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 #15
Monday 28 November 2016
EDITORIAL:
With the first Sunday of Advent we have entered the season of Newtomas with the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing a sack full of seasonal histories of science, technology and medicine gathered up by the #histSTM elves in the recesses of the Internet over the last seven days.
It is also the season of books of the year list published by all the leading magazines and newspapers, nowadays mostly on the Internet. For the mass media books means literature with a capitol ‘L’, that is novels, biographies etc. and very little or no science or #histSTM.
As scientist and history of science author Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb) pointed out the two day Guardian book of the year list barely contained a handful of science and history of science books in a list of over three hundred titles.
Whewell’s Gazette doesn’t do a book of the year list but every week in our ‘book review’ and ‘new book’ sections we bring you all that we can find on new #histSTM publications, so if you’re looking for suitable seasonal presents just read your way through a years worth of our book sections and take your pick
Quotes of the week:
“Environmental history is the most boring kind of history. It’s very important, but unbelievably boring” – Zoya Siddiqi (@flouderingbear)
“On the plus side, the country’s gone downhill far faster than I” – Guy Longworth (@GuyLongworth)
“I am NOT a grammar Nazi!
I’m alt-write” – Wilde Thingy (@WildeThingy)
“I am sorry to learn that you have been rather ill. I wonder what your influenza is…Arsenic perhaps might be good” – Henry 1898 (@KewDC)
“Dear academic publishers, If you want me to use/buy ebooks, please stop it with the use of endnotes, unless they’re hyperlinked. Ta muchly” – Rebekkah Higgitt (@beckyfh)
Conversation in an Asian market, described in 1603 – Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx)
“My dad had a portable movie camera which he had to carry around with him everywhere. It was a cine qua non” – Charles Fernyhough (@cfernyhough)
“Charles-François Dufay (1698-1739) reported that if you rubbed a dead cat it would ‘sparkle’ but would not produce any light” – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)
“As a student of history, I feel it’s important to impart a piece of information I learned in the course of my studies:
The Nazis were bad” – Sir Michael (@Michael1979)
UK Immigration official: “Reason for visit?”
Me: “Richard Hakluyt, he died 400 years ago.”
UK Immigration: “Thank you for telling me that.” – Joyce E. Chaplin (@JoyceChaplin1)
“The binomial for the northern giraffe is Giraffa camelopardalis – giraffe camel leopard. More evidence that Linnaeus was a jerk” – Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford)
Birthday of the Week:
Henry Moseley born 23 November 1887
Henry G. J. Moseley in the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford (1910).
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Henry Moseley
Carl Benz born 25 November 1844
Carl Benz 25 years old (1869)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Henry Ford: Karl Benz and Family with Benz Automobiles, circa 1896
Deutches Museum: Der Motorwagen von Carl Benz
Norbert Wiener born 26 November 1894
Wired: Nov. 26, 1894: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener Born
Dazed: How Norbert Wiener invented cybernetics and Brian Eno
Anders Celsius Born 27 November 1701
Anders Celsius
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Anders Celsius and the Celsius Scale of Temperature
sealevelrise: The Seal Rock
Youtube: Anders Celsius
24 November in 1639, Jeremiah Horrocks recorded the 1st observation of the transit of Venus. Pic from Hevelius’ ‘Mercurius in Sole…’ 1662
The Renaissance Mathematicus: An important anniversary in the history of science
Sky & Telescope: Transits of Venus in History 1631–1716
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Wonderful illustration of the 1925 total solar eclipse – @AmericanEclipse
The National Interest: The Sad Story of Russia’s Space Shuttle Program
NASA: Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Engineer, Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Verge: Apollo software engineer Margaret Hamilton receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
C–NET: White House honors two of tech’s female pioneers
Hamilton standing next to the navigation software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo project.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Catholic Astronomer: Copernicus and the “High Seas” (i)
svengrahn.pp.se: More pictures from the XI International Astronomical Congress in Stockholm, August 1960
BSHS: CERN and the History of Science
ESA: 24 November
TANK Magazine: Hyperbolas in the sun
Vrihat Samrat Yantra is the world’s largest gnomon sundial. It measures time in intervals of two seconds using shadows cast from the sun.
