📣 SCIEMP is looking for 2 early career scholars to lead our Early Career activities.
They will organize a Science and Empire Online Seminar Series, planned to run monthly from October 2026 to June 2027. The selected scholars will also join monthly SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other activities.
They will organize a Science and Empire Online Seminar Series, planned to run monthly from October 2026 to June 2027. The selected scholars will also join monthly SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other activities.
June 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
📣 SCIEMP is looking for 2 early career scholars to lead our Early Career activities.
They will organize a Science and Empire Online Seminar Series, planned to run monthly from October 2026 to June 2027. The selected scholars will also join monthly SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other activities.
They will organize a Science and Empire Online Seminar Series, planned to run monthly from October 2026 to June 2027. The selected scholars will also join monthly SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other activities.
SCIEMP has a new logo!
And it was chosen with help from our community. Check our profile for a closer look and tell us: what do you think?
And it was chosen with help from our community. Check our profile for a closer look and tell us: what do you think?
May 20, 2026 at 6:01 PM
SCIEMP has a new logo!
And it was chosen with help from our community. Check our profile for a closer look and tell us: what do you think?
And it was chosen with help from our community. Check our profile for a closer look and tell us: what do you think?
Welcome to the official account of the Science and Empire Commission. SCIEMP is an international forum for research on the histories of science, technology, medicine, and empire. We share calls for papers, events, publications, bibliography highlights, and news. Follow to be part of the conversation
March 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Welcome to the official account of the Science and Empire Commission. SCIEMP is an international forum for research on the histories of science, technology, medicine, and empire. We share calls for papers, events, publications, bibliography highlights, and news. Follow to be part of the conversation
We are excited about the 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting in Edinburgh!
SCIEMP is organising four sessions which will happen on Wednesday, July 15, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
See the full programme at: cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...
SCIEMP is organising four sessions which will happen on Wednesday, July 15, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
See the full programme at: cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...
cdn.ymaws.com
May 20, 2026 at 11:04 AM
We are excited about the 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting in Edinburgh!
SCIEMP is organising four sessions which will happen on Wednesday, July 15, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
See the full programme at: cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...
SCIEMP is organising four sessions which will happen on Wednesday, July 15, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
See the full programme at: cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...
✳️ Call for papers!
You can find all the information on the SCIEMP website:
scienceandempire.com/news-and-eve...
#SCIEMP #ScienceAndEmpire
You can find all the information on the SCIEMP website:
scienceandempire.com/news-and-eve...
#SCIEMP #ScienceAndEmpire
News and events - Science and Empire Commission - HOME
Next Events 2026 2027 2028 2029 20º Seminário Nacional de História da Ciência e da TecnologiaGoiânia, Brazil 27 a 31 July 2026 Conference of the European Society for the History of ScienceEdinburgh, S...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
✳️ Call for papers!
You can find all the information on the SCIEMP website:
scienceandempire.com/news-and-eve...
#SCIEMP #ScienceAndEmpire
You can find all the information on the SCIEMP website:
scienceandempire.com/news-and-eve...
#SCIEMP #ScienceAndEmpire
Today we highlight Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science by Silvia Figueirôa, Professor at State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1st Vice-President of the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST), and former SCIEMP President.
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science
Studies addressing the so-called “diffusion” of modern European science utilized a Eurocentric viewpoint and considered non-European countries essentially as receivers and repeaters, conve...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Today we highlight Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science by Silvia Figueirôa, Professor at State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1st Vice-President of the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST), and former SCIEMP President.
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
📢 SCIEMP is going to Edinburgh!
Did you know we’re hosting a symposium at the joint meeting of the History of Science Society/European Society for the History of Science?
Supported by the British Society for the History of Science, the conference takes place in Scotland from 13 - 16 July 2026 🧵1/4
Did you know we’re hosting a symposium at the joint meeting of the History of Science Society/European Society for the History of Science?
Supported by the British Society for the History of Science, the conference takes place in Scotland from 13 - 16 July 2026 🧵1/4
March 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
📢 SCIEMP is going to Edinburgh!
Did you know we’re hosting a symposium at the joint meeting of the History of Science Society/European Society for the History of Science?
Supported by the British Society for the History of Science, the conference takes place in Scotland from 13 - 16 July 2026 🧵1/4
Did you know we’re hosting a symposium at the joint meeting of the History of Science Society/European Society for the History of Science?
Supported by the British Society for the History of Science, the conference takes place in Scotland from 13 - 16 July 2026 🧵1/4
You can still help SCIEMP choose its new logo! You can vote on the thread below or on Google Forms: forms.gle/iuDGLFzm3VkW...
Voting ends tomorrow and the new logo - chosen by our community - will be revealed next week.
Make your voice heard and cast your vote now!
Voting ends tomorrow and the new logo - chosen by our community - will be revealed next week.
Make your voice heard and cast your vote now!
May 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
You can still help SCIEMP choose its new logo! You can vote on the thread below or on Google Forms: forms.gle/iuDGLFzm3VkW...
Voting ends tomorrow and the new logo - chosen by our community - will be revealed next week.
