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 #04
Monday 12 September 2016
EDITORIAL:
The year rolls on, another week ends and a new one starts and with it comes a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing a wide selection of all the Internet had on offer in the histories of science, technology and medicine over the last seven days.
One thing that has disturbed me for some time in the current history of science is the rampant tones in which some are condemning what they see as an Eurocentric approach to the discipline. Do not misunderstand me I certainly do not support a Eurocentric history of science and never have done. As the son of a man who earned his living teaching the archaeology and art history of South East Asia, I was brought up with a very strong awareness that my home country, the UK, and continent, Europe, are only one part of the world and for much of global history far from the most important part.
What worries me, as someone who as a novice historian read and learnt much from the work of historians such as Joseph Needham, on Chinese science and technology, and Edward Kennedy, on Islamic science, – just to name two of many – is the implication made by some in the current debate that non European science, technology and medicine have been up till now ignored, which is simply not true.
This might have been true in the nineteenth century during the worst excesses of European colonialism but the twentieth century brought with it many changes including a growing awareness amongst historians of science that the non European history of science is just as important as the European and deserves just as much attention. That is not to say that the situation is perfect, far from it. There is still much work that needs to be done on the histories of science, technology and medicine in many cultures throughout the world and throughout history and above all school and university teachers need to employ a more global approach when teaching the basics of these disciplines.
Quotes of the week:
“As an Oxford lecturer once said to me: ‘read it? I haven’t even taught it’” – Amy Brown (@amisamileandme)
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t” – Tom Waits
“There’s a reason why people keep using the term “scientist” beyond anachronistic error. A term is wanted” – Scott Gosnell (@infinite_me)
A New Englander’s view of Manchester (1777): ‘the people speak an uncouth, peculiar dialect, unintelligible to the ears of strangers’ – Sophie Jones (@sophiejones1)
“We hope that this year’s Fibonacci conference will be as big as the last two combined” – Dave Morton (@dmonbeer)
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain” ― Louisa May Alcott
“For most of human history, the line between medicine and “assault with a deadly weapon” was very grey…” – Grumpy Historian (@grumpyhistorian)
“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.” ― Stephen Jay Gould
“The wrong side of history is getting pretty crowded” – Ben Greenman (@bengreenman)
“Boerhaave taught virtually anyone who was anyone in C18. Also assembled Swammerdam’s papers. Amazing” – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)
Q: What do organic mathematicians throw into their fireplaces?
A: Natural Logs – Nalini Joshi (@monsoon0)
“I’m happy that I’ve raised six kids, and not one of them is a Ph.D.” – Freeman Dyson
Birthdays of the Week:
Ida Henrietta Hyde born 8 September 1857
Ida Henrietta Hyde
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The H-Word: Happy Birthday to Ida H Hyde
Yovisto: Ida Henrietta Hyde and the Microelectrode
James van Allen born 7 September 1914
James Van Allen holding (Loki) instrumented Rockoon, Credit: JPL
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: James van Allen and the Weather in Space
Happy Birthday to James Van Allen who designed key instruments on the 1st U.S. satellite in orbit Explorer 1 (1958) (NASA History Office)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon born 7 September 1707
Portrait of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon by François-Hubert Drouais
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Comte de Buffon and his Histoire Naturelle
Famous Scientists: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Geobotanik: Zitat: Die Naturkunde…
Arthur Holly Compton born 10 September 1892
Compton at the University of Chicago in 1933 with graduate student Luis Alvarez next to his cosmic ray telescope.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AHF: Arthur H. Compton
Yovisto: Arthur Holly Compton and the Compton Effect
Nobelprize.org: Arthur H. Compton
AIP: Betty Compton – Session I
Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations – ed. by Arthur Compton
Physics Buzz Blog: Making “The Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations”
Washington University in St. Louis: What are Compton Speed Bumps
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Yovisto: Ludwig Boltzmann and the Statistical Mechanics
AHF: Richard Tolman
Digressions & Impressions: How Did Kepler discover the Ellipse
World Digital Library: Instruments for the Restoration of Astronomy
Scientific American: The Kilogram’s Makeover Is Almost Complete
AEON: Reporters should ask themselves: ‘What would Einstein do?”
