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 #24
Monday 30 January 2017
EDITORIAL:
A turbulent week in world politics, which robs one of the will to spend time on #histSTM, but we have overcome our depression to bring you the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list covering those still posting in the Internet on the histories of science, technology and medicine over the fraught last seven days.
Both the Brexit in the UK and Trump’s presidency in the US are viewed as threatening to the international science community, a threat that is somehow strengthened by the Trump Whitehouse team’s creation of the concept of ‘alternative facts’, what any rational person would simply call lies.
This situation has led many (well meaning people) on the Internet to proclaim science to be some form of unvarnished truth to be promoted against the political purveyors of lies. This attitude has brought out the #histSTM people who have been pointing out the science in the contexts ion which it is created is anything but neutral (its sexist, racists, etc., etc.) and that scientific theories are not truth with a capital ‘T’. Below are some of the Twitter exchanges/comments on the subject that caught our eye.
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“*whispering* Guys, I am all about defending journalistic integrity and opposing clickbaity news, but ‘Truth’ is…a complicated idea. There’s not just a thing, TRUTH, lying on the ground that we can pick up and announce to the world” – Christine (@ChristineDBaker)
“I’m also finding the ‘but science=objective unproblematic truth (bitches)’ vibe unhelpful” – Vanessa Heggie (@HPS_Vanessa)
“I think “striving for accuracy” (rather than claiming definite access to the TRUTH) a great way of putting it. But it is also, always and absolutely, it about about choosing values too” – Rebekah Higgitt (@beckyfh)
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Science is without bias.
Science is without borders.
Science is without color or Creed.
Science is the great equalizer – Isley Resistance (@IsleyResistance)
“This is so hardcore wrong like I’m with y’all STEM folk but this reads as “colorblind” racism, for starters, & is just really not a good look” – Stephanie McKellop (@McKellogs)
sadly, none of those things are true
bias: a whole field exists to address this problem (statistics)
borders: arms race, space race, defense department has largest R&D budget by far
color/creed: over 90% of research on genetics & disease is on white people
minorities are underrepresented in academia
science is not immune to forces like capitalism, sexism, racism, nationalism, etc. It may be more resistant, but not immune
“You are discussing factors that dictate what science may do & how it gets used. NOT the same as science” – Dr Robert Sprackland (@RSprackland)
science as practiced is more relevant than an unrealized ideal – Data Alchemist (@joftius
absolutely. Science aint a Neil Tyson quote. Its real people working in real poli/economic systems Cody Burleson (@Cody Turtleson)
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“It is a shame that so many scientists seem to believe that science is now becoming politicized. Science has always been political” – Kele Cable (@KeleCable)
THIS! Science is a human endeavor – Jeff Schramm (@DrJSchramm)
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Quotes of the week:
“*screaming* with laughter at idea that the problem with current world leaders is that they ‘imbibed’ too much po-mo sociology etc at uni” – Vanessa Heggie (@HPS_Vanessa)
“Mystery isn’t something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.” – Flannery O’Conner h/t @JohnDCook
“I have a question – will the walls surrounding the country have rubber padding?” – John Lurie (@lurie_john)
“Climate Change Rule of Thumb: Am I comparing to yesterday? Weather. Am I comparing to long-term records? Climate! Thank you” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” – Theodosius Dobzhansky – Born 25 January 1900
“Don’t say one damn word about ‘snowflakes’ or ‘safe spaces’ while your president is scared to look science in the eye” – Sarcastic Rover (@SarcasticRover)
“I’m reading Carr’s What is History? with a first-year seminar this term. It’s not lost on us that chapter 1 treats historians & facts” Michael Egan (@EganHistory)
“Piers Morgan and Iain Duncan Smith are both drowning and you only have time to save one. What kind of sandwich would you make?” – Andrew Brooks (@taxbod)
“The belief in historical destiny is sheer superstition” – Karl Popper
Birthday of the Week:
Bessie Coleman born 26 January 1892
Google Doodle: Bessie Coleman’s 125th Birthday
Smithsonian.com: The ‘Queen of the Sky’ Is Finally Getting Her Due
Kathleen Lonsdale Born 28 January 1903
Kathleen Lonsdale
Credit: Royal Institution
175 Faces of Chemistry: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS
The Royal Institution: Spotlight on Kathleen Lonsdale
Ed Roberts born 23 January 1939
Google Doodle: Ed Roberts’s 78th Birthday
Smithsonian.com: Ed Roberts’ Wheelchair Records a Story of Obstacles Overcome
The (Dwarf) Planet Pluto first photographed 23 January 1930
Clyde Tombaugh
Lowell Observatory: The Discovery of Pluto
Robert Boyle born 25 January 1627
Robert Boyle Portrait by Johann Kerseboom
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Robert Boyle
The Royal Society: The Repository: What scientists want: Robert Boyle’s to-do list
Roy Chapman Andrews born 26 January 1880
Roy Chapman Andrews aboard the Adventuress, 1913 © AMNH Library
American Museum of Natural History: Happy Birthday, Roy Chapman Andrews!
