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 #30
Monday 13 March 2017
EDITORIAL:
As the river flows onward to the sea so the editorial year flows onward and it is time once again for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing its readers all the histories of science, technology and medicine that came our way over the last seven days.
March is Women’s History Month and 8 March was International Women’s Day. Whewell’s Gazette has always actively supported efforts to raise awareness of the role that women have played in #histSTM, so we have collected all the #histSTM contributions to Women’s History Month and to the International Women’s Day that we could find and have put them together as our feature this week.
This edition of Whewell’s Gazette is dedicated to all the women who have contributed to #histSTM over the centuries and to all the historians who are working to make those contributions known to a wider public.
Women’s History Month
Teaching Excellence at MIT: Storied Women of MIT
Muslim Heritage: Women’s Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilisation: Science, Medicine and Politics
Mother Nature Network: 9 women you’ve probably never heard of who’ve made conservation history
Project Vox: Conway (1631–1679)
AHF: Women and the Bomb
flickr: BHL: Women Illustrators in Natural History
ktul.com: Oklahoma hidden figure: Cherokee women helped NASA put man on the moon
Evelyn Ross McMillan.
Le Devoir: Harriet Brooks, la Marie Curie québécoise restée méconnue
Photo: Musée Mccord
Harriet Brooks
Notches: Johanna Elberskirchen: Sexual Radical and Woman of Her Time
Johanna Elberskirchen in 1905 (Wikimedia Commons)
BBC Radio 4: Mary Beard on Women in Power
Royal College of Physicians: The Bern theses: pioneering medical women
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake. Photograph by Margaret G Todd, 1880s–1890s. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Royal College of Physicians: The redoubtable Miss Cook: a woman in the Royal College of Physicians
The Royal Institution: Ladies with attitude
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Credit: Public domain
The Royal Institution: Spotlight on Kathleen Lonsdale
Kathleen Lonsdale
Credit: The Smithsonian Institution
The Vegan Society: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale: the vegan
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: From “Computer” to Astronomer… The Role of Women in Astronomy
Astronomer Phoebe Waterman Haas using a bucket lift to ascend the Mt. Wilson 46-meter (150-foot) Solar Tower, circa 1910. Image from page 15C of the Phoebe Waterman Haas Photo Album, 1909-1914. Image: The National Air and Space Museum Archives (NASM-9A12028-015C)
C-Net: The 19th century women who catalogued the cosmos
The Guardian: The history of women in science shows us the fight is worth it
Pioneers such as Marie Curie, pictured, are well known, but the less celebrated contributions of women such as Hilda Petrie, Charlotte Murchison and Margaret Murray remind us how far women have come in the fight for equality. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
academics.wellesley.edu: Annie Jump Cannon
Royal Museums Greenwich: Women’s History Month – Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848)
JSTOR Daily: How Women Finally Broke Into the Sciences
IET: IET Archives: Women in engineering
Youtube: Philosophy: Émilie do Châtelet, Part 1
Medium: 11 Forgotten Women who Invented the British Industrial Revolution
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
AHF: Margaret Broderick
Margaret Broderick
Conciatore: Caterina Sforza
Caterina Sforza, by Lorenzo di Credi
(now in the Museum of Forlì.)
