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 #22
Monday 16 January 2017
EDITORIAL:
Another seven days have flowed past and once again it’s time for another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing all the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could pull together out of cyberspace over the last seven days.
Wikipedia celebrated its sixteenth birthday on 15 January, I am a Wikipedia editor, which just means that I’m a human being with a computer who takes the time and trouble to edit articles on Wikipedia. Over the years I read comments, again and again, on social media complaining about some aspect of Wikipedia. Usually the complaints in #histSTM are along the lines of there are not enough articles about women, minorities, people of colour etc. etc.
The people who make these complaints don’t seem to realise how Wikipedia functions. If you want something to change then you have to do it yourself. Complaining that the editors of Wikipedia are inherently sexist or whatever is a waste of time and effort. The output of Wikipedia is determined by the input and if you want the input changed don’t expect somebody to do it for you; you have to do it yourself.
People actively involved in promoting women in #histSTM, for example, have organised successful Wikipedia editathons at various times in which at a particular time people group together and make a concentrated effort to improve existing Wikipedia articles or add new ones for women they think should be included.
The Surgeon’s Hall Museum in Edinburgh are organising a history of medicine Wikipedia editathon next month. If you care about the history of medicine and how it is presented on Wikipedia go along and devote an hour or two to improving that presentation.
Surgeons’ Hall Museum: History of Medicine Editathon 23– 24 February 2017
If you don’t have time, don’t live in Edinburgh or your #histSTM interests are not necessarily in the history of medicine you can always do what I do; sit down at your computer at home, log into Wikipedia and start editing, it’s easier than you think.
“So honored to share a birthday with the British Museum, opened 15 January in 1759. What an inspiration in sharing knowledge” – Wikipedia (@Wikipedia)
Yovisto: All the World’s Knowledge Wikipedia
The British Museum: History of the British Museum
Quotes of the week:
“Was wäre der Mensch ohne Telefon! Ein armes Luder. Was aber ist er mit dem Telefon? Ein armes Luder“ – Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935)
I don’t quite understand the Devil. He punishes evil-doers. So he must be against evil? – Roger Morris (@rnmorris)
“The Laws of Robotics for governments: A government may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
Dennis Hopper talking about the Super Mario Bros movie
‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ – Mark Twain
“I ain’t gonna tell you what to think, because if you get your social conscience from a guitar player you’re pretty fucked” – Carolyne Wonderland
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others” – Pericles
Nurse: Is this photo of a camel?
My friend’s nanna (being tested for post-op awareness): No.
Nurse (concerned): No?
Nanna: It’s a dromedary – Miranda Keeling (@MirandaKeeling)
“Obviously writing a Ladybird book on Quantum Mechanics has to be the pinnacle of my career” – Jim Al-Khalili (@jimkhalili)
“Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves—or desires” – Jacquetta Hawkes h/t @ProfDanHicks
“I think that the interment of the remains of Mr Darwin in Westminster Abbey is in accordance with the judgment of the wisest of his countrymen…It would have been unfortunate if anything had occurred to give weight and currency to the foolish notion which some have diligently propagated, but for which Mr Darwin was not responsible, that there is a necessary conflict between a knowledge of Nature and a belief in God…”. A later, widely believed, rumour of a “deathbed conversion” to Christianity was denied by his daughter, who was actually present at his death. – Harvey Goodwin Bishop of Carlisle Memorial Sermon for Darwin preached at Westminster Abbey on the Sunday following Darwin’s funeral.
