This is the official page for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network of Ireland.
Competition for the 2023 Annals of Science prize is now open. This prize is awarded annually to the author of an original, unpublished essay in the history of science, technology, or medicine, which is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The prize, which is supported by Taylor & Francis, is intended for those who are … More Annals of Science Prize 2023 – Now Open!
We are delighted to announce that the first 40 interviews of the National HIV Story Trust (NHST) are now available to view in the Mediatheque at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA). The interviews could be made accessible thanks to a substantial grant by the Wellcome Trust, through its Research Resources in Medical History scheme, that funded … More HIV/AIDS filmed interviews publicly accessible at the London Metropolitan Archives
The Scientific Instrument Society (SIS) awards small grants, of up to £750 each, for research on the history of scientific instruments. Applications for the 2023 SIS Grants Scheme are now open; the deadline for applications is 1200 GMT on Friday 6 January 2023. To learn more of the Society, or to join, visit https://scientificinstrumentsociety.org/ The grant application … More Applications for the 2023 SIS Grants Scheme are now open: D/L 6 January 2023
Applications are invited for the 2023 round of VivaMente: The Garden of Ideas VivaMente: The Garden of Ideas Grant Amount: €3000 Venue: Domus Comeliana – Pisa Deadline: 20 January 2023 The scheme is devised to promote and sustain the best ideas in intellectual history and history of ideas with adequate economic and logistic support. VivaMente … More CSMBR VIVAMENTE: THE GARDEN OF IDEAS – Call Open, Deadline 20th January 2023
Registrations are open for the 2023 CSMBR Summer School on Intensity and the Grades of Nature Heat, Colour, and Sound in the Ordering of Pre-Modern Cosmos: 1200-1600 11-14 July 2023 Organised by Fabrizio Bigotti Keynote Speakers Tawrin Baker, Georgiana Hedesan, Martin Kemp, Andreas Lammer, Alexander Marr, Vivian Nutton, Sylvain Roudaut, Alain Touwaide, Giulia Martina Weston Guest Speaker Linda Karshan … More CSMBR Summer Schools 2023 – INTENSITY AND THE GRADES OF NATURE. Heat, Colour, and Sound in the Ordering of Pre-Modern Cosmos: 1200-1600
Please find below details of a call for papers for a special issue of the Scottish Studies journal Études écossaises on illness and disability. Please feel free and encouraged to forward this call round your networks. Since the 1980s Scottish literary and cultural studies have expanded beyond a concern with nation to attend to the imagination of … More Call For Papers: special issue of the Scottish Studies journal, Études écossaises on illness and disability
The Commission on the Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences (CoPhiTES), as part of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) makes a call for submissions of proposals for symposia to take place at the next CLMPST 2023 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). List of topics of interest for the CoPhiTES … More Call for Symposia: 17th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology – CLMPST 2023
‘Representations of Soils in the Tropics in the Twentieth Century’, Theo Tomking (University of York) Soils are the fundamental substance of agriculture, yet have been paid little attention by historians of science and empire. This seminar explores how soils in the tropics have been represented and understood in the twentieth century. Understanding of soils in the … More CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Representations of Soils in the Tropics in the Twentieth Century, 13th December, 1pm
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2023-24 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars … More Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2023-24 fellowship program
Co-editors Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow, and Laura Cowley are pleased to announce a call for chapter abstracts for a new edited volume on the intersection of visual culture, medicine, and humour. The CFP can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17a7WiOc4JfNKXmsNk9YivaVaaZyQcIpjvI_sV3Si4Uk/edit This volume examines what role visual humour has had and continues to play in healing and healthcare, … More Call For Papers: Laughter is the Best Medicine? Visual Histories of Humour and Health
HSTM Network Ireland 