Call for Papers for 2012 HSS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA
The History of Science Society's 2012 Annual Meeting will be held jointly with the Philosophy of Science Association's biennial meeting at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, 15-18 November 2012. The call for papers for the Meeting can be found here. You are strongly encouraged to read the guidelines for evaluating proposals before making a submission. Proposals for both sessions and contributed papers can be made here. The deadline for submissions is 2 April 2012.
Historically, session proposals have generally had a much higher acceptance rate than contributed papers. A wiki has been created here to help scholars seek out others with similar interests to create session proposals.
January 2012 Newsletter Now Available
The January 2012 Newsletter of the History of Science Society is now available. This issue includes an essay from the new president of the Society, Lynn K. Nyhart, a description of an upcoming conference on the role of tennis in the Scientific Revolution, the benefits of Society Editorship, an early look at a digital role-playing game involving smallpox, as well as other articles, news, announcements, and much more. You can read the January 2012 Newsletter here.
Paper/Session Submission for 3-Society Meeting Closed
The deadline for submitting paper and session proposals for the 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 has passed. Thank you to all of those who submitted proposals. Notifications will be sent in late February. Additional information on the 3-Society Meeting will be posted soon.
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.
Call for Papers: 2012 Philosophy of Science Association Meeting
Submission is now open for papers and symposia to be presented at the PSA2012 meeting in San Diego, CA on November 15-17, 2012. Symposia and contributed papers may be on any topic in the philosophy of science. The PSA2012 Program Committee will strive for quality, variety, innovation and diversity on the program. The deadline for symposia submissions is January 5, 2012, and the deadline for paper submissions is March 1, 2012. Please visit the PSA meeting website for more details.
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.
Adventures in Romantic Science:
Richard Holmes on passion, teamwork, and the neglected art of biography.
Michael Bycroft interviews Richard Holmes, the author of Age of Wonder, winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.
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