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 #31
Monday 20 March 2017
EDITORIAL:
Another week, another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing all of the histories of science, technology and medicine gathered up from the depths of cyberspace throughout the last seven days.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation (@ChemHeritage) gives up its Twitter feed on Fridays to guests from the world of #histSTM and #SciCom who then field and answer questions on their area of expertise. Last Friday this role was taken on by Anna Reser (@AnnaNReser) and Leila A. McNeill (@leilasedai) the founders and editors of the truly excellent Lady Science website, this being Women’s History Month.
During their stewardship of the CHF Twitter stream they tweeted the following series of tweets:
Why do we only remember a few women in the history of science, like Marie Curie? Why do their legacies have such permanence?
We’ve written about this–the problem of “phenom firsts.” Most women in science weren’t the “first!”
“Being the 1st to do almost anything usually guarantees a place in the historical record” There’s even a Wiki list!
But as you can probably guess, the phenomenon of the female first can be hugely problematic.
They tend to take up a lot of the available energy and focus in women’s history. These are typically the women the public pick out & lionize.
Another problem, most damaging being the perception that before the “first” there were simply no competent women available up to that point.
Female firsts is also a category that is coded male. Female firsts are only specially meaningful if they follow the male, the default first.
We often feel that we have to assign “a first” to a woman in order for her to be recognized.
So, where else should we look to find women in #histSTM lest we run out of firsts? (we pretty much have!) Tell us what you think?
Elizabeth Neswald (@eneswald1) responded:
Women were team memberscollborators/contributors to group projects along with men. Often only the male PI is well-known.
As did Michal Mayer (@michalme) and Christine Griffiths (@christineegriff) in dialogue:
MM: By focusing on 1sts easy to ignore amount of scientific work by women. See a few big trees and miss the landscape.
CG: So true. Esp. networks of women in previous centuries whose contributions were marginalized or buried.
MM: Suspect the burying was often not deliberate. Somerville got support from male friends in her network.
But if no one in the next generation points to what was done, that’s when the forgetting begins
CG: But thankfully there are many studies now to revive women’s histories & suss out hidden contributions.
There is much truth in these tweets and these exchanges and anybody setting out to do #histSTM research would do well to remember that behind the ‘big name’ pioneers in any field there is almost always an army of researchers doing a lot of the heavy lifting, many of them often women, who tend to get ignored or neglected by a hagiographic approach to historiography. Always look beyond the surface of the superficial accounts and acknowledge and honour those in the background.
Quotes of the week:
Swedish ambassador writing about the English, 1653: “insufferably arrogant, and it is possible that God will yet humble their pride” – Rebecca Rideal (@RebeccaRideal)
Oi, Brexiteers, you’ve made your bed now lie in it.
You haven’t made your bed?
You don’t have a bed?
No plans for a bed?
What’s a bed?
?**? – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
Will Rogers described an expert as “A man fifty miles from home with a briefcase” – Geek History (@GeekHistory)
“In the UK, 50 shades of Gray, isn’t a sexy book, it’s the weather report” – Brit (@kind_ofa_bitch)
“It’s of no use whatsoever … just an experiment that proves Maxwell was right” – Hertz on his discovery of radio waves h/t @petergallagher
“That one can truly manage other people is by no means adequately proven” – Peter Drucker h/t @JohnDCook
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are” – W. Somerset Maugham h/t @johnalan57
“I’m not a big fan of Donald Trump, but I’d never denigrate his supporters.
If you’re a Trump supporter, denigrate means to put down” – Gay Green Liberal (@TheNotoriousGGL)
“Is there any evidentiary basis for the claim that feeding Republicans improves their performance?” – EMTO (@FrueheNeuzeit)
Thucydides quote Medieval History (@medievalhistory)
Birthday of the Week:
Caroline Herschel born 16 March 1750
we are all in the gutter: Happy Birthday Caroline Herschel!
brainpickings: Hooked on the Heavens: How Caroline Herschel, the First Professional Woman Astronomer, Nearly Died by Meathook in the Name of Science
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Sorry Caroline but you were not the first, Maria was
Anna Atkins born 16 March 1799
Portrait of Anna Atkins, albumen print, 1861
Photographer unknown
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Anna Atkins – Botanist and Photographer
ThoughtCo: Biography of Anna Atkins: The first published woman photographer
Joseph Priestley born 13 March 1733
Engraving of Joseph Priestley by Charles Turner, after a painting by Henry Fuseli.
