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Showing Death in the Nineteenth Century: Bodies, Matter, Representations National Academy of Medicine, Paris, 26 March 2026 Invited speakers Anne Carol, Aix-Marseille Université Eloïse Quetel, Sorbonne-Université Michael Sappol, Visiting Researcher, Uppsala University   Call for Papers   As Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, ‘to be dead is to be a prey for the living’ (1956, 593). The vulnerability of the dead, described by the French philosopher, applies to their memories as well as their bodies. Death is, indeed, not merely absence but requires us to face the materiality of the corpse. This one-day international conference intends to show that studying the nineteenth-century relationship to death, as an omnipresent – destructive, but familiar – reality, can inform our own contemporary attitudes and reveal how nineteenth-century representations still shape our own death culture.  The nineteenth-century Western world witnessed a shifting interest in the materiality of death and in t...

The submission website of the joint European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society meeting to be held from 13–16 July 2026 in Edinburgh with the support of the British Society for the History of Science, is now  open. The conference theme is “Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences.” We welcome submissions on any topic in the history of STM and aim for an ensemble of contributions on diverse geographical, thematic and methodological perspectives.  The deadline for proposals is  Monday  1 December 2025, 11:59 pm PST (Tuesday 2 December 2025, 7:59 am UTC) .  For more information, please visit the website of the Call for Proposals:  https://hssonline. org/page/2026cfp To submit your proposal, please, visit:   https://tinyurl.com/ ESHSHSS26   For questions, contact the Program Co-Chairs at:  info@hssonline.org

Editors: Amelia Bonea and Irina Nastasă-Matei. This volume explores, from global, multilingual and intersectional perspectives, the experiences of women in science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century. Some, like the American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, were fairly visible actors in the academic and public arenas of professional science. Others, like the doctors working in secondary schools in interwar Romania or those who struggled to alleviate ‘women’s illnesses’ in famine-stricken rural areas during China’s Great Leap Forward, have been largely invisible – as medical practitioners, creators of knowledge, educators and subjects of historical inquiry. The volume investigates the nature and extent of women’s in/visibility in science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century, seeking to document the factors that underpinned it and understand how women navigated their circumstances. When and why did women become invisible? When and how did they seek visib...

El libro de homenaje a Francesc Bujosa, La historia de la ciencia en las Islas Baleares: desde la Guerra Civil hasta la creación de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares, editado por Joan March y Guillem X. Pons y presentado el pasado 18 de septiembre, se puede descargar en la web de la Sociedad de Historia Natural de las Baleares. Link:  https://www.shnb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Historia-de-la-Ciencia-Bujosa-Monografia-SHNB-36-2.pdf

STAND (Historical Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy) Early Career Research Seminars 2025-2026   Call for Participants – Deadline 20 September 2025   This is an open call for participants for the STAND (Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy) Early Career Researchers Seminar series for 2025-2026. The commission and its members examine the broad history of science, technology and diplomacy and are looking for post-grads and early career researchers to present during next year's online seminar series. We are looking for researchers who address the history of science, technology and medicine in their broad international contexts. Topics include but are not limited to: science diplomacy, international cooperation in fields related to science, technology and medicine, and the transnational circulation of technoscientific and medical knowledge, materials and expertise. Please see our website for more information on previous presenters, and the work we do: ...

We invite applications for the next international seminar on " Material Culture in the History of Physics ", funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation. The workshop consists of a self-organized theoretical part and an attendance part, which will take place from  February 23 to 27, 2026 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich .   Accommodation for five nights will be covered as well as travel expenses up to 100€ for participants from Germany, up to 300€ for students from Europe and up to 1000€ for students from overseas.   The seminar is aimed at M.A. and Ph.D. students in the history of science and physics as well as physics education. We would also like to encourage trainees in science and technology museums including respective university collections to apply.   For further details on the structure of the seminar, deadlines, etc., please see our flyer ( https://www.dpg-physik.de/ vereinigungen/fachlich/ohne- sektion/fvgp/pdf/cfp_mcs_2026. pdf ).

The British Society for the History of Mathematics will be holding 'Research in Progress', its annual meeting for research students, at The Queen's College, Oxford, on Saturday 7 th  March 2026.  The meeting will be held in person only, and will be held in English.  The day provides an opportunity for early-career scholars in the history of mathematics to showcase their current research, and will conclude this year with a keynote lecture by Prof. Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (University of Copenhagen). Talks will be around 20 minutes each (followed by time for questions).  Research students who are interested in offering a presentation are invited to send a proposed title and abstract (of no more than 250 words) to Christopher Hollings by  30th November 2025 . Please include details of your university, supervisor, and whether you are a PhD or a Masters student. The organisers will be in touch shortly thereafter with a decision. Registration costs will be waived for ...

Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences Location: University of Edinburgh, Scotland Dates: 13–16 July 2026 Organized by: The History of Science Society (HSS) The European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) With support from The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)   Deadline for submitting proposals:   Friday 1 December 2025, 11:59 pm PST (Abstract Submission Site to come)   Link to the full Call For Proposals is available here:  https://hssonline.org/page/2026cfp

We invite papers for a panel on the topic of pyrotechnics for the upcoming Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Meeting, held in San Francisco from February 19-21, 2026. This panel will be sponsored by the Science History Institute.  In anticipation of the upcoming exhibition on the history of fireworks at the Science History Institute, this panel seeks to study the multiple uses of pyrotechnics through the Renaissance, including their utilization in performances, ceremonies, rituals, and their connection to military engagements of the era. The Renaissance saw an expansion in the popularity and variety of the use of gunpowder, both for military and entertainment purposes. How did pyrotechnics visually, auditorily, and olfactorily impact their spectators? How did the development of these spectacles intersect with military and scientific activities of the period? How might pyrotechnics be used to understand cultural and intellectual exchange? From recipes for gunpowder to souv...

19-20 February 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.  Deadline for abstract submission : 15 September 2025 We are delighted to announce a call for papers for a workshop focused on the historical use of questionnaires in the empirical fieldwork of health practitioners. Today, public health agencies routinely employ questionnaires in large population surveys to assess health trends at local, national, and global levels (e.g., the World Health Survey Plus). This workshop aims to historicize how various actors—public health officials, physicians, patients, and local residents—contributed to the development of health and medical questionnaires. This call invites scholars to examine the paper-based technologies and field methods historically used to collect and analyze data, such as house visits, field observations, and correspondence with patients. Central to the discussion will be the epistemic traditions that informed the development of questionnaires. Today’s population  surveys typ...