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 #23
Monday 23 January 2017
EDITORIAL:
Another week and another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you all the histories of science, technology and medicine washed up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.
I started my career in history not as a historian but as an archaeologist and although I dropped out of university after only one year, over the next eight years or so I racked up an impressive amount of experience as a freelance field archaeologist or digger as we were known in the dim and distant days of the 1970s.
I am also for my sins the son of a professional archaeologists and although my father’s area of study was South East Asia, he got his excavation experience in the UK in the 1950’s, including being part of the team under the leadership of Stuart Piggott and Richard Atkinson (under whom I studied twenty years later), which carried out the first modern excavation of Stonehenge. My father’s work involved investigating the so-called Avenue, the circa 3 kilometre path leading from Stonehenge to the River Avon.
The Avenue at Stonehenge looking NEE towards Old and New King Barrows
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Avenue is just one of the features of the Stonehenge landscape whose archaeological integrity is severely threatened by the British governments plans to modernise the A303 by constructing a massive tunnel where it passes Stonehenge.
Boundary and key sites on the Avebury section of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World Heritage Site
Source: Wikimedia Commons
For a historian I have a surprisingly ambivalent attitude to historical conservation. I think some authorities are over eager in slapping conservation orders and listed building status on every heap of rubble that is more than fifty years old but Stonehenge is in the true meaning of the word unique. It is one of the most important archaeoastronomical sites on the entire planet and, although severely battered, it has survived nearly 4000 years of human abuse. I think we should do everything within our power to see that it survives another 4000.
Sign petitions! Raise a ruckus! Write to your MP! Do what ever is necessary to stop this barbaric plan to drive a massive motorway tunnel through one of the most precious archaeological landscapes in the world!
Youtube: Tom Holland: No Tunnel! Save Stonehenge!
The Conversation: Archaeologists: the A303 is a crucial part of Stonehenge’s setting
Quotes of the week:
“People don´t love science, they just love a pornographic caricature of it” – David Bressan (@David_Bressan)
“They wanted a plutocracy – government by dwarf planets” – John Wilkins (@john_s_wilkins)
“I’d love to hear a musical arrangement of a blackbird’s song”
“Orchestral?”
“No, just a blackbird” – Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)
A. A. Milne, the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, born 18 January 1882
“Narnia, Westeros and Middle Earth are queuing up for a trade deal with the UK, says Boris Johnson” – Marcus Chown (@marcuschown)
“Word of the day: kakistrocracy—government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens (from the Greek for worst, kakistos)” – Graham Farmelo (@grahamfarmelo)
“Psych: I’ve got good news for you: you don’t have an inferiority complex; you *are* inferior” – CHOTS (@KentCHOTS)
“The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook: a superposition of Jerome Cardano and quantum theory” – Michael Brooks (@DrMichaelBrooks)
“History is nothing but a legacy of unintended consequences” – Patrick McCray (@LeapingRobot)
Joseph Addison describes himself as a “citizen of the world” in London in 1711 h/t @sally_holloway
“A ‘foible’ is something coughed up by cats in New York” – Jason (@NickMotown)
“How did you know so much about computers?”
Grace Hopper – “I didn’t, it was the first one” – Interviewed by David Letterman
“Let the Dark Ages begin. Raise the sorcerers from their mountain caves. Weaponise everything!!