Chemistry World: Torricelli’s barometer
Source: © Photo Researchers / Mary Evans Picture Library
The Catholic Astronomer: Astronomers who Observe Visually and Draw What They See are cool – and valuable to the History of Astronomy
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies: New attribution for a 14th-century manuscript
AHF: Edwin McMillan
Geauga County Maple Leaf: Astronomer Leavitt’s Starring Discoveries Continue to Shine
AHF: John Wheeler
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Lee DuBridge’s Interview – Part 2
Joseph Bishop Keller (1923-2016)
(Image credit: Courtesy Stanford University)
Atlas Obscura: Here’s What an Underground Nuclear Test Actually Looks Like
CHF: Distillations: Hazardous Fun
AHF: Edward Teller
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Luigi Galvani
Galvani
The Iris: Decoding the Medieval Volvelle
Slate: The Vault: Gods of Small Things
Library of Congress: Celestial globe gores
Ptak Science Books: “Finally the Head Flies Through Space” – the Berlin Rocket Field, 1932
Qantara: Mediterranean Heritage: Sundial
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Yovisto: The Travels of William Dampier
Trove: Capt. Dampiers new voyage to New Holland etc in 1699 etc
Engraving of Dampier’s encounter with the storm off Aceh, by Caspar Luyken.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Big Think: 480 – The Fool’s Cap Map of the World
Visions of the North: The Fate of Dr. Kane’s boat, the “Faith”
Royal Museums Greenwich: Ferdinand Magellan
Open Culture: A Wonderful Archive of Historic Transit Maps: Expressive Art Meets Precise Graphic Design
The National Library of Wales: Maps
SOCKS: The Territory as an Abstract Cartography
The Afternoon Map: Ottoman and Arab Maps of Palestine, 1880s–1910s
Asya as-Sughra (Asia Minor) qabla al-Milad (before the birth of Christ)
Jughrafiya-i Osmani (1332)
Evening Standard: Tunnel vision: Harry Beck’s first Tube map sketch goes on show
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Yovisto: Christian Archibald Herter and Gastrointestinal Diseases
Thomas Morris: She needs a finger
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Rudolf Virchow
History of Medicine in Ireland: Sharing of Medical Ideas and Information among Early Modern Practitioners
Nautilus: The Brief, Mystical Reign of the Wax Cadaver
NYAM: More Music From Your Cash Register: American Pharmacy at the Turn of the Century
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Louis Hempelmann’s Interview – Part 2
NYAM: Vesalius and the Beheaded Man
A historiated initial showing a decapitated head being passed down from a scaffold, published in de humani corporis fabrica (1543).
Smithsonian.com: Why Was Benjamin Franklin’s Basement Filled With Skeletons?
Contagions: Plague in 6th century Aschheim and Altenerding, Bavaria
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: John Snow (1813–1858)
Ptak Science Books: On What Cost What – Medical Costs of the U.S. Navy 1813–1817
Forbes: Infanticide Or Natural Death? New Method May Answer This Ancient Question
The Conversation: Migraines were taken more seriously in medieval times – where did we go wrong?
Nursing Clio: Bradley Snyder and the Legacy of First World War Blind Veteran Habilitation
BBC News: DNA confirms cause of 1665 London’s Great Plague
Smithsonian.com: DNA from 17th-Century Teeth Confirms Cause of London’s Great Plague
History Today: The presence of Yersinia pestis bacterium in skeletons found in a recently discovered plague pit proves that the Great Plague of 1665 was bubonic. Or does it?
