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Publicación Libro XII Congreso de la SEHCYT (web)

Queridos compañeros y compañeras: Me es muy grato ponerme en contacto con vosotros/as para comunicaros que el libro titulado: Ciencia y Técnica entre la Paz y la Guerra. 1714, 1814, 1914 (en PDF, con ISBN de publicación electrónica, 1326 pp. distribuidas en dos volúmenes) ya está disponible en la Sección "Publicaciones de la SEHCYT" de nuestra web ( www.sehcyt.es ), con lo que se completan las tareas del XII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas  (Madrid, 2014), en el que colaboró la SEDHE. Enlace Vol 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B78MGHYEEe2TenNTeXB0MVB0RU0/view Enlace Vol 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B78MGHYEEe2TdmlKY0pHZGVaYWc/view Próximamente os comunicaremos la empresa distribuidora y el procedimiento para adquirir ejemplares en formato papel (encuadernados en dos volúmenes, con ISBN de edición impresa). Un saludo muy cordial, Francisco A. González Redondo Coordinador del XII Congreso de la SE...

-6 novembre 2015, colloque Société Européenne d'Histoire des Sciences (ESHS), Universit Paris Diderot

Chères et chers collègues, La Société Européenne d'Histoire des Sciences (ESHS) tiendra un colloque à l'Université Paris Diderot les  5 et 6 novembre 2016  sur le sujet REFLECTING ON THE FRAGMENTATION OF THE FIELD OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. PERSPECTIVES FROM EUROPE Ce colloque est soutenu par le laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Vous trouverez programme et informations pratiques à l'adresse suivante http://eshs2015.sciencesconf.org Vous êtes tous bienvenus Cordialement Karine Chemla

Book Review: Decker on Meyer-Palmedo, ed. Sigmund Freud - Anna Freud: Correspondence, 1904-1938

Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo, ed. Sigmund Freud - Anna Freud: Correspondence, 1904-1938. Translated by Nick Somers. Cambridge: Polity Books, 2014. xiii + 513 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7456-4149-2. Reviewed by Hannah S. Decker (University of Houston) Published on HABSBURG (October, 2015) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan Daily Life and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Central Europe This book is the complete correspondence between Sigmund Freud and his youngest daughter, Anna Freud, beginning when Anna was nine years old and her father fifty-two, although for the first six years, the letters are only from Freud. When Anna is fifteen (1910), we begin to see her letters. While Freud’s correspondence with various important non-family figures in his life has been extensively mined and studied in the most minute detail, this is not the case for the early letters of his daughter. Thus, this volume tends to teach us more about Anna than her famous father, although...

BSHS Pickstone prize - call for nominations

In keeping with the BSHS’s  mission of promoting excellence in the field of history of science, broadly construed, the 2016 Pickstone Prize will be offered for the best scholarly book in the history of science, technology, and medicine, first published in English in 2014 or 2015. The winning book will mark a major advance in the understanding and interpretation of the scientific past. There are no restrictions on the form or authorship of the book, although edited volumes are excluded. Specialist monographs and synthetic works, whether singly or multi-authored, are welcomed. The value of the Pickstone Prize is £300. The winner will also have the opportunity to give a public lecture, organised by the BSHS, on the subject of their book. The Prize was established in 2014 to honour our esteemed colleague and friend, the late Professor John Pickstone (1944-2014), whose research and teaching so keenly exemplified the scholarly virt...

Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries

The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be taken up during academic year 2016-17. Fellowships support periods of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. Fellows are hosted in the Visiting Scholars’ Centre at the Weston Library, where they join a lively research environment .      Details of the fellowship terms and application process can be found on our Fellowships webpage: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships . A list of current visiting fellows and affiliated scholars in academic year 2015-16 can be found here . Of interest to list members are the -           Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellowships in the History of Science & Communications Applications for these fellowships should be made by the deadline of Monday, 14 December 2015 . For further information, please e-mail Dr Michelle Chew at: fellowships@bodleian.ox.ac.uk . ...