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 2, Volume #43
Monday 07 June 2016
EDITORIAL:
We have moved on another seven days and it’s time once more for Whewell’s Gazette, your weekly #histSTM links list bringing all of the histories of science, technology and medicines found by our team of trusty owl in the highways and byways of the Internet.
The last week has seen various people (geneticists) trumpeting in the Internet that historians need to work with geneticists because that is the future. The tenor of these reports seemed to be that historians would never conceive of anything quite so revolutionary without being prodded by farsighted geneticists.
There are various things that I found rather strange about these claims. Firstly it is archaeologists, anthropologists and palaeontologists who should be working with geneticists rather than historians. The people pushing this agenda don’t appear to know the difference. Secondly the relevant people have already been working with geneticists in various areas of historical research for some time now.
I originally studied archaeology, an awfully long time ago, and indeed worked for several years as a field archaeologist and even back in the dim and distant days of the early 1970s archaeologists were well aware of the advantages of applying various methods of scientific analysis to broaden their knowledge of the cultures they were studying. Pollen analysis to determine the environment in which people lived and the crops that they planted. Bone analysis to determine peoples’ diets and their states of health. Snail analysis, another good determinant of historical environments. In fact my environmental archaeology teacher was John “Snails” Evans one of the people who developed this technique. Archaeologists use the full array of scientific dating methods, carbon dating, dendrochronology, thermoluminescence etc. I could go on but I think this is enough to make my point.
It is not the people working in the historical disciplines who are ignorant of scientific developments and their possible applications to their work but non-historians (geneticists) who appear to be ignorant of the working methods, including many scientific ones, employed by those working on the cutting edge of historical research.
Quotes of the week:
“The term ‘digital’ was coined at Bell Labs in 1942 to describe a high-speed method of calculation used in anti-aircraft devices” – Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman)
„Wenn jemand eine Schraube locker hat, liegt es ganz oft an der Mutter“ – @DerBuddler
“Few phrases can make my heart sink as low as the phrase ‘fashion icon’” – Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann)
Asking, “Is light a wave or a particle?” is like asking, “Is an owlbear an owl or a bear?” – Greg Gbur
“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see” – Alexandra K. Trenfor h/t @intmath
“New startup sends a doppelganger to live your life while you sleep. Reviews suggest most prefer your double to you” – Scott B. Weingart (@scott_bott)
From ‘A Cat-Hater’s Handbook’ by William Cole and Tomi Ungerer h/t @berfois
HISTORIAN’S TO-DO LIST
-Get ripped off by dramatists
-Embrace genetics
-Be irrelevant, thus justifying axing of sociology somehow
-Marking – James Umner (@JamesBSumner)
“Mark Twain, on learning a proofreader was improving his punctuation telegraphed orders to have him shot without giving him time to pray” – M Butler Hallett (@MButlerHallett)
“I fought the photocopier, and the photocopier won” – Steven Gray (@Sjgray88)
“Heading to Cambridge, a little English town best known as the place where the cam-shaft was invented” – Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry)
omg in an essay one of my students just confused “emulate” and “immolate.”
“Find the writers you admire and immolate them.” – Colin Dickey (@colindickey)
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
arXiv: Bell’s Universe: A Personal Recollection (pdf)
Ptak Science Books: Atom Bombs: the Game
Ptak Science Books: Antique Board Games for Astronomy
Pinterest: Atomic Age America
AHF: The Death of Louis Slotin
AHF: Leo Szilard
The New York Times: 31 May 1964: Leo Szilard Dies
Szilard testifying before Congress in the postwar. From the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.
