This is the official page for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network of Ireland.
The History of Science, Technology & Medicine (HSTM) Network of Ireland was established in 2014 to foster research, teaching and public engagement in Ireland and beyond, while linking Irish researchers to the international community of scholars. Since then, the network has hosted annual conferences, promoted awareness of archival sources across the island, advocated HSTM as … More HSTM Magazine – Call For Contributions!
The HSTM Network Ireland reading group will be meeting online once a month to engage in discussion about a topical article in the fields of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Our first meeting will take place on: Friday, July 16th 2021, 1-2:30pm, Zoom We will be reading: Elshakry, Marwa. “When science became Western: … More HSTM Network Ireland Reading Group Begins!
The joint BSHM-CSHPM/SCHPM conference on the theme of People, Places, Practices will take place from Monday 12 July (starting 14:00) to Thursday 15 July. The conference (originally scheduled to take place in St Andrews, summer 2020) will be online. Most presentations will be pre-recorded and made available the previous day. Plenaries will be pre-recorded and released, but will also … More BSHM-CSHPM/SCHPM Conference: People, Places, Practices, 12 July 2021 to 15 July 2021
The Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland’s History of Medicine Section hosts, Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, the Edward Worth Library who will present at this free lecture hosted via Zoom. This lecture investigates infectious diseases in early eighteenth-century Dublin through the prism of the library of Dr Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenthcentury Dublin physician. … More Lecture: Dr Edward Worth and infectious diseases in early eighteenth-century Dublin, 19 May 2021 at 6.15 pm
Dr Michelle di Meo Dealing with pandemics is nothing new for scientists. Throughout history new contagious diseases have emerged, seemingly out of nowhere. Physicians, researchers, and public officials then scramble towards mitigating the spread and discovering a cure while death tolls and unemployment rise. Robert Boyle and his sister, the scientific collaborator Lady Ranelagh, lived … More “Robert Boyle, Lady Ranelagh, and the Great Plague of 1665-66” Monday 22 March 5-6pm
Pedagogical Experiments: Christian Kindergarten Education in Republican China Dr Jenny Bond (University College Dublin) To register, please click here Once you have registered, a link to the Zoom webinar will be emailed to the address you provide. Please note: you do not need to download Zoom to join the webinar. For more details please see the attached … More Pedagogical Experiments: Christian Kindergarten Education in Republican China, CHOMI seminar, 25 Feb. 5 pm
Sir Charles Alexander Cameron (1830-1921) RCSI President, Professor of Chemistry, Public Analyst and Medical Officer of Health for Dublin. To mark the centenary of his death, RCSI will host a virtual panel discussion to address the importance of population health advocacy and present the inaugural Sir Charles Alexander Cameron Award for Population Health. We are delighted … More Population Health Advocacy: The Legacy of Sir Charles A. Cameron, 2 March
Knowing the prostate, knowing the man: the creation of a surgical specialty, 1895-1920 by Kieran Fitzpatrick BA, MA, DPhil. NUI Research Fellow in the Humanities, Moore Institute at NUI Galway Wednesday 13th November 2019 at 6.15 pm Conor Ward Room, First Floor, Setanta House Setanta Place, Dublin 2 More details here: RAMIFitzpatrickFLYER
The next CHOMI seminar is being held this coming Thursday (24 Oct 2019). Professor Khaled Fahmy (University of Cambridge) will speak on ‘Opening up a few corpses: Islam, dissection and modernity’. The seminar is being organised in partnership with UCD Global History Seminar Series and will be held at 5pm in K114, School of History, Newman … More CHOMI Seminar October 24th
18-19 October 2019 Ulster University, Belfast Campus, York Street, Belfast BT15 1ED The conference organisers invite you to register for the HSTM Network Ireland’s annual conference taking place at Ulster University, Belfast Campus on 18-19 October 2019. The event will showcase innovative, original research currently being pursued by established and early-career researchers working in HSTM … More HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference 2019
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