HSTM member, Dr. Adrian Kirwan (RDS Library & Archives Bursary Recipient) will present a paper on “The RDS Radium Institute and the practical application of science: physics and medical research in early twentieth-century Ireland,” to launch the Annual Conference of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network Ireland, being held in association with the … More HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference
This year the Annual Conference of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network Ireland, will be held in association with the RDS Library and Archives, and will take place in the RDS Library on 13 & 14 October. The RDS Library & Archives is engaged in a research project focusing on the RDS Science Archive … More Registration Open for Annual HSTM Network Ireland Conference.
Magdalen College, Oxford 22-23 September 2017 This colloquium has been organized by colleagues and former colleagues to mark the twentieth anniversary of this work’s publication and the year of Laurence Brockliss’s retirement. Examining the ways in which knowledge is contextualized in early modern Europe and Britain, speakers from a range of historical disciplines (classical scholarship, … More Knowledge in Context: Colloquium in Honour of Laurence Brockliss and Colin Jones
On Wednesday 19th July 2017 there will be an Open Day to mark the launch of an exhibition on ‘Early Modern Obstetrics at the Edward Worth Library’. All are welcome. For further information click here On Friday 17th November 2017 there will be a Joint Workshop of the Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club and the Edward Worth Library … More Upcoming Events at the Worth Library
On 16 and 17 November 2017, the Annual Conference of the Economic and Social History Society will take place in the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin. The broad theme of the meeting is “Globalisation, Identity and Prosperity in Irish History”, but submissions on other topics are also encouraged. Prospective speakers should send a one-page abstract … More CFP Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Annual Conference 2017
UNIVERSITY OF YORK, UK, March 27-29, 2018 The future just isn’t what it used to be … not least because people keep changing it. Recent years have seen a significant growth of academic and public interest in the role of the sciences in creating and sustaining both imagined and enacted futures. Technological innovations and … More CFP: IMAGINING THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: UNSETTLING SCIENTIFIC STORIES
The Network will hold its next committee meeting on Friday June 9th at 2.00pm in room D205 St. Patrick’s Campus DCU Enter by the main reception (near the church). Walk up the small steps and turn right immediately. Follow the signs to the 2nd floor of D Block.
The fourth Irish conference on the History of Mathematics (IHoM4) will be held in the Edward Worth Library, Dublin, on Friday 9th June 2017. There is a programme of 12 presentations on a variety of topics appropriate to the theme of the conference. Further details (including programme/schedule and abstracts) can be found here Those interested in … More IHoM4
The 6th Robert Boyle Summer School will take place from the 22nd to 25th of June 2017 at Lismore Co. Waterford and Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel Youghal, and will address the theme “What is science for?” The RBSS Programme for 2017 is available here
HISTORY SECTION LECTURE The Year without Summer (1816) and the Mortality Crisis of 1817: Causes and Consequences. By Breandán Mac Suibhne (Associate Professor of History, Centenary University, New Jersey, and Fellow, Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway) 17th May 2017 at 6.15pm Geoffrey Bourke Room, First Floor, Setanta House Setanta Place, Dublin 2. … More Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland
HSTM Network Ireland 