Coming Symposia

Symposium 37 – Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA, 2-10 August 2012 (34^th International Geological Congress)

Details including abstract submission and registration information are available at www.34igc.org . Abstracts close on 17 February 2012.

The following symposia are being organised by INHIGEO under the "History of Geoscience" theme:

Biographical studies of eminent geologists: A symposium in honour of D.F. Branagan
The early history of continental drift: A centenary tribute to Alfred Wegener (1912)
Major achievements in 20^th century geology
Geology in tropical regions: A history
Geologists, resource exploration and development: an historical perspective
General contributions in the history of geology

A pre-conference field trip involving a transect from Sydney to Brisbane is also planned. This is separate from 34IGC organisation.

Please contact Theme Coordinators: Barry Cooper (Australia) barry.cooper@unisa.edu.au and S.F.de M. Figueirôa (Brazil) (figueiroa@ige.unicamp.br for all program details.

Symposium 38 - Manchester, England, UK, 22-28 July 2013 ( 24th International Congress for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine)

The overall conference theme will be ‘Knowledge at Work’ and the planned INHIGEO symposia will focus on the “Geology of Art and Literature”.

It is also anticipated that INHIGEO will also organise an historic field trip either immediately before or after the above conference dates.

The deadline for submission of symposia proposals is 30 April 2012.

INHIGEO - International Commission on the History of the Geological Sciences