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 #18
Monday 19 December 2016
EDITORIAL:
Christmas is coming and with it another fat edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing a bargain basement load of the histories of science, technology and medicine gathered up over the last seven days throughout the Internet.
Last week Google brought out a doodle celebrating Roald Amundsen’s arrival at the South Pole.
Google Doodle: 105th Anniversary of First Expedition to Reach the South Pole
Yovisto: Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition
Royal Museums Greenwich: Roald Amundsen: Who was the man who beat Captain Scott to claim the South Pole?
Now the British love a great hero and in particular they love heroes who die heroically whilst failing but maintaining that proverbial stiff upper lip. The list is long and includes such notable episodes as General Gordon senseless defence of Khartoum and the thousands sacrificed to stupidity during the Battle of the Somme.
Growing up in the 1950s and 60s I was regaled with detailed accounts of the heroism of the polar expedition of Robert Falcon Scott, who having arrived at the South Pole five weeks after Amundsen then all died on the march back out. I suspect every Brit of my age can quote the famous last words of Captain Oates, “I am going outside now and maybe sometime” uttered as he left the tent to his certain death. A more perfect example of British stiff upper lip is almost unimaginable.
A bizarre side effect of this strange form of hero worship is that in Britain at that time Amundsen almost didn’t get a look in, at most as the dastardly foreigner who had the cheek to beat Scott to the Pole and then to live to tell the tale. Not the done thing.
Map of the Southern Hemisphere by Guillaume de L’Isle, 1739 – Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo)
All of this brings to my mind the problem of presenting history (of science) as a series of stories about heroes. However it is done it automatically leads to, often serious, distortions, not necessarily as bad as the British version of the Scott Amundsen story of my youth but distortions none the less.
This week threw up two interesting blog post on heroes and historiography. At Extinct: The Philosophy of Palaeontology Blog, Daniel Nolan discusses Historical Sciences and “Great Man” Approaches to History, an interesting essay with much food for thought. On Nautilus, Philip Ball takes the discussion in to the counterfactual, If Not Darwin, Who? He suggests that if historians of science are right in saying that great discoveries would have been made even if heroic scientist discoverer, who is credited with it, had never lived then it would be credited to a different heroic scientist discoverer. Having presented his hypothesis he then asks who is the most likely candidate as substitute heroic scientist discoverer in a series of well-known cases of scientific discovery. He even adds a couple more in a second blog post on his own homunculus blog, More alternative heroes.
The #histSTM and STS communities are saddened today by the loss of Ann Johnson, a fantastic scholar and a fantastic person APS History (@APSHistory)
Cornell University: The College of Arts & Sciences: Ann Johnson
Ann Johnson, associate professor of science and technology studies (STS).
IEEE Spectrum: How the Ford Motor Co. Invented the SQUID – Ann Johnson
Quotes of the week:
Sign on a Copenhagen street. – Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
“Dear media: stop using the Middle Ages as a comparison if your sole point of reference is the Vikings tv show” – Colleen Curran (@cmcurran21)
“But yeah if your Medieval Fantasy game has potatoes, corn, tomatoes, chocolate, etc. and a stunning lack of people of color? It’s wrong” – Díacolleté (@dialacina)
“Do you think Amazon drone shooting could replace clay pigeon shooting as an Olympic sport?” – Thony Christie (@rmathematicus)
“A doctoral student walks into a bar. Bartender asks: “Draft?” Student replies: “I’ll have one by the end of the month”” – William Morgan, PhD (@willmorgan66)
“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex” – Edgar Wallace h/t @JFDerry
“Like God science moves in mysterious ways.
Take credit for the good things and blame others for the bad” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“balls to the wall” and “balls out” (meaning top speed) refer to the centrifugal governor – Toby Jaffey (@tobyjaffy)
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away” – Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
“Looking for the perfect vocabulary to describe the tenuousness of your reality? Time to crack open the Philip K. Dicktionary!” – Ben Gross (@bhgross144)
“Did Vivaldi write music about any kind of pizza other than the Four Seasons?” – Peter Coles (@telescoper)
“Charles-François Dufay, a French electricity pioneer: if you rub a dead cat it will ‘sparkle’ but will not produce any light” – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)
What are we?
