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 #06
Monday 26 September 2016
EDITORIAL:
The autumn equinox is behind us and winter can already be seen on the horizon but no matter what time of year each week brings a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list containing all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could find in the vastness of the Internet over the last seven days.
Last week Andrea Wulf justifiably won the Royal Society’s science book prize for her excellent book about the life and work of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature, which emphasises von Humboldt’s contributions to natural history and environmental studies in the nineteenth century. This was a great win as the competition on the short list was incredibly strong featuring amongst others, Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene, Tom Levenson’s The Hunt for Vulcan and Tim Birkhead’s The Most Perfect Thing.
This win was not totally unexpected, as Wulf’s book had received many excellent reviews some of which you can read below. However this didn’t stop John Dugdale writing a piece in The Guardian entitled Why have women finally started winning science book prizes? Dugdale seemed to be insinuating in his article that Wulf only won this prestigious award because she is a woman and not on her merits as a historian and science writer.
I might at this point go off on a rant about Dugdale’s implicit sexism but I don’t need to, as Grrl Scientist has written a rejoinder in Forbes, How Did a Woman Win a Science Writing Prize?, which if it were an American television wrestling contest would be the equivalent of an extreme rules match and Grrl Scientist has just body slammed Dugdale through a table and then beaten his brain to a pulp with a trash can. Adam Rutherford now entered the ring with a piece in The Guardian, When it comes to winning book prizes, gender has nothing to do with it, in which he sweeps up the debris left by Grrl Scientist and gives them a good kicking.
Royal Society Science Book Prize 2016
The Royal Society: R: Science podcast: And the winner is …science book prize special!
The Guardian: Alexander von Humboldt biography wins Royal Society science book prize
The Friends of Charles Darwin: The Invention of Nature
Discover Society: Viewpoint: The Invention of Nature
Nature: a view from the bridge: Humboldt biography wins Royal Society prize
Quotes of the week:
“When life gives you potatoes, make potatoade” – John Lurie (@lurie_john)
“As John Cross poetically put it in 1817, the purpose of the nose is to receive ‘odorous effluvia from food & drink’” – Alun Withey (@DrAlun)
“O Lord, smite the coiner of the word #Brangelexit with all manner of plagues and pestilences” – Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman)
Douglas Carswell’s repainted the bus – David Schneider (@davidschneider)
“The equinox, which comes from equine (relating to horses) and ox (domesticated cattle), causes all cows and horses to become the same size” – Carswell Facts
“Life: you get up and then you lie down; you do that a bunch of times and then you finally lie down again” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“Today I learned a rare Middle English name for the equinox: ȝevelengðhe, the ‘evenlength’, when days and nights are equally balanced” – Eleanor Parker (@Clerk of Oxford)
“The standard saying is “all models are wrong, but some models are useful”. A better variant:
All models are right, but most are useless” – Brian Skinner (@gravity_levity)
“In America, we hold freedom of religion above all else. Unless you are the wrong religion, of course, and then maybe we should kick you out” – Existential Comics (@existentialcoms)
Holley on his 1968 Nobel work: “It all followed quite naturally from taking a sabattical leave. I strongly recommend sabbatical leaves” – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)
“If a man tells you obvious lies, it means he thinks you’re an idiot. If you believe him, you are an idiot” – Josh Barro (@jbarro)
‘Not the eye, but the spirit furnishes proof of theories–and that errs most of the time’ – Einstein, when asked about a Caltech telescope h/t @phalpern
“It’s amusing to see universities crowing about their positions in league tables…as if research was a sport” – Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites)
“Try counting sheep,” they said.
“It’ll help you fall asleep,” they said – Shannon (@theevilwriter)
Birthdays of the Week:
Neptune was discovered 23 September 1846
Neptune from Voyager 2
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Esquire Middle East: How Neptune was discovered
The Local: The German astronomer who found Neptune
170 yrs ago Neptune was discovered by J. G. Galle using Fraunhofer’s refracting telescope – one of the masterpieces in the Deutsches Museum.
