The Council of the ESHS is delighted to announce that Karine Chemla has been awarded the Gustav Neuenschwander Prize for 2024. The ESHS Council recognizes Professor Chemla’s path-breaking, wide-ranging, and stimulating scholarship that has inspired generations of historians of science across the world to this day. Following the GN Prize award ceremony, Professor Chemla will… Continue reading Neuenschwander prize – 2024: Karine Chemla
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2024 Early Career Plenary Lectures
We are happy to announce that the ESHS 2024 Early Career Lectures will be delivered by three promising scholars who were selected in light of the quality of their scholarship and the originality of their historiographical approaches. Their work is indicative of the talent, innovative spirit, and creativity among the younger generation of historians of… Continue reading 2024 Early Career Plenary Lectures
Enrico Giusti (1940-2024)
With great sorrow and sadness, ESHS institutional member, the Italian Society for the History of Mathematics (SISM) informs of the death of Enrico Giusti, an internationally renowned mathematician and historian of mathematics, who passed away on 26 March 2024, in Florence. Enrico Giusti achieved fundamental results, also in collaboration with some of the greatest mathematicians… Continue reading Enrico Giusti (1940-2024)
New Seminar Series: SISS Meets Early Careers
The Italian Society for the History of Science is pleased to announce a new Seminar Series. SISS Meets Early Careers The series is conceived as an informal place for early career scholars to discuss their research, present, future and past. Each session focuses on broad themes in the history of science and knowledge, bringing together diverse… Continue reading New Seminar Series: SISS Meets Early Careers
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
Conference: “Beyond Quantity. Research with Subsymbolic AI”, October 21-23, 2022, Paris
Accounts of machine learning, especially artificial neural networks, are currently considered to be the dominant approach in artificial intelligence. How does this form of AI challenge research, ways of knowing, and scientific practices? What problems need to be identified and what critical perspectives are appropriate to describe and evaluate the ambivalences, potentials, and risks of… Continue reading Conference: “Beyond Quantity. Research with Subsymbolic AI”, October 21-23, 2022, Paris
New issue Centaurus
We ar every happy to announce the new issue of the Centaurus journal. A video presentation of the issue by Erika Charters is available here.
HoST: New issue
New issue HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology 16.1, June 2022 HoST—Journal of History of Science and Technologyis a peer-reviewed open access journal, published online in English by Sciendo and results of a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, ICS e IHC). CONTENTS OF VOLUME 16.1 Thematic Dossier “The History of… Continue reading HoST: New issue
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