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 #20
Monday 02 January 2017
EDITORIAL:
2017 has arrived and so has its first edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links lists bringing all the histories of science, technology and medicine scooped up throughout the Internet over the last days of 2016.
The American astronomer Vera Rubin died at the age of 88 on 25 December 2016. Rubin played a central role in establishing an anomaly between the observed and the predicted rotational motions of spiral galaxies, which provide the strongest evidence to date of the dark matter hypothesis.
Vera Rubin mapped the motion of stars in spiral galaxies. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
“The first thing Vera Rubin said to me: “How do you think we solve the dark matter problem?” No one had ever asked what I thought before” – Dr. Chandra (@IBJIYONGI)
“So, besides scientific excellence, one key lesson of Vera Rubin’s life is the profound impact of treating ppl with respect & kindness” – Julianne Dalcanton (@dalcantonJD)
Her death raised, once again, the question as to why she had never been awarded the Nobel Prize for physics, for her, by any definition, groundbreaking work in astrophysics. Some argue that although her work strongly supports a dark matter hypothesis, dark matter has never actually been detected and therefore it would be premature to have awarded her a Nobel for her work. Although there is a certain logic to this argument, as astrophysicist Katie Mack (@astrokatie) has pointed out, the 2011 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded for the evidence that suggests the presence of dark energy, which has also not yet been directly detected.
Vera Rubin on dark matter, “I’m sorry I know so little. I’m sorry we all know so little. But that’s kind of the fun, isn’t it?” h/t @overbye
Even stronger has been the suggestion that she has not been awarded the Nobel because of sexuel discrimination on the part of the Nobel committee. This accusation is underlined by the fact that in the one hundred and fifteen years that the Physics Nobel has been awarded only two women, Marie Curie and Maria Goeppart, have been so honoured as opposed to more than two hundred men.
(Only) 2 times has a woman been awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics, Marie Curie 1903 & Maria Goeppert Mayer 1963
The claim of sexism is underlined by the fact that until Pierre Curie protested, only he and not Marie was going to be awarded the then still young award.
All of this raises the more general question of the number of more than deserving scientists who have never been awarded a Nobel, which in turn raise the question of the whole veneration of the Nobel and its recipients. Do we give too much weight to the award of Nobel prizes in our assessment of the significance of a scientist’s work? Should we have a more equitable award system with a whole series of equally valued prizes being awarded every year instead of the singular Nobel? Should we scrap such prestige awards altogether? All that can be said for certain is that the system as it exists today is anything but satisfactory with more injustice than justice being done.
abc News: Female Astronomer Who Pioneered Research on Dark Matter Dies
BBC News: Vera Rubin, pioneering astronomer, dies at 88
The Washington Post: It’s been 53 years since a woman won the Nobel Prize in physics. What’s the holdup?
The Sydney Morning Herald: Vale Vera Rubin, the greatest astronomer you never heard of
Scientific American: Vera Rubin: 1928–2016
Slate: Vera Rubin, Discoverer of Dark Matter, Has Died
Washington Post: How Vera Rubin changed science
skepchic: RIP Vera Rubin, Who Should Have Won a Nobel Prize
New York Times: Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women
The Guardian: Vera Rubin obituary
Michael Brooks: Meeting Vera Rubin
JSTOR Daily: From the Horse’s Mouth: Vera Rubin
Astronomy Magazine: How Vera Rubin confirmed dark matter
Discover: Astronomer Vera Rubin – The Doyenne of Dark Matter
The Astrophysical Journal, 238:471–487, 1980 June 1: Rotational Properties of 21 Sc Galaxies with a Large Range of Luminosities and Radii, From NGC 4605 (R=4 kpc) to UGC 2885 (R=122 kpc) Vera C. Rubin, W. Kent Ford, Jr., and Norbert Thonnard
“The conclusion is inescapable that nonluminous matter exists beyond the optical galaxy”
BBC: Vera Rubin
The Sydney Morning Herald: The women in science who never got the credit they deserved
Quotes of the week:
“Thoughts to improve 2017: stop giving roles like science outreach and political communication strictly to comedians. Thoroughly sick of the notion everything must be constantly entertaining and have a punchline in order to teach. If you are one of these and think I’m subtweeting you YES I absolutely am. Smug end of year podcasts give the illusion of knowledge without any transfer of understanding, and it’s pushing out basic info. Distrust of experts is not a problem only of the right; happens when we habitually & preferentially raise entertainers above practitioners.” – Dr Brooke Magnanti (@belledejour)
“Die Hard was actually originally a pagan festival” – Andrew O’Neill (@destructo9000)
“If we ground ourselves in history, and carve out space for us in the present, we become free to imagine any future and make it possible” – medievalpoc (@medievalpoc)
“Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, clean Brexit?
