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Year 3, Volume #28
Monday 27 February 2017
EDITORIAL:
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Students who believe that they are fighting prejudice are apparently demanding that University College London remove the name of Francis Galton from various parts of their institution because he was an overt racist. Whilst one can and should sympathise with their rejection of Galton’s racism there are various reasons that their demand can and perhaps should be opposed.
Francis Galton 1850s
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The first objection to the removal of Galton’s name is the one of the danger of trying to rewrite history. Galton’s name in honoured at UCL because he was one of the great nineteenth century polymaths who made serious and important contributions to a wide field of scientific endeavour. In rejecting his racism, which is of course very correct, need we to reject his massive contributions to the history of science? For me this has a hint of the rewriting of history in totalitarian states. The Communist Party in Russia republishing photos of party conferences with figures, who have fallen into disgrace removed. By removing Galton’s name from UCL you can’t pretend that he no longer exists, his influences on the evolution of various branches of science is too great.
The second objection, as I see it, is where do we draw the line? There are, as far as I can see, very few influential scientists throughout history (ignoring the anachronism of calling anybody before the late 19th century a scientist), who don’t have objectionable sides to their personalities, they are after all humans first and scientists seconds. Of course this open up the whole question of whether we should name institutions or parts of institutions after scientists at all.
Should we perhaps take the situation as a chance to create a teaching moment? Retain Galton’s name but use it to make people aware of the systematic racism that existed in the nineteenth century and the part that Galton, an excellent man of science, played in it. We can’t and shouldn’t pretend that by removing Galton’s name nineteenth-century racism will somehow cease to be relevant or whatever.
I must admit I’m torn by these debates and am not really sure what is the right course of action. Maybe readers, assuming anybody actually bothers to read this, could offer up opinions in the comments.
THE: ‘Father of eugenics’ should not be erased from academic history
UCL: Francis Galton and the History of Eugenics at UCL
Quotes of the week:
“I (God knows) could not get my livelihood by labour, nor would the labourer find any solace or enjoyment in my studies” – William Paley h/t @TryingBiology
I mean, if *historians* don’t understand that history evolves, new stories get told, new narratives appear, are they actually historians? – Vanessa Heggie (@HPS_Vanessa)
“Breaking News: Using ground & space-based telescopes, astronomers have generated more hype about exoplanets than was previously possible” – Peter Coles (@telescoper)
“ODD, PENIS-LED, TRAMP RUNT is an anagram for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP” – Ben Gross (@bhgross)
“No person can give the same software demo twice.” – Heraclitus, probably – Blake Stacey (@blakestacey)
“Some days you’re the dog and some days you’re the hydrant” – Cat Allman (@catallman)
Darwin wrote to Huxley 26 February 1863, after finishing reading Man’s Place in Nature: “I declare I never in my life read anything grander” – Paige Madison (@FossilHistory)
A London primary school playlet from 2017!
Birthday of the Week:
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Heinrich Hertz born 22 February 1857
Newsworks: The history of Heinrich Hertz and the discovery of radio waves
Connected Earth: People & pioneers: Hertz, Heinrich (1857–1894)
Joseph Banks born 24 February 1743
Portrait of Banks (1773) by Benjamin West
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Public Domain Review: Joseph Banks Portrait of a Placid Elephant
Jacques de Vaucanson born 25 February 1709
Vaucanson’s automata: The Flute Player, The Tambourine Player and Digesting Duck (Wikimedia Commons)
Smithsonian.com: This Eighteenth-Century Robot Actually Used Breathing to Play the Flute
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Spaceflight Insider: Our Spaceflight Heritage: The Odyssey of Friendship 7
Space.com: Going Bananas: The Real Story of Kepler, Copernicus and the Church
APS Physics: February 1968: The Discovery of Pulsars Announced
Muslim Heritage: The Influence of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi on Ottoman Scientific Literature
Scientific American: Einstein’s Greatest Blunder?