Dannen.com: Leo Szilard – A Biographical Chronology
phys.org: Copernicus’ revolution and Galileo’s vision: Our changing view of the universe in pictures
The Planetary Society: New work with 35-year-old data: Voyagers at Ganymede and Saturn
AHF: Chien-Shiung Wu
Motherboard: The 1919 Solar Eclipse That Proved Einstein Right
Ptak Science Books: A Half-Alphabet of Color by Isaac Newton, and What the Colors “Naked” and “Dead” Are (1659)
The Catholic Astronomer: A Most Strange Debate
Preposterous Universe: Einstein vs. Physical Review
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ted Taylor’s Interview – Part 4
The Curious Waveform: “Understand what I love about America”: Physicist Hans Bethe’s moving letter to his teacher Arnold Sommerfeld
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Fifty Years of Moon Dust: Surveyor 1 was a Pathfinder for Apollo
Post-Bulletin: Starwatch: Heavenly bears have classic tales
AHF: Ernest Rutherford
L.A. Times – Photography: Dr. Tolman and professor Einstein
Palomar Observatory: Historical and Vintage Media
Wired: Ancient Mayan observatory was used to track Venus and Mars
Credit iStock
AHF: In Memoriam: Irene LaViolette
History for Atheists: The New Atheist Bad History Great Myths 1: The Medieval Flat Earth
AHF: Edward Teller
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Map of Rome 1602
Herald: Arts & Life: Shining new light on old maps of Nova Scotia
The Guardian: Captain Cook’s sip Endeavour claimed by Rhode Island as search goes on
The Guardian: Looking down on Britain – maps of the UK across time
Britain As It Was Devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during their Heptarchy by John Speed
thestar.com: No doubt who owns Captain Cook’s ship Endeavour – Rhode Island
Royal Museums Greenwich: Martin Frobisher North-West Passage expedition 1576–78: Who was the first Englishman to go in search of the fabled Passage?
Verso: Maps that Scholars (and Goonies) Treasure
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Thomas Morris: The largest tumor on record
PCPop w/Pablo: Captain Mary T. Klinker – Decorated Vietnam Veteran from Lafayette
Imperial College London: News: Past, present and future autism research explored at Able@Imperial lecture
Circulating Now: Images from the History of Medicine is Moving to NLM Digital Collections
Nursing Clio: “The Torture Began”: Symphysiotomy and Obstetric Violence in Modern Ireland
A woman’s pelvis after a pubiotomy – to widen the birth canal
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
Thomas Morris: The deserter
Circulating Now: Where to Find History of Medicine Collections
British Library: Asian and Africa studies blog: An 18th Century North African Travelling Physician’s Handbook
Notches: The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis
Sunday Times: How aspirin turned hero
Royal College of Physicians: Harvey’s disciples: the Evan Bedford library of cardiology
Wellcome Library: How the fate of the rhino is tied to medicine
L0058375 Cup for detecting poison, Europe, 1551-1660
Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
http://wellcomeimages.org
Assay cups such as this one were used to taste wine. This cup is made from silver and rhinoceros horn. The rhinoceros horn was said to change colour and sweat if poison was placed in the cup.
maker: Unknown maker
Place made: Europe
made: 1551-1600 Published: –
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CHF: William J. Rutter
University of Edinburgh: New App for Anatomical Museum
Thomas Morris: Two spoonsful of brain on the pillow
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
ODNB: Guppy, Sarah
IDG: Forgotten tech father: Bill Tutte vs. Alan Turing?
Bill Tutte
AEON: The invention of the paper bag was a triumph of feminism
New Scientist: Vintage computers take on fresh shine in retro photo project
Atlas Obscura: Found: A Rare Nazi Coding Machine, Hiding in a Garden Shed
AHF: Kenneth D. Nichols
The Conversation: The history of computing is both evolution and revolution
BBC News: Ipswich docks: Historical photographic archive put online
Conciatore: Artificial Gems
Journals Cambridge: Bringing Radio into America’s Homes: Marketing New Technology in the Great Depression
Paleofuture: The Defence Department Got Mad at Darpa for Creating Email
itv news: From Berlin to Bletchley: home of the codebreakers can finally tell the whole truth
Atlas Obscura: The First Woman Driver to Drive Around the World Wore Men’s Breeches and Had a Pet Monkey
The great Aloha Wanderwell. (All photos: © The Nile Baker Trust/Richard Diamond)
BBC News: ‘Oldest’ computer music unveiled
Herald Scotland: The rise of the robots
Engineering Timeline: Second Severn Crossing
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Albertus Seba, The Opossum, Didelphimorphia, 1734
New-York Historical Society: Museum & Library: Natural History Jingles
The Guardian: Robert McNeill Alexander obituary
Forbes: Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Crises Throughout European History
History of Geology: The (possible) Geological Origin of the Minotaur Myth
Kew: Incredible Insects: the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian
Academia: A focus on the history of light microscopy for cell culture
The Hurd Library: Dead as the Dodo
Science News: Australian Aboriginal Stories of Ancient Sea-Level Rise Preserved for 13,000 Years
Science & Religion Exploring the Spectrum: What is the History of “Antievolution”?
History Today: London Zoo: ‘Handsome Gifts’ to a Young Society
Science League of America: In Praise of Pickett, Part 1
The Atlantic: A New Origin Story for Dogs
The Guardian: Charles Darwin letter returned to Smithsonian over 30 years after theft
Washington Post: Darwin letter stolen from Smithsonian 30 years ago has been found
CHF: It’s Alive!
