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 #34
Monday 10 April 2017
EDITORIAL:
Another week has flowed by in the world of #histSTM and it’s time once again for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list to deliver up its cornucopia of the histories of science, technology and medicine harvested on the banks of cyberspace over the last seven days.
The decision made by a minority of British voters to leave the European Union has provoked some truly bizarre claims and wishes on the part of those so eager to escape to an imaginary past where everything was better and those pesky continentals didn’t meddle in the affairs of the true blue islanders. Perhaps the most bizarre from a #histSTM standpoint is the wish of those, over a certain age, to return to the golden age of chains, rods, poles and perches, and gills, fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons, that is the ‘good old’ imperial system of measurement.
This is particular bizarre for at least three reasons. Firstly the main wish is to be able to buy produce in shops in pounds and ounces again, but this has always been possible under EU regulations so it wasn’t necessary to leave the EU to fulfil this particular desire. Germany has a rather convenient colloquial arrangement, when one goes shopping one can buy a pound (German pfund) or half a pound of carrots with no problems. What one gets is half or a quarter of a kilo. A half-kilo is approximately 46 grams more than a pound, which in terms of fruit and vegetables is a difference that one can neglect without worry. I just wish that those Brits who desire the return to the pounds of their distant childhood were as pragmatic. The term distant childhood illustrates very nicely the second problem, the UK went metric in 1965, which means anybody under the age of about fifty has only really experienced the metric system and would find the imperial system totally strange and extremely unwieldy. The third oddity is the fact that the UK went metric in 1965 that’s six whole years before it joined the EU! Put quite simply, viewed historically the adoption of the metric system and joining the EU had nothing to do with each other.
The conservative politicians pushing for Brexit keep repeating the mantra that by leaving the EU the UK will be opening up to the world. If upon leaving the EU they abandon the metric system and return to the imperial one they will be aligning themselves with the USA, Myanmar and Liberia, the only three countries in the world that don’t use the metric system as their official national system of measurement, not exactly what one would normally understand by opening up to the world.
Quotes of the week:
“To Spanish friends: please ignore anything the UK says just now, we are having a nervous breakdown. We hope the medication will arrive soon” – Philip Ball(@philipcball)
“1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet = 63360 inches. You know it makes sense! Let’s get rid of the ridiculous metric system” – Carsten Timmermann (@ctimmermann)
“Imagine if your life was so unutterably empty that the colour of your passport was something you gave a shit about.” Best comment so far – Darren Johnson (@DarrenJohnson66)
“In the row over Cadbury’s eggs I think the true spirit of Easter is being lost which is to eat so much chocolate you are physically sick” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events” – William James h/t @peterbroks
“It all became clear when I realised that the UK is a parody account” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“A man between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats” – Benjamin Franklin
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead”–Thomas Paine
“May the wings of liberty never lose a feather” – Jack Burton h/t @LeapingRobot
“We knew there were lots of stars. Then we found out there are lots of galaxies. Now there are lots of planets too – History of Astronomy” – Peter Coles (@telescoper)
“Spencer’s phrase Survival of the fittest does not appear in On the Origin of Species until the fifth edition” – “And “evolution” does not appear until the 6th edition”
“Science is an accretion of provisional certainties” – Jerome Groopman h/t @PiersatPenn
Birthday of the Week:
David Rittenhouse born 8 April 1732
David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: “…and then he missed it” – David Rittenhouse and the Transit of Venus 1769
SciHi Blog: David Rittenhouse and the Transit of Venus
