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 #07
Monday 03 October 2016
EDITORIAL:
Time marches on and we have the first October edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing all of the histories of science, technology and medicine to your monitor screen that we could find throughout the Internet over the last seven days.
The #histtech story of the week was the news that the earliest known computer music, originally recorded by the BBC in 1951, had been restored and made listenable. The story first appeared on the British Library’s Sound and vision blog, – Restoring the first recording of computer music –, in the form of a report from the restorers Jack Copeland a professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Jason Long a New Zealand composer and performer of electro-acoustic music. The only surviving example of this epic recording was on a 12-inch single-sided acetate disc and was badly distorted, thus the necessity for it to be restored. AS you can see below the story was picked up and repeated by various news outlets. Unfortunately all of the reports, including the original, contain a series of serious errors all too typical of much popular sloppy science and technology reporting.
Nearly all of the reports claim that the Ferranti Mark 1 computer, used to make the recording, was built by Alan Turing, whose name also features prominently in several of the titles. This is however not true. Turing was not involved in designing and building the Ferranti. The design was by Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn and as the name suggests the computer was built by Ferranti based on the Williams/Kilburn Manchester Mark 1. Attributing it to Turing is not only a historical error but also an insult to the men who actually conceived and built it.
Turing did in fact write some programmes for the Mark 1 and it is here that he comes into play. The computer had an audio output in the form of a loudspeaker that emitted a short pulse of sound, which according to Turing sounded ‘something between a tap, a click, and a thump’. Turing realised that by controlling the frequency of this click he could tune it to musical notes and being Turing he did just that.
Alan Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark 1 computer. Science Museum,
The next serious error in the reports is that in the titles and in the opening paragraphs the recorded music is constantly referred to as having been made by Turing, it wasn’t. As can be discovered if one reads to the end of the reports the music was actually programmed by Christopher Strachey, a maths teacher and pianist, who in my opinion should feature in the opening paragraphs, and not Turing, and definitely not tucked away at the end.
This is unfortunately a bad case of Alan Turing is world famous, so we will attribute everything to him irrespective of whether its true or not.
The Guardian: First recording of computer-generated music – created by Alan Turing – restored
Quartz: Researchers have restored the first computer-generated music – made by Alan Turing in 1951
abc news: Researchers restore first ever computer music recording generated on Alan Turing’s computer
Atlas Obscura: You Can Now Listen to the First Computer-Generated Music Ever
BBC News: Listening to the music of Turing’s computer
As a footnote to last weeks editorial: In the Atlantic Tom Levenson has written a very elegant put down of John Dugdales stupid, sexist Guardian article about women winning science book prizes: The Sexist Response to a Science Book Prize
Quotes of the week:
“Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius died 26 September1868. I’d say we’ll see him on the other side, but…” – Charles Bergquist (@cbquist)
“As Euler nearly said, it’s i-pie in the sky” – Frank Norman (@franknorman)
One for the maths teachers… Laura Jackson (@MrsJacksonMusic)
“Not to lie about the future is impossible & one can lie about it at will.” – Naum Gabo & Anton Pevsner, 1920 h/t @LeapingRobot
A History of the Universe in 7 words: BANG. WHOOSH. RIPPLES. GALAXIES. STARS. PLANETS. TRUMP. – Peter Coles (@telescoper)
h/t Greg Hurst
So you pay to publish?
Yep
But refereeing for publishers is unpaid?
Yep
And they charge for access?
Yep
So where does all that money go?
Yep – Dr Darren Saunders (@whereisdaz)
Bede happily advocating the destruction of Irish learning and the pillaging of Irish resources – Sjoerd Levelt (@SLevelt)
“If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part” -Richard Feynman h/t @bstorax
“Those damn windfarms can’t even keep the wind safely in farms” – Calla Wahlquist (@callapilla)
What do you call a news article that reports the death of a satellite?
