As it is 12 months since I last put out the calls for symposia & stand-alone papers, I figure it is a good time to update on the upcoming International Conference for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine. With calls over, programmes published & registration in full swing it seems sensible to bring together links to some of the important stuff. The conference, to take place the week of 22nd-28th of July, will take place in Manchester. The homepage for
Exploring Environmental History, EH-Resources podcast, is back with episode 51 on Scottish forestry experience and forestry in colonial India. The talk is from a seminar talk given by Jan Oosthoek recently in Brisbane Australia & looks at how Scottish trained botanists and foresters took with them, to India, many of their skills. As they went into colonial service, Oosthoek looks at the influence of their backgrounds – including models taken from Germany & France – on the development of empire
Here are my 10 links for March: World TB Day Eighteenth-Century fashionable diseases, and the dangers of crowded rooms The Dominion Fisheries Museum: modeling fish and fisheries 1884-1918 John Snow and Cholera Anti-Evolution and Anti-Eugenics: A missing link? The Object of Writing History in the of Age of Biomedicine Music and the War on the Nerves The North Sea flood of 1953 What’s killing us: statistics, tuberculosis and the McKeown thesis VAHS feature: The Other NHS
Episode 36 of Nature’s Past, as part of NiCHE’s Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, arrives with another podcast that falls into yet another interest of mine – looking at Agri-Food systems. As their website declares, “[e]xamining the environmental history of food and agriculture in Canada reveals the ways in which our complex relationships with nature and each other inform this most intimate aspect of our daily lives.” You can find further info to this end – as well as the podcast itself
Here are my 10 links for February 2013: Can’t Historians Predict the Future? Stories from psychiatry’s past: Drinking, Drunkards and Dogs Regulating Nanotechnology via Analogy part 1 and part 2 R. A. Fisher, Scientific Method, and the Tower of Babel part 1 and part 2 Small things: The discovery of a microscopic world shook the foundations of theology and created modern demons New Geographies of Animal Subjectivity Muscle and Mind in the Asylum The biggest poisoning in history Bear in
Nature’s Past delivers to us episode 35 in their series: Fisheries, Regulation, and Science. You can click here to get to NiCHE’s website – for the download and more info. As part five of their mini-series on Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, I decided to include it here due to the fact that environmental, cultural and economic histories of food are within my remit and the reception of global foodstuffs is a part of my current research. Although fisheries serves
Exploring Environmental History returns with episode 49 of their podcast. You can link to the the download, with more info provided on EH-Resources website, here. I wanted to put this on the record, on this blog, as I remember visiting Kielder Forest as part of a school excursion. Following on from the man-made project of the Northumberland forest, starting from the 1920s, the 1970s witnessed the construction of a large dam and reservoir in order to create a water supply
Here are my 10 links for January 2013 (with a couple in themed pairs): 1872-73 Epizootic or the Canadian Horse Distemper; Discovery Institute: Darwin and Eugenics Again; Norovirus and the reporting of epidemics through history; Water stories; The Science Museum is pants; The Popularisation of Science: 1890-1914; How To Make a Victorian Villain (or the Tale of Isaac Baker Brown) Part 1 and part 2; History of Science on Stamps; History Meets Biology at the AHA and Highlights from the
The British Society for the History of Science brings us a one-day conference to take place on the 9th of March at the University of York, UK. Entitled ‘Medical Matters: the cultural politics of the body in eighteenth-century Britain’, Professor Peter Kitson of the University of Dundee will give the keynote speech for the conference which will endeavour – more widely – to investigate representations of the human body as a site of cultural and political debate during the long
Sean Kheraj, with help from friends and colleagues, continues with his one of my favourite podcast – Nature’s Past. As a continuation of the recent series on Canadian Environmental Histories, part 4 continues the interesting subject of The Canadian Environmental Movement. In this episode, Neil Forkey talks about his new book ‘Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century’. To download, and for more information on the podcast, as well as Nature’s Past archive, go here.
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