History of Astronomy

History of Science: Meetings

General Information

• Conferences and Colloquia on the History of Science
• Deutsches Museum (Munich): Tagungen und Kolloquien (in German)
• Forthcoming British Society for the History of Science Conferences
• Meetings of the Forum on the History of Physics in the American Physical Society
• National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Upcoming Meetings
• Physik Portal der DPG - Termine
  Conference calendar for physics by the German Physical Society; introduction in German, announcements mostly in English. Includes sometimes history of physics conferences.
• Upcoming Meetings on the History of the Geosciences
• Cartography - Calendar of Events
  Including history of cartography conferences.
• Map history conferences and meetings
• Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte: Terminkalender für die Region Berlin (in German)

  History of Science and Technology Events for the Berlin Region

• PhysicsWeb - Calendar: Physics Conferences, Workshops and Summer Schools

  Occasionally there are also history of science meetings.

• Links to Conference Calendars
• Events in Philosophy and History of Science and Mathematics in Britain
  No longer maintained, links only.
• H-Soz-u-Kult Terminankündigungen (partially in German)
  History in general, including history of science
  No longer maintained?
• Maritime Conferences and Seminars [1994-]2000
  Seems to be no longer maintained.
• Conferences [in history of science]
  Seems to be no longer maintained.
• Science Studies: Meetings
  Including history of science. Gopher server, seems to be no longer working.
• Science Museum London: Seminars and Conferences (8 Aug 2002: disappeared)
• Institute in the History of Mathematics And Its Use In Teaching (8 Aug 2002: disappeared)

Forthcoming Meetings

See History of Astronomy: Meetings.
Several of the meetings listed there are multidisciplinary and of general interest.

Past Meetings

• The Visual Culture of Art and Science from the Renaissance to the Present, London, 12 to 14 July 1995
• Scotland's Mathematical Heritage - Napier to Clerk Maxwell, Edinburgh, 20-21 July 1995
• Cultural Heritage in Geosciences, Mining and Metallurgy: Libraries - Archives - Museums, Leoben, Austria, 18 to 21 September 1995 (or see German page / deutsche Seite)
  with abstracts
• Society for the History of Technology and the Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, VA, USA, October 19-22, 1995 (see also here)
• Seminar "Neuere Forschungen zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik", IGN Hamburg, Oct. 1995 - Jan. 1996 (most in German)
• MEPHISTOS 1996, the 15th Annual Graduate Student Conference in the Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine, and related fields, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 23 to 25, 1996
• História e Educação Matemática, Braga, Portugal, 24 - 30 July 1996
• Meeting for Swedish graduate students in the history of science and ideas (27 Apr 1998: disappeared)
  to be held in the summer of 1996
• 1996 Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, Budapest, Hungary, 7 -10 August 1996
• 1996 annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Bielefeld, Germany, October 10-13, 1996
  Including VI. Historical Dimensions of Social Studies of Science
• Mephisto 1997, 20-23 February 1997, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  Graduate Student Conference on History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology, Medicine, and related fields.
• 17th International Conference on the History of Cartography, 6-10 July 1997, Lisbon, Portugal
• Workshop on History of Philosophy of Science, 15-18 September 1997, Munich, Germany
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, 80. Jahrestagung: "Instrument - Experiment" (in German)
  26. -29. September 1997, Regensburg, Germany
• Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, 6-19 October 1997, Pasadena, CA, USA
• Philosophy and Imagination
  October 24 - 26, 1997, Binghamton, New York, USA
• Historisch-thematische Kartographie (in German)
  24-27 February 1998, Trier, Germany
• HOPOS `98: Second International History of Philosophy of Science Conference
  March 12-15, 1998, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
• Midwest Junto for the History of Science
  17-19 April 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
• Wissenschaft und Reisen, 35. Symposium der "Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte" (in German)
  21-23 May 1998, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• International Conference on the History of Computing (ICHC'98)
  August 14-16, 1998, Paderborn, Germany
• The 8th International Conference on the History of Science in China
  August 23-28, 1998, Berlin, Germany
• Mephistos 1998
  17th Annual Graduate Student Meeting for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, Medicine, and related fields. September 17-20, 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
• 19th Baltic Conference on the History of Science
  January 15-17, 1999, Vinius-Kaunas, Lithuania
• International Workshop on the History of Science: Implications for Science Education
  22-26 February 1999, Mumbai, India
• Reflections on XXth Century Sciences
  April 16-18, 1999, Brussels, Belgium
• Between Physics and Biology: Chemical Sciences in the Twentieth Century
  May 29-30, 1999, Munich, Germany
• 18th International Conference on the History of Cartography
  July 11-16, 1999, Athens, Greece
• Women in the History of Science: biography, autobiography, tasks, results, problems
  September 10-12, 1999, Cambridge, UK
• Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of the Physical Sciences
  September 17-19, 1999, Washington, D.C., USA
• On Time: History, Science, Commemoration
  September 18-19, 1999, Oxford, UK
• "Science as Culture": 5th International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Conference and 8th European Physical Society History and Physics Teaching Conference
  September 15-19, 1999, Lake Como and Pavia, Italy
• Third International History of Philosophy of Science Conference (HOPOS 2000)
  July 6-9, 2000, Vienna, Austria
• XXIst International Congress of History of Science
  July 8-14, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico
• 20th Scientific Instrument Symposium
  October 15-19, 2001, Stockholm, Sweden

See also:

• History of Astronomy: Meetings
  Some of the meetings listed there are multidisciplinary and of general interest.
• Electronic newsletters for the history of astronomy
  Include announcements of conferences and meetings, also in history of science in general

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 16 Jan 1995. Latest update: 8 Aug 2002