symposia about “History of polarization of light”

Dear ESHS community, I recently came across the 11th ESHS Conference that will be celebrated in Barcelona 4-7 September 2024. I saw the possibility of organizing symposia, and I thought this confereence can be a good framework to propose a Symposia on the “History of polarization of light”, a topic I am very interested as… Continue reading symposia about “History of polarization of light”

Challenger expedition conference announcement

Registration is now open!  Royal Museums Greenwich, with support from the Challenger Society for Marine Science and the UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies, are pleased to announce that registration is now open for ‘Beyond the Ocean’s Depths: Revisiting the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) Interdisciplinary Conference’, to be held 7-8 November 2023 at the National… Continue reading Challenger expedition conference announcement

CLIMASAT Workshop – 6th October 2023 – Barcelona and online

The ERC StG CLIMASAT invites you to join our workshop on “Data, Satellites and the Environment”:   When: 6th October 2023, 8:30-18:00.   Where: Institut d’història de la ciència at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. You are also welcome to join us online here.   The program is available here. All times are CET.   More info: gemma.cirac@uab.cat  

New history of science platform Science in the making 

We are happy to announce that the Royal Society Publishing recently launched the new history of science platform Science in the making that allows free access to digitised versions of over 30,000 archival items related to the publication of our journals from the past 400+ years. This is an extremely important and ambitious digitisation programme that presents the complex material… Continue reading New history of science platform Science in the making 

Call for appications Research Scholar Max Planck Institute for the history of science

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Department II: Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, directed by Dr. Etienne Benson, seeks a Research Scholar to head the department’s laboratory for oral history and experimental media, with a starting date of September 1, 2023, or earlier. The MPIWG is a world-leading research institute… Continue reading Call for appications Research Scholar Max Planck Institute for the history of science

CfP Cain conference “Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections”

Please find below the call for papers for the 2023 Cain Conference “Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections” that will take place at the Science History Institute, Philadelphia, USA October 4-6, 2023. It’s also available here: https://www.sciencehistory.org/sites/default/files/embedded_connections_call_for_papers.pdf Feel free to share it widely, with anyone you think might be interested. Note that the… Continue reading CfP Cain conference “Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections”

The 7th Notes and Records Essay Award

Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. Our Essay Award is open to researchers from the above fields who have completed a postgraduate degree within the last 5 years.  Further information is at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/essay-award and the previous winner/winning entry from 2021 at The Disputed Sound of the Aurora Borealis: Sensing Liminal… Continue reading The 7th Notes and Records Essay Award

ERC CLIMASAT – CALL FOR 2 POSTDOCS+ 1 PhD STUDENT

History of production, circulation and/or use of satellite data in relation to climate knowledge European Research Council funded project CLIMASAT. Remote-sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe, 1980s-2000s (H2020- ERC-StG-101042252) led by Dr. Gemma Cirac-Claveras Position: Two postdoctoral fellowships, 36 months each, fulltime Place: Institut d’història de la ciència, Universitat Autònoma de… Continue reading ERC CLIMASAT – CALL FOR 2 POSTDOCS+ 1 PhD STUDENT

CfP SISS Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science

Natura incognitaPlaces, methods and representations in the study of natureSISS Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of ScienceII editionSeptember 7-8, 2023Anton Dohrn Zoological Station (Naples) Following the first edition of the SISS Conference of Early Career Scholars, held online in October 2020, the Italian Society for the History of Science and the SISS Committee… Continue reading CfP SISS Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science

MPIWG – Call research scholar “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Department II: Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, directed by Dr. Etienne Benson seeks a Research Scholar in connection with the departmental research theme, “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”. (Starting date between May 1, 2023, and September 1, 2023) The MPIWG is a world-leading… Continue reading MPIWG – Call research scholar “Environmental Knowledge in Times of Crisis”