(Oct. 2017) 8th ESHS Conference (London, 2018)

UCL IoE London, 14-17 September 2018

The next ESHS conference — the eighth — will take place in London in 2018 (September 14-17). The British Society for the History of Science is looking forward to welcoming the members of the European Society for the History of Science. 

The conference theme is ‘Unity and Disunity’. This can be interpreted very broadly, to address, amongst other topics, unity and disunity within and across diverse sciences, nations, periods, and historiographies; unity and disunity as ideals and realities; and unity and disunity as characterizing relations between the sciences and politics, technology, economics, and the arts.

As the conference will be hosted across several London venues, the organisers aim to organise submissions into coherent strands. Accordingly, we invite symposia that address:

• unity and disunity within and across diverse sciences;
• unity and disunity in science, technology, and/or medicine within and across nations and blocs;
• unity and disunity in science, technology, and/or medicine within and across periods;
• unity and disunity in the public culture of science, including public display and across media
• etc.

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