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 #44
Monday 19 June 2017
EDITORIAL:
The middle of the solar year is rapidly approaching and Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list steams on towards the end of its third publication year with the latest edition bringing you all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that flowed in our direction out of the Internet over the last seven days.
Valentina Tereshkova
On 16 June 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first women in space when she orbited the earth 48 times over three days in the Vostok 6 space capsule. Her flight did not serve any scientific or technical purpose but was merely planned as a publicity coup to put one over on the US, as was much of the activity in the Russian space programme.
“Every time I see it I touch it. It is my best and most beautiful friend” – Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6
The plan worked out totally. Tereshkova became an instant celebrity upon her save return to earth and was paraded in public by the Russian government on numerous occasions over the following decades.
Valentina Tereshkova
Her space flight might be regarded as ‘a giant leap for womenkind’, as the Forbes article title puts it, however it would be twenty years before other women would follow her into space; first Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya in Soyuz T-7 for the Russians in 1982 and the Sally Ride on the Challenger as the first American woman one year later.
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Sally Ride
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Although Valentina Tereshkova has come to be regarded, with justification, as a feminist icon, we still have a situation that women only form a small minority of all those who have flown in space. This as in so many other fields of human endeavour needs to change.
Valentina Tereshkova
BBC News: Valentina Tereshkova: USSR was ‘worried’ about women in space
Forbes: Valentina Tereshkova Made One Giant Leap for Womenkind
And let us never forget the Valentina Tereshkova headlines in the US so that we never do this again – Leila A. McNeill (@leilasedai)
Quotes of the week:
“UK is almost acting that Brexit is something that is being done to them by others” – John Burton ex Irish PM
“Remember that every harm caused by Brexit is self-inflicted” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“Normal spam: ‘I’m a hot lady in your area and I want you in me.’
Academic spam: ‘I’m a hot journal in your area and I want you in me’” – Twisted Doodles (@twisteddoodles)
“Drinking strong wine cures hunger” – Hippocrates, Aphorisms, Section Two
“I wouldn’t say America needs less guns, but I would say America needs fewer guns” – Dave Shumka (@daveshumka)
“When Tyson eulogises Newton’s writings showing his “connection” wth universe, I think straight away of Newton’s claim that it’s “God’s sensorium”” – Rebekah Higgitt (@beckyfh)
“Few people admit to the partly “luck” aspect of being in academia. Once they are in, they become gatekeepers & tell people to “work harder”” – Mrs Jake Ballard (@EllaBellaBleu)
“Many tweets about the evils of ‘cheap food’ today. The idea being affordable somehow makes food less healthy is factually (& morally) wrong” – James Wong (@Botanygeek)
“Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then man, too, is an animal.” – Captain Beefheart
“He goes by the name of a Sq[uire] but Lives like a Swine” – Thomas Herbert (c. 1686) h/t @HistorySara
“Hi, I’ve found a fault with the English language and I need an entomologist”
“An etymologist you mean?”
“Νo. It’s a bug, not a feature” – Stu Fleming (@StuFlemingNZ)
“If you’re not confused at least 50% of the time you’re probably not doing science” — Jared Espley, NASA
Birthday of the Week:
Charles Darwin received a fateful letter from Alfred Russel Wallace 18 June 1858
ResearchGate: Alfred Russel Wallace and Natural Selection: the Real Story
Fossil History: Darwin’s Worst Nightmare, Part I: An Unexpected Letter
Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach born 12 June 1870
Ernst Stromer in 1914
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Letters from Gondwana: Ernst Stromer and the Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
Giovanni Antonio Magini born 13 June 1555
Giovanni Antonio Magini
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Giovanni Antonio Magini
Antiqua Global Art: Giovanni Antonio Magini
Ducato Di Urbino, 1620 – Giovanni Antonio Magini edita in Italia, Bologna, 1620
Alan Arnold Griffith born 13 June 1883
Metropolitan-Vickers F.2/Beryl
SciHi Blog: Alan Arnold Griffith and the Turbojet Engine
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb born 14 June 1736
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Portrait by Hippolyte Lecomte
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
SciHi Blog: Charles Augustin de Coulomb and the Electrostatic Force
Arthur Heffter born 15 June 1859
Arthur Carl Wilhelm Heffter
Portrait Erwin Raupp
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Heffter Research Institute: About Dr. Arthur Heffter
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Harvard College Observatory: History in Images
Quanta Magazine: The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
SpaceWatchtower: 240th Anniversary of American Flag: Why Stars Were Used on the Flag
AHF: The Human Computers of Los Alamos
AHF: John von Neumann
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Written in the stars
‘Thomas Hood made this, 1597’, Add MS 71495
NASA: Galleries: PIA7035: Momentos of Earth
Discovery: The Universe According to Emmy Noether
Royal Museums Greenwich: Astronomy in the 19th century
APS: This Month in Physics History: June 16, 1657: Christiaan Huygens Patents the First Pendulum Clock
Quanta Magazine: Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn, Driving Around Stanford in a Clunky Jeep
Peccei and Quinn discussing their proposed symmetry with the aid of a sombrero.