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A Herschel comes seldom alone
APS: November 27, 1783: John Michell anticipates black holes
Torontoist: Historicist: The Noiseless Revolution
SpaceWatchtower: 155th Anniversary of Allegheny Observatory: The Very 1st Director
arXiv: The Coriolis Effect Further Described in the Seventeenth Century
The National Museum of American History: Rowland Solar Spectrum
AHF: Vannevar Bush
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Canadian Mysteries: The Franklin Mystery – Life & Death in the Artic
History Today: The First Global Empire
British Library: Maps and views blog: 20th Century Paanoramaniac
![Heinrich Berann, [Jungfraubahn mountain railroad, Switzerland], 1939. British Library Maps 1060.(4.).](https://whewellsghost.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/6a00d8341c464853ef01bb0955f968970d-800wi.jpg)
Heinrich Berann, [Jungfraubahn mountain railroad, Switzerland], 1939. British Library Maps 1060.(4.).
A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: Captain Cook Sights Maui
Yovisto: Georg Forster – Naturalist and Revolutionary
adn.com: Thawing Arctic ice reveals new clues in mystery of the lost ships Terror and Erebus
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Le Monde: La mort de Jackie Pigeaud, philologue
Thomas Morris: A window in his chest
Atlas Obscura: Feteke Sas Patikamúzeum (Black Eagle Pharmacy Museum)
Spitalfield’s Life: Thomas Newington’s Recipes
Eastern Daily Press: How East Anglia is revealing the inside story of the Black Death
RCPI Heritage Centre Blog: Mary Ward; naturalist, microscopist and first road traffic accident victim
Mary Ward
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Recipes Project: Tales from the Archives: Green Sickness, Red Plants
Thomas Morris: The exploding scrotum
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Macewen Sir William 1884 1924 surgeon
Hagströmerbiblioteket: Alperi, Propero (Alpino, 1553–1617) & Bondt [Bontius], Jacob de (1591–1631)
facebook: Cards and Canvas: The Old Operating Theatre Museum
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: A history of aviation medicine
Early Modern Medicine: Medical Materials
V0040054 A man wearing a skull cap and holding another cap in his han
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
The Recipes Project: Tracing Recipes to Kill Vermin
Georgian Papers Programme: Medicine and the Georgian Navy
Darin Hayton: Patients at the Friends’ Asylum, 1817–1833
Thomas Morris: Pregnant with a toothbrush
Museum Boerhaave: Verloskundige oefenpop
John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog: Radium and Radiotherapy in Neurological Cases
Royal College of Physicians: ‘Delineated as large as the life’: William Cheselden’s atlas of the bones
Illustrations of a male human skeleton and the skull of a male tiger in Osteographia, or The anatomy of the bones. William Cheselden, published London, 1733
The New York Times: A Breakthrough in C-Section History: Beatrice of Bourbon’s Survival in 1337
Academia: Monica H. Green: Bibliography of Caesarean Sections in the Middle Ages
Yovisto: Nobel Laureate Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Thomas Morris: Reeking from the jaw of the living animal
Active History: Before Mifegymiso: A History of Rural Women’s Access to Abortion
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Today in Ladybird 21 Nov 1783 Montgolfier balloon rises 3000 feet with 2 passengers and travels 5 and a half miles
Confusions and Connections: When programming was physical: Interactive 1950’s computer programming reconstruction from Germany wins 2016 Tony Sales Award
BBC News: Early computer rebuild wins conservation award
ZD Net: Inside the project to rebuild the EDSAC, the world’s first general purpose computer
TechRepublic: Meet the iPhone’s 30-ton ancestor: Inside the project to rebuild on of the first computers
The original Eniac.