An orbituary – Andrés Almeida (@andresdavid)
“Every biography is a disguised autobiography; every biography is a failed love affair” – Adam Phillips h/t @gabridli
“I don’t like the word Brexit but if we have it can we drop hard v soft and use Continental Brexit v Full English Brexit instead?” – Jos Gallacher (@JosGallacher)
(Indianapolis Journal, 1895) h/t @HaggardHawks
“Books, once they are written, have no need of their authors” – Elena Ferrante
Birthdays of the Week:
Ismael Boulliau born 28 September 1605
Ismael Boulliau
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Ismael Boulliau
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The man who invented and squared gravity
Michael Servetus born 29 September 1509
Miguel Servet, (Villanueva de Sigena 1511- Genevra 1553) Spanish theologian & physicus Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Not a martyr for science
Yovisto: Michael Servetus and the Pulmonary Circulation
Enrico Fermi born 29 September 1901
Laura and Enrico Fermi at the Institute for Nuclear Studies, Los Alamos, 1954
AHF: Enrico Fermi
Voices of the Manhattan Project: To Fermi – with Love – Part 1
AIP: Emilio Segrè Visual Archives: Enrico Fermi
Otto Frisch born 1 October 1904
Otto Frisch ID badge Los Alamos
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AHF: Otto Frisch
AIP: Otto Frisch
Yovisto: Otto Frisch and the Nuclear Fission
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Atlas Obscura: Leviathan of Parsonstown
AHF: Professor Oppenheimer: Prof Takes Girl for Ride; Walks Home
Robert J Oppenheimer
New Scientist: No, NASA hasn’t changed the zodiac signs or added a new one
Herald Sun: The eigth planet, Neptune, was discovered by three astronomers using pen calculations rather than telescope
Smithsonian Institution Archives: September 27, 1916 – Goddard’s Proposal to the Smithsonian
Griffonage-Dot-Com: Moon Phase Animations (AD 650–1650)
Berkeley Lab: Ed Lofgren, Pioneering ‘Rad Lab,’ Berkley Lab, and Manhattan Project Physicist, dies at 102
The Irish Times: Dunsink Unsynced – An Irishman’s Diary about the end of Irish Time
Oxford Journals: A&G: Making a career from outreach: Mary Proctor
Sketch of Mary from 1894. (University of Hawaii at Manoa/Library of Congress)
Bad Astronomy: The First Photo of the Sun
Aviation Pros: NASA Armstrong Celebrates 70 Years of Flight Research and Testing
EOS: The Geomagnetic Blitz of September 1941
AHF: Kathleen Maxwell
Academia: Regiomontanus Tradelist
Travel + Leisure: 31Vintage Photos From the Apollo Space Missions
Finding Ada: Margaret Huggins: Spectral specialist
^BLady Margaret Lindsay Huggins^b (1848-1915), British astronomer, wearing academic robes. Lady Huggins, born Margaret Lindsay Murray, was the wife of the astronomer Sir William Huggins. She was a talented astronomer herself, and from 1875, after their marriage, she published several papers jointly with him. They worked on spectroscopic studies of ‘nebulae’ (which then included galaxies), including the true nebula the Orion Nebula.
