Bodies: Monthly Medicine: The History of The Bubonic Plague
Atlas Obscura: The Horrifying Legacy of the Victorian Tapeworm Diet
The Quack Doctor: ‘Eat! Eat! Eat!’ Those notorious tapeworm diet pills
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Conciatore: Neri and the Inquisition
Conciatore: Galileo and Glass
Age of Revolutions: The Promise of American Repeating Weapons, 1791–1821
The Telegraph: ‘Lost’ AA Milne poem hailing WWI invention of the tank is discovered
History and Philosophy of Computing – Middlesex University: LEO Computers
Leo I (with Wally Dutton) 21/01/1953. Source: Leo Computers Society
AHF: Jumbo
Yovisto: Jean-Rondolphe Perronet and the Bridges of Paris
Twitter: Marcin Wichary visits Museu de la Tècnica
This portable typewriter has been used in the field during World War I – Marcin Wichary (@mwichary)
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Quartz: A 1912 news article ominously forecasted the catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on climate change
Annals of Science: The platypus in Edinburgh: Robert Jameson, Robert Knox and the place of the Ornithorhynchus in nature, 1821–24
Notches: American Child Brides and the Dangers of Underage Sex
Atlas Obscura: What’s a Woggin? A Bird, a Word, and a Linguistic Mystery
A woodcut illustration of whalers in the 1500s, surrounded by all sorts of strange creatures. COSMOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE/PUBLIC DOMAIN
Yovisto: Vasily Dokuchaev and Soil Science
TrowelBlazers: Raising Horizons: Unearthing Identity
AEON: Give natural history museums back to the grown-ups
Making Science Public: CRISPR and genome editing: Real and imagined
Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society: Johannes Swammerdam’s Scientific Images (I)
Drawing by Johannes Swammerdam, Royal Society Archives LBO/6/58 © Royal Society
Forbes: A Brief History of Darwin Bashing
Laelaps: Paleo Profile: North America’s Pangolin
CHEMISTRY:
Chromatography – a matter of perspective – h/t @ChemScrapes
Yovisto: Adolf von Baeyer and the Color Blue
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
The Royal Society: Open Access Week – read all their journal content free until 6 November 2016
Science & Religion: Exploring the Spectrum: Old Categories, New Territories, and Future Directions: A Response to Bernard Lightman
Universität Paderborn: Erstes internationales Center „History of Women Philosophers and Scientists“ eröffnet – NRW fördert das Projekt mit 1,3 Millionen Euro
History of Women Philosophers and Scientists: Web Site
The Recipes Project: The Heroine of the Cookbook Story
MEDHUMLAB: Five Questions for…Ana Carden-Coyne
Wellcome Library: Completing the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
‘On the Respiratory Functions of the Nose : and their relation to certain pathological conditions’ by Greville Macdonald. Published 1889.
The Recipes Project: UK Medical Heritage Library
storify: UK Medical Heritage Library symposium
IDTC: IUHPS: HPS&ST Notes for October 2016
Wired: The best Google Doodles celebrating tech, science and culture
BSHS: BJHS Preview: Issue 3, 2016
Fossil History: Time Travelling in London
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: New Manuscripts Acquisition Highlights
Niche: #EnvHist Daily I
Niche: #EnvHist Daily II
AHA: Perspectives on History: Book History: A Perspective Quick Study
Commemorating 400 years of printing, this 1877 image from The Graphic portrays 15th-century printer William Caxton showing samples to the royal family. Wikimedia Commons
The Washington Post: Why the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen in China
Victorian Network: Volume 7, Number 1 (Summer 2016) Victorian Brain
ESOTERIC:
The New Yorker: Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood that Probably Didn’t Exist
BOOK REVIEWS:
Nature: Biomechanics: The wonders of whirl
Somatosphere: Sonya E. Pritzker’s Living Translation: Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine
My Statesman: ‘The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter’ looks into the sky and the human heart
Somatosphere: Book Forum: Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living: Food, Fat and the Absorption of Illness in India
Popular Science: I Contain Multitudes
Antoine Online: The Invention of Science
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict 1914-45
Historiens de la santé: Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After
Texas A&M Press: Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
ART & EXHIBITIONS
The Spectator: Muslim magic – Islam has always dabbled in the occult
Iranian celestial globe (1362-63), brass inlaid with silver
British Library: Maps of the 20th Century: Drawing the Line 4 November 2016–1 March 2017
Leek Post & Times: Mary A Blagg the Cheadle Astronomer honoured at Cheadle Discovery Centre exhibition
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
BBC News: William Heath Robinson museum set to open
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
British Library: What’s on: Maps and the 20 th Century: Drawing the Line 4 November 2016–1 March 2017
Dr Alum Withey: Announcing… ‘The Age of the Beard’
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
University of Kent: Studio 3 Gallery: Curio: Sites of Wonder 30 September–2 December 2016
Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Alchemy of Words: Abraham Abulafia, DADA, Lettrism 16 June–5 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
The Straits Times: M.C.Escher’s optical illusion art at ArtScience Museum
University of Bangor: The Art of Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms from the Abyss
The Foundling Museum: Feeding the 400 23 September 2016–08 January 2017
The Getty Research Institute: The Art of Alchemy 11 October 2016–12 February 2017
Alchemists Revealing Secrets from the Book of Seven Seals, The Ripley Scroll (detail), ca. 1700. 950053