OUP Blog: Revealing lives of women in science and technology: the case of Sarah Guppy
The National Museum of American History: Women in World War I
Stuff You Missed in History Class: Women in STEM
Dr. Virginia Apgar
Scientific American: On “Hidden Figures” and Being the Only Woman in the Room
Katherine Johnson’s work at NASA’s Langley Research Center spanned 1953 to 1986 and included calculating the trajectory of the early space launches. Credit: Sean Smith NASA
Atlas Obscura: The Female Space Sculptor Who Designed the Earliest Space and Aviation Helmets
Historical SciArt: Women in Historical SciArt
Gizmodo: These Black Female Mathematicians Should Be Stars in the Blockbuster of Tomorrow
Center for the History of Medicine Countway Library: Announcing a new exhibit on the history of women at Harvard Medical School
Quotes of the week:
“Some competition for Sir Cloudesley Shovell in the ridiculous Admiral names stakes: Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax” – Dr Steven Gray (@Sjgray86)
“When did philosophers (start) stop writing introductory poems to their treatises?” – Dov (@drnelk)
“Today’s curse: May the children & grandchildren of those who vote for grammar schools nationally & locally fail their 11+” – Rebekah Higgitt (@beckyfh)
“I went to a grammar school and the system worked for me” is the educational equivalent of “my grandmother smoked and lived till 90” – Wu Ming (@twlldun)
“If grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?” – Wu Ming (@twlldun)
Jonathan Swift
“Here, have a new word on me, “synchronicently”” – Jafe (@JFDerry)
“How do you speak such good English?” “I dunno 200 years of colonialism and Eurocentric education, how do you know so little history?” Siri Srinivas (@pjux)
“The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again” – Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)
“I had an idea for a shop that specialised in alcoves, nooks and crannies
But people dismissed it as niche marketing” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler explains general relativity: “Matter tells space how to curve. Space tells matter how to move.” h/t @XavierLSuarez1
One hears of niche sexual predilections, but geometry must be one of the strangest. Still, Thomas Hobbes appears to have been unfazed by it h/t @KateMorant
One of our favourite general history books is the legendary 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, so we were very happy when James Sumner drew our attention to the wonderful 8086 and All That. Revisited Back when England was Top Nation in computing: reassembled from ancient parchments Enjoy!
Birthday of the Week:
Georg Wilhelm Steller born 10 March 1709
March 10, 1709: Birthday of German zoologist & explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller, smoking volcano from his travel accounts of Kamchatka h/t David Bressan (@David_Bressan)
SciHi Blog: Georg Wilhelm Steller and the Great Nordic Expedition
John Herschel born 7 March 1792
Portrait of Sir John Herschel by his daughter Margaret Louisa Herschel
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Herschel
David Fabricius born 9 March 1564
Monument in Osteel to David & Johannes Fabricius
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – David Fabricius
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder where you went
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Spotting the Spots
Marcello Malpighi born 10 March 1628
Portrait of Marcello Malpighi pointing to the fontanelle of a baby’s skull, by an unknown painter Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Marcello Malpighi and Microscopic Anatomy
Vannevar Bush born 11 March 1890
Vannevar Bush at Berkeley (29 March 1940)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Vannevar Bush and the Memex
AHF: Vannever Bush
The New York Times: Dr. Vannevar Bush Is Dead at 84
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
arXiv.org: History of Quantum Mechanics or the Comedy of Errors
AHF: Edward Purcell
CHF: Ernest Rutherford
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Kennette Benedict’s Interview
Real Clear Science: Why Georges Lemaître Should Be as Famous as Einstein
Forbes: Two Priests, A Pope and the Big Bang
Spaceflight History: A Chronological Presentation: Space Station 1.0
The Catholic Astronomer: Copernicus’s On the Revolutions – A Book That Continues to Challenge
BBC News: Gravitational waves pioneer Ronald Drever dies
Ronald Drever 1972
The University of Glasgow Story: Ronald Drever
The Public Domain Review: Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
The Irish Times: Tiny bubbles and the importance of pursuing useless knowledge
Timeline: Most Americans didn’t even want us to land on the moon
SciHi Blog: Gustav Kirchhoff and the Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Gustav Kirchhoff (left) and Robert Bunsen (right)
NASA: Former Pilots: Herbert H. Hoover
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Val Fitch’s Interview
Delanceyplace.com: An Apple Falls from Isaac Newton’s Tree…
YaHOO! News: NASA found a mysterious badass, lost spacecraft orbiting the moon
SciHi Blog: Pioneer 5 and the Interplanetary Magnetic Fields
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
1920 Australian map of sheep Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps)
Archdaily.com: 71 Thousand High-Res Historical Maps Available for Free Download
Royal Museums Greenwich: Mutiny on the Bounty
The Public Medievalist: A Wonder of the Multicultural Medieval World: The Tabula Rogeriana
The Tabula Rogeriana Of Al-Idrisi. Modern Copy, With The Complete World Reassembled By Modern Scholars From The Individual Pages Of Al-Idrisi’s Atlas.