“BOOKWORMS!”
What do we want?!
“BOOKS!”
When will we read them?!
[INDISTINCT MUMBLING ABOUT HUGE TBR PILES AND MAYBE NEXT YEAR] – Cait (@PaperFury)
A nativity scene without any Jews, Arabs, Africans, refugees or unwed mothers – Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse)
Birthday of the Week:
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749) Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A feminist Newtonian
Yovisto: A great man whose only fault was being a woman – Émile du Châtelet
APS: This Month in Physics History: December 1706: Birth of Émilie du Châtelet
brainpickings: The Philosopher and the Prodigy: How Voltaire Fell in Love with a Remarkable Female Mathematician
Cosmos: Émilie du Châtelet, pioneering mathematician and feminist
Youtube: Philosophy: Émilie du Châtelet, Part 1
Youtube: Philosophy: Émilie du Châtelet, Part 2
Linda Hall Library Digital Collections: Principes mathématiques del la philosophie naturelle, vol. 1.
Werner von Siemens born 13 December 1816
Werner von Siemens (Portrait by Giacomo Brogi)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Werner von Siemens – Inventor and International Entrepreneur
Siemens: Happy Birthday Werner
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Werner von Siemens and Erlangen
Robert Plot born 13 December 1640
Portrait of Robert Plot, D.D. by Sylvester Harding
Source: Wikimedia Commons
oum.ox.ac.uk: Robert Plot
Tycho Brahe born 14 December 1546
1586 portrait of Tycho Brahe framed by the family shields of his noble ancestors, by Jacques de Gheyn.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Tycho Brahe – The Man with the Golden Nose
Smthsonian.com: Astronomer and Alchemist Tycho Brahe Died Full of Gold
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Tycho Brahe
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Financing Tycho’s little piece of heaven
The History Blog: Tycho Brahe was gilded
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Newton’s First Law Of Motion, Post-Truth Edition – Ben Greenman (@bengreenman)
Yovisto: Max Born and the statistical interpretation of the Wave Function
arXiv: Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy
Nautilus: My Life with the Physics Dream Team
Smithsonian.com: For a Larger-Than-Life Space Icon, John Glenn Was Remarkably Down-to-Earth
Pasadena Now: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Remembers John Glenn
The IRM Quarterly: Johann von Lamont (1805–1879): A pioneer in geomagnetism
BBC News: The women scientists who took India into space
India’s ‘space women’ (from left) Ritu Karidhal, Anuradha TK and Nandini Harinath
Photo: ASIF SAUD
Library of Congress: Stars of the first 5 magnitudes visible in Northern latitudes
AHF: Rotblat Account
Amy’s Smart Girls: Katherine G. Johnson: NASA Trailblazer, STEM Icon
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Edward Purcell’s Interview
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Geoffrey Chew’s Interview
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Baldwin Swayer’s Interview
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Edwin McMillan’s Lecture
Smithsonian.com: The Hidden Connections Between Darwin and the Physicist Who Championed Entropy
Besides exceptional facial hair, what could these two gentlemen have in common? (GL Archive / bilwissedition / Alamy)
Yovisto: Nikolay Basov and the Development of the Maser and Laser
Scientific American: It’s Time for Particle Physics to go Back to the Future
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Henri Becquerel
Yovisto: Lord Kelvin and the Analysis of Thermodynamics
Yovisto: Edward Emerson Barnard and Celestial Photography
Ptak Science Books: Antique Circles – Astronomical Prints
AHF: Dorothy McKibben
insanfazlioglu.net: The Samarqand Mathematical-Astronomical School: A Basis for Ottoman Philosophy and Science
Muslim Heritage: Al-Khalili and the Culmination of Spherical Astronomy in 14th-Century Damascus
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Map History: Understanding Engraved Maps
GIS Lounge: The Map Myth of Here Be Dragons
THE HUNT-LENOX GLOBE IS THE ONLY DOCUMENTED EXAMPLE OF THE PHRASE “HERE BE DRAGONS” (RED ARROW) ON A MAP.