The Atlantic: The Lost Stories of NASA’s ‘Pink-Collar’ Workforce
Rita Rapp
(NASA)
The Conversation: La théorie d’un évêque médiéval évoque les univers multiples de la physique
Smithsonian.com: Apollo 11 Command Module Makes Another Journey
Insight: IEEE–USA: Your Engineering Heritage: Magnetism in the Greco-Roman World
Wired: A Look Inside Britain’s Plucky (and Criminally Overlooked) Space Program
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Robert Howes Jr.’s Interview
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Camille Flammarion
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Photo: Dominick Reuter
The Boston Globe: Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, 86, much-honoured MIT physicist, mentor to female scientists
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Hakei: The Unforgettable Pia Arke
The Unwritten Record: Recently Opened Series: German World War II Maps
Osher Map Library: Women in Cartography
![Coletta (née Kaerius [van der Keere]) Hondius, engraver [Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius] Frontispiece in Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii Atlas ou, Representation du monde universel, et des parties d’icelui faicte en tables et descriptions tresamples, et exactes (Amsterdam, 1633) Facsimile of hand-colored copper engraving, 46 x 53 cm Smith Collection](https://whewellsghost.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/7370-0001.jpg)
Coletta (née Kaerius [van der Keere]) Hondius, engraver
[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius]
Frontispiece in Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii Atlas ou, Representation du monde universel, et des parties d’icelui faicte en tables et descriptions tresamples, et exactes (Amsterdam, 1633)
Facsimile of hand-colored copper engraving, 46 x 53 cm
Smith Collection
mental_floss: The Disastrous North Pole Balloon Mission of 1897
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Hanger: The J.E. Hanger Story
Harvard Magazine: Henry Knowles Beecher: Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904–1976
Medical History: Bruised Witness: Bernard Spilsbury and the Performance of Early Twentieth-Century English Forensic Pathology
Yovisto: Harry Stack Sullivan and His Study of Interpersonal Relationships
Yovisto: René Dubos and the Antibiotics
Psychiatry and History: Johann Christian Reil
Reil the anatomist: a portrait from 1811
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: English Speaking Medical Students on the Continent
Two Nerdy History Girls: Care of Infants in 1837
Thomas Morris: The punctured bowel
The New York Times: Andy Warhol’s Death: Not So Simple After All
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: The illnesses of Charles Darwin and his children: a lesson in consanguinity
NYAM: Charles Bell: Artistry and Anatomy
Plate 3, showing the carotid artery, the lower thyroid artery and the upper thyroid artery in Charles Bell’s Engravings of the Arteries, 1801.
Atlas Obscura: In 1914, Feminists Fought for the Right to Forget Childbirth
Thomas Morris: The self-opening coffin
Thomas Morris: Toast and herbs
Thomas Morris: The dislocated eyeball
Dental History Magazine: A Monstrous Regiment of Women? Attitudes to the Vanguard of Female Dentists
Broadly: ‘Not Just a Series of Genital Acts’: The Woman Who Revolutionized Sex Education
Photo: Getty Images
Quartz: An Italian Doctor explains “Syndrome K,” the fake disease he invented to save Jews from the Nazis
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Yovisto: William Grey Walter and his Machina speculatrix
Yovisto: Edwin Land – Father of the Polaroid Instant Camera
IET: Archives Biographies: Sir Francis Ronalds 1788–1873
Smithsonian.com: The First Telephone Book Had Fifty Listings and No Numbers
The Recipes Project: Tales from the Archives: Keeping Time in the Victorian Kitchen
Prepressure.com: The history of printing
IEEE Spectrum: SRI’s Pioneering Mobile Robot Shakey Honored as IEEE Milestone
SRI researchers Nils Nilsson (right) and Sven Wahlstrom with Shakey the Robot in the late 1960s.
Photo: SRI International
The National Museum of American History: E. Howard and Company Astronomical Regulator
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Wise
Smithsonian.com: These Fake Trees Were Used as Spy Posts on the Front Lines of World War I
IEEE Spectrum: When Lasers took to the Air to Measure the Earth
ASME: Samuel Colt
The MIT Press: Programmed Inequality
Early Modern Women: Lives, Texts, Objects: The Delicate Hand: Female Engravers
Anna Maria van Schurman, Self-Portrait (1633). Rijksmuseum. Object number RP-P-OB-59.344.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Who Were Wilbur & Orville?