Penn University Archives & Records Center: David Rittenhouse (1732–1796)
William Henry Jackson born 4 April 1843
William Henry Jackson, as a member of the U. S. Geological Survey exploring the Teton country in 1872
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – William Henry Jackson
Yellowstone’s Photo Collection: Jackson Photos
Hayden party; William H Jackson; No date
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
ESA: Space in Images: SENTINEL-1 Solar Wing
Voices of the Manhattan Project: To Fermi – with Love – Part 2
One Big Monkey: Apollo 16 Ultra-violet photography
Lights in the Dark: These Photos Taken from the Moon Show Lots and Lots of Stars
Libraries University of Missouri: Library News Hub: Johannes de Sacrobosco and the sphere of the universe
NASA: Mars Rover Leader Peter Theisinger Receives National Trophy
NASA: NASA’s Cassini Mission Prepares for ‘Grand Finale’ at Saturn
AHF: Warren Nyer
Phys Org: Scientists reconstruct space history with ancient texts
AHF: Robert Serber
The Catholic Astronomer: Astronomy in Art & Architecture: Covington, Kentucky, USA
The Chronicle of the Fall: 648BC Apr. 6: Event #2648: Earliest solar eclipse to be chronicled by the Greeks
The Public Domain Review: The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky (1877)
University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection: Counting Atoms in the ISOTRACE facility
staff.science.uu.ni: The astrolabe: Description, History and Bibliography
Smithsonian Nation Air and Space Museum: How Being Deaf Made the Difference in Space Research
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Vincenzo Viviani
Vincenzo Viviani (April 5, 1622 – September 22, 1703) Portrait by Domenico Tempesti (1652-1718)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
ESA: Space Science: 8 April 1998 ISO ended its observational phase
SciHi Blog: Kamerlingh Onnes and Superconductivity
AHF: James Tuck
American History: The Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon de Witt
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Atlas Obscura: The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced a Map of the World
Earth according to Fra Mauro. PUBLIC DOMAIN
History Today: Celebrity, Politics and Francis Drake
Royal Museums Greenwich: Sir Francis Drake
The Mountaineers: Mary Anderson, Mountaineer and REI Co-Founded, Passes Away at 107
SciHi Blog: Robert Cavelier de La Salle and his Mississippi ExpeditionSciHi Blog: Jacob Roggeveen and the Easter Island
British Library: data.bl.uk: Pelagios Project: Medieval maps, itineraries and charts
SciHi Blog: Jacob Roggeveen and the Easter Island
Map of Jacob Roggeveen’s voyage in 1722
Harvard Maps: The Longest Map in Our Collection
National Geographic: How Maps Became Deadly Innovations in WWI
Ptak Science Books: Two Compasses by Paul Revere, 1772
Boston Rare Maps: A rare and curious “planisphere”
New York Public Library: The NYC Space/Time Directory: Building the Future of NYC’s Past
The Orkney News: Dr John Rae: Arctic Explorer
ohn Rae statue (2013) © Copyright Jo Turner
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
h/t JF Ptak (@ptak)
brainpickings: The Illustrated Story of Persian Polymath Ibn Sina and How He Shaped the Course of Medicine
Thomas Morris: A fishy business
Wellcome Collection: The ‘Obscene’ Doctor
The Public Domain Review: Reed Bontecou’s Portraits of Wounded Soldiers (1865)
Nursing Clio: Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe free: Tuberculosis in Progressive Era New York City
Origins of Science as a Visual Pursuit: The Carrara Herbal – Sarah Kyle’s Pandora’s box
Fig. 1. Anonymous, Frontispiece with Carrara heraldry and “Citron” (Citrus medica, L., citron tree), Carrara Herbal, London, British Library, Egerton 2020, f. 4r, 35 × 24 cm, gouache on vellum, Padua, ca. 1390–1400. Copyright © The British Library Board
Concocting History: Grandmas and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Beyond
History of Medicine and Allied Sciences: Nature or Artifice? Grafting in Early Modern Surgery and Agronomy
SciHi Blog: John Hughlings Jackson and his studies of Epilepsy
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: An illustrated Old English Herbal
Dr Alun Withey: Barbers and Shaving in early modern Britain
Chawton House Library: Woman writer of the month: Elizabeth Blackwell
Blackwell’s beautiful illustration of the dandelion includes drawings of seeds and progression of growth.
