Whewell’s Gazette
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Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #03
Monday 05 September 2016
EDITORIAL:
A triple treat, the third issue of the third year of the weekly #histSTM links List Whewell’s Gazette bringing, as always, a mixed but very full bag of the histories of science, technology and medicine as found in the far reaches of cyberspace over the last seven days.
The chemist John Dalton was born in the first week of September two hundred and fifty years ago, his exact date of birth is unknown. He is without doubt one of the most important figures involved in the creation of the new chemistry in last part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century. Beyond this he played a significant role in the history of meteorology, the cartography of mountains and did early research into the causes of colour blindness, from which he suffered, that led to the condition becoming known as Daltonism.
Altogether there is no doubt that Dalton is a member of the premier league of historical scientists; not quite a Newton or a Darwin but not so far removed from their lofty heights. This being the case it is rather strange that this anniversary, a quarter millennium, is being largely ignored by the official bodies that are usually all too keen to get out the bunting on such occasions.
There has been no Google Doodle, no celebrations from the British Government or any of the official national bodies for science that are funded with public money. Perhaps strangest of all is the deafening silence on the subject emanating from the city of Manchester, Dalton’s place of birth and the place where he did all of his ground breaking research.
This silence leads automatically to the question, why? Why is John Dalton, one of the most important figures in the history of chemistry, not considered worthy of celebration? Is it the man himself or maybe the subject? Are chemistry and the atomic theory not considered significant enough in our modern world to justify a celebration? I can’t even begin to hazard a guess in answer to my own questions; all I know is that Dalton deserves better than this.
John Dalton born first week of September 1766
British physicist and chemist John Dalton (1766-1844) by Charles Turner (1773-1857) after James Lonsdale (1777-1839). Mezzotint.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
“This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.” – John Dalton
Science Museum: Celebrating John Dalton
Nature: In retrospect: A New System of Chemical Philosophy
Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton’s A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808).
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Wired: Sept. 3, 1803: Dalton Introduces Atomic Symbols
Yovisto: John Dalton and the Atomic Theory
Museum of Science and Industry: Dirty Green and the Anatomy of Colour
Quotes of the week:
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts” – John Locke
“We’re all just big strips of meat with electricity running through us” – Diane Morgan (@missdianemorgan)
“Take me down to Thesaurus City where the grass is viridian and the girls are pulchritudinous” – Paige (@PeachCoffin)
“It’s not what you look at that matters, It’s what you see” ― Alphonso Dunn
“”Quit while you’re ahead” can also be applied to lectures: if it’s going well & you’re wrapping 10 min early, don’t introduce a new topic” – Suzanne Pilaar Birch (@suzie_birch)
“The GCSE results that came out last week were disappointing, especially for Proxima Centauri which apparently only got a B” – Peter Coles (@telescoper)
“Historians are also wary of instrumentalism — that hist is only worth doing if it helps us now. I share this concern” – Guthrie Stewart (@guthrie_stewart)
“I may not agree with how you misattribute quotes to Voltaire, but I will defend to the death your right to misattribute quotes to Voltaire” – Existential Comics (@existentialcomics)
“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently” – Augustine
‘Toasted cheese hath no master” – genuine old English proverb h/t Jonathan Healy (@SocialHistoryOx)
I bought my friend an elephant for her living room.
She said, “Thanks.”
I said, “Don’t mention it” – Ian Duhig (@ianduhig)
“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral” – Kranzberg’s First Law h/t Ben Gross (@bhgross)
“I found in it nothing but words” – Descartes, book review h/t Guy Longworth (@GuyLongworth)
“Twitter is like a room where everybody is talking and nobody is listening” – Philosophy Muse (@PhilosophyMusee)
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Ernest Rutherford born 30 August 1871
Ernest Rutherford 1892 aged 21
Source: Wikimedia Commons
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting” – Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
Yovisto: Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Nucleus
New Zealand Geographic: The Importance of Being Ernest
Rutherford campaigned for women to be admitted to Cambridge. His letter with William Pope to @thetimes, in 1920:
Frederick Soddy born 2 September 1877
Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1921)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Frederick Soddy
Chart showing decay of uranium from Interpretation of Radium (1909) by Frederick Soddy
Sir Bernard Lovell was born 31 August 1913
Sir Bernard Lovell
Yovisto: Sir Bernard Lovell and the Radioastronomy
Maria Montessori born 31 August 1870
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Freedom within Limits – the Educational Principles of Maria Montessori
Francis Aston born 1 September 1877
Francis William Aston
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Chemistry World: Aston’s mass spectrograph
Yovisto: Francis William Aston and the Mass Spectrograph
Matthew Boulton was born 3 September 1728. He is featured on the current £50 series F banknote
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
The Catholic Astronomer: One Comment by St. Albert the Great becomes a whole Blog Post
Yovisto: Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov – Father of the Soviet Atomic Bomb
AHF: Soviet Atomic Program – 1946
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Haakon Chevalier’s Interview – Part 2
Yovisto: Fred Whipple and the Dirty Snowballs
Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AHF: Nuclear Fission
Australian Academy of Science: Robert Hanbury Brown 1916–2020
AHF: Robert Bacher
AHF: John A. Simpson Jr.
