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 #33
Monday 03 April 2017
EDITORIAL:
April Fools Day is past and the seriousness returns to the world with the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list with all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could sieve out the Internet over the last seven days.
Sunday was the 370th birthday of the Early Modern German entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian.
Maria Sibylla Merian c. 1700, Copperplate by Jacobus Houbraken from a portrait by Georg Gsell
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Born to the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family a large seventeenth-century European publishing house. Her father was Matthäus Merian a cartographical engraver and publisher, so she grew up in an atmosphere of scientific illustration. Her stepfather, the artist Jacob Marrel, taught her to draw and paint. She developed a passion for insects and went on to become one of the most impressive entomologists at the beginning of the eighteenth century and one of the best scientific illustrators of any age
Her life story, her struggles and her successes make her to a genuine role model for all women considering a career in science and the University of Amsterdam is celebrating that career with a major conference in June.
University of Amsterdam: Maria Sibylla Merian Conference 7-9 June 2017
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 17 March–23 July 2017
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Maria Merian
The Atlantic: The Woman Who Made Science Beautiful
Linda Hall Library: Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
brainpickings: Maria Merian’s Butterflies: The Illustrated Story of How a 17th-Century Woman Forever Changed the Course of Science Through Art
Quotes of the week:
“For neither would I be of those number of rash innovators…who endeavour wholly to banish from the schools of ancient philosophy.” – Daniel Sennert
“I bought a Brexit calculator the other day. Nothing adds up but it’s excellent at taking away and division” – Jason Spacey (@JasonSpacey)
“Top tip: if you are interested in popular culture and the history of science, try not to confuse J.D. Hooker with T.J. Hooker” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“17thc medical diagnosis by astrology. Watch out under Capricorn for diseases of the knees and hams. And beware of scabs and fractures” – RCPE Heritage (@RCPEHeritage)
“Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature” – John Constable h/t @LauraJsnyder
“Why then, may not a landscape be considered a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments?” – John Constable h/t @LauraJsnyder
“The measurements of the earth, the waters, & the stars have come to be understood through painting…” – Albrecht Dürer, 1512 h/t @GalleKarl
“#twitterstorians pro-tip: when meeting @NSAGov employees, “I also read other people’s mail for a living” is NOT a good conversation starter” – Adam Shapiro (@TryingBiology)
“You know how they eat potatoes in Wiltshire? They have Devizes for Chippenham” – Jon Sutton (@jonmsutton)
“Quote of day on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science: “We’re not calling Planet 9 ‘Planet McPlanetFace'””
“As a professor, Fox News tells me I can turn my students into Communists and experience tells me I can’t even make them do the readings” – Paul Musgrave (@profmusgrave)
Cabinet of Foreign Weights (1818-20) at the Science Museum. Standardising weights and measures. Clearly a good thing.. – James Baker (@j_w_baker)
“Metric is easy e.g. 1 millihelen (mh) is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship. But what will it be in imperial units?” – Jim Day (@psneeze)
A Terry Pratchett footnote
Birthdays of the Week:
Lou Henry Hoover born 29 March 1874
Lou Henry, age 17, on a burro at Acton, California, on August 22, 1891.
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Lou Henry Hoover
Frederik Ruysch born 28 March 1638
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) 1694 Jurriaen Pool – Universiteitsmuseum Amsterdam
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Public Domain Review: Frederik Ruysch: The Artist of Death
Smithsonian Institute: This 17th-Century Anatomist Made Art Out of Bodies
William Harvey born 1 April 1578
William Harvey by Daniel Mytens
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Morris: Death of a 152-year-old (or was he?)
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Heart
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
AHF: The British Atomic Bomb Project
The Asahi Shimbun: Rare prewar picture postcard depicts target of atomic bombing
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Russell E. Gackenbach’s Interview
Griffonage-Dot-Com: Early Motion Pictures of Eclipses (1639– 1880)
AHF: Glenn Seaborg
e-Luminesciences: Cosmogenesis (8): The Nebular Hypothesis
Wright’s Cosmic Tapestry.
