Whewell’s Gazette
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Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #29
Monday 06 March 2017
EDITORIAL:
The march of time cannot be stopped and so it is time yet again for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the #histSTM weekly links list bringing you all the histories od science, technology and medicine that washed up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.
Apparently James Watson and Francis Crick first announced that they had succeeded in determining the structure of DNA to some friends and acquaintances in a pub in Cambridge on 28 February 1953. 
This #histSTM anniversary was duly noted by various people on Twitter, which provoked a vitriolic shitstorm from the Rosalind Franklin fan club. I’m not going to present you with a long list of their outraged tweets but the tenor can be summed up by the following offering:
“On this day in 1953, two young men announced Rosalind Franklin’s stunning work on X-ray photography of the DNA Double Helix” – @tilton_raccoon
The vitriol reached something of a peak in the tweet of Matthew Francis, a professional science writer, who in my opinion should know better:
“Any mention of Crick & Watson should call them “unethical data-thieves who should’ve been fired”, & Watson “a racist misogynist shitguzzler”” – @DrMRFrancis
A more moderate correction of the original tweets was offered up by Imperial College, which comes closer to the truth but succeeds in doing to both Maurice Wilkins and Raymond Gosling, what the Franklin fan club accuses the world of doing to her, namely eradicating them and their contributions from the picture.
On This Day 1953: James Watson & Francis Crick proposed double helix structure of DNA, based on their research & work of Rosalind Franklin – @imperialcollege
As the outrage expressed by the Franklin fan club is in reference to the “Photo 51” myth I thought I would briefly outline the correct facts, once again, for those prepared to read with an open mind.
Photo 51, showing x-ray diffraction pattern of DNA Source: Wikimedia Commons
Was Photo 51, the iconic X-ray crystallography picture of DNA, made by Rosalind Franklin?
No, it wasn’t. Photo 51 was actually made by Raymond Gosling who was, at the time it was made, a doctoral student at King’s working under Franklin’s supervision.
Was Photo 51 shown to James Watson behind Franklin’s back without her knowledge and without her permission?
Yes and no! Photo 51 was shown to James Watson without Franklin’s knowledge but at the time he was shown the photo Franklin’s permission would not have been required. By that time Franklin had already resigned at King’s and was preparing to leave and Gosling’s supervision had been transferred back to Maurice Wilkins, so Wilkins was perfectly within his rights as Gosling’s supervisor to show the photo to Watson. Whether he was acting ethically in doing so is an open question but I agree with Matthew Cobb that he probably wasn’t.
Did Photo 51 play the key role in determining the structure of DNA that James Watson attributes to it in his book The Double Helix?
No, it didn’t, as Matthew Cobb expressed it in a tweet:
Photo 51 plays role in Watson’s powerful novelised version, not in actual events – @matthewcobb
Did Rosalind Franklin play a central role in helping to determine the structure of DNA? If so, how and were Watson and Crick ‘unethical data-thieves?
Rosalind Franklin did indeed play an important and central role in determining the structure of DNA, but not through Photo 51. To determine his mathematical model of the structure of DNA, Francis Crick used numerical data acquired by Franklin through measuring various X-ray crystallography images that she and Gosling had made in their work. Crick did not steal this data as Franklin had already made it public.
Was Rosalind Franklin shut out of the formal announcement of the discovery of the structure of DNA in the journal Nature?
No, the announcement of the discovery in Nature was not in the form of a single paper by Watson and Crick but by a group of papers, one of which was co-authored by Franklin and Gosling outlining their work and its contribution to the discovery.
Should Franklin have been awarded the Nobel Prize for her contribution to the discovery?
I was surprised that this turned up yet again, as it should be clear by now that Franklin had already died by the time the Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of the structure of DNA and one of the stipulations of the Nobel Prize is that the recipients have to be living at the time of the award. This does however raise the hypothetical question but what if she had still been alive?
In that case I think there would have been a very serious case for including her in the award but then we run into another of the Nobel Prize stipulations that the award can only be made to a maximum of three recipients. With Watson, Crick and Wilkins, whose work was also significant to the discovery of the structure, we already have three, so who goes short? And what about Raymond Gosling? I think this is a good example of why the Nobel committee’s rule of three is bullshit.