AHF: Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer
AHF: James B. Conant
Physics Today: Could Feynman have said this?
AHF: Luis Alvarez
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Website Now Features 400 Interviews
British Museum: The Gregorian Calendar
Pope Gregory XIII in an early 17th century engraving.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Rundetaarns historie: The First Tourist
The New York Times: James Cronin, Who Explained Why Matter Survived the Big Bang, Dies at 84
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Yovisto: Johann Heinrich Lambert – A Swiss Polymath
World Digital Library: World Map on Double Cordiform Projection
Medievalists.net: A Layered Landscape: How the Family Sagas Mapped Medieval Iceland
British Library: Magnificent Maps: Gutiérrez The Americas 1562
Georgian Gentleman: Another chance to mark the death of a great Frenchman – Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville
Yovisto: Jacques Cartier and the Discovery of Canada
Professor Park’s Blog: Framing the American Narrative as a Story of Diversity, Part One: The Survey
The Guardian: The Forbidden City to Convict’s Landing: rare early city maps – in pictures
London, 1572
Thought to be the first printed map of London (by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg)
Source: The Guardian
National Library of Scotland: Map of the Month – 1574 map of the Americas
Ptak Science Books: NYC Ice–Glacial Mapping, 20,000 BCE
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Yovisto: Werner Forssmann and the dangerous Self Experiment in Cardiac Catheterization
Yovisto: Bruno Bettelheim and Child Psychology
Embryo Project: Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
Discover: Body Horrors: An Anthrax Blast from the Past
O Say Can You See?: Anti-vaccination in America
The National Museum of American History acquired this copy of “The Quest (Against Vaccination and Vivisection” in 1980.
O Say Can You See?: 12 kids who helped a doubting public accept the smallpox vaccine
Science of Us: Have a Fever? Try Eating Some Bedbugs
RCPI Heritage Centre Blog: In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney
Thomas Morris: The poet’s skull and a boy’s bowels
Nursing Clio: Pictures of an Institution: Birth Records at Old Blockley
The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: The Medicalization of Death in History
Phys Org: Reconstructing the sixth century plague from a victim
Paleofuture: Going to the Dentist in 1909 Was a Nightmare, But X-Rays Were Supposed to Change All That
Photo of a dentist working on a patient near an X-ray machine, from the December 1909 issue of Popular Electricity
Yovisto: Hermann von Helmholtz and his Theory of Vision
The New York Times: In Reaction to Zika Outbreak, Echoes of Polio
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Library and Archive: RCSEd Archive Catalogue
Thomas Morris: The King of Smokers
STAT: He may have invented one of neuroscience’s biggest advances. But you’ve never heard of him
Yovisto: Mary Putnam Jacobi – Physician and Suffragist
Photographic portrait of Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D. Wellcome Images
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Ptak Science Books: Medical Metal Splinter Removal, 1915
Thomas Morris: Flies in his eyes
The BMJ: Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word…Humours and humour
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
1677 ad for a London maker of scientific instruments (from Wing S2463) h/t John Overholt (@john_overholt)
Ptak Science Books: Brutalist Anthropomorphic War of the Worlds Hoisting House, 1927
Yovisto: Sir Rowland Hill and the Penny Post
Yovisto: Whitcomb L. Judson and the Invention that holds our life ‘together’
City Lab: Farewell to the Clickety-Clack of Philadelphia’s Train Station Display Board
Atlas Obscura: Artists are Salvaging Train Stations’ Analog Departure Boards
Yovisto: Christopher Polhem anticipating the Industrial Revolution
Leaping Robot: The Engineer as Work of Art
In the 18th century, lens grinding became an appropriate hobby for elegant women Sorce: The Queens House Greenwich
CHF: Distillations: Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence
The Public Domain Review: Phenakistoscopes (1833)
Embryo Project: Hans Asperger (1906–1980)
The Recipes Project: An Early Modern DIY Guide To Making Paper
Yovisto: John William Mauchly and the Electronic Computer
The Irish Times: Lilian Bland, the first woman to fly an aircraft in Ireland
Mayfly in flight with Bland piloting
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Conciatore: Lime
The Guardian: Thames Estuary shipwrecks in spotlight at pop-up museum
My Medieval Foundry: Three original spindle whorls
Ptak Science Blogs: An Iconically Bad Understatement – an Underground City “with No View”
Canadian Science and Technology Museum: Mirror relay experiment
Atlas Obscura: Victorians Drank Soda Out of Monstrous Gilded Machines
Conciatore: A Very Good Run
The title page of Antonio Neri’s 1612 book
L’Arte Vetraria.