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: FDR and the bomb
Nautilus: A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Yovisto: Jean Baptiste Perrin and the Brownian Motion
Smithsonian Institution: Willy Ley Papers, 1895–1969
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Google Arts & Culture: Cast silver plaque depicting the voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Michael Mercator 1589/1589
Government of Canada: Government of Canada confirms wreck of HMS Terror and deepens collaboration with Inuit in Nunavut through co-ownership of Franklin Artifacts
History Extra: Finding HMS Terror: the Franklin Expedition and making sense of the past
Visions of the North: The significance of Terror Bay
The Guardian: HMS Terror wreck: Inuit aboriginals and Canada to work out artefact ownership
An image of the wreck of HMS Terror as it lies on the seabed in the middle of King William Island’s uncharted Terror Bay in the Arctic. Photograph: Arctic Research Foundation
Ptak Science Books: Maps: “Through the Meander of the Rockish Creek”, 1842
Christie’s: Mapping The Globe 1–10 November 2016
Mappa Mundi Hereford Cathedral: Mappa Mundi Exploration
The Hakluyt Society Blog: Abraham Lawse (c.1559–1613) – Case Study of a Tudor-Stuart Shipmaster
Map of the Week: Joan Blaeu’s Remarkable World Atlas
cbc news: Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen’s former ship raised to surface, awaits trip home to Norway
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Thomas Morris: Toast and herbs
Branch: Matthew Rowlinson, “On the First Medical Blood Transfusion Between Human Subjects, 1818”
The Telegraph: The James Herriot centenary: a vet who changed his profession
Science: To study ancient cancer, this scientist made her own mummies
Academia: Secrets of Place: The Medical Casebooks of Vivant-Augustin Ganiare, ca. 1745–1750
The Guardian: No scrubs: how women had to fight to become doctors
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson … first English woman to qualify as a doctor. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Contagions: The Promiscuous Human Flea
Thomas Morris: The woman who peed through her nose
BMJ: Eating a manchineel “beach apple”
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: The semi-flexible gastroscope
British Library: Collection items: Alexander Fleming’s lab books
The Boston Globe: The ongoing contribution of Henrietta Lacks
Naomi Clifford: A broadside on Elizabeth Simmonds, who had a lucky escape from the dissection table
unknown artist; James Curry (1763-1819), MD, Physician at Northampton General Infirmary (1791-1793), Later Physician to Guy’s Hospital; Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/james-curry-17631819-md-physician-at-northampton-general-infirmary-17911793-later-physician-to-guys-hospital-49370
Thomas Morris: The missing pencil
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: A history of Edinburgh’s medical museums
Yovisto: Archibold Hill and Biophysics
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Hughes’s Printing Telegraph h/t John Ptak (@ptak)
British Naval History: What can be learned from the Fairey Swordfish?
Collectors Weekly: Telephone Operator 10.5 Pound Breast Plate and Harness
The Sydney Morning Herald: Geek Pilgrimage: Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing
The Science Museum: Are airplanes safe?
JSTOR Daily: The Internet Before the Internet: Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum
Belgian information activist Paul Otlet (1927).
WikiMedia Commons
Smthsonian.com: In the 19th Century, Firefighters Fought Fires … and Each Other
Canterbury Cathedral: Architecture: The Waterworks Drawing from the Eadwine Psalter
Smithsonian.com: When the Inventor of the Diesel Engine Disappeared
The Telegraph: Who was Ladislao José Biro, how did he invent the ballpoint pen and how did it help in World War II?
Medievalists.net: How to Make Ink in the Middle Ages
Quartz: In 1906, one magazine warned of the loneliness of “wireless telegraphy”
Text me. (Punch Publications 1906 London/University of Toronto Libraries)
Adventure Kid: The history of the Vocoder
AHF: Manhattan Project Spotlight: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
LTRU Explorers: Animesh Chatterjee – Eating Electricity and Delivering India
The New York Times: Steve Reich at 80: Still Plugged In, Still Plugging Away
Piccadilly Circus Underground station like you’ve never seen it before. Sectional drawing, 1928. h/t LT Museum
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Forbes: Chinese Skeletons In Roman Britain? Not So Fast
The Atlantic: American Whalers Killed Way More Than Just Whales
Nature: Longest historic temperature record stretches back 2 million years
Chetham’s Blog: The Bees
Woodcut of Bumblebees from Moffet’s Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum
Science Direct: The Lost Worlds of Messmore & Damon: Science, Spectacle & Prehistoric Monsters in early-twentieth century America
Evolving Thoughts: The History of Life: Aristotle – Underlying philosophy
toriherridge.com: Walking Through Time: Britain’s Last Mammoths – the reading list
Richard Carter: The great Darwin fossil hunt
Science League of America: A Lawyer’s Distortion of Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
JSTOR: Global Plants Home
CHEMISTRY:
Chemistry World: Merrifield’s resin
Source: © The Rockefeller University
Robert Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist (1921–2006). Inventor of solid phase peptide synthesis and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1984
RCS: On this day in Chemistry September 30
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
IEEE: Spectrum: STEM Crisis? What About the STS Crisis?