Osher Map Museum: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities 29 September 2016–11 March 2017
The Huntingdon: Gardens, Art, & Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints 17 September 2016–9 January 2017
British Library: Maps and views blog: Map exhibition – the countdown begins
Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Harvard University: The Art of Discovery 13 September– 29 October 2016
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography 4 October 2016–15 January 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
Yale News: Yale marks 175th anniversary of Arabic and Sanskrit studies with exhibit, public events
Hyperallergic: The Morgan Marks the Centennial of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
Université de Lausanne: Musée de physique de Lausanne : brève visite virtuelle
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
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
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
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 College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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
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
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
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
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
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
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
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
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
COMING SOON: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea: Royal Collection: Leonardo da Vinci 14 October 2016–6 January 2017
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–2 July 2017
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–1 May 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The Royal Insitution: Resurrecting the Braggs: The newly digitised Bragg Film Archive
The New York Times: A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock
Aldeburgh Cinema: I am Ali Wallace 6 November 2016
IMBd: The Current War in Pre-production
Variety: The Current War
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: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
COMING SOON: The Watermill Theatre: Frankenstein 31 October–4 November 2016
COMING SOON: Milton Rooms: Dr Faustus 10-11 November
COMING SOON: Young Everyman Playhouse: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
Omnibus: The Trials of Galileo 3 November 2016
New Theatre Royal: Frankenstein
http://www.newtheatreroyal.com/performances/frankenstein/
Marlowe Theatre: Dr Faustus 4 November 2016
The Watermill Theatre: Frankenstein 31 October–4 November 2016
Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
EVENTS:
Soho House Birmingham: Talk: Lunatick Astronomy 17 November 2016
University of Leicester: Science and the Victorian Public 18 November 2016
Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions: ‘Doleful Groans & Sad Lookes’: Witnessing Illness in Early Modern England’ Hannah Newton (University of Reading) 9 November 2016
V&A: The Gilbert Lecture 2016: Paula Findlen 30 November 2016
University of Oxford: Hakluyt Society: Lecture: Voyages, Traffiques, Discoveries: Three Stories from the Age of Exploration 25 November 2016
British Library: Panel Discussion: Great Escapes: Mapping War from WW2 to Sarajevo 15 November 2016
University of Leicester: Come and celebrate the launch of three new books by Professors Gowan Dawson and Joanne Shattock, and Dr. Geoffrey Belknap 23 November 2016
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge: H.G: Wells Lunchtime Readings 4, 11, 18, 25 November 2016
The British Museum: The Huxley Memorial Lecture: Mutable Environments and Permeable Human Bodies 11 November 2016
Royal Institution: 13 Journeys through space and time 3 November 2016
Royal Society: Revolutionary science in the age of the guillotine 8 November 2016
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge: Educating the Eyes: Geometrical Models and their Makers, 1860-1890 9 November 2016
Wolfensohn Hall IAS: Lecture: The Institute of Advanced Study: The First Hundred Years 9 November 2016
American Museum of Natural History: The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear 7 November 2016
Manchester Science Festival: Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic images of natural history
Manchester Science Festival: Capturing science: Images past and present
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Ingenuity and Craft Culture in Early Modern London
Whipple Museum, Cambridge: Festival of Ideas: Space Oddities
Whipple Museum, Cambridge: Festival of Ideas: High Seas at the Whipple
The Recipes Project: Announcing… Our 2nd Annual Transcribathon! 9 November 2016
Churchill College Cambridge: Churchill and Nuclear Weapons: From the A-Bomb to the H-Bomb 15 November 2016
University of Bradford: Lecture: A Bradford Community Pharmacy Prescription Book 7 November 2016
Museum for the History of Science, Oxford: Don’t panic! Promises and threats of science and technology 17 November 2016
University of Leicester: Attenborough Arts Centre: Science and the Victorian public 18 November 2016
University of London: Senate House Library and Institute of Historical Research Library: History Day 2016: history libraries, archives & research open day 15 November 2016
Discover Medical London: Our Walks and Tours
Scientific Instrument Society: Turner Memorial Lecture: Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA ‘Of Making Celestial Globes There Seems No End’ Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, London 25 November 2016
The Royal Society of Medicine: Chris Renwick: William Bynum Lecture 2016: Social Biology and Progressive Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 30 November 2016
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££
