BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015 Programme
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2 BSHS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies 7 – 8 – 9 JANUARY 2015
The Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London welcomes you to the BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015! This event is an annual conference for postgraduate scholars in the history, philosophy and sociology of science, technology and medicine interested in meeting and sharing research with other postgraduate scholars. This is a great opportunity to build professional and social networks within a supportive and constructive environment. We had an outstanding response for paper submissions and postgraduate attendance, and we are looking forward to an extraordinary conference this year. Thank you for your contribution!
Sincerely, BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015 Committee
Elizabeth Jones Raquel Velho Erman Sozudogru
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!4 CONFERENCE INFORMATION Webpage: http://www.bshs.org.uk/conferences/postgraduate-conference/2015- postgraduate-conference-ucl Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BSHS.PG.15 Twitter: @BSHS_PG_15 #BSHSPG15
CONFERENCE CONTACTS For information and queries: [email protected] For emergencies: (+44) 02076791328
CONFERENCE LOCATION University College London Roberts Building (Malet Place Entrance) Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE (+44) 02076792000 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
University College London Department of Science and Technology Studies 22 Gordon Square, London WC1E 6BT (+44) 02076791328 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts
CONFERENCE ACCOMMODATION Holiday Inn Bloomsbury Coram Street, London WC1N 1HT (+44) 08719429222 http://www.hilondonbloomsburyhotel.co.uk/
TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION London offers taxi, bus, underground and overground transportation. Please note that all conference events including the Wellcome Wine Reception and Conference Bright Club Event are walking distance from conference venue. https://www.tfl.gov.uk/
ARRIVAL INFORMATION • The conference registration desk is in Roberts Foyer. Please collect your name badge and conference packet. • Tea and coffee and lunch will be provided in Roberts Foyer on 7 January. Tea and coffee and lunch will be provided in Roberts 422 on 8 and 9 January. • All conference rooms will be marked, but if you need assistance then please ask the conference registration desk. • If you need to temporarily store your luggage, please ask the conference registration desk. • If you have applied to BSHS for a Butler-Eyles Travel Grant, please keep your receipts.
5 PRESENTATION INFORMATION
All conference rooms have PowerPoint available. Please upload your presentation on an USB drive and arrive to the appropriate room 10 minutes prior to the start of the session. Please save your presentation as a PDF file to avoid incompatibility issues. Talks should be a maximum of 18 minutes for presentation and followed by a maximum of 5 minutes for questions. The session chair will record the time.
EVENT INFORMATION
Welcome Wine Reception Wednesday 7 January 17:30-19:30 Grant Museum of Zoology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology 21 University Street London WC1E 6DE
Conference Bright Club Event Thursday 8 January 19:30-22:30 Star of Kings Pub http://www.starofkings.co.uk/ 126 York Way London N1 0AX
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!7 WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY 2015 REGISTRATION, TEA AND COFFEE 10:30-12:00 Roberts Foyer G02 WELCOME KEYNOTE BY DR BILL MACLEHOSE 12:00-12:30 Ambrose Fleming G06 LUNCH BREAK 12:30-13:00 Roberts Foyer G02 SESSION 1, 2 & 3 13:00-14:30 Ambrose Fleming G06, Roberts 106 & David Davies G08
SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 Investigative Histories Biotechnology Alternative Histories Room: Ambrose Fleming G06 Room: Roberts 106 Room: David Davies G08 Chair: Erman Sozudogru Chair: Paul Sims Chair: Natalie Lawrence
Meritxell Ramirez-i-Olle Carolyn Cobbold Alexander Iosad An intellectual history of trust and Controlling chemical dyes in food Translating Western natural scepticism in science in the nineteenth century - knowledge in 18th-century experimental assemblages Russia: texts, attitudes, disciplines Tom Kelsay “I am not sure that Professor Jennifer Adlem Yoshimi Takuwa Waddington really got what he Mad dogs and English flour: The Since when did the Japanese see hoped for.”: A history of the work of Edward Mellanby on indigo in rainbows?: A fusion of Science Studies Unit from its canine hysteria and public health. Newton's theory and folklore inception to the “Edinburgh School” Alex Mankoo Hattie Lloyd Teargas – We haven’t got the Mr. Davy's lectures - read all Michael Kattirtzi foggiest: Deconstructing the about it! A History of Social Research in Ambiguities of Creeping DEFRA: 2001-present Legitimisation Helen-Frances Pilkington Science, heal thyself: Charles Joe Simpson Joshua Hutton Dickens's call for scientific reform The Francis Crick Institute and Funding biodefence: Gaps in the in the 1830 the Political Economy of Hope fence?