The Map Room: Miscellaneous Globes
British Library: Maps and views blog: Maps & scrap metal
Smithsonian.com: The Library of Congress Is Putting Its Map Collection on the Map
Atlas Obscura: In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, Giants, and Dragons
Map History: Martin Llewellyn’s Atlas of the East (c. 1598)
A selection from Llewellyn’s many different compass rose centres
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Perceptions of Pregnancy: Risky hormones, birth defects and the business of pregnancy testing, Part II
Thomas Morris: A high pain threshold
The Guardian: The German doctor’s surgery left untouched for 30 years – in pictures
The Telegraph: Haunting photos capture inside Doctor’s surgery left abandoned for 30 years
Siemens: The first Siemens X-ray tube
Messy Nessy: The Radium Girls and the Generation that brushed its Teeth with Radioactive Toothpaste
Nursing Clio: On Feeding My Husband with Cancer
Smithsonian.com: People Have Spent Years Trying to Diagnose Mary Todd Lincoln From Beyond the Grave
brainpickings: Marie Curie, Ambulance Driver: The Trailblazing Scientist’s Little-Known Humanitarian Heroism and Her Life-Saving Mobile X-Ray Machines
The Guardian: Heimlich maneuver inventor Dr Henry Heimlich dies at 96
Radiolab: The Man Behind the Maneuver
New York Times: Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, Famous for Antichoking Technique, Dies at 96
Dr. Heimlich demonstrating the Heimlich maneuver on Johnny Carson in 1979. Credit Gene Arias/NBC, via Getty Images
histmodbiomed.org: Technology, Techniques, and Technicians at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) c.1960–c.2000
Thomas Morris: A bayonet through the head
Medium: America’s first pop psychologist
eidolon.pub: Midwifery, Then and Now
Geoffrey Kaye Museum: Acriflavine: Why is it in an anaesthetic museum?
Remedia: The Artificial Kidney
The JAMA Network: Heart Transplantation in Man
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Yovisto: Guglielmo Marconi and his Magic Machine
Yovisto: My Hovercraft is full of Eels
Yovisto: Maria Telkes and the Power of the Sun
Atlas Obscura: The Creative and Forgotten Fire Escape Designs of the 1800s
Atlas Obscura: The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart, 1936. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/LC-DIG-HEC-40747
The Telegraph: The first electric telegraph in 1837 revolutionised communications
Conciatore: Neri the Scholar
Yovisto: Hans von Ohain and the Jet Engine
Smithsonian.com. The Oldest Structure on the National Mall Is on the Move
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Jervis
AHF: Walter Goodman
Womanthology: Celebrating the achievements of Amy Johnson by re-imaging her world through a new lens of art and engineering
Londonist: London’s Hidden Tunnels Revealed In Amazing Cutaways
The Scotsman: On this day in 1896: The Glasgow Subway opens
mental_floss: Makin’ Copies: the Complete History
Smithsonian.com: After Nearly 500 Years in Business, the Company that Cast the Liberty Bell Is Ceasing All Operations
Smithsonian.com: Ever Wondered Who Invented The Tea Bag?