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
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
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
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”
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
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Electric Generator, Otto Von GuerickeEngraving of the first static electricity generator, designed by German scientist Otto von Guericke (1602-1686)
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Vimeo: TrowelBlazers: Raising Horizons
Youtube: IDFA 2016 – Trailer – Letter from Baghdad
Youtube: SHOT 2016: Opening Plenary by Bruno Latour
Youtube: AHF: Operation Buster-Jangle: Shot Baker
Youtube: Sir Karl Popper’s “Science as Falsification”
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time John Dalton
BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking: Richard Hakluyt…
CHF: Distillations: (Natural) Childbirth
BBC World Service: Outlook: Preserving the smell of history
KALW: Binah: Mary Ellen Hannibal and Edward Albee – Citizen Science…
Science Friday: These Black Women Helped Send Us to the Moon
https://soundcloud.com/user-114554182/british-summertime-why-do-the-clocks-change
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
TURRIANO: ICOHTEC BOOK PRIZE
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
IHPS Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum 13–14 January 2017 Deadline 7 November 2016
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals
BSHS: Dingle Prize 2017: The British Society for the History of Science invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
University of Manchester: CHSTM: Workshop: History of Psychiatry 10 November 2016
University of Manchester: CHSTM: History of Psychiatry Wikipedia Editathon 11 November 2016
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
The Ordered Universe Project: Being Human Festival 2016 Medieval Time Reckoning and the Dating of Easter 18 November 2016 Heaven’s Above! – Interactive Exhibition 19 November 2016
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
University of Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum
Indianna University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
University of Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences: Conference: Leibniz and the Sciences 14–16 November 2016
University of Illinois: Graduate STS workshop: CfP: Interdisciplinary Encounters: Exploring Knowledge-Making Across Boundaries 10–11 March 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription 2–3 December 2016
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin: Conference: Working on Things: On the Social, Political, and Economic History of Collected Objects 2121 November 2016
Hakluyt Society: CfP: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2017
Science Museum: Research Seminar Series Autumn 2016
H-Material-Culture: CfP. Kitchen and Kitchen Gardens in Britain and Europe, 1500–1950
University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 2017
University of Cambridge: Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England 26 November 2016
Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware: CfP: Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture 17–18 November 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
University of Cambridge: Department of History and Philosophy of Science: History of Medicine Seminars Michaelmas Term 2016
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt University, Berlin: Conference: On the epistemic Dimension of Color in the Sciences 17–18 November 2016
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Autumn 2016
Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England 25 November 2016
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
University of Toronto: CfP: CSHPS–SCHPS Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
BSHS: CfP: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 5–7 April 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016
University of Pittsburgh: Speakers series in the Philosophy of Science and Descartes Day October 15 2016
Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference: Programme: 11–12 November 2016
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI): The Past, Present and Future of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies 29 November 2016
Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities: Conference: Philosophy and History of Open Science 30 November–1 December 2016
St Anne’s College, Oxford: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016
UCL: STS: Work in Progress Seminars
SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation
University of Exeter: EPSA 17: CfP: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 6-9 September 2017 Deadline 5 January 2017
Museums ETC Magazine: CfP: Feminism and Museums Deadline 21 November 2016
University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016
‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Museo de América, Madrid: Symposium: CfP: Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge 5–7 April 2017
The Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA: Ronin Institute Unconference: The Future of Careers in Scholarship 5 November 2016
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 1st Barcelona HPS Workshop: Scientific Misconduct and Scientific Expertise 11 November 2016
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
BSHS: The BSHS invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
Edinburgh Napier University: American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Lecture: ‘What, if anything, makes knowledge an improvement over information?’ 30 November 2016
University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017
edX: University of Newcastle Australia: Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