Thomas Wright believed that God resided at the gravitational center of the universe and that all celestial bodies revolved around that center but were sufficiently far apart to prevent the universe collapsing on its Creator. Since a single gravitational center would have been fundamentally unstable, Wright’s Original Theory proposed that there were in fact millions of separate star systems, each of which had its own supernatural center, represented by the eye of providence, the instrument of the Creation.
Thomas Wright, An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, London, 1750.
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Rachel Bronson’s Interview
Historical Texts: Astronomy
NASA: Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, Astronomer
Futurism: Margaret Hamilton: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Took Us to the Moon
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: Why medieval monks loved their gadgets just as much as we do
Smithsonian.com: This Little-Known Math Genius Helped America Reach the Stars
Ad Astra per Astra by America Meredith (National Museum of the American Indian)
Medium: Watch: Richard Feynman: My Favourite Scientist
NESDIS News & Articles: Celebrating the World’s First Meteorological Satellite: TIROS-1
Slate: The First Photo of the Sun
annals of spacetime: happy birthday, joan feynman
Joan Feynman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: The Sun is Always Shining on Joan Feynman
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Atlas Obscura: A Popular ‘40s Map of American Folklore Was Destroyed by Fears of Communism
Atlas Obscura: Why Map Historians Are Annoyed With Boston Public Schools
bpimaps: Mary Ann Rocque
National Archives: Women of the Polar Archives
Louise Boyd records the attempted rescue mission with a 1mm camera. (401.083.028)
The Map Room: Fourteen
NYC 99 ORG: An Historical Atlas of New York City
Medievalists.net: A Journey to the Far North in the Ninth Century
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
The Paris Review: The Hundred Trillion Stories in Your Head
The Recipes Project: Bright Red, Dark Red: Coral’s Color-Coded Virtues
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: Processing of the Harvard Prevention Research Center Records
The New York Times: The Trauma of Facing Deportation
npr: Civil War Surgeon Set The Standard for Battlefield Medicine
Nursing Clio: The Miseries and Heartbreak of Backstreet Abortions: Before and After Roe
Mimi Matthews: Aphrodisiacs, Elixirs, and Dr. Brodum’s Restorative Nervous Cordial
V0016204 Two unorthodox medical practitioners, J. Graham and G. Kater
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
JSTOR Daily: Did Victorians Really Get Brain Fever
Thomas Morris: The stone-swallower
newsworks: Blood brothers: Philly docs, researchers suck up to leeches
Hektoen International: Hospital San Francesco Grande in Padua
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
SciHi Blog: The Windsurfer Sailboard
Popular Science: How to build a DIY replica of Galileo’s telescope
Atlas Obscura: Vịnh Mốc Tunnel Complex
Smithsonian.com: Early Tech Adopters in Ancient Rome Had Portable Sundials
Shorpy: Game Boy: 1924
AEON: How many great minds does it take to invent a telescope?
Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope of 1671. Photo ©The Royal Society, London
Lemelson Center: Send Me a Kiss by Wireless
Atlas Obscura: The First Pirate Bay Server
cbc: This Canadian radio pioneer dreamed of ‘words without wires’
Conciatore: Chalcedony Glass
Conciatore: Laughing in the Fern
Atlas Obscura: The Man Who Used His Nose to Keep New York’s Subways Safe
“Smelly” Kelly, using his famous nose. COURTESY HARPER COLLINS
British Library: Collection items: Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook
Geek History: George Westinghouse used Tesla power to defeat Edison in Current War
Smithsonian.com: Happy 159th Birthday to the Modern Pencil
Geek History: Automotive innovator Henry Ford changed everything
Geek History: Henry Ford creates ultimate history museum of Industrial Revolution
Library of Congress Blog: Women’s History Month: Those Magnificent Women in Their Flying Machines
Photo montage published with the story “Brave Women of Europe Risk Their Lives as Aviators,” Grand Forks Daily Herald, Aug. 2 , 1915
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
TrowellBlazers: Joan Wiffen: There Be Dragons
Histoires naturelles: Singeries et… hommerie
FiveThirtyEight: A Century-Old Arctic Shipwreck Could Help Us Predict Extreme Weather
Ocean Leadership: Dinosaur Crater’s Clue to Origin of Life
American Scientist: Confessions of a Herbarium-Savvy Field Biologist
Smithsonian.com: When the Nazis Tried to Bring Animals Back from Extinction
Hermann Göring (Wikimedia Commons)
ITV News: The man who put hedgehogs on the map has died
Twilight Beasts: A striped wonder
A Short History of Climate Change: By day, he worked on fossil fuels, by night, he discovered climate change
Tonic: Evolution, Creationism, and the Great Appendix Debate
Kew Science: Plants of the World Online
Paige Fossil History: Following Father Verhoeven to Flores
Father Verhoeven
The New York Times: Who Killed the Iceman? Clues Emerge in a Very Cold Case
Letters from Gondwana: Introducing Daspletosaurus Horneri
Letters from Gondwana: Re-examining the Dinosaur Evolutionary Tree
The California Sunday Magazine: Letter From a Drowned Canyon The story of water in the West, climate change, and the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell
The Guardian: Tyrannosaurus rex was a sensitive lover, new dinosaur discovery suggests
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: The Chipping Sodbury Bestiary
The Quonk: When startled by a hunter, the quonk will lay a pair of eggs, which hatch around the full moon. Quonks are described in De bestiis ridiculosis as among the most noble of beasts, and impossible (and undesirable) to tame.
CHEMISTRY:
History Extra: Arsenic: a brief history of Agatha Christie’s favourite murder weapon
CHF: Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
Drawing Now: How to Draw John Dalton
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Medical History: Volume 61 – Issue 2 – April 2017 Table of Contents
The Economist: On the origin of self-help
Historiens de la santé: Science et technique au Moyen Âge (XIIe-XVe siècle) Table of Contents
The Royal Institution: Science on paper
AHA: Perspectives on History: From Personal to Professional: Collaborative History Blogs Go Mainstream
Nature: It’s not just you: science papers are getting harder to read
University of Glasgow, Strathclyde: Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare New Website
Stochastic Trend: Traditional Views, Revisionist Views, and Counter-revisionist Views on the Industrial Revolution
ESOTERIC:
Spooky Geometry: Psychometry in Geology
The Public Domain Review: From India to the Planet Mars (1900)
Biography: Sir Isaac Newton & The Philosopher’s Stone
Providentia: Executing the Astrologer
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 60 – On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
Notches: Sex and the Civil War
BJPS Review of Books: Carl Gillett – Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy
Gates Notes: You Should Appreciate Germs
National Geographic: Geography Isn’t Sacred in the Playful World of Pictorial Maps
All roads lead to California—literally—in this whimsical 1947 map.
MAP COURTESY ETHEL M. FAIR COLLECTION (275), GEOGRAPHY AND MAP DIVISION, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Popular Science: The Ascent of Gravity – Marcus Chown
Wiley Online Library: The Historians: Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
The Chronicle of Higher Education: For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never Said
Smithsonian.com: The Science Behind Nature’s Patterns
NEW BOOKS:
Hermann: Introduction à la philosophie des sciences médicales
ARC Humanities Press: Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean
Enfilade: London: Prints and Drawing before 1800
Historiens de la santé: The metamorphosis of autism: A history of child development in England
Historiens de la santé: Freud in Cambridge
Historiens de la santé: Purpose and Cognition. Edward Tolman and the Transformation of American Psychology
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Criminal Corpses: Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpses – Online Exhibition
BHL: Celebrating Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker with Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew: Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place
Daguerreotype of J.D. Hooker by William Edward Kilburn, circa 1852
BSBI News & Views: Celebrating the life of J.D. Hooker
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
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place 25 March–17 September 2017
Museum of Richmond: The Royal Star & Garter: 100 Years of Care till 29 April 2017
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
Ambika P3 University of Westminster: CASEBOOKS: Six contemporary artists and an extraordinary medical archive 17 March–23 April 2017
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
Hyperallergic: Artistic Expressions of Math Over Seven Centuries Through 8 May 2017
Peter Flötner, “Perspectival Drawing with Three Cubes” (1528), pen and black ink, brush and grey wash (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jean A. Bonna Gift)
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–25 June 2017
Feeling the buzz … 1910 advertisement for body lotion. Photograph: Wellcome Collection
Advances in the History of Psychology: New Book & Touring Exhibit on Ramón y Cajal: The Beautiful Brain
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
The Sydney Morning Herald: Beauty in Science
Palaeo Manchester: Object Lessons exhibition: coming soon – Opens 20 May 2017
Brendel plant models.