Smithsonian.com: One Hundred Years Ago, the Titanic’s Sister Ship Exploded While Transporting Injured WWI Soldiers
Medieval Warfare: How to Besiege a Castle
distillatio: Testing modern pewter for lead
Ptak Science Books: Selling Never-Flown Planes U.S. Navy Aircraft, 1920
permalink.lanl.gov: Metropolis, Monte Carlo, and the MANIAC
Conciatore: Yellow Glass
The Guardian: Dead zeppelins: Brazilian gravesite is airships’ stairway to heaven
The giant zeppelin Hindenburg, pictured in Lakehurst, New Jersey, was so big that its tail stuck out of the hanger built for it in Santa Cruz, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
JSTOR Daily: A Black Sea Shipwreck Trove
Thomas Morris: An exercise in futility
Wired: Codebreakers will return to Bletchley Park in 2018 (and you can get involved)
British Library: Medieval Manuscripts blog: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Supermonk
Haaretz: Divers uncover world’s oldest habor, in Red Sea
CHF: Distillations: The Frontiersman: In Silicon Valley’s renegade days, a hardheaded Texan chased dreams of a flying car
You know antique microscopes are undervalued when…. James Hyslop (@astrolabe)
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Ri Science: Humphry Davy’s landscape sketches
Ri Science: Humphry Davy animal sketches
Science & Religion: Exploring the Spectrum: Henry Neville Hutchinson: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and Faith
Warwick: GHCC: Deserts and the Modern World
TrowelBlazers: Raising Horizons: Fire and Ice
TrowelBlazers: Raising Horizons: Bedrocks of Equality
TrowelBlazers: Raising Horizons: All Creatures Great and Small
TrowelBlazers: Raising Horizons: Multimedia Mavens
Jacquetta Hawkes, likely shown here at the excavation of Harristown Passage Tomb, County Waterford, Ireland, which she directed in 1939. Photographer unknown. Many thanks to Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, home to the Jacquetta Hawkes Archive, for supplying this photo. She also runs the blog Celebrating Jacquetta Hawkes.
The Conversation: Fossil footprints give glimpse of how ancient climate change drove the rise of reptiles
International Business Times: Single-toothed sea monsters haunted imaginations of inland Maya people
Yukon News: Constant gardeners: The early days of Yukon agriculture
Forbes: Rising From the Ashes – The Colonization od a Volcano’s Ground by Plants
Business Insider UK: Newly unearthed Mammoth remains could help reveal when humans first arrived in the Americas
Marine Lives: c17th Artic Whaling
Sacred Wonderland: White privilege in the national parks: remaking parks as inclusive spaces
CHEMISTRY:
Recipe for gunpowder Vollenkommene Unterweisung/ (1660) h/t @nathan
CHF: Distillations: The Flavor of Smog
Yovisto: Charles-Adolphe Wurtz and the Atomic Theory
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
Yovisto: Lars Onsager and Irreversible Chemical Processes
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
BSHS: Engagement Fellowships Hosts Announced
BSHS: BJHS Preview: Issue 4, 2016
38 Degrees: Save 7 Bruce Grove, Tottenham (one time home of Luke Howard)
Metascience: Volume 25, Issue 3 Table of Contents
Silicon Republic: The role of science journalism in an age of denial
AEON: Arabic translators did far more than just preserve Greek philosophy
Socrates and his Students, illustration from ‘Kitab Mukhtar al-Hikam wa-Mahasin al-Kilam’ by Al-Mubashir, Turkish School, (13th c) Photo by Bridgeman
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Archive Catalogue
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada- Vol. 53, No 2 (2015): Medical Examinations: Book History at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine Table of Contents
ESOTERIC:
Othmeralia: What does it all mean?
From Georg von Welling’s (1652-1727) Opus mago-cabbalisticum et theosophicum, Saltzburgh, 1729.
CHF: Distillations: The Language of Alchemy
BOOK REVIEWS:
U of T News: The complicated history of zoos: U of T’s Dan Bender
The Dispersal of Darwin: Burn: Michael Faraday’s Candle
The Dispersal of Darwin: Evolutionary Tales
The Dispersal of Darwin: Do Elephants Have Knees? And Other Stories of Darwinian Origin
Popular Science: The Realization of Star Trek Technologies
Popular Science: Four Way Interview – Tom Cabot
Huenmanniac: The Problem of Disenchantment
Nature: Women who read the stars
Standpoint: How The West Invented Itself
Notches: The Way Out: Sebastian Buckle on Homosexuality in Modern Britain
The New York Review of Books: The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb
Werner and Elisabeth Heisenberg, Göttingen, Germany, circa 1946
Popular Science: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science – Nancy Cooke & Margaret Hilton (Eds.)
