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 #47
Monday 10 July 2017
EDITORIAL:
Time matches on and brings with it the newest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list containing all of the histories of science, technology and medicine thrown up by the Internet over the last seven days.
The Great Library of Alexandria is probably the most mythologised institution in the history of western knowledge. Its history has been used to illustrate the glory that was ancient Greece and its demise has been used to vilify the narrator’s adversary of choice.
Over time the destruction of the library was blamed on Islam, blaming it for the decline of scientific knowledge in the West. More recently militant atheists have blamed the destruction on early Christians in their attempts to falsely place the decline of science in late antiquity on the Catholic Church.
Historian Tim O’Neill has written an excellent post on his History for Atheists blog outlining and dismantling many of the historical myths associated with the Library of Alexandria. It’s a great read!
History for Atheists: The Great Myths 5: The Destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria
Bibliotecha Alexandrina Built both as a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, and an attempt to rekindle something of the brilliance that this earlier center of study and erudition represented.
Photo: Carsten Whimster via Wikimedia Commons
Quotes of the week:
“As historians, we have a responsibility for the future, not just the past.” – BSHS President Patricia Fara nails it in her BSHS2017 address
“I spend almost all my professional life talking about genetics with various publics, and find that myths and misconceptions are universal” – Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford)
“I don’t want to be annale about this, but the pop historical focus on ‘events’ is part of the problem we have as a discipline” – Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx)
If you can’t say anything nice¹
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¹Say it in a footnote – Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay)
“It was the best of Times Roman, it was the worst of Times Roman” – Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx)
“Luther apparently insisted his wife always addressed him as ‘Mr Doctor’” – Jonathan Healy (@SocialHistoryOx)
“Voles are still used as a unit of measurement in some timber yards.
1 vole = anything between 2-5 inches, mate” – Vole Facts (@Vole_Facts)
Richard Holmes Quote
“We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained” – Marie Curie
“I thought Dr. Dee was a rare fool, talking to a polished black mirror. Then everyone else got an iPhone too” – William Shakespeare (@Shakespeare)
“It is not quite certain that the man who eats cakes rather greedily is acting from passion” – Galen
“My wife’s just asked what ‘mansplaining’ is. Not sure what to do” – Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Philosophy took a wrong turn when they decided to write it down” – Existential Comics (@existentialcoms)
Anniversaries of the Week:
Amelia Earhart disappeared 2 July 1937
Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Amelia Earhart: Missing for 80 Years but not Forgotten
BBC News: Amelia Earhart: Does photo show she died a Japanese prisoner?
National Geographic: Top 3 Theories for Amelia Earhart’s Disappearance
Henrietta Swan Leavitt born 4 July 1868
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
SciHI Blog: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the Light of the Cepheids
E. Douglass born 5 July 1867
A. E. Douglass (1867-1962), holding a core for counting tree rings for dendrochronology
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: A. E. Douglass and the Dendrochronology
George Everest born 4 July 1790
SciHi Blog: Sir George Everest and his Trigonometry Survey of India
Robert Fitzroy born 5 July 1805
Robert FitzRoy circa 1855
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Robert Fitzroy
Barometer by the late Admiral Fitzroy On Display in the Science Museum
The Shelf: Robert Fitzroy and the evolution of weather forecasting
Species of dolphin named by Darwin after Robert Fitzroy
Ellis Chesbrough born 6 July 1813
ASCE: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough
Tunnel under Lake Michigan built by Ellis Chesbrough to provide clean water to Chicago
Joseph Marie Jacquard born 7 July 1752
This portrait of Jacquard was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom and required 24,000 punched cards to create (1839). It was only produced to order. One of these portraits in the possession of Charles Babbage inspired him in using perforated cards in his analytical engine. It is in the collection of the Science Museum in London, England. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Joseph Marie Jacquard
CHF: Distillations: The French Connection
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Weaving the computer age
SciHi Blog: Joseph Marie Jacquard and the Programmable Loom
John Wheeler born 9 July 1911
John Archibald Wheeler in front of lake in Holstein before the Hermann Weyl-Conference 1985 in Kiel, Germany
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AIP: John Wheeler
AHF: John Wheeler
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
SciHi Blog: The Russian Dream to Land a Man on the Moon
SciHi Blog: Hugh L. Dryden and High Speed Aerodynamics
History Today: The Map: The Moon, 1647
SciHi Blog: The Supernova of 1054
Origins: Mariner 9: Opening the Martian Frontier
Nature: Pulsars still dazzle after 50 years
Astronomers Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish saw the first pulsars fifty years ago. Hencoup Enterprises Ltd/SPL
SciHi Blog: Macquorn Rankine and the Laws of Thermodynamics
AHF: Seth Neddermeyer
Wired: How the Large Hadron Collider Almost Didn’t Work
SciHi Blog: Jordan Carson Mark and the Development of Thermonuclear Weapons
The universe in motion: Apian’s Cosmographia
The BPL’s copy of the first edition of Cosmographia contains an extremely rare variant state of the title page and a fascinating 16th-century provenance.