It will make one final comment. When I pointed out on the Internet that Photo 51 was actually made by Gosling and not Franklin, irrespective of its role or lack of it in the story, I got told that as his supervisor the credit should go to Franklin and not to him. This is all very well but in saying this you are saying that it was correct for the Nobel committee to award the prize for physics to Anthony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars instead of the Jocelyn Bell, his doctoral student who actually discovered them.
If you want to read the whole DNA discovery story in detail including the correct facts about who did what then I recommend, not for the first time, Matthew Cobb’s excellent Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code, Profile Books, 2015. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, then just chapter 6, The Double Helix. For an even shorter account then I recommend Matthew’s Guardian article:
The Guardian: Sexism in science: did Watson and Crick really steal Rosalind Franklin’s data?
Asked to judge whether I had described the sequence of events correctly Matthew Cobb added the following comment:
More importantly, you might want to unpack “Crick did not steal this data as Franklin had already made it public.” The data had already been published in a semi-official document – the report to the MRC from the King’s College lab. Ironically, virtually identical data had been presented by Franklin in a talk in November 1951. Jim Watson was in the audience, but a) he never took notes and b) by his own frank admission was spending some of his time musing about Franklin’s looks etc. Had he scribbled down the numbers, Crick would have been able to act earlier on them. Second point – had Franklin lived, the simple solution would have been to award two Nobels – one in chemistry, the other in physiology and medicine. Enough space for everyone. Furthermore, Franklin’s discoveries are even greater than her fanclub knows (which shows many don’t actually know much about her): had she lived, she could legitimately have got two Nobels – one for DNA, the other for the structure of RNA viruses, which she worked on afterwards, and which one of her students, Klug, got a Nobel for much later. Finally, worth pointing out that W&C acknowledged in the Nature paper that they had sight of the unpublished work of the Kings’ group, including, explicitly, of Franklin. [my emphasis]
SciHi Blog: Crick and Watson decipher the DNA
JSTOR Daily: How Francis Crick Almost Didn’t Make His Huge DNA Discovery
Quotes of the week:
“The word “normal” has at least 27 different definitions in the mathematical register, none of which really match the everyday register” – Spencer Bagley (@sbagley)
“In Sweden, meteorologists define beginning of Spring as ‘when average daily temp is above 0degC for seven days in a row’” – Sophia Collins (@sophiacol)
“Today’s and Friday’s dates (in ISO format) are a pair of twin primes: 20170301 and 20170303” – Tom Button (@tombutton)
“The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words” – Ursula Le Guin h/t @philipcball
“Grammar Nazis first appeared in days of you’re” – Nigel A. Hammond (@ArthurFooksake)
“PUBLIC RELATIONS is an anagram of ‘crap built on lies’” – Haggard Hawks (@HaggardHawks)
“People who reject the importance of environmental History are so ignorant” – Jade (@JadeT_Evans)
Know your grammar Academia Obscura (@AcademiaObscura)
Birthdays of the Week:
Herman Hollerith born 29 February 1860
Herman Hollerith Photo: Charles Milton Bell
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Herman Hollerith and the Mechanical Tabulator
Linus Carl Pauling born 28 February 1901
Pauling’s graduation photo from Oregon State University, 1922
Source: Wikimedia Commons
CHF: Linus Carl Pauling
Walter Hood Fitch born 28 February 1817
Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Walter Hood Fitch
William Oughtred born 5 March 1574
William Oughtred
by Wenceslas Hollar 1646
SciHi Blog: William Oughtred and the Slide Rule
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Sliding to mathematical fame
Joseph Fraunhofer born 6 March 1787
Fraunhofer demonstrating the spectroscope.
Richard Wimmer – “Essays in astronomy” – D. Appleton & company, 1900
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Solar System
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
SciHi Blog: James Chadwick and the Discovery of the Neutron
chemistry.bd.psu.edu: Chadwick discovers the neutron 1932
Apollo NASA: The Apollo Guidance Computer
AHF: Science Behind the Atomic Bomb
LEGO Ideas: Women of NASA
SciHi: Henri Becquerel and Radioactivity
Voices of the Manhattan Project: John Manley’s Interview (1985) – Part 2
Medium: From Princeton to Prison: The ‘boy Genius’ Who Was Recruited by John Wheeler and Sentenced by Trump’s Sister
ESA: Rosetta
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Eugène Michel Antoniadi
Drawings of Mars by E-M Antoniadi
NASA History: Pearl Young at Langley’s Flight Instrumentation Facility. March 1929
Wired: A Look Inside Britain’s Plucky (and Criminally Overlooked) Space Program
BSHS: In the Moon a Planet?
