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 #41
Monday 29 May 2017
EDITORIAL:
It is time once again for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list delivering up to its readers all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that could be found in the Internet over the last seven days.
Starting at the end of this week, 2 June, The Recipes Project is launching a Virtual Conversation on the Question, “What is a recipe?”, which runs until 10 July. At first glace this may not appear to have much to do with #histSTM but I think first impression are deceptive. For me a recipe is quite simply a set of instructions, which describe how to complete successfully a given task. The task does not necessarily have to have anything to do with cooking, the first thought that pops up when we hear the word recipe.
Lady Ann Fanshawe’s recipe book, Wellcome Library WMS 7113. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
Having defined recipe so broadly, as a mathematician and logician, I then ask myself how does a recipe differ from an algorithm if at all? Personally I think the two words are in their essence synonyms and there isn’t really a difference. What do you think? How do you define the term recipe? Do recipes and algorithms differ? If so, how?
Spend the next couple of days considering the questions and then go join in the conversation!
Quotes of the week:
“How to do philosophy:
Analytic philosophy: replace words with math symbols.
Continental philosophy: replace words with more words” – Existential Comics (@existentialcoms)
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life” – Thomas Carlyle
“Ask not what your country can do for you
Ask what the fuck is wrong with these people” – John Laurie (@laurie_john)
“The men upset about the women-only Wonder Woman screening are going to lose it when they find out where Wonder Woman is from” – Jesse McLaren (@McJesse)
“Isaac Newton was the best student we ever had at Trinity. It’s all been down hill since then” – Martin Rees“That’s a quintessential Trinity joke, a mere 32 Nobel Prizes later …” – Peter Smith (@PeterSmith)
Peter Broks PhD thesis conclusion
Birthday of the Week:
William Whewell born 24 May 1794
William Whewell Portrait by James Lonsdale (c) Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
Whewell’s Ghost: A man of many talents
William Gilbert born May 24 1544
William Gilbert M.D. demonstrating his experiments before queen Elizabeth (painting by A. Auckland Hunt).
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: William Gilbert – The Father of Electrical Studies
IET: Earth the Magnet – Gilbert’s Terrella
Daniel Barringer born 25 May 1860
Daniel Barringer
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Daniel Barringer
SciHi Blog: Daniel Barringer and the Barringer Crater
John Bardeen born 24 May 1908
John Bardeen
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day John Bardeen
SciHi Blog: John Bardeen and his two Nobel Prizes in Physics
Oliver Perry Hay born 22 May 1846
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Oliver Perry Hay
Hay Genealogy: Oliver Perry Hay Obituaries
Thomas Gold born 22 May 1920
Thomas Gold
Source: Wikimedia Commons
American Astronomical Society: Thomas Gold (1920–2004)
New York Times: Thomas Gold, Astrophysicist And Innovator, Is Dead at 84
Carl Linnaeus born 23 May 1707
Carl Linné
ucmp.berkeley.edu: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Forbes: How Biology Pioneer Carl Linnaeus Once Tried to Classify Minerals
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Natural Order
SciHI Blog: How a Cobbler became the ‘Princeps Botanicorum’ – Carl Linnaeus
Rachel Carson born 27 May 1907
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. Official photo as FWS employee. c. 1940.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
CHF: Rachel Carson
Jean Louis Agassiz born 28 May 1801
Jean Louis Agassiz in 1870
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Nation: Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz
Letters from Gondwana: The Poetry of the Ice Age
Atomic Surgery: The Life of Louis Agassiz (Real Life Comics, #30)
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
The Guardian: The Faraday cage: from Victorian experiment to Snowden-era paranoia
History Extra: 10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of
Mental Floss: The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
Atlas Obscura: Musée Curie
SciHi Blog: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and the Measurement of Temperature
NASA: Transcript: The Girl Who Named Pluto
Marie Curie’s Laboratory Allison Meier Atlas Obscura
AHF: Luis Alvarez
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: Himmelsscheibe von Nebra Goldenes Rätsel ist endlich gelöst
AIP: Rudolph Minkowski
The Guardian: Auguste Piccard: the physicist who went stratospheric
Auguste Piccard (centre) in 1930. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS
AHF: Edwin McMillan
AIP: Sam Treiman
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Brilliant Maps: Travel Times From London in 2016 vs 1914
British Library: Picturing Places: Picturing cities
American Geographical Society Library: Cartographical Craftsmanship
Fine Books & Collections: Collection Illuminating the Evolution of the United States Offered by Old World Auctions
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Royal College of Physicians of London: Medicinal Garden
Smithsonian.com: How Coffee, Chocolate and Tea Overturned a 1,500-Year-Old Medical Mindset
Mistaking histories: The Chameleon in the Classroom
Mistaking histories: Who Keeps Women’s Secrets?