Atlas Obscura: A Hacker From South Africa Just Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space
Yovisto: Ferdinand Porsche – Innovation as a Principle
Yovisto: Louis Henry Sullivan – the ‘Father’ of the Skyscraper
BBC News: Leefe Robinson: The man who shot down a Baby Killer
Forth Bridges: Forth Road Bridge facts and figures
History Extra: 9 things you (probably) didn’t know about London’s first zeppelin raid in 1915
c1915: a German zeppelin ascending from its base for a raid on London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Atlas Obscura: A Survey of the Most Ridiculous Anti-Drowning Devices of the 1800s
Sheffield: Sheffield’s aborted monorail plans
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Ptak Science Books: The Symmetry of Oil (1927)
JSTOR: Daily: Slow, Steady, and Very Very Very Old
Evolving Thought: The History of Life: Before Aristotle 3 – The Four Elements
Smithsonian.com: The Blasphemous Geologist Who Rocked Our Understanding of Earth’s Age
Hutton, as painted by Sir Henry Raeburn in 1776. (National Galleries of Scotland)
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Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Aimé Bonpland
Amara Thornton: Archaeological Portraits
The Guardian: The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
Time: Scientists Say a New Geological Epoch Called the Anthropocene Is Here
Gizmodo: There Is a Lot of Confusion About What Geological Epoch We’re In
Scottish Book Trust: Download: John Muir, Earth-Planet, Universe (graphic novel)
Smithsonian.com: Rare Dodo Composite Skeleton Goes On Sale
Yovisto: Charles Walcott and the Cambrian Explosion
Letters from Gondwana: “Where No Dinosaur Has Gone Before”
Paige Fossil History: Neanderthals and Giant’s Bones
The bones of Schaaffhausen’s Neanderthal
Science League of America: New Developments in the Development of Limbs
The Vintage News: The first theory of evolution is 600 years older than Darwin
Forbes: The Origins of Geological Terms: Ammonites
Ri Science: The Phenomena of Water Spouts
Science League of America: Doubting Newberry’s Doubt
TrowelBlazers: Winfried Goldring: The Godmother of Gilboa
American History: Oxford Research Encyclopedias: The Scopes Trial
Inhabiting the Anthropocene: The French Lake Dam Fish Ladder and the Temporality of Usefulness
Yovisto: Sergei Winogradsky and the Science of Bacteriology
Smithsonian.com: Seeing is Believing: How Marie Tharp Changed Geology Forever
Marie Tharp’s map helped vindicate plate tectonics, but her work was initially dismissed as “girl talk.” (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the estate of Marie Tharp)
PLOS Synbio Community: The historical anatomy of synthetic biology by Dominic Berry
The Public Domain Review: Labors of the Months from the Très Riches Heures
Yovisto: Barbara McClintock and Cytogenetics
Climate Home: Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
Journal 18: Chaotic Life: Representing the Freshwater Polyp – by Elizabeth Athens
Mimi Matthews: The Extraordinary Tale of the 18th Century Shark in the Thames
The Lucy Debate
« Lucy » skeleton (AL 288-1) Australopithecus afarensis, cast from Museum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The New York Times: A 3.2-Million_Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree
The Atlantic: What Killed the World’s Most Famous Fossil
The Guardian: Family tree fall: human ancestor Lucy died in arboreal accident, say scientists
john hawks weblog: Why I’m sceptical about Lucy in the Skyfall
The Washington Post: Lucy, our hominid cousin, may have died in a tragic fall from a tree
Forbes: Lucy The Australopithecine’s Death: Skyfall or Tall Tale?
