Travel Grant Applications for 3-Society Meeting Available
Graduate students, independent scholars, and recent PhDs participating in the 2012 3-Society Meeting can now apply for grants to support travel to and from the meeting. The application form can be downloaded here and submitted electronically. Applications must be received by the end of the day on 1 June 2012.
Please check the meeting page regularly for updates on the meeting.
Anne Harrington to Deliver 2012 Hazen Lecture
Prof. Anne Harrington will give the History of Science Society's 2012 Joseph H. Hazen lecture, titled "Bodies Behaving Badly: Insights from the History of Mind-Body Medicine and Why They Matter," at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at the New York Academy of Sciences. The lecture is free, but registration is required. Please click here to register.
The Hazen Lecture is sponsored in part by a gift from Cynthia Hazen Polsky, in memory of her father, Joseph Hazen, a prominent patron of HSS and NYAS. For more information about the lecture, including an abstract, please click here.
On-Line Registration for 2012 3-Society Meeting Available
Registration for the 2012 3-Society Meeting of the History of Science Society, British Society for the History of Science, and the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science is now open. Please click here to go to the registration page. You will need to have an account and password; if you don't have an account, you will be able to create one. Registration is open until midnight EDT 29 June 2012. After that, all registrations must be complete on site. For those interested in a single-day registration, that option will be available on-site only. For more updates on the meeting, including making reservations for accommodations and a flight suggestion for travel from the UK, please visit the main meeting site by clicking here or on the link at the left.
Call for Submissions for the Reingold Prize
The History of Science Society is now accepting submissions for the Nathan Reingold Prize for an original graduate student essay on the history of science and its cultural influences. Please share this information with the scholars and students in your department and encourage students to enter their essays. The deadline for submission is 1 June 2012. You can find more information about the prize here.
Preliminary Program for 2012 3-Society Meeting Available
The preliminary program for the 2012 joint meeting of the History of Science Society, British Society for the History of Science, and the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science is now available. You can access the preliminary program here. For more information about the 3-Society Meeting, including information on the host city Philadelphia, travel, lodging, and other activities, please click here. If you have any questions or corrections regarding the preliminary program, please email info@hssonline.org.
April 2012 Newsletter Now Available
The April 2012 Newsletter of the History of Science Society is now available. This issue includes the first of a two-part series on opportunities for historians of science oustide academia, a note from the Society Executive Director on the generosity of HSS members, an interview with Alain Touwaide on lost medicial knowledge, as well as other articles, news, announcements, and much more. You can read the April 2012 Newsletter here.
24th International Congress for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine
The 24th International Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine will be held in the University of Manchester on 22-28 July 2013. The Congress, held every four years, is the world’s largest gathering of historians of science, technology and medicine. The theme of the Congress is ‘Knowledge at Work’ and proposals for Symposia (themed panel sessions) can be submitted until 30 April. From 1 May until 30 November, offers of individual papers can be made. Submissions should be made here. Further details about the Congress can be found here.
History of Science Graduate Program Listing Now Available
A listing of graduate programs in the history of science and related fields is now available here. This summary includes contact information for programs around the world. Please send any corrections or additions to info@hssonline.org. Our thanks go to Nathan Crowe for his work in creating and maintaining the site.
2011 History of Science Society Awards Announced
The History of Science Society prize ceremony took place on Friday, November 4th at the HSS Annual Meeting in Cleveland. We are pleased to announce this year's winners:
Nathan Reingold Prize: James Bergman (Harvard University), “Fighting Chance: The Science of Probability
and the Forecast Controversy Between the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and the U.S.
Signal Service, 1884–1890”
Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize: Pamela Henson (Smithsonian Institution Archives)
Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize: Nuria Valverde Pérez (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Unidad Cuajimalpa), "Small Parts: Crisóstomo Martínez (1638-1694), Bone Histology, and the Visual
Making of Body Wholeness"
Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize: Yi-Li Wu (Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan), Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize: Naomi Oreskes (University of California, San Diego) and Erik Conway (NASA, California Institute of Technology), Merchants of Doubt
Pfizer Prize: Eleanor Robson (University of Cambridge), Mathematics In Ancient Iraq: A Social History
Sarton Medal: Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago)
The prize citations can be found here. Congratulations to all of the winners.
British Society for the History of Science Launches New History
of Science Travel Guide
Planning a trip and hoping to incorporate a little history of science into your sightseeing? Just visited a diamond museum in the rough? Wondering if you'll be able to sneak off from a conference to visit the birthplace of your favorite scientist? The British Society for the History of Science has just launched its Travel Guide to the History of Science and you are invited to peruse its offerings and contribute some of your own. The site is for anyone interested in visiting places with ties to the history of science, technology and medicine, anywhere in the world (including fairyland!). The Guide is a collaborative endeavor and HSS members are especially welcome to use and contribute to the site.
NSF Travel Grants Approved for 2011-2013
The History of Science Society is pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation has approved the travel grant for graduate students, independent scholars and recent scholars for the next three years. The travel grants are provided for the meetings of the History of Science Society (HSS), the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology (ISPST), the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), and the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB). For further details, please contact the relevant society directly.
Isis Current Bibliography now on HSS website
The Isis Current Bibliography (vols. 2000-2009) can now be searched via Worldcat.org on the HSS website here. It can also be found under the Publications tab in the navigation bar to the left. The Worldcat.org database will be updated every year and HSS members, who receive the CB as a benefit of membership will continue to have free access to the full HSTM database. The CB is the result of the hard work of Stephen Weldon and his staff at the University of Oklahoma.
Isis moves to JSTOR
The online version of the journal Isis has moved from the website of the University of Chicago Press to JSTOR (www.jstor.org). Already the site for archived issues of Isis, JSTOR will now be the location for the current issues as well. Members who do not already have a username and password for JSTOR will need to create them; emails describing this process have already been sent. Members should note that they will still need to use the University of Chicago Press website in order to manage their membership account, so they should keep track of their UCP login credentials. If you are having any trouble accessing Isis, please do not hesitate to contact us at infomanager@hssonline.org.
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