Courtesy The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, The University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
ACS: Joseph Priestly and the Discovery of Oxygen
Giovanni Schiaparelli born 14 March 1835
Schiaparelli’s planisphere of Mercury
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Giovanni Schiaparelli and the Martian Canals
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Giovanni Schiaparelli
Uranus discovered 13 March 1781
Replica of the telescope used by Herschel to discover Uranus.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHI Blog: Sir William Herschel and the Discovery of Uranus
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A Herschel comes seldom alone
Royal Museums Greenwich: The Herschel family and the Royal Observatory
Albert Einstein born 14 March 1879
Einstein at the age of 3 in 1882
Source: Wikimedia Commons
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think” – Albert Einstein
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Albert Einstein
AIP Center for the History of Physics: A Einstein: Image and Impact
The Curious Wavefunction: On Albert Einstein’s Birthday: How Eddington and Einstein set an example for the international fellowship of science
Smithsonian.com: How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism
Untapped Cities: Daily What? Albert Einstein’s Eyeballs are Stored in a Safety Deposit Box in NYC
John Snow born 15 March 1813
Biography UK: John Snow–Physician (1813–1858)
This Day in Water History: March 15, 1813: Birth of Dr. John Snow
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Today in Ladybird 13th March 1930 scientists announce the discovery of ‘planet’ Pluto. (Poor Pluto)
Library of Congress: Relative Magnitude of Planets
AEON: Sky readers
Table Top Whale: The Goddesses of Venus: A topographical map
ESA: Giotto: Halley – Flyby: 13 March 1986
AHF: Jean Bacher Computer
The Catholic Astronomer: Punished for Proving
The New York Times: Ron Drever, Physicist Who Helped Confirm Einstein’s Theory, Dies at 85
NASA: NASA Celebrating 90 Years: Robert Goddard’s Rocket and the Launch of Spaceflight
EDN network: 1st liquid-fueled rocket launches, March 16, 1926
Nautilus: A Brief History of the Grand Unified Theory of Physics
NASA: Vanguard 1
NASA: James Irwin
SciHi Blog: Friedrich Bessel and the distances of Stars
SciHi Blog: Daniel Bernoulli and the Bernoulli Principle
SciHi Blog: Christian Doppler and the Doppler Effect
Smithsonian.com: How Do New Planets Get Their Names?
Report in New York Times compared Bohr’s theory of complementarity, describing dual aspects of particles, to tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde h/t @phalpern
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Library of Congress: New Correct Map of the Flat Surface, Stationary Earth
Boston Rare Maps: A landmark in the mapping of New Hampshire and Vermont
The National: National Library displays antique world map after painstaking conservation work
Conservator Clare Thomson and schoolteacher Brian Crossan with Gerard Vlack’s 17th-century map at the National Library
Harvard University Library: Open Collections Program: Expeditions & Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age
Royal Museums Greenwich: Matthew Flinders
The Ledger Independent: Rare maps of Ohio River, Lexington Road purchased by KGMC
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize: A “Cult of Productivity”: Treatment Regimes in the Colonial Maltese “Lunatic” Asylum, 1850–1900
Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize: Pawprints in the Hospital
Thomas Morris: The mystery of the poisonous neckerchief
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: African American Physicians in the Civil War Era
Hektoen International: The Bank of England appointed its 1st medical officer in 1809
IWM: Lives of the First World War: Radiographers, Radiologists, and X-Ray Operators
Civil Discourse: The “Murder” at Shy Mansion: Embalming in the Civil War
Columbia University Medical Centre: Women’s History Month: Four Women Who Made a Difference at CUMC
Hektoen International: Paracelsus: physician and alchemist
Thomas Morris: Anaesthesia for lions (and bears)
M Dentistry: Lucy Beaman Hobbs Taylor, First Woman DDS
Lucy Beaman Hobbs Taylor. Photo courtesy of kansasmemory.org, Kansas State Historical Society.
Thomas Morris: A leech on the eyeball
A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: Archibald Menzies: Doctor, Scientist, Adventurer
SciHI Blog: Waldemar Haffkine and his Vaccines
Hektoen International: Lithotripsy. A historical review
Royal College of Physicians: Thomas Willis: the father of neurology
NYAM: The “Best” Tonic: Pabst Malt Extract Pamphlets in the Academy Library
Girl in yellow embracing a Pabst Malt Extract bottle.