Lothian Health Services Archive: Something in the air…
Thomas Morris: Snake poo salesman
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Representations of Disabilities and Illness in Medieval Manuscripts
Hyperallergic: The Sculptor Who Made Masks for Soldiers Disfigured in World War I
Anna Coleman Ladd working on a mask for a World War I French soldier (via Library of Congress)
Yovisto: Thomas Sydenham – the English Hippocrates
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Pepys: After the Fire – Ep 2: Evelyn presents his plan that sees the whole city as a garden! (BBC Radio 4)
Yovisto: Simon Lake and the Argonaut
The Atlantic: A Global History of Sitting Down
IEEE Spectrum: The End of AT&T
National Academy of Sciences: Frank Baldwin Jewett 1879–1949
O Say Can You See?: Help the museum dig into mining history
Daily Hampshire Gazette: Dr. F. Williams (1940–2016)
Telegraph chart, America and Europe. (Library of Congress)
The New York Times: Bill Etra, Inventor Who Helped Make Video an Art Form, Dies at 69
The New York Times: Letter of Recommendation: The Useless Machine
Nuclear Energy: Chalk River Nuclear Accident
Smithsonian.com: The Story of the Weber Grill Begins With a Buoy
EMODnet: Maintaining an inventory of historical lighthouses
Spain, Galicia, A Coruna, Hercules Tower Lighthouse, in daylight, clear sky, Atlantic Ocean waters, a boat
Atlas Obscura: The Battle Over Net Neutrality Started With the 1920-Era ‘Hush-A-Phone’
Atlas Obscura: Objects of Intrigue: Teaching Machines of the 20th Century
Cambridge News: 70 years on, Cambridge University’s first ever computer gets an upgrade from ‘veteran’ programmers
Confusion and connections: EDSAC veterans rekindle memories
Conciatore: Discovery of Glass
Conciatore: 17th Century Lapidary
Slate. The Vault: Salvaged Photos Capture the Rugged Life of Pennsylvania’s Late-19th-Century Lumber Camps
Locomotive and cars derailment, northwestern Clinton County.
Ptak Science Books: A Flying Mega-Brick and a Postal Torpedo Metallic Email – the Future, 1928
EDN: Electrical engineering in the 1960s: The transistor changed everything
AEON: New tech only benefits the elite until the people demand more
BBC News: Celebrations mark Severn Bridge’s 50th anniversary
Ptak Science Books: Cross Section of a German U-Boat, 1915
Motherboard: This Battery Has Lasted 175 Years and No One Knows How
120 Years of Electronic Music: EMS Synthesisers, Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary, David Cockerell United Kingdom, 1969
Atlas Obscura: Maillardet’s Automaton
Double-decker aircraft, “Popular Mechanics”, Dec 1928. h/t J F Ptak (@ptak)
USS Constitution Museum: Keel Hauled
Ptak Science Books: What Does Manhattan Look Like With 63 Great Pyramids Filled With Panama Canal Dirt? (1912)
Interesting Engineering: Top 8 of the Most Popular Engineers in History
Ptak Science Books: Visual Display of Information: Ships on the Pyramid and in Trafalgar Square
Phys.Org: Ancient Egyptians used metal in wooden ships
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
The New York Times: Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Winner for Use of Glowing Proteins, Dies at 64
Roger Y. Tsien shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry after making it simpler to follow the dance of molecules within cells.