SciHi Blog: Richard E. Byrd, Jr. – Aviator and Polar Explorer
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Thomas Morris: The tin whistle
Weill Cornell Medicine: Study Debunks Century-Old Concepts of How Anesthesia Works
Recommended Dose: Finding a Cure for Venereal Disease in Early Modern London
The Victorian Clinic: Why Women Shouldn’t be Doctors (according to Victorian medical men)
V0047593 A female doctor takes the pulse of a male patient
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
http://wellcomeimages.org
A cartoon showing a lady physician attending to a young man in an armchair. The caption suggests he has purposefully caught a cold in order to be seen by the young pretty doctor.
Engraving
1865 By: George Du MaurierPublished: 23 December 1865.
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The Wood Library-Museum: Robinson Induction Coil & Battery
Thomas Morris: The tapeworm trap
SciHi Blog: Edward C. Kendall and the Adrenal Cortex Hormones
The Recipes Project: A Forgotten Chapter in Natural History: The Taxidermy of Man
Marieke Hendriksen – The Medicine Chest: Transmitting technique between disciplines: the anatomical models of William Rush (1756-1833)
William Rush, Portrait bust of Caspar Wistar, ca. 1812-13. Terracotta. Copyright: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Alabama Yesterday: Archelus H. Mitchell & His 1916 Anesthesia Machine
British Library: Untold lives blog: Did Jane Austen develop cataracts from arsenic poisoning?
Cambridge University Press: British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860–1918 Open Access
The Atlantic: Why Dentistry Is Separate From Medicine
Collectors Weekly: Antique Medicine Bottles
Bulletin of Anesthesia History: An American in Paris in 1846 and 1847: F.W. Fisher (1821–1877)
Advances in the History of Psychology: Magic, Wonder, and the History of Psychology
PubMed: The Hewitt airway – the first known oral ‘air-way’ 101 since its description
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Library and Archive: The Lothian Surgical Audit Archive
Thomas Morris: Sleeping with the fishes
eblue.org: History: The use of blood-type tattoos during the Cold War
BBC News: Medieval ‘false leg’ strap found at Gloucester Cathedral
Thomas Morris: Champagne ad libitum
Ptak Science Books: A Non-Metaphorical “Microbe” (1917)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Airminded: Caligula’s horse’s death ray – II
John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog: Edward Schunck and the history of dying
BBC Future: The plane so good it’s still in production after 60 years
The Conversation: What fax machines can teach us about electric cars
Nicholson’s Journal: Nicholson’s clock at the British Museum
Ptak Science Books: The Department of “What is It?” (#3)
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Smithsonian.com: The Polish Patriot Who Helped Americans Beat the British
SciHi Blog: Howard H. Aiken and the Harvard Mark I
IanVisits: When London’s tube tunnels were painted white
The National Museum of American History: Alexander Graham Bell’s Large Box Telephone
SciHi Blog: Robert Bosch – Inventor for Life
HistoryLondon: Knives to Grind!
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
The New York Times: How Did Aboriginal Australians Arrive on the Continent? DNA Helps Solve a Mystery
And.com: The mammoth’s last stand: How the Wrangel Island herd died off
The Washington Post: Dear Science: How do we know how old the Earth is?
Nautilus: How to Weigh the World
Bill Waiser: Saskatchewan once wanted direct access to Hudson Bay
Provisional Districts Canada
Niche: #EnvHist Daily
The Pauling Blog: The Passport Imbroglio
Mosaic: What does it mean to be human?
