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 #26
Monday 13 February 2017
EDITORIAL:
It’s that time again! Time for yet another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list packed full of all the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could find throughout the vast expanse of the Internet.
With this edition Whewell’s Gazette is two and one half years old and when you are only two that half is a big deal. On a personal note, last week saw the demise of the logician, mathematician, philosopher, musician, magician and puzzle book author Raymond Smullyan at the ripe old age of 97. Raymond Smullyan is proof than one can be a serious academic, and you don’t get much more serious that a meta-logician, and still be a very humorous entertainer. A small handful of academic authors have made deep impressions on my own intellectual development over the years and Raymond Smullyan is one of them. As such, I dedicate this edition of Whewell’s Gazette to his memory.
Raymond Smullyan, who died this past week, taught math and philosophy at Lehman College in the Bronx in the 1970s. Eddie Hausner/The New York Times
Smullyan: “Someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don’t is because I’m a Gemini”
New York Times: Raymond Smullyan, Puzzle-Creating Logician, Dies at 97
International Business Times: Mathematician and puzzle-maker Raymond Smullyan dead at 97
The weekend saw two major STEM celebrations. On Saturday we had Women in Science Day and so we have collected together a small number of #histSTM contributions, as our acknowledgement of this important day, including three birthdays of the week.
Women in Science Day 11 February 2017
IET: IET Archives: Women in engineering
multiverse.ssi.berkley.edu: Unheard Voice, Part 2: Women in Astronomy
Letters from Gondwana: Mignon Talbot and the Fogotten Women of Paleontology
Letters from Gondwana: Mary Anning, the Carpenter’s Daughter
Letters from Gondwana: Forgotten Women of Paleontology: The Newham Quartet
Margaret Crosfield on a Geologists’ Association field trip to Leith Hill with Professor Lapworth (From Burek and Malpas, 2007).
Letters from Gondwana: Forgotten Women of Paleontology: Emily Dix
Physics Central: Physics Buzz Blog: 75 Years Ago Lise Meitner First Described Nuclear Fission
Yale News: Yale to change Calhoun College’s name to honor Grace Hopper
Calhoun College will be renamed in honor of Grace Murray Hopper, a trailblazing computer scientist who also served as a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. (Image of Hopper from the public domain)
Clara Barton: Missing Soldiers Office Museum: Cornelia Hancock
Cornelia Hancock was one of the best known and beloved nurses of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War
Mary Leakey born 6 February 1913
Mary and Louis excavating, Source: Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian.com: Mary Leakey’s Husband (Sort of) Took Credit For Her Groundbreaking Work On Humanity’s Origins
Paige Fossil History: Mary Leakey & Zinjanthropus
Agnes Clerke 10 February 1842
Photograph of Agnes Mary Clerke, the astronomer
Credit: Public domain
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Agnes Clerke
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A Lady of Science
The Royal Institution: Agnes Clerke – an intense light on Victorian astronomy
Herstory: Agnes Mary Clerke
Finding Ada: Agnes Mary Clerke: Trailblazing science writer
Oxford Academic: Astronomy & Geophysics: Agnes Mary Clerke: stars, systems, problems
Edith Clarke born 10 February 1883
Edith Clarke
Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Edith Clarke Biography
Sunday was, as every year on 12 February, Darwin Day and we have also made a small collection of Darwin related links in acknowledgement.
Darwin Day 12 February 2017
Portrait of Charles Darwin by Mabel Beatrice Messer 1912 After John Collier Source: Royal Society
Forbes: This 1831 Geological Journey Was Decisive For Darwin’s Scientific Career
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin Episode 1 of 4
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle Episode 2 of 4
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Darwin: On the Origins of Species Episode 3 of 4
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Darwin: Life After Origins Episode 4 of 4
Youtube: Royal Society: Darwin and the Beagle – Objectivity #86
The Friends of Charles Darwin: 12th February, 1834: Darwin’s 25th birthday, Patagonia
Patagonian Indians, Gregory Bay by Conrad Martens.