Nah, it will probably be a Baldrick Brexit based on someone’s cunning plan” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“Top tip: place a damp cloth over stale trends, and microwave them for 30 second to refresh” – Scott Smith (@changeist)
William Gilbert sums up intellectual life (Wootton. The Invention of Science p304) h/t @KateMorant
“Vermehren sich Mönche auch durch Zellteilung?” – DerBuddler (@DerBuddler)
“Brot statt Böller”? Hab ich im letzten Jahr versucht. Nie wieder!
Wisst Ihr eigentlich, wie schwer sich so ein Baguette anzünden lässt? – DerBuddler (@DerBuddler)
“Mathematicians often like to point out the obvious, such as “Anagram is an anagram of anagram.” It gives them a sense of group identity” – Martin Gardner tweet (@WWMGT)
“What makes you think we have a civilization? We only have *pockets* of civilization.”
–Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., NIGHTLINE, 2001 h/t @austinkleon
“The reason we can’t have a sensible debate about history’s role in our national identity is that “national identity” is a toxic myth” – David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress)
“There was a Jesuit at my college who began his course, “The Church and the Poor,” each semester by shouting “IT NEVER TRICKLES DOWN!”” – Liam Stack (@liamstack)
“The official Austrian Word of 2016 is BUNDESPRÄSIDENTENSTICHWAHLWIEDERHOLUNGSVERSCHIEBUNG” – Haggard Hawk Words (@HaggardHawks)
Jonathan Swift, on self-proclaimed “free thinkers” who abhor experts (1721) h/t @JolyonMaugham
“Twitter is a place where you can watch ppl who don’t read books argue with ppl who write them” – Mark Safronski (@zenpundit)
Birthdays of the Week:
The Beagle set sail 27 December 1831
AboutDarwin.com: HMS Beagle Voyage
Yovisto: The second Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle
American Museum of Natural History: A Trip around the World
Youtube: Royal Society: Darwin and the Beagle – Objectivity #86
BBC: A History of the World: Ship’s chronometer from HMS Beagle
History of Geology: Charles Darwin in Rio de Janeiro and the Geology of Sugarloaf Mountain
Forbes: How Charles Darwin Classified His Mineral Collection
Letters from Gondwana: Darwin and the Strangest Animal, Ever Discovered
Johannes Kepler born 27 December 1571
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Christmas Trilogy 2016 Part 3: The English Keplerians
NASA Earth Observatory: The Science: Orbital Mechanics
University of Oklahoma: University Libraries: Sacred Mystery of the Structure of the Cosmos
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen born 29 December 1788
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen
Portrait by Johan Vilhelm Gertner
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Christian Thomsen
Yovisto: Christian Jürgensen Thomsen and the Three-Age System
Charles Macintosh born 29 December 1766
Google Doodles Archive: Charles Macintosh’s 250th Birthday
Georgian Gentleman: Happy Birthday to the Rain(coat) Man – Charles Macintosh
“250th birthday of raincoat mogul Charles Macintosh, who is confused with Charles Rennie Mackintosh in EVERYTHING I EVER GET SENT TO EDIT” – James Sumner (@JamesBSumner)
Andreas Vesalius born 31 December 1514
Portrait of Vesalius from his De humani corporis fabrica.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Andreas Vesalius
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Medical Brackets
Linda Hall Library Digital Collections: De humani corporis fabrica libri septem
Marcellin Boule born 1 January 1861
Marcellin Boule
Boyer/H. Roger-Viollet
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Marcellin Boule
Paige Fossil History: Marcellin Boule’s Old Man: A Neanderthal Tale
Blade and Bone: The Discovery of Human Antiquity: The Old Man of La Chapelle-Aux-Saints, 1911
The Public Domain Review: Neanderthals in 3D: L’Homme de La Chapelle
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Atomic secrets 1 h/t @AtomicAnalyst
Atomic secrets 2 h/t @AtomicHeritage
Atomic secrets 3 h/t @wellerstein
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Carl D. Anderson’s Interview
Yovisto: CoRoT Space Observatory
AHF: John von Neumann
The Bruce Medalists: Arthur Stanley Eddington
Nature: Arthur Eddington was innocent!
