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 #38
Monday 08 May 2017
EDITORIAL:
The wheel of time roles on and it is time once again for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing all of the histories of science, technology and medicine gathered up out of the nooks and crannies of the Internet over the last seven days.
Vanessa Heggie (@HPS_Vanessa) posted the following question on twitter recently:
“hey #twitterstorians did we ever decide at what point a history can be legit. called a ‘forgotten history’? b/c I am having some issues”
This provoked an exchange amongst several historians of science who basically all agreed with the implied message of Vanessa’s tweet. People have become all too fond of announcing #histSTM articles and books with one of the following: “the forgotten story”, “ the most important X you’ve never heard of”, “written out of history”… all of which suggest or imply that the person or group of people that the writer is promoting has been unfairly ignored by history and deserves to be better known.
All of these claims are basically true but the sentiment expressed is, in my opinion, based on a false premise. Almost all of the people who were in anyway involved in the histories of science, technology and medicine over the last four thousand years is basically unknown to everyone except for the small handful of experts who deal with their particular aspect of #histSTM. This is largely the result of two factors. On the one hand #histSTM has been dominated by the big man, big moment model of history, which means that popular accounts of the history of the disciplines consist mostly of the reciting of a fairly short list of the names of the lone geniuses who according to this model created science. Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein etc. etc.…
The second factor is one that historians of science, technology and medicine tend to ignore, the vast majority of people don’t really care much about a #histSTM that goes beyond that clichéd list of the great and glorious. They also don’t care about the histories of the arts, politics, or whatever that goes beyond similar lists in those areas. Show the people a good but largely mythological historical drama on TV about almost anything and they will lap it up but don’t expect them to show any great interest in the boring minutiae of real history.
Yes, the wide vista of #histSTM deserves to be better known than it is but this is not going to happen overnight. We just need to keep chipping away, spreading the gospel and expanding the public’s knowledge of the real #histSTM but be prepared for the life of Sisyphus.
“We can sell Science’s Forgotten Man. Is it Turing?”
“No”
“Tesla?”
“No”
“Wallace?”
“It’s Charles Blagden”
“Sod off, nobody knows who he is!” – James Sumner (@JamesBSumner)
Quotes of the week:
“The “dilemma” facing historians, scientists, social scientists isn’t discipline specific. It’s about expertise’s claims to objectivity” Audra J. Wolfe (@ColdWarScience)
“Getting mad at Žižek for saying stupid contrarian shit is like getting mad at the raccoons for tearing up the trash.”
“That’s what they do” – Existential Comics (@existentialcoms)
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something” – Thomas Huxley
Jesus said unto his disciples, “No, I will not cure him. Don’t be stupid. That’s a pre-existing condition” – holly wood (@girlziplocked)
“Professor Flinders Petrie has expressed the view that the average man cannot receive much more knowledge than his immediate ancestors” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“When mathematicians graduate, do they get degrees or radians?” – Murray Bourne (@intmath)
From “Nursery Rhymes” in “The Pearl” (1779) h/t @WhoresofYore
Birthday of the Week:
The Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace opened by Queen Victoria 1 May 1851
SciHi Blog: The Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace
Euston Grove Press: Crystal Palace Guides, 1854
West Midlands History: The Great Exhibition of 1851
British Library: Victorian Britain: The Great Exhibition
Medium: Steven Lubar: Catalog as Book, File, and Database
The Hindenburg exploded 6 May 1937
The Hindenburg crashed on 6 May 1937. Photograph: Murray Becker/AP
Smithsonian.com: What Really Sparked the Hindenburg Disaster?