Ryan Schude for Quanta Magazine
Science Museum: Hindu astrolabe
AIP: Oral History Interviews: Allan Sandage – Session I
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: What did Bohr do at Los Alamos?
The Catholic Astronomer: Astronomical Irish Women
Clerke Craterlet on the Waxing Moon Terminator Named after Agnes Mary Clerke Irish Astronomer. Isolated circular formation with bowl shape and overlapping a rille of Rimae Littrow. Sketch shows hints of Atlas, Hercules,and Posidonius. This sketch is incomplete due to the very low altitude of the Moon, resulting in a battle with trees, electricity cables, and clouds.
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Look what we found… NLS Map Collections (@natlibscotmaps)
Mirror: US General’s D-Day maps used for Allied invasion of Europe sell at auction for nearly £35,000
Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Milestones: Maxwell’s Equations, 1860–1871
Atlas Obscura: Found: An Antarctic Explorer’s Painting, Hidden Among Penguin Poop and Mold
National Geographic: How Boston Made Itself Bigger
Boston was established in 1630 on a relatively small piece of land—called Shawmut by Native Americans—that was connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF THE NORMAN B. LEVENTHAL MAP CENTER, BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
British Library: Maps: Satirical maps of the world
how to spend it: Collectable and quirky cartography at the London Map Fair
Royal Museums Greenwich: Searching for the North-West Passage
SciHi Blog: “Because it’s there” – George Mallory and Mount Everest
Hampshire Archives and Local Studies: Hampshire’s maps: sea serpents and trains
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Mistaking Histories: Imaginary Body Parts
Mistaking History: Gendered flesh, prolapse and sex change: the case of Phaethousa
Science Central: Reorganizing Hospital Space: The 1894 Plague Epidemic in Hong Kong and the Germ Theory
Thomas Morris: A strange tale
LES ACTUALITÉS DU MONASTÈRE: Les apothicaires «en Canada»: de Louis Hébert aux hospitalières
Early Modern Medicine: Finding your Feet
L0041515 Amputation of arm and leg
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
http://wellcomeimages.org
A man is held firmly in place as both and arm and a leg are amputated.
1594 Le chirvrgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plvsievrs figvres des instrumens necesseres pour l’opération manuelle /
Jacques Guillemeau
Published: 1594.
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Smithsonian.com: How Sheep’s Blood Helped Disprove This Wacky Nineteenth-Century Theory of Illness
Londonist: Go Inside Europe’s Oldest Surviving Operating Theatre
VERSO: Visualizing the Anatomy of the Eye
Smithsonian.com: When Fresh Air Went Out of Fashion at Hospitals
Notches: Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control
Nouse: The story of leprosy: from 2000BCE to now
Girls in the Philippines identified as having leprosy. Image: National Museum of Health and Medicine
Smithsonian.com: From Medical Pariah to Feminist Icon: The Story of the IUD
Thomas Morris: The lancer lanced
British Library: Collection items: John Snow’s account of the cholera outbreak in Soho, London, 1854
Wellcome Library: Reading and health in the medieval convent
Wellcome Collection: The stranger who started an epidemic
Memento Mütter: Lister Carbolic Acid Sprayer
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Library and Archive: From pain to delirium to sexual dreams: the great chloroform debates
M0003274 Sir J. Y. Simpson and two friends, having tested chloroform
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Diagram of a nuclear powered locomotive – h/t Alec Hutchinson (@BP_Hutch)
Geek History: Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers
Timeline: The largest non-nuclear explosion in U.S. history destroyed most of a Texas town, killing hundreds
AHF: Joseph A. Haaga
History of Photography: Editorial
SciHi Blog: The Swiss Army Knife
Atlas Obscura: This Mechanical 19th-Century ‘Clock of America’ Animates U.S. History
Detail from The Great Historical Clock of America. ALL PHOTOS: COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY
The Public Domain Review: Novum Instrumentum Geometricum (1607)
AHF: In Memoriam: Haskell Sheinberg
World Digital Library: Explanation of the Telescope
Conciatore: True Colors
AEON: It’s not all lightbulbs
Atlas Obscura: The Self-Playing Violins That Mastered Chopin
Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina Model B music cabinet with three self-playing violins and a self-playing piano
Source: Wikimedia Commons
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Fossil History: What Difference Does a Damaged Skull Make, Anyhow?