Victor Weisskopf was born 19 September 1908
Victor Weisskopf
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AHF: Victor Weisskopf
AIP: Victor Weisskopf – Session I
Michael Faraday born 22 September 1791
Michael Faraday, shown delivering the British Royal Institution’s Christmas Lecture for Juveniles during the Institution’s Christmas break in 1856
Source: Wikimedia Commons
“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds”– Michael Faraday
Yovisto: A Life of Discoveries – the great Michael Faraday
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Michael Faraday
The Royal Society: Portrait of Michael Faraday 1863 Photo by John Watkins
“I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the 6 who merely talk about it” – Michael Faraday
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Yovisto: Edwin McMillan and Neptunium
The Iris: Decoding the Medieval Volvelle
Astronomical Vovelle, from Astronomical and Medical Miscellany, English, late fourteenth century, shortly after 1386. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XII 7, fol. 51
The Twickenham Museum: Tycho Wing: Astrologer and Instrument Maker 1726–1776
Cooper Hewitt: A Portable Equatorial Sundial
Yovisto: James Dewar and the Liquefaction of Gases
Royal Museums Greenwich: Library Item of the Month: Giovanni Riccioli’s Almagestum novum
British Library: Collection items: Chinese star chart
British Library: Collection items: Aristotle in Latin
AHF: John von Neumann
Whipple Library Books Blog: S is for Sherburne’s Sphere of Manilius
Londonist: In Search of Isaac Newton’s Lost London Observatory
AHF: Peaceful Nuclear Innovations
Research Gate: Transits of Venus and Mercury as muses
Atlas Obscura: See 8 Fascinating Ruins of Space Exploration
Nobelprize.org: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes – Biographical
AIP: Emilio Segrè Visual Archive: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Unsettling Scientific Stories: A Boy’s Own Radium
Vox: The 1995 Hubble photo that changed astronomy
AHF: Lee A. DuBridge
AEON: Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious
AHF: Eugene Wigner
Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society: Copying Hevelius’s Lunar Template
Fig. 1: Hevelius, Figura Primaria Phasium Lunarium in Selenographia, 1665 © Royal Society
The New Yorker: The Virtues of Nuclear Ignorance
ESA: Gaia: From Hipparchus to Hipparcos: A Sonification of Stellar Catalogues
ESA: Gaia: Astrometry Through the Ages
Yovisto: Hippolyte Fizeau and the Speed of Light
Rotman Institute of Philosophy: Engaging Science: 50 Years Since “On the Problem of Hidden Variables”
ESA: Thirty Years of Sounding Rockets – Reflections Following a Reunion at ESRANGE
Yovisto: Eratosthenes and the Circumference of the Earth
AHF: Ida Noddack
Academia: The Astronomical Ceiling of Senenmut, a Dream of Mystery and Imagination
Leaping Robot: The Pipe Dreams of Physicists
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Canadian GIS & Geomatics: Vancouver Historic Maps and Plans
Lunar and Planetary Institute: Geological Map of the West Side of the Moon
British Library: Maps and views blog: A Journey to Bookland
Yovisto: The Topographia of Matthäus Merian
The castle and the town of Regensberg in Topographia Helvetiae, 1645
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Library of Congress: Worlds Revealed Geography & Maps: The Changing Mexico-U.S. Border
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Joan Blaeu
Hyperallergic: How an imaginary Island Stayed on Maps for Five Centuries
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Conciatore: Top Physician
Munitions of the Mind: The Case Against Dogs: Dog Dirt, Disgust and 1970s British Health Propaganda
Prospect: Zika is not new – why has it struck now
The Recipes Project: Jolly Good Ale and Old or, Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk?