Yovisto: The Case of Klaus Fuchs
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Maarten Schmidt
The Stars at Night Are Big and Bright: What Galileo Almost Saw
The New York Times: Edwin Goldwasser, Physicist Who Co-Founded Fermilab, Dies at 97
National Geographic: Why Newton Believed a Comet Caused Noah’s Flood
AHF: Eugene Wigner
NASA: SP-404 Skylab’s Astronomy and Space Sciences: 4. Observations of Comet Kohoutek
Comet Kohoutek photographed from the Joint Observatory for Cometary Research, South Baldy Mountain, New Mexico, on December 7, 1973, about 3 weeks before perihelion.
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Atlas Obscura: Take a Journey Into One of the World’s Most Impressive Map Collection
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Otto von Kotzebue
Linda Hall Library: Voyages: Kotzebue’s Expedition 1815–1818
Portrait of the Inhabitants of Kotzebue Sound
from Entdeckungs-Reise in de Süd See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt:
Weimar: Hoffmann, 1821.
Hyperallergic: Tracking the 19th-Century Explorer Who Scaled Java’s Volcanoes
Ordnance Survey: A history of the trig pillar
CNN: Vasco da Gama’s Esmeralda believed to have been found
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Yovisto: William H. Masters – Master of Sex
Yovisto: Louis Pasteur – the Father of Medical Microbiology
Smithsonian.com: A Brief History of America’s Most Outrageous Dentist
The Recipes Project: From the Dry Sands of Egypt… Greek Medicine Labels on Papyrus
The New York Times: The Woman’s Heart Attack
Yovisto: Thomas Sydenham – The English Hipocrates (sic)
Cabinet: Bringing the Drugstore Home: An Interview with Deanna Day
1923 advertisement for Squibb’s medical and hygiene products.
Thomas Morris: The forty-foot tapeworm
Nautilus: My Personal Hero: Robert Sapolsky on Rudolf Virchow
Remedia: Irish Medical Migration and the First World War
THE: The small scientist
Thomas Morris: The spider’s web cure
CHF: Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton at the age of 24, the year she graduated from medical school.
Courtesy Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
The New York Times: What Doctors Can Learn From Looking at Art
indy100: Dr Donald Henderson: The most significant death of 2016 you didn’t hear about
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Conciatore: Neri’s Travels
Conciatore: Neri’s Aleppo Connection
Yovisto: George Cayley and the Science of Aeronautics
The Victorian Web: William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Cragside (1810–1900)
mental_floss: August Musger: The Priest and Physicist Who Invented Slow Motion
The Economist: The curious history of the clothespeg
Laura Mitchison
Yovisto: There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom
Old Tokyo: Tokyo’s first subway, c. 1930
Yovisto: Samuel Morland and his Calculator Machine
Yovisto: Henri Gaston Busignies and the HuffDuff System
BT: December 29, 1940: Central Telegraph Office targeted by Luftwaffe bombers
The Central Telegraph Office in London 1940
Ptak Science Books: The Phonograph as a “Philosophical Toy” in April 1878, and then not so in May
120years.net: 120 Years of Electronic Music
BT: How telecoms helped police catch a murderer for the very first time – in 1845
Contempory Physics: Richard Feynman and computation
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Smithsonian.com: The Northwest’s Earliest “Garden” Discovered in British Columbia
99% Invisible: America’s Last Top Model
Yovisto: Alfred Romer and the Evolution of Vertebrae
UW–Milwaukee: Special Collections: Falconry
Smithsonian.com: What Have the World’s Oldest Mummies Kept Under Wraps?