Paige Fossil History: An Elaborate Story: Why Lucy’s Death Matters to Us
Letters from Gondwana: Sea Level Regulated Tetrapod Diversity Dynamics Through the Jurassic /Cretaceous Interval
CHEMISTRY:
Yovisto: Christian Friedrich Schönbein – Ozone and Explosives
io9: Damn, this periodic table is beautiful
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Michel Chevreul
Yovisto: Wilhelm Ostwald and Modern Physical Chemistry
AHF: Ida Noddack
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
AAIHS: Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
AEON: Why Spinoza still matters
Scott Polar Research Institute: Science at the Polar Museum!
AHA Today: Trans-ing History on the Web: The Digital Transgender Archive
Making Science Public: Broken science, broken record?
Cultures of Knowledge: The ‘invaluable’ Francis Vernon
AHF: Newsletter
AHA Today: Thinking Like a Historian in Scrubs: How I Use My BA in History
Nursing Clio: About
Plato’s Footnote: Paul Feyerabend’s defense of astrology, part III
Plato’s Footnote: Paul Feyerabend’s defense of astrology, part IV
Photographic Histories: Bye Bye The Emotional Body Blog!!!
Historical Moments in PUS: Guidelines for contributions
The Recipes Project: Teaching Recipes: A September Series (Vol. III)
emroc: Teaching
Scientific American: Is It Possible to Measure Supernatural or Paranormal Phenomena?
The Royal Society: The Repository: The Royal Society and the Fire
on display: Moving a Museum
The New York Times: Reinhard Selten, Whose Strides in Game Theory Led to a Nobel, Dies at 85
American Scientist: The Tension of Scientific Storytelling
ESOTERIC:
Ptak Science Books: An Extraterrestrial Society Views the Earth, 1896
Conciatory: Sulfur
History Answers: On His Majesty’s Supernatural Service: Edward III and the Alchemist in the Tower
Pages from a 15th or 16th Century copy of Codicillus, one of the alchemical texts attributed to Raymund Lull © Les Enluminures
BOOK REVIEWS:
Notches: The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
H-Disability: Schmidt on Baker, ‘Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture’
The Observer: Neurotribes review – the evolution of our understanding of autism
The New York Times: A Book Examines the Curios Case of a Man Whose Memory Was Removed
Washington Independent Review of Books: The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Extinct: You Call That a Velociraptor? A Philosophical Review of “Jurassic Park”
Wall Street Journal: From Sheepskins to E-Books
Olem: Review of Transforming the Way We Think
Scientific American: Roots of Unity: Weapons of Math Destruction
Notches Blog: From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
brainpickings: When Woman Is Boss: Nikola Tesla on Gender Equality and How Technology Will Unleash Women’s True Potential
Yale Books: Accidental Circumnavigators: A Story of Anonymous Sailors, Soldiers, Slaves, Missionaries & Adventurers
The Washington Post: His white suit unsullied by research, Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky
Emissourian.com: Review: “The Hunt for Vulcan”
New Scientist: How water shortages flow into collaboration not war
The New Yorker: Are We Really So Modern?