The Public Domain Review: Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)
John James Audubon Center: The last Carolina Parakeet
Letters from Gondwana: A Brief Introduction to Conservation Paleobiology
Hakai: From Vilified to Vindicated: the Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars
Why Darwin Matters: A Hero: W.D. Hamilton (1 August 1936–7 March 2000)
SciHi Blog: Stanley Miller and the origins of Life
Smithsonian.com: Two Smithsonian Scientists Retrace the Mysterious Circumstances of an 1866 Death and Change History
The Guardian: 16th century ‘zoological goldmine’ discovered – in pictures
Holbein deer
SciHi Blog: Max Delbrück and the Genes
BHL: 19th Century Butterflies: Reconstructing a Collection’s History with BHL
Letters from Gondwana: Mary Anning and the Hunt of Primeval Monsters
BBC Earth: In 1703, Britain was struck by possibly it’s worst ever storm
SciHi Blog: Wilhelm Pfeffer and Plant Physiology
University of Oregon: Institute of Molecular Biology: Aaron Novick
Nutcracker Man: Meet Ardi
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Colossal: Magnificent Cardboard Airships by Jeroen van Kesteren
SciHi Blog: William Buckland and the Dinosaurs
Medium: How reader engagement helped unearth the Shell tape
CHEMISTRY:
AHF: Arthur Wahl
SciHi Blog: Jeremias Richter and the Law of Definite Proportions
Jeremias Benjamin Richter
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Johann Rudolf Glauber – the first Chemical Engineer
Chemistry World: Chemistry Nobel laureate Geoge Olah dies aged 89
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
philly.com: Commentary: Making science understood and valued
Paige Fossil History: On Friendship & Missing Links: Bringing Characters to Life
Digitala modeller: Daedalus 1931–2015
AHF: February News Letter
Springer Link: Metascience Volume 26 Issue 1 March 2017 Table of Contents
OUP: Paul Feyerabend and the debate over the philosophy of science
Public Understanding of Science Blog: Historical Moments in Public Understanding of Science: 1860–1900, Paolo Mantegazza and the Dream of ‘Making’ Science Popular
Research Gate: Reverse Engineering the Peutinger Diagram
Academia: The Grafton Method, or The Science of Tradition
The Recipes Project: Editing the Recipes Project – 5 Years On
Renaissance Studies: Special issue: The Animal in Renaissance Italy Table of Contents
The Guardian: Imperial War Museum turns 100 with first gifts still on show
arXiv: Cosmology and Convention
The Conversation: The pioneering ‘great men’ of Victorian science were once attacked for being unmanly
Thomas Huxley, sheltering from the rat race. Theodor Blake Wirgman
The New York Times: New York Today: A Bookbinder’s Craft
University of Glasgow Library: A Picture of Health: the UK Medical Heritage Library
JHI Blog: Global/Universal History: A Warning
Making Science Public: The science march
Genèses: No: 106 mars 2017: Expériences de la vieillesse Table of contents
Spitalfields Life: Save The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Physics Today: Q&A: Lisa Messeri on how space rocks become places
Oxford Academic: Journal of Design History: Volume 30 Issue 1 February 2017: Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
ESOTERIC:
Corpus Newtonicum: Hic Sunt Dracones…
Not Even Past: Giordano Bruno and the Spirit that Moves the Earth
SciHi Blog: Franz Josef Gall – the Founder of Phrenology
Franz Josef Gall
British Library: Medieval manuscript blog: Magic in the British Library’s Papyri
Conciatore: Kitchen Alchemy
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C Dennett review – memes of making you think
distillatio: Dragon’s Blood and Willow Bark by Toni Mount
The Advertiser: In author Keith Houston’s eyes the correct use of punctuation and the history of writing is anything but arcane or irrelevant
Richard Carter: Man of Iron by Julian Glover
H-Net Reviews: Gary Ferguson. Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe
Somatosphere: Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon’s The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology
The Guardian: Built on Bones by Brenna Hassett review – have cities been good for humans?