The Skil Craft Biology Lab, sold around 1960. (CHF Collections)
Connections.Mic: A History of Oral Sex, From Fellatio’s Ancient Roots to the Modern Blow Job
The New York Times: Studies of Moth and Butterfly Color In a Scientific Classic
Wonders & Marvels: An Asbestos Purse at the British Museum
Geschichte der Geologie: Kunst & Geologie: Die Kunst im Bergbau
Blade and Bone: The Discovery of Human Antiquity: A Conjectured Pithecanthropus, 1887
History of Geology: Bone and blood is the price of coal – Animals in Mines
CHEMISTRY:
AHF: Joseph W. Kennedy
Royal Society of Chemistry: Classic kit: Petri Dish
Somerville Oxford: Blue plaque unveiled honouring Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994)
CHF: Critical Mass: A History of Mass Spectrometry
Glyn R. Taylor, operator, prepares a sample for introduction into the heated inlet system of Consolidated Engineering Corporation Model 21-103 Mass Spectrometer, May 1974. CHF Collections.
Darin Hayton: A Letter from James Ferguson
JSTOR Daily: The Sticky History of Adhesives
OHS Student Newspaper: On the Periodic Law with Dr. Eric Scerri
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Research: Peer review: a familiar history
New Scientist: The Lost Women of Enlightenment Science
Anne Conway (1631-79)
Clio@King’s: The History Department Blog: Including Women
History Matters: In Defence of the ‘Dark Ages’
Los Angeles Times: History isn’t a ‘useless’ major. It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of
The Recipes Project: Exploring CPP 10A214: A New Candidate for the Layfield Hand, Part 1
Paige Fossil History: What Does a Historian of Science Actually Do?
The Mean Time: The first Greenwich Maritime Centre newsletter is out!
The Guardian: A Geek’s Guide to the UK’s best science and technology attractions
The Atlantic: The Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The women of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory helped launch the first American satellites, lunar missions and planetary explorations. Those “human computers,” as they were called, are seen here in 1953.
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: A response to ‘Anstey’s Experimental Philosophy before the Restoration’
Historyonics: Privatising the Digital Past
Royal Society of Chemistry: Women in Science – a historical perspective
Skulls in the Stars: Twitter Weird Science Facts, Volume 8
Trans. Necomen Soc: Critical Reflections on the Science-Technology Relationship
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Dear Friends
The Public Domain Review: Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature
Frontispiece to Francis van Helmont’s Alphabeti vere Naturalis Hebraici (1667) — Source: Wellcome Library, London (CC-BY 4.0).
Conciatore: Neri’s Contribution
Blink: Dawn of the Vedas
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Daily Herald: Old Dutch Caribbean charts in one magnificent book
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Smith-Howard on Smith, ‘Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
Smithsonian.com: Vladimir Nabokov’s Butterfly Drawings Take Flight in This New Book
A detailed wing schematic. (Vladimir Nabokov. Courtesy of the Vladimir Nabokov Archive at the Berg Collection, New York Public Library, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.)