Johannes Hevelius born 28 January 1611 died 28 January 1687
Johannes Hevelius Portrait by Daniel Schultz
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The last great naked-eye astronomer
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
AHF: Chicago Il
Yovisto: Ernst Abbe – Brilliant Engineer and Courageous Social Reformer
Yovisto: Paul Langevin and the Langevin Dynamics
Skulls in the Stars: Pepper’s last optical illusion: metempsychosis
AHF: Edward C. Creutz
NASA: Glenn Research Center
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Stars in Their Eyes: Art and Medieval Astronomy
Diagram of the harmony of the planets, marked with names of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, and the Moon, following a commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, France, c. 1225-1275, Burney MS 224, f. 191v
AHF: Native Americans and the Manhattan Project
Professor Sarah Peverley: Medieval Depictions of Stonehenge
Stonehenge in a copy of the Scala Mundi in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 194, f. 57
AHF: Niels Bohr Announces the Discovery of Fission
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Alexander Langsdorf’s Interview
ars technica: The hell of Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single park, and death in 17 seconds
The Aspen Institute: What the Manhattan Project Can Teach Us About Scientific Cooperation
Royal Museums Greenwich: Muslims and the Stars: A medieval Planetarium
Physics Today: What it took to be a NASA Computer
Katherine Johnson sits at her desk with a calculating machine and a special globe known as a celestial training device. Credit: NASA
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Atlas Obscura: The First Observations of Sea Ice Came From 8th-Century Irish Monks in Iceland
Royal Museums Greenwich: William Baffin North-West Passage expedition 1615–16
Miami Herald: This college donation is truly historic. And it’s not just the artifacts involved
British Library: Maps and views blog: Shattered Maps
lan Panoramique Expo 1958, Brussels 1958. British Library Maps.CC.6.a.74.
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Felix Booth
Brilliant Maps: Byzantine Constantinople Before It Was Istanbul
British Library: Maps and views blog: Cover story
British Library: Untold lives blog: The East India Company and Nootka Sound
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Johannes Honter
Map of Transylvania. Made in 1532 by Johannes Honterus.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Yovisto: Albert Neisser and the Causative Agent of Gonorrhea
Society for the History of Technology: Reproductive Technologies in Modern America
Sevo-Awesome: Harold Griffith and the Curare Connection
The Herald: Unknown gem proves a cut above the rest in city centre
Nursing Clio: Mental Health and Criminal Justice in Civil War Kentucky
Remedia: Anatomy’s Photography: Objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image 1860-1950
![Nicolaus Rüdinger, Topographisch-chirurgische Anatomie des Menschen (Stuttgart, 1877). National Library of Medicine. Wilhelm His dismissed Rüdinger’s “images…which are half photograph, half painting, [and which] make a rather uncomfortable impression” (1891).](https://whewellsghost.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/sappol-2.png)
Nicolaus Rüdinger, Topographisch-chirurgische Anatomie des Menschen (Stuttgart, 1877). National Library of Medicine. Wilhelm His dismissed Rüdinger’s “images…which are half photograph, half painting, [and which] make a rather uncomfortable impression” (1891).
Early Modern Medicine: Calling for Back Up
Atlas Obscura: The Mistaken Case of the Killer Cornbread
Joseph T Clover: Combined gas and ether apparatus, 1876
Thomas Morris: Firearm fires forearm
Wellcome Library: Early modern Ottoman spaces and sites of medical healing and learning
Circumcision of a male infant.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
Atlas Obscura: Under the Black Eagle Pharmacy Museum
BBC News: Skeleton offers clues to medieval spread of leprosy
Duke University Libraries: From the History of Medicine Artifacts Collection: Perkins’s Tractors
Royal College of Physicians: Escaping the Holocaust: the stories of three RCP fellows
The History of Modern Biomedicine: Keith Norris
The Discovery of Bioelectricity: Thomas Willis: A Brief Biography
Thomas Willis
Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen
Source: Wikimedia Commons
JRMS: Thomas Willis and the background to Cerebri Anatome
Hektoen International: Stephen Hales
Pen and Pension: A Pair of Famous Quacks
Thomas Morris: The case of the luminous patients
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Rhapsody in Books Weblog: January 24, 1950 – Patent Issued for the Microwave Oven
Don Suber: Exceptional American of the day: Percy Spencer, invented the microwave oven
Museum of Modern Art: Peter Cook Plug-in City: Maximum pressure Area, project, Section 1964
Atlas Obscura: The 19th-Century Iron Balls Still Cleaning the Paris Sewers
BBC News: How Rudolf Diesel’s engine changed the world
Smithsonian.com: Why Did People Think Steam-Powered Cars Were a Good Idea?