The New York Times: The AIDS Fight: Andrew Sullivan on a History of the Movement
The Guardian: Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton review – portrait of an author ahead of her time
The Wall Street Journal: Step Into the Madhouse
Popular Science: Astrophotography – Rhodri Evans
The New York Times: Steven Johnson on How Play Shaped the World
brainpickings: How the Nobel Prize Was Born: A Surprising Story of Bad Journalism, Existential Guilt, and Dynamite
NEW BOOKS:
NICHE: Introducing “Border Flows”
NICHE: Introducing “Moving Natures”
CUP: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600
University of Pittsburgh Press: The Imagined Empire
Historiens de la santé: Les tables d’opération. De l’Antiquité à nos jours
NICHE: All posts in Canadian History & Environment book series
Historiens de la santé: Les rebouteux du Morbihan en 1900
Faith and Wisdom in Science: Let There Be Science! – a guest-blog from its first author
Historiens de la santé: Naissance et évolution des électrocardiographes de 1900 à nos jours
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Hagley Museum: Driving Desire: Automobile Advertising and the American Dream Through March 2017
The Public Domain Review: Rainbows in Art
Plate LXVI from Johann Jakob Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra (1731)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The H-Word: Three free exhibitions for history of science enthusiasts
Florence Nightingale Museum: And we’re off!… ‘The Age of the Beard launch party
Enfilade: Exhibition – Robert Adams’ London 30 November 2016–11 March 2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: William Hodges and Captain Cook
Florence Nightingale Museum: The Age of the Beard: Putting on a Brave Face in Victorian Britain 18 November 2016–30 April 2017
Natural History Museum: Dippy the Dinosaur’s UK tour venues announced
The 26-metre Diplodocus skeleton is a museum icon and has been on display for more than 100 years. Found in Wyoming, USA.
BBC News: Dippy dinosaur’s national tour stops announced
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity October 19 2016–April 23 2017
Ashmolean Museum: Power and Protection 20 October 2016–15 January 2017
Princeton University Art Museum: Transcient Effects
Eleanor Cook: An Art Students Experience of an Anatomy Dissection Room
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
Teylers Museum: Bloemenpracht 25 July 2016–08 January 2017
H.J. Elwes, A monograph of the genus Lilium, z.p., 1880
British Library: Maps of the 20th Century: Drawing the Line 4 November 2016–1 March 2017
Causway Coast Community: County Antrim adventurer’s royal maps will graphically outline history
Bradbury Science Museum: Fifty years of nuclear safeguards
Cambridge Digital Library: Browse our collections: Curious Objects
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
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
CLOSING SOON: University of Kent: Studio 3 Gallery: Curio: Sites of Wonder 30 September–2 December 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
Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
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
Université de Lausanne: Musée de physique de Lausanne : brève visite virtuelle
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990
The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
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
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
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
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
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
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
Science Museum: Robots
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Science Museum: Making the Modern World
Science Museum: Flight
Science Museum: Exploring Space
Science Museum: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
CLOSING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 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
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
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
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–1 May 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017
National Maritime Museum: Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity 3 November 2016–17 April 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–21 May 2017
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The Independent: The Story of a Woman Who Changed the Course of Astronomy
Perisphere Theater: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 30 November–11 December 2016
Perisphere Salon: Spotlight on Copenhagen 4 December 2016
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
Mercury Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde 18–28 January 2017
Stockport Garrick Theatre: Copenhagenn 11–14 January 2017
Theatre Royal, York: Frankenstein 3-26 November 2016
EVENTS:
Events at Central Library Manchester: Healing Histories – An Exhibition of Medical Marvels 12 December 2016
King’s Manor Refectory, York: York Science Trail – Open meeting 5 December 2016
King’s College London: History and the Internet 1 December 2016
Paderborn University: Round-table: Émilie du Châtelet – 310 Anniversary 13 December 2016
The Florence Nightingale Museum: Talk: The Hirsute History of Facial Hair 30 November 2016
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
University of Greenwich: Seminar: Royal Naval Hydrography and Marine Surveying, 1830–50
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh 7 December 2016
Truman State University: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
The Linnean Society: Lecture: Founder’s Day – The Invention of Nature 2 December 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
University of Manchester: Events at Central Library: Healing Histories – An Exhibition of Medical Marvels 12 December 2016
V&A: The Gilbert Lecture 2016: Paula Findlen 30 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
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Gendering Artificial Anatomies: Practices and Materials 8 March 2017
Wellcome Collection: Glimpses of life inside the asylum 7 December 2016
Museum of the History of Science: Back from the Dead: Curator Tour 30 November 2016
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Johannes Vermeer: The Geographer
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
historywm.com: James Watt: A product of the ‘first century of modernity’
Youtube: McGill University: Wallace’s century-old global map of animals updated
mental_floss: Watch How Libraries Were Organized in 1951 (Card Catalogs)
Youtube: Paul Halpern: Einstein’s Miracle Year: The Road to Relativity
Youtube: WWII Carter Air Raid Siren
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 3: 15 excellent facts we’ve learned about beards
BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking: Nine reasons Victorians thought men were better with beards
Little Atoms: Podcast 443 – Adam Rutherford’s Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
supchina: Books, podcasts and the history of science in China with Carla Nappi
History of Philosophy without any gaps: The Young Ones: Encounters with European Thought
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: The Day the Earth Stopped Standing Still
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable: Medicine, Public Health and Healthcare 23–24 June 2017
British Library: Eccles Centre for American Studies: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017
University of Oslo: Translations in Antiquity, Translating Antiquity: methods and practices 1–2 December 2016
