Dear Colleagues, Please join us 21-25 October 2024 for a collaborative cleaning and updating of ICHO’s Zotero library. The event is scheduled for the entire week so that you can participate whenever you have time available and from wherever you are located. In 2022 members and friends of ICHO gathered digitally for the first Zotero… Read More Join us for Zotero Fest 2024!
Call for Applications: Research or Conference Travel Grant in the field of the History of Oceanography The International Commission for the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is offering funding for research or conference travel related to the history of ocean sciences or ocean histories. The grant can be used to visit an archive, museum, or library… Read More Call for applications for ICHO fellowships
by Aster Hoving During my PhD research, I was lucky enough to receive a fellowship from The International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO) for my research stay in Japan in the spring of 2024. My dissertation traces the mediation and extraction of hydrothermal vents, tides, waves, and upwelling across contemporary art practices, climate… Read More Ocean Energies in Japan
The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is pleased to announce the winner of its inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize. The award aims to provide recognition and support for early career scholars who are developing ocean history through their scholarship. Papers must be historical, but in recognition that many disciplines engage… Read More Launched! The Inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History Winner Announcement
The International Commission for the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is seeking paper proposals to join its sessions at the 2025 International Congress of History of Science and Technology to be held 29 June – 5 July 2025 in Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand (for details, see: https://www.ichst2025.org/). Proposals should address some aspect of the history of ocean science and/or technology (broadly… Read More CFP 27th ICHST 29 June-5 July 2025
By Elis Jones In July 2023 I was lucky enough to attend the conference of the International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), in Toronto, Canada, through financial support from the ICHO’s fellowship scheme (together with support from the conference organisers themselves and the British Ecological Society – all of… Read More Attending the International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Conference 2023, in Toronto, Canada
By Meghan Marjorie Shea, Stanford University For much of my ocean-loving life, I would have never predicted that I would find myself presenting at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting. As a toddler, I proudly proclaimed that I would become a “marine biologist specializing in seahorses,” and for much of my… Read More ICHO Conference Grant – Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting
The International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO) invites applications for fellowship support from scholars studying the history of the marine sciences broadly conceived. ICHO is a global body devoted to linking scholars, writers, and teachers interested in the history of the marine sciences, broadly defined. We are a commission of the International Union… Read More Call for applications for ICHO fellowships
Virtual workshop, 3-4 November 2022 German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History Throughout the early modern and modern periods, many naturalists and scholars set themselves the task of exploring the Indian Ocean World. Many of these expeditions studied the culture, weather, landscape, flora, and fauna of the subcontinent, while others focused on the… Read More CFP: Research Expeditions to India and the Indian Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times
Since 2020 members and friends of ICHO have crowdsourced more than a thousand journal articles, books, chapters, and more that address the history of ocean science in our collaborative ICHO’s Zotero group library. The first Zotero Fest, held from January 6 to 10, 2022, was devoted to organizing, polishing, and adding new entries to… Read More ICHO Zotero Fest, 2022
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