Fred Marriott in his modified Stanley Steamer, the Rocket, shortly before he broke the land-speed record. (Wikimedia Commons)
laststandonzombieisland: The Reich’s diesel-powered floating airport
R.A. MOOG: Moog Archives
Historic England: Mills
Conciatore: Creative Use of Mirrors
Atlas Obscura: In 1969, One Inventor Tried to Sell Police a ‘Net Gun’ for catching Robbers
On Display: Exhibit at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science Cambridge
The question of value: what is a sextant worth?
IEEE USA: Insight: The Long Road to Consumer Virtual Reality, Part 1
Hakai Magazine: No Wool, No Vikings
Geek History: Early television technology frequently asked questions
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Yovisto: Andrija Mohorovičič and the Mohorovičič Discontinuity
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
CBC News: How one man’s basement collection became ‘a Canadian treasure’
NICHE: Down the Line: Exploring the Environmental History of Pipelines
The New York Times: A Pioneering Woman of Science Re-Emerges After 300-Years
Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born woman living in the Netherlands, had a successful career as an artist, botanist, naturalist and entomologist. CREDITJACOB HOUBRAKEN, AFTER GEORG GSELL, VIA METAMORPHOSIS INSECTORUM SURINAMENSIUM, AMSTERDAM 1705, THE HAGUE, NATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE NETHERLANDS
Early Women in Science: Maria Sibylla Merian (Entomologist, Natural History Illustrator)
Linda Hall Library Digital Collections: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
The Scotsman: How The Scotsman broke the story of the Ice Age
The Recipes Project: Thinking About 17th C. Potatoes (and Eating Them)
History Today: The TrowelBlazing Women of Archaeology
Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: HPS in 20 Object: Object 11: Astbury Camera
Astbury experiments with his electron microscope
EurekAlert! One of the world largest digital herbaria launched
Oxford Academic: Environmental History: The Early Melon and the Mechanical Gardener: Towards an Environmental History of Timekeeping in the Long Eighteenth Century
The New Yorker: The Atomic Origins of Climate Science
History of Geology: Kangaroos and geologists: The first geological exploration of Australia
TrowelBlazers: Gertrude Bell
Mark Witton: New paper: when the short-necked, giant azhdarchid pterosaur Hatzegopteryx ruled Late Cretaceous Romania
The Siberian Times: Warning of vandalism to mammoth graveyards in Artic from unscrupulous bone hunters
Special Collections at Mizzou: An almanack for the year of our Lord… calculated for and fitted to the meridian of Boston in New-England … Boston : Printed by B. Green …, 1721.
Herbology Manchester: The Travelling Botanist: Cinnamon, a spice of many tales
This Day in Water History: January 27, 1907: Colorado River Levee Repaired
Paige Fossil History: How to Find the Missing Link (According to Dubois)
CHEMISTRY:
Chemistry World: Deriving Mr Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, by Thomas Phillips
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Verge: Here’s how underground chemist Tim Scully planned to save the world with LSD
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
BSHS: HSTM and REF: An Insider’s Perspective
CBC News: Voices from the past: CBC North to preserve historic Indigenous language programs
the many-headed monster: Imagining the Past
Literacy of the Present: Sci-Comm: What is to be done?
The Philadelphia Tribune: Wagner Institute still a beacon to explore nature, science
Browne initially thought snails did not have eyes – partly because they had four horns which appeared to be similar structures, and he thought it unlikely for any animal to have four eyes. Getty Images. Photograph: Getty Images
Liverpool University Press: Using Primary Sources: an Open Access teaching and study resource
Recommended Dose: Better together: MOOCs and the ancient world
The Detroit News: New name: Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
Wonders & Marvels: Divine Fat: Butter in Spiritual Mythology
The Guardian: Margaret Pereira obituary
At the Metropolitan police laboratory, Margaret Pereira was involved in investigating the murder of Lord Lucan’s nanny in 1974
Wiki Edu: The Roundup: Cold War Science
Lady Science Announcements: 2015–2016 Anthology: Lady Science: Volume 2
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Richard Bentley
The Guardian: Annette Karmiloff-Smith obituary
Annette Karmiloff-Smith researched Alzheimer’s disease characteristics in people with Down’s syndrome. Photograph: William Marslen-Wilson
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: The Golden Sun
Conciatore: Transmutation of Iron
The recovery of copper from vitriolated waters,
from De Re Metallica, 1556, by Agricola (Georg Bauer).
