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We are hosting a symposium at the HSS!

The History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science will hold their first joint meeting from 13 to 16 July 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland, supported by the British Society for the History of Science. The Science and Empire Commission is pleased to announce its participation in this event with an organized symposium, marking a long-awaited return to the international stage beyond the DHST/ICHST International Congresses.

Under the theme “Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences,” the conference invites historians of science, technology, and medicine to reflect on plural knowledge traditions, contested narratives, and epistemic diversity.

The SCIEMP symposium, titled Science and Empire in the Anthropocene: Towards an Environmental Shift, comprises four sessions exploring the complex entanglements between science, empire, and environment. Spanning cases from the Amazon rainforest and the Iberian Peninsula to colonial India, Manchuria, and postcolonial Africa, the sessions bring together sixteen scholars working across natural history, botany, zoology, meteorology, medicine, and ecology. Together, they examine how scientific knowledge was produced and mobilized in the service of empires, and how colonized peoples, rural communities, and marginalized groups contested, reinterpreted, and reworked that knowledge on their own terms.

Running through all four sessions is a shared concern with the environmental dimensions of imperial science: how landscapes, species, and bodies were transformed by colonial knowledge-making, and what legacies those transformations carry into the present.

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Call for Papers

Call for thematic issues proposals, História Crítica journal, University of the Andes, Colombia, March 16

The History of Agrochemicals and International Development: Knowledge, Politics, and Business, 1940s to the Present workshop, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 16

Institutional identities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, University of Edinburgh, UK, March 20

Animal Fictions and Decolonial Performances Conference, Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris, France, March 23

Self-writing and migration. Ego-documents by researchers in the humanities and social sciences, 19th and 20th century, special issue of the journal Diasporas. Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, March 26

Colonial Hinter-seas: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, March 27

Universities and Society at the End of Empire and Beyond, University of Leiden, Netherlands, March 27

Call for special issue, Journal of History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, March 30

Interdisciplinary Conference Rivers in Crisis. Fluvial Representations and Agencies in the Anthropocene, travel costs within Europe and one night of accommodation covered, contacts yvonne.zivkovic@uni-graz.at and stefanie.populorum@uni-graz.at, University of Graz, Austria, March 30

Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles, USA, March 31

Call for Dossiers, Annual Book of Latin American History, University of Cologne, Germany, March 31

Global Antiscience Phenomenon and Its Impact on Public Health, American Journal of Public Health, April 1

The Role of Academies in the Co-Evolution of Science and the State, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle, Saale, Germany, April 1

Canadian Society of History and Philosophy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Halifax, Canada, April 4

Conference Depatriarchize the Immaterial Cultural Heritage, National University of La Plata, Argentina, April 5

II World Latin American Congress of Historical Sciences, Andean University Simón Bolívar, Quito, Equador, April 10

European Social Science History Conference, Lion, France, April 15

Global Technoscience, Energy, and Environment: Policies, Actors, Scales and Methods of Global History (19th-21st Centuries) Conference, University of Turin, Italy, April 30

Transnational humanitarianism, gender and health in war and post-war (1850-1950), University of Zaragoza, Spain, info: inigo.marques@unizar.es and javier_martinez@unizar.es, April 30

Knowledge about the ‘New Worlds’: through Silences and Rewritings Conference, Pontifical University of Peru and French Institute of Andean Studies, Lima, Peru, April 31

Cold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain ice Conference, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, May 1

Mathematics and Language: A Historical Perspective, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, May 1

Call for proposals of special issue, Journal for the History of Knowledge, May 1

Call for Chapters: Intergenerational Trauma, Memory, Truth, and Resilience Within Indigenous Communities, University of the Cumberlands, USA, May 3

Indigenous and Western Epistemologies in History Education, University of Salzburg, Austria, May 31

Calls for special issue The Museum Issue, Public Humanities journal, Cambridge University Press, June 1

Fellowships and jobs

Collections Management System Manager, History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, UK, March 18

Lecturers in History, University of York, UK, March 19

Post-doc Position in Social Sciences, Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, India, March 20

Bellagio Center Residency Program, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, March 20

Scientific Coordinator (NTU Singapore Center for Biocultural Worlding), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany/Singapore, March 21

Full Professorship in Modern History – History of Democracy and Dictatorship in the 20th Century, University of Cologne, Germany, March 25

Postdoctoral Fellowships in History of Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, March 26

PhD Studentships – Pustules, Palaeogenetics and Pandemics from Galen to Rhazes: How to do the Early History of Smallpox and Measles, University of Exeter, UK, March 26

Research Scholarships, German Historical Institute Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, March 31 

History of Science Society Dissertation Travel Grants for PhD students, March 31

History of ionising radiation and nuclear energy, Atomicalia Collection Short-Term Visiting Fellowship, Murdoch University, Western Australia, info L.omahony@murdoch.edu.au, March 31

Edward Worth Library Research Fellowship, Dublin, UK, March 31

The Soon-Young Kim Award in the History of East Asian Science and Technology, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK, March 31

Doctoral fellowship to study Arabic and Latin versions of Ptolemy’s astronomical and astrological works and their reception from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, University of Würzburg, Germany, info: info@ptolemaeus.badw.de and applications@ptolemaeus.badw.de, March 31

The Royal Institution writing-up awards for doctoral candidates in History of Science, London, UK, March 31

Tenure Track Assistant Professor in East Asian History of Science and Technology, Purdue University, USA, March 31

Vera Roberts Endowment in History of Nursing, March 31

Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdocs, Humboldt Foundation, Germany, March 31

Assistant Professorship in History of Ideas, Aarhus University, Denmark, April 1

School of History PhD Scholarship for researchers from Black, Asian and other ethnic groups, University of Leeds, UK, April 3

Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Medicine and Medical Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA, April 5

Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, Quebec, Canada, April 6

University assistant predoctoral, Multilateralism Revisited: The Past, Present, and Future of International Negotiation and Cooperation, University of Vienna, Austria, April 12

Prospect Utopia fellowships, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany, April 15

Research Fellowship in the History of Women in Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center, Archives, and Special Collections on Women in Medicine in Philadelphia, USA, April 15

Dr. Stephen F. Lintner History of Discoveries Field Research Award for members of the Society for the History of Discoveries, April 15

Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation for the advancement of study and research on the history of Latin America fellowship, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Apr 15

Hans Rausing Scholarships 2026/27, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King’s College London, UK, Apr 17

Food for thought: The science of blockades, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 PhD Fellowships, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 17

Summer Residency Program – Black Memory and the Afterlives of Slavery, Ohio State University, USA, April 18

History of Science Dissertation Fellowship in History of Science and Allied Fields, Stanford University, California, USA, April 20

Professor in History of Science, University of Uppsala, Sweden, April 30

Natural History Humanities scholarships, including colonial history of collection/exploitation, Isaac Newton Trust and University of Cambridge, UK, May 11

Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters full scholarships, Erasmus+, European Commission, various deadlines

Center for Jewish History fellowships, New York, USA, various deadlines 

British Society of History of Science grants and bursaries, various deadlines

Carolina Foundation mobility fellowships, Spain, various deadlines

American Historical Association Grants and Fellowships, various deadlines

Science History Institute Fellowships, Philadelphia, USA, applications on a rolling basis

Wenner-Gren Foundation grants and scholarships in anthropology, New York, USA, various deadlines

Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh fellowships, USA, various deadlines

American Association for the History of Medicine awards and grants, various deadlines

European Commission Calls  Research Funding, various deadlines

Fulbright Foreign Student Program, USA, various deadlines

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies opportunities, Harvard University, USA, various deadlines

DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Hilde Domin Programme to support students and doctoral candidates who are at risk of being formally or de facto denied educational or other rights in their country of origin, Germany, continuously open

Scholar in Residence of Iron Library literature on technology and science, continuously open, Klostergut Paradies, Switzerland

Upcoming Meetings

Liberated Voices: Gender and the Decolonial Turn, Ukraine Decolonial Studies Network, online, March

Annual Meeting of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine & Science, Fort Smith, USA, April

Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Ohio, USA, June 

DHST/IUHPST Commission on Science and Literature 6th Biennial Conference, University of Ghent, Belgium, June 

Latin American Society of History of Sciences Annual Meeting, Bogota, Colombia, June

XX Brazilian Seminar on History of Sciences and Technology, Federal University of Goias, Brazil, July

Conference Underprivileged Bodies: Marginality and Minority in Europe, 1850–1939, Wrocław University, Poland, July

Prizes

Spanish Society of History of Medicine awards, March 31

Santorio Award in History of Medicine, Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, Pisa, Italy, March 31

Best PhD dissertation in nuclear history, William Burr Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Philadelphia, USA, April 1

Master Thesis Award in Latin American Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 1

Martha Ross Memorial Prize, Oral History Association, April 10

British Society for the History of Science Singer Prize for early career scholars, info: office@bshs.org.uk and http://www.bshs.org.uk/prizes/bshs-singer-prize/, April 30

Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research, May 1

Nuncius journal Award for the best original essay on the material and visual history of Science, Technology and Medicine, Galileu Museum, Italy, August 31

History of Science Society Prize and Award nominations, various deadlines

4S Society for Social Studies of Science Prizes, various deadlines

International Groups of Interest/Engagement

Imperial Entanglements Project Seminars, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Italy

GlobeColloquium: Lecture Series on Transimperial History, Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), Leipzig University, Germany

European Society of History of Science Early Career Scholars Network 

History of Science, Technology & Medicine Network of Ireland reading group   

Science and Technology in Asia seminar series, Harvard University

Society of History of Technology Interest Groups

History of Science Society Groups 

STAND Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy Early Career Research Seminars 

Colloques on History of Teaching of Science, Catalan Society of History of Science and Technique, Barcelona, Spain

Performing Science and Medicine working group

Seminar Series “Global Knowledge Production and Academic (Semi-)Peripheries”, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

Coffee with Scientists seminars, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK

Seminars on History of Science, Institute of History, Madrid, Spain

History of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Working Group, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

A History Forum for Ocean Science, Strategy, and Environment Seminar series, Sevilla, Spain

Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine Working Groups

News on Sources

Brazilian National Archives Luso-Brazilian History Catalogue of Sources

Call for online volunteers to transcribe handwritten sources, National Archives, USA

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Nashely Yuvitza Lizarme Villcas
Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad del Pacífico
Instituto Riva Agüero – Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 

Education and Progress: The Escuela de Ingenieros and Engineers’ Training in Peru (1911–1930)

I wrote this article to explore how technical education became a field of negotiation between empire and nation in early twentieth-century Peru. The Escuela de Ingenieros, initially shaped by the French positivist model and later reoriented toward North American pragmatism, did not simply import ideas; it negotiated with them. Within a context of scarce resources and strong state dependence, Peruvian engineers sought to adapt foreign paradigms to local needs, crafting a practical vision of modernization that affirmed their own professional agency. Yet this search for legitimacy relied entirely on Western scientific canons, overlooking the long Andean engineering knowledge and traditions that had shaped the territory for centuries. In doing so, engineers not only negotiated imperial models but also helped to consolidate a centralized modern state that equated progress with Western science, reaffirming its authority as the universal language of development in the Andes.

Published in History of Education (Taylor & Francis, 2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2025.2466500

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