International Business Times: Prehistoric Primates Evolved in Tress, Not on the Ground, Bone Fossils show
Brown: Ladd Observatory Blog: The Weather Bureau in Providence
Muslim Heritage: Sine, Cosine and the Measurement of the Earth
SciHi Blog: Thomas Pennant – Zoologist
Gainsborough, Thomas; Thomas Pennant (1726-1798); Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales;
Smithsonian.com: Ancient DNA Could Unravel the Mystery of Prehistoric European Migration
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Forgotten, rare coloring book, 275 years old, found in Missouri Botanical Garden’s library
The Public Domain Review: Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses
Gizmodo: If You Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth, Can You Still Call It a Woolly Mammoth
Nature: ecology & evolution: Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution
Nature: Natural history: Thoreau’s debt to Darwin
Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, where the naturalist Henry David Thoreau lived for two years in the 1840s as an experiment. Tetra Images/Getty
Histories of Emotion: Environmental History and the History of Emotions
AHA Today: “Dogs Were Our Defenders!” Canines, Carnivores, and Colonialism in Namibia
The New Inquiry: Lady Science: Eugenics: Policing Everything
Nursing Clio: “We lost our appetite for food”: Why Eighteenth-Century Hangriness Might Not Be a Thing
Forbes: The Ancient Crocodile Hunters That Helped to Supply the Roman Games
A second century ‘Nilotic scene’ mosaic from the Aventine Hill in Rome, now at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. Photo by the author.
CHEMISTRY:
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
IDTC: HPS&ST Note June 2017
AHF: Newsletter
Constructing Scientific Communities: Why are Medical Journals so dull? A Potted History of Tedium in Medical Journalism
History and Technology: Technology in the South Asian imaginary
History Today: The Invention of World History
Stanford News: Stanford classics student traces history of ancient geometry diagrams
Ordered Universe: Grosseteste Manuscripts
BBC News: How the world’s first accountants counted on cuneiform
This tablet has an account in Sumerian cuneiform describing the receipt of oxen
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Open Culture: How Arabic Translators Helped Preserve Greek Philosophy…and the Classical Tradition
BSHS: Conference Social Media Guidelines
The Royal Society: Publishing blog: Digitising the Royal Society journals
Les carnets de la phonothèque: Five Steps to a Good “Sound Archive Recipe”
The Clinic: Publishing your PhD (or, the secret to a stressful life): Part I
AHRC: Inspired by Nature: Writing and Research
ESOTERIC:
BOOK REVIEWS:
Undark: Rayon, an Epidemic of Insanity, and the Woman Who Fought to Expose It
LA Review of Books: The Graphic Spinoza
Nautilus: The Multiverse of 1686
The Guardian: Collecting the World by James Delbourgo review – Hans Sloane’s ‘nicknackatory’ and the founding of the British Museum
Portrait of Sir Hans Sloane. Photograph: Michael Nicholson/Corbis via Getty Images
Financial Times: Collecting the World by James Delbourgo – the life of Hans Sloane
Mental Floss: How One Earthquake Changed the Course of Human History
AJA Online: The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek Sicily
Nursing Clio: Coin-Operated Boys: An Interview with Carly Korurek
Chemistry World: The imagineers of war: the untold story of Darpa, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
NEW BOOKS:
MIT Press: Imperial Technoscience
The Folio Society: Micrographia Robert Hooke
Historiens de la santé: Après Certeau : histoire, archives et psychanalyse
Zones Sensibles: DIALECTIQUE DU MONSTRE ENQUÊTE SUR OPICINO DE CANISTRIS OPIC
OUP: Navigation: A Very Short Introduction
NCSE: From Natural Selection to Plate Tectonics: Excerpted from Darwin’s First Theory
Actes Sud: Jamais seul: Ces microbes qui construisent les plantes, les animaux et le civilisations
Historiens de la santé: Cuisine et diététique dans l’Occident arabe médiéval. D’après un traité anonyme du XIIIè siècle
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Zaha Hadid Architects: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery nominated for New London Awards 2017
University of Otago Library: Special Collections Exhibitions: Intrepid Journeys: Travelling with the Hakluyt Society 16 June–8 September 2017
Musée Barrois, Bar-le-Duc: Inventer pour guérir. François Humbert (1776-1850), une aventure médicale meusienne 27 Mai–23 Septembre
Wellcome Collection: A museum of modern nature 22 June–8 October 2017
BBC News: Captain Cook Birthplace Museum reopens after revamp
Royal Museums Greenwich: Maritime Memories Machine Tour 8 June–27 August 2017
Bletchley Park: Bill Tutte: Mathematician + Codebreaker 15 May 2017–15 May 2019
Berwick Museum & Art Gallery: Bright Lights in the Borders 3 June–30 September 2017
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin’s final expedition 14 July 2017–7 January 2018
Medium: Biggest-ever display of fossil hominins opens
Garden Museum: Tradescant’s Orchard: A Celebration of Botanical Art: May–September 2017
Painting from the Tradescants’ Orchard
Union College, NY: Maps hold key to Adirondacks history in new exhibit runs till 29 September 2017
Cal Welch ’62 and his daughter, Caroline ’01, discuss new exhibit at the Kelly Adirondack Center – See more at: https://www.union.edu/news/stories/2017/05/maps-hold-key-to-adirondacks-history-in-new-exhibit.php#sthash.U5q1qh7d.dpuf
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Museum Collection: Explore highlights from our collection