Make your voice heard and cast your vote now!
Voting ends tomorrow and the new logo - chosen by our community - will be revealed next week.
Make your voice heard and cast your vote now!
Like many scholarly commissions, SCIEMP depends heavily on the voluntary work of its members.
The structure may be complicated, but the goal is simple: connect people and promote critical research on the histories of science and empire.
Join us: scienceandempire.com
#ScienceAndEmpire
The structure may be complicated, but the goal is simple: connect people and promote critical research on the histories of science and empire.
Join us: scienceandempire.com
#ScienceAndEmpire
SCIEMP - Science and Empire Commission
The Science and Empire Commission (SCIEMP) is a commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST / IUHPST) dedicated to promoting, coordinating, and disseminating research on...
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September 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Like many scholarly commissions, SCIEMP depends heavily on the voluntary work of its members.
The structure may be complicated, but the goal is simple: connect people and promote critical research on the histories of science and empire.
Join us: scienceandempire.com
#ScienceAndEmpire
The structure may be complicated, but the goal is simple: connect people and promote critical research on the histories of science and empire.
Join us: scienceandempire.com
#ScienceAndEmpire
🗳️ We need your help!
SCIEMP is choosing a new logo, and we’d love to hear what our community thinks. In the next posts of this thread, we’ll share three options.
To vote, simply like the post with your favourite logo. Feel free to reply too as we’d love to know why you chose it.
SCIEMP is choosing a new logo, and we’d love to hear what our community thinks. In the next posts of this thread, we’ll share three options.
To vote, simply like the post with your favourite logo. Feel free to reply too as we’d love to know why you chose it.
May 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM
🗳️ We need your help!
SCIEMP is choosing a new logo, and we’d love to hear what our community thinks. In the next posts of this thread, we’ll share three options.
To vote, simply like the post with your favourite logo. Feel free to reply too as we’d love to know why you chose it.
SCIEMP is choosing a new logo, and we’d love to hear what our community thinks. In the next posts of this thread, we’ll share three options.
To vote, simply like the post with your favourite logo. Feel free to reply too as we’d love to know why you chose it.
In simplified form:
🌍 UNESCO
↳ 🌐 ISC / international scientific community
↳ 🔬 IUHPST
↳ 📚 DHST
↳ 🔭 SCIEMP
Each level has a different role — from international scientific cooperation to specialized research networks.
🌍 UNESCO
↳ 🌐 ISC / international scientific community
↳ 🔬 IUHPST
↳ 📚 DHST
↳ 🔭 SCIEMP
Each level has a different role — from international scientific cooperation to specialized research networks.
September 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
In simplified form:
🌍 UNESCO
↳ 🌐 ISC / international scientific community
↳ 🔬 IUHPST
↳ 📚 DHST
↳ 🔭 SCIEMP
Each level has a different role — from international scientific cooperation to specialized research networks.
🌍 UNESCO
↳ 🌐 ISC / international scientific community
↳ 🔬 IUHPST
↳ 📚 DHST
↳ 🔭 SCIEMP
Each level has a different role — from international scientific cooperation to specialized research networks.
✉️The November 2025 issue of the SCIEMP newsletter is out! Subscribe and don't miss out on all the news, fellowships, jobs, calls for papers, and much more that we will share monthly. Subscribe on scienceandempire.com/highlights/
Newsletter - Science and Empire Commission
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November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
✉️The November 2025 issue of the SCIEMP newsletter is out! Subscribe and don't miss out on all the news, fellowships, jobs, calls for papers, and much more that we will share monthly. Subscribe on scienceandempire.com/highlights/
Did you know SCIEMP has a newsletter? 📰✉️
By subscribing you will receive news on calls for papers, conferences, fellowships, jobs, and prizes. We also have a special section called microblogs where members share their latest publications with the community.
Join @ scienceandempire.com/highlights/
By subscribing you will receive news on calls for papers, conferences, fellowships, jobs, and prizes. We also have a special section called microblogs where members share their latest publications with the community.
Join @ scienceandempire.com/highlights/
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If you would like to join the Commission’s mailing list and receive our newsletter, please subscribe here: If you are not receiving any information, please send a message to our official email: scienc...
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March 19, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Did you know SCIEMP has a newsletter? 📰✉️
By subscribing you will receive news on calls for papers, conferences, fellowships, jobs, and prizes. We also have a special section called microblogs where members share their latest publications with the community.
Join @ scienceandempire.com/highlights/
By subscribing you will receive news on calls for papers, conferences, fellowships, jobs, and prizes. We also have a special section called microblogs where members share their latest publications with the community.
Join @ scienceandempire.com/highlights/
📚 Recommended reading from SCIEMP’s June newsletter:
Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960, edited by Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli.
A valuable resource on imperial medicine, colonial health, and global histories of science.
Find more @ scienceandempire.com
Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960, edited by Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli.
A valuable resource on imperial medicine, colonial health, and global histories of science.