Smithsonian.com: How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism
Smithsonian.com: The 17th-Century Lady Astronomer Who Took Measure of the Stars
Title page of the Urania propitia by Maria Cunitz, 1650. (Wikimedia Commons)
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
This is a fantastic map of Great Lakes from @torontolibrary h/t Samuel McLean (@Canadian_Errant)
History Today: Celebrity, Politics and Francis Drake
Standard–Speaker: Project uncovering the ghosts below
IET: Methodus Geometrica 1598 by Paul Pfintzing
Atlas Obscura: The Mysteries of the First-Ever Map of the North Pole
The second draft of the Septentrionalium Terrarum, released in 1606. GERARDUS MERCATOR/PUBLIC DOMAIN
The Hakluyt Society Blog: The Armada of the Strait, 1581–1584: Disastrous beginnings of an ill-fated enterprise
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women: The Violence of Transnationalism and Indigenous Women’s Resistance
National Geographic: Historical Atlases Rescued from the Trash Could be a Boon to Historians
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
BBC News: The psychiatrist who wanted to make madness normal
Slate: Worse Than Tuskegee
Remedia: The Nazi Microbiota
SciHi Blog: Sir Peter Medawar – The Father of Transplantation
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: After the Amputation
A. A. Marks advertising card, showing a customer holding and wearing his artificial legs, late 1800s
Courtesy Warshaw Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Guardian: Recipe found in medieval mystic’s writings was probably for ‘dragges’
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: Horses for Courses (of vaccination) – the role of animals in the early diphtheria immunisation programme
Wellcome Library: Wellcome MS. 632: heavenly protection during childbirth in late medieval England
Early Modern Medicine: Pancake Plasters
The Atlantic: The Long History of Discrimination in Pain Medicine
Smithsonian.com: The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, the First Native American to Earn a Medical Degree
Susan, far left, with her husband (seated with puppy) at their Bancroft, Nebraska, home. (Courtesy of the Hampton University Archives.)
The Guardian: Penicillin mould created by Alexander Fleming sells for over $14,000
Emory Libraries & Information Technology: All Americans Will Pull Together…The Federal Government’s Evolving Role in Dealing with Disaster: Thalidomide Drug Crisis 1960s
The Atlantic: The Girls With Radioactive Bones
The Public Domain Reviews: Plates from Spiegel’s De formato foetu liber singularis (1626)
Alabama Yesterday: Alabama Medical Journal 1906: What the People & the Doctors Should Know
SciHi Blog: Fritz Schaudinn and the ‘French Disease’
Fritz Schaudern
Royal College of Physicians: The Bern theses: pioneering medical women
The H-Word: What drives the demand for rhino horns?
Storia Della Medicina. Sito & Blog: The Lancet
Whipple Library Books Blog: Fluddean Philosophy and the Weapon-Salve
Old Operating Theatre: Unicorns and Disingenuous Apothecaries
A Network of Lines: Saving the Mona Lisa: Misdiagnosis and Historical Malpractice
Grover Lab: All the easy experiments: A Berkley professor, dirty bombs, and the birth of informed consent
Thomas Morris: The turpentine vapour bath
The Journal: Irish giant’s bones will stay at London museum but he wanted to be buried at sea
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
York station in 1887. Designed by the North Eastern Rly architects Prosser and Peachey, it opened in 1877. The footbridge was added in 1938 – h/t David Turner (@TurnipRail)
SciHi Blog: James Sadler – the First English Aeronaut
SciHi Blog: Samuel Pierpont Langley and his Aviation Work
SciHi Blog: Steve Jobs – American Businessman, Inventor, and Industrial Designer
Atlas Obscura: Found: Internal Apple Computer Memos from 1979, Left at a Seattle Goodwill
Conciatore: Antonio Neri’s Birthday
Conciatore: Sara Vincx
Geek History: Nikola Tesla versus Thomas Edison and the search for the truth
Nikola Tesla The search for the truth
GeekHistory.com The search for the truth
The Public Domain Review: Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday
Smithsonian.com: Byron Was One of the Few Prominent Defenders of the Luddites
JSTOR Daily: Why People Once Loved Linoleum
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – David Sarnoff
Atlas Obscura: Making Fun of Thomas Edison
Edison poses by his phonograph in a photograph from 1878. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/LC-DIG-CWPBH-04044
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Samuel Pierpont Langley
Geek History: Was the internet invented and who invented the internet?