Manchester Conference Centre: CfP: Genealogies of Knowledge I: Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 15 February 2017
University of Chicago: Marine Biological Laboratory: Seminar: A Century of Engineering Life: Cells and Organisms 17–24 May 2017
Faculté des lettres et Sciences Humaines, Limoges: Colloque: Contestations, résistances et négociations environnementales à l’échelle locale dans les sociétés industrialisées. XIXe-XXIe siècle 08 et 09 décembre 2016
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of York: Medical History William Bynum Essay Prize Deadline 1 January 2017
Society for the Social Studies of Science: Propose an Open Panel for the 2017 4S Meeting Submission deadline: January 1, 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription? 2–3 December 2016
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
Faculté des lettres et Sciences Humaines, Limoges: Colloque: Contestations, résistances et négociations environnementales à l’échelle locale dans les sociétés industrialisées. XIXe-XXIe siècle 08 et 09 décembre 2016
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of York: Medical History William Bynum Essay Prize Deadline 1 January 2017
Society for the Social Studies of Science: Propose an Open Panel for the 2017 4S Meeting Submission deadline: January 1, 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription? 2–3 December 2016
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Oxford: TORCH: CfP: Symposium: Doctor-Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor Patient Relationship 24 March 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016 Deadline 17 March 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
British Library: What’s on: Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line – Workshops 14 November 2016–1 March 2017
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
Università Delgi Studi di Udine: EmoBookTrade: Kick-off Conference 30 November 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
CHF: Oral History Training Institute 2017 9-13 January
University of Leeds: The Past, Present and Future of Integrated HPS: An International Postgraduate Forum 13-14 January 2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Durham University: Conference: CfP: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘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
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
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
Indianna University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
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 2017Science 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
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
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Autumn 2016
Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 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
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
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
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’ 12–14 July 2017
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
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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
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
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
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
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
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
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)
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
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017
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
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
Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 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 Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
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
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
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
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
ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016
Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
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)
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
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:
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
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Oxford: TORCH: CfP: Symposium: Doctor-Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor Patient Relationship 24 March 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016 Deadline 17 March 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
British Library: What’s on: Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line – Workshops 14 November 2016–1 March 2017
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
CHF: Oral History Training Institute 2017 9-13 January
University of Leeds: The Past, Present and Future of Integrated HPS: An International Postgraduate Forum 13-14 January 2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Durham University: Conference: CfP: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘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
BSHS: Dingle Prize 2017: The British Society for the History of Science invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
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
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 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
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
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
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Autumn 2016
Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 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
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
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
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’ 12–14 July 2017
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
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
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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
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
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
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
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
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
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
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)
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
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
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
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
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
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
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:
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:
Durham University – Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Library Fellowships
Wellcome: Web Editor, Wellcome Collection
Linda Hall Library: Fellowships
Aalto University: Postdoctoral Researcher in Science and Technology Studies
The Genentech Center for the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library & Archives: The Sydney Brenner Research Scholarship
Yale: Lecturer in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health
Whewell's Ghost 
Enjoyed reading this issue, very impressed with all of the articles gathered here. I feel privileged to have my little piece on White Privilege in the National Parks included. Thanks. Tom Bremer, Sacred Wonderland blog.