Londonist: The Victorian Science Museum Where Prince Albert Was Dunked
Edinburgh Evening News: Five unusual Edinburgh Museums you should visit (some #histSTM)
Royal Society: Publishing blog: Women and the History of Peer Review at the Royal Society
Atlas Obscura: The First Encyclopedia by a Woman Contains The First Image of a Pretzel
The Recipes Project: The Literary Cookbook
The Recipes Project: A Recipe’s Place Is in the Classroom
The Reading List: Laura Snyder: How Books Can Change Your Life
Illinois Institute of Technology: Hist 385: Women in Computing History
storify: Wilkie Collins Heart and Science
Jennifer Sherman Roberts: Much Ado About Doodles
AHF: September Newsletter
JSTOR Daily: JSTOR Daily is Two Years Old
In Thirteenth Century England: ‘Science’ existed in the Middle Ages
Martin Luther Prints in Oxford: How to print your own 95 Luther-theses
CHF: Roy G. Neville Prize in Bibliography or Biography
BHSH: Website Writing and Image Guidelines
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Don Giovanni
Past is Present: Reading the Apocalypse
h/t Emily Brand (@EJBrand)
BOOK REVIEWS:
Notches: Italian Sexualities Uncovered
the many-headed monster: Alexandra Shepard’s ‘Accounting for Oneself’ and early modern social categorisation
The Guardian: ‘Oh Excellent Air Bag!’ review – two centuries of laughing gas
The Boston Globe: James Gleick looks at history, physics of time travel
The Guardian: The Making of the British Landscape by Nicholas Crane review – how the sun shaped the land
The history of humankind and the landscape are woven together. Photograph: Alamy
3:AM Magazine: tom wolfe’s reflections on language
NEW BOOKS:
De Gruyter: Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Brill: How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands
Brill: Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations
around.com: James Gleick Time Travel
University of Chicago Press: Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation and Thinking About Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
University of North Carolina Press: Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Sébastien Le Clerc
Sébastien Leclerc (1637-1714), printmaker, draughtsman and military engineer.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Conciatore: Art and Science
The Straits Times: M.C.Escher’s optical illusion art at ArtScience Museum
University of Bangor: The Art of Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms from the Abyss
The Foundling Museum: Feeding the 400 23 September 2016–08 January 2017
The Getty Research Institute: The Art of Alchemy 11 October 2016–12 February 2017
Alchemists Revealing Secrets from the Book of Seven Seals, The Ripley Scroll (detail), ca. 1700. 950053
Osher Map Museum: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities 29 September 2016–11 March 2017
The Huntingdon: Gardens, Art, & Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints
Henry Moore Institute: The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics 21 July–23 October 2016
British Library: Maps and views blog: Map exhibition – the countdown begins
Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Harvard University: The Art of Discovery 13 September– 29 October 2016
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography 4 October 2016–15 January 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Hodinkee: Historical Perspectives: New York’s Grolier Club to Exhibit a Collection of Rare Horological Books and Artifacts
flickr: On Time: The Quest for Precision: Books on Time and Timekeeping from the Linda Hall Library Curated by Bruce Bradley
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Live Mint: Science, time, and Rohini Devasher’s art
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
University of Leicester: New Website showcases migraine artwork digitally for the first time
Yale News: Yale marks 175th anniversary of Arabic and Sanskrit studies with exhibit, public events
Hyperallergic: The Morgan Marks the Centennial of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
Université de Lausanne: Musée de physique de Lausanne : brève visite virtuelle
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990
blog.umass.edu: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
COMING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
Natural History Museum: Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature 15 July–6 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18th and 19th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016
Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017
The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20th July 2016
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts
Science Museum: Robots
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
CLOSING SOON: Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:
Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017
AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016
Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017
CLOSING SOON: Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic 1 August–31 December 2016
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
CLOSING SOON: Boolean Libraries: Tuberculosis: milestones of discovery and innovation 9September–16 October 2016
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
COMING SOON: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea: Royal Collection: Leonardo da Vinci 14 October 2016–6 January 2017
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
St John’s College Cambridge: Kepler’s Trial: An Opera Premieres 28–29 October 2016
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
COMING SOON: Hull Truck Theatre: Faustus 14 October 2016
COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: Greenwich Theatre: Jekyll And Hyde 10–11 October 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: The Place Bedford: Dr Faustus 6 October 2016
COMING SOON: Mumford Theatre: Dr. Faustus 10 October 2016
COMING SOON: Corn Exchange Newbury: Frankenstein 11–12 October 2016
EVENTS:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution: Rudolf Steiner Memorial Lecture – Bath Anthroposophical Group 11 October 2016
Museum of London: From Sail to Steam: London’s Role in a Shipbuilding Revolution
Museum for the History of Science, Oxford: Don’t panic! Promises and threats of science and technology 17 November 2016
Archives Month: Welcome to Archives Month Philly
University of Leicester: Attenborough Arts Centre: Science and the Victorian public 18 November 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Science and Medicine in Early Islam 8 October 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: BEFORE AND AFTER – HENRY HERING AND ASYLUM PHOTOGRAPHY 11 October 2016
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Art forms in Nature 19 October 2016
Center for the history of Medicine at Countway Library: Celebration: 70 Years of Women at HMS 21 October 2016
The Old Operating Theatre Museum: Chloroform and Cholera: The Life of John Snow 20 October 2016
University of London: Senate House Library and Institute of Historical Research Library: History Day 2016: history libraries, archives & research open day 15 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016
Discover Medical London: Our Walks and Tours
Millennium Theatre, Limerick: Dream Big: Space, Limerick and Two Mens’ Quest to Reach for the Stars 5 October 2016
Scientific Instrument Society: Turner Memorial Lecture: Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA ‘Of Making Celestial Globes There Seems No End’ Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, London 25 November 2016
University of Paderborn: Émilie du Châtelet on Space and Time 10 October 2016
University of Paderborn: History of Women Philosophers in Antiquity 10 October 2016
The Royal Society of Medicine: Chris Renwick: William Bynum Lecture 2016: Social Biology and Progressive Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 30 November 2016
University of Birmingham: Professor Alice White: The genius of Vesalius 13 October 2016
UCL: Spices and Medicine: Food and Medical Traditions from the Plant World: Exploring Herbal Uses 12 October 2016
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Study Tour: ‘Flight from the Flames’: Recovering London from The Great Fire 5 September & 5 October 2016
IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October
Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016
New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”
Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War
Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding
Royal Institution: Einstein’s greatest mistake 3 October 2016
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin. The Attributes of the Sciences. 1731.
TELEVISION:
Channel 4: Walking Through Time
Dorset Echo: Dinosaurs and Durdle Door – Dorset set to star in Channel 4 series
Tori Herridge
Picture supplied by Channel 4
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: IPBio: Kristin Hussey (QMUL): “Don’t you think the Moorfields doctors knew better than this Indian?”