Advances in the History of Psychology: NBN interview with Damion Searls on The Inkblots
NEW BOOKS:
Brill Online: The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe open access Ebook
Historiens de la santé: André Lwoff, une autobiographie. Itinéraire scientifique d’un prix Nobel
Historiens de la santé: La santé des soldats entre guerre et paix 1830-1930
Historiens de la santé: A Medical Emergency: Major-General ‘Ginger’ Burston and the Army Medical Service in World War
Historiens de la santé: Faces. Une histoire du visage
Historiens de la santé: Paris l’inféconde. La limitation des naissances en région parisienne au XIXe siècle
Historiens de la santé: The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, his Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Historiens de la santé: Psychiatrie Und Gesellschaft: Psychiatrische Einweisungspraxis Im Dritten Reich, in Der DDR Und Der Bundesrepublik 1941-1963
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Osher Map Library: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities
Ambika P3 University of Westminster: CASEBOOKS: Six contemporary artists and an extraordinary medical archive 17 March–23 April 2017
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
Hyperallergic: Artistic Expressions of Math Over Seven Centuries Through 8 May 2017
Peter Flötner, “Perspectival Drawing with Three Cubes” (1528), pen and black ink, brush and grey wash (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jean A. Bonna Gift)
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–25 June 2017
Feeling the buzz … 1910 advertisement for body lotion. Photograph: Wellcome Collection
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
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
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
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
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:
University of York: Annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann lecture to explore light pollution 20 March 2017
University of Montreal: Talk: Peter Galison–The Objectivity of Science 17 March 2017
NYAM: Infectious Madness, the Well Curve and the Microbial Roots of Mental Disturbance 15 March
The Center for Science & Society Columbia University: Neil Safier – Where Entangled Empires and Early Modern Science Intertwine: An Iberoamerican Perspective 29 March 2017
Whitechapel Gallery: Maps to the Stars 6 April 2017
AIP: Lyne Starling Trimble Public Lecture: Einstein in California 22 March 2017
The Royal Society: Prize lecture: The curious history of curiosity-driven research 4 April 2017
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
The Royal Institution: A light on Albemarle street: John Tyndall and the magic lantern 17 March 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:
Albrecht Dürer: The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
PBS: Mercy Street: Behind the Lens: A History in Pictures: Disease
VIDEOS:
Youtube: The glowing orange an electrostatic amusement
Youtube: British Transport Heritage: British Transport Film – Britannia – A Bridge (1973)
Youtube: Shaw TV Saskatoon: Tox on Tap: Who is Keeping Tabs? LSD Lessons from the Past
Youtube: Let’s See – 1945 Optical Glass Educational Documentary – WDTVLIVE42
Youtube: Frankenstein inspiring the monster
Youtube: Richard Feynman: The Beauty of the Flower
RADIO & PODCASTS:
Little Atoms podcast 456: Brenna Hassett’s Built on Bones
Proto: Podcast: The Green Silk Bag
soundcloud: Royal Museums Greenwich: John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
University of Birmingham: Symposium: Science & Religion 24 April 2017
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague: Conference: Scientists and “Third World Countries” in the 1960s to 1980s 23–24 November 2017
Libori Summer School: Émilie Du Châtelet: Matter, Bodies, Forces, Motion 23–28 July 2017
Somatosphere: CfP: Speculative Health Deadline 1 June 2017
Hamburg Museum of Medical History: CfP: XVI.th Conference of the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine (DPGGM): Historical Aspects of Preventive Healthcare in Germany and Poland 12–14 July 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Warburg Institute: Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture 22–25 May 2017
London Metropolitan Archives: Symposium: Exploring Hospital Records and Archives 28 April 2017
Hôpital Militaire Reine Astrid, Bruxelles: Symposium d’ASKLEPIOS: Transmission de l’information en radiologie hier et aujourd’hui 25 mars 2017
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
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
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 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
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
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 18–20 May 2017
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 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
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: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in the History and Social Study of Science: PhD studentship – “Intellectual properties: transferring science from universities to National Museums Scotland” Deadline 28 April 2017
University of Leeds: Three-year PhD studentships – Constructing and Consuming Imagined Futures: advertising healthcare to publics and professionals in twentieth-century Britain
University of Grenoble: PhD position in philosophy of quantum physics
New York Public Library: Geospatial Librarian and Map Curator
University of Leicester: Oxford University Museums (Ashmolean Museum Cast Gallery) and School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: Applications Invited
Edward Worth Library, Dublin: Call for Applications: Research Fellowships Deadline 3 April 2017