Cambridge University Library
The Victorian Commons: Robert Fitzroy MP and the Weather Forecast
Forbes: Darwin The Geologist In Galápagos
Primate’s Progress: Even on his birthday, don’t say Darwin unless you mean it
NCSE Blog: February 12 is Darwin Day: There’ll be Cake!
@Rezajann
Darwin Correspondence Project: The geology of the Beagle voyage
Letters from Gondwana: Darwin and the Strangest Animal, Ever Discovered
Darwin Correspondence Project: Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
Letters from Gondwana: Darwin and the Flowering Plant Evolution in South America
Ship’s Chronometer from HMS Beagle
Letters from Gondwana: Darwin’s Fossil Mammals
Letters from Gondwana: Darwin, Owen and the ‘London Specimen’
Forbes: How Charles Darwin Classified His Mineral Collection
Darwin200: Charles Darwin & Evolution
Paige Fossil History: Why Does Darwin Matter Today? 3 Lessons He Continues to Teach Us
KEW: Kew’s connection with Charles Darwin: an evolutionary relationship
Explore Whipple Collections: Charles Darwin’s microscopes
Quotes of the week:
“Inattention is a highly effective logical force; hence, presumably, the absent-mindedness of scholars” – Frege h/t @GuyLongworth
“How terribly sad to be Piers Morgan” – Benjamin Dreyer (@BCDreyer)
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself” – Sylvia Plath
“Arsle: a 150-year-old verb for making absolutely no progress on the job in hand (literally, ‘to shuffle backwards’)” – Susie Dent (@susie_dent)
“For those keeping track at home, it takes 1 trillion microphones to make 1 megaphone!” Ben Gross (@bhgross)
“DAYLIGHT-GATE is a 17th century word for the time in the evening when the daylight begins to fade” – Haggard Hawks (@HaggardHawks)
This is a very ominous first paragraph of a textbook (States of Matter, by David Goodstein) h/t @juliagalef
Birthday of the Week:
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins born 8 February 1807
Dinosaurs produced for the Crystal Palace Exhibition by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Linda Hall Library: Scientists of the Day – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Academy of Natural Sciences: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Album Images 1872–1878?Forbes: From Scaly Mammals To Feathered Birds – How Views Of Dinosaurs Changed Over 150 Years
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
ESA: Rosetta: Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe: Rosetta Lander Named Philae
Physics Today: Albert Einstein and the origins of modern cosmology
In The Dark: One Hundred Years of the Cosmological Constants
National Geographic: Einstein’s Evolving Universe: Beyond the Big Bang
Albert Einstein in Vienna 1921, Credit: Ferdinand Schmutzer
AHF: Groves-Conant Letter to Oppenheimer
AHF: Igor Kurchatov
AHF: Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
Voices of the Manhattan Project: John Wheeler’s Interview (1965)
ESA: launch vehicles: VV04 – IXV Spaceplane
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Georg Hartmann
Georg Hartmann
Source: Astronomie in Nürnberg
Astronomy Magazine: Who really discovered Jupiter’s four large moons?
Caltech: Neil Gehrels (PhD ’82), 1952–2017
The Curious Wavefunction: Why the world needs more Leo Szilards
ars technica: A history of dark matter
AHF: Julian Schwinger
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Yovisto: James Clark Ross and the Ross Expedition
USGS: The National Geological Map Database
Atlas Obscura: The Powerful 1940 Map That Depicts America as a Nation of Immigrants
“America—A Nation of One People From Many Countries,” by Emma Bourne published in 1940 by the Council Against Intolerance in America. FROM THE COLLECTION OF STEPHEN J. HORNSBY/COURTESY THE OSHER MAP LIBRARY AND SMITH CENTER FOR CARTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION
British Library: Collection items: Anglo-Saxon world map
Yovisto: Erich von Drygalski’s Antarctic Expeditions
Atlas Obscura: When Land Surveys Were a Modern Marvel
Sanderus Antiquariaat: Old antique map of America by Nicolas de Fer
Londonist: A Luftwaffe Map of London
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Maryland: PBS LearningMedia: Civil War Disease and Wound Infection
The Police Magistrate: When drugs were considered a lesser evil than alcohol; opium dealers in late 19th century Lambeth
Thomas Morris: Better late than never
Huffington Entertainment: Five Things From the Mary Rose That’ll Make You Go ‘Oooh’!
