The Library of Congress is accepting applications for the Blumberg Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Innovation, which has in the past been held by historians of science and technology as well as philosophers and scientists. For more information please visit the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/programs/john-w-kluge-center/chairs-fellowships/chairs/blumberg-nasa-chair-in-astrobiology/
IEEE Life Member History Fellowship, 2020 – 2021 The IEEE Life Member History Fellowship supports one year of full-time graduate work, or one year of post-doctoral research for a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. within the past four years, in the history of IEEE's areas of interest, including Engineering, Computer Sciences and [...]
Outer Edge: Queer(y)ing STEM Collections 1st Vienna Workshop on STEM Museums, Gender and Sexuality When: 5th March - Half-day pre-workshop activities & 6th March 2020 - All day workshop Where: Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Technology) How can the science and technology museum, as a cultural and social institution, explore the opportunities of reflecting and developing [...]
Postdoctoral Instructor in History of Biology The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Instructor appointment beginning Fall 2020. Area of Specialization: the history of modern, especially molecular, biology. The successful candidate will be expected to teach three (ten-week) undergraduate courses per [...]
The next BSHS Postgraduate Conference will take place at the University of Leeds, 1 - 3 April 2020. The conference welcomes papers from graduate students working in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine or in disciplines whose work touches on any area of HSTM; please click here to view the full Call for Applications (Deadline [...]
Postdoctoral Instructor in Early Modern Natural Philosophy The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (The Huntington) invite applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Instructorship under their joint research program, The Research Institute for the History of Science and [...]
Gresham College presents a 'Mathematics in the 21st Century', a series of free public maths lectures by Professor of Geometry Chris Budd. The series will cover the application of maths to voting, curing cancer, to art, and computing; Budd will also look at great Mathematical Myths like those around the Golden Ratio, and Equations [...]
Further information: http://www.bshs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Feminist-biosciences-search-ad-FINAL-2019.08.05.pdf The Department of Science and Technology Studies (S&TS) and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) Program at Cornell University invite applications for a jointly appointed tenure-track assistant professor in feminist biosciences. We welcome applications from outstanding scholars whose work engages biosciences, biotechnology, the environment, and/or medicine, from a feminist and/or queer studies perspective. We seek [...]
The ERC-funded project Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth Century Perspectives is pleased to announce the launch of its database for researchers. The database contains a list of over 3000 references, gathered together by researchers on the project. The majority of these are primary sources, with a small selection of secondary sources which provide historical context, from [...]
LISA JARDINE GRANT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY - APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 29th AUGUST (3pm) Lisa Jardine grants are available to PhD students and early career researchers in history of science, and other interdisciplinary studies combining humanities and the natural sciences. The scheme offers funding for: Extended research trips for UK and overseas-based researchers to [...]
