Announcements
Call For Papers - History of Physics symposium for ICHST 2025
The Inter-Union Commission for the History and Philosophy of Physics (IUCHPP) is organizing a symposium on Histories of Physics, with several sub-symposia sessions with specific foci, for the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST) to be held on 29 June - 5 July 2025 in Dunedin, New Zealand (a hybrid conference).
The IUCHPP is seeking participants in the following sub-symposia within its Histories of Physics symposium:
Cold Wars and International Physics
Quantum Century, 1925-2025
Historiographical Trends in the Physical Sciences (for instance, women’s history, global history, material culture and instrumentation, etc.)
If you would like to participate in one of these sessions, please send your name, affiliation, email address, and the topic/title of your talk to communication@iuchpp.org by 23 March 2024. (At a later date, organizers will request a one-page CV and 250-word abstract, but these are not needed at this time). We are also open to proposals for other thematic sessions.
We look forward to seeing you in New Zealand next year!
The IUCHPP is joining forces with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for the History of Physics and the Niels Bohr Library & Archives to foster new generations of historians of physical sciences. We are pleased to announce the fifth international conference for graduate students and early career scholars, to be held from August 30 to September 3, 2023, at the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen, Denmark. This conference aims to foster communication and collaboration amongst junior scholars and to provide a forum for exploring and reflecting upon current issues in the historiography of the physical sciences. Please use the links above to register and/or find more information about the conference.
The conference will be the venue for the award of the First Early Career Prize for the History of Physics 2023
For more information, visit the conference website.
Previous anoucements
Student Travel Bursary for the Fourth International Conference on the History of Physics - 2022
The Inter-Union Commission for the History and Philosophy of Physics of the IUHPST/DHST and the IUPAP offers a number of bursaries of up to 400 Euros to help early-career scholars to present papers at the Fourth International Conference on the History of Physics which will take place at Trinity College Dublin, from 8 to 10 of June 2022. For more information on the conference, visit its official website.
To apply for a bursary you must have submitted an abstract. Once the proposed abstract is accepted by the program committee, send an email to contact Dr. Jaume Navarro (jaume.navarro@ehu.eus), or Dr. Gisela Mateos (gisela.mateos@unam.mx), president and secretary of the Commission, applying for such funds.
26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
The virtual congress will be held on the originally scheduled date: 25–31 July. Details on the website:
A number of papers from the symposium on “Quantum Cultures” Thiago Hartz and Christian Joas organized at the last meeting in Rio (2017) has recently appeared as a special issue in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte – History of Science and Humanities: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15222365/2019/42/4
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for the History of Physics and Niels Bohr Library & Archives are pleased to host a fifth international conference for graduate students and early career scholars, to be held September 3–6, 2020, at the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen, Denmark. The goal of this conference is to foster communication and collaboration amongst junior scholars and to provide a forum for exploring and reflecting upon current issues in the historiography of the physical sciences. Please use the links above to register and/or find more information about the conference.
For more information visit the conference website.
This conference is the fourth in the series following the first three, which were held at Trinity College, Cambridge UK in 2014, Pöllau, Austria in 2016 and San Sebastian, Spain in 2018. It will be the first to be formally overseen by an International Advisory Committee which is recognised by the Institute of Physics and the European Physical Society.
For more information visit the conference website.
Grants-in-aid for the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (posted Apr 24, 2017, 11:19 AM)
The Commission on the History of Physics (CHP) from the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST) of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) is pleased to offer some small grants-in-aid to defray travel expenses of some participants of the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 23 to 29 July 2017.
Early career scholars and PhD students presenting papers related to the history of physics at this congress are eligible for the grants-in-aid. Applications should be sent to the e-mail historyofphysics.dhst@gmail.com including a short CV, and the title and the abstract of the talk to be delivered at the congress. Applications must be sent by May 20, 2017 and results will be announced on May 25, 2017. The CHP-DHST is offering grants-in-aid of up to $500 each one, amounting to $6,000 in total.