Spitalfields Life: The Return of Nicholas Culpeper
Past Medical History: The Story of Rene Laennec and the First Stethoscope
Early 19th Century Drawing of Rene Laennec
Broadly: Famous Women in History and Their Less Famous Abortions
Open Culture: How a Young Sigmund Freud Researched & Got Addicted to Cocaine, the New “Miracle Drug” in 1894
Thomas Morris: In one side and out the other
LA Review of Books: Flowers and All: Rockhaven Sanitarium and Women’s Mental Health
Royal College of Physicians: Beef tea, a very 19th century remedy
Wonders & Marvels: Museum Mysteries: The Flesh and Bones of Dr. John Collins Warren
British Medical Journal: Operation drawings of Dame Barbara Hepworth
Yovisto: Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Mary in a 1909 newspaper illustration
The New York Times: An Expert on Chinese Medicine, but No New Age Healer
PLOS blogs: DNA Science Blog: Finding the Famous Painting of the Blue People of Kentucky
De re medica: Alibert & Early French Dermatology
Dirty Sexy History: Suffering in Some Strange Heaven: An Introduction to Laudanum
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
APS: This Month in Physics History: November 1783: Intrepid physicist is first to fly
War is Boring: Maxim’s Machine Gun Slaughtered Hundreds of Thousands of People
Yovisto: Chester Carlson and Xerography
Engineering and Technology History Wiki: John Backus Biography
EDN Network: TI enters calculator market, September 21, 1972
laststandonzobieisland: HMS Devastating muzzle-loading turret ship
AHF: Project Silverplate
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier
A 1786 depiction of the Montgolfier brothers’ historic balloon with engineering data
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Cambridge Library Collection: Babbage’s Calculating Engines (pdf)
Atlas Obscura: Horse-Powered Ore Crusher
Yovisto: Eugen Sänger and Rocket Propulsion Engineering
Yovisto: William Playfair and the Beginnings of Infographics
Conciatore: The Art of Metals
Paper: Syth Pioneer Suzanne Ciani Talks “Sunergy,” Sexism and Coming Full Circle
News Works: This week in science history, dialing across the Atlantic
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Yovisto: How Ötzi became World Famous
Natural History Museum: Caribbean bones reveal the origin of the ‘island murderer’
NICHE: Hydroelectric Development in Eeyou-James Bay
The Guardian: DNA from the deep? Antikythera shipwreck yields ancient human bones
dig: The Coolest Photos from the National Park Service’s Newly Digitised Historic Archives
Many of the photos from the Yellowstone archive attempt to document the roving buffalo herds.
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Georg Markgraf
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Thomas Belt
The Ithaca Voice: Museum of the Earth gets $130k grant to highlight women in paleontology
The New York Times: A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find
New Scientist: The most detailed look yet at how early humans left Africa
Yovisto: Peter Simon Pallas – A Pioneer in Zoography
TrowelBlazers: Helen Vaughn Michel
Michel and close colleague Frank Asaro.
Geobotanik: Naturforscher Conrad Gesner (1516–1565)
Smithsonian.com: A Brief History of America’s Complicated Relationship with Wild Horses
Kronos: ‘Not unlike mermaids’: A report about the human and natural history of Southeast Africa from 1690
Scientific American: The World’s Worst Invasive Predators are Cats, Rats, Pigs and…Hedgehogs
toriherridge.com: Walking Through Time: Scotland’s Lost Asteroid…the backstory
Celebrate Scotland: Dr Torri Herridge investigates the UK’s first ever asteroid impact crater, in north west Scotland
Atlas Obscura: A Record Amount of Mammoth Bones Was Unearthed in Siberia
British Library: American Collections blog: John Muir is going ‘Sequoical’ in the Yosemite
Notches: Her Virginal Members: Chastity and Sexual Desire in the Middle-Ages
Nicolas Gunkel: Climate Forensics: “Little Ice Age” in Dutch Landscape Painting
Art van der Neer’s “Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters at Sunset”
Medievalists.net: What is a Volcano? A Medieval Answer
Nature: How cats conquered the world (and a few Viking ships)
Why Evolution is True: Scientific fame – Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin: the Wikipedia page hit data
CHEMISTRY:
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
The Guardian: World’s oldest library reopens in Fez: ‘You can hurt us but you can’t hurt books’
Shells and Pebbles: Looking Over the Historian’s Shoulder
British Library: Medieval manuscript blog: The British Library’s Greek Manuscript Project
Shady Characters: The Book publication round-up
Academia: A New Field: History of Humanities
Undark: Five Questions for Harold Varmus
Research Repository St Andrews: A pre-history of ‘peer review’: refereeing and editorial selection at the Royal Society (pdf)
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History: Vol. 33, No. 2, Fall 2016 Table of Contents
The Crimson: Knife-fighting and Cardboard Bazookas: A Conversation with Matthew Hersch
Virchow’s Laboratory: All the social medicine fit to print
Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society: An Image Interview with Ian Lawson
JSTOR Daily: Does Science Destroy Wonder?