Birthday of the Week:
Simon Marius born 10 January 1573
The Renaissance Mathematicus: One Day Later
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The Goddess, her husband and his lovers
Marius Prognosticon Moons of Jupiter orbits
Nicolas Steno born 11 January 1638
Google Doodle celebrating Steno’s birthday
Google Doodles Archive: Nicolas Steno
Yovisto: Nicolas Steno and the Principles of Modern Geology
Geschichte der Geologie: Steno und die Anfänge der Stratigraphie
William Spottiswoode born 11 January 1825
William Spottiswoode
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – William Spottiswoode
William Spottiswoode’s Induction Coil
Igor Kurchatov born 12 January 1903
Igor Kurchatov – employee of the Radium Institute. Mid-1930s
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AHF: Igor Kurchatov
Yovisto: Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov – Father of the Soviet Atom Bomb
Huygens Landed on Titan 13 January 2005
Cutaway image of Huygens
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Discover: News From Earth’s Wayward Twin
Astronomy Magazine: This video recaps the stellar landing of Huygens on Titan
ESA: Cassini-Huygens: Science Highlights from Huygens: #7. Titans Tiny Aerosols
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Scientist William Herschel discovers Oberon and Titania, two moons of Uranus, 11 January1787 image NASA
Royal Museums Greenwich: What is Greenwich Mean Time?
Astronomy: Fighting for Visibility
Yovisto: Carl David Anderson and the Positron
Yovisto: Project Diana hits the Moon
bbastrodesigns.com: Think you know who invented the reflecting telescope?
Yovisto: Joseph Jackson Lister and the Microscope
Achromatic microscope (1830): These used the more accurate achromatic lens developed by Joseph Jackson Lister
AHF: Edward Teller
Yovisto: Edward Teller
AHF: Isidor I. Rabi
FNA: Schrödinger’s cat & other physics tales
AHF: Robert F. Stone
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Newton shows the light: a commentary on Newton (1972) ‘A letter…containing his new theory about light and colours…’
The Logical Indian: Three Women Scientists Who Helped India Reach Mars In The Very First Attempt
Making Science Public: The mystery of the missing Martians
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Paul Villard
Royal Museums Greenwich: Astronomy in the 19th century
The Atlantic: What Happens If You Stick Your Head in a Particle Accelerator?
Open Culture: How the World’s Oldest Computer Worked: Reconstructing the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism
Yovisto: Edward Teller and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Atlas Obscura: The ‘Balloon Maps’ That Aided Exploration, War, and Tourism
British Library: Maps and views blog: ‘Lhasa Englishman First’
OUP Blog: How has map reading changed since the 1600s?
Yovisto: Ernest Shackleton’s South Pole Expeditions
Royal Museums Greenwich: Shackleton’s search for the South Pole
Nimrod Expedition South Pole Party (left to right): Wild, Shackleton, Marshall and Adams.
Digital Journal: Laser research reveals the fate of the Franklin expedition’s crew
British Library: Asian and African Studies Blog. The Wise Collection: Acquiring Knowledge on Tibet in the late 1850s
British Library: Maps: The map of the world in the 20th century
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Beastly Histories: Popular Representations of the Victorian Vivisection Debate in Punch Magazine
Thomas Morris: The ear maggots
Old Operating Theatre: John Snow, the First English Anaesthetist. Part 1. – Beginnings and the Way to London
Old Operating Theatre: John Snow, the First English Anaesthetist. Part 2. – Medical School Days
Old Operating Theatre: John Snow, the First English Anaesthetist. Part 3: A medical living and the arrival of ether
Geoffrey Kaye Museum: The great women of anaesthesia: Janet Lindsay Greig
Janet Lindsay Greig
Yovisto: Alec Jeffreys and the Genetic Fingerprint
Science Museum: Brought to Life: Nicholas Culpeper (1616–54)
The Recipes Project: How to Cure a ‘Headache’ in a Mesopotamian Way?
h-madness: Bulletin of the History of Medicine
BBC Culture: How Bedlam became ‘a palace for lunatics’
Dr Alum Withey: Sick Servants in Early Modern Britain
Nicholas Maes, the Idle Servant – image from Wikimedia Commons
The JAMA Network: Electromagnetic Foreign Body Locator in Otolaryngology
Thomas Morris: She cut off his nose with a carving knife
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Physical Examination and Diagnosis in the College Collections
NYAM: Dr David Hosack, Physician to Hamilton and Burr
The Atlantic: How Ancient Cure-Alls Paved the Way for Drug Regulation
JSTOR Daily: When Russia Conquered the World with White Oil
Nursing Clio: Faith, Reproductive Politics and Resistance: A Conversation with the Reverend Joan Bates Forsberg
Joan Forsberg. (Courtesy of Yale Divinity School Memorabilia, RG 53, Series 5: Faculty Photos.)