The Guardian: I Contain Multitudes By Ed Yong review – we are possessed by bacteria
npr: Better Sit Down for This One: An Exciting Book About the History of Chairs
The Kansas City Star: KC author tells tale of man who learned the secret language of bees
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Sleep in Early Modern England
Historiens de la santé: Les mots des mères du XVIIe à nos jours
Wiley: Smoking Geographies; Space, Place and Tobacco
Springer: Frauen in Philosophie und Wissenschaft. Women Philosophers and Scientists
Historiens de la santé: Risques industriels. Savoirs, régulations, politiques d’assistance, fin XVIIe – début XXe siècle
Historiens de la santé: Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940). Chirurgien, écrivain, peintre et sculpteur
OUP: The Body in Pain
Historiens de la santé: Papyrus médical Edwin Smith. Chirurgie et magie en Egypte antique
ART & EXHIBITIONS
One Upon a Time: The painter of English Enlightenment and Industrialisation – Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright of Derby: “A Philosopher giving a Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun” (1766)
Université de Lausanne: Musée de physique de Lausanne : brève visite virtuelle
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990
blog.umass.edu: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
COMING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
Natural History Museum: Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature 15 July–6 November 2016
Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England Runs till 2 October 2016
Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
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
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016
The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016
George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London
CLOSING SOON: Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18th and 19th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016
Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017
The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20th July 2016
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016
Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts
Science Museum: Robots
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:
Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017
AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016
Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017
Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game
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
CLOSING SOON: Hungarian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
CLOSING SOON: Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
CLOSING SOON: Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
CLOSING SOON: Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic 1 August–31 December 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: How spiders linked the world together, and the man at the centre of it all 26 July–27 September 2016
COMING SOON: Boolean Libraries: Tuberculosis: milestones of discovery and innovation 9September–16 October 2016
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: How spiders linked the world together, and the man at the centre of it all 26 July–27 September 2016
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
St John’s College Cambridge:Kepler’s Trial: An Opera Premieres 28 & 29 October 2016
Gravity Fields Festival: World Premier: The Old Dogg at the Mint 22-23 September 2016
Shine: Watch: “Hidden Figures” Tells the Untold Story of NASA’s Black Women Mathematicians
ars technica: New movie celebrates the true geniuses behind Apollo: NASA’s mathematicians
Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata
NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary
SFGate: Doc resurrects weird 20th century con man
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
Barbican: The Alchemist 2 September–1 October 2016
Barbican: Doctor Faustus 7 September–1 October 2016
Taliesin Arts Centre: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 9 September 2016
Taliesin Theatre: Stars and spades: women in the history of science – British Science Festival 9 September 2016
COMING SOON: Hull Truck Theatre: Faustus 14 October 2016
COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
Minack Theatre: Frankenstein 5-9 September 2016
The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde 6–10 September 2016
EVENTS:
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Bruno Latour: “A Procedure to Reset Modernity: the Limits of Method”
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich 20 September 2016
Royal Society: Open House 2016 17-18 September 2016
New England Wireless & Steam Museum: Yankee Steam-Up 1 October 2016
Linda Hall Library: The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honybee Language 8 September 2016
Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin: Humboldttag: Alexander von Humboldt und die Erfindung Einer Neuen Welt 16 September 2016
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London: Talk: Scran and Grog: Naval Diet and the Health of the Seaman 15 September 2016
Gravity Fields: Life’s Greatest Secrets 22 September 2016
LSE: Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture 28 September 2016
Eric Scerri: Speaking in the UK (History & Philosophy of Chemistry) 2, 5, 8 September 2016
University of Cambridge: Open Cambridge: Lost and found: the little-known Japanese Antarctic Expedition and Shackleton’s forgotten film 9 September 2016
University of Birmingham: Professor Alice White: The genius of Vesalius 13 October 2016
UCL: Spices and Medicine: Food and Medical Traditions from the Plant World: Exploring Herbal Uses 12 October 2016
Bklyn Public Library: James Gleick, National Book Award nominated science writer, on his new book, Time Travel 27 September 2016
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016
Linda Hall Library: The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language 8 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Study Tour: ‘Flight from the Flames’: Recovering London from The Great Fire 5 September & 5 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘Medicinal Plant Afternoon: A Chinese triumph and an American awakening’ 19 September 2016
IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October
Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016
New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££
Martin Randall Travel: History of Medicine – Florence, Bologna & Padua in the Age of Humanism 12–18 September 2016 $$$
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events
Victoria Baths – Hathersage Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock: Talk: “The Evils of Dirt and the Value of Cleanliness:” a history of Manchester’s early baths and wash-houses, 1840-1876 10 September 2016
Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”
Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War
Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding
Bath Preservation Trust: Lecture: How Outer Space looked to the Georgians 13 September 2016
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
God the Geometer, circa 1220-1230.
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Oceanic Preservation Society: “Racing Extinction” Official Trailer
Youtube: CBBC: NEW! Horrible Histories Song – Grizzly Great Fire of London
University of Lorraine: Alfred Binet
RADIO & PODCASTS:
Microbe Post: I Contain Multitudes: An interview with Ed Young
WCAI: There Is No Tsunami of Autism Cases
CHF: Distillations: Human-Centered Therapy … with Robots: Are we overestimating artificial intelligence?