BSHS: Conference: A History of the Moon St Cross College, Oxford 19 November 2016
Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference 11–12 November 2016
Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library: Symposium: CfP: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017 Deadline 27 November 2016
University of Manchester: CHSTM Seminars Autumn/Winter 2016
University of St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2017
Wellcome Library: History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2016–17
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
HSS: THATCAmpHSS 2016 in Atlanta 6 November 2016
IHR: Library Exhibition Curation Competition (ECR)
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Oxford Brookes University: Conference: Maritime Masculinities 1815–1940 19–20 December 2016
International Map Collectors’ Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium: ‘Private Map Collecting and Public Map Collections in the United States’ Chicago 24–29 October 2016
University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017
Journal of Science Communication: CfP: Special Issue: History of Science Communication Deadline 12 December 2016
University of Cambridge, CRASSH: Workshop: Epistemic Images in Early Modern Germany and its Neighbours 10–11 November 2016
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
The Linnean Society: What should be in your Digital Toolbox?
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Fall 2016
BSHS: The Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
University of Swansea: CfP: Conference: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
Rice University, Houston: CfP: Southern Forum on Agriculture, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) 10–11 February 2017 Deadline 1 November 2016
Georgetown University, Washington: Conference: Humanity and Other Forms of Life: Environmental Histories of the World 5 November 2016
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
Penn Museum: Philadelphia: Animals in the Archives Symposium 27-28 October 2016
IEEE: International Early Engines Conference: Papers: May 2017
Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017
National University: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place: CfP: “Nightmare Spaces/Uncanny Places” 28–30 April 2017 Deadline 8 February 2017
Palgrave MacMillan: Call for chapter contributors: Scientific Studies of Dreams in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
University of York: CfP: The Medieval Brain 10–11 March 2017
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain): CfP: Workshop: Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Agonising Object in Physics and Culture 30–31 March 2017
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
The Maintainers: CfP: Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Order 6–8 April 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
University of Groningen: CfP: Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017
University of Swansea: CFP: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe: 10th Anniversary Meeting: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
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
St Catherine’s College Oxford: Advanced Studies Seminar: The Montgomery Ruling: Impacts on Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics 9 November 2016
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
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
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
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
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
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
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
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 Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
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
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
Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
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
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
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
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
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context
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
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
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’
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
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 »
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 Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
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 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
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
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
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
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:
University of Maryland: Department of Philosophy New Position Philosophy of Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Call for Applications: A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences, 2017-19
Science Museum Research & Public History Department: A one year maternity leave cover post
Darwin College Cambridge: Call for Applications: Adrian Research Fellowship in The History of Science Technology and Medicine
Linda Hall Library: Fellowships 2017/18
Musings of a Clumsy Palaeontologist: PhD Opportunity – pterosaur launch
University of Strathclyde: Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellowships: To study History of Science, Technology & Innovation:
University of Manchester: Research Associate in the History of Biology and Medicine
University of Kent: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme
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