Category: Other Organisations

  • British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2014

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    The BSHS Annual Conference will take place from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July 2014 at the University of St Andrews. The Programme Committee now invites proposals for individual papers and for sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine, and from their colleagues in the wider scholarly community, on any theme, topic or period.…

  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery

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    The 9th meeting of STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 1-3 September 2014. It is organized by the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), a research centre associated with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Sciences and Technology…

  • SLSA-EU conference

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    The 8th SLSA-EU Conference, “Life, in Theory” will take place June 3-6, 2014, in Turin, Italy. For details, including the call for papers , see http://litsciarts.eu/. Plenary speakers are Claire Colebrook, Roberto Esposito, Giuseppe Testa, Paolo Vineis, and Cary Wolfe — leading scholars in political philosophy, critical theory, epidemiology, stem cell genetics, media theory, and…

  • ESHS conference update

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    The deadlines on the call for papers for the European Society for the History of Science conference in Lisbon in September 2014 have been extended as follows: Symposia Submission (theme and rationale of symposium and abstract of papers) – 10 Jan 2014 Decision regarding accepted symposia – 10 February 2014 Abstract Submission for stand-alone papers)–…

  • Staging Science

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    The Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination at the University of Westminster is holding a two-day event on Staging Science on December 6th and 7th, including a roundtable, a colloquium and a performance of the Pepper’s Ghost Illusion with Charles Dickens’s ‘The Haunted Man’. For more details, and to reserve places, click here: STAGING…

  • Literature and science event at the Geological Society

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    Ask the Mountains Their Story: an evening of science and literature On Friday 18th October the Geological Society of London celebrates different forms of writing that address geology, climate change and scientific discovery with an evening of talks and readings celebrating the links between science and literature. Marking the end of an Arts Council England funded project…

  • Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine workshop

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    The Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine is holding a workshop in Venice at the beautiful Palazzo Ca’ Pesaro Papafava on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September. The Hippocrates Initiative is dedicated to the development of the interface between poetry and medicine. Typically this falls into the following categories: A medicinal theme within poetry, the use…

  • Women in Science Research Network

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    The Women In Science Research Network was launched at the international Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Manchester last week. The WISRNet has now launched a mailing list to bring together historians, archivists and practising scientists to discuss women’s participation in science institutions and learned societies in Britain since 1830. The…

  • Friday lunchtime lectures at the Royal Society Centre for History of Science

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    BSLS members are warmly invited to attend the Royal Society’s forthcoming lunchtime lecture series. Lectures are free and are held at the Royal Society. Further details of the lectures, and the full spring 2013 programme, can be found on the Royal Society’s events website royalsociety.org/events, but BSLS members may be particularly interested in the following…

  • BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2013

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    The British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2013 University of Kent, Canterbury 3 – 5 January 2013 This annual 3-day event gives postgraduates in the history of science, technology and medicine a chance to get to know each other and to present their work to a wider audience. The conference is organised…

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