Mistaking histories: Poisons and love potions
Mistaking histories: Humoral medicine: a beginner’s guide
The four temperaments as depicted in an 18th-century woodcut: phlegmatic, choleric, sanguine and melancholic
Lavatory 1792
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Mosaic: the ‘gay cure’ experiments that were written out of scientific history
University of Virginia: Surgical Instruments from Ancient Rome
Hekteon International: Saint Cajetan (St Gaetano Thiene)
SciHi Blog: Franz Mesmer and his Mesmerism
Dictionary of Welsh Biography: Thomas, Sir James William Tudor (1893–1976) ophthalmic surgeon
Independent: Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet: How the Ancients Invented Prosthetics
False toe on mummy found near Luxor (Egyptian Museum)
Thomas Morris: An extraordinary surgical operation
The Guardian: Robot hearts: medicine’s new frontier
The Recipes Project: Living in Seasons: Mulberry Wine, or the Moral Perils of Recipes in Times of Austerity
Social History of Medicine: Personalities, Preferences and Practicalities: Educating Nurses in Wound Sepsis in the British Hospital, 1870–1920
SciHI Blog: Learning and Motivation according to Clark Leonard Hull
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: Mending the Broken Faces of War
Private Roland Ward
Health: An Interdisciplinary Blog: Morton, X-Rays, & the Dead: On Ethics & Historical Memory
Early Modern Medicine: Toy shop Treatments
NYAM: The Enduring Impact of the X-Ray
Penn Libraries Manuscripts: Herbals
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Scurvy in the College Collections
The New York Times: Michael Bliss, Historian Who Dispelled Myths of Insulin’s Discovery, Dies at 76
Michael Bliss, a Canadian historian whose work upset the commonly held wisdom surrounding the discovery of insulin. Credit Reg Innell/Toronto Star, via Getty Images
Thomas Morris: The human clarinet
Cannabis Culture: The Cannabis Arcanum of Paracelsus
Sara Read: Nicholas Culpeper’s English Physitian
Hektoen International: Illness shapes the course of human events
Atlas Obscura: The Scandalous Life of Nurse and Adventurer Kate Marsden
Marsden, in full Siberia traveling gear
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
A 19th Century Pianomaker’s Tool Chest – The Long Victorian (@longvictorian2)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: The Wright Brothers: Inventing a Flying Machine: Patenting
AHF: In Memoriam: Roger Rasmussen
SciHi Blog: Remembering Robert Moog – Inventor of the famous Moog Synthesizer
Atlas Obscura: Landing Site of the First Transatlantic Flight
City Lab: Into This Chaos Came the Bicycle
SciHi Blog: Otto Lilienthal, the Glider King
Lilienthal in mid-flight, c. 1895
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: The Wright Brothers: Inventing a Flying Machine: Forefathers of Flight
Naval Air History: Naval Aviation in the Battle of Jutland
laststandonzombieisland: Not your average Grease Gun
SciHi Blog: Aviatrix Amy Johnson and the Flight to Australia
Atlas Obscura: Vintage Radio and Communications Museum
Wellcome Collection: Electric Age: hairbrush wars
Advert for Child’s electro-galvanic hair and flesh brushes. The Chemist and Druggist 15 May, 1860. Image credit: Wellcome Library.
Alembic Rare Books: A Look Inside The Brunels’ Thames Tunnel
University of Glasgow Library: Innovative images: The Glasgow Photographic Association
Conciatore: Neri in Pisa
Conciatore: A Matter of Plagiarism
Backchannel: We Are All Kasparov
Science Museum: Aerial for Vodafone transportable mobile phone, 1985
Distant Writing: Cooke and Wheatstone
The National Museum of American History: “What Hath God Wrought” Telegraph Message
Shannon Selin: Panoramas: 19th century virtual reality
National Geographic: Ancient Slingshot Was as Deadly as a .44 Magnum
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Airline Expansion and Innovation 1927–1941: Full Scale Tunnel
The Guardian: Heritage railways and trains keep Britain’s golden age of steam alive
Steam locomotive LNER Class A3 4472, commonly known as the Flying Scotsman, at Hereford railway station. Photograph: Jim Wood/Barcroft Images
Innovations150: The sackbut, and other surprising inventions by Hugh Le Caine
Science Museum: The Multiple Lives of Alan Turing
ars technica: A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated an Empire
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Atlas Obscura: The Amazing Life and Work of Maria Sibylla Merian
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
SciHi Blog: Edward Lorenz and the Chaos Theory
Jacobin: Remeasuring Stephen Jay Gould
C-Net: History rewritten, with Europe the birthplace of mankind
The Guardian: Honey, I love you: our 40,000-year relationship with the humble bee
Bees and humans share a long and intertwined history. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
A Short History of Climate Change: “Spandex jackets for everyone” – the International Geophysical Year
Atlas Obscura: Judean Date Palm Methuselah
Mental Floss: The Uterus: A Natural History
SciHi: Daniel Barringer and the Barringer Crater
Mujeres con Ciencia: Eileen Guppy, geóloga
UCL: Museum & Collections Blog: Specimen of the Week 293: The Cockchafer
The common cockchafer. LDUCZ-L239.