Youtube: Museum of HSTM university of Leeds: Lecture 6: Midwifery Forceps
Youtube: Nobel Prize: Norman F. Ramsey on Being Awarded the Nobel Prize
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking: Spoon
CHF: Distillations: Death and Taxidermy
RADIO & PODCASTS:
The Forum: Women in Science: Past, Present, and Future Challenges
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation
Birkbeck, University of London: London Renaissance Seminar: Buried Things in Early Modern Culture: Poetics, Epistemology and Practice 22 October 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
Museums ETC Magazine: CfP: Feminism and Museums Deadline 21 November 2016
University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016
‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Museo de América, Madrid: Symposium: CfP: Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge 5–7 April 2017
The Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA: Ronin Institute Unconference: The Future of Careers in Scholarship 5 November 2016
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 1st Barcelona HPS Workshop: Scientific Misconduct and Scientific Expertise 11 November 2016
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
Rutgers University: Symposium: Aesthetics and the Life Sciences 21 October 2016
Mitchell Library Glasgow: Annual Scottish Maritime History Conference 12 October 2016
Centre for Global Health Histories, York: Masterclass: Across the borders: German-Brazilian Psychiatry between 1900 and 1930 5 October 2016
BSHS: The BSHS invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
Edinburgh Napier University: American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Lecture: ‘What, if anything, makes knowledge an improvement over information?’ 30 November 2016
University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017
edX: University of Newcastle Australia: Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration
IHMC2 – NEWSLETTER – INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, Spain
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
BSHS: Conference: A History of the Moon St Cross College, Oxford 19 November 2016
Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference 11–12 November 2016
National Maritime Museum: Workshop: Transit to Hawai’i: behind the scenes with digital history & astronomy 29 October 2016
Rèsidencia d’Investigadors; Barcelona: Conference: “Urban Peripheries?” Emerging Cities in Europe’s South and East, 1850–1945 26–27 September 2016
Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library: Symposium: CfP: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017 Deadline 27 November 2016
University of Manchester: CHSTM Seminars Autumn/Winter 2016
University of York: Centre for Global Health Histories: Research Masterclass: Across the borders: German-Brazilian Psychiatry between 1900 and 1930 5 October 2016
University of St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2016
NICHE: Call for Participants: CHESS 2017 Gender and Indigenous Landscapes Applications due 16 October 2016
Wellcome Library: History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2016–17
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
HSS: THATCAmpHSS 2016 in Atlanta 6 November 2016
IHR: Library Exhibition Curation Competition (ECR)
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Oxford Brookes University: Conference: Maritime Masculinities 1815–1940 19–20 December 2016
International Map Collectors’ Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium: ‘Private Map Collecting and Public Map Collections in the United States’ Chicago 24–29 October 2016
University of Leuvan: Conference: Science of Evolution and the Evolution of the Sciences 12–13 October 2016
University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017
Journal of Science Communication: CfP: Special Issue: History of Science Communication Deadline 12 December 2016
Remedia: CfP: Upcoming Remedia Series: Medicine and Migration Deadline 1 October 2016
University of Cambridge, CRASSH: Workshop: Epistemic Images in Early Modern Germany and its Neighbours 10–11 November 2016
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
The Linnean Society: What should be in your Digital Toolbox?