Capital: Attracting the World: Reimagining Success: Canada Science and Technology Museum combines artifacts with virtual reality to reach a global audience
RECIRC: Recovering Women’s Past conference (Edinburgh, 8–10 September)
Diseases of Modern Life: Medicine and Modernity Conference Report
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: The Alchemy of Plants
Antonio Neri, Tesoro del Mondo, f. 9r.
“Arts Preparatio frugu vel Piantar.”
The New Yorker: Twenty-First-Century Alchemists
Conciatore: The Art of Metals
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Dispersal of Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Lives: Essays on Biology and Society
History Today: The Book: the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Popular Science: Calculating the Cosmos
The Dispersal of Darwin: Spare the Birds! George Grinnell and the First Audubon Society
UC Santa Barbara: The Current: Outta Sight No More
Popular Science: Adam Rutherford – Four Way Interview
New Books Network: Medieval Robots
Earth: “Alfred Wegener”: The definitive biography of a geoscience star
NEW BOOKS:
Brill: Non-native Species and Their Role in the Environment
Rutgers University Press: Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
CUP: Academic: The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy
“Hidden Figures” Book and Film
Brain Pickings: Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Powered Early Space Exploration
AFRO: Margot Shetterly: The American Dream and the Untold Story of Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
The New York Times Magazine: Margot Lee Shetterly Wants to Tell More Black Stories
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
The Guardian: Bedlam was originally a place of sanctuary – now it can be again
The Huntingdon: Gardens, Art, & Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints
Henry Moore Institute: The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics 21 July–23 October 2016
British Library: Maps and views blog: Map exhibition – the countdown begins
Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Harvard University: The Art of Discovery 13 September– 29 October 2016
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography 4 October 2016–15 January 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Hodinkee: Historical Perspectives: New York’s Grolier Club to Exhibit a Collection of Rare Horological Books and Artifacts
flickr: On Time: The Quest for Precision: Books on Time and Timekeeping from the Linda Hall Library Curated by Bruce Bradley
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Live Mint: Science, time, and Rohini Devasher’s art
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
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
CLOSING SOON: 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
CLOSING SOON: 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
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
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
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 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
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
COMING SOON: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea: Royal Collection: Leonardo da Vinci 14 October 2016–6 January 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
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
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
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
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: The Place Bedford: Dr Faustus 6 October 2016
COMING SOON: Mumford Theatre: Dr. Faustus 10 October 2016
EVENTS:
Museum of the History of Science, Technology & Medicine: History & Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects (Lecture 7): A Biblical Herbarium: or, A Story of Victorian Science and Religion 27 September 2016
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Art forms in Nature 19 October 2016
Center for the history of Medicine at Countway Library: Celebration: 70 Years of Women at HMS 21 October 2016
The Old Operating Theatre Museum: Chloroform and Cholera: The Life of John Snow 20 October 2016
University of London: Senate House Library and Institute of Historical Research Library: History Day 2016: history libraries, archives & research open day 15 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016
Discover Medical London: Our Walks and Tours
Millennium Theatre, Limerick: Dream Big: Space, Limerick and Two Mens’ Quest to Reach for the Stars 5 October 2016
Scientific Instrument Society: Turner Memorial Lecture: Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA ‘Of Making Celestial Globes There Seems No End’ Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, London 25 November 2016
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
The Royal Society of Medicine: Chris Renwick: William Bynum Lecture 2016: Social Biology and Progressive Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 30 November 2016
New England Wireless & Steam Museum: Yankee Steam-Up 1 October 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
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
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) £££
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
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
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