DNA Science Blog: A Necessary Retelling of the Smallpox Vaccine Story
Smithsonian.com: The First Cryonic Preservation Took Place Fifty Years Ago Today
Medievalists.net: Make-Up and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Slate: John Bailar’s Righteous Attack on the ‘war on Cancer’
Bizarre Victoria: The No Nose Club
Thomas Morris: Evacuated with a spoon
Academia: Ben Johnson’s The Alchemist and Plague in London
Medievalists.net: 10 Tips on Surviving a Poisoning from Maimonides
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Nottingham Post: Tributes paid to one of the heroes of Bletchley Park
CNN Money: Apple: Hello, iPhone
Smithsonian.com: Escape Artist harry Houdini Was an Ingenious Inventor, He Just Didn’t Want Anybody to Know
Cincinnati.com: How the suspension bridge became an icon
Yovisto: Donald Knuth and the Art of Programming
Yovisto: The Watches of Abraham-Louis Bréguet
Yovisto: William Hedley and his Puffing Billy
Puffing Billy 1862
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Valentin Glushko and the Space Race
The Royal Society: Forms of miners’ safety lamp
Yovisto: Baron Haussmann’s Renovation of Paris
Yovisto: Amelia Earhart – Record-Breaking Aviation Pioneer
Atlas Obscura: The Bird-Like Soviet Flying Machine That Never Quite Took Off
Bizarre Victoria: The Newark Steam Man
boingboing: My first Enigma machine: Mattel once sold a Barbie typewriter with built-in crypto capabilities
Dittrick Museum Blog: Seeing Small: How the Microscope Changed Everything
Atlas Obscura: The Best kitchen Gadget of the 1600s Was a Small, Short-legged Dog
MK Pulse Magazine: The fascinating story behind Colossus
Conciatore: Enamels in the 17th Century
The Spectator: The greatest hackers of the first world war
Tedium: Streaming Before Netflix
BBC News: Programming in the early days of the computer age
Research students like Joyce Wheeler had to use Edsac at night
Photo: G R Harvey
Medievalists.net: River navigation in Medieval England
Smithsonian.com: This Three-Wheeled, Battery-Powered Plastic Car-Bike Was a Giant Flop in 1985
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
The New York Times: What the Muck of Walden Pond Tells Us About Our Planet
Forbes: The Origin of Geological Terms: Kyanite
Yovisto: How a Cobbler became the ‘Princeps Botanicorum’ – Carl Linnaeus
The New York Times: Tomatillo Fossils, 52 Million Years Old, Are Discovered in Patagonia
The New York Times Magazine: Neanderthals Were People, too
Yovisto: Elizabeth Gertrude Britton Knight and the Study of Mosses
Elizabeth Gertrude Knight (Later Britton) (1858-1934)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
OUP Blog: Aldo Leopold at 130
CHF: Distillations: Man Made: A History of Synthetic Life
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – William Pengelly
Blade and Bone: The Discovery of Human Antiquity: Brixham Cave, 1859
NICHE: #EnvHist Worth Reading December 2016
The Pleistocene Scene: Moving Beyond Trees: Metaphors for Evolution
TrowelBlazers: Margaret Murray
Margaret Murray, front centre, with Miss Hart-Davies, Mr Standen and Mr. Wilfred Jackson (May 1908). Murray supervised the public unwrapping – in front of an audience of 500 people – of a mummy from the Tomb of the Two Brothers at the Manchester Museum. Copyright Manchester Museum, all right reserved.