Nursing Clio: “Save Changes”: Telling Stories of Disability Protest
Thomas Morris: Hip hip
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society
Early Modern Medicine: Thomas Gibson’s Life and Times
SSHM: A “Cult of Productivity”: Treatment Regimes in the Colonial Maltese”Lunatic” Asylum, 1850–1900
The Recipes Project: Treating the Stone in Sixteenth-Century Wales (according to the Vicar of Gwenddwr)
Smithsonian.com: This Feminist Psychologist-Turned-Rock-Star Led a Full Life of Resistance
Naomi Weisstein was a feminist activist, a neuropsychologist and, for a brief time, a rock ‘n roll musician. (Harvard University, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America)
Royal College of Physicians: Pharmacological preparations: evidence from the RCP library and archives
Old Operating Theatre: John Snow, the First English Anaesthetist, Part 5 – Anaesthetist to Queen Victoria
UCLA: Department of Epidemiology: Anesthesia and Queen Victoria
History for Atheists: Cats, the Black Death and a Pope
Thomas Morris: Cart to heart
Danny Dutch: Historical photos circulating depict women medical pioneers
The first female doctors from India, Japan and Syria, as students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1885. (Photo: Legacy Center Archives, Drexel University College of Medicine)
Res Obscura: On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674
quiteirregular: “the civility of my knee, my hat and hand”: Thomas Browne’s “Religio Medici”
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
SciHi Blog: Sir Benjamin Baker and the Forth Bridge
SciHi Blog: The Legend of the Pony Express
Illustrated Map of Pony Express Route in 1860
by William Henry Jackson
~ Courtesy the Library of Congress ~
History Today: The first Pony Express
Atlas Obscura: When Cyclists, Not Drivers, Led the Charge for Better Roads
SciHi Blog: Nadar and the Art of Photography
Conciatore: Rosichiero Glass
Conciatore: The Glassmakers Salamander
The New York Times: Ikutaro Kakehashi, Engineer Behind Revolutionary Drum Machine, Dies at 87
Ikutaro Kakehashi founded the Roland Corporation to create electronic instruments. Credit Rex Features, via Associated Press
Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History: Anthony George Lyster
The Northern Echo: Iconic swan makes journey home to Barnard Castle museum
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: Meddling Metals in Early Virginia
University of Cambridge: Digital Library: Papers of the Board of Longitude: Correspondence regarding miscellaneous schemes and inventions
Geek History: Internet and World Wide Web visionaries ponder surviving world war
Television History –The First 75 Years: 1930 Two-Way Television by Bell Laboratories
Smithsonian.com: World War I: 100 Years Later: Women On the Frontline of WWI Came to Operate Telephones
Women of the Signal Corps run General Pershing’s switchboard at the First Army headquarters. (Courtesy of National Archives)
The Science Museum: Introducing the Draughtsman–Writer automaton
Geek History: Pittsburgh at the forefront of technology invention and innovation
Ptak Science Books: A Technical Report on the V-1, January 1945
Altered Automotive: A Gallery of Automotive Innovation and Transportation Museum
SciHi Blog: Designers Should Think Big – Isambard Kingdom Brunel
AHF: Computing and the Manhattan Project
Science Museum: Drawings of the Great Eastern steam ship
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A Renaissance artist-engineer icon – Vitruvian Man
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
The Guardian: Bloodthirsty chomp-monster or sensitive lover? Time to rethink Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosauroidea Central: Introducing Daspletosaurus horneri, the Two Medicine Tyrannosaurine: Ontogeny
Royal Astronomical Society: Paintings, sunspots and frost fairs… rethinking the Little Ice Age
Science: In Louisiana, a threatened natural history collection gets a reprieve
Nature Physics: A ton for Thompson’s tome
The Public Domain Review: Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)
The Primate Diaries: The Good Fight
Notches: The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem
Environmental History: Teaching Environmental History: Canada in Context
SciHi Blog: Melvin Calvin and the Calvin Cycle
Forbes: How Mendel Channeled Darwin
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – David Fairchild
David Fairchild in 1940, tasting the fruit of an antidesma tree in Indonesia. (Courtesy Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden)
Smithsonian.com: This Swashbuckling Botanist Changed America’s Landscapes
CHEMISTRY:
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Rachel Erlanger’s Interview
Lemelsen Center: Coffee in an Instant
Smithsonian.com: Arsenic and Old Tastes Made Victorian Wallpaper Deadly
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
AEON: If Aquinas is a philosopher then so are the Islamic theologians
Detail from ‘The Meeting of the Theologians’ by Abd Allah Musawwir, mid-16th century. Courtesy Wikipedia.