Thomas Morris: deafened by a kiss
British Library: Untold lives blog: Aristotle’s Masterpiece: What to expect when you’re expecting, seventeenth-century style
Hektoen International: The early days in the history of appendectomy
JSTOR Daily: Joseph Lister’s Antiseptic Revolution
Lister spraying phenol over the wound while the doctors perfor an operation.
via Wikimedia Commons
John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog: Neurosurgery & Long-term Medical Effects of WWI
Lady Science: The History of Data is the History of Labor
Alabama Yesterdays: Bryce Hospital: Some Photographs (1)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Conciatore: Dianora Parenti
Conciatore: The Neri Sisters
The Guardian: US retires Predator drones after 15 years that changed the ‘war on terror’
CEO’s Blog: Canadian Railway Innovators and Innovations
Smithsonian.com: The Teenager Who Patented Earmuffs Kept His Town Employed for 60 Years
Inovation150: IMAX® Projector
IMAX® Projector
IWM: Lives of the First World War: Description of the box respirator, designed by Bertram Lambert
O Say Can You See?: The Spirograph and kinematic models: Making math touchable (and pretty)
Geek History: Internet and World Wide Web visionaries ponder surviving world war
AEON: Web of war
Argunners Magazine: Rare WWII German Enigma machine sold for €149,000
Innovation150: Henry Seth Taylor Steam Carriage
Henry Seth Taylor with his steam buggy, ca 1867. Source: Colby-Curtis Museum, Stanstead, Quebec
Dark Roasted Blends: Extraordinary Inventions: Victorian-Era Prank Machines
Smithsonian.com: Hot Food, Fast: The Home Microwave Oven Turns 50
History of Massachusetts Blog: History of the Boston Subway: The First Subway in America
Ptak Science Books: Department of “What is It?” (#9) A New Way of “Conducting” War
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
SciHi Blog: Charles Lapworth and the Ordovican Period
OUP: Ice Time
Darwin Correspondence Project: The geology of the Beagle voyage
NICHE: A Landscape of Science: The Go Home Bay Biological Station
Forbes: How Biology Pioneer Carl Linnaeus Once Tried to Classify Minerals
The New York Times: How Darwin Evolved: 25,540 Paper Fragments Tell the Story
A chronic reorganizer, Charles Darwin arranged his notes according to topics that interested him at the time. Credit Brian Harkin for The New York Times
Historical SciArt: Cécile Pfulb-Kastner
Saskatoon Star Phoenix: History Matters: Prince Albert National Park wardens go hunting … for elk
Niche: #EnvHist Daily
SciHi Blog: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Weather Forecast
Canadian Geographical: Why the North Pole matters: An important history of challenges and global fascination
Heinrich Scherer’s 1702 chart of the North Pole and surrounding areas. (Map courtesy Toronto Public Library)
NICHE: #EnvHist Worth Reading: February 2017
A Short History of Climate Change: A beard, some mountains and the mysterious X Club
The Recipes Project: WYL BUCKE HIS TESTAMENT, OR, AN ODE TO DINING ON VENISON
Tetrapod Zoology: The Soay Island Sea Monster of 1959
Nursing Clio: The Anti-Vaccine Movement, Bad Science, and the Rise of Fake News
Linda Hal Library: Scientist of the Day – William Withering
William Withering analysing thermal waters in Portugal
Nature: Earth’s lost history of planet-altering eruptions revealed
Science: The origins of North America’s bison ‘invasion’
Niche: Dyeing to be Green: The Chicago River and St. Patrick’s Day
Science Direct: Friedrich Miescher and the discovery of DNA
Friedrich Miescher Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Rudolf Diesel and his famous Engine
SciHi Blog: Traian Vuia’s Flight Experiments
Independent: Obituary: Professor J. Z. Young
CHEMISTRY:
CHF: William Henry Perkin: A Happy Accident: Mauve
A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself at the age of 14—four years before he discovered the first synthetic dyestuff.
CHF Collections.
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Federico Cesi
The Public Domain Review: Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History
UCLA: Chemistry & Biochemistry: Forget genius. Science is the product of less-than-brilliant minds
Auxiliary Hypothesis: Sommerfield’s Miracle: The Ultimate Challenge to Scientific Realism
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: Martin Martin, experimental philosophy and Baconian natural history
BHL: Ferrante Imperato: Step Into His Cabinet of Wonders
The first published pictorial representation of a Renaissance cabinet of curiosity in Ferrante Imperato’s Dell’historia Naturale. (Image digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.)