The Guardian: The Hindenburg disaster, 80 years on: a ‘perfect storm of circumstances’
Smithsonian.com: What Really Felled the Hindenburg
Henry DeWolf Smyth born 1 May 1898
Henry DeWolf Smyth
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AHF: Henry DeWolf Smyth
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Henry DeWolf Smyth
Athanasius Kircher born 2 May 1601 or 1602
Athanasius Kircher
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Athanasius Kircher – A Man in Search of Universal Knowledge
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Athanasius Kircher
Antonio Vallisneri born 3 May 1661
Antonio Vallisnieri
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Antonio Vallisneri
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers born 4 May 1900
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers
Andrew Meikle born 5 May 1719
Andrew Meikle, Portrait by A. Reddock, c.1790-1800
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Andrew Meikle and the Threshing Machine
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
NASA: Chandra X-Ray Observatory: SN 1006: X-Ray View of a Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry
New Atlas: World’s first physics Textbook sells for $790,000
Smithsonian: National Air and Space Museum: From “Computer” to Astronomer: The Role of Women in Astronomy
SciHi Blog: Heinrich Gustav Magnus and the Magnus Effect
Quanta Magazine: The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
ESA: Space in Images: Ariane 3 V13 Launch at Night, 1985
NIST: NIST and the Nobel
AHF: Bohr Letter to UN
The Catholic Astronomer: Johannes Kepler’s Harmonies of the World
Popular Science: Survivors of America’s first atomic bomb test want their place in history
APS: This Month in Physics History: May 5, 1933: The New York Times Covers Discovery of Cosmic Radio Waves
Atlas Obscura: The 17th-Century Moon Mission That Never Got Off the Ground
The frontispiece to John Wilkins’ A Discovery of a New World; or, A Discourse tending to Prove that ‘tis probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon. INTERNET ARCHIVE/PUBLIC DOMAIN
philly.com: Lessons on resilience from a Nobel physicist
ESA: Space Transportation
National Library of Scotland: Astronomicum Caesareum
Volvelle with map of the sky featuring the signs of the zodiac
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Hyperallergic: Watch the British Library Digitise One of the World’s Largest Books
British Library: Maps and views blog: Picturing Places launched!
SciHi Blog: How the Pope divided the New World among Spain and the Rest of the World
The Cantino planisphere of 1502 shows the line of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Chinchilla News: Rare 17th-century map of Australia adjusts history
Atlas Obscura: Found: A Rare, 17th-Century Map of Australia
Library of Congress: Worlds Revealed Geography & Maps: Imaginary Maps in Literature and Beyond: Map Monsters
Royal Museums Greenwich: John Franklin’s final North-West Passage expedition 1845
Royal Museums Greenwich: James Cook’s First Voyage
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: The history of the Globe Museum
Source: Wikimedia Commons
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
SciHi Blog: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Neurons
Smithsonian.com: Fearing a Smallpox Epidemic, Civil War Troops Tried to Self-Vaccinate
Hektoen International: Dr. Monro, Mr. Turner, and his mother
Hektoen International: The Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune, a testament to the health benefits of religious charity and vineyards
Hektoen International: Cultural warfare: investigating childbirth practices in “Doctor Zhivago”
Mistaking History: Julia Pastrana, ‘bearded lady’
Mistaking History: Agnodice: down and dirty
Mistaking History: When Agnodice became a handbag…
Mistaking History: Stone Babies: The Lithopedion of Sens
Mistaking History: What is this thing called lovesickness
Mistaking History: Diana Callisto and Philip II
Mistaking History: Bed, Bread and Dead: The Dummies’ Guide to Herodotus
Mistaking History: Roman Medicine: Those Cabbages…
Mistaking History: Hippocrates – and watercress?
Mistaking History: Hairs of Hippocrates?
Advances in the History of Psychology: New Articles: Washburn’s Cognitivism and Boring in the AJP
Smithsonian.com: How Shaving Brushes Gave World War I Soldiers Anthrax
Early Modern Medicine: A Famous Fistula
El conde de Gondomar, by José María Galván y Candela
Nursing Clio: Helen Atwater: The First Lady of American Nutrition You’ve Never Heard Of
Hektoen International: Ludwik Fleck, physician in Lwow Ghetto
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: The Science behind Murder: The Sydney Smith Collection
Thomas Morris: An unwanted buzz cut
The Frederick News-Post: Irritable heart and the Civil War: One diagnosis became a domino effect
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: William Smellie, Man-midwife
Plate from Smellie’s Anatomical Tables.