Joe Toreno/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nature: Roger Tsien’s legacy: The creation that lit up biology
Thinking Like a Mountain: A Good Read: A Scottish Plant Hunter in Nineteenth-Century Japan
BBC News: Skye’s Storr Lochs Monster Fossil unveiled in Edinburgh
Wonders & Marvels: Ancient Egyptians Collected Fossils
Yovisto: The Comte de Caylus and the Birth of Archaeology
Amgueddfa Blog: The pitfalls and false trails of a taxonomist
Notches: Prison Sex in the Mid-Victorian English Convict System
Hakai Magazine: The Civilizing Power of Nature
Some archaeologists think that the extreme weather of El Niño events around 5,800 years ago may have spurred some ancient Peruvians to reorganize their societies, work together, and build the earliest civilization in the New World at Caral. Photo by Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters/Corbis
The Atlantic: Here’s How NASA Thinks Society Will Collapse
NICHE: Prisoners in the Park: German PoWs in Riding Mountain National Park
The Return of Native Nordic Flora: On the last of the tigers
Science League of America: Just-so Stories
Hakai Magazine: Harvesting in the Park
Boston Globe: Ruth Hubbard, 92, first woman tenured in biology at Harvard
GLOBE PHOTO/FILE 1990
Dr. Hubbard was an antiwar activist and a prominent feminist critic of science
Rijks Museum: Spectacular discovery of drawings by Frans Post
Scientific American: Laelaps: Want to Be a Fossil? Try Burial in Guano
DNA Science Blog: Genetic Choreography of the Developing Human Embryo
Science League of America: Misconception Monday: The Myth of “De-Evolution,” Part 2
Phys Org: Researchers name a new species of reptile from 212 million years ago
MAT: Veterinary anthropology: When medical anthropology meets animal studies
Penn Biographies: Joseph Leidy (1823–1891)
Letters from Gondwana: Annie Montague Alexander, Naturalist and Fossil Hunter
National Geographic: This Paleontologist Is on a Mission to Teach Mongolians About Their Own Dinosaurs
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Ferdinand Hayden
More than a Dodo: Primate Tools and the Search for Human Behaviour
Yovisto: Robert Koldewey and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Yovisto: Jacques de Perthes and European Archaeology
Scientific American: Ale Genomics: How Humans Tamed Beer Yeast
CHEMISTRY:
University of Sussex: Ian McKellen leads tributes to Nobel Prize winner Harry Koto
AHF: Arthur Wahl
Glenn T. Seaborg in 1942, adjusting a Geiger counter. Courtesy Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Courtesy Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Chemistry World: A noble quest
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
h-madness: How I Became a Historian of Psychiatry: Andrew Scull
(Almost) Anthro Blogging 101: Lady Science
WCML: Manchester Public Free Libraries
From Dunking to Disaster: The Science in Your Life: 120: Joseph Priestley’s imaginative political justification for the pursuit of pure science
Wired: The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum Just Put 200,000 Items Online
BJHS: Themes: (oa) Science of giants: China and India in the twentieth century
Wellcome: Why we have set publishers requirements
The Recipes Project: Eat Your Primary Sources! Or, Teaching the Taste of History
The Recipes Project: Medieval Blancmange and the Modern Classroom
Atlas Obscura: Atlas Obscura’s Guide to the Longest Running Scientific Experiments
The Pitch Drop Experiment
(Photo: University of Queensland)
Jisc: UK Medical Heritage Library
Science as Culture: Introduction: Contesting Science and Technology, from the 1970s to the Present
Guinevere Glasfurd: Fear of great men: fictionalising Descartes
Linacre College: History of Science Medal for Corsi
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Why there weren’t any scientists before the late nineteenth century
The Public Domain Review: Visions of Algae in Eighteenth Century Botany
IDTC: HPS6ST Notes for 2016 September
Nautilus: Why Science Should Stay Clear of Metaphysics
NICE: Excerpt from The War on Science by Shawn Otto
Nature: The debate over GM crops is making history
Sheroes of History: Mary Somerville: A Passion for Science
Mary Somerville by Thomas Phillips
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The #EnvHist Weekly
Research Repository St Andrews: A pre-history of ‘peer review’: refereeing and editorial selection at the Royal Society
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Alchemy in the Kitchen
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Robert Fludd
Fludd’s Cosmos
The Public Domain Review: Robert Fludd and His Images of The Devine
distillatio: Bile from cattle – an overlooked ingredient in alchemy
BOOK REVIEWS:
Dan Hicks: Patina: A Profane Archaeology
Popular Science: Science and the City – Laurie Winkless
Mother Jones: Technological Innovation Doesn’t Have to Make Us Less Human
The Map Room: The Cultural Impact of the Irish Ordnance Survey
BJPS: Review of Books
npr: Evolution Uproar: What to do When a Famous Author Dismisses Darwin
Science League of America: A New Book to Introduce Evolution to Preschoolers: Grandmother Fish
The New York Times: You Remember John Aubrey. Chased by Debt Collectors, Chaser of Whores
BJHS: Melinda Baldwin, Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal
The Guardian: Resolution by AN Wilson review – the voyage of an extraordinary lifetime
BackRe(Action): I’ve read lots of books recently
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals: A study of the extant formularies
Historiens de la santé: Medicine, Government and Public Health in Philip II’s Spain: Shared Interests, Competing Authorities
Bodleian Map Room Blog: Treasures from the Map Room