APS: This Month in Physics History: June 1849: Fizeau publishes results of speed of light experiment
Atlas Obscura: The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite
ESA: Tribute to the Space Shuttle
Linda French: Searching for John Goodricke
Portrait of John Goodricke at age 19 or 20.
Linda French: John Goodricke
Forbes: How We Know Copernicus Wasn’t a Priest
A.V. Club: Blast off with the USSR’s failed answer to the Space Shuttle
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Map candy! Utterly wonderful 1686 French map of the Kingdom of Siam – Jonathan Healy (@SocialHistoryOx)
Vintage Visualizations: Geological Map of the U.S.
National Geographic: Charming 19th-Century Atlases Were the Facebook of Their Day
Solomon Harkey of Montgomery County, Illinois, appears to have owned a lovely farm and a very fine horse.
MAP COURTESY DAVID RUMSEY MAP COLLECTION
Smithsonian.com: From Ptolemy to GPS; the Brief History of Maps
USGS: Mapping Yorktown
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
SciHi Blog: The Medical Breakthroughs of Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch
BBC News: Cardiff military medical museum design plan unveiled
The Public Domain Review: A Collection of Very Valuable and Scarce Pieces relating to the Last Plague in the Year 1665 (1721)
Hektoen International: Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
Academia: Monica H. Green, “Bibliography on Medieval Women, Gender and Medicine, 1980–2009” (2010)
British Naval History: “Convenient in any Exigency”: The Transcendence of the Medicine Chest from the Professional to the Domestic
Medicine chest belonging to Sir Benjamin Outram and reputedly used at the battle of Copenhagen 1801. Photograph courtesy Royal Museums Greenwich.
Advances in the History of Psychology: New Article Roundup
People’s History of the NHS: What can we learn from the (often gruesome) history of food in hospitals and prisons…
Thomas Morris: The amphibious infant
Mistaking Histories: Imaginary body parts
Nursing Clio: Sex, Secrecy, and Abuse in a 19th-Century Workhouse
Hyperallergic: The False Advertising of Sophistically Decorated, 19th-Century Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
Trade card advertising Ayer’s Hair Vigor
SciHi Blog: Rudolf Albert von Kölliker and the Origins of Embryology
The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: Everyday Heroes: A Story of Self-Sacrifice & Bubonic Plague
Mistaking Histories: Birth and risk: perceiving risk in historical societies
The History of Vaccines: 7/6/1885 Rabies Vaccine Used in Humans
Readers Digest: What did Charles Dickens know about medicine?
