Category: Event
Meeting 24th March, Worth Library
The Network will hold its next committee meeting on Friday 24th March at 2.pm in the Edward Worth Library
Irish Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) Inaugural Lecture
The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences invite you to a symposium to celebrate their relaunch ICHS 2017 symposium Past, Present and Future: Reflections on Modern Historiography by Professor Lawrence Goldman (Director, Institute of Historical Research, London) With a response by Professor Marian Lyons (Maynooth) Chaired by Professor David Hayton (emeritus QUB) Wednesday, 29 March 2017 … More Irish Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) Inaugural Lecture
NI SCIENCE FESTIVAL
This is the final week of the NI Science Festival which concludes on February 26th. Below are a selection of events occurring over the coming week. BBC Horizon Editor Steve Crabtree journeys through the Horizon archives, pulling out key moments of health discoveries and disease outbreaks @ The QFT / Weds 22 Feb, 6pm talk on the technological … More NI SCIENCE FESTIVAL
CHOMI SEMINAR SERIES
The next seminar in the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series takes place on Thursday, 23 February: Dr Dora Vargha (University of Exeter) A rocky beginning: the early WHO and the roots of socialist international health 5 pm, Room K114, School of History, UCD All Welcome.
Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland History of Medicine Section
‘The famine of 1741, Handel and the première of Messiah in Dublin: what’s the connection?’ Talk by Dr Jonathan Bardon (President, Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society). Wednesday 22nd March 2017 at 6.15pm. Geoffrey Bourke Room, First Floor, Setanta House, Dublin 2. ramibardon_hist-med-22nd-march-2017
The Thomsons of Belfast
The Thomsons of Belfast: mathematics, engineering and invention in the family of Lord Kelvin Saturday 18 February 2017, 14.15 to 16.30 The Old Museum Building, 7 College Square North, Belfast BT1 6AR A joint meeting organised by the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and the British Society for the History of Mathematics The speakers … More The Thomsons of Belfast
Public Open Day at the Edward Worth Library
The Edward Worth Library in Dr. Steeven’s Hospital Dublin will be open to the public on 14 November 2016 10.00am-4.00pm as part of Science Week Ireland. All Welcome. Directions: The Edward Worth Library is situated beside Heuston Train Station and easily accessible by the Luas Red Line, Train, or Dublin Bus 145.
Lunchtime Lecture & Open day for Maths Week – Worth Library
19 October 2016: Open Day for Maths Week (10.00am-4.00pm). This will feature a small exhibition of early modern mathematical works in the Edward Worth Library, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8. For more information about the Worth Library see www.edwardworthlibrary.ie 20 October 2016: Lunchtime lecture by Dr Maurice O’Reilly ‘Mathematical works in the Edward Worth Library (1733): the collection … More Lunchtime Lecture & Open day for Maths Week – Worth Library
New Book | Grave Matters
Grave Matters, Death and dying in Dublin, 1500 to the present Lisa Marie Griffith & Ciarán Wallace Grave Matters examines the universal subject of death – looking at the particular experience of death, burial and commemoration in Dublin since the sixteenth century. Using death as a way of understanding social conditions, contributions consider the role of … More New Book | Grave Matters
