History of Science Society

09/10/2020

Congratulations to the 2020 HSS Prize Winners. Read the prize citations now!

https://hssonline.org/2020/10/09/congratulations-2020-prize-winners/

06/10/2020

https://hssonline.org/2020/10/06/hss-newsletter-oct-2020/

Welcome to the October 2020 issue of the HSS Newsletter, just in time to coincide with our first ever Virtual Forum. It is not everyday, or even every year, that history or historians of science are recognized beyond our community, so it was especially gratifying to lead this issue with an article a...

02/10/2020

Missing that age-old art of book browsing? Visit the HSS SHOT 2020 virtual book gallery to pore over the latest titles in the history of science and technology. https://hss-shot.secure-platform.com/a/page/gallery

01/10/2020

🎬 So many wonderful pitches! Browse through our Authors' Pitch videos and learn about the newest releases in the history of science, directly from the source! https://hss-shot.secure-platform.com/a/page/ap

28/09/2020

Grants are available for grad students, recent PhDs, and independent scholars to offset the cost of attending our Virtual Forum. We also have grants to offset the cost of dependent care. See our grants page for eligibility and application details. https://hss-shot.secure-platform.com/a/page/grants

28/09/2020

Help us protect the future of the history of science! Donate to the Pandemic Fund for HSS here: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E343847&id=19

Or here: https://subfill.uchicago.edu/JournalPubs/Donation.aspx?webpub=isi (write “Pandemic Fund” in Notes). We can award funds raised from this appeal, and our members still need assistance!

28/09/2020

Registration for the HSS SHOT 2020 Virtual Forum is now open. Spread the word. https://hssonline.org/2020/09/28/hss-shot-2020-now-live/

We are excited to announce that registration to our joint HSS and SHOT 2020 Virtual Forum is now open!

25/09/2020

Registration opens any day now for the HSS SHOT 2020 Virtual Forum. Please stay tuned & check out the program https://hssonline.org

25/09/2020

5 days left to submit your author’s book pitch!

The HSS 2020 Authors’ Book Pitch is a central feature of our Virtual Forum. At a time when in-person interaction and exchange is limited, the Authors’ Book Pitch provides a platform to share new and exciting scholarship. Everyone who has registered for the Virtual Forum and published a monograph...

09/09/2020

The HSS 2020 preliminary program is now available:
https://hssonline.org/2020/09/09/hss-2020-preliminary-program/

We are excited to share the preliminary program for the HSS 2020 Virtual Forum from October 8-11, which is now live! The HSS Virtual Forum is co-hosted with SHOT. (See SHOT’s preliminary program: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/.)  Registration will open soon. The registration fee will be $75...

08/09/2020

CFP (Call for Pitches):

HSS is getting ready for the 2020 Virtual Forum from October 8-10, 2020. Our program will be published shortly.

The HSS 2020 Authors’ Book Pitch is a central feature of our Virtual Forum. At a time when in-person interaction and exchange is limited, the Authors’ Book Pitch provides a platform to share new and exciting scholarship. Everyone who has registered for the Virtual Forum and published a monograph or edited a collective volume in the history of science, technology and medicine in 2019 or 2020 is warmly welcome to participate!

https://hssonline.org/2020/09/04/authors-book-pitch-new-releases-straight-from-the-source/

The HSS 2020 Authors’ Book Pitch is a central feature of our Virtual Forum. At a time when in-person interaction and exchange is limited, the Authors’ Book Pitch provides a platform to share new and exciting scholarship. Everyone who has registered for the Virtual Forum and published a monograph...

17/08/2020

Back in May, we made an unusual request. The current pandemic was upending many of our members’ lives, and we asked for your support, and since the pandemic is still with us, we are renewing our call for help.

https://hssonline.org/2020/08/17/emergency-pandemic-fund/

And if you are one of those members in need, you may go to this link to request help: https://hssonline.formstack.com/forms/pandemic.

"To foster interest in the history of science" – and since the pandemic is still with us, we are renewing our call for help.

14/08/2020

https://hssonline.org/2020/08/14/isisbrl-2/

The latest books in the history of science, received by the History of Science Society's journal, Isis

13/08/2020

13/08/2020

SPACE AND THE HOSPITAL
International Network for the History of Hospitals
Lisbon, 26-28 May 2021

Deadline for sending abstracts: 30 September 2020

Space, in both its physical and conceptual manifestations, has been a part of how hospitals were designed, built, used, and understood within the wider community. By focusing on space, this conference aims to explore this subject through the lens of its architectural, socio-cultural, medical, economic, charitable, ideological, and public conceptualisations.

This thirteenth INHH conference will explore the relationship between space and hospitals throughout history by examining it through the lens of five themes: (1) ritual, space, and architecture; (2) hospitals as ‘model’ spaces; (3) the impact of medical practice and theory on space; (4) hospitality and social space; (5) sponsorship. Below are more details about how the conference themes will address along with related questions. The themes and questions presented are by no means an exhaustive list; however, we encourage the submission of an abstract that examines any aspects of space and the history of hospitals in innovative ways.