Make Alchemy Great Again” – Rohit Gupta (@fadesingh)
“There really is nothing like a good book. Well, except for an average book. That’s pretty similar, just not quite as good” – Existential Comics (@existentialcoms)
“A historian is crying. His tears are clocks” – Magic Realism Bot (@MagicRealismBot)
Stolen from Marty Mouse House on Facebook
Birthday of the Week:
Marie-Anne Paulze born 20 January 1758
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze with her husband Antoine Lavoisier
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linday Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Marie-Anne Paulze
Johannes Schöner born 16 January 1477 died 16 January 1547
Joan Schöner Mathematicus
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Circumnavigating the Globe
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Dying to make life easier for historians
Youtube: John Hessler, author of A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox
Benjamin Franklin born 17 January 1706
Franklin in London, 1767, wearing a blue suit with elaborate gold braid and buttons, a far cry from the simple dress he affected at the French court in later years. Painting by David Martin, displayed in the White House.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Benjamin Franklin
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Benjamin Franklin
The New York Times: For Ben Franklin’s Birthday, His First Piece of Printing Reappears
Smithsonian.com: Benjamin Franklin Was a Middle-Aged Widow Named Silence Dogood (And a Few Other Women)
Edward Tyson born 20 January 1651
Edward Tyson Portrait by Edmund Lilly (c. 1695)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
BBC Radio 4: Natural History Heroes
Horace Wells born 21 January 1815
Dr. Horace Wells
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Connecticut History: Horace Wells Discovers Pain-free Dentistry
Anesthesiology: Horace Wells’ Demonstration of Nitrous Oxide in Boston
Francis Bacon born 22 January 1561
The 18-year-old Francis Bacon. Inscription around his head reads: Si tabula daretur digna animum mallem, Latin for “If one could but paint his mind”. National Portrait Gallery, London by Nicholas Hilliard, watercolour and bodycolour on vellum laid on card, 1578
Source: Wikimedia Commons
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Baconian Science
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Lisa commits the ‘father of’ sin
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Songs from the History of Science: The Astronomer’s Drinking Song
Yovisto: Lunokhod 2 and the Soviet Moon Progamme
AHF: Robert R. Wilson
NASA: Biographical Data: Eugene A. Cernan
In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon in the Taurus–Littrow valley. Near the beginning of their third and final excursion across the lunar surface, Schmitt took this picture of Cernan flanked by an American flag and their lunar rover’s umbrella-shaped high-gain antenna. The prominent Sculptured Hills lie in the background while Schmitt’s reflection can just be made out in Cernan’s helmet.
NASA / Harrison H. Schmitt
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Gizmodo: These Are The Last Words That Were Said On The Moon
AHF: Irene Joliot-Curie
WMOT Roots Radio: Modern Cosmology Turns 100
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
The Gazette: This month in history: Terra Nova Expedition 1910–13
Yovisto: The Nimrod Expedition
Scott Polar Research Institute: Ceiling Arctic
Scott Polar Research Institute: Picture Library catalogue: Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition 1921–22
Scott Polar Research Institute: Ceiling Antarctic
The European Library: Manuscript Maps of Switzerland and Abroad
Daily News: Turkey’s cartographic history is on display at museum
BBC Culture: The provocative maps that tell Britain’s history
staugustine.com: St. Augustine Historical Society works to save ‘precious historical documents
The Journal of the Hakluyt Society: Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Robert Bartlett, and the Karluk Disaster: A Reassessment
Londonist: Anglo Saxon London Map: Updated
Medievalists.net: A 16th century view of North America in the Vallard Atlas
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Medicine, Ancient and Modern Blog: The Real Stuff: Galen and the Middle East
Ciara Meehan: Sex Education Without the Sex
Thomas Morris: The boy who vomited his own twin
Thomas Morris: The soldier operated on himself
The Public Domain Review: A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)
Atlas Obscura: Romans Used to Ward Off Sickness with Flying Penis Amulets
A winged phallus at the British Museum in London ASHLEY VAN HAEFTEN
Notches: Church Ladies for Choice: Queer Responses to Anti-Abortion Politics in the 1990s
Medium: A Handy Guide to Death by Masturbation
The Public Domain Review: Nekrokedeia or The Art of Embalming (1705)
The Globe and Mail: How the discovery of stem cells revolutionized medicine
The Guardian: Mind maps: the beauty of brain cells – in pictures
Remedia: The Backstage of Hysteria: Medicine in the Photographic Studio
Figure 5: “Faradisation progressive du muscle frontal chez une hystérique dans la catalepsie”, Albert Londe, La Photographie Médicale, 1893, p.93.