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SESSION 4 & 5 14:40-15:50 Ambrose Fleming G06 & David Davies G08
SESSION 4 SESSION 5 Sociobiology & Mind Technopolitics & War Room: Ambrose Fleming G06 Room: David Davies G08 Chair: Helen-Frances Pilkington Chair: Arik Clausner
Valentine Hoffbeck Paul Coleman From "unproductive" to "social Full of hot air: The role of the burden": The use and misuse of Northcliffe Press in the mental diagnosis to classify the development of aviation mentally challenged technology in Britain 1900-1914.
Eilis Kempley Aaro Sahari In Awe of Insanity: The Mescaline Powering through the Cold War Experiments of Julian Trevelyan pack ice
Pedro Ricardo Fonseca Saara Matala Avante Sociobiologia? The Technopolitics of Cold War sociobiology debate in Portugal shipbuilding - Finnish-Soviet (1975-1982). Nuclear icebreaker project 1961-1989 OPTIONAL EXCURSION TO WELLCOME COLLECTION 16:00-17:00 Meeting point: Roberts Foyer G02 WELCOME WINE RECEPTION 17:30-19:30 Grant Museum of Zoology
END OF CONFERENCE DAY 1
!9 THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2015
SESSION 6, 7 & 8 9:30-11:00 Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 6 SESSION 7 SESSION 8 Biopolitics & Innovation State Sponsorship vs. Private Histories & Medicine Room: Roberts 309 Reward: The role of the Room: Roberts 508 Chair: Raquel Velho twentieth-century General Post Chair: Alexander Iosad Office in Warfare and Welfare. Room: Roberts 421 Agnes Arnold-Forster Ianto Thorvald Jocks Chair: Oliver Marsh The Function of Incurability: Pharmacological Parallels Breast Cancer in the Image and between 1st Century Rome and Identity of the Medical Elite in Alice Haigh 19th Century Dorpat – The Britain, 1789-c.1835 State-sponsored Secrets: GPO Reception of Scribonius Largus' engineering research and WW1 Compositiones Medicamentorum Carlos Barradas in German Scholarship between 1880 and 1930 Unintended Consequences: From Coreen McGuire Clinicians to Patients and Back ‘Now Deaf Ears Can Hear Again!’ Again Advertising Hearing Loss: Post Manikarnika Dutta Office promotion of public Degenerate Space and Drinking Christiaan de Koning amplified telephony and private Habits: Health of European hearing aids. Sailors in Colonial Calcutta Beyond Cure and Controversy - Exploring the deployment of Genetically Modified Insects Sean McNally Mujeeb Khan (GMIs) in Panama and Spain The Socialist Black-Box: the role Negotiating Medicine: The Ishinp! of the GPO in State-sponsored and Locality Taemin Woo Hearing Aids From Human Genome Project to Farrah Lawrence Synthetic Biology : The Jacob Ward Native American Medical Governance of ‘Big Biology’ in Research Transplanted and Knowledge and Practice: South Korea Privatised: Post Office/British Comments on an outdated Telecom R&D in the digital and historiography and new Information Era approaches TEA AND COFFEE BREAK WITH BSHS OUTREACH 11:00-11:30 Roberts 422
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SESSION 9, 10 & 11 11:30-13:00 Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 9 SESSION 10 SESSION 11 Science & Empire Science & Broadcasting Science & Body Room: Roberts 309 Room: Roberts 421 Room: Roberts 508 Chair: Dolores Iorizzo Chair: Jacob Ward Chair: Agnes Arnold-Forster