Find more @ scienceandempire.com
SCIEMP - Science and Empire Commission
The Science and Empire Commission (SCIEMP) is a commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST / IUHPST) dedicated to promoting, coordinating, and disseminating research on...
scienceandempire.com
June 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
📚 Recommended reading from SCIEMP’s June newsletter:
Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960, edited by Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli.
A valuable resource on imperial medicine, colonial health, and global histories of science.
Find more @ scienceandempire.com
Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960, edited by Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli.
A valuable resource on imperial medicine, colonial health, and global histories of science.
Find more @ scienceandempire.com
🔭 And that’s where SCIEMP comes in.
We promote research on the intersections of science, knowledge production and imperial formations through:
📚 workshops & conferences
💻 seminars & collaborations
✉️ our newsletter
🔎 Zotero & digital resources
🌍 international networking
We promote research on the intersections of science, knowledge production and imperial formations through:
📚 workshops & conferences
💻 seminars & collaborations
✉️ our newsletter
🔎 Zotero & digital resources
🌍 international networking
September 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
🔭 And that’s where SCIEMP comes in.
We promote research on the intersections of science, knowledge production and imperial formations through:
📚 workshops & conferences
💻 seminars & collaborations
✉️ our newsletter
🔎 Zotero & digital resources
🌍 international networking
We promote research on the intersections of science, knowledge production and imperial formations through:
📚 workshops & conferences
💻 seminars & collaborations
✉️ our newsletter
🔎 Zotero & digital resources
🌍 international networking
SCIEMP was created in 1997 as a commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST).
The DHST is one of the two divisions of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST).
The DHST is one of the two divisions of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST).
September 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
SCIEMP was created in 1997 as a commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST).
The DHST is one of the two divisions of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST).
The DHST is one of the two divisions of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST).
📖 Recommended from the SCIEMP Zotero library: Jane R. Camerini, “Wallace in the Field,” Osiris 11, Science in the Field (1996), pp. 44–65.
A useful reading for thinking about field science and the contributions of local agents to the construction of knowledge.
#ScienceAndEmpire #HistoryOfScience
A useful reading for thinking about field science and the contributions of local agents to the construction of knowledge.
#ScienceAndEmpire #HistoryOfScience
August 23, 2026 at 10:55 AM
📖 Recommended from the SCIEMP Zotero library: Jane R. Camerini, “Wallace in the Field,” Osiris 11, Science in the Field (1996), pp. 44–65.
A useful reading for thinking about field science and the contributions of local agents to the construction of knowledge.
#ScienceAndEmpire #HistoryOfScience
A useful reading for thinking about field science and the contributions of local agents to the construction of knowledge.
#ScienceAndEmpire #HistoryOfScience
📍 Are you in Edinburgh today?
Join SCIEMP at the joint ESHS/HSS meeting for our symposium series Science and Empire in the Anthropocene.
From 11 am to 5:45 pm we will be at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 1.40. Come by and say hello!
Full programme @ cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...
Join SCIEMP at the joint ESHS/HSS meeting for our symposium series Science and Empire in the Anthropocene.
From 11 am to 5:45 pm we will be at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 1.40. Come by and say hello!
Full programme @ cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...
cdn.ymaws.com
July 15, 2026 at 7:57 AM
📍 Are you in Edinburgh today?
Join SCIEMP at the joint ESHS/HSS meeting for our symposium series Science and Empire in the Anthropocene.
From 11 am to 5:45 pm we will be at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 1.40. Come by and say hello!
Full programme @ cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...
Join SCIEMP at the joint ESHS/HSS meeting for our symposium series Science and Empire in the Anthropocene.
From 11 am to 5:45 pm we will be at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 1.40. Come by and say hello!
Full programme @ cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...
📣 Reminder: SCIEMP is looking for 2 early career scholars to help lead our Early Career activities.
This opportunity is open to PhD students and to scholars within 5 years of defending their PhD.
🧵 1/4
#ScienceAndEmpire #AcademicOpportunities
This opportunity is open to PhD students and to scholars within 5 years of defending their PhD.
🧵 1/4
#ScienceAndEmpire #AcademicOpportunities
July 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
📣 Reminder: SCIEMP is looking for 2 early career scholars to help lead our Early Career activities.
This opportunity is open to PhD students and to scholars within 5 years of defending their PhD.
🧵 1/4
#ScienceAndEmpire #AcademicOpportunities
This opportunity is open to PhD students and to scholars within 5 years of defending their PhD.
🧵 1/4
#ScienceAndEmpire #AcademicOpportunities
The main role will be organizing SCIEMP’s new Science and Empire Online Seminar Series, planned to run monthly from October 2026 to June 2027.
The selected scholars will also be expected to attend SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other early-career activities.
🧵 2/4
The selected scholars will also be expected to attend SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other early-career activities.
🧵 2/4
July 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
The main role will be organizing SCIEMP’s new Science and Empire Online Seminar Series, planned to run monthly from October 2026 to June 2027.
The selected scholars will also be expected to attend SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other early-career activities.
🧵 2/4
The selected scholars will also be expected to attend SCIEMP meetings and contribute to other early-career activities.
🧵 2/4