Nursing Clio: War Art 100 Years Later: The “World War I and American Art” Exhibit and the Centenary of the Great War
The University of Manchester: Manchester Museum: Object Lessons
Le Devoir: Le Musée de la civilisation dévoile toutes les couleurs de la matière grise
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
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
Hyperallergic: A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Guardian: Designers on acid: the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
Teylers Museum: De Lorentz Formule in Het Lorentz Lab 18 May 2017–18 May 2020
Wollaton Hall Nottingham: Dinosaurs of China 1 July–29 October 2017
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
Captain James Cook and his John Shelton clock – Lisa Reihana, detail in Pursuit of Venus [infected] 2015–17 Ultra HD video, colour, sound, 64 min, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2014.
U.S.News: New Kensington Museum Preserves Computing Relics
Sanofi Pasteur: The Legacy Project
The Recipes Project: Artifacts at an Exhibition: The Art and Science of Healing at the University of Michigan
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 Sydney Morning Herald: Beauty in Science
Palaeo Manchester: Object Lessons exhibition: – 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
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
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
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
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
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Faith and Wisdom in Science: The Book of Job and Science come alive on Stage!
BBC News: Britain’s great explorations now online
PBS: American Experience: Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species…us.
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 03 June 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
EVENTS:
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Fashionable Medicine: syphilis, Spas and Melancholy 8-12 August 2017
Wellcome Collection: BSL Tour: A head apart from the body 13 July 2017
The National Museum of Computing: Premium Bonds at 60 –the Colossus connection 29 June 2017
The Recipes Project: What Is a Recipe? And So It Begins Various Events 2 June–10 July 2017
King’s College London: Lecture: The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics 29 June 2017
British Library: Keith Houston: The Book 3 July 2017
ICE: Smeaton Lecture 18 July 2017
Sea Trek: Cruise: In Search of Wallace and His Living Treasures with Dr. George Beccaloni 13–24 January 2018 $$$
ICE: ICE Smeaton Lecture 2017 London 18 July 2017
Notches: Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia
Discover Medical London: London’s Medical Cabinets of Curiosity
Royal Institution: Lecture: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance – Eric Scerri 20 July 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:
Joseph Wright of Derby –An Iron Forge, 1772, oil on canvas
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
The Guardian: Explorer Edward Wilson’s watercolour painting discovered in Antarctica
Youtube: Museum of HSTM University of Leeds: Object 15: Rangefinder
Youtube: TED Ed: The genius of Marie Curie – Shohini Ghose
Youtube: Berkeley Lab: Berkeley Lab Founder Ernest O. Lawrence Demonstrates the Cyclotron Concept
Youtube: Sculptress of Sound – The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Gresham College: The Black Death
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The Magic Years
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: The Medieval Bishop’s Big Bang Theory
Ordered Universe: Science Stories Podcast
soundcloud: UON Research: Podcast for Historical Recipes Virtual Conference: Roman cosmeceutical recipes
The National Archives: ‘A Bit of a Scratch’, a radio drama about the battle against Veneral Disease during the First World War
BBC Radio 4: Natural Histories: Dodo
The History of Philosophy without any gaps: 280. Get to the Point: Fourteenth Century Physics
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice 23-24 June 2017 Wellcome Trust & Library, London: Materials, Images, Texts 7-8 July 2017
University of Oxford: CfP: Conference: The Human Body and World War II 23–24 March 2018 Deadline 1 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: ESA History Conference 23–24 November 2017 Deadline 30 July 2017
The Historic Dockyard, Chatham: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
Trivent Publishing Series: History and Archaeology: Call for Contributions: Same Bodies, Different Women: Witches, Whores, and Handicapped
University of Kent: History of Medicine and Health – MA
Lady Science: Seeking Writers for Technological Memoir Special Series
University of York: Translating Medicine in the Pre-Modern World c. 1350–1800: A new collaborative project to be kickstarted with two conferences
International History of Cartography: Future Venues: 27th Conference Belo Horizonte, Brazil 9-14 July 2017 28th Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands 14-19 July 2019
University of Leeds: Call of Participants: Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Medical Humanities Research Workshop for PGRs 7 September 2017
University of Greenwich: The State of Maritime Research 9 September 2017
University of Turku: CfP: Interdisciplinary Conference: Re-imagining the Christian Body 2-3 November 2017
Freud Museum London: Symposium: Freud in Cambridge: Hidden Histories of Psychoanalysis 1 July 2017
Palgrave Communications: CfP (Special Issue): Socioeconomic Factors and Mental Health: Past and Present
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London: CfP: Controlling ‘Unseen’ Contagion: Disease, citizenship and mobility
