CFP: “How Sciences End”
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by Josh Allen
2M ago
recevied from Dr. Michelle Aroney (Magdalen College, Oxford) Dates: 11–13 July 2025 Location: University of Oxford, UK Submission deadline: 31 January 2025 Conference Theme and Goals Historians have studied extensively how sciences begin—but how do they end? This is a crucial question for understanding how the labour of knowledge-making evolves. Previous attention to the founding, disciplining, and professionalisation of individual sciences has provided robust frameworks for thinking through the birth and growth of knowledge-making communities. Far less attention has been directed toward how t ..read more
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CFP: Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective, Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1700 to the present
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by Josh Allen
3M ago
Received from Dr. Henry Miller (Northumbria) Event Overview This one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held on Friday 7 March 2025 at Northumbria University in Newcastle seeks to bring together early modern and modern historians, as well as scholars from across the humanities and social sciences, to consider the historical and contemporary roles of oaths and oath-taking in Britain and Ireland, and beyond. The keynote lecture will be delivered by Prof. Ted Vallance (Roehampton). Supported by Northumbria University and the Social History Society in addition to the Past and Present Society ..read more
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2024’s Supplement “Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World” Published
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by Josh Allen
3M ago
by the Past & Present editorial team Edited by Prof. Renaud Morieux (Pembroke, University of Cambridge) and Jeppe Mulich (City, University of London) 2024’s Past & Present supplement “Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World” is the seventeenth that the journal has published. It can be accessed here via the website of the journal’s publisher Oxford University Press. From “Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World’s” the Back Matter “This Supplement is premised on the notion that oceans were governed and not lawless spaces. Although this idea is now widely shared, the scholarship still ten ..read more
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How does it feel to survive an earthquake (and why does it matter)?
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by Josh Allen
3M ago
Dr. Dan Haines (University College London) For Jean Kingdon-Ward, the night of 15 August 1950 should have been ordinary. She and her husband Francis, a well known British botanist, were travelling in the borderlands between northeast India and Tibet, looking for plants. All seemed calm. Suddenly, a huge earthquake shook the ground underneath their tent. Jean wrote in her memoir, ‘I felt the camp bed on which I was lying give a sharp jolt . . . The realization of what was happening was instantaneous, and with a shout of “Earthquake!” I was out of bed’. Despite feeling many earthquakes during he ..read more
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Reflections Upon Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union c.1700-1945
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by Josh Allen
5M ago
by Dr. Sarah Moxey (Open University) Over the last decade or so contemporary Scottish politics has been a dominant topic on the news agenda, however, Scottish political history has not received the same spotlight. The Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union c.1700-1945 conference, held at Durham University in July with the support of the Past and Present Society, put Scottish political history firmly into the limelight. Spread over two days, this conference featured the very best in research and innovation in the field of Scottish political history. The timeframe of the conference s ..read more
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“National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War’s” contemporary resonance
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by Josh Allen
7M ago
by Prof. Pierre Asselin (San Diego State University) As I sit here and reflect on the contemporary relevance of my Past & Present article “National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War” (August 2024) on US citizens who visited North Vietnam during the Vietnam War (1965-75), it strikes me how some world leaders learn from the past while others completely ignore or refuse to heed the lessons and other insights it offers. The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War is a telling example.  Consciously or serendipitously, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has bo ..read more
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Reflections Upon The Epistemology of Ancient Embryology Conference
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by Josh Allen
7M ago
by Dr. Chiara Blanco (Newcastle University) The academic conference ‘The Epistemology of Ancient Embryology’ took place over three days from the 1st to the 3rd of July 2024 at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge in a hybrid format, and it included a total of 14 speakers and a peak of 53 attendants (22 in person and 31 online) from all over the world. The conference explored ancient theories concerning the formation and development of the embryo, and how ancient physicians and philosophers sought to address this complex issue by applying their own doctrines and beliefs. This latter ..read more
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Former Past & Present Fellow Dr. Somak Biswas Wins the 2024 RHS Gladstone Prize
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by Josh Allen
7M ago
by the Past & Present editorial team Past and Present was pleased to learn that Dr. Somak Biswas (Cambridge) has been awarded the 2024 UK Royal Historical Society’s (RHS) Gladstone Prize. The RHS website explains: “The Gladstone Book Prize was launched in 1998 following a founding donation from the Gladstone Memorial Trust on the centenary of William Gladstone’s death. The prize offers an annual award of £1,000 for a work of history on a topic not primarily related to British history that is the author’s first sole book publication. In 2015, the Linbury Trust made a generous dona ..read more
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Dr. Damilola Adebayo Recognised With Two Prizes for Article in Past & Present No. 262
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by Josh Allen
7M ago
by the Past & Present editorial team Past and Present was pleased to learn that Dr. Damilola Adebayo (York University) was awarded two prizes at July’s Joint ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 annual meeting at Viña del Mar, Chile. The prize was awarded for his Open Access article “Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, C.1860S–1914” which was published in Past & Present No. 262 (February 2024). Dr. Adebayo was awarded the International Commitee for the History of Technology’s (ICOHTEC) Maurice Daumas Prize. The Maurice Daumas Prize is awarded annually by ICOHTEC: “…to the author of the best ar ..read more
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Temporality and Technology: Historical Narratives of Race and Belonging for the 21st Century
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by Josh Allen
7M ago
by Dr. Nathan Cardon (University of Birmingham) and Dr. Paul Lawrie (York University) On Thursday, 25 April 2024, thanks to the generosity of the Past and Present Society, historians gathered at the University of Birmingham for a one-day workshop to discuss how we might translate new historical work on the intersections of race, technology, and temporality to a wider audience with science and technology museums as sites of intervention. In recent years, the extension of racial exclusion to new technologies has made headlines around the world. It is clear that new technologies rather than disru ..read more
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