Eyes of a Generation…Television’s Living History: February 25, 1928…Television’s “First License” Issued: Sort Of
Atlas Obscura: KVLY-TV Mast
Smithsonian.com: When the Inventor of the Diesel Engine Disappeared
IEEE Spectrum: The Diesel Engine at 120
mental_floss: 10 Obscure Electronic Musical Instruments
Bloomberg View: Why It Took the Washing Machine So Long to Catch On
Social History Blog: From an ‘Infant Hercules’ to the death of Teesside Steelmaking: History and heritage along the ‘Steel River’
IET Archives Blog: The Remarkable William Kingsland (1855–1936)
Earls Court Station’s new signal box controlling the District’s widened approaches and tunnels, 1914. Capacity increase was 40-50 trains per day h/t @TurnipRail
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Hakai: Hark! A Sea Monster! (Oh, No, Just a Dying Whale)
Geschichte der Geologie: 20. Februar 1943 – Der Tag an dem ein Mensch der Geburt eines Vulkans beiwohnte
Yovisto: Heinrich Karl Brugsch and the Decipherment of Demotic Script
Nursing Clio: Gender-Bending in Thirteenth-Century Literature: The Roman de Silence
The 1640s Picturebook: Anthropometamorphosis
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock HIERONYMUS BOCK KREUTTERBUCH HERBAL BOOK 1577
Atlas Obscura: The Shy Edwardian Filmmaker Who Showed Nature’s Secrets to the World
The Guardian: A tale of four skulls: what human bones reveal about cities
Wellcome Collection: Varieties of Love
Wellcome Library: A medieval medical bestseller: the ‘Circa instans’
Colonizing Animals: Proliferating Elephants
Conciatore: Botanical Gardens
Orto botanico di Pisa operated by the University of Pisa: The first botanic garden, established in 1544 under botanist Luca Ghini, it was relocated in 1563 and again in 1591
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew: Walter Hood Fitch – ‘an incomparable botanical artist’
Roslin: The University of Edinburgh: Dolly the sheep continues to inspire 20 years after media storm
Archaeologist Ticia Verveer: The Ancient Egyptian Royal Guard Dog Abutiu
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
NICHE: Rethinking the State through the Environmental Politics of the 1970s
CHEMISTRY:
Yovisto: John Mercer and the Cotton Mercerisation
Chemistry World: Arsenic trioxide
CHF: Distillations: High Times
Party like it’s 1799. Georgian England’s upper crust partake of the party drug of the day: nitrous oxide
Wellcome Library London
AHF: Ralph Gardner-Chavis
Chemistry World: Why I mummified a taxi driver: Stephen Buckley explains how chemistry has rewritten ancient history
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
American Scientist: News Flash: Science Has Always Been Political
Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos: vol.23 supl.1 Rio de Janeiro Dec. 2016 Special Issue: Eugenics Table of Contents
What the Victorians Threw Away: The Database
Medium: Anton Howes: Macroinvention vs Microinvention
Brill Online: The Role of Science in the History of Portuguese Anti-Jesuitism
UWE Bristol: Kick-starter: The Lady of the Lakes: Nature Themed Drama-Doc Reflecting the Scientific and Conservation Accomplishments of Beatrix Potter
IET: Virtual library frequently asked questions
IEEE Spectrum: What Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Can Teach Engineers
The Recipes Project: The Order of Things (2)
Advances in the History of Psychology: New era over at Theory & Psychology
ESOTERIC:
Notches: Disembodied Desire
Academia: The First Psychonaut? Louis-Alphonse Cahanet’s Experiments with Narcotics
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Well-read Naturalist: Books for Every Naturalist
The Guardian: Sexism in science has roots in Victorian whispering campaigns, claims new book
The New York Review of Books: The Very Drugged Nazis
sehepunkte: Spencer E. Young: Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris
THE: Popularizing Science: The Life and Work of JBS Haldane, by Krishna Dronamraju
Under pressure: Haldane conducted experiments on the physiological effects of diving
Source: Getty
Advances in the History of Psychology: Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdiciplinary Life in Science
The Irish Times: Time Travel: A Historical review – The whips and scorns of time
Popular Science: A Brief History of Mathematical Thought – Luke Heaton
The Geek in 9F: The many faces of Marconi: a review of “Marconi: the Man Who Networked the World” by Marc Raboy
NEW BOOKS:
Mollat: La greffe de la tête: entre science et fiction
University of Chicago Press: Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
Johns Hopkins University Press: Science and Religion 2nd Expanded Edition
University of Pittsburgh Press: When They Hid the Fire: A History of Electricity and Invisible Energy in America
Historiens de la santé: Rebel Genius. Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science
ART & EXHIBITIONS
The Guardian: From Frankenstein to feminism: how electricity powered our imaginations
Feeling the buzz … 1910 advertisement for body lotion. Photograph: Wellcome Collection
It’s Nice That: Wellcome Collection reveals three major commissions in its new show about electricity
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–25 June 2017
Advances in the History of Psychology: New Book & Touring Exhibit on Ramón y Cajal: The Beautiful Brain
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
The Sydney Morning Herald: Beauty in Science
Palaeo Manchester: Object Lessons exhibition: coming soon – Opens 20 May 2017
Brendel plant models.