IET: Research and document supply service
U.S. Intellectual History Blog: A Woman’s Work: Field Notes
Unpaywall: Read paywalled research papers for free
Science: As scientists prepare to march, Science for the People reboots
Georgian Gentleman: Another chance to gaze into my crystal ball, 1829: The March of Intellect
BSHS Viewpoint: No. 111 October 2016: Science Stories
University of West Florida: Society for American Archaeology honors UWF professor for public education
Newcastle University: Gertrude Bell Archive
arXiv.org: What is Science?
Londonist: Ever Wondered What the 1851 Great Exhibition Was Like?
The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park.
Medium: The New York Crystal Palace Catalogs
History of Medicine in Ireland: Alcohol, Medicine and Irish Society, c.1890–1970 by Alice Mauger Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellowship
Smithsonian.com: Liberals and Conservatives Read Totally Different Books About Science
Googlre.com: 28 Groundbreaking Women in Science
archives.techno-science.ca: Welcome to the Open Archives Portal at the Canadian Science and Technology Museum!
New York Crystal Palace 1853: Digital Publication
AEON: A fault in our design
Forbes: Is That Skeleton Gay? The Problem With Projecting Modern Ideas Onto the Past
Nature: Natural-history collections face fight for survival
ESOTERIC:
The Recipes Project: Practical Magic in a Suffolk Village
The Guardian: Medieval villages mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds
The Wharram Percy excavation area as it looks today. Photograph: Pete Horne/Historic England/PA
The Public Domain Review: Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
BOOK REVIEWS:
Backlist: Historians recommend the books they love: Science and Technology
Popular Science: A History of the Solar System – Claudio Vita-Finzi
TNMoC: Lorenz: Breaking Hitler’s Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park
The Atlantic: Trees Have Their Own Songs
Nature: a view from the bridge: A wily plotter and his pioneering atlas
Geographical: Zero Degrees by Charles WJ Withers
Notches: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil
lectures.revues.org: Nathalie Sage Pranchère, L’école des sages-femmes. Naissance d’un corps professionnel (1786-1917)
Barbara Copperthwaite: ‘Dazzling’ The Malay Archipelago, Alfred Russel Wallace
Sara’s Blog: Early Modern Medicine and Women’s Health
Richard Carter: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Anne Dillard
Richard Carter: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Nineteenth Century American Asylums. A History in Postcards
puf: Sur la douleur
Historiens de la santé: Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Epel Edition: Critique de la raison asilaire
Historiens de la santé: Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Lyndsey Clark: Review: Maths Gallery at the Science Museum
Arizona State University: Rare ASU map collection reveals truths about history of American Southwest
Old Operating Theatre: Virtual Tour
Criminal Corpses: Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpses – Online Exhibition
BHL: Celebrating Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker with Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place 25 March–17 September 2017
Daguerreotype of J.D. Hooker by William Edward Kilburn, circa 1852
BSBI News & Views: Celebrating the life of J.D. Hooker
IET: Archives: Online Exhibitions
Oxford Today: Volcanoes – from catastrophe to the sublime
The British Museum: Where the Thunderbird lives: cultural resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America 23 February–27 August 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Mummies Opens Now
Biodiversity Library Exhibition: Early Women in Science
Maria Emma Gray (1787–1876), was an English conchologist and algologist
SD Times: Computer History Museum debuts Make Software exhibit
Harvard Map Collection: Exhibition Analysis 1: Commemorative and Humanitarian Disasters
University of Southern Maine: Osher Map Library to celebrate new exhibition “To Conquer or Submit? American views the Great War” 100 years after U.S. involvement in WWI
St John’s College: Under the Knife at St John’s: New exhibition showcases a medical history of disease and dissection
Museum of Richmond: The Royal Star & Garter: 100 Years of Care till 29 April 2017
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
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
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
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:
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Mad to Be Normal’: Film Review
Paleofuture: Rare Nuclear Test Films Saved, Declassified, and Uploaded to Youtube
Atlas Obscura: Dozens of Previously Hidden Nuclear Test Videos Declassified, Uploaded to Youtube
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:
Senate House, University of London: Maps and Society Lectures: Privateering and Navigational Practice: Edward Wright and the First Mercator Chart, 1599
Discover Medical London: London’s Medical Cabinets of Curiosity
The Houses of Parliament: Talk: Conserving the Great Clock of Westminster: Big Ben 5 May 2017
TNMoC: Easter Bytes 6–9 April & 13–17 April 2017
Royal Institution: Lecture: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance – Eric Scerri 20 July 2017
