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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

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  

The documents related to the General Assembly of the ESHS to be held on Saturday September 10 from 17h30-19h30 during the ESHS 2022 conference are online:

The applications are now officially open for 2022-23 Fellowships at the Beckman Center of the Science History Institute. This year, the Beckman Center introduces new Curatorial Fellowships, two-year full-time staff positions in the Othmer Library and the Museum intended for historians and other academic researchers in the history of science who are seeking professional opportunities… Continue reading Beckman fellowship 2022-2023

Organisers Alexandre Guilbaud, Sorbonne Université Alain Cernuschi, Université de Lausanne Malou Haine, Université Libre de Bruxelles Rational Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie represented a very significant moment in the history of the transmission of knowledge, particularly scientific knowledge, in the European Enlightenment, notably because of the brand new importance it gave to illustrations, engraved and commented… Continue reading Enlightening the plates of the Encyclopédie Perspectives and research on the Recueil de planches (1762-1772)

Institution The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Department III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof Dagmar Schäfer Presentation text The positions are in close conjunction with the research agenda of Dept. III(https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/page/dept-iii-0). Outstanding junior scholars with suitable experience in science-, technology-, economic history, STS, anthropology, regional studies or other relevant fields… Continue reading Two Postdoctoral Fellows, three years – MPI for the History of Science, Berlin, Dept. III