Yovisto: Alfred Adler and the Individual Psychology
Yovisto: Edwin Klebs and the Bacterial Theory of Infection
Nursing Clio: “Buried with Doctor’s Certificate”: Reading the Uses and Abuses of Bodies in a Medical School Thesis
The New York Illustrated Times reporting the arrest of “Madame Restell,” an accused “abortionist,” in 1878. (Public domain)
Yovisto: Sir Alan Hodkin and the Giant Axon of the Atlantic Squid
Notches: Local Sexual Cultures and the Response to HIV/AIDS Along the Uganda-Tanzania Border
Atlas Obscura: Broken Hearts and Broken Bones
History Extra: A brief history of human filth
The Herald: Unknown gem proves a cut above the rest in city centre
The Recipes Project: What Lies Behind The Name? Rest-Harrow – A Medieval Herbal Enigma
The Public Domain Review: Miniatures from a 12th-Century Medical and Herbal Collection
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: A Brief History of American Anatomy Riots
Thomas Morris: Occupation: glass and nail eater
Thomas Morris: Quails and beer
CHF: Distillations: The Joy of Cooking
Quartz: The famous fungus that led to the discovery of penicillin is going up for auction
BBC News: MRI Pioneer and Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield dies
Professor Sir Peter Mansfield pioneered MRI technology
University Of Nottingham
Chemistry World: MRI pioneer Peter Mansfield dies
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
A 1653 semi-submarine (?) (BM) done by Hollar h/t @jdmccafferty
Londonist: How The Northern Line Was Built
Chronicle Live: Hopes high for Dunston Staiths’ future as further restoration work set to begin
Yovisto: Robert Maillart and Structural Reinforced Concrete
Atlas Obscura: How an Antiquarian Horologist Brings Tiny Machines Back to Life
Conciatore: Filgrana
Conciatore: Reticello
Conciatore: Gold Ruby Glass
IET Archives Blog: Victorian Instrument Pamphlets (Not Electrical)
Othmeralia: Hand-Book of The Useful Arts
Eyes on Spain: Spain & Trains
BBC News: How the British and Americans started listening in
laststandonzombieisland: Victoria’s very busy Vulture
Innovation 150: How to fall off a mountain in a Helicopter
Smithsonian.com: Watch the Original 1959 Ad for the First Office-Ready Xerox Machine
Open Culture: Why Violins Have F-Holes: The Science & History of a Remarkable Renaissance Design
Smithsonian.com: These Four Black Women Inventors Reimagined the Technology of the Home
Mariam E. Benjamin’s gong and signal chair. ( Credit: U.S. Patent Office / Google Patents)
Yovisto: Auto Pioneer Wilhelm Maybach
Tedium: We Nailed It
O Say Can You See?: A curator goes to the movies: The stuff of “Hidden Figures”
War is Boring: Big Guns Named ‘Winnie’ and ‘Pooh’ Dueled Nazi Cannons Across the English Channel
The New York Times: How New York City Gets Its Electricity
The Conversation: Alan Blumlein: the prolific British inventor who gave the world stereophonic sound
Why Magazine: Tech Support
usnwc.edu: Four Lessons That the U.S. Navy Must Learn From the Dreadnought Revolution
The National Interest: Great Britain’s Last Super Battleship Was a True Monster Warship
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
The Friends of Charles Darwin: John Stevens Henslow b. 6 Feb 1796
Hakai: The Mystery of the 19th-Century Maine Marine Monster
Laelaps: Paleo Profile: Keilhau’s Ichthyosaur
ASBMB Today: A Career in Fertilization and Development
New Scientist: The pioneering snowflake photographs of a young obsessive
Harvard Gazette: What’s in a (scientific) name
“Whats in a name” kiosks have debuted at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
Wonders & Marvels: Blindfolding Babies in the Name of Social Good
The Atlantic: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants?