Image courtesy of Rosamond Purcell
NYBG/125: What in the World is a Herbarium
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 2017
ekathimerini.com: Antikythera Mechanism – Athens – 10 February–28 May 2017
The Orange County Register: CSUF’s Pollak Library presents a special program and exhibit on the art of map making
Djournal.com: 200 years of statehood: Ole Miss puts history on display for bicentennial
American Museum of Natural History: Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library
Daily Titan: New CSUF exhibit maps out California’s history
Stedelijk Studies: Vestiges of 125,660 Specimens of Natural History
heritage.utah.gov: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps Opens: 27 January 2017
Colonizing Animals: Historical Pose-abilities of Colonial Photography
Royal Museums Greenwich: Endeavour galleries: Launches 2018
Hyperallergic: When Art Was the Scientist’s Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Frog dissection illustration from the book “Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium…(Natural history of the native frogs…)” from 1758 (© AMNH\D. Finnin)
Orpiment: Prehistoric Animals: A series of illustrations by David Roland
Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg: 19 Oktober 2017 – 28 Februar 2018: Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Frühling/Sommer 2018: Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
Evening Standard: Forgotten women of science are remembered in a new exhibition at Burlington house
AHF: Los Alomos History Museum Reopens
Linda Hall Library: Online Exhibition: Ice Victorian Romance
Yale Center for British Art: Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the Modern World 2 February–30 April 2017
Quarry Bank: A Woman’s Work is Never Done 21 January–17 April 2017
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
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
Hagley Museum: Driving Desire: Automobile Advertising and the American Dream Through March 2017
Florence Nightingale Museum: The Age of the Beard: Putting on a Brave Face in Victorian Britain 18 November 2016–30 April 2017
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity October 19 2016–April 23 2017
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
Causway Coast Community: County Antrim adventurer’s royal maps will graphically outline history
Bradbury Science Museum: Fifty years of nuclear safeguards
Cambridge Digital Library: Browse our collections: Curious Objects
Leek Post & Times: Mary A Blagg the Cheadle Astronomer honoured at Cheadle Discovery Centre exhibition
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Science Museum: Robots
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Science Museum: Making the Modern World
Science Museum: Flight
Science Museum: Exploring Space
Science Museum: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–1 May 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017
National Maritime Museum: Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity 3 November 2016–17 April 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–21 May 2017
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
COMING SOON: Bodleian Libraries: Volcanoes 10 February–21 May 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Mad to Be Normal’: Film Review
Paleofuture: Rare Nuclear Test Films Saved, Declassified, and Uploaded to Youtube
Atlas Obscura: Dozens of Previously Hidden Nuclear Test Videos Declassified, Uploaded to Youtube
The Mary Sue: Radioactive, a Biopic Based on a Marie Curie Graphic Novel Finds Its Director
NICHE: Guardians of Eternity: Confronting Giant Mine’s Toxic Legacy
The Verge: Watch the first trailer for HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
OUDaily: OU to host world premiere of play about Galileo’s trial
PBS: American Experience: Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species…us.