Conciatore: Rise and Fall
Yovisto: The Wright Brothers Invented the Aviation Age
The first flight of the Wright Brothers on December 17, 1903
Smithsonian.com: On This Day, The Black Box Proved Its Worth
EarthSky: Today in science: Wright brothers succeed
The New York Times: The Executive Computer December 8 1985
Yovisto: Christopher Polhem anticipating the Industrial Revolution
Past Horizons: Craggie Bloomery: iron working in late medieval Sutherland
Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Edwin H. Armstrong
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Yovisto: Milutin Milanković and the Cause of Ice Ages
Scientific American: Jaw on the Floor: Entire Chunk of Feathered Dinosaur Discovered in Amber
New York Times: That Thing With Feathers Trapped in Amber? It Was a Dinosaur Tail
The Guardian: Why palaeontologists are aflutter over new fossil find
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Juan Bautista Bru de Ramon
Juan Bautista Bru de Ramon Britannica-4th ed, 1824
TrowelBlazers: Leslie Aiello
NICHE: New Articles in Canadian Environmental History: From Adventurous Tourists to Experimental Farms
The Atlantic: A Possible Break in One of Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Sir William Hamilton
In the Company of Volcanoes: Interpreting historic eruptions with old dusty hidden treasures: Introduction to historical and social volcanology
The Guardian: Why don’t humans have a penis bone? Scientists may now know
Paige Fossil History: Dinosaurs, Gorillas, & More: Re-remembering Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
NCSE Blog: “Why Are There Still Monkeys?” in Lyell
Textbook History: What Piltdown Taught
Live Science: Giant Megalodon Shark Teeth May Have Inspired Mayan Monster Myths
Colonising Animals: When Gorillas Smoke Cigars…
Dr Clare Hickman: Experiencing Arcadia
NICHE: #EnvHist Worth Reading: November 2016
Yovisto: Margaret Mead and Modern Anthropology
Margaret Mead
(1901 – 1978)
Image by Library of Congress
The Dispersal of Darwin: Article: The Ascent of Man and the Politics of Humanity’s Evolutionary Future
undark.org: The Slow Death of Ecology’s Birthplace
Smithsonian.com: How the Potato Changed the World
Forbes: How Maps and Mountain Fossils Led to Plate Tectonics
Forbes: Rockin’ Around The Tree – Geological Applications of Tree Ring Research
The Dispersal of Darwin: Article: The Creativity of Natural Selection? Part I: Darwin. Darwinism, and the Mutationists
CHEMISTRY:
chem.ucla.edu: The Role of Triads in the Evolution of the Periodic Table: Past and Present
CHF: Distillations: Positive Effect
Schematic of J. J. Thomson’s apparatus.
Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, CHF
Yovisto: Charles Coulson and the Molecular Orbital Theory
Yovisto: Willard Frank Libby and the Radio Carbon Dating
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
L’archive psychiatrique: Santé mentale au Québec – Volume XLI, numéro 2 Table of Contents
The Chapel Hill Rare Book Blog: Mummy Printing in the Rare Book Collection
AHF: Newsletter
Auxiliary Hypotheses: Scientific explanation from the history and philosophy of science to general philosophy of science (and back again… and again… and again) | Lina Jansson
History of Psychiatry: December 2016: 27(4) Table of Contents
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
The Alfred Russel Wallace Website: The 200th Anniversary of Wallace’s birth is ONLY 6 years away!
Alfred Russel Wallace
historypoints.org: Former Mechanics’ Institute, Neath
BSHS Travel Guide: Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex Park, Kent
The New York Times: Thomas C. Schelling, Master Theorist of Nuclear Strategy, Dies at 95
The Hakluyt Society Blog: Looking back on Hakluyt@400
ISIS: A Journal of the History of Science Society: Volume 107, Number 4 – December 2016 Table of Contents
ISIS: Viewpoint: Clocks to Computers oa
The Guardian: Isaac Newton masterwork becomes most expensive science book sold
A page from Principia Mathematica, right, with Newton’s notes opposite, held at Cambridge University. A European first edition has sold for £3m. Photograph: Cambridge University Library
Smithsonian.com: Most Expensive Science Book Sells for $3.7 Million
The Recipes Project: Research From the Kitchen: Emma Schreiber’s “Apple Jelly for a Corner Dish”
The Irish Times: The Edward Worth Library: a treasure trove of maths
The Dispersal of Darwin: Journal special issue on “Replaying the Tape of Life: Evolution and Historical Explanation” Table of Contents
AEON: Why is simpler better?