The Recipes Project: Searching for Syphilis in Recipe Books
general-anaesthesia.com: Professor James Young Simpson (1811–1870)
Southern Spaces: DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
The New Inquiry: Lady Science: Healing History
Northumberland Archives: The travels of TB patients – other sanatoria from the Stannington patient files
Medievalists.net: Toxicology and Treatment: Medical Authorities and Snake-bite in the Middle Ages
Atlas Obscura: Poveglia Plague Island
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Contagion Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
Storia Della Medicina. Il Blog: Il Galvanometro A Corda
Nursing Clio: Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles: A Brief History of Self-Induced Abortion
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
wnpr: Hartford Was the Typewriter Capital of the Country
Lemelson Center: Yankee Ingenuity: Hartford, CT
Conciatore: Reflections on the Mirror
Conciatore: Like Snow from Heaven
Atlas Obscura: The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech
Yovisto: Thomas Sopwith and his legendary aircrafts
Thomas Sopwith around 1911. Image: Library of Congress
boston.com: It’s been exactly 98 years since a giant wave of molasses killed 21 people in Boston
Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Federico Faggin Biography
Yovisto: Thomas Augustus Watson – Recipient of the Very First Phone Call
Yovisto: Ray Dolby and the Noise Reduction System
Atlas Obscura: In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms
Strategic Air Command headquarters, c. 1961. NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE/PUBLIC DOMAIN
BBC News: Alan Turing’s notebook goes on display at Bletchley Park
Mail Online: Cracking the Enigma code was diversion for Alan Turing
Othmeralia: Electrical Heating by Edwin J. Houston 1895
Scottish Science Hall of Fame: James Watt (1736–1819)
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – David Steel
Interesting Engineering: The 20 Greatest Engineers of All Time
Atlas Obscura: C-97 Stratofreighter at the Don Q Inn
Engineering-Timelines: Mersey Railway
The New York Times: Hans Berliner, Master Chess Player and Programmer, Dies at 87
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Colonel Unthank’s Norwich: When Norwich was the centre of the world
NICHE: Environmental History, Conservation, and the Social Sciences
Mapping Ignorance: Columbus and the shape of the Earth, a “Hollywood” story
Yovisto: August Weismann – the Founder of Neo-Darwinism
Yovisto: Gaspard Bauhin and the Classification of Plants
Twilight Beasts: Time capsules from the Ice Age
A mummified Arctic Ground Squirrel from Alaska. 20,000 years ago this squirrel curled up and went to sleep. But never woke up. (Image by Ryan Somma, Public Domain)
Yovisto: François Lenormant and the Akkadian Language
Yovisto: Caspar Friedrich Wolff – the Founder of Embryology
A short history of climate change: Story two. Dr Keeling and his curve
3 Languedoc-Roussillon: L’herbier géant de l’Institut de botanique de Montpellier bientôt numérisé
UCL: Museums & Collections Blog: Specimen of the Week 275: Mystery wax models
Forbes: From Art to Myth, the Relationship of Our Ancestors with Volcanoes
The remains of the volcano of Thera in a print from 1866. Photo by David Bressan.
Scientific Chamber of Horrors: Frank versus the volcano (1929)
The Royal Institution: Ten Journals of John Tyndall newly identified at the Royal Institution
Letters from Gondwana: Forgotten Women of Paleontology: Emily Dix
Natural History Museum: The whale story: Richard Owen
Staff stand in front of a blue whale model. In this photo, taken in the 1930s, the Whale Hall had only just opened.
CHEMISTRY:
Yovisto: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen and the AIV Silage
Nature: Chemistry: The hidden war
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Edward Franklin
Edward Frankland 1894
Source: Wikimedia Commons
APS News: This Month in Physics History: January 19, 1894: James Dewar produces solid air
CHF: Marie Maynard Daily
Marie Maynard Daly. Queens College Silhouette Yearbook, 1942.
Courtesy Queens College.
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
npr: Passions Flare Over Memory of the Manhattan Project
The National Bureau of Economic Research: Prestige and Profit: The Royal Society of Arts and Incentives for Innovation, 1750–1850
Cognitive Medium: Thought as a Technology
The Recipes Project: Tales from the Archives: A New Year’s Recipe from Old Prussia
The National Archives: Science and Technology Archives Group
The Irish Times: Unthinkable: The Islamic thinker who ‘proved’ God exists
Auxiliary Hypothesis: Scientific explanation from the history and philosophy of science to general philosophy of science (and back again… and again… and again) | Lina Jansson
Conciatore: Montaigne in Florence
University of Leiden: Personal archive of Christiaan Huygens online
Christiaan Huygens, relief by Jean-Jacques Clérion, around 1670?
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Royal Society: The Repository: Hats off to 2017!