NICHE: #EnvHist Worth Reading: January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Shelf Life: Research, Repeat
Sustainable Cities Collective: The Evolution of Green Urbanism
Maritime Archaeology: Women in Maritime Archaeology
Honor Frost
1917-2010
Washington Post: This is how you photograph a million dead plants without losing your mind
Letters from Gondwana: The Legacy of Ernst Haeckel
The Public Domain Review: Illustrations of Snowflakes (1863)
NICHE: Exploring the Geography of Urban Animals in Nineteenth-Century Toronto
Wired: Farewell Dippy! Timelapse shows London’s iconic diplodocus being dismantled
History of Geology: Geology History in Caricatures: Exploring and Educating Geohistory
Spooky Geology: Death scenes, geologically preserved
CHEMISTRY:
Yovisto: Joseph Priestley and the Discovery of Oxygen
Equipment used by Joseph Priestley in his experiments on gases
CHF: Distillations: An Element of Order
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
The Recipes Project: Editing the Recipes Project – 5 Years On
The Public Domain Review: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
History of the Human Sciences: What is philosophy of medicine good for?
Whipple Library Books Blog: Exhibiting science books: The 1951 Festival of Britain
Medievalist.net: Why Archaeologists, Historians and Geneticists Should Work Together – and How
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: The Experimental-Speculative debate in early modern Spain 3
the many-headed monster: Understanding Sources: the source of it all
Hyperallergic: Metropolitan Museum Gives Unrestricted Access to 375,000 Images
University of Glasgow Library: Picturing Knowledge and Curiosities: Venetian Renaissance Illustrated Books in Special Collections
Stoneman’s Corner: History of Knowledge and Contemporary Discourse on Science
STOLEN-BOOK.org: Warehouse Theft London January 2017
Sky News: Man loses £1m books in ‘Mission: Impossible heist’ near Heathrow
The Atlantic: How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness
ESOTERIC:
distillatio: The Alchemical testament of John Gibbs of Exeter, and other 16th century English alchemists
Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum: Spiritualism, religion and mathematics in the Victorian period
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Blink: The flight of tantrics
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: Quantum Mechanics: A Ladybird Expert Book by Jim Al-Khalili – digested read
The Guardian: Do Charles Darwin’s private letters contradict his public sexism?
Notches: More than Masturbatory: An Interview with April Haynes
The Culture Vulture: Cure by Jo Marchant
Popular Science: Everything You Know About Science is Wrong – Matt Brown
The Economist: Clock-watching: A sweeping look at mankind’s relationship with time
SomeBeans: I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The New York Times: ‘Insomniac City’ Recalls Life With Oliver Sacks
San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me,’ by Bill Hayes
The Spectator: Cheating death by time travel
Popular Science: Mega Tech – Ed. Daniel Franklin
THE: The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History, by Juan Pimental
NEW BOOKS:
Radio Station Rugby: The History of Rugby Radio Station
Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Enter the Evolution Underground
Routledge: Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources
Manchester University Press: History Through Material Culture
Historiens de la santé: Eau minérale et médecine thermale. Deux millénaires d’histoire
Historiens de la santé: Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913: Histories and Historiography
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 2017
The Guardian: Backstage at Science Museum’s Robot Exhibition: ‘You can always unplug them’ – video
The Guardian: Robots exhibition at the Science Museum, London – in pictures
The Guardian: Science Museum’s robotic delights hold a mirror to human society
Space Daily: 500 years of robots go on show in London
Londonist: You HAVE TO SEE Robots At The Science Museum
ekathimerini.com: Antikythera Mechanism – Athens – 10 February–28 May 2017
The Orange County Register: CSUF’s Pollak Library presents a special program and exhibit on the art of map making
The Guardian: Bright sparks: exhibition traces electricity’s allure for centuries of innovators
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–25 June 2017
Djournal.com: 200 years of statehood: Ole Miss puts history on display for bicentennial
American Museum of Natural History: Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library
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
heritage.utah.gov: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps Opens: 27 January 2017
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)
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
Science Museum: Mathematics – The Winton Gallery
CLOSING SOON: Arab World Institute Paris: Ocean Explorers: From Sinbad to Marco Polo 11 November 2016–26 February 2017
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
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
CLOSING SOON: 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: 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
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:
mental_floss: ‘Hidden Figures’ Is Now This Year’s Highest-Grossing Best Picture Nominee
