ESHS 2022: Registration open

The registration for the ESHS Brussels 2022 is now open, check the website https://eshsbrussels2022.com/ .  Speakers and participants who will chair a symposium and/or present a paper should register no later than 7 July 2022. Attendees who will neither chair a symposium nor present a paper during the conference should register by 25 August 2022 and will… Continue reading ESHS 2022: Registration open

Gustav Neuenschwander prize 2022

The Council of the ESHS is delighted to announce that Simon Schaffer has been awarded the Gustav Neuenschwander Prize for 2022. The ESHS Council recognizes Professor Schaffer’s path-breaking, wide-ranging, and stimulating scholarship that has inspired successive generations of historians of science across the world to this day. Following the GN Prize award ceremony, Professor Schaffer… Continue reading Gustav Neuenschwander prize 2022

2022 Early Career Lectures

We are delighted to let you know that the ESHS Brussels 2022 Early Career Lectures will be delivered by three very promising scholars selected by a special committee appointed by the ESHS Council in light of the quality of their scholarship and the originality of their historiographical approaches. Their work is indicative of the talent,… Continue reading 2022 Early Career Lectures

News on Centaurus

We are proud to announce that our official journal, Centaurus, is now Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (in the same category as some of the top journals in our field): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=20094&tip=sid&clean=0

Is Science Diplomacy on Hold? GORDON CAIN CONFERENCE Public Panel

Is Science Diplomacy on Hold? GORDON CAIN CONFERENCE Public Panel In the context of the Workshop Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Interplay of Science, Technology, and International Affairs after the Second World War  In person at Maison de la chimie, Paris,Monday June 13, 16.30-18.30 Moderator: Gordon Cain Fellow Prof. Maria Rentetzi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Within 48 hours… Continue reading Is Science Diplomacy on Hold? GORDON CAIN CONFERENCE Public Panel

Two job announcements from MPIWG

Historian of knowledge in the contemporary period (m/f/d) The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Department I (Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge), Director: Prof. Jürgen Renn, is seeking to employ an  Historian of knowledge in the contemporary period (m/f/d) from September 1st, 2022 for a maximum of two years, with a contract… Continue reading Two job announcements from MPIWG

ESHS Statement on Ukraine crisis

We, the members of the Scientific Board of the ESHS, are greatly concerned about the escalating war in Ukraine. As an academic society committed to the values of reason and tolerance, we strongly believe that dialogue and diplomacy are the only legitimate means of resolving divergences among nations. Invading another country should never be an… Continue reading ESHS Statement on Ukraine crisis

Postdoctoral fellowship in Early Modern Indo-Persian Astronomy

The project Changing Episteme in Early Modern Sanskrit Astronomy (CEEMSA, funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Grant Number: AZ 21/F/21, hosted by CSIS, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier (ToRS), University of Copenhagen, Denmark) is offering a one year postdoctoral fellowship (to begin no later than 1 September 2022) to study Indo-Persian astronomical texts from… Continue reading Postdoctoral fellowship in Early Modern Indo-Persian Astronomy