DPLA: The Scopes Trial: Primary Source Set
Fossil History: Even Anthropologists are not Infallible: A Missing Link from Nebraska
Old Weather Blog: Editing the weather observations
Forbes: Watch These 4,000-Year-Old First Nations Skeleton Come Back to Life
Mistaking histories: What is it About the Pangolin?
BBC News: Palaeontologist William Fox’s dinosaur fossil finds displayed
Rev William Fox had four dinosaurs named after him
Natural History Museum
Atlas Obscura: The Amazing Life and Work of Maria Sibylla Merian
CHEMISTRY:
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
History Extra: A history of science in 10½ objects
BSHS: Dingle Prize Result
berfrois: Maps are Stories; Stories are Maps
Conciatore: A deeper Accomplishment
Blackheath and beyond: Lewisham Shopping Centre’s pop-up maritime museum
Berkeley Library: Bill Clemens – UC Museum of Paleontology Oral History Project
National Geographic: How ‘Eureka’ Moments in Science Happen
University of Oulu: Hug a historian! It might make you a better scientist
Undark: Truth, Beauty, Science: A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany
Trading Knowledge: Digital skills – how do we …
The Guardian: It’s time for academics to take back control of research journals
History of Psychiatry: Volume 28, Issue 2, June 2017 Table of Contents
The Renaissance Mathematicus: In history getting labels right is important
The Recipes Project: Seasonality and the (Re)Creation of Early Modern Color Worlds
History of Education: Editorial: science, technologies and material culture in the history of education
JustGiving: National Maritime Museum: The Telescope Appeal
University of Leeds: Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: History & Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects
ESOTERIC:
BOOK REVIEWS:
College of Arts and Science – Case University: Learning from a Controversy
Nature: Museums: The life and times of a curiosity-monger
The Spectator: Hans Sloane collected everything – from acupuncture kits to zebras
Notches: Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford
H-Histsex: Cooley on Tortorici ‘Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America’
Popular Science: The Perfect Shape: Spiral Stories – Øyvind Hammer
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation
puf: La consultation
Historiens de la santé: Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi
Pen & Sword Books: Maladies & Medicine
University of Pittsburgh: Science Museums in Transition
Routledge: The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science
Histories de la santé: Alchemy, Medicine, and Commercial Book Production. A Codicological and Linguistic Study of the Voigts-Sloane Manuscript Group
Simon & Schuster: Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies by Stephen McGann
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Henri-Joseph Redouté
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin’s final expedition 14 July 2017–7 January 2018
Zaha Hadid Architects: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery wins RIBA Award
RIBA: Mathematics – The Winton Gallery
Medium: Biggest-ever display of fossil hominins opens
Garden Museum: Tradescant’s Orchard: A Celebration of Botanical Art: May–September 2017
Painting from the Tradescants’ Orchard
New-York Historical Museum: Museum & Library: Big Bird: Looking for Lifesize 7 April–11 June 2017
Union College, NY: Maps hold key to Adirondacks history in new exhibit
Cal Welch ’62 and his daughter, Caroline ’01, discuss new exhibit at the Kelly Adirondack Center – See more at: https://www.union.edu/news/stories/2017/05/maps-hold-key-to-adirondacks-history-in-new-exhibit.php#sthash.U5q1qh7d.dpuf
Harvard Gazette: Reviving the Philosophy Chamber
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Museum Collection: Explore highlights from our collection
WWD: ‘Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style’ at PEM Shows Off How Fashion Enhanced Travel
Nursing Clio: War Art 100 Years Later: The “World War I and American Art” Exhibit and the Centenary of the Great War
The University of Manchester: Manchester Museum: Object Lessons
Le Devoir: Le Musée de la civilisation dévoile toutes les couleurs de la matière grise
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
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
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Hyperallergic: A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Guardian: Designers on acid: the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
Teylers Museum: De Lorentz Formule in Het Lorentz Lab 18 May 2017–18 May 2020
Wollaton Hall Nottingham: Dinosaurs of China 1 July–29 October 2017
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
Captain James Cook and his John Shelton clock – Lisa Reihana, detail in Pursuit of Venus [infected] 2015–17 Ultra HD video, colour, sound, 64 min, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2014.