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Fall 2016
BSHS: The Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Hakluyt Society: CfP: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2017
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: Part A – Special Issue: CfP: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context Deadline 30 October 2016
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
University of Swansea: CfP: Conference: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
Rice University, Houston: CfP: Southern Forum on Agriculture, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) 10–11 February 2017 Deadline 1 November 2016
Georgetown University, Washington: Conference: Humanity and Other Forms of Life: Environmental Histories of the World 5 November 2016
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
Penn Museum: Philadelphia: Animals in the Archives Symposium 27-28 October 2016
Library of Congress: Celebrating Waldseemuller’s Cart Marina at 500: A Conference at the Library of Congress 6-7 October 2016
University of Manchester: Workshop: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Water, Technology and the Nation-Sate 27–28 October 2016
University of Toronto: John Wallis at 400: A Workshop on Science, Mathematics, and Religion in 17th-C. England 1-2 November 2016-09-10
SSHM: Undergraduate Essay Prize 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users 2-4 October 2016
IEEE: International Early Engines Conference: Papers: May 2017
Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017
National University: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place: CfP: “Nightmare Spaces/Uncanny Places” 28–30 April 2017 Deadline 8 February 2017
Geoffrey Kaye Museum: Medical history masterclass 15 October
Palgrave MacMillan: Call for chapter contributors: Scientific Studies of Dreams in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
The Huntington Library: American Printing History Association: Conference: The Black Art & Printers’ Devils 7–9 October 2016
Salle de séminaire de l’hôtel Balance, Les Granges-sur-Salvan, Salvan, Confédération Suisse: Colloque: Toujours plus haut, plus vite, plus engagé ? Gravir les Alpes du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Pratiques, émotions, imaginaires 22-23-24 septembre 2016
University of York: CfP: The Medieval Brain 10–11 March 2017
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain): CfP: Workshop: Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Agonising Object in Physics and Culture 30–31 March 2017
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
The Maintainers: CfP: Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Order 6–8 April 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
University of Groningen: CfP: Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017
University of Swansea: CFP: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe: 10th Anniversary Meeting: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016
Osiris: Proposals for next Osiris volume due 15 October 2016
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
University of Toronto Press: CfP: Edited Collection: Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present
Techne: CFP: Special Issue on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene
St Catherine’s College Oxford: Advanced Studies Seminar: The Montgomery Ruling: Impacts on Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics 9 November 2016
University of Paderborn: History of Women Philosophers and Scientists 10–14 October 2016
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Johns Hopkins University: Call for Participation & Program: The Making of the Humanities V 5–7 October 2016
Coastal Carolina University: CfP: SAHMS Nineteenth Annual Meeting 16–18 March 2017 Deadline 31 October 2016
l’Abbaye de Hambye (près d’Avranches): 15e réunion d’histoire de la santé 10 septembre 2016
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
The Hakluyt Society Blog: Hakluyt@400 Quartercenteneary programme Autumn 2016
University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017
RSA: Call for Submissions: Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Edited Volume)
UCL: The Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1-2 September 2016
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016
University of York: CfP: Workshop: The Medieval Brain 10-11 March 2017
Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
York Medical Society: CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies 1600–1800 10 November 2016
ICHST 2017 Rio: CfP: XXXVI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission Deadline 25 November 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World
University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17
Medieval Institute Publications: Call for proposals: History and Cultures of Food 14th–18th Centuries New Series
ICM Leeds 2017: CfP: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West Deadline 9 September 2016
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
University of York: International Workshop: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 14-16 September 2016
BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016
Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 September 2016
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period
University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open
University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016
The Medical School of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez: 7th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM) & 4th Congress of Fez on the History of Medicine 24–28 October 2016
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016
Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016
Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016
Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017
Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016
CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017
American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants
University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016
The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016
Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016
HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences
Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016
University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017
IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques
BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series
Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017
Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas
Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016
HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize
ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016
New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science
Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016
San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016
Westminster Quaker Meeting House: ‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916) A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his Death 16 September 2016
Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context
The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London
ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016
Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP: “Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives – Translations and Receptions” Deadline 30 August 2016
HPDST: 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars
BSHS: Great Exhibitions Competition 2016
Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference
University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »
Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017
University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
BSHS: Prizes
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016
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
Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST): Invites submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2017.
Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
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Academic Jobs Wikia: History of Science, Technology Medicine 2016
University of Pittsburgh: Open Rank Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario – Faculty of Health Sciences and School of Medicine: Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine Deadline 25 October 2016
The Centre for Logic and Analytic Philosophy at KU Leuven (Belgium): One Full-Time Doctoral Position: Ideological Bias and Ideological Diversity in Philosophy of Science
Map History: Applying for a Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography Deadline 1 November
Science Museum: Research Fellowship, Medicine Galleries
National Maritime Museum: The Caird Senior (1 year) and Caird and Sackler short-term fellowships (1-3 months) are open for application from 30 September