Image courtesy of Rosamond Purcell
NYBG/125: What in the World is a Herbarium
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 2017
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
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
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)
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
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
CLOSING SOON: 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
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
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: 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
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
COMING SOON: Bodleian Libraries: Volcanoes 10 February–21 May 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The Independent: Hidden Figures takes us back to a place where computers were women and black
The Guardian: Why Hidden Figures should win the best picture Oscar
The Guardian: McLaren trailer: new film tells the story of motor racing icon Bruce McLaren – video
The Mary Sue: Radioactive, a Biopic Based on a Marie Curie Graphic Novel Finds Its Director
NICHE: Guardians of Eternity: Confronting Giant Mine’s Toxic Legacy
The Verge: Watch the first trailer for HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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:
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Conrad Gesner Day 26 March 2017
Conrad Gessner memorial at the Old Botanical Garden, Zürich
Source: Wikimedia Commons
CHF: Joseph Priestley Society: Rachel K. King “Reflections on Building a Biotech Company: The Story (So Far!) of GlycoMimetics.” 16 March 2017
CHF: First Friday: Wikipedia and Women in Science 3 March 2017
TNMOC: Re-imagining Colossus – twice 16 March 2017
Old Operating Theatre: Costume Closure Day: Special Event 18 March 2017
History of Libraries Research Seminar: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 8 April 2017
Birkbeck Students Union: The Barry Coward Memorial Lecture: ‘Putting the Sea Back into Charles II: Pepys, the Stuarts, and the Missing Link of Restoration history’ 24 February 2017
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
UCL: Women’s Annual Flagship Lecture: Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier 7 March 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
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
National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours: January through March 2017
Cardiff University: Cheats, Liars and Fornicators: Alfred Russel Wallace and Mimicry 22 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:
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Eruption of Paricutin Volcano Michoacan, Mexico 1943
Youtube: Royal Society: Winning Microscope – Objectivity #108
Youtube: From Paper to Copper: The Engraver’s Process
Youtube: The manufacture of high-precision brass telescope tubes 1780 to 1990
Youtube: Royal Society: Frankenstein: Inspiring the monster
Youtube: Lincoln’s Corpse – Episode 11 – Under The Knife
Youtube: Tupolev SB2 bomber – WW2 Soviet Film
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: The Rise of the Robots
Innovation Hub: Paging Through History: Why Books Matter
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Royal Institution, London: Magic Lantern and Science Workshop: 17 March 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: 2017 Program Maintainers II 6–9 April 2017
NYAM: Public Programs
Vanderbilt University, Nashville: 11th Annual Southern History of Science and Technology (SoHoST) Meeting 7–8 April 2017
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Call for Submissions, Glenn Sonnedecker Prize
University of Notre Dame: Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop – ND XIII 5–9 July 2017
Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Center for the History of Emotions: CfP: Evidence of Feeling: Law, Science and Emotions in Modern Europe 10–11 April 2017
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: CfP: Mapping the Past, Exploiting the Future 21–22 July 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
St Anne’s College, Oxford: CfP: International Research Symposium: Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
New College, Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
University of Sydney: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18–19 April 2017
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
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
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 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
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
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
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)
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
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:
McGill University: Social Studies of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Technology, and Medicine
British Society for Literature and Science: Where Art and Science Meet: Art and Design at Oxford University Museum of Natural History (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award)
HSTM Network Ireland: Research Fellowships at the Worth Library, Dublin
Harvard University: Lecturers on the History of Science
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: School of Architecture and Built Environment: Ph.D. student in History of Science, Technology and Environment
Chelsea Physic Garden: Head Gardner Vacancy
University of St Andrews: School of History: Typewriters and commerce in Scotland, 1870s–1920s AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD Studentship
Whewell's Ghost 
Thony, At the top of this week’s Whewell’s Gazette, you raised the interesting question about commemorating scientists from the past whose attitudes woud not be acceptable today. I suggest that we should still commemorate them but also recognise how their attiitudes arose. So, to take the example of Galton, without the idea of natural selection from Darwin/Wallace and the understanding that the development of technology was reducing the effectiveness of natural selection in humans; eugenics, the replacement of natural selection by artificial selection, would never have arisen.
Darwin himself wrote in The Descent of Man, “We civilised men…. do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick.. .Thus the weak members of society propagate their kind.”
Now, I do not want to suggest that we simply take the Whig approach that we are all much better now and so can look down on historical figures. No doubt, in a century’s time people will be looking at what we are doing now and saying “however could they have thought that was acceptable”, but we are largely blind to our own failings because we share them with so many others; the same would have been true of eugenics a century ago. Although racism is linked to eugenics, to see it only through the prism of racism is to fail to see other facets such as the class-based aspect. It is the poor, the working classes, whom the the eugenicists were afraid of and wanted to restrict their breeding.
Muy bueno el contenido. Un saludo.