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 03 June 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
EVENTS:
Royal College of Physicians: The Library of Dr John Dee 19 April 2017
NYAM: Lady Mary’s Legacy: Vaccine Advocacy from The Turkish Embassy Letters to Video Games 6 April, 2017
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: Lecture: From Farmer’s Daughter to Physician: The Advocacy Activism, and Legacy of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter and Her Contemporaries 25 April 2017
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: J. Worth Estes Lecture: Spare Parts Hope, Drama and Dispute: Heart Transplantation and Total Artificial Heart Implant Cases in the 1960s
University of Notre Dame: Physicist Tom McLeish Reconnects Science to Its Ancient Theological Sources
CHF: Talk: Fellow in Focus: “Trust Me!” The Problem of Insincerity in Early Modern Medicine 6 April 2017
Senate, House, University of London: Maps and Society Lectures: ‘Privateering and Navigational Practice: Edward Wright and the First Mercator Chart, 1599’ 27 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians: The Library of John Dee 20 April 2017
University of Chicago: Religious Origins of Modern Science? 6 April 2017
JIC Conference Centre, Norwich: Lecture: Dr. Patricia Fara – Botanical Boudicas and Scientific Soldiers: Struggles past and Present 20 April 2017
Whitechapel Gallery: Maps to the Stars 6 April 2017
History of Libraries Research Seminar: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 8 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departures: 9 March 2017 & 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 Tours
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederick Ruysch by Jan van Neck (1683). Amsterdams Historisch Museum
TELEVISION:
BBC FOUR: Gravity and Me: The Force That Shapes Our Lives
BBC FOUR: The Beauty of Anatomy
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Open Culture: 200-Year-Old Robots That Play Music, Shoot Arrows & Even Write Poems: Watch Automatons in Action
Youtube: Objectivity: Space-related Objects
Yotube: Rachel Carson Center: Lunchtime Colloquium: Monica Vasile: “Associative Environmentality: The Revival of Forest Commons in the Romanian Carpathians”
Popular Science: Watch a 1953 nuclear blast test disintegrate a house in high resolution
Linda Hall Library: Livestream: From Galileo to Laudato Si’: Why Science Needs Faith
Youtube: Field Microscope – Objectivity #30
Youtube: Legendary mathematicians: They’re just like us!
Smithsonian.com: Playing the Unplayable Records
Youtube: Scanning the Miranda Map
Youtube: AHF: Operation Tumbler Snapper: Shot Able (Additional Footage)
Youtube: Massimo Pigliucci: Philosophy of Science I
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: England’s First European
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The Magic Years
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Anatomy of Melancholy
BSHS: New Interviews Available via British Library Sounds
Uncommon Knowledge: Podcast 11: Medieval Cosmoloogical Diagrams and Opicinus de Canistris
History of Philosophy without any gaps: 39. The Wolf’s Footprint: Indian Naturalism
History of Philosophy without any gaps: 197: Charles in Charge: The Carolingian Renaissance
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Amsterdam: Maria Sibylla Merian Conference 7-9 June 2017
Durham University: CfP: Toxic Legacies, Global Pollutants 29–30 June 2017
Royal Institution: New and Old Themes in the History of Chemistry 20 May 2017
Society for the History of Technology: Prizes
University of Crete: CfP: Ancient Greek and Indian Medicine: Achievements and Interactions 6 June 2017 Deadline 17 April 2017
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde: CfP: Understanding the Intersection of Alcoholism, Stigma, and Disability: Past and Present 1–2 March 2018 Deadline 3 July 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Technique in Early Modern Europe 10–12 May 2017
University of Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
Society for the History of Technology: The Dibner Award 2017 Deadline 1 May 2017
University of Cambridge, Christ’s College: Conference: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World 1400-1750 3–4 April 2017
The Recipes Project: What is a Recipe?: A Recipes Project Virtual Conversation 2 June–5July 2017
APS: 2017 History of Physics Essay Contest Deadline 1 September 2017
The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew: Joseph Dalton Hooker Bicentenary Meeting: The Making of Modern Botany 30 June 2017
SHMCNG, Archives départementales Nîmes: Appel à communications: Hygiène et santé en Bas-Languedoc oriental du XVIIIe siècle aux lendemains du premier conflit mondial la fin septembre 2017
Madison Wisconsin: Conference: CfP: Book History and Digital Humanities 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 15 April 2017
EUI – History of Science: #BSHSPG2017 programme is out
Historiens de la santé: Appel à candidatures: Prix Henry-E. Sigerist pour la promotion de la relève en histoire de la médecine et des sciences naturelles avant le 15 Avril 2017
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