Royal College of Physicians: The Library of Dr John Dee 19 April 2017
NYAM: Lady Mary’s Legacy: Vaccine Advocacy from The Turkish Embassy Letters to Video Games 6 April, 2017
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: Lecture: From Farmer’s Daughter to Physician: The Advocacy Activism, and Legacy of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter and Her Contemporaries 25 April 2017
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: J. Worth Estes Lecture: Spare Parts Hope, Drama and Dispute: Heart Transplantation and Total Artificial Heart Implant Cases in the 1960s 23 May 2017
Senate, House, University of London: Maps and Society Lectures: ‘Privateering and Navigational Practice: Edward Wright and the First Mercator Chart, 1599’ 27 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians: The Library of John Dee 20 April 2017
JIC Conference Centre, Norwich: Lecture: Dr. Patricia Fara – Botanical Boudicas and Scientific Soldiers: Struggles past and Present 20 April 2017
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
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departures: 9 March 2017 & 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
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:
BBC FOUR: The Beauty of Anatomy
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Brenna Hassett: Built on Bones – Talks at Google
The Royal Society: The curious history of curiosity-driven research
Metrocosm: The history of urbanisation, 3700 BC – 2000 AD
Why Evolution is True: The peppered moth – a video
West Midlands History: James Watt’s workshop – Inventing the modern world
RADIO & PODCASTS:
British Library: Sounds: Industry: water, steel & energy
BBC Radio 4: Afternoon Drama: Nichola McAuliffe – The Incomparable Witness (Sir Bernard Spilsbury the father of modern forensics)
Back Story: Body Politics: Disability in America
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Pauli’s Exclusion Principle
media.gettyimages.com: Einstein
BBC Radio 4: Did the Victorians Ruin the World?
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Science Alive podcasts
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Baconian Science
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Sevilla, Institute of Mathematics: CfP: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical question 18-20 Sept. 2017
Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam: Symposium: Madness in Civilization. Current research into the history of psychiatry in the Low Countries 2 June 2017
University of Warwick: People’s History of the NHS: Conference: Institutional Diet: History and Policy 21 April 2017
University of Sheffield: The 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017
Kings’s College London: Conference: CfP: The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and The Classical Body 18–19 June 2017
Colloque National Annuel des Espaces de Réflexion Ethique Régionaux Journée scientifique: Appel à communication: La Transgression en santé Date limite d’envoi des propositions : dimanche 16 juillet 2017
University of London: Institute of Historical Research: CfP: The Hakluyt Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
University of Amsterdam: Maria Sibylla Merian Conference 7-9 June 2017
Durham University: CfP: Toxic Legacies, Global Pollutants 29–30 June 2017
Royal Institution: New and Old Themes in the History of Chemistry 20 May 2017
Society for the History of Technology: Prizes
University of Crete: CfP: Ancient Greek and Indian Medicine: Achievements and Interactions 6 June 2017 Deadline 17 April 2017
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde: CfP: Understanding the Intersection of Alcoholism, Stigma, and Disability: Past and Present 1–2 March 2018 Deadline 3 July 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Technique in Early Modern Europe 10–12 May 2017
University of Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
Society for the History of Technology: The Dibner Award 2017 Deadline 1 May 2017
The Recipes Project: What is a Recipe?: A Recipes Project Virtual Conversation 2 June–5 July 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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
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
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
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
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
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 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
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 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
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 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:
Uppsala Universitet: 3–4 PhD positions in History of Science and Ideas
Uppsala Universitet: 1 PhD position in History of Science
University of London: Institute of English Studies: Master’s Studentship in the History of the Book
University of Bristol: Lectureships: Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy/History of Science
British Library: Internship in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
University of Manchester: CHSTM: Science Communication MSc
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