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The Department of the History of Science at Harvard University seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of pre-modern or early modern science or medicine. A Ph.D. is required by the expected start date. The Department is especially interested in candidates who show exceptional promise as scholars, teachers, and mentors, and can offer broad courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels that will complement those of the current faculty. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2016. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, an outline of present scholarly projects and future plans, a statement of teaching experience and approach, a writing sample, and the names and contact details of three persons who will write letters of recommendation. All materials should be submitted directly to the Harvard academic positions site at https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/6420 . Harvard is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified app...

Heroic Journeys? Networks of women scientists in the late nineteenth and twentieth century Conference Report On June 16 th , the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts and the Research Group Cultural History since 1750 of KU Leuven organized a one-day conference on women scientists, their networks, travels and scientific persona. This conference was the result of the meeting of two ongoing research projects. The first research project, entitled Scientific Personae in Cultural Encounters (SPICE), is a cooperation between the universities of Stockholm, Groningen and Leuven. SPICE seeks to investigate the construction of scientific personae in the twentieth century. It focuses on the practice of scientific travel as a moment of cultural encounters that facilitate the adaptation and creation of new ways of being a scientist. The second research project, the Belgian Science and Technology Online Resources (Bestor), is embedded in the Royal Flemish Aca...

Dear colleagues, I'm please to announce that my book, The Global Transformation of Time: 1870 - 1950 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015) has just been published. Here is a description: As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. My chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “adva...

S OMMAIRE N° 43 – OCTOBRE 2015 L’image du mois : L’ambulance de Larrey reconstituée (Bernard Baldivia) Histoire des instruments : -          L’antisepsie, Joseph Lister, Just Lucas-Championnière et les pulvérisateurs à vapeur (Louis-Jean Dupré) -          Trousse dentaire du Docteur David utilisée pendant la Première Guerre mondiale (Xavier Riaud) Histoire de la santé : -          Une facette mal connue de l’immense talent de Louis Siriès, orfèvre du Roi Louis XV : la fabrication d’instruments de chirurgie (Quentin Désiron) -          L’Australie n’échappa pas à l’épidémie de la grippe espagnole (Claire Dujardin) -          Les médailles de l’Institut de France du docteur Charles Bouchard (1837-1915) (Frédéric Bonté) En musar...