AHF: Robert W. Henderson
Computer History Museum: Computer History Museum Leads Software Research and Preservation with New Center Launch
Air & Space Smithsonian: Berry’s Leap
Jannus (left) and Berry get ready for takeoff. (NASM)
Scottish Science Hall of Fame: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Thomas Poulter
Textilis: Textile Production & Traditions in a Costal Town – 1525–1650
Wonders & Marvels: Automata in history
Daily Kos: The Supersonics
Atlas Obscura: Meet Bessie Coleman, the First Black Woman to Get a Pilot’s License
Bessie Coleman and her biplane in 1922. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Tedium: Are You Not Entertained?
The History Press: The Spitfire: R.J. Mitchell’s radical design development
Atlas Obscura: Arion Press and M&H Type
“Do You Know Who Invented the Computer?” – 1991 ad in Scientific American h/t @LeapingRobot
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Labiotech: Microorganisms in the Library: Bringing Centuries-Old Books to Life
Notches: Remembrance of Things Past: A Novelist Reflects on the Politics of Intergenerational Sex
Letters from Gondwana: Introducing Isaberrysaura
Geschichte der Geologie: Star Trek und die Geologie: Leben, Jim. Aber nicht wie wir es kennen
npr: Prehistoric Aurochs Image Opens Up a New View of Human Evolution
Edge Effects: What Eight Waves of Migration Can Tell Us About Human-Environmental Relationships
Academia: Exotica on the Move: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Holland
Anonymous Nuremberg artist,
Bird of Paradise (two views) c. 1550. Watercolour and gouache on paper
Darwin Online: ‘300 thousand cattle’: An introduction to the Falkland Notebook
A short history of climate change: Joseph Fourier’s political science
Gresham College: Chelsea Physic Garden Through the Ages
The Guardian: Galápagos giant tortoises show that in evolution, slow and steady gets you places
A drawing of Testudo abingdonii (now Chelonoidis abingdonii) from Darwin’s 1890’s book on his Beagle adventure. Illustration: C. Darwin, 1890.
Forbes: Human Activity on Earth Triggered a New Age of Minerals Formation
Smithsonian.com: The Remarkable Comeback of Przewalski’s Horse
Ancient Origins: Skull Analysis Concludes the Americas Were Settled by More than One Wave of Migrants
ZME Science: Celebrating women scientists – Maria Sibylla Merian, a pioneer in both art and science
New York Times: How the Amazon’s Cashews and Cacao Point to Cultivation by the Ancients
The Dispersal of Darwin: Article: Disentangling life: Darwin, selectionism, and the postgenomic return of the environment
Tyndall Correspondence Project: Website
CHEMISTRY:
SciHi Blog: Herbert Henry Dow – Chemist and Industrialist
ACE: Wallace Carothers and the Development of Nylon
CHF: Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
Kitty Hach-Darrow next to her plane.
Courtesy Kathryn Hach-Darrow.
Chemistry World: Marsh’s mirror: How a poisoner’s acquittal led to the iconic test of forensic science
mental_floss: The Surprisingly Interesting History of Margarine
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Reading Euclid: Project Milestone
In The Library With The Lead Pipe: Sparking Curiosity – Librarians’ Role in Encouraging Exploration
The Heritage Journal: Wrecking the Stonehenge landscape: Julian Richards nails it – again!
Apollo: Why are England’s heritage bodies supporting the Stonehenge Bypass?
SciHi Blog: At the Beginning was a bet – Georg Friedrich Grotefend and the Cuneiform
PLOS One: Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects
The Atlantic: Do Scientists Lose Credibility When They Become Political?