The Guardian: A matter of life and death: William Boyd on the rise of the surgeon-memoir
Thomas Morris: A large portion of chin
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
1 May 1993: World Wide Web is made free to everyone by CERN
1 May 1993: World Wide Web is made free to everyone by CERN
IEEE Spectrum: The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence
laststandonzombieisland: The Winchester M1 Garand ‘SAW’
CHF: Distillations: The Electrical Wizard
AHF: Lawrence O’Rourke
Red Bull Music Academy Daily: The Music of Bell Labs
Atlas Obscura: The Zimmer Clock Tower and Museum
Smithsonian.com: Model Looms Are missing Link in Chin’s Textile History
IET Archives Blog: A brief history of the Society of Engineers
Atlas Obscura: Atomic Bomb Loading Pits
Red Bull Music Academy Daily: The Legend of the Rhythmicon, the World’s First Drum Machine
National Cryptologic Museum Foundation: 1943: GC & CS activated Heath Robinson Machine (predecessor to Colossus)
Medium: Were more troops sent to quash the Luddites than to fight Napoleon?
Conciatore: Pebbles from Pavia
laststandonzombieisland: Warship Wednesday, May 3, 2017: The battleship slaying avenger of the Pacific
SciHi Blog: Fritz von Opel and the Rocket Car
Wellcome Collection: Titans in the landscape
Atlas Obscura: One of the Earliest Industrial Spies Was a French Missionary Stationed in China
The 17th-century Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette, pictured preaching to and learning from Native Americans on the Mississippi river. WILHELM LAMPRECHT/PUBLIC DOMAIN
philly.com: Repair crews discover 200-year-old wooden water mains in Center City
SciHi Blog: You Press the Button and We Do the Rest – George Eastman revolutionized Photography
Smithsonian.com: The Man Who Invented the First Gas Mask
The Recipes Project: Transcending Seasonality: Preserving in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Recipes
History of Phonephreaking: Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Caroline’s Miscellany: Eiffel’s Edwardian laboratory at work
Drop test machine
IET: Archives Biographies: Sir William Fothergill Cooke 1806–1879
Tedium: Clone Wars
AHF: Japanese Balloon Bombs “Fu-Go”
endgadget: B@d P@assw0rd: The enduring myth of the hacker boy-band
electronics notes: Poulsen Arc Transmitter
IEEE Spectrum: This Giant X-Ray Generator Helped Set Safe Doses for Radiation
Photo: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society: More than Mensing? Revisiting the Question of Fake Scientific Instruments
Atlas Obscura: Foundry Branch Trolley Trestle Ruins
Atlas Obscura: Victorian ‘Coffin Torpedoes’ Blasted Would-Be Body Snatchers
AHF: 100-ton TNT Shot
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ralph Gate’s Interview
Which London Railway Station for Which Region?
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
How paleontology works…. h/t @David_Bressan
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
Forbes: How Domestication Altered the Horse Genome
Notches: Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer
Paige Fossil History: Discovering DNA in Dirt, & 4 Other Amazing Things that Happened in Paleoanthropolgy Last Week!
NYAM: Crimson in memory
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Emma Darwin
Water-color of Emma Darwin (1840) by George Richmond (1809-1896)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian.com: Scientists Didn’t Believe in Meteorites Until 1803
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew: Explore the correspondence: Joseph Hooker letters in the Kew Archive
SciHi Blog: The Native American studies of Horatio Hale
Unwritten Histories: An Ode: A History of Lilacs in Canada
The Guardian: New fossil mammal was the first ‘King’ of Scotland
FIGURE 5: DETAILS OF THE INSTRUMENTS USED WITHIN THE NETWORK. IDENTICAL PAIRS OF LITTLE FLORENTINE THERMOMETERS (LFTS) WERE USED FOR MEASUREMENTS. THE ORIGINAL LFTS USED TO RECORD THE EARLIEST TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS IN THE WORLD ARE STILL PRESERVED IN VERY GOOD CONDITIONS AT THE GALILEO MUSEUM IN FLORENCE, ITALY. (HTTP://WWW.MUSEOGALILEO.IT/EN/VISIT.HTML). PHOTO BY AUTHORS.