Historiens de la santé: The Essential Teachings of Sasang Medicine: An Annotated Translation of Lee Je-ma’s Dongeui Susei Bowon
Presses universitaires de Rennes: Aménagement et environnement: Perspectives historiques
Wiley: The Science of Practice and the Practice of Science: Pierre Bourdieu and the History of Science
“Hidden Figures” Book and Film
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
The New York Times: On Being a Black Female Math Wiz During the Space Race
The Guardian: How history forgot the black women behind NASA’s space race
Nature: A View From The Bridge: Breaking barriers: The US space programme’s black women mathematicians
On Point: The ‘Hidden Figures’ Who Helped NASA Win the Space Race
Smithsonian.com: The Forgotten Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Send Astronauts to Space
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Live Mint: Science, time, and Rohini Devasher’s art
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
University of Leicester: New Website showcases migraine artwork digitally for the first time
Yale News: Yale marks 175th anniversary of Arabic and Sanskrit studies with exhibit, public events
Hyperallergic: The Morgan Marks the Centennial of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
BBC News: Mary Rose shipwreck skulls go online in 3D
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
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
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
CLOSING SOON: 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
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
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
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
CLOSING SOON: 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
Bodleian Libraries: Tuberculosis: milestones of discovery and innovation 9September–16 October 2016
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
CLOSING SOON: 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
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Leaping Robot: “God Help American Science”: Engineering Theatre and Spectacle
Science Museum: ‘Museums of the New Age’: Science Museum Premiere for New Film Score 2 October 2016
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
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
CLOSING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist 2 September–1 October 2016
CLOSING SOON: 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
COMING SOON: The Anvil Trust: Frankenstein 29 September–1 October 2016
COMING SOON: Greenwich Theatre: Jekyll And Hyde 10–11 October 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: Pleasance Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde and Nerve: two one act plays 17–18 September 2016
COMING SOON: Core at Corby Cube, George Street, Corby: Jekyll and Hyde 15_17 September
EVENTS:
University of Paderborn: Émilie du Châtelet on Space and Time 10 October 2016
University of Paderborn: History of Women Philosophers in Antiquity 10 October 2016
Wellcome Collection, London: 2016 Fred Sanger Lecture: Steven Sturdy, Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge, University of Edinburgh: Genomic data: public, private or ‘common’? A historical perspective 3 October 2016
UWE Bristol: Lecture: Brunel’s Temple Meads terminus: the wrong building in the wrong place? 22 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Medicinal plant lecture: A Chinese triumph and an American awakening 19 September 2016
The Royal Society of Medicine: Chris Renwick: William Bynum Lecture 2016: Social Biology and Progressive Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 30 November 2016
The Center for Science & Society, Columbia University: Historical Perspectives on Personalized and Precision Medicine 15 September 2016
Manchester Museum: Animal Kingdoms – Stereoscopic Images Talk 22 September 2016
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London: Chloroform and Cholera: The Life of John Snow 20 October 2016
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh: The Art of Dialling 15 September 2016
Museum of the History of Science: Mercury Rising: Measuring Temperature Through Time 15 September 2016
Royal Society: Einstein’s Universe 21 September 2016
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
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
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
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
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
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Ernst Haeckel’s: Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904, Tafel 17
TELEVISION:
BBC TWO: A Very British Deterrent:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Burgess Clock B: Martin Burgess
Youtube: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture: 500 Years of Human Dissection
France Culture: La pathocénose: une approche de l’histoire des maladies
Youtube: Lee Vinsel – The Innovative Fetish
Youtube: Vintage Machinery: Repairing a Steam Whistle for the Steam Powered Sawmill
British Pathé: Paralympics History
Youtube: Venus Transit Orrery – Objectivity #7
Youtube: Galvani and Volta
RADIO & PODCASTS:
Marginalia: Impolite Conversation #15: Teaching Evolution and Trump in Utah
BBC Radio 4: The Matter of the North: Manchester: First City of the Industrial Revolution Includes #histsci & #histtech
BBC Radio 4: The Waterside Ape
Back Story: Body Politics: Disability in America
Gresham College: Charles Dickens and Science
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Linnean Society: What should be in your Digital Toolbox?