Civil War Women: Diaries of Civil War Nurses
Thomas Morris: Hook, line and Liston
News Network Archaeology: Sixth Century ‘Medical Recipe’ of Greek Physician Hippocrates Found in St Catherine’s Monastery
npr: ‘Nurse, Spy, Cook:’ How Harriet Tubman Found Freedom Through Food
Remedia: Crafting a (Written) Science of Surgery: The First European Surgical Texts
Geri Walton: Battlefield Medicine and Triage Innovator Dominique Jean Larrey
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
SciHi Blog: Ottmar Mergenthaler – a Second Gutenberg
timesunion: Black GE worker left lasting legacy
Smithsonian.com: Predictions for Educational TV in the 1930s
SciHi Blog: The RMS Britannia and the Transatlantic Postal Service
Science Daily: Ancient concrete: Learning to do as the Romans did
The Guardian: Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays
Samples from this Ancient Roman pier, Portus Cosanus in Orbetello, Italy, were studied with X-rays at Berkeley Lab.
Credit: J.P. Oleson
AHF: Los Alamos Innovations: High-Speed Photography
Conciatore: Olearius on Glass
Conciatore: An Art of Fire
Heritage Calling: 10 Winning Facts about Brooklands Motor Racing Circuit
The Public Domain Review: Manuscript Handbook of Firework Design (1785)
Smithsonian.com: Take a Look at the Patents Behind Sliced Bread
Tedium: When Time Became Money
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
History on the buses in Monmouthshire – and beyond: Usk: birthplace of Alfred Russel Wallace
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
Smithsonian.com: When Diplodocus Invaded Europe
SciHi Blog: Vincent Joseph Schaefer and the Cloud Seeding
The Guardian: Dinosaur skeleton discovered under Surrey brick factory
Cabinet: Sparks of Life
C. H. Fritsche, Firework on the Elbe on the Occasion of the Visit of the King of Denmark, 6 June 1709, ca. 1709. King Frederik IV of Denmark’s initials—F.4.R.D.—can be seen on the fireworks castle in the middle of the river. Courtesy Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
J R Coll Physicians Edinb: Rhubarb (Rheum species): the role of Edinburgh in its cultivation and development
The New York Times: In Neanderthal DNA, Signs of a Mysterious Human Migration
Londonist: In Search of the Lost Mosque of Kew Gardens
Nature: Ancient-genome studies grapple with Africa’s past
The Telegraph: The remarkable life of archaeologist and adventurer Arthur Evans
lehmann.ny-carlsbergfondet.dk: The woman who discovered the Earth’s solid inner core
Atlas Obscura: Whale Jaw of Schiermonnikoog
SciHI Blog: Camillo Golgi and the Golgi Aparatus
British Geological Survey: J D Hooker slide collection
Tetrapod Zoology: The Microsaurs of Yore
The New York Times: In a Lost Baby Tooth, Scientists Find Ancient Denisovan DNA
BSHS: Florence Bell: The Other ‘Dark Lady of DNA’?
Atlas Obscura: Boole House: An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic
Abroad in the Yard: If Doggerland Had Not Drowned
The Hill: Why removing Yellowstone grizzlies from endangered species list is wrong
Science News: DNA evidence is rewriting domestication origin stories
CHEMISTRY:
SciHi Blog: Marie Curie – Truly an Extraordinary Woman
AHF: Marie Curie
New Scientist: Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table
Chemistry World: The Weizmann contribution
ACS Publications: Celebrating the Life and Career of Mildred S. Dresselhaus – The Queen of Carbon
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Will Pooley: Asking the Wrong Questions
BSHS: Viewpoint
Irish Philosophy: Saving Science from Pseudo-facts
Medical History: Volume 61 – Issue 3 – July 2017 Table of Contents
Metropolitan Science: London 1600-1800 workshop: Day1
Metropolitan Science: London 1600-1800 workshop: Day2
The MIT Press: Internet Archive collaboration with the MIT Press and Arcadia to digitize and provide access to hundreds of MIT Press backlist titles
ASU: ASU alumnus lands gig at the Smithsonian
University of Oxford: New Website: The History of Dyslexia
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Jim Walther’s Interview
Financial Times: Science communication: a graduate’s guide to a growth industry
The Hindu Business Line: The flower in the bullet
History of Anthropology: Newsletter
University of Manchester: In Conversation With: Professor Matthew Cobb
Nautilus: Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science
ESOTERIC:
BOOK REVIEWS:
Popular Science: A Mind at Play – Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
Routledge: Author Q&A Session with Alain Touwaide
New Scientist: How the living world has changed, by the woman who changed it
Popular Science: Is the Universe a Hologram? – Adolfo Plasencia
The New York Times: Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond
The Renaissance Mathematicus: All at sea
Mongols China and the Silk Road: Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World
Nature: Books in brief
London Review of Books: The Superhuman Upgrade