OZY.com: How Darwin’s Social Anxiety Nearly Prevented the Discovery of Evolution
Hakai Magazine: Archaeological Find Puts Humans in North America 10,000 Years Earlier Than Thought
International Business Times: It became cold. I mean, really cold: Global temperatures in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid
This Day in Water History: January 13, 1916: Los Angeles Water Supply Purity
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Economic Botany Collection
Atlas Obscura: The Meatless, Wheatless Meals of World War I America
Yovisto: Matthew Fountaine Maury and the Oceanography
CHEMISTRY:
Yovisto: Jan Baptiste Helmont and the Gases
Posthumous portrait of Jan Baptist van Helmont
Source: Wikimedia Commons
CHF: Distillations: Revolutionary Instruments: Lavoisier’s Tool’s as Objets d’Art
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Conciatore: Glass: A poem by Henry Schoolcraft
Advances in the History of Psychology: Winter 2017 Issue of JHBS Contents
Cambridge Core Blog: Deceived by Orchids
AEON: Child’s play
Medical History: Volume 61 – Issue 1 – January 2017 Table of Contents
Making Visible: The Graphic and Visual Practices of the Early Royal Society: An Image Interview with Alice Marples
Dr Charlotte Mathieson: New Research: Sunburn and Tanning in Victorian Medicine and Culture
Past & Present: History from Oxford: Volume 230 suppl 11 2016: The Social History of Archive Record Keeping in Early Modern Europe: Table of Contents (oa)
The Atlantic: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine
Hallstatt, Austria, is home to the world’s largest salt mine—and a growing collection of information-storing ceramic plates.
OUP Blog: Spectacular science in the shadows of New York
The Recipes Blog: Illustrated Recipes in Crophill’s Cookery
Paul Graham: The Risk of Discovery
The Freethink Tank: Interview with Professor Jim Al-Khalili
littleBits: 7 women in STEM every kid should know: They changed the world
University of Glasgow Library: William Hunter’s Library: Transcribing the early catalogues
Blink: Raga Bhairavi for a dinosaur
Nautilus: Cosmos: Fine-Tuning Does Not Imply a Fine Tuner
Archivalia: Nachlass Alexander von Humboldts online
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Glassware in Alchemy
Antonio Neri (1598-1600),
“Libro intitulato Il tesoro del mondo” f. 38
Academia: The Philosopher-Magus: Apuleius in the Mirror of Theurgy
BOOK REVIEWS:
Popular Science: Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction – James Binney
The Renaissance Mathematicus: He fought for his mother
Physics Today: The Glass Universe illuminates the lives of early female astronomers
Hakai Magazine: The Tide and Tides
Forbes: The 10 Best Popular Science Books of 2016: Biological Section
NEW BOOKS:
University of Chicago Press: Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovations in Twentieth Century America
Royal College of Physicians: In conversation: The curious collections of Sir Thomas Browne
The New York Times: Books: Best Sellers Science
Historiens de la santé: Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945
Routledge: The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning: Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems
Cornell University Press: The Power of Systems
Boydell & Brewer: Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practice
Academia: Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century (2 vols.)
Penguin: Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book)
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Science: How a 19th century concoction transformed oil painting
Orpiment: Prehistoric Animals: A series of illustrations by David Roland
Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg: 19 Oktober 2017 – 28 Februar 2018: Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Frühling/Sommer 2018: Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
Evening Standard: Forgotten women of science are remembered in a new exhibition at Burlington house
AHF: Los Alomos History Museum Reopens
Linda Hall Library: Online Exhibition: Ice Victorian Romance
Yale Center for British Art: Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the Modern World 2 February–30 April 2017
Quarry Bank: A Woman’s Work is Never Done 21 January–17 April 2017
Cal State Fullerton’s Pollack Library: California as an Island and Worlds That Never Were 22 January–29 March 2017
Utah Capitol Building: Utah Dawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps 27 January–Late Summer 2017
A Peace of London: The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London Bridge: Something for the Weekend (But not for the Squeamish)
University of Arizona: The Art of Planetary Science: 10–12 February 2017
BHL: Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition Celebrating the History of Botany
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
CLOSING SOON: 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
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity October 19 2016–April 23 2017
Princeton University Art Museum: Transcient Effects
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
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 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
CLOSING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
CLOSING SOON: The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
CLOSING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
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
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
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:
Kepler’s Trial: An Opera