on display: The Prince of Wales, the rhino leg waste-paper basket, and the Museum Association’s Disposal Toolkit
Long Island Press: Nikola Tesla Wardenclyffe Lab to Receive World Historical Site Designation
Tesla’s Wardenclyffe plant on Long Island in 1904.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
ESOTERIC:
The Thinkers Garden: Odd Truths: The Alchemical Life of Glassmaker Antonio Neri
Česky Krumlov: Alchemy in Česky Krumlov
Temporal display of workshop, where precious metals were processed and their quality tested, reproduction of woodcut from 1574
Circulating Now: A Book Unfinished: Paracelsus in Hand-Press Sheets
Yovisto: The Prophecies of Nostradamus
The Iris: Your Questions About Alchemy – From Its Origins to the Philosopher’s Stone – Answered
BOOK REVIEWS:
Confessions of a Science Librarian: Best Science Books 2016: Goodreads Choice Awards
Nature: A View From the Bridge: Top 20 books: a year that made waves
Popular Science: A Tale of Seven Scientists – Eric Scerri
Les Livres de Philosophie: Ludwig Binswanger : Le Cas Ellen West. Schizophrénie. Deuxième étude
Popular Science: Reality Is Not What It Seems – Carlo Rovelli
Advances in the History of Psychology: The Psychopath Machine: A Story of Resistance and Survival
The Roanoke Time: Roots of today lie in the ‘Ancient Worlds’
NICHE: Review of Van Horssen, A Town Called Asbestos
SpaceWatchtower: Einstein for Everyone: A Quick Read
NEW BOOKS:
Hermann: Le corps en crise: Dans la pratique psychanalytique et médicale
h-madness: Book announcement – Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy
Palgrave Macmillan: Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886–1916
University of Chicago Press: The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery
Science Museum: Mathematics: How it Shaped Our World
Palgrave Macmillan: Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World
Penn State University Press: A Saving Science: Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts
Cambridgeshire Records Office: Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fens 1658
Historiens de la santé: Le concept de pathocénose de M. D. Grmek. Une conceptualisation novatrice de l’histoire des maladies
Historiens de la santé: The Proceedings of the 21st Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2012
Yale University Press: Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
ART & EXHIBITIONS
BHL: Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition Celebrating the History of Botany
Wallpaper: Maths rebranded: London’s Science Museum opens Zaha Hadid-designed gallery
The Telegraph: Thanks to Zaha Hadid, mathematics gets a home to do it proud – The Winton Gallery, Science Museum, review
LSE: Phillips Machine finds new home at London’s Science Museum
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Bilderwelten: Aufbruch zu Neuen Ufern: Mitteleuropäische Buchmalerei 1400–1540
The Oxford Times: Museum exhibition explores groundbreaking work on antibiotics in Oxford
Science Museum: Mathematics – The Winton Gallery
Arab World Institute Paris: Ocean Explorers: From Sinbad to Marco Polo 11 November 2016–26 February 2017
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
COMING SOON: The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 17 March–23 July 2017
Harvard Gazette: The story of Edwin Land
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Sir Morell Mackenzie, a lifetime in laryngology 7 November 2016–28 January 2017
Morell Mackenzie
Hagley Museum: Driving Desire: Automobile Advertising and the American Dream Through March 2017
Enfilade: Exhibition – Robert Adams’ London 30 November 2016–11 March 2017
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.
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
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
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
COMING SOON: Bodleian Libraries: Volcanoes 10 February–21 May 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The BMJ: Doctors on Film
npr: ‘Hidden Figures No More: Meet The Black Women Who Helped Send America To Space
According to NASA, Mary Jackson “may have been the only black female aeronautical engineer in the field” in the 1950s. Singer and actress Janelle Monáe plays her in the film Hidden Figures.