LSE: Fossil Capital: The Rise of Stem Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm
OUP blog: How to measure social pain
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: The Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 – 1918
Enfilade: Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America
Historiens de la santé: La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne
Techniques & Culture: Low Tech/High Tech
Historiens de la santé: Plague and Music in the Renaissance
Historiens de la santé: Conserving health in early modern culture. Bodies and environments in Italy and England
University of Washington Press: Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Historiens de la santé: Collecting Recipes: Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue
Natural History Museum: Discovering Dorothea: The Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bates
Historiens de la santé: Reasoning Against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944
The Medieval Globe Books: TMG 1 (2014): Pandemic Diseases in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, de. Monica Green (oa)
ART & EXHIBITIONS
The Guardian: Museum risks wrath of Inuit with display from tragic Artic voyage
The Times: The Major Tom of the Arctic
IET: Archives online exhibitions
Philly.com: Decay, rot on display at Chemical Heritage Museum
Environment & Society Portal: Virtual Exhibitions: The Northwest Passage: Myth Environment, and Resources
Circumpolar routes. The map shows the different shipping routes across the Arctic. Source: Arctic Council, “Circumpolar Routes,” Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment 2009 Report, available at arcticdata.is.
Tampa Bay History Center: The Florida-Cuba Connection 4 July 2017–28 January 2018
Osher Map Library: Online Exhibits: Local Boosters, Historians, and Engineers Map Antebellum Portland Maine
Musée « La Boverie » de Liège: La leçon d’Anatomie – 500 ans d’histoire de la médecine 21 Juni 2017–17 Septembre 2017
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker – Trailblazing global botanist and explorer
BBC News: Whaling’s ‘uncomfortable’ legacy
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
Science Museum: The Festival of Britain – a meeting of science and art
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
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
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
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:
The Guardian: The Hidden Figures effect: inspiring a new generation of women
The Map Room: A Turkish Piri Reis Documentary is Coming
Variety: Paramount, Lorne Michaels Developing Autism Book ‘Neurotribes’ as Movie
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:
NYAM: Talk: Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th Century NYC 22 August 2017
Royal College of Physicians: Medicinal Plants Lecture: Dangerous Plants 17 July 2017
NYAM: Summer & Fall 2017 Catalog of Events
Royal Museums Greenwich: One-day course: Sir John Franklin’s Artic exploration 25 July and 21 October 2017
Cardiff Naturalist Society: Cardiff Naturalist Society marks 150th Anniversary with a series of fascinating events
CHF: History Lab: Fiction and the Future 12 August 2017
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Fashionable Medicine: syphilis, Spas and Melancholy 8-12 August 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
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:
Beagle being hailed by native Fuegians during the survey of Tierra del Fuego, painted by Conrad Martens who became ship’s artist in 1833
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Guinness World Records: First Trans-Atlantic Crossing in a Hot Air Balloon
Youtube: US National Archives: Toxic Propellant Hazards
Youtube: The British National Health Service (1948)
A Room of Our Own: Why Should We Care About the Failure of the British Computing Industry
Youtube: British Movietone: Albert Einstein Interview – Sound
Youtube: Evolution Story in a Minute: Natural Selection and Adaptation | HHMI BioInteractive Video
Youtube: Cosmic Origin of the Chemical Elements: Introduction and Overview (Ep. 1)
RADIO & PODCASTS:
History of Philosophy without any gaps: 281 – Monica Green on Medieval Medicine
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: Caroline Herschel and the Comets
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Bird Migration
BBC Radio 4: Women’s Hour: Marie Hicks explores the history behind sexist science at 11:03 mins
History Extra: Hans Sloane and the British Museum
History of Philosophy without any gaps: 46 – No Four Ways About It: Nāgārjuna’s Tetralemma
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Intellect Journals: CfP: Journal of Science & Popular Culture
National Maritime Museum: Conference: Mapping the past, exploiting the future: cartographies and understandings of the Arctic 21–22 July 2017