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
Fusion: A movie about black female mathematicians just beat ‘Star Wars’ to become the top film in America
The Atlantic: What Sets the Smart Heroines of Hidden Figures Apart
Physics Today: Hidden Figures effectively portrays brilliant women making scientific history
New York Times: ‘Hidden Figure’ Ties ‘Rogue One’ at Box Office
Lady Science: ‘Hidden Figures’: Finally a NASA film not about white guys
ars technica: Hidden Figures is the perfect space race movie
The Huffington Post: I Shouldn’t Have to Learn Black History From a Movie
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 03 June 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
Mercury Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde 18–28 January 2017
EVENTS:
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Talk: Maister Peter Lowe and Glasgow 19 January 2017
The Royal Society: Frankenstein: inspiring the monster
UCK School of Pharmacy: BSHP Lecture: The Syon Abbey Herbal 6 February 2017
NYAM: Event Announcement: The Roles of Physicians in 19th Century Polar Exploration
Surgeon’s Hall Museum: Lecture: Burke and Hare: Dissected 27 January 2017
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London: Florence Nightingale’s Reluctant Life in Portraiture 31 January 2017
National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours: January through March 2017
Cardiff University: Cheats, Liars and Fornicators: Alfred Russel Wallace and Mimicry 22 February 2017
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Clinical Trials: Medical Truth and Medical Fiction 16 February 2017
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
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:
Painting of John Arbuthnot, the physician and mathematician, by Godfrey Kneller
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TELEVISION:
ars technica: PBS’ Containment reflects on the challengers od storing radioactive waste
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Chic Inspector: Black Girls Code Interview The Stars of Hidden Figures
Greece High Definition: The Antikythera mechanism
RADIO & PODCASTS:
Soundcloud: Science Friday: Slow Science: A Look at Long-Lived Experiments
History Hit: Podcasts: January 10: The Wheel
KBPS: ‘Containment’ Envisions Nuclear Waste Storage 10,000 Years in the Future
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: The Birth of Photography
Book Lab: BookLab 014: The Big Picture; You Belong to the Universe; Time Travel
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Surgeons’ Hall Museum: History of Medicine Editathon 23– 24 February 2017
Conférence de Laurence Monnais (Historienne, Université de Montréal): Médecine et santé : historiciser et « décoloniser » une relation (dis)tendue 26 janvier 2017
University of Helsinki: CfP: International Seminar: Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes 27–28 April 2017
The Royal Society: Scientific Diaries Workshop 27 January 2017
University of Calgary: 26th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 17–18 March 2017
British Society for the History of Pharmacy: BSHP 50th Anniversary Conference 1–2 April 2017
American Astronomical Society: DDA’s New Early Career Prize Named for Very Rubin
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Ulster University: CfP: Food anxieties in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland 7 April 2017 Deadline 25 January 2017
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library: Teacher Workshop: Mapping a New World: Places of Colonization and Conflict in 17th-Century New England 9–14 July 2017 National Participants 23–28 July 2017 Commuting Participants Applications Deadline 1 March 2017
University of Texas at Dallas: CfP: Conference: Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology 18–21 May 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
Historiens de la santé: Jason A. Hannah Medal Deadline 1 March 2017
BHSH: Travel Grants for the International Congress in Rio
University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus: SHNH: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences 15-16 June 2017
Denver Colorado: 131st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA): History of Sexuality
British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference: CfP: Session proposal: Science and Connoisseurship: New Perspectives 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Spring 2017
History of Anaesthesia Society: CfP: HAS Summer Scientific meeting 16–17 June 2017 Deadline 17 May 2017
BSHS 2017: CfP: Science and Connoisseurship 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Society for the History of Technology: The Diber Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2017 Deadline 1 May 2017
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 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 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 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
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
Indiana 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 Spring 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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:
Birkbeck, University of London: Lecturer A in Early Modern History (any aspect!)
New York University: Gallatin School of Individualized Study: Post Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology
University of Manchester: Research Associate in the History of Twentieth-Century Physiology & Genetics
Royal Historical Society: RHS Grants for Postgraduate Research Expenses 2017
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