U.S.News: New Kensington Museum Preserves Computing Relics
The Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Raising Horizons: Portraits Highlighting Women in Archaeology and Geosciences Past and Present 20 May–4 June 2017
Sanofi Pasteur: The Legacy Project
The Recipes Project: Artifacts at an Exhibition: The Art and Science of Healing at the University of Michigan
Het Scheep Vaart Museum: Blaeu’s Wereld In Kaart 14 April–31 December 2017
Le Soleil: 400 ans de pharmacie
Royal Cornwall Museum: The Medicine Man – A Spotlight on Richard Lander March–September 2017
The Gibbes Museum of Art: Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas 12 May–24 September 2017
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Audubon: Drawn to Nature 1 April–30 July 2017
The Guardian: Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
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
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
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
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
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
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 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
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 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
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
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
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
BBC News: Britain’s great explorations now online
PBS: American Experience: Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species…us.
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 03 June 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
EVENTS:
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: The Goodall Symposium: Safer Surgery – The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister 15 June 2017
Old Abbey Taphouse Manchester: Bringing Steam into Hulme: Chemists, Druggists and Beer Doctors 7 June 2017
British Library: Keith Houston: The Book 3 July 2017
ICE: Smeaton Lecture 18 July 2017
Museum of London: Escher and Coxeter – a Mathematical Conversation 5 June 2017
CHF: History Lab: Bodies and the Future 10 June 2017
Wellcome Library: Women in Engineering Wikithon 15 June 2017
NYAM: GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War 12 June 2017
The British Museum: Lecture: The man who collected the world: Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum 12 June 2017
Sea Trek: Cruise: In Search of Wallace and His Living Treasures with Dr. George Beccaloni 13–24 January 2018 $$$
ICE: ICE Smeaton Lecture 2017 London 18 July 2017
University of Oxford: Oxford Talks: Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Wednesdays: 3, 10, 17 May & 14 June 2017
Notches: Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia
Discover Medical London: London’s Medical Cabinets of Curiosity
Royal Institution: Lecture: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance – Eric Scerri 20 July 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departure: 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 Tour
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
TELEVISION:
Lady Science: The Logic of Cultivation in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
SLIDE SHOW:
slideshare: Mere Amateurs: Early Interest in Physician Anesthesia in the U.S., 1880–1920
slideshare: What if Davey & Beddoes Had Used Nitrous Oxide for Surgical Anesthesia?
VIDEOS:
Ri Channel: Let There Be Light! // 2016 Christmas Lectures with Saiful Islam – Lecture 1
Youtube: The Restless Sphere, BBC, June 30, 1957
Youtube: Richard Feynman and Fred Hoyle discussing their moments of revelation
Youtube: John Archibald Wheeler’s crazy ideas for a crazy world
RADIO & PODCASTS:
Energy.Gov: The Manhattan Project Part One
Royal Literary Fund: Brian Clegg – Why I write
The Guardian: The Bell-Beaker folk – Science Weekly podcast
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Palgrave Communications: CfP (Special Issue): Socioeconomic Factors and Mental Health: Past and Present
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London: CfP: Controlling ‘Unseen’ Contagion: Disease, citizenship and mobility
Christ Church, University of Oxford: Interdisciplinary Symposium: Past and Present: Narratives of Progress and Decline in Nineteenth-Century 19 March 2018
Bodleian Libraries: War, health and humanitarianism 16 June 2017
NICHE: Seed2: Call for Pitches: New Research in Environmental History
Espace Hamelin, Paris: Conférence Benjamin Delessert: La Table, entre santé et art culinaire 21 Juin 2017
Utrecht University: CfP: Funding bodies and late modern science 30 November–1 December 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
HSTM Network Ireland: 6th Robert Boyle Summer School 22–25 June 2017: What is science for?