University of Birmingham: Symposium: Science & Religion 24 April 2017
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague: Conference: Scientists and “Third World Countries” in the 1960s to 1980s 23–24 November 2017
Libori Summer School: Émilie Du Châtelet: Matter, Bodies, Forces, Motion 23–28 July 2017
Somatosphere: CfP: Speculative Health Deadline 1 June 2017
Hamburg Museum of Medical History: CfP: XVI.th Conference of the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine (DPGGM): Historical Aspects of Preventive Healthcare in Germany and Poland 12–14 July 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Warburg Institute: Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture 22–25 May 2017
London Metropolitan Archives: Symposium: Exploring Hospital Records and Archives 28 April 2017
Université de Genève: Appel à communication: Produire du nouveau ? Arts – Techniques – Sciences en Europe (1400-1900) 23–25 novembre 2017 avant le 15 mars 2017
Christ’s College, Cambridge: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World 1400–1750
Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée: Appel à contribution: Corps au travail. Performance, discipline et fatigue à l’épreuve du métier (XVIIe-XXe siècle) 30 juin-1er juillet 2017 avant le 10 avril 2017
University of Bern: Conference: Thinking about Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity 13–15 September 2017
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: SHAC Award Scheme open for applications Deadline 31 May 2017
University of Colorado in Boulder: CfP: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science 13–15 October 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Jagiellonian University Krakow: CfP. Traumatic Modernities: From Comparative Literature to Medical Humanities 19–21 April 2017 Deadline 14 March 2017
Journée d’étude pluridisciplinaire: Appel à communications: Corps et dépendances Date limite : 30 avril 2017
Philosophia Scientiae: Journal CfP
Durban, KZN, South Africa: CfP: Philosophy of Technology Symposium 22–23 July 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh: CfP: British Society for the History of Medicine Congress 13–16 September 2017 Deadline 31 May 2017
Sheraton City Centre, Toronto: CfP: History of Science Society (HSS) 2017 Conference 19–121 November 2017 Deadline 3 April 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: 2017 Program Maintainers II 6–9 April 2017
NYAM: Public Programs
Vanderbilt University, Nashville: 11th Annual Southern History of Science and Technology (SoHoST) Meeting 7–8 April 2017
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Call for Submissions, Glenn Sonnedecker Prize
University of Notre Dame: Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop – ND XIII 5–9 July 2017
Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Center for the History of Emotions: CfP: Evidence of Feeling: Law, Science and Emotions in Modern Europe 10–11 April 2017
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: CfP: Mapping the Past, Exploiting the Future 21–22 July 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
St Anne’s College, Oxford: CfP: International Research Symposium: Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
New College, Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
University of Sydney: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18–19 April 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Conference: Borders and Technology 7–10 September 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Workshops on Early Modern Bodies and Cultures of Imperialism November 2017 Deadline 30 March 2017
New College, University of Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Leibniz University Hannover: CfP: PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY – Workshop with Philip Kitcher 14 June 2017 Deadline 12 March 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile: Conference: KNOWLEDGE/CULTURE/ECOLOGIES – KCE2017 15–18 November 2017
Princeton University: Vulnerability in the Middle Ages 28 April 2017
Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey: IHPST Biennial Conference 4–7 July 2017
Liverpool Medical Institution: CfP: The Governance of Health Conference 2017: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on Medical, Managerial and Economic Influence on Health Policy-Making 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 24 February 2017
Nursing Clio: Call for Bloggers: Nutrition and Diet
University of Glasgow: CfP: First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse 14–16 June 2017 Deadline 28 February 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
University of Göttingen: Summer School: The Material Culture of Exploration and Academic Travel 1700–1900 24–29 July 2017
Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation: Summer School on “Science and Religion” Crete 5–10 June 2017
Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives: Accepting Proposals from Early Career Historian
University of Sydney: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South c.1800-200 18–19 April 2017
CHF: The Decay Project: Call for Entries
Society for Renaissance Studies: London Rare Books School 26 June–14 July 2017
Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre, Zeist: Call for Applications: TransPositions Summer School 2017: Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise 21–25 August 2017
Université McGill, Montréal: 85e congrès de l’ACFAS: Appel à communications: Les infirmières de la folie. Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone
Tunis National Library: Summer School: The Arabic Manuscript: Codicology, Palaeography, and History 10-15 July 2017
University of Manchester: CHSTM seminar series
University of Glasgow: Conference: CfP: Medical Machines in Antiquity 19–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf: Vortrags- und Sektionsanmeldungen für die erste Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft in Münster vom 22.-24. September 2017: Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikreflexion auf dem Prüfstand: Historische und aktuelle Herausforderungen
IUHMSP, Lausanne: Séminaire de recherche en histoire et études sociales de la médecine, de la santé, et des sciences du vivant: Semestre de printemps 2017
University of Münster, Germany: CfP: Contemplating Science, Medicine, and Technology: Past and Present Challenges 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting Boston MA 18-21 November 2017 CfP: Western Esotericism Unit
Université McGill, Montréal: Appel à contribution: Les infirmières de la folie: Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone 8 et 9 mai 2017 avant le 20 février 2017
BSHS: Themes: Call for Proposals
IRSPUM, Montréal: La santé en débat: Programme de l’Hiver 2017
Dartmouth History Institute in Intellectual History: Workshop: 11–15 June 2017 Applications Due 1 February 2017
University Paris Diderot: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry: CfP: Symposia: 3–5 July 2017 Deadline: 31 January 2017
The Collation: Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
Domus Comeliana, Pisa: International Conference: CfP: Humours, mixtures, & Corpuscles: A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Indiana University in Bloomington: Summer Institute: Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World (1400–1800) 19 June–7 July 2017
SHOT 2017: CfP. Thinking with Ann Johnson Philadelphia 26–29 October 2017
Patras, Greece: 5th International Phytocosmetics and Phytotherapy Congress: CfP. History of Cosmetics and Phytotherapy 15–17 May 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Early Modern History Workshop: Bodies Corporeal and Rhetorical 3–5 November 2017 Deadline 3 March 2017
Society for the History of Natural History’s Annual Conference: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus 15 June 2017 Freshwater Biological Association, at Far Sawrey 16th June 2017
University of Helsinki: CfP: International Seminar: Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes 27–28 April 2017
American Astronomical Society: DDA’s New Early Career Prize Named for Very Rubin
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Ulster University: CfP: Food anxieties in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland 7 April 2017 Deadline 25 January 2017
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library: Teacher Workshop: Mapping a New World: Places of Colonization and Conflict in 17th-Century New England 9–14 July 2017 National Participants 23–28 July 2017 Commuting Participants Applications Deadline 1 March 2017
University of Texas at Dallas: CfP: Conference: Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology 18–21 May 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
BHSH: Travel Grants for the International Congress in Rio
University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus: SHNH: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences 15-16 June 2017
Denver Colorado: 131st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA): History of Sexuality
British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference: CfP: Session proposal: Science and Connoisseurship: New Perspectives 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Spring 2017
History of Anaesthesia Society: CfP: HAS Summer Scientific meeting 16–17 June 2017 Deadline 17 May 2017
BSHS 2017: CfP: Science and Connoisseurship 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Society for the History of Technology: The Diber Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2017 Deadline 1 May 2017
BNF/Université Paris-Descartes-USPC: Colloque international: Appel à communications: Alfred Binet, expérimentateur. Entre archives de la psychologie et éducation physique 12–13 Octobre 2017 Avant le 31 janvier 2017
University of Aberdeen: CfP: Workshop: Gut Feeling: Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Culture 26-27 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: ebook: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals Deadline 28 February 2017
Société de Démographie Historique, Centre Roland Mousnier, Paris: Appel à communications: Le sang. Famille, parenté, transmission du Moyen Âge à nos jours 23–24 novembre 2017 Date limite de l’appel : 15 janvier 2017
The Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: CfP: “IX International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Alexander von Humboldt and Travellers Through Yucatan”, 19–24 November 2018 Deadline 29 May 2017