PhilSci Archive: The History of Science as a Graveyard of Theories: A Philosophers’ Myth?
Medium: The Smartest House in Princeton
Gridium: The dark side of innovation, seen from Bell Labs, Mars, and maintenance
The Telegraph: 10 brilliant examples of what life was like before the internet existed
Museum Association: Growing resistance to Stonehenge tunnel
Notches: Beyond the Culture wars: Homosexual Histories 2016
Blink: The snake and the lotus
Life in squares: Game of Heaven and Hell (Jnana Bagi), snakes and ladders in Jain cosmology
Source: Wikimedia Commons
National Geographic: The Underappreciated Man Behind the “Best Graphic Ever Produced”
SciHi Blog: Carsten Niebuhr and the Decipherment of Cuneiform
Historiens de la santé: L’Année balzacienne 2016: Mal, maladie dans La Comédie humaine Table of Contents
Lady Science: Mary Somerville, A Domestic Icon of Science
Thomas Phillips – Mary Fairfax, Mrs William Somerville, 1780 – 1872.
ISIS: A Second Look: Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Twelve Essays Open Access
Future Learning: Online Course: Health and Wellbeing in the Ancient World
Making Science Public: Science as a cultural institution: The role of metaphors
ESOTERIC:
BOOK REVIEWS:
BookRiot: 100 Must-Read Books About the History of Medicine
Forbes: Wellcome Book Prize 2017 Shortlist Revealed
The Guardian: Wellcome prize shortlist announced: books that ‘will change lives’
The Washington Post: What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbs
An illustration of the scarlet pimpernel plant from a 14th-century manuscript. (Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions)
The Verge: Why it’s so important for girls to find role models in female scientists
The New Yorker: Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History?
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: L’hôpital Sainte-Anne. Pionnier de la psychiatrie et des neurosciences au cœur de Paris
The University of Chicago Press: Wildness: Relations of People and Place
Historiens de la santé: Hippocrate, Tome XVI, Problèmes hippocratiques
Historiens de la santé: Medical Education in East Asia: Past and Future
CUP: British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860–1918 Online Open Access
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Boston Public Library: Exhibition: Regions and Seasons: Mapping Climate through History 4 March–27 August 2017
Osher Map Library: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities
Ambika P3 University of Westminster: CASEBOOKS: Six contemporary artists and an extraordinary medical archive 17 March–23 April 2017
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
Hyperallergic: Artistic Expressions of Math Over Seven Centuries Through 8 May 2017
Peter Flötner, “Perspectival Drawing with Three Cubes” (1528), pen and black ink, brush and grey wash (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jean A. Bonna Gift)
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–25 June 2017
Feeling the buzz … 1910 advertisement for body lotion. Photograph: Wellcome Collection
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
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
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
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
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:
Paleofuture: Rare Nuclear Test Films Saved, Declassified, and Uploaded to Youtube
Atlas Obscura: Dozens of Previously Hidden Nuclear Test Videos Declassified, Uploaded to Youtube
Kazinform: Hollywood actors and Kazakhstani stuntmen starred in Lola Karimova’s film about Ulugh Beg
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:
University of Leeds: Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Lecture 13: Perpetual Motion Machine 28 March 2017
National Library of Ireland, Dublin: ICHS Relaunch Symposium: ‘Past, Present and Future: Reflections on Modern Historiography’ 29 March 2017
West End Baptist Church, Halifax: Lecture: Science, Religion & the New Atheism 1 April 2017
The Center for Science & Society Columbia University: Neil Safier – Where Entangled Empires and Early Modern Science Intertwine: An Iberoamerican Perspective 29 March 2017
Whitechapel Gallery: Maps to the Stars 6 April 2017
AIP: Lyne Starling Trimble Public Lecture: Einstein in California 22 March 2017
The Royal Society: Prize lecture: The curious history of curiosity-driven research 4 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians: Lecture: Cracking the DNA code: can human genome sequencing help save lives in the NHS? With Dr Richard Scott 28 March 2017
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Conrad Gesner Day 26 March 2017
Conrad Gessner memorial at the Old Botanical Garden, Zürich
Source: Wikimedia Commons
History of Libraries Research Seminar: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 8 April 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
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
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
TELEVISION:
Vulture: Trailer for HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
digg: Check Out This Extremely Clever Lock Made in 1680
Vimeo: Building a Chinese Typewriter, with Tom Mullaney
Youtube: The Walrus: Fish and Indigenous Law
Web of Stories: John Wheeler: Hawking’s pair production
Youtube: The Dead House – Episode 12 – Under the Knife
Youtube: Ian Ramsey Centre: Peter Harrison – The Shifting Territories of Science and Religion?