Yovisto: John Milne and the History of Seismology
Lemelson-MIT: John Milne
flickr: BHL: The moth book
Smithsonian.com: The Story of the Canary in a Coal Mine
Ptak Science Books: A Singular Cloud of 1817
Letters from Gondwana: From Argentina with Love: Top Fossils of 2016
CHEMISTRY:
George Washington Carver seated (front row, center) on steps at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, with staff, ca. 1902.
Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-DIG-ppmsca-05633.
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Landscapes: Themed Issue: Landscapes of Disease Table of Contents
Facebook: Michael Nielsen: Mini-essay on what the intellectual elite know, ignorance, and the inventions driving human progress
Scientific American: Gone in 2016: 10 Notable Women in Science and Technology
Deborah Jin
Credit: Geoffrey Wheeler National Institute of Standards and Technology Flickr
Making Science Public: Science communication: Mary Somerville
Science Museum: Medicine galleries
JSTOR Daily: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lesbians Who Founded The Field of Home EC
Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose at a meeting of the League of Women Voters at the home of Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park in the 1920s
via Wikimedia Commons
The Recipes Project: From Dificio di Ricette to Bâtiment des Recettes: The Afterlife of Italian Secrets in France
Medium: Can we build a science of human evolution that people can trust?
AEON: What say you, dinosaur?
ESOTERIC:
Academis: Unexpected in the Octagon: Heinrich Khunrath’s Presentation Copy
BOOK REVIEWS:
The New York Times: Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration
Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null: Ein Monument für den „fränkischen Galilei“
Nursing Clio: Clio Talk: Kids and Science: An Interview with Rebecca Onion
Skeptic: Back to the Future and Forward to the Past
LSE: Electronic Dreams. How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer by Tom Lean
The Guardian: The Nine Lives of John Ogilby review – a cunning cartographer
John Oliver’s Map of London – circa 1680. Photograph: The London Map Fair
Academia: Recension: “Daniel Burston, A Forgotton Freudian: The Passion of Karl Stern”
The Guardian: Stalin and the Scientists by Simon Ings review – a scientific state?
NEW BOOKS:
Penguin Random House: Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World’s Most Famous Human Fossils
ART & EXHIBITIONS
BHL: Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition Celebrating the History of Botany
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Bilderwelten: Aufbruch zu Neuen Ufern: Mitteleuropäische Buchmalerei 1400–1540
The Oxford Times: Museum exhibition explores groundbreaking work on antibiotics in Oxford
Science Museum: Mathematics – The Winton Gallery
Arab World Institute Paris: Ocean Explorers: From Sinbad to Marco Polo 11 November 2016–26 February 2017
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
COMING SOON: The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 17 March–23 July 2017
Harvard Gazette: The story of Edwin Land
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
CLOSING SOON: Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Sir Morell Mackenzie, a lifetime in laryngology 7 November 2016–28 January 2017
Morell Mackenzie
Hagley Museum: Driving Desire: Automobile Advertising and the American Dream Through March 2017
Enfilade: Exhibition – Robert Adams’ London 30 November 2016–11 March 2017
Florence Nightingale Museum: The Age of the Beard: Putting on a Brave Face in Victorian Britain 18 November 2016–30 April 2017
Natural History Museum: Dippy the Dinosaur’s UK tour venues announced
The 26-metre Diplodocus skeleton is a museum icon and has been on display for more than 100 years. Found in Wyoming, USA.