Old Operating Theatre: Seeing is Believing: Spiritualism in the Victorian Era – Part 1
Heterodoxology: Comparison and the Study of Esotericism
Providentia: The Devil and George Lukins
The History Vault: Spells for Sale: The Grubby Reality of Magic in Early Modern England
BOOK REVIEWS:
Smithsonian.com: Revel in These Wondrous Drawings by the Father of Neuroscience
History Today: The Reinvention of Seeing
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Books!
brainpickings: Rachel Carson’s Touching Farewell to Her Dearest Friend and Beloved
Nature: Higher Education: The making of US academia
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950
Historiens de la santé: Medical Practice, 1600-1900: Physicians and Their Patients
HarperCollins Publishers: Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition
University of Wales Press: William Robert Grove: Victorian Gentleman of Science
Historiens de la santé: La Faute à Hippocrate ! Autoportrait de Bussy-Rabutin en malade
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Daily Titan: New CSUF exhibit maps out California’s history
Nursing Clio: “Witness the ‘Wall of Genitals’”: Anatomical Display at Brooklyn’s House of Wax
Stedelijk Studies: Vestiges of 125,660 Specimens of Natural History
ILAB: Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line
heritage.utah.gov: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps Opens: 27 January 2017
The Guardian: The charisma droids: today’s robots and the artists who foresaw them
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’
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
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:
PBS: American Experience: Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species…us.
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
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
EVENTS:
Royal College of Physicians: Public lecture: Roald Dahl and the Big Friendly Neuroscientist – Professor Tom Solomon
The Linnaean Society:
The Linnaean Society: So Many Celestial Animals so Vividly Drawn: Birds and Their Images in Pre-Linnaean Italy 9 February 2017
LSE: Lecture: The “Universe” Starring Man? The Impact of Scientific Revolutions on Humankind’s View of Itself 22 February 2017
National Library of Scotland: Lecture on the Scottish Map Trade 2 March 2017
OS: Mapping showcase at the British Library 10 February 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
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
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:
Newton Discovers Refraction of Light (1827) Pelagio Palagi
Romanticised & imagined painting of Newton (Palagi Pelagio, 19thC) h/t @beckyfh
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
American Society for Microbiology: Alice Evans – First Woman President of ASM (Formerly SAB) – Slide Show
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Royal Society: The Eclipse Chaser – Objectivity #101
Youtube: Atomcentral: Ranger Able – First Test at the Nevada Test Site
Youtube: Challenger Disaster Live on CNN
Youtube: Royal Society: Captain Cook Chronometers – Objectivity #104
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: Taking Aim – Renaissance-Style
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Translation Movement
BBC Radio 4: Inside Science: Crime, volcanoes, ghosts and how we are influenced by genes of unrelated others
Chemistry World: Adamantane
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester: Workshop: Preparing to Present 11 March 2017
Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre, Zeist: Call for Applications: TransPositions Summer School 2017: Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise 21–25 August 2017
Université McGill, Montréal: 85e congrès de l’ACFAS: Appel à communications: Les infirmières de la folie. Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone
Tunis National Library: Summer School: The Arabic Manuscript: Codicology, Palaeography, and History 10-15 July 2017
University of Manchester: CHSTM seminar series
University of Glasgow: Conference: CfP: Medical Machines in Antiquity 19–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf: Vortrags- und Sektionsanmeldungen für die erste Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft in Münster vom 22.-24. September 2017: Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikreflexion auf dem Prüfstand: Historische und aktuelle Herausforderungen
IUHMSP, Lausanne: Séminaire de recherche en histoire et études sociales de la médecine, de la santé, et des sciences du vivant: Semestre de printemps 2017
University of Münster, Germany: CfP: Contemplating Science, Medicine, and Technology: Past and Present Challenges 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
BSHS: Ayrton Prize Best History of Science Web Project Deadline 10 March 2017
American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting Boston MA 18-21 November 2017 CfP: Western Esotericism Unit
Université McGill, Montréal: Appel à contribution: Les infirmières de la folie: Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone 8 et 9 mai 2017 avant le 20 février 2017
BSHS: Themes: Call for Proposals
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)
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
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
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:
University of Nottingham: PhD Studentship – Manuscripts and Special Collections
University of Exeter: Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History
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