Bold Signals: S2E20 Human Enterprises with Deborah Blum
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of York: CfP: The Medieval Brain 10–11 March 2017
London Metropolitan University: Conference: ‘Made in London 2’: Makers, designers and innovators in musical instrument making in London from the 17th to 21st centuries 23 September 2016
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain): CfP: Workshop: Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Agonising Object in Physics and Culture 30–31 March 2017
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
Society for the Social Study of Science: Nicholas C. Mullins Award 2017: Student Essay Competition: Deadline 15 September 2016
The Maintainers: CfP: Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Order 6–8 April 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
University of Groningen: CfP: Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017
Centre for Medical History Exeter: CfP: Medical Practice in Early Modern Britain in Comparative Perspective 4-6 November 2016 Deadline 15 September 2016
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017
University of Swansea: CFP: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe: 10th Anniversary Meeting: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016
Osiris: Proposals for next Osiris volume due 15 October 2016
Bodleian Libraries: Women in science in the archives 8 September 2016
University of Geneva: Conference: Ground in Philosophy of Science 13–14 September 2016
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
10th World Conference of Science Journalists: Call for Proposals: San Francisco 2017 Deadline 30 September 2016
University of Toronto Press: CfP: Edited Collection: Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present
Techne: CFP: Special Issue on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene
St Catherine’s College Oxford: Advanced Studies Seminar: The Montgomery Ruling: Impacts on Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics 9 November 2016
University of Paderborn: History of Women Philosophers and Scientists 10–14 October 2016
Penn Libraries: The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge: Image-Text-Book 30 September–1 October 2016
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Johns Hopkins University: Call for Participation & Program: The Making of the Humanities V 5–7 October 2016
Coastal Carolina University: CfP: SAHMS Nineteenth Annual Meeting 16–18 March 2017 Deadline 31 October 2016
l’Abbaye de Hambye (près d’Avranches): 15e réunion d’histoire de la santé 10 septembre 2016
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
The Hakluyt Society Blog: Hakluyt@400 Quartercenteneary programme Autumn 2016
University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017
RSA: Call for Submissions: Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Edited Volume)
UCL: The Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1-2 September 2016
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016
University of York: CfP: Workshop: The Medieval Brain 10-11 March 2017
Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
Westminster Quakers Meeting House: Workshop: A Many Sided Crystal: Celebrating Silvanus Phillips Thompson 16 September 2016
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
York Medical Society: CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies 1600–1800 10 November 2016
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
King’s College London: Workshop: Popularising Palaeontology: Current & Historical Perspectives 14–15 September 2016
Medieval Institute Publications: Call for proposals: History and Cultures of Food 14th–18th Centuries New Series
ICM Leeds 2017: CfP: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West Deadline 9 September 2016
University of Sheffield: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
University of York: International Workshop: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 14-16 September 2016
BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016
Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Gravity Fields Festival 2016: 21–25 September: Tickets are now on sale
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Reproductive politics in France and Britain 5–7 September 2016
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
University of York: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop 14 September 2016
International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 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
All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period
University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016
University of Kalamazoo: 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies: Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture 15 September 2016
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open
University of Mainz: Conference: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14–16 September 2016
University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016
The Medical School of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez: 7th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM) & 4th Congress of Fez on the History of Medicine 24–28 October 2016
University of St. Andrews: Conference: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016
Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016
Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
Urbino & Cesena: XIX Summer School in Philosophy of Physics 5-9 September 2016
Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016
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
Wellcome Collection London: The Physiological Society: Physiology: An Historical Perspective 13 September 2016
Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016
Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017
Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016
CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017
American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants
Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries Oxford: Women in Science in the Archives 8 September 2016
University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016
The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016
Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016
HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences
Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016
University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017
IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016
Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques
BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series
Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017
Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016
Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016
HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize
ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016
New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science
UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016
Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016
San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016
Westminster Quaker Meeting House: ‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916) A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his Death 16 September 2016
Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context
The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London
ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016
Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP: “Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives – Translations and Receptions” Deadline 30 August 2016
HPDST: 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars
BSHS: Great Exhibitions Competition 2016
Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016
King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016
Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference
University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »
Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016
Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016
Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017
University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016
Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users
Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
BSHS: Prizes
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016
Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016
University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016
New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016
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
IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016
Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST): Invites submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2017.
Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature
University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016
University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Edinburgh: Senior Lecturer/Reader Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
University of Warwick: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: ‘Women, Health and Maternity in the English and Irish Criminal Justice Systems’
Springer Nature: Fall/Winter editorial internship at Scientific American en Español Deadline 9 September 2016
Careers at IEEE: Historian, Corporate Activities
BSPS: Co-Editor-in-Chief for the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Deadline 1 October 2016
Map History: Applying for a Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography
University of Strasbourg: Postdoc Research Fellow History of Medicine
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