Jessica Price Adrian James Kirwan Sadie Harrison Witchcraft and the East India The telegraph nationalisation Mind of the Marquise: Madame de Company, 1668-1736 debate and its impact on the Pompadour and the Subversion of United Kingdom’s nationalised Enlightened Anatomy Edward John Gillin telegraphs, c. 1860-1870 Mechanics and Mathematics: the Alexandra Ion politics of building time at Michael Guida From the „natural” body to the Parliament, 1845-1855. Sonic therapy: birdsong on the anthropological type. The making radio during the Second World of historical bodies in the Erika Jones War beginnings of the Romanian physical anthropology Microscope Images from the Challenger Expedition Jared Keller (1872-1876): Constructing the Science in the Broadcast Booth: Eileen Leary Oceans for Science and Empire Science Popularisers, the BBC, Bodies Politic: Unwrapping the and the Public During the Post- Treatment of Mummies in Arik Clausner World War II Period Colonized Egypt ‘The Minor Horrors of War’: Insects, the British Empire, and Rupert Cole Kathryn Ticehurst the First World War ‘Quite extraordinarily Marginal Men? Anthropology, irresponsible’?: BBC2’s assimilation and colonial Controversy series, 1971-1975’. constructions of partial Aboriginality in “settled” Australia, 1940-1965 LUNCH BREAK WITH BSHS OUTREACH 13:00-13:30 Roberts 422 LUNCH SEMINAR BY DR REBEKAH HIGGITT 13:30-14:00 Roberts 421 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK 14:00-14:30 Roberts 422
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SESSION 12, 13 & 14 14:30-16:00 Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 12 SESSION 13 SESSION 14 Science & Public Discourses Philosophy of Science Science & Case Studies Room: Roberts 309 Room: Roberts 421 Room: Roberts 508 Chair: Meritxell Ramirez-i-Olle Chair: Toby Friend Chair: Coreen McQuire
Erin Beeston Hugh MacKenzie Andrew Ball A space to congregate, educate Intention as primary cause in Anatomy of an abattoir: Medicine, and exhibit: sites of knowledge Plato the meat trade and making space production and consumption at for slaughter at Woodside the Camp Field, Manchester Valeria Motta Lairages, Port of Liverpool, 1879-1913 Emotions: structures in interaction Jia-Ou Song Marcin Krasnodebski Lost in Communication: Staff- Jim Grozier Visitor Relations Set Against Can science feed on the Early Measurements of Electric Physical Sciences in Chinese economic crisis? The case of Charge Museums resin chemistry in France in the interwar period. Kanta Dihal The Limits of Affective Yewande Okuleye Engagement in Science Books for Medical Cannabis or Cannabinoid Children Prescription Medicine? Constructing respectability as a business strategy CONFERENCE KEYNOTE BY PROF HASOK CHANG 16:15-17:00 Roberts 106
17:00-19:30 BREAK FOR CONFERENCE ATTENDANTS
CONFERENCE BRIGHT CLUB EVENT 19:30-22:30 Star of Kings Pub
END OF CONFERENCE DAY 2
!12 FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 2015
SESSION 15, 16 & 17 10:30-12:00 Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 15 SESSION 16 SESSION 17 Medieval & Early Modern Enlightenment Science Contemporary Science & Science Room: Roberts 421 Technology Room: Roberts 309 Chair: Carolyn Cobbold Room: Roberts 508 Chair: Hattie Lloyd Chair: Hsiang-Fu Huang Rafael Dias da Silva Campos Alessandra Petrocchi Enlightenment medicine in the Paul Sims Early Medieval Indian Arithmetical Portuguese America (Brazil): the ‘Bread versus beauty’: contested Practices case of rebel physicians modernity and the British nuclear power programme, 1955-1963 Natalie Lawrence James Cullis Between objects and emblems: Climate, Providence and Agency Thomas Turnbull early modern creature histories in the Work of Henry Home, Lord From William Stanley Jevons to Kames Brookes versus Grubb: energy Katerina Georgoulia conservation and the market for energy in the United Kingdom Painting Physiology in Early Hongjin Liu Modern Period: The Construction What can a HPS learn from War of a Healthy Self-Image Diary Hannah Grenham Challenged by Change: the Dolores Iorizzo Computerisation of the Political Process in the United States Bacon's History of Life and Death and the Origins of Modern Scientific Observation Camilla Mørk Røstvik Gendering CERN TEA AND COFFEE BREAK 12:00-12:30 Roberts 422