Université Paris-Sorbonne: Colloque international: Médecine et christianisme : sources et pratiques Jeudi 15 et vendredi 16 septembre 2016
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Fall 2016
BSHS: The Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Hakluyt Society: CfP: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2017
University of Vienna: Conference: Friedrich Waismann’s Legacy and Presence 15–17 September 2016
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: Part A – Special Issue: CfP: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context Deadline 30 October 2016
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
University of Swansea: CfP: Conference: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
Rice University, Houston: CfP: Southern Forum on Agriculture, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) 10–11 February 2017 Deadline 1 November 2016
Georgetown University, Washington: Conference: Humanity and Other Forms of Life: Environmental Histories of the World 5 November 2016
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
Penn Museum: Philadelphia: Animals in the Archives Symposium 27-28 October 2016
Library of Congress: Celebrating Waldseemuller’s Cart Marina at 500: A Conference at the Library of Congress 6-7 October 2016
University of Manchester: Workshop: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Water, Technology and the Nation-Sate 27–28 October 2016
University of Toronto: John Wallis at 400: A Workshop on Science, Mathematics, and Religion in 17th-C. England 1-2 November 2016-09-10
SSHM: Undergraduate Essay Prize 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users 2-4 October 2016
IEEE: International Early Engines Conference: Papers: May 2017
Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017
National University: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place: CfP: “Nightmare Spaces/Uncanny Places” 28–30 April 2017 Deadline 8 February 2017
Geoffrey Kaye Museum: Medical history masterclass 15 October
Palgrave MacMillan: Call for chapter contributors: Scientific Studies of Dreams in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
The Huntington Library: American Printing History Association: Conference: The Black Art & Printers’ Devils 7–9 October 2016
École de puériculture du Bd Brune, Paris: Le 6e colloque de la Société d’Histoire de la Naissance: La naissance au risque de la mort, d’hier à aujourd’hui 17 et 18 septembre 2016
Salle de séminaire de l’hôtel Balance, Les Granges-sur-Salvan, Salvan, Confédération Suisse: Colloque: Toujours plus haut, plus vite, plus engagé ? Gravir les Alpes du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Pratiques, émotions, imaginaires 22-23-24 septembre 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Glasgow Library: Special Collections Project Manager (C18th Medical Humanities)
Johns Hopkins University: CLIR Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Premodern and Early Modern Studies, 2017-2019
Museum of Transport and Technology, New Zealand: Several open positions
University of Alberta, Canada: 2 PhD Opportunities: Climate, History and Society
University of Luxembourg: PhD position – History of Psychiatry and Digital History
Brandeis University: African and Afro-American Studies, Health: Science, Society and Policy Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Race, Science and Society
UCLA Library: 2017 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship in UCLA Library Special Collections
Harvard University: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the History of Modern Science and Technology in East Asia
Folger Shakespeare Library: Fellowships 2017-18 Deadline 1 November 2016
Christopher Newport University: Assistant Professor of History (European History of Science or Medicine)