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity October 19 2016–April 23 2017
CLOSING SOON: Ashmolean Museum: Power and Protection 20 October 2016–15 January 2017
Princeton University Art Museum: Transcient Effects
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
CLOSING VERY SOON: Tellers Museum: Bloemenpracht 25 July 2016–08 January 2017
H.J. Elwes, A monograph of the genus Lilium, z.p., 1880
British Library: Maps of the 20th Century: Drawing the Line 4 November 2016–1 March 2017
Causway Coast Community: County Antrim adventurer’s royal maps will graphically outline history
Bradbury Science Museum: Fifty years of nuclear safeguards
Cambridge Digital Library: Browse our collections: Curious Objects
Leek Post & Times: Mary A Blagg the Cheadle Astronomer honoured at Cheadle Discovery Centre exhibition
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
The Foundling Museum: Feeding the 400 23 September 2016–08 January 2017
The Getty Research Institute: The Art of Alchemy 11 October 2016–12 February 2017
Alchemists Revealing Secrets from the Book of Seven Seals, The Ripley Scroll (detail), ca. 1700. 950053
Osher Map Museum: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities 29 September 2016–11 March 2017
CLOSING VERY SOON: The Huntingdon: Gardens, Art, & Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints 17 September 2016–9 January 2017
CLOSING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
CLOSING SOON: 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
CLOSING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
CLOSING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
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
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
CLOSING SOON: Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017
Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
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
Science Museum: Robots
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Science Museum: Making the Modern World
Science Museum: Flight
Science Museum: Exploring Space
Science Museum: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
CLOSING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
CLOSING SOON: Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
CLOSING VERY SOON: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea: Royal Collection: Leonardo da Vinci 14 October 2016–6 January 2017
CLOSING SOON: Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–2 July 2017
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–1 May 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017
National Maritime Museum: Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity 3 November 2016–17 April 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–21 May 2017
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
COMING SOON: Bodleian Libraries: Volcanoes 10 February–21 May 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
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
Mercury Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde 18–28 January 2017
Stockport Garrick Theatre: Copenhagenn 11–14 January 2017
EVENTS:
Cardiff University: Cheats, Liars and Fornicators: Alfred Russel Wallace and Mimicry 22 February 2017
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Clinical Trials: Medical Truth and Medical Fiction 16 February 2017
University of London Senate House: Maps and Society Lectures: Travels, Maps and Inns in Eighteenth-Century Britain 19 January 2017
The Royal Institution: Spirits in the ether: Oliver Lodge and the physics of the spirit world 1 February 2017
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departures: 9 March 2017 & 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
Truman State University: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Gendering Artificial Anatomies: Practices and Materials 8 March 2017
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Jan Vermeer The Geographer (1669)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Royal Society: Map of the Galaxy – Objectivity #99
RADIO & PODCASTS:
University of Oklahoma: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art: Podcasts: Beyond Galileo
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Johannes Kepler
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Denver Colorado: 131st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA): History of Sexuality
British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference: CfP: Session proposal: Science and Connoisseurship: New Perspectives 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Spring 2017
History of Anaesthesia Society: CfP: HAS Summer Scientific meeting 16–17 June 2017 Deadline 17 May 2017
BSHS 2017: CfP: Science and Connoisseurship 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Society for the History of Technology: The Diber Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2017 Deadline 1 May 2017
BNF/Université Paris-Descartes-USPC: Colloque international: Appel à communications: Alfred Binet, expérimentateur. Entre archives de la psychologie et éducation physique 12–13 Octobre 2017 Avant le 31 janvier 2017
University of Aberdeen: CfP: Workshop: Gut Feeling: Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Culture 26-27 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: ebook: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals Deadline 28 February 2017
Société de Démographie Historique, Centre Roland Mousnier, Paris: Appel à communications: Le sang. Famille, parenté, transmission du Moyen Âge à nos jours 23–24 novembre 2017 Date limite de l’appel : 15 janvier 2017
The Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: CfP: “IX International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Alexander von Humboldt and Travellers Through Yucatan”, 19–24 November 2018 Deadline 29 May 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Environmental Histories of Architecture 10 March 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Pittsburgh: Call for Applications: A Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups 10–14 July 2017
Département de français, New York University: Appel à communications: Le goût 13 et 14 avril 2017 avant le 15 janvier 2017
Domus Comeliana of Pisa: CfP: Conference: Humours, mixtures, & corpuscles. A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York: Call for applications: William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)
The Royal Society: Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture Nominations Open Deadline 30 January 2017
University of Sheffield: Call for Open Panels: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa: CfP: Joint Meeting of the Red EsCTS and the Portuguese STS Network: Lost in Translation? People, Technologies for Practices and Concepts Across Boundaries 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 10 February 2017
SSHM: Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Now Open! Deadline 1 February 2017
University of California, Berkeley: 2017 4S Conference Proposal Submission Dates
Historiens de la santé: CfP: Edited Collection: Medicine and What it Means to be Human
History of Psychology: CfP: Special Issue on the History of Global Psychology and Psychiatry Deadline 15 May 2017