University of Pittsburgh: Call for Applications: A Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups 10–14 July 2017
Département de français, New York University: Appel à communications: Le goût 13 et 14 avril 2017 avant le 15 janvier 2017
Domus Comeliana of Pisa: CfP: Conference: Humours, mixtures, & corpuscles. A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York: Call for applications: William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)
University of Sheffield: Call for Open Panels: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa: CfP: Joint Meeting of the Red EsCTS and the Portuguese STS Network: Lost in Translation? People, Technologies for Practices and Concepts Across Boundaries 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 10 February 2017
University of California, Berkeley: 2017 4S Conference Proposal Submission Dates
Historiens de la santé: CfP: Edited Collection: Medicine and What it Means to be Human
History of Psychology: CfP: Special Issue on the History of Global Psychology and Psychiatry Deadline 15 May 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: CfP: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation
University of Leeds: CfP: Conference: Who Cares? The Past and Present of Caring 27–28 March 2017 Deadline 13 January 2017
UK Association for the History of Nursing: Annual Nursing History Writing Competition Deadline 31 March 2017
Mississippi State University: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences 22-25 June 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Sheffield: CfP: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology and Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study: CfP: Mapping the Territory: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1830 Two Conferences Berne 14–16 September 2017 Göttingen 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable: Medicine, Public Health and Healthcare 23–24 June 2017
Manchester Conference Centre: CfP: Genealogies of Knowledge I: Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 15 February 2017
University of Chicago: Marine Biological Laboratory: Seminar: A Century of Engineering Life: Cells and Organisms 17–24 May 2017
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Durham University: Conference: CfP: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals
BSHS: Dingle Prize 2017: The British Society for the History of Science invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
Indiana University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
H-Material-Culture: CfP. Kitchen and Kitchen Gardens in Britain and Europe, 1500–1950
University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Spring 2017
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
University of Toronto: CfP: CSHPS–SCHPS Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
BSHS: CfP: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 5–7 April 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016
SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation 18–20 May 2017
University of Exeter: EPSA 17: CfP: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 6-9 September 2017 Deadline 5 January 2017
University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016
‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Museo de América, Madrid: Symposium: CfP: Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge 5–7 April 2017
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’ 12–14 July 2017
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
IEEE: International Early Engines Conference: Papers: May 2017
Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017
National University: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place: CfP: “Nightmare Spaces/Uncanny Places” 28–30 April 2017 Deadline 8 February 2017
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
The Maintainers: CfP: Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Order 6–8 April 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
University of Groningen: CfP: Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016
Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
ICHST 2017 Rio: CfP: XXXVI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission Deadline 25 November 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World
University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences
Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016
University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017): CfP: Blood, Food, and Climate: Historical Relationships Between Physiology, Race, Nation-Building, and Colonialism/Globalization
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
LOOKING FOR WORK:
The University of Queensland: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities: Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows
King’s College London: Funded PhD project: Health and Healing at the Hanoverian Court
The Mercurians: Pam Laird Research Grant 2017: Research in the history of communication technologies
Liverpool Hope University: PhD Studentship: Early Modern Women and Intellectual History Deadline 25 May 2017