H-Net: Valeria Finucci: The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine
American Scientists: On the Origin of Origin Stories
Nature: History: Peace, love and lab work
The Friends of Charles Darwin: The Ice Age: A very short introduction
Current Biology: Deepening the darkness? Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago
NEW BOOKS:
The MIT Press: Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming
Historiens e la santé: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
University of Chicago Press: Groovy Science
AHF: New Books on Manhattan Project History
CUP: Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
Niche: Publication of “Moving Nature: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History”
Historiens de la santé: Albert Calmette. « Jusqu’à ce que mes yeux se ferment »
Historiens de la santé: To Come to a Better Understanding: Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings on the Rosebud Reservation, 1973–1978
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum
The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers
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
History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Science Museum: Robots
Natural History Museum: Dippy on tour
The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016
Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016
Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)
Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs
Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016
Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016
Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:
Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016
The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet
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
Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016
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
The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016
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
Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 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
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016
Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow: Intermedia Beyond Epilepsy 9-19 June 2016
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Forbes: Sometimes, The Best Supporting Actor in a Movie is its Geology
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Galileo Super Star – Galileo Galilei to get Hollywood biopic
Deadline Hollywood: Richard Goodwin’s ‘The Hinge of the World’ About Epic Clash Between Church and Galileo Being Developed as Feature
Discover Medical London: Medicine at the Movies 16 June 2016
The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016
Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 2016
EVENTS:
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
University of Leeds: History and Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects (Lecture 6) 7 June 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Women And Medicine 9 June 2016
Royal College of Physicians: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016
TNMOC: Lecture: The Roots of Data Processing 9 June 2016
Science Museum: Frankenstein – From Literature to Myth to Bogeyman of Science
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
Royal College of Physicians: Medicinal plant lecture: The realty and the bizarre 13 June 2016
University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700
IET Savoy Place London: Lecture: Preparing to lay a transatlantic telegraph table; an historical comparison 16 June 2016
Science Museum: Lecture: Leonardo and the Military 9 June 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Exceptional & Extraordinary: unruly minds and bodies in the medical museum: two unique evenings of film, dance, performance and comedy inspired by museum collections exploring our attitudes towards difference: 13 & 20 June 2016
University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Glasgow Science Festival: Goodall Lecture – 200th Anniversary of Laennec’s First Stethoscope 16 June 2016
The Brain Box: Manchester Day: History: Memory Lane: A History of Brain Science 19 June Town Hall
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: The Northern Powerhouse: Cottontown Nurses who shaped the Profession 8 June 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – City Centre Tour 11 June 2016
V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
CHF: Brown Bag Lectures Spring 2016
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
Wellcome Collection: Symposium: Out of Control 11 June
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
V0017769 Claude Bernard and his pupils. Oil painting after Léon-Augus
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Alexei Leonov visits Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age
Youtube: Mathematics vs astronomy in early medieval Ireland DIAS Lecture Series
Youtube: Marie Curie – Draw My Like
Youtube: Leo Theremin demonstrates the Thereminvox (1954)
Youtube: The Royal Society: Who cares about the history of science?
Forces TV: Codebreaking Equipment That Helped Win WW2 Goes On Display
Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 1
Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 2
Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 3
Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 4
Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 5
Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Parts 6&7
Youtube: The Common Language of Science – Albert Einstein
Youtube: The Origin of Vaccines
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: The Unseen – A History of the Invisible
University of Cambridge: Sandars Lectures 2016: Anthony Grafton
Ben Franklin’s World: Episode 084: Zara Anishanshin, How Historians Read Historical Sources
Ben Franklin’s World: Episode oo5: Jeanne Abrams, Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health
Radio 4: Natural Histories: Fly
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories
BBC Radio 4: The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BSHS: Great Exhibitions Competition 2016
Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016
University of Oxford: Conference: Making and Rethinking Renaissance between Greek and Latin in 15th–16th Europe 14–16 June 2016
St Anne’s College; University of Oxford: Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World 5–7 July 2016
King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016
University of Groningen: CfP: Teaching the New Sciences, Scientific Revolution 14–16 June 2017
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016
Collège de France: Colloque : « Freud au Collège de France, 1885-2016 » 16–17 Juin 2016
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
CRASSH: Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images 17–18 June 2016
Université de Lausane: La santé publique et ses enjeux: un lieu de pouvoirs 10 Juin 2016
Wellcome Trust: Workshop: London Health Histories 17 June 2016
Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016
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
Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016
University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Warsaw: Conference: Reassembling the Republic of Letters 11–15 June 2015
University of Bergen: Philosophy of Bergen Workshop 2016 14 June
University of Leeds: Round Table Discussion: “Victorians and History Writing Practices” Seminar: “Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)” 4 July 2016
Wellcome Library: Workshop: London Health Histories 17 June 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: Conferences & study days: From Sea to Sky: The Evolution of Air Navigation from the Ocean and Beyond 9–10 June 2016
University of Oxford: John Wallis (1616-1703). Mathematics, Music Theory, and Cryptography in 17th Century Oxford.9 June 2016
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford: Postgraduate Conference 2016: Modern Bodies, Modern Minds 10 June
University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016
Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016
University of Kent: Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture: 9 June 2016
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
Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing: Third Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming 25 June 2016
University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016 Deadline 3 June 2016
Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference Deadline 1 June 2016
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
Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016
Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey: SPSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Empirical Methodology for Philosophy of Science in Practice 16 June 2016
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October
St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016
BSHS: Prizes
Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!
Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016
Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016
BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 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
History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016
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
Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 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
2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016
University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016
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.
Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016
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
University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016
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
irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain: Call for expressions of interest for the submission of Marie Sklodowska-Curie proposals – History of Nuclear Energy and Society
University of Antwerp: PhD Position in Philosophy of Science
Liverpool Hope University: Professional Tutor in Museum and Heritage Studies