Archaeology: Recovering Hidden Texts
Bulletin of the History of Medicine: Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2016 Table of Contents
Journal of the American Revolution: Thomas Jefferson, Scientist
History of Medicine & Medical Humanities: New Research Portal
newsworks: After leading British Museum, scientist in his element at Chemical Heritage Foundation
Chemical Heritage Foundation president Robert Anderson formerly directed the British Musuem. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The New Inquiry: Lady Science: Feminist Anthropology Part II
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Why Mathematicus?
Nautilus Cosmos: Why an Expert on Black Holes Reads the Bhagavad Gita
ESOTERIC:
BOOK REVIEWS:
Motherboard: The ‘Hidden Figures’ of NASA’s Early Years and the Woman Who Told Their Story
Notches: Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
The New York Times: Evolutionary Wars: How Darwin’s Masterwork Shook Up America
Popular Science: The Voynich Manuscript – Raymond Clemens (Ed.)
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: The End of Epilepsy? A history of the modern era of epilepsy research 1860-2010
CRNS Editions: Une histoire des empires maritimes
Harvard University Press: Success and Suppression: Arabic Science and Philosophy in the Renaissance
Faith and Wisdom in Science: ‘Let There Be Science’ – Publication Day
Historiens de la santé: Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Colonizing Animals: Historical Pose-abilities of Colonial Photography
Royal Museums Greenwich: Endeavour galleries: Launches 2018
Hyperallergic: When Art Was the Scientist’s Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Frog dissection illustration from the book “Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium…(Natural history of the native frogs…)” from 1758 (© AMNH\D. Finnin)
Journal of Victorian Culture Online: Charlotte Mathieson, ‘Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy’
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
CLOSING SOON: 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
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
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:
The Atlantic: Hidden Figures and the Appeal of Math in an Age of Inequality
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:
The Royal Society: Workshop: Scientists and their Diaries 27 January 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
The Royal Institution: Spirits in the ether: Oliver Lodge and the physics of the spirit world 1 February 2017
Truman State University: Lecture: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
University of Birmingham: Lecture: Making Manhood, Making Science: Myths of identity in modern sport and exploration 6 February 2017
The Royal Society: Frankenstein: inspiring the monster 21 February 2017
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 1 February 2017
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:
Christiaan Huygens. Cut from the engraving following the painting of Caspar Netscher by G. Edelinck, between 1684 and 1687.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Royal Society: Under the Microscope – Objectivity #102
Youtube: Royal Society: Halley’s Fish – Objectivity #6
Youtube: Royal Society: Under the Microscope – Objectivity #102
Youtube: Science Museum: Tom Heap looks at the past, present and future of agriculture at the Science Museum
Youtube: 3-hour Discussion on Metaphysics (Sheldrake, Dennett, Dyson, Toulmin, Sacks Gould and Kayser
Atlas Obscura: How Museum Preparators Uncover Fossil Specimens
Youtube: Al Capone’s Grave – Episode 10 – Under the Knife
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: Farewell Doctor Finlay
NICHE: Nature’s Past Episode 54: Reclaiming the Don, From Dissertation to Book
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IRSPUM, Montréal: La santé en débat: Programme de l’Hiver 2017
Dartmouth History Institute in Intellectual History: Workshop: 11–15 June 2017 Applications Due 1 February 2017
University Paris Diderot: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry: CfP: Symposia: 3–5 July 2017 Deadline: 31 January 2017
The Collation: Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: The Power Switch; How Power is Changing in a Networked World 31 March 2017
Domus Comeliana, Pisa: International Conference: CfP: Humours, mixtures, & Corpuscles: A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Indiana University in Bloomington: Summer Institute: Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World (1400–1800) 19 June–7 July 2017
SHOT 2017: CfP. Thinking with Ann Johnson Philadelphia 26–29 October 2017
University of Pennsylvania: Conference: The Futures of Medieval Historiography 24–25 February 2017
Patras, Greece: 5th International Phytocosmetics and Phytotherapy Congress: CfP. History of Cosmetics and Phytotherapy 15–17 May 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Early Modern History Workshop: Bodies Corporeal and Rhetorical 3–5 November 2017 Deadline 3 March 2017
Society for the History of Natural History’s Annual Conference: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus 15 June 2017 Freshwater Biological Association, at Far Sawrey 16th June 2017
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
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