University of Exeter: CfP: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, Exeter Deadline 20 February 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: CfP: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation
University of Leeds: CfP: Conference: Who Cares? The Past and Present of Caring 27–28 March 2017 Deadline 13 January 2017
UK Association for the History of Nursing: Annual Nursing History Writing Competition Deadline 31 March 2017
Mississippi State University: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences 22-25 June 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Sheffield: CfP: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology and Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study: CfP: Mapping the Territory: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1830 Two Conferences Berne 14–16 September 2017 Göttingen 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable: Medicine, Public Health and Healthcare 23–24 June 2017
British Library: Eccles Centre for American Studies: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017
Manchester Conference Centre: CfP: Genealogies of Knowledge I: Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 15 February 2017
University of Chicago: Marine Biological Laboratory: Seminar: A Century of Engineering Life: Cells and Organisms 17–24 May 2017
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
Faculté des lettres et Sciences Humaines, Limoges: Colloque: Contestations, résistances et négociations environnementales à l’échelle locale dans les sociétés industrialisées. XIXe-XXIe siècle 08 et 09 décembre 2016
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Oxford: TORCH: CfP: Symposium: Doctor-Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor Patient Relationship 24 March 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016 Deadline 17 March 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
British Library: What’s on: Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line – Workshops 14 November 2016–1 March 2017
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
CHF: Oral History Training Institute 2017 9-13 January
University of Leeds: The Past, Present and Future of Integrated HPS: An International Postgraduate Forum 13-14 January 2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Durham University: Conference: CfP: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
IHPS Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum 13–14 January 2017 Deadline 7 November 2016
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals
BSHS: Dingle Prize 2017: The British Society for the History of Science invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
Indianna University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
University of Illinois: Graduate STS workshop: CfP: Interdisciplinary Encounters: Exploring Knowledge-Making Across Boundaries 10–11 March 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
H-Material-Culture: CfP. Kitchen and Kitchen Gardens in Britain and Europe, 1500–1950
University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Autumn 2016
Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
University of Toronto: CfP: CSHPS–SCHPS Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
BSHS: CfP: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 5–7 April 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016
SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation
University of Exeter: EPSA 17: CfP: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 6-9 September 2017 Deadline 5 January 2017
University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016
‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Museo de América, Madrid: Symposium: CfP: Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge 5–7 April 2017
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’ 12–14 July 2017
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
Edinburgh Napier University: American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Lecture: ‘What, if anything, makes knowledge an improvement over information?’ 30 November 2016
University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library: Symposium: CfP: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017 Deadline 27 November 2016
University of St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2017
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
Rice University, Houston: CfP: Southern Forum on Agriculture, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) 10–11 February 2017 Deadline 1 November 2016
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
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
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
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Coastal Carolina University: CfP: SAHMS Nineteenth Annual Meeting 16–18 March 2017 Deadline 31 October 2016
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017
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
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
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 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
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
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
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
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
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
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
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
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
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
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
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
Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017): CfP: Blood, Food, and Climate: Historical Relationships Between Physiology, Race, Nation-Building, and Colonialism/Globalization
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Oxford: TORCH: CfP: Symposium: Doctor-Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor Patient Relationship 24 March 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016 Deadline 17 March 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
British Library: What’s on: Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line – Workshops 14 November 2016–1 March 2017
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
CHF: Oral History Training Institute 2017 9-13 January
University of Leeds: The Past, Present and Future of Integrated HPS: An International Postgraduate Forum 13-14 January 2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Durham University: Conference: CfP: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
IHPS Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum 13–14 January 2017 Deadline 7 November 2016
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
Indianna University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
University of Illinois: Graduate STS workshop: CfP: Interdisciplinary Encounters: Exploring Knowledge-Making Across Boundaries 10–11 March 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
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