This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his early and unexpected death in June 1997. The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical science, as demonstrated by the completion of the Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph.

A conference on Poetry and Melancholia will be held at the University of Stirling, 8-10 July 2011.

Keynote speakers:
Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, University of London)
Don Paterson (Poet)
Susan J. Wolfson (Princeton University)

Other speakers include: John Drakakis (Stirling University), Lorna Hutson (University of St Andrews), Ron Levao (Rutgers University), Cornelia D. J. Pearsall (Smith College) and David G. Riede (Ohio State University).

Registration is now open for 'Approaches to Ancient Medicine 2010', which will be held at Cardiff University, 23-24 August 2010.

This symposium will be held on October 22-23, 2010.

This conference is inspired by Dalhousie University's online launch of their Dinwiddie Archives and aims to further international dialogue and scholarly exchange between those working on the history of science in
Asia, Europe and North America by examining the global circulation of scientific knowledge from the Early Modern Period to today.

CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WEST will culminate in a half-day facilitation workshop to plan for further Science Studies dialogue and exchange, "East" and "West", with future conferences in Bangalore and
Singapore.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE: