Tag: Nineteenth Century History

Crowdfunding Project Cityscapes & Earth Debates

January 20, 2017

As part of a Cartography and Mapping Grants Challenge, HSTM Network Ireland member Tanya O’Sullivan has launched a crowdfunding project to raise 500 dollars in 30 days to help start a research project on: Cityscapes and Earth Debates: Fashioning the Geosphere in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. This project maps the course of scientific ideas as they navigate the cultural … More Crowdfunding Project Cityscapes & Earth Debates

CFP: 19th Century Ireland

November 1, 2016

The following may be of interest to Historians of STEM subjects. The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (SSNCI) fosters an inter-disciplinary approach to Nineteenth-Century Irish studies. Figures of Authority in 19th-Century Ireland. The 19th century is often seen as a period when age-old sources of social, political, spiritual and cultural authority were eroded … More CFP: 19th Century Ireland

‘The cost of insanity’

January 29, 2016

The next seminar in the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series takes place on Thursday, 4 February: Dr Alice Mauger (University College Dublin) ‘The cost of insanity: public, voluntary and private asylum care in nineteenth-century Ireland’ 5 pm, K114, UCD School of History.

Call for Papers: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century

November 9, 2015

Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September 2016 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: CHRISTOPHER HAMLIN AND LAURA OTIS In our current ‘Information Age’ we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global networks. The Victorians diagnosed similar … More Call for Papers: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century