Ordered Universe: Publications
Toronto, Ontario: Preliminary Program: HSS Annual Meeting 9–12 November 2017
Middlesex University: 2nd CLE Colloquium for Philosophy and History of Formal Sciences: “Logic and Computing” 19–21 July 2017
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: CfP: Cannabis: Global Histories 19–20 April 2018 Deadline 15 January 2018
Societate și Politică: CfP: Rewrite Conflicts: The Role of Losers, Heretics, and Outsiders in the History of Medicine Deadline 15 December 2017
University of Exeter: Symposium: Medical Practice in Early Modern Britain in Comparative Perspective 4–6 September 2017
BPS: A BPS Flagship Event: Women in Psychology: From Invisibility to Influence 19 October 2017
ESA: History of Europe in space: Call for Contributions: ESA History Project Deadline 30 July 2017
University of Düsseldorf: CfP: The Generalized Theory of Evolution 31 January–3 February 2018
BJHP: CfP: Special Issue: Women and the History of Philosophy Deadline 31 January 2018
The American University of Paris: Appel à communications: Conférence internationale pluridisciplinaire d’histoire de la sexologie: Sexologies et théories de la sexualité. Traduction, appropriation, problématisation, médicalisation 30-31 Octobre 2017 Soumission des propositions 15 Juillet 2017
Ecole des Mines Paris Tech: Appel à communications: Techno*Care / Les technologies du « care » en santé 12 décembre 2017 avant le 14 juillet 2017
UCL Health Humanities Centre: Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies 8 July 2017
Numéro de la revue Itinéraires 2018-2: Appel à articles: Le merveilleux scientifique en spectacle (1850-1940) Date limite de réception des propositions : 14 juillet 2017
BSHS: Literary Agents Seek History of Science Authors
King’s University College London, Ontario: CSTHA: Appel à communiquer: Innovation ou aberration? Les significations historiques de l’échec scientifique et technologique 3–5 November 2017 Date limite: 30 juin 2017
Rice University: CfP: Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery 23–24 February 2018 Deadline 15 September 2017
University Paris Diderot: ISPC Paris Conference: Programme 3-6 July 2017
Early Modern Low Countries: Call for Articles: A multidisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the study of the early modern Low Countries
Royal Museums Greenwich: Talks & Courses: Mapping the past, exploiting the future : cartographies and understandings of the Artic 21-22 July 2017
Pittsburgh, PA: CfP: 2018 NEMLA Conference: (Im)possible Bodies: Spaces and the Body in Early Modern Europe Deadline 29 September 2017
Unsettling Scientific Stories: Conference: Imagining the History of the Future 27–29 March 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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 London: Institute of Historical Research: CfP: The Hakluyt Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 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 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
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
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
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: CfP: Mapping the Past, Exploiting the Future 21–22 July 2017 Deadline 1 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
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
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
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
The Collation: Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
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
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Spring 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
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York: Call for applications: William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)
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
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
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
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
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 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
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 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
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
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 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 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
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 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
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Birkbeck, University of London: MA History of Science and Medicine
HSS: Society Associate (Coordinator)
Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities: Applied Research Collaborative PhD Studentships: Gender and Mental Health in the West of Scotland c. 1970–1990