Bob Nye/Courtesy of NASA Langley
WGNO: They did the math: How NASA’s black mathematicians multiplied success
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
EVENTS:
University of London Senate House: Maps and Society Lectures: Travels, Maps and Inns in Eighteenth-Century Britain 19 January 2017
The Royal Institution: Spirits in the ether: Oliver Lodge and the physics of the spirit world 1 February 2017
National Museum of Scotland: Stereoscopy an Introduction to Victorian Stereo Photography 5–18 December 2016
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departures: 9 March 2017 & 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
Truman State University: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
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
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
TELEVISION:
The Royal Institution: BBC Four: Supercharged: Fuelling the future 2016 Christmas Lectures
Image of the final RI Christmas Lecture
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: National Gallery: Myth-Making Stars – Star Trail
Youtube: Under The Knife: Episode 9: The Barber’s Pole
Youtube: Science Museum: Collider: JJ Thomson’s Cathode-ray Tube
Youtube: Albert Einstein speaks at the Royal Albert Hall 1933
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: The man who predicted deforestation and climate change 200 years ago
Research in English At Durham: New Podcast: Alchemy, The Philosopher’s Stone, and the Holy Grail
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BNF/Université Paris-Descartes-USPC: Colloque international: Appel à communications: Alfred Binet, expérimentateur. Entre archives de la psychologie et éducation physique 12–13 Octobre 2017 Avant le 31 janvier 2017
University of Aberdeen: CfP: Workshop: Gut Feeling: Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Culture 26-27 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: ebook: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals Deadline 28 February 2017
Société de Démographie Historique, Centre Roland Mousnier, Paris: Appel à communications: Le sang. Famille, parenté, transmission du Moyen Âge à nos jours 23–24 novembre 2017 Date limite de l’appel : 15 janvier 2017
The Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: CfP: “IX International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Alexander von Humboldt and Travellers Through Yucatan”, 19–24 November 2018 Deadline 29 May 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Environmental Histories of Architecture 10 March 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Pittsburgh: Call for Applications: A Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups 10–14 July 2017
Département de français, New York University: Appel à communications: Le goût 13 et 14 avril 2017 avant le 15 janvier 2017
Domus Comeliana of Pisa: CfP: Conference: Humours, mixtures, & corpuscles. A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York: Call for applications: William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)
The Royal Society: Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture Nominations Open Deadline 30 January 2017
University of Sheffield: Call for Open Panels: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa: CfP: Joint Meeting of the Red EsCTS and the Portuguese STS Network: Lost in Translation? People, Technologies for Practices and Concepts Across Boundaries 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 10 February 2017
SSHM: Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Now Open! Deadline 1 February 2017
University of California, Berkeley: 2017 4S Conference Proposal Submission Dates
Historiens de la santé: CfP: Edited Collection: Medicine and What it Means to be Human
History of Psychology: CfP: Special Issue on the History of Global Psychology and Psychiatry Deadline 15 May 2017
University of Exeter: CfP: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, Exeter Deadline 20 February 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: CfP: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation
University of Leeds: CfP: Conference: Who Cares? The Past and Present of Caring 27–28 March 2017 Deadline 13 January 2017
UK Association for the History of Nursing: Annual Nursing History Writing Competition Deadline 31 March 2017
Mississippi State University: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences 22-25 June 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Sheffield: CfP: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology and Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study: CfP: Mapping the Territory: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1830 Two Conferences Berne 14–16 September 2017 Göttingen 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
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
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
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 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
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 Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 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
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
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
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
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 St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2017
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
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
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
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
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
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
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
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
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
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
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
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
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
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 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
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Kent: History: Post Graduate Funding
Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey: Assistant Professor of STS
The Linnean Society: BSHS Engagement Fellowship
British Library: News: Call for Application: AHRC PhD studentship on Hans Sloane’s Books
The Hakluyt Society: Research Funding
University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associates x 2: Metropolitan Science: Places, Objects and Cultures of Practice of Knowledge in London 1600–1800
AIP: Center History of Physics: Associate Historian
Brown University: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship on Race in Science and Medicine
Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln: Robert Grosseteste PhD Studentship 2016–17
Lichtenberg-Kolleg – The Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study: Early Career Fellowships 2017–2019
ProFellow: History of Science Fellowships
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