Technology Stories: From “Snow Eagle” to “Ban the Tan:” Aviation and Canadian Climate Identity
SciHi Blog: Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen and the Silk Road
Le Minh Khai’s SEAsian History Blog: “Rice from the Sky”…
Botanics Stories: Original Darwin specimen Tiquilia darwinii
The original Darwin specimen of Tiquilia darwinii collected in the Galapagos Islands
The Plant Press: Botany Digitises its 1,000,000th Herbarium Specimen
The Beauty Hub: The Origins of Quinoa – By Professor Alice Roberts
The Dispersal of Darwin: Article: Darwin and teleology: Redefinition or historicizing?
The Dispersal of Darwin: Article: Darwin’s Influence on Mendel: Evidence from a New Translation of Mendel’s Paper
Some Landscape: Chronology
CHEMISTRY:
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: Vegetative and mechanical process in Newton’s Chymistry
CHF: Distillations: The Flavor of Smog
ACS: Edwin Land and Polaroid Photography
Land, shown here with an early instant photograph, first demonstrated Polaroid’s instant photography system to the public in 1947.
Bettman/CORBIS.
SciHi Blog: John William Draper – Chemist and Photo Pioneer
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
The New Atlantis: The Scientist and the Poet
BSHS: Aryton Prize Winner: IEEE: REACH – Raising Engineering Awareness through the Conduit of History
Arzanà : n° 18 Langages du corps Table of Contents
AEON: This granular life
The Recipes Project: Editing the Recipes Project – 5 Years On
Old Operating Theatre: Staff Profiles: Q&A with Gareth Miles
University of Glasgow Library: William Hunter’s Library: the Es
The Public Domain Review: Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History
BSHS: It’s Time to Rethink International Conferences
Social History of Medicine: Volume 30, Issue 2 May 2017: Table of Contents
History of the Human Sciences: On the unexamined presence of psychotherapeutics – an interview with Sarah Marks
IET: Research and document supply services
Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine: Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2017: L’internationalisation de l’hygiène à l’école
Medievalists.net: Death of a Renaissance Record-Keeper: The Murder of Tomasso da Tortona in Ferrara, 1385
CUP: Happy Birthday – You Don’t Look a Day Over 400!
The Conversation: Behind closed doors: What the Piltdown Man hoax from 1912 can teach science today
EGU Blogs: There’s (volcanic) dust in the archives
RIDPHE_R Rev. Iberoam. Patrim. Histórico-Educativo: v. 2, n. 3 (2016): L´école et les maladies dans le monde (XIXe-XXe siècles) Table of Contents
APS: This Month in Physics History: May 7, 1959: C.P. Snow Gives His “Two Culture” Lecture
ESOTERIC:
Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Weltgeheimnis entschlüsselt: Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich im Gespräch mit Anke Schaefer
SciHi Blog: The Prophecies of Nostradamus
Res Obscura: Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?
One of several “monkeys in a tavern” paintings produced by the Dutch artist David Teniers (1610-1690).
