As an ESHS member, you automatically receive an online subscription to Centaurus – the official journal of the ESHS published by John Wiley & Sons – at a highly discounted price, with access to all online back files to January 1st, 1997. The ESHS membership fee is € 25.00 per year including the online-only subscription to Centaurus, or € 45.00 if you wish to subscribe to the paper edition. You can find the membership form and more information on the activities of the society, on our web-site www.eshs.org. Please feel free to contact the ESHS officers with any questions. In 2016, membership fees are reduced to € 30.00 for two years (2017 and 2018, including the online-only subscription to Centaurus) for participants in the ESHS conference. More information about Centaurus on the publisher’s web-site: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1600-0498/

ESHS 2016 Conference

Science, Technology and Medicine and Power.

Science, Technology and Medicine as Power

Prague, September 22-24 2016

The 7th International Conference of the ESHS will be held in Prague. The main local hosts are the Czech Society for the History of Sciences and Technology and the Charles University. The Conference venue is the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, namesti Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1. The Conference fee includes ESHS two-years membership fee for 2017 and 2018 at a reduced price of € 30.00, including a two-years access to Centaurus. Further information on the 7th ESHS International Conference are at your disposal on the url http://www.7eshs2016.cz/

European Society

for the History of Science www.eshs.org

Council 2014-2016

Karine Chemla, President Antoni Malet, President Elect Fabio Bevilacqua, Vice-President Erika Luciano, Secretary Erwin Neuenschwander, Treasurer Ida Stamhuis, Centaurus Editor Frank James, Newsletter Editor Leonardo Gariboldi, Public relations Matthieu Husson, Webmaster

Scientific Council 2014-2016 Emilia Calvo (Spain), Olga Elina (Russia), Efthymios Nicolaidis (Greece), Emma Sallent Del Colombo (Spain) Felicitas Seebacher (Austria), Ana Simões (Portugal), Annette Vogt (Germany), Bǎichūn Zhāng (张柏春) (China).

The Gustav Neuenschwander Prize

The Gustav Neuenschwander Prize is the principal prize of the ESHS. It is awarded for outstanding lifelong achievements and major contributions to the discipline of the history of science. It was created by Erwin Neuenschwander in 2011 in memory of his father Gustav Neuenschwander. The first Gustav Neuenschwander Prizes were awarded to Claude Debru (Athens, 2012) and Jürgen Renn (Lisbon, 2014). The third prize will be announced and awarded at the 7th International Conference of the ESHS (Prague, 2016).

The 2014 Neuenschwander Prize was awarded to Jürgen Renn.

European Society

for the History of Science www.eshs.org

The European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) was founded on October 12, 2003, at a meeting held at the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne University in Paris. The ESHS is committed to promote research in history of science in its broadest sense at the European level. The ESHS welcomes individual and institutional members from all specialties of our discipline. Your membership of the ESHS will make you a partner in developing our scholarly community beyond the national level.

Official declaration

Tragic events are taking place in and around Europe and are shaking our democratic and cosmopolitan values: terrorist attacks in France, Belgium, Germany and beyond, suspension of human (and academic) rights in Turkey, failure of a policy for the asylum seekers escaping war, war in Ukraine,

assassination by the Egyptian state intelligence of a Cambridge University (Italian) doctoral student, Brexit and other anti-UE movements, visa difficulties that limit the right of many East Asian colleagues to participate in our conferences. Certainly we all know people who have been seriously affected. The general outlook is not positive. Academic freedom and international cooperation are at risk. As an international society aiming to foster cooperation between, and integration of, scholarly communities across Europe and beyond, the ESHS is deeply concerned by those threatening political developments. The ESHS feels therefore the need to publicly denounce political violence, authoritarianism, xenophobia and chauvinism while reaffirming its commitment to our basic, shared values of democracy, openness to the world, and European integration. We solemnly proclaim the need to preserve freedom of research and teaching, international cooperation and transcultural understanding. Our Society is open to and reaches not only all the European countries (not just the EU) but also researchers from all over the world. Our best answer to the current dramatic situation is to make the Prague Conference another outstanding example of international cooperation and professional research. We welcome your support to this declaration through the petition on the ESHS website: www.eshs.org