Nautilus: Science Is Finally Getting Its Close-up
University of Melbourne: Pursuit: Equality in Science: A Mission Still not Accomplished
Air & Space Smithsonian: Before “Hidden Figure,” There Was a Rock Opera About NASA’s Human Computers
OUDaily: OU to host world premiere of play about Galileo’s trial
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:
CHF: Curious Minds: A Book Talk and Brunch 4 March 2017
The Royal Institution: A light on Albemarle street: John Tyndall and the magic lantern 17 March 2017
Humanist Society (Singapore): Darwin Day 2017: In The Footsteps of Wallace 18 February 2017
UCL: Women’s Annual Flagship Lecture: Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier 7 March 2017
Warburg Institute: ‘Maps and Society’ Lectures: ‘Lines and Words: The Surprising Role of the Ordnance Survey in Anglo-Irish Literature’ 16 February 2017
Royal College of Physicians: Public lecture: Roald Dahl and the Big Friendly Neuroscientist – Professor Tom Solomon
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
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
Truman State University: Lecture: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
The Royal Society: Frankenstein: inspiring the monster 21 February 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
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departures: 9 March 2017 & 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
Truman State University: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Gendering Artificial Anatomies: Practices and Materials 8 March 2017
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Painting by Robert McCall for Pioneering the Space Frontier (1986)
From the book Visions of Space by David Hardy (1989)
TELEVISION:
Discover: As Seen on Television: The Dawn of Modern Medicine
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube BBC: Mechanical Marvels Clockwork Dreams
Natural History Museum: A Diplodocus deconstructed
Vimeo: Darwin Correspondence Project: Darwin and Women_extended
Science Channel: How It’s Made: Pigment
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: The Rise of the Robots
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Maths in the Early Islamic World
WGN Radio: Why Enrico Fermi is considered to be “The Pope of Physics”
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Abbasid Caliphs
BBC Radio 4: Start the Week: ‘The elephant was fed on meat and wine’
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Notches: CfP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Conference: Borders and Technology 7–10 September 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Workshops on Early Modern Bodies and Cultures of Imperialism November 2017 Deadline 30 March 2017
New College, University of Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Leibniz University Hannover: CfP: PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY – Workshop with Philip Kitcher 14 June 2017 Deadline 12 March 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile: Conference: KNOWLEDGE/CULTURE/ECOLOGIES – KCE2017 15–18 November 2017
Princeton University: Vulnerability in the Middle Ages 28 April 2017
Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey: IHPST Biennial Conference 4–7 July 2017
Liverpool Medical Institution: CfP: The Governance of Health Conference 2017: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on Medical, Managerial and Economic Influence on Health Policy-Making 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 24 February 2017
Nursing Clio: Call for Bloggers: Nutrition and Diet
University of Glasgow: Conference: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3-4 April 2017
University of Glasgow: CfP: First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse 14–16 June 2017 Deadline 28 February 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
American Association for the History of Medicine: CfP: Money and Medicine, Remedia series Deadline 1 March 2017
University of Göttingen: Summer School: The Material Culture of Exploration and Academic Travel 1700–1900 24–29 July 2017
Royal College of Nursing: Workshop: Nightingale & Rathbone: Contributions to Public Health 30 March 2017
Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation: Summer School on “Science and Religion” Crete 5–10 June 2017
Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives: Accepting Proposals from Early Career Historian
University of Sydney: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South c.1800-200 18–19 April 2017
CHF: The Decay Project: Call for Entries
Society for Renaissance Studies: London Rare Books School 26 June–14 July 2017
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
University of Helsinki: CfP: International Seminar: Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes 27–28 April 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
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
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:
British Library: New PhD Placements: Greek Papyri in the British Library
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Travel Fellowship in the History of the Academic Health Center & Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota, 2017-2018
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Molina Curator for the History of Medicine & Early Science
British Academy: Newton International Fellowships
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