Christ Church, University of Oxford: Interdisciplinary Symposium: Past and Present: Narratives of Progress and Decline in Nineteenth-Century 19 March 2018
Bodleian Libraries: War, health and humanitarianism 16 June 2017
NICHE: Seed2: Call for Pitches: New Research in Environmental History
Utrecht University: CfP: Funding bodies and late modern science 30 November–1 December 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
HSTM Network Ireland: 6th Robert Boyle Summer School 22–25 June 2017: What is science for?
Birkbeck College, London: Workshop: Ancient Wisdom in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 23 June 2017
Uppsaala University: CfP: Workshop: Vaccines: Values, Present and Past 23–24 November 2017 Deadline 9 June 2017
Columbia University: The Center for Science and Society: Science and Art Events in New York City
Johns Hopkins University: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 5 June 2017
Amsterdam: CfP: Materia Medica on the Move II 4–6 October 2017 Deadline 19 June 2017
University of Trondheim: The 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–1 September 2017
Belo Horizonte: International Conference for the History of Cartography Programme 9–14 July 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: The Goodall Symposium 2017: Safer Surgery – The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister 15 June 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environmental Conference 2017 29–30 September 2017
Philadelphia Pennsylvania: CfP: Measure, Model, Mix: Computer as Instrument 2017 SIGCIS Conference 29 October 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Society of Architectural Historians, Saint Paul, Minnesota: CfP: A Matter of Life and Death: Spaces for Healing in the Premodern Era 18–22 April 2018 Deadline 15 June 2017
IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, Senate House, London: CfP: Controlling ‘Unseen’ Contagion: Disease, citizenship and mobility: 10 July 2017 Deadline 29 May 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: CfP: Technologies of Frankenstein 1818–2018 7–9 March 2018
University of Greenwich: CfP: The State of Maritime History Research 9 September 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité: Appel à communications: Monde du sport, monde de la santé : quelles relations, quels croisements? 16 et 17 novembre 2017 au plus tard le 3 juillet 2017
Uppsala University: Conference: CfP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice 12–14 April 2018 Deadline 15 May 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
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)
University of Groningen: Histories of Healthy Aging 21–23 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 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) 5-7 July 2017
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
University of Oxford: The Bountiful Sea Conference: Fish processing and consumption in Mediterranean antiquity 6–8 September 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
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
University of Sheffield: The 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 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
Durham University: CfP: Toxic Legacies, Global Pollutants 29–30 June 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 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
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
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
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
University of Colorado in Boulder: CfP: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science 13–15 October 2017 Deadline 1 June 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
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
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
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 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
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
NACBS Denver: CfP: Early Modern History Workshop: Bodies Corporeal and Rhetorical 3–5 November 2017 Deadline 3 March 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
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
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
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
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
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
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:Workshop: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation 16-17August 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 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 York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 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 Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
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
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
Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016
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
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
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)
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
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
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 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 Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
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
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
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
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