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SESSION 18, 19 & 20 12:30-14:00 Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 18 SESSION 19 SESSION 20 Science & Applications Omnischambles? How to Science & Environment Room: Roberts 309 create, implement and avoid Room: Roberts 508 Chair: Kanta Dihal policy. Chair: Stefano Sandrone Room: Roberts 421 Catherine France Chair: Mujeeb Khan Matthew Holmes François Blondel, absolutism and Another Plea for Sparrows: the art of launching bombs Andrew Black Economic Ornithology in the ‘To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? British Press, 1850-1914 Maria Montava Gadea That is the question”: Britain’s troubled history with measles and A Double-Acting Steam Engine in Paul Smith its vaccines. Barcelona (1804-1806). The Horticultural and agricultural Contribution of Francesc research stations in the UK, Santponç Stuart Butler 1910-1930: a feast of variables. “Barbados is Cheaper than Aleš Materna Norfolk”: Policy-making without Sophie Greenway consent in the Black Arrow The Rothschild Family and the Growing well: Dirt, health and the Programme 1964-1971 Science During Industrialisation in home gardener in mid-twentieth- the Central Europe (1830-1918)– century Britain Railways, Steelworks, Hannah Elizabeth Shipbuilding and Coal Mining in ‘Is this perhaps too controversial Moravia and Austrian Silesia even for us?’ The production and dissemination of AIDS education packs for children by the Family Planning Association in the late 80s & early 90s LUNCH BREAK 14:00-14:30 Roberts 422 CLOSING REMARKS BY DR CHIARA AMBROSIO 14:30-15:00 Roberts 106 OPTIONAL EXCURSION TO SCIENCE MUSEUM 15:00-16:30 Meeting Point: Roberts Foyer G02
END OF CONFERENCE DAY 3
14 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
STS wants people to think about science differently. We want to understand science as a force in modern society. We want to understand what underpins its successes and failures. We want to understand its boundaries and concentrations. We want to know why while people sometimes love science, and sometimes hate it, they increasingly use science to do things in our lives.
Staff
• 18 core academic staff • 3 research or teaching fellows • 4 professional services staff
Research Areas
• history and philosophy of science • science policy and governance • science communication and public engagement
Department History
In 1921 University College London established the first university department in Britain in the field of history and philosophy of science. The Department has offered graduate degrees since then, and many leading scholars in this field began their careers with degrees from UCL. In 1993 an undergraduate BSc programme was launched, with an expanded staff that also included scholars in science communication and science policy. To reflect the widening interdisciplinary nature of our work, the name of the Department was changed in 1996 to the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS). STS is unique in the UK in combining – in one department – teaching and research in history and philosophy of science with social studies of science (including science policy, public understanding of science and science communication).
In 1924 STS launched its first Masters degree. In 1987 postgraduate teaching in our department was merged with similar activities at Imperial College London and the then Wellcome Institute to create the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. At its inception, this was the only such programme in the UK. A decade later, staff were boasting, "we lead the field in feeding outstanding students into PhD programmes and research careers." Our most recent masters programme launched in 2013, offering 2 degrees together with diplomas and certificates. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts
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