Smithsonian.com: Why Nobody Remembers the Forefather of Forensic Science
The Guardian: A century of National Geographic infographics – in pictures
The New York Times: Mostafa el-Abbadi, 88, Champion of Alexandria’s Resurrected Library, Dies
Slate: Lessons to Learn From the “Fugitive Scientists”
The Conversation: The next scientific breakthrough could come from the history books
SciHi Blog: Thomas Bodley and the Bodleian Library
Kickstarter: The Historical Heroines Coloring Book: Women in Science
Kickstarter: She Found Fossils: A Kid’s Book About Women in Paleo
The Recipes Project: Herbal History Research Network: A Recipe for Collaboration
NYAM: “Feminist Futures” Class Review
CHF: Distillations: Waging War on Immigration and Science
Ancient Origins: The Library of Pergamum: A Contender for the Greatest Library of the Ancient World
ESOTERIC:
Atlas Obscura: Where to Find the World’s Best Hometown Monsters
A “sea devil” from Icones animalium (1553). CONRAD GESSNER/PUBLIC DOMAIN
Conciatore: Women in Alchemy
BOOK REVIEWS:
Nature: Books in Brief
The Guardian: Time Travel: A History by James Gleick review – why haven’t we realised the dream?
Physics Today: Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds
The Guardian: Cold War Freud and Freud: An Intellectual Biography review – the politics of psychoanalysis
Hakai Magazine: Ice Bear
The Spenser Review: Matthew McLean and Sara Barker, eds. International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World
BJPS: Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher // Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry
The New York Times: A Physicist’s Crash Course in Unpeeling the Universe
Popular Science: Beyond Infinity – Eugenia Cheng
Exploring Portland’s Natural Areas: Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918–48
The MIT Press: Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny
OUP: Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
Historiens de la santé: Le médecin qui voulut être roi : Sur les traces d’une utopie coloniale
Heterodoxology: Problem of Disenchantment in paperback
Historiens de la santé: Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
Historiens de la santé: Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period
Routledge: Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern Arts
Enfilade: The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
OUP: Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire
CUP: Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Thomas Morris: The Matter of the Heart
University of Chicago Press: Interaction with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation
Princeton Architectural Press: The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge
Historiens de la santé: Diététicienne de pédiatrie. Naissance et évolution d’une profession passionnante
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Feeling the buzz … 1910 advertisement for body lotion. Photograph: Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–25 June 2017
Advances in the History of Psychology: New Book & Touring Exhibit on Ramón y Cajal: The Beautiful Brain
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
The Sydney Morning Herald: Beauty in Science
Palaeo Manchester: Object Lessons exhibition: coming soon – Opens 20 May 2017
Brendel plant models.
Image courtesy of Rosamond Purcell
NYBG/125: What in the World is a Herbarium
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 2017
ekathimerini.com: Antikythera Mechanism – Athens – 10 February–28 May 2017
The Orange County Register: CSUF’s Pollak Library presents a special program and exhibit on the art of map making
Djournal.com: 200 years of statehood: Ole Miss puts history on display for bicentennial
American Museum of Natural History: Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library
Daily Titan: New CSUF exhibit maps out California’s history
Stedelijk Studies: Vestiges of 125,660 Specimens of Natural History
heritage.utah.gov: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps Opens: 27 January 2017
Colonizing Animals: Historical Pose-abilities of Colonial Photography
Royal Museums Greenwich: Endeavour galleries: Launches 2018
Hyperallergic: When Art Was the Scientist’s Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Frog dissection illustration from the book “Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium…(Natural history of the native frogs…)” from 1758 (© AMNH\D. Finnin)
Orpiment: Prehistoric Animals: A series of illustrations by David Roland
Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg: 19 Oktober 2017 – 28 Februar 2018: Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Frühling/Sommer 2018: Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
Evening Standard: Forgotten women of science are remembered in a new exhibition at Burlington house
AHF: Los Alomos History Museum Reopens
Linda Hall Library: Online Exhibition: Ice Victorian Romance
Yale Center for British Art: Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the Modern World 2 February–30 April 2017
Quarry Bank: A Woman’s Work is Never Done 21 January–17 April 2017
