CFP: Global History and History of Chemistry Conference in Philadelphia....
This is a last reminder that abstracts are due by June 1.“CHEMICAL REACTIONS: Chemistry and Global History” International Conference April 10-12, 2014 Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia Call...
View ArticleTwo Research Associates in Science Communication Studies, University of...
Applications are invited for two postdoctoral researchers to work on a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring the interactions between the biosciences, religion and entertainment media. These three...
View ArticleLecturer in Science Communication Studies, University of Manchester
Deadline: June 20 2013Applications are invited for the position of Lecturer in Science Communication Studies at the University of Manchester. This is a three year fixed term post that will cover...
View ArticleVacancy: Content developer for Lovelock archive exhibition, Science Museum
We have a vacancy for a content developer on a forthcoming temporary exhibition at the Science Museum: The Science Museum acquired the archives of James Lovelock in 2012. We are now developing an...
View ArticleJOB: history of superconductivity / superconducting materials
At the Section for the History of Science & Technology (GNT), History Dept., University of Stuttgart, Germany, we currently have a job opening at the post-MA/MS stage prior to a PhD thesis or for...
View ArticleCFP: Learned Societies and Academies Travel and Travellers Exploration and...
15-16 November 2013 Clermont-Ferrand Sandhya Patel Département d’anglais, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand EHIC (Espaces Humains et interactions culturelles) This conference will focus on...
View ArticleInvitation to Workshop: Fractured Histories- Discovering Women Scientists in...
10am-5pm, 16 July 2013 at The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1. The history of women’s participation in science is an incomplete and fractured one: for much of the nineteenth...
View ArticleRegistration open for Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society Colloquium
The 13th PFGS Colloquium will take place from 24th-25th June at Beechgrove House, the University of Leeds. For the programme and how to register:http://pfgs.wordpress.com/colloquium-2013/
View ArticleLecture: James Gleick – The Information, The Times Cheltenham Science...
James Gleick in conversation with Roger Highfield as part of The Times Cheltenham Science FestivalEvents detailsOur world relies on information, from African talking drums to letters to texting. The...
View ArticleTimekeeping history symposium at Caltech, November 2013
PUBLIC TIME FOR EVERYONE Upcoming symposium on time and timekeeping history November 7-9, 2013 California Institute of Technology.Modeled on the very successful Longitude Symposium held twenty years...
View ArticleAmerican Institute of Physics Grants to Archives
URL: http://www.aip.org/history/grants_archives.htmlThe American Institute of Physics are pleased to announce our 2013 program of Grants to Archives. The grants are intended to make accessible records,...
View ArticleDigital Longitude launch event, Cambridge, 18 July
Navigating 18th Century Science and Technology: the Board of Longitude Thursday, 18 July 2013 14:00 – 17:15 Location: SG1, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge Cambridge University Library...
View ArticleLondon PUS Seminar: Vaccination Controversy, Religion and Attitudes to...
We’re very pleased to have as our next speaker Bankole Falade (LSE). Bankole Falade is a former toxicologist and worked as a teacher and in agricultural extension. He also worked for over a decade as...
View ArticleCFP: The Art of Science in New England, 1700-1920, Wellesley College,...
Proposals due by 30 September 2013. A one-day symposium sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College and the Office of Academic Programs at Historic...
View ArticleScience policy postdoctoral fellowships, UCL, deadline 5 August 2013
UCL’s new Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) has now opened applications for our founding STEaPP Provost Fellowships.These prestigious postdoctoral fellowships...
View ArticleFour-year PhD Studentship on ‘s Gravesande
Four-year PhD Studentship “In the footsteps of Newton? ‘s Gravesande’s Scientific Methodology” (1 January 2014 – 31 December 2018; full-time) Based at the Free University of Brussels (Centre for Logic...
View ArticleEdward Shorter Derides Today’s History of Science
In a recently published interview, How Depression Went Mainstream over at The History News Network, historian of medicine Edward Shorter talks about his newest book, criticizes historians of science,...
View ArticlePhD Position in European Space History
The DFG-funded Emmy Noether research group “The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the Twentieth Century” at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of Freie Universität...
View ArticleCFP: Suffragette Legacy; How does the History of Feminism Inspire Current...
Call for PapersFrom The Village and David Bowie’s Suffragette City to Femen activists and Pussy Riot, the suffragette legacy is everywhere in modern culture.As part of the Manchester Wonder Women...
View ArticleAHRC Project PhD Studentship – The National Grid: an Environmental History
I wanted to draw your attention to a PhD post we are advertising at UEA on the environmental history of the National Grid in the UK:...
View Article