The Public Domain Review: Woodcuts and Witches
BOOK REVIEWS:
brainpickings: Hannah Arendt on Science, the Value of Space Exploration, and How Our Cosmic Aspirations Illuminate the Human Condition
npr: ‘The Radium Girls’ Is Haunted by Glowing Ghost
BuzzFeed: The Forgotten Story of the Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands of Workers Lives
Not Even Past: Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chrorographical Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia
The Guardian: In the round: centuries of circular design – in pictures
TLS: Animal magnetism
New Books Network: Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds
Cultures of Knowledge: At the centre of a troubled world: Elizabeth of Bohemia
The Renaissance Mathematicus: One line to rule them all
SomeBeans: Where the Animals Go by James Chesire and Oliver Uberti
LA Times: An archaeologist looks at our lives in cities, over millenniums
New York Review of Books: Calculating Women
Why Evolution Is True: A new book on CRISPR, gene editing, and their ethical implications
Black Perspectives: Fugitive Science: A New Book on Scientific Racism in America
NEW BOOKS:
Amazon: Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths
University of Chicago Press: About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically
NCSE: A Global Warming Primer
The MIT Press: The Chinese Typewriter: A History
The MIT Press: The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
The University of Chicago Press: Make it Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
Michigan State University Press: The Thirty-Year War: A History of Detroit’s Streetcars, 1892–1922
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Medium: How to improve Art
Science Museum: The Festival of Britain – a meeting of science and art
U.S.News: New Kensington Museum Preserves Computing Relics
The Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Raising Horizons: Portraits Highlighting Women in Archaeology and Geosciences Past and Present 20 May–4 June 2017
New Scientist: Joseph Hooker: The Travelling man who became Emperor of Botany
Sanofi Pasteur: The Legacy Project
The Recipes Project: Artifacts at an Exhibition: The Art and Science of Healing at the University of Michigan
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Reframed: A Celebration of Diversity 19 May 2017
Het Scheep Vaart Museum: Blaeu’s Wereld In Kaart 14 April–31 December 2017
Le Soleil: 400 ans de pharmacie
Royal Cornwall Museum: The Medicine Man – A Spotlight on Richard Lander March–September 2017
The Gibbes Museum of Art: Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas 12 May–24 September 2017
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Audubon: Drawn to Nature 1 April–30 July 2017
The Guardian: Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
Arizona State University: Rare ASU map collection reveals truths about history of American Southwest
Old Operating Theatre: Virtual Tour
Criminal Corpses: Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpses – Online Exhibition
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place 25 March–17 September 2017
Daguerreotype of J.D. Hooker by William Edward Kilburn, circa 1852
IET: Archives: Online Exhibitions
Oxford Today: Volcanoes – from catastrophe to the sublime
The British Museum: Where the Thunderbird lives: cultural resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America 23 February–27 August 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Mummies Opens Now
Biodiversity Library Exhibition: Early Women in Science
Maria Emma Gray (1787–1876), was an English conchologist and algologist
SD Times: Computer History Museum debuts Make Software exhibit
Harvard Map Collection: Exhibition Analysis 1: Commemorative and Humanitarian Disasters
University of Southern Maine: Osher Map Library to celebrate new exhibition “To Conquer or Submit? American views the Great War” 100 years after U.S. involvement in WWI
St John’s College: Under the Knife at St John’s: New exhibition showcases a medical history of disease and dissection
Boston Public Library: Exhibition: Regions and Seasons: Mapping Climate through History 4 March–27 August 2017
Osher Map Library: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
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
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
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
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 17 March–23 July 2017
Harvard Gazette: The story of Edwin Land
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
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
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
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
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 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:
The Hollywood Reporter: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story: Film Review – Tribeca 2017
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:
Bletchley Park: The Bill Tutte Centenary Symposium 14 May 2017
Sea Trek: Cruise: In Search of Wallace and His Living Treasures with Dr. George Beccaloni 13–24 January 2018 $$$
The Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Raising Horizons: Exhibition Launch 20 May 2017
Wellcome Collection: BSL tour of Electricity: The spark of life 20 May 2017
ICE: ICE Smeaton Lecture 2017 London 18 July 2017
University of Oxford: Oxford Talks: Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Wednesdays: 3, 10, 17 May & 14 June 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Public Lecture: Ingenious Failure: Artisanal Languages of Error – Sven Dupré 10 May 2017