Royal Institution: Einstein’s greatest mistake 3 October 2016
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution: King Of all Balloons The adventurous life of James Sadler the first English aeronaut
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Una investigación by
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1897
TELEVISION:
Channel 4: Walking Through Time
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
AEON: The last day of hot metal press before computers come in at The New York Times
Atlas Obscura: Watch a Book Being Made the Old-Fashioned Way
Youtube: The Royal Society: Darwin and the Beagle – Objectivity #86
AEON: Slingshots of the oceanic: Why Ancient Pacific mariners were the NASA scientists of their day
Youtube: The Royal Society: Newton’s Timepieces – Objectivity #67
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: A History of the Infinite
RNZ: A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
cbc radio: The Current: How Moby Doll changed the worldview of ‘monster’ orca whales
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017
edX: University of Newcastle Australia: Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration
IHMC2 – NEWSLETTER – INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, Spain
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
BSHS: Conference: A History of the Moon St Cross College, Oxford 19 November 2016
Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference 11–12 November 2016
National Maritime Museum: Workshop: Transit to Hawai’i: behind the scenes with digital history & astronomy 29 October 2016
Rèsidencia d’Investigadors; Barcelona: Conference: “Urban Peripheries?” Emerging Cities in Europe’s South and East, 1850–1945 26–27 September 2016
Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library: Symposium: CfP: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017 Deadline 27 November 2016
University of Manchester: CHSTM Seminars Autumn/Winter 2016
University of York: Centre for Global Health Histories: Research Masterclass: Across the borders: German-Brazilian Psychiatry between 1900 and 1930 5 October 2016
University of St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2016
NICHE: Call for Participants: CHESS 2017 Gender and Indigenous Landscapes Applications due 16 October 2016
Wellcome Library: History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2016–17
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
Journal of Early Modern Studies (ZetaBooks), vol. 6/1 (Spring, 2017): Special Issue: Gardens as Laboratories. The History of Botany through the History of Gardens Deadline 1 October 2016
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Traps: technology meditations of human-animal encounter 27–28 September 2016
HSS: THATCAmpHSS 2016 in Atlanta 6 November 2016
IHR: Library Exhibition Curation Competition (ECR)
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Oxford Brookes University: Conference: Maritime Masculinities 1815–1940 19–20 December 2016
Penn Libraries: Symposium: The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge 30 September–1 October 2016
International Map Collectors’ Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium: ‘Private Map Collecting and Public Map Collections in the United States’ Chicago 24–29 October 2016
University of Leuvan: Conference: Science of Evolution and the Evolution of the Sciences 12–13 October 2016
University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017
Journal of Science Communication: CfP: Special Issue: History of Science Communication Deadline 12 December 2016
University of Sheffield: Humanities Research Institute: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016
Remedia: CfP: Upcoming Remedia Series: Medicine and Migration Deadline 1 October 2016
University of Cambridge, CRASSH: Workshop: Epistemic Images in Early Modern Germany and its Neighbours 10–11 November 2016
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
The Linnean Society: What should be in your Digital Toolbox?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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 Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open
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 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
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
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
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
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 »
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
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
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:
Leopoldina Akademie: “Johann-Lorenz-Bausch Fellowship” 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Science Museum London: Curator of Chemistry
AIP: Assistant Director, Special Collections
Leibniz University of Hannover: Leibniz Center for Science and Society: Full Professorship in Science and Society, & a Full Professorship in Methodology of Higher Education Research and Science Studies Application Deadline 3 November 2016
Northwestern University: Science in Human Culture Program (SHC): Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the contextual study of science, technology, or medicine
University of Alberta: Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Co-Editor-in-Chief Deadline 1 October 2016