Cal State Fullerton’s Pollack Library: California as an Island and Worlds That Never Were 22 January–29 March 2017
Utah Capitol Building: Utah Dawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps 27 January–Late Summer 2017
A Peace of London: The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London Bridge: Something for the Weekend (But not for the Squeamish)
BHL: Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition Celebrating the History of Botany
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Bilderwelten: Aufbruch zu Neuen Ufern: Mitteleuropäische Buchmalerei 1400–1540
Science Museum: Mathematics – The Winton Gallery
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
Hagley Museum: Driving Desire: Automobile Advertising and the American Dream Through March 2017
CLOSING SOON: 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
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity October 19 2016–April 23 2017
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
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
CLOSING SOON: Osher Map Museum: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities 29 September 2016–11 March 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 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
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
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
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
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:
Jack El-Hai: The Black Stork: A physician’s cinematic argument for eugenics
Aerodynamic Media: Documentary Film to Chronicle Discovery, Restoration and Flight of the C-47 That Led the D-Day Invasion [Video]
The Mary Sue: Radioactive, a Biopic Based on a Marie Curie Graphic Novel Finds Its Director
NICHE: Guardians of Eternity: Confronting Giant Mine’s Toxic Legacy
The Verge: Watch the first trailer for HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
OUDaily: OU to host world premiere of play about Galileo’s trial
PBS: American Experience: Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species…us.
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 03 June 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
EVENTS:
The Royal Society: Prize lecture: The curious history of curiosity-driven research 4 April 2017
UCL: UCL/BPS talks: Henri Bergson’s Cinematographs 13 March 2017 Jung’s Dream Analysis 20 March 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Charles Arthur: Has the Public Been Well Served by Technology Journalism? 9 March 2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: Women Making Waves at the National Maritime Museum 11 March 2017
Senate House: Maps and Society Lectures: ‘Translation and Treason: The Luso Castilian Demarcation Controversy and Abraham Ortelius’ Map of China from 1584’ 16 March 2017
All Souls College, Oxford: Talk: Communicating Longitude after Harrison: the Board of Longitude in the late eighteenth century
Royal College of Physicians: Lecture: Cracking the DNA code: can human genome sequencing help save lives in the NHS? With Dr Richard Scott 28 March 2017
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Conrad Gesner Day 26 March 2017
Conrad Gessner memorial at the Old Botanical Garden, Zürich
Source: Wikimedia Commons
CHF: Joseph Priestley Society: Rachel K. King “Reflections on Building a Biotech Company: The Story (So Far!) of GlycoMimetics.” 16 March 2017
TNMOC: Re-imagining Colossus – twice 16 March 2017
Old Operating Theatre: Costume Closure Day: Special Event 18 March 2017
History of Libraries Research Seminar: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 8 April 2017
Birkbeck Students Union: The Barry Coward Memorial Lecture: ‘Putting the Sea Back into Charles II: Pepys, the Stuarts, and the Missing Link of Restoration history’ 24 February 2017
The Royal Institution: A light on Albemarle street: John Tyndall and the magic lantern 17 March 2017
LSE: Lecture: The “Universe” Starring Man? The Impact of Scientific Revolutions on Humankind’s View of Itself 22 February 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
Truman State University: Lecture: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours: January through March 2017
Cardiff University: Cheats, Liars and Fornicators: Alfred Russel Wallace and Mimicry 22 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
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Vimeo: How small are we in the scale of the universe?
Youtube: One Town, Four Elements: Ytterby
AEON: Animated life: Mary Leaky
Facebook: KJ Vids: Baghdad and the Paper-Making Industry
Youtube: Royal Society: Why is life the way it is? Michael Faraday Prize Lecture – Dr Nick Lane
Open Culture: Everything I Know: 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller’s Visionary Lectures Free Online (1975)
Fermilab: The Wilson Story, Robert Wilson: A life of Courage and Creativity, Water to the Ropes
RADIO & PODCASTS:
soundcloud: SCIFRI: Interview with Mildred Dresselhaus, the ‘queen of carbon.’
npr: Naomi Oreskes: Why Should We Believe In Science?