Birkbeck, University of London: Artists and Artisans: Creative Work in Early Modern England 13 May 2017
Notches: Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia
NYAM: Walking Tour of Medical Heritage Sites: Uptown 13 May 2017
NYAM: Walking Tour of Medical Heritage Sites: Downtown 20 May 2017
Senate House, University of London: Maps and Society Lectures: Glasgow and Its Maps: How Cartography Has Reflected the Highs and Lows of the Second City of the Empire 18 May 2017
The National Museum of Computing: A triple bill for the Bill Tutte Centenary 11 May 2017
Discover Medical London: London’s Medical Cabinets of Curiosity
Royal Institution: Lecture: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance – Eric Scerri 20 July 2017
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: J. Worth Estes Lecture: Spare Parts Hope, Drama and Dispute: Heart Transplantation and Total Artificial Heart Implant Cases in the 1960s 23 May 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departure: 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
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 Tour
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
TELEVISION:
pbs: The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
NIST: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie: A Tribute
archive.org: Star Wars: a Step Towards Peace or a March Toward Folly – Hans Bethe
Youtube: Canada Science and Technology Museum: Magnets
Vimeo: The Legend of Mendeleev’s Dream
Youtube: Hakai Magazine: Where do Dead Whales Live?
learninglab.si.edu: Sun, Corn and the Calendar
RADIO & PODCASTS:
soundcloud: ConSciCom: The Conversationalist – 01 – ‘Conversazione’
Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Weltgeheimnis entschlüsselt: Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich im Gespräch mit Anke Schaefer
Ben Franklin’s World: Episode 109: John Dixon, The American Enlightenment & Cadwallader Colden
RNZ: James Gleick: ‘Time travel is what makes us human’
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Nantes: Journée d’études: Psychiatrie, big data, Médecine de la Personne 15 juin 2017
UQAM Local A-6290: Conférence de Frédéric Chauvaud: Crime et média. Le corps exhibé et morcelé. De la scène de crime au prétoire (1880-1940) 10 mai
Uppsala University: Conference: CfP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice 12–14 April 2017 Deadline 15 May 2017
University of Leeds: Centre for History and Philosophy of Science: Events in May 2017
Science Museum: Open Workshop – Programme: London 1600–1800: Communities of Natural Knowledge and Artificial Practice 16–17 June 2017
Edinburgh: CfP: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Tsinghua University: Symposium: Frontier in the Philosophy of Specific Sciences 19–20 August 2017
Johns Hopkins University: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: CfP: International Symposium: Building the Scottish Diaspora 17–18 November 2017 Deadline 24 July 2017
University of Sevilla: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical questions 18–20 September 2017
The Warburg Institute: Conference: Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality 1–2 June 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environment 29–30 September 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
University of Cambridge: CfP: Histories of Anthropology: Transforming Knowledge and Power (1870–1970)
Science Museum: Dana Research Centre: Metropolitan Science: Opening Workshop 16–17 June 2017
University of Groningen: Histories of Healthy Aging 21–23 June 2017
Institute of Historical Research: School of Advance Study University of London: Workshop: What is Microhistory Now? 2 June 2017
Remedia: CfP: Themed Series: Managing Women’s Health
Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris: Appel à communications: L’Oeil du XIXe siècle 26-29 mars 2018
University of Leeds: Symposium: Medicine and the Senses 1 June 2017
University of Edinburgh: CfP: Conference: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
University of Montréal: Conference: Early Modern ‘Transformissions’ Linguistic, material, and cultural translation in England and France (c.1470–1660)
Libori Summer School 2017: Émilie du Châtelet on Matter, Bodies, Forces, and Motion Part II 23–28 July 2017 Deadline 15 July 2017
University of Westminster, London: CfP: Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability and the Media 23 June 2017 Deadline 28 April 2017
Open University of the Netherlands: CfP: The Icon as Cultural Model: Past, Present and Future 23–26 January 2018 Deadline 1 July 2017
TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam: CfP: EAHN: The Tools of the Architect 22–24 November 2017 Deadline 15 May 2017
The Society for the History of Natural History: William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize Deadline 30 June 2017
Hakluyt Society Blog: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
Rutgers University: CfP: Workshop: Method and Analysis of Syriac texts
NICHE: CfP: Special Issue of Canadensis on Environment and Technology Deadline 1 June 2017
University of Oxford: The Bountiful Sea Conference: Fish processing and consumption in Mediterranean antiquity 6–8 September 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Technique in Early Modern Europe 10–12 May 2017
Academia: Scientiae 2017 Programme
St Anne’s College, Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Trinity Term 2017