Youtube: Jefferson ATS 101: Riccioli’s Gravity Laboratory: Towers in Bologna
Youtube: Jefferson ATS 101: Lord Rosse’s Bourbon Barrel Telescope
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry: Series 5
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Women and Enlightenment Science
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Cambridge, Christ’s College: Conference: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World 1400-1750 3–4 April 2017
The Recipes Project: What is a Recipe?: A Recipes Project Virtual Conversation 2 June–5July 2017
APS: 2017 History of Physics Essay Contest Deadline 1 September 2017
The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew: Joseph Dalton Hooker Bicentenary Meeting: The Making of Modern Botany 30 June 2017
SHMCNG, Archives départementales Nîmes: Appel à communications: Hygiène et santé en Bas-Languedoc oriental du XVIIIe siècle aux lendemains du premier conflit mondial la fin septembre 2017
Madison Wisconsin: Conference: CfP: Book History and Digital Humanities 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 15 April 2017
EUI – History of Science: #BSHSPG2017 programme is out
Historiens de la santé: Appel à candidatures: Prix Henry-E. Sigerist pour la promotion de la relève en histoire de la médecine et des sciences naturelles avant le 15 Avril 2017
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
University of Birmingham: Symposium: Science & Religion 24 April 2017
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague: Conference: Scientists and “Third World Countries” in the 1960s to 1980s 23–24 November 2017
Libori Summer School: Émilie Du Châtelet: Matter, Bodies, Forces, Motion 23–28 July 2017
Somatosphere: CfP: Speculative Health Deadline 1 June 2017
Hamburg Museum of Medical History: CfP: XVI.th Conference of the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine (DPGGM): Historical Aspects of Preventive Healthcare in Germany and Poland 12–14 July 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Warburg Institute: Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture 22–25 May 2017
London Metropolitan Archives: Symposium: Exploring Hospital Records and Archives 28 April 2017
Hôpital Militaire Reine Astrid, Bruxelles: Symposium d’ASKLEPIOS: Transmission de l’information en radiologie hier et aujourd’hui 25 mars 2017
Université de Genève: Appel à communication: Produire du nouveau ? Arts – Techniques – Sciences en Europe (1400-1900) 23–25 novembre 2017 avant le 15 mars 2017
Christ’s College, Cambridge: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World 1400–1750
Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée: Appel à contribution: Corps au travail. Performance, discipline et fatigue à l’épreuve du métier (XVIIe-XXe siècle) 30 juin-1er juillet 2017 avant le 10 avril 2017
University of Bern: Conference: Thinking about Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity 13–15 September 2017
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: SHAC Award Scheme open for applications Deadline 31 May 2017
University of Colorado in Boulder: CfP: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science 13–15 October 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Jagiellonian University Krakow: CfP. Traumatic Modernities: From Comparative Literature to Medical Humanities 19–21 April 2017 Deadline 14 March 2017
Journée d’étude pluridisciplinaire: Appel à communications: Corps et dépendances Date limite : 30 avril 2017
Philosophia Scientiae: Journal CfP
Durban, KZN, South Africa: CfP: Philosophy of Technology Symposium 22–23 July 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh: CfP: British Society for the History of Medicine Congress 13–16 September 2017 Deadline 31 May 2017
Sheraton City Centre, Toronto: CfP: History of Science Society (HSS) 2017 Conference 19–121 November 2017 Deadline 3 April 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
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
University of Helsinki: CfP: International Seminar: Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes 27–28 April 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 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
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
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 18–20 May 2017
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 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
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
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
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
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
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:
BSHS: CFA: PhD Studentships with the Science Museum
The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine: Research Fellowship Deadline 15 May 2017
The Scientific Committee on Polar Research: PhD Opportunity: Unlocking the SCAR archive: the sixty-year long consolidation of Antarctic governance through polar research
Cushing/Whitney Medical History Library, Yale: Call for Applications: Research Travel Grants
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