Utrecht University: CfP: Funding Bodies and Late Modern Science 30 November–1 December Deadline 15 June 2017
Birkbeck College, London: Workshop: Ancient Wisdom in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 23 June 2017
Uppsaala University: CfP: Workshop: Vaccines: Values, Present and Past 23–24 November 2017 Deadline 9 June 2017
Columbia University: The Center for Science and Society: Science and Art Events in New York City
Johns Hopkins University: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 5 June 2017
Amsterdam: CfP: Materia Medica on the Move II 4–6 October 2017 Deadline 19 June 2017
Edge Effect: CfP: Seeds 2: New Research in Environmental History Deadline 1 June 2017
University of Trondheim: The 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–1 September 2017
Belo Horizonte: International Conference for the History of Cartography Programme 9–14 July 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: The Goodall Symposium 2017: Safer Surgery – The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister 15 June 2017
University of Chicago: Conference: The Philosophy of Howard Stein 9–11 June 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environmental Conference 2017 29–30 September 2017
Philadelphia Pennsylvania: CfP: Measure, Model, Mix: Computer as Instrument 2017 SIGCIS Conference 29 October 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Society of Architectural Historians, Saint Paul, Minnesota: CfP: A Matter of Life and Death: Spaces for Healing in the Premodern Era 18–22 April 2018 Deadline 15 June 2017
IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, Senate House, London: CfP: Controlling ‘Unseen’ Contagion: Disease, citizenship and mobility: 10 July 2017 Deadline 29 May 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: CfP: Technologies of Frankenstein 1818–2018 7–9 March 2018
University of Greenwich: CfP: The State of Maritime History Research 9 September 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Institut d’histoire de la médecine de l’Université de Berne: Workshop: Des objets sous la loupe : histoire(s) et culture(s) matérielles des professions de la santé 16 juin 2017
Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité: Appel à communications: Monde du sport, monde de la santé : quelles relations, quels croisements? 16 et 17 novembre 2017 au plus tard le 3 juillet 2017
Nantes: Journée d’études: Psychiatrie, big data, Médecine de la Personne 15 juin 2017
Uppsala University: Conference: CfP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice 12–14 April 2018 Deadline 15 May 2017
Science Museum: Open Workshop – Programme: London 1600–1800: Communities of Natural Knowledge and Artificial Practice 16–17 June 2017
Edinburgh: CfP: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Tsinghua University: Symposium: Frontier in the Philosophy of Specific Sciences 19–20 August 2017
Johns Hopkins University: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: CfP: International Symposium: Building the Scottish Diaspora 17–18 November 2017 Deadline 24 July 2017
University of Sevilla: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical questions 18–20 September 2017
The Warburg Institute: Conference: Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality 1–2 June 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environment 29–30 September 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
University of Cambridge: CfP: Histories of Anthropology: Transforming Knowledge and Power (1870–1970)
Science Museum: Dana Research Centre: Metropolitan Science: Opening Workshop 16–17 June 2017
University of Groningen: Histories of Healthy Aging 21–23 June 2017
Institute of Historical Research: School of Advance Study University of London: Workshop: What is Microhistory Now? 2 June 2017
Remedia: CfP: Themed Series: Managing Women’s Health
Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris: Appel à communications: L’Oeil du XIXe siècle 26-29 mars 2018
University of Leeds: Symposium: Medicine and the Senses 1 June 2017
University of Edinburgh: CfP: Conference: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
University of Montréal: Conference: Early Modern ‘Transformissions’ Linguistic, material, and cultural translation in England and France (c.1470–1660) 5-7 July 2017
Libori Summer School 2017: Émilie du Châtelet on Matter, Bodies, Forces, and Motion Part II 23–28 July 2017 Deadline 15 July 2017
University of Westminster, London: CfP: Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability and the Media 23 June 2017 Deadline 28 April 2017
Open University of the Netherlands: CfP: The Icon as Cultural Model: Past, Present and Future 23–26 January 2018 Deadline 1 July 2017
TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam: CfP: EAHN: The Tools of the Architect 22–24 November 2017 Deadline 15 May 2017
The Society for the History of Natural History: William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize Deadline 30 June 2017
Hakluyt Society Blog: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
Rutgers University: CfP: Workshop: Method and Analysis of Syriac texts
NICHE: CfP: Special Issue of Canadensis on Environment and Technology Deadline 1 June 2017
University of Oxford: The Bountiful Sea Conference: Fish processing and consumption in Mediterranean antiquity 6–8 September 2017
Academia: Scientiae 2017 Programme
St Anne’s College, Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Trinity Term 2017
Insitute of Historical Research: School of Advanced Study, University of London: Food History
Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire: Special Issue: Call for Proposals: The Material Realities of Energy History Deadline 2 June 2017
Science Museum London: CfP: The Evolution of the Museum: 13–14 July 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
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 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
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 Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 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
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:Workshop: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation 16-17August 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 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 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
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 Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
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 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
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
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
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Spring 2017
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016
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
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
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
Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017
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 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
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
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
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
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
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
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 Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
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 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
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