Insitute of Historical Research: School of Advanced Study, University of London: Food History
L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales, Paris: Soutenance de thèse d’Athanasios Barlagiannis: Hygiène publique et construction de l’Etat grec, 1833-1845. La police sanitaire et l’ordre public de la santé 5 mai 2017
University of Uppsala: CfP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice 12-14 April 2018 Deadline 15 May 2017
Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire: Special Issue: Call for Proposals: The Material Realities of Energy History Deadline 2 June 2017
Science Museum London: CfP: The Evolution of the Museum: 13–14 July 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
University of Sevilla, Institute of Mathematics: CfP: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical question 18-20 Sept. 2017
Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam: Symposium: Madness in Civilization. Current research into the history of psychiatry in the Low Countries 2 June 2017
University of Sheffield: The 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017
Kings’s College London: Conference: CfP: The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and The Classical Body 18–19 June 2017
Colloque National Annuel des Espaces de Réflexion Ethique Régionaux Journée scientifique: Appel à communication: La Transgression en santé Date limite d’envoi des propositions : dimanche 16 juillet 2017
University of London: Institute of Historical Research: CfP: The Hakluyt Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
University of Amsterdam: Maria Sibylla Merian Conference 7-9 June 2017
Durham University: CfP: Toxic Legacies, Global Pollutants 29–30 June 2017
Royal Institution: New and Old Themes in the History of Chemistry 20 May 2017
Society for the History of Technology: Prizes
University of Crete: CfP: Ancient Greek and Indian Medicine: Achievements and Interactions 6 June 2017 Deadline 17 April 2017
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde: CfP: Understanding the Intersection of Alcoholism, Stigma, and Disability: Past and Present 1–2 March 2018 Deadline 3 July 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Technique in Early Modern Europe 10–12 May 2017
University of Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
The Recipes Project: What is a Recipe?: A Recipes Project Virtual Conversation 2 June–5 July 2017
APS: 2017 History of Physics Essay Contest Deadline 1 September 2017
The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew: Joseph Dalton Hooker Bicentenary Meeting: The Making of Modern Botany 30 June 2017
SHMCNG, Archives départementales Nîmes: Appel à communications: Hygiène et santé en Bas-Languedoc oriental du XVIIIe siècle aux lendemains du premier conflit mondial la fin septembre 2017
Madison Wisconsin: Conference: CfP: Book History and Digital Humanities 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 15 April 2017
EUI – History of Science: #BSHSPG2017 programme is out
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
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
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
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
NYAM: Public Programs
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
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
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
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
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
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
CHF: The Decay Project: Call for Entries
Society for Renaissance Studies: London Rare Books School 26 June–14 July 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 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
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
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 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
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
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 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
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
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
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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
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
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
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
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
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
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
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
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
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 Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 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
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 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
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Wellcome: Small Grants in Humanities and Social Science
Lady Science: Join the Lady Science Team: Managing Editor, Lady Science also Contributing Editors
Wesleyan University: Visiting Assistant Professor, Science in Society Program
Geological Society of America: GSA Science Communication Fellowship Deadline 15 May 2017
Birkbeck, University of London: Lecturer B in History of Science and Medicine Deadline 1 June 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: Adjunct Instructor – History – HHS 130 – History of Science & Technology