soundclouds: The Walkman
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: The Theatre of Anatomy
soundcloud: Hagley Museum and Library: The Marketing Evolution of Deodorant
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Renaissance Astrology
PRI: War elephants still exist. But only in one forbidding place
brainpickings: The Beauty of Uncertainty: How Heisenberg Invented Quantum Mechanics, Told in Jazz
soundcloud: PessimistsArc: Horseless Carriage
The Iris: Audio: David Brafman on Alchemy
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Université de Genève: Appel à communication: Produire du nouveau ? Arts – Techniques – Sciences en Europe (1400-1900) 23–25 novembre 2017 avant le 15 mars 2017
Christ’s College, Cambridge: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World 1400–1750
Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée: Appel à contribution: Corps au travail. Performance, discipline et fatigue à l’épreuve du métier (XVIIe-XXe siècle) 30 juin-1er juillet 2017 avant le 10 avril 2017
BSHS: Call for Proposals: Special Issues of Centaurus Deadline 15 March 2017
University of Bern: Conference: Thinking about Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity 13–15 September 2017
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: SHAC Award Scheme open for applications Deadline 31 May 2017
University of Colorado in Boulder: CfP: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science 13–15 October 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Jagiellonian University Krakow: CfP. Traumatic Modernities: From Comparative Literature to Medical Humanities 19–21 April 2017 Deadline 14 March 2017
Journée d’étude pluridisciplinaire: Appel à communications: Corps et dépendances Date limite : 30 avril 2017
Philosophia Scientiae: Journal CfP
Durban, KZN, South Africa: CfP: Philosophy of Technology Symposium 22–23 July 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh: CfP: British Society for the History of Medicine Congress 13–16 September 2017 Deadline 31 May 2017
Sheraton City Centre, Toronto: CfP: History of Science Society (HSS) 2017 Conference 19–121 November 2017 Deadline 3 April 2017
Royal Institution, London: Magic Lantern and Science Workshop: 17 March 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: 2017 Program Maintainers II 6–9 April 2017
NYAM: Public Programs
Vanderbilt University, Nashville: 11th Annual Southern History of Science and Technology (SoHoST) Meeting 7–8 April 2017
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Call for Submissions, Glenn Sonnedecker Prize
University of Notre Dame: Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop – ND XIII 5–9 July 2017
Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Center for the History of Emotions: CfP: Evidence of Feeling: Law, Science and Emotions in Modern Europe 10–11 April 2017
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: CfP: Mapping the Past, Exploiting the Future 21–22 July 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
St Anne’s College, Oxford: CfP: International Research Symposium: Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
New College, Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
University of Sydney: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18–19 April 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Conference: Borders and Technology 7–10 September 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Workshops on Early Modern Bodies and Cultures of Imperialism November 2017 Deadline 30 March 2017
New College, University of Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Leibniz University Hannover: CfP: PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY – Workshop with Philip Kitcher 14 June 2017 Deadline 12 March 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile: Conference: KNOWLEDGE/CULTURE/ECOLOGIES – KCE2017 15–18 November 2017
Princeton University: Vulnerability in the Middle Ages 28 April 2017
Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey: IHPST Biennial Conference 4–7 July 2017
Liverpool Medical Institution: CfP: The Governance of Health Conference 2017: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on Medical, Managerial and Economic Influence on Health Policy-Making 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 24 February 2017
Nursing Clio: Call for Bloggers: Nutrition and Diet
University of Glasgow: Conference: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3-4 April 2017
University of Glasgow: CfP: First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse 14–16 June 2017 Deadline 28 February 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
University of Göttingen: Summer School: The Material Culture of Exploration and Academic Travel 1700–1900 24–29 July 2017
Royal College of Nursing: Workshop: Nightingale & Rathbone: Contributions to Public Health 30 March 2017
Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation: Summer School on “Science and Religion” Crete 5–10 June 2017
Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives: Accepting Proposals from Early Career Historian
University of Sydney: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South c.1800-200 18–19 April 2017
CHF: The Decay Project: Call for Entries
Society for Renaissance Studies: London Rare Books School 26 June–14 July 2017
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester: Workshop: Preparing to Present 11 March 2017
Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre, Zeist: Call for Applications: TransPositions Summer School 2017: Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise 21–25 August 2017
Université McGill, Montréal: 85e congrès de l’ACFAS: Appel à communications: Les infirmières de la folie. Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone
Tunis National Library: Summer School: The Arabic Manuscript: Codicology, Palaeography, and History 10-15 July 2017
University of Manchester: CHSTM seminar series
University of Glasgow: Conference: CfP: Medical Machines in Antiquity 19–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf: Vortrags- und Sektionsanmeldungen für die erste Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft in Münster vom 22.-24. September 2017: Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikreflexion auf dem Prüfstand: Historische und aktuelle Herausforderungen
IUHMSP, Lausanne: Séminaire de recherche en histoire et études sociales de la médecine, de la santé, et des sciences du vivant: Semestre de printemps 2017
University of Münster, Germany: CfP: Contemplating Science, Medicine, and Technology: Past and Present Challenges 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
BSHS: Ayrton Prize Best History of Science Web Project Deadline 10 March 2017
American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting Boston MA 18-21 November 2017 CfP: Western Esotericism Unit
Université McGill, Montréal: Appel à contribution: Les infirmières de la folie: Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone 8 et 9 mai 2017 avant le 20 février 2017
BSHS: Themes: Call for Proposals
IRSPUM, Montréal: La santé en débat: Programme de l’Hiver 2017
Dartmouth History Institute in Intellectual History: Workshop: 11–15 June 2017 Applications Due 1 February 2017
University Paris Diderot: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry: CfP: Symposia: 3–5 July 2017 Deadline: 31 January 2017
The Collation: Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: The Power Switch; How Power is Changing in a Networked World 31 March 2017
Domus Comeliana, Pisa: International Conference: CfP: Humours, mixtures, & Corpuscles: A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Indiana University in Bloomington: Summer Institute: Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World (1400–1800) 19 June–7 July 2017
SHOT 2017: CfP. Thinking with Ann Johnson Philadelphia 26–29 October 2017
University of Pennsylvania: Conference: The Futures of Medieval Historiography 24–25 February 2017
Patras, Greece: 5th International Phytocosmetics and Phytotherapy Congress: CfP. History of Cosmetics and Phytotherapy 15–17 May 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Early Modern History Workshop: Bodies Corporeal and Rhetorical 3–5 November 2017 Deadline 3 March 2017
Society for the History of Natural History’s Annual Conference: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus 15 June 2017 Freshwater Biological Association, at Far Sawrey 16th June 2017
University of Helsinki: CfP: International Seminar: Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes 27–28 April 2017
University of Calgary: 26th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 17–18 March 2017
British Society for the History of Pharmacy: BSHP 50th Anniversary Conference 1–2 April 2017
American Astronomical Society: DDA’s New Early Career Prize Named for Very Rubin
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Ulster University: CfP: Food anxieties in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland 7 April 2017 Deadline 25 January 2017
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library: Teacher Workshop: Mapping a New World: Places of Colonization and Conflict in 17th-Century New England 9–14 July 2017 National Participants 23–28 July 2017 Commuting Participants Applications Deadline 1 March 2017
University of Texas at Dallas: CfP: Conference: Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology 18–21 May 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
BHSH: Travel Grants for the International Congress in Rio
University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus: SHNH: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences 15-16 June 2017
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)
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Indiana 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 Spring 2017
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
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
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
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
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
Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 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
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)
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
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
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
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
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Edinburgh: Collaborative PhD Studentship: Engineering ‘Modern’ Scotland: The Stevenson Maps and Plans and Scotland’s Built Infrastructure, c.1800–c.1900
BSHS: Wellcome Hub Award: Call for Applications 2018–2020
University of Manchester: Williamson graduate studentship in the history of biology or medicine Application Deadline 26 May 2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: Maritime Memories Machine Creative Practitioner
BSHS: Postgraduate Opportunities at CHSTM Manchester
BSHS: Two AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentships: histSTM @ Leeds
BSHS: AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award: BT Archives
University of Manchester: CHSTM: Power-assisted learning? Exhibiting, interpreting and teaching on technology in the twentieth-century industrial city
University of Strathclyde: Strathclyde-Shanghai Early Career Medical Humanities Fellowships 2017/8
University of Manchester: Special Collections Library (Wellcome Project)
King’s College London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Renaissance Skin