Original Link: https://inhh.org/…/call-for-papers-space-and-the-hospital-…/

03/08/2020

Love experiments? We’re planning a big one and hoping you will join in! HSS 2020: The Virtual Forum runs 8-10 October 2020

https://hssonline.org/2020/08/03/experimental-virtual-forum/

The HSS will stage an Experimental Virtual Forum from October 8-10, 2020. This forum will not replace our planned in-person meeting with SHOT in New Orleans, which we plan to hold in late November 2021. Everyone who has been accepted to this year’s HSS program (now postponed) will receive further ...

30/07/2020

HSS Council has endorsed a statement issued by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) on the importance of shared governance during the pandemic:

Changes to curriculum and instruction, radical shifts in labor and employment conditions (including declarations of financial exigency, furloughs, and terminations), and concerns relating to health protocols for in-person instruction during the pandemic are all issues that involve shared governance. These issues are directly impacting many of our members in their professional capacities as instructors and scholars employed in a wide range of universities and colleges.

The HSS leadership recognizes the challenges many of our members are facing as a result of the pandemic and wishes to support all of those who must contend with uncertainty, irrespective of their institutional setting.

https://www.aaup.org/news/principles-academic-governance-during-covid-19-pandemic #.Xvn_iihKhPY

Principles of Academic Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

14/07/2020

The July 2020 HSS Newsletter is now available: https://hssonline.org/2020/07/14/july-2020-newsletter/

Newsletter Editor, Neeraja Sankaran, writes:

We hope that all our members continue to keep safe and sane as our trying times continue. Certainly this longer-than-usual issue provides good evidence that our community has been busy and active. We have a few treats in store, with two meaty interviews of distinguished, prizewinning scholars from our ranks, and we have more than one contribution attesting to the creativity of educators in times of crisis. Our regular sections are brimming over, as well, with more news than ever of individual members, the community, and the Society as a whole. Keep safe everyone.

We hope that all our members continue to keep safe and sane as our trying times continue. Certainly this longer-than-usual issue provides good evidence that our community has been busy and active. We have a few treats in store, with two meaty interviews of distinguished, prizewinning scholars from o...

13/07/2020

Congratulations to the 2020 Sarton Medalist, James A. Bennett!

https://hssonline.org/2020/07/13/history-of-science-society-awards-sarton-medal-to-james-bennett

The History of Science Society awards the 2020 Sarton Medal to James A. Bennett.

25/06/2020

Because of COVID-19, we are unable to meet in New Orleans in 2020. We are currently exploring options for a virtual meeting in 2020. The program that would have been is now available for perusal: https://hssmeeting.org/program/

16/06/2020

https://hssonline.org/2020/06/16/statement-on-the-death-of-george-floyd-and-racism-in-the-united-states/

The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020 has sparked days of protests in every state in the United States and in nations across the world. These protests are not an isolated response but emerge from decades of struggle against the violence of white supremacy.

12/06/2020

HSS Council has voted for us to join as a signatory on the AHA statement on racist violence and is discussing a statement specific to our field crafted by our Comm on Diversity and Inclusion. We are grateful for their work. https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/aha-advocacy/aha-statement-on-the-history-of-racist-violence-in-the-united-states-(june-2020)

14/04/2020

https://hssonline.org/2020/04/13/isisbrl/

The latest books in the history of science, received by the History of Science Society's journal, Isis

10/04/2020

We hope everyone is keeping well, safe and calm in our strange and uncertain time of the coronavirus. The April HSS Newsletter leads with two articles on the scientific and the historical perspectives of the pandemic. Other articles offer historical perspectives on more issues of global concern–food and our environment–and bibliographies take a double bow in this issue, both in a tribute to a deceased former colleague and in our “Innovations in Education” column. And of course, there is news as usual about the doings of our members, of HSS and of the profession.

https://hssonline.org/2020/04/10/hss-newsletter-april-2020/

The HSS Newsletter - April 2020 - We hope everyone is keeping well, safe and calm in our strange and uncertain time of the coronavirus, scientific and historical perspectives on which we lead with in this issue of the HSS Newsletter. Other articles offer historical perspectives on more issues of glo...

16/03/2020

The Pfizer Award recognizes the best scholarly book. Submit your nominations by 1 April! https://hssonline.formstack.com/forms/prize_nominations

16/03/2020

Meet the 2019 winner of the Pfizer Award, awarded for Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (UChicago Press): Deborah Coen of Yale University!

Submit nominations for the 2020 Pfizer Award by 1 April: https://hssonline.formstack.com/forms/prize_nominations

13/03/2020

Meet the 2019 winner of the Watson Davis & Helen Miles Davis Prize, awarded for The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and a Theory that Changed Africa (Oxford University Press): Michael Robinson of University of Hartford!

Submit nominations for the 2020 Davis Prize by 1 April: https://hssonline.formstack.com/forms/prize_nominations

12/03/2020

The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize recognizes the best books for a general audience. Submit your nominations by 1 April! https://hssonline.formstack.com/forms/prize_nominations