BRITISH POSTGRADUATE LEEDS SOCIETY CONFERENCE 8—9—10 FOR THE JANUARY HISTORY 2014 OF SCIENCE The British Society for the History of Science is a company limited by guarantee, registration number 562208 in England; registered charity number 258854. Address for communications: BSHS Executive Secretary, PO Box 3401, Norwich, NR7 7JF Tel: +44 (0)1603 516 236 Email: [email protected] ; Web: www.bshs.org.uk © 2014, British Society for the History of Science BSHS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 8–9–10 JANUARY 2014 UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK
Welcome to the 2014 BSHS Postgraduate Conference! We at Leeds had a phenomenal response from the postgraduate community and are very happy to be hosting an annual event that goes from strength to strength. The following three-days promise to be exciting and stimulating (not to mention fun). The conference is a great opportunity for postgraduates in the history/philosophy/sociology/et al.ology of science, technology, and medicine to participate in thoughtful discussions, test and exchange ideas, but also relax and enjoy everything Leeds has to offer. We were of course particularly pleased with the great number of papers that blend historical and philosophical perspectives, which marvellously showcase the tradition of the Leeds Centre for HPS. So, without further ado, thank you all very much, welcome to Leeds, and let’s begin!
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ON ARRIVAL • Pick up your registration pack from the conference registration desk in the Parkinson Court on arrival to the conference venue. • Tea and Coffee will be provided before the conference begins in the Centenary Gallery, where all subsequent refreshment and lunch breaks will be held. • All conference rooms will be clearly signposted, but if help is needed please go to the conference registration desk (or, alternatively, to the Parkinson Building reception desk). • If you need some place to temporarily store your baggage, please ask at the registration desk.
INSTRUCTIONS TO All conference rooms have PowerPoint facilities. Please bring your SPEAKERS presentation on an USB stick and come to the session room where you are to present at least 10 minutes before the start of the session to upload it. We recommend that you save your presentation as a PDF file to avoid any incompatibility issues. Presentations should be max. 18 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of question/discussion.
WELCOME RECEPTION The welcome reception will be held on the evening of Wednesday 8th January at the Centenary Gallery.
CONFERENCE DINNER The conference dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday 9th January at The Faversham, 1-5 Springfield Mount, LS2 9NG, on the southern edge of the University campus. 2014 BSHS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW WEDNESDAY 8TH JANUARY 2014 10.30 – 12.00 Registration, Tea & Coffee 12.00 – 13.30 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Sex and Sexualised Disease Science, Technology and the State Philosophy and Representation in Room: G.36 Room: G.37 Physics Chair: Becky Bowd Chair: Daniele Macuglia Room: 3.11 Chair: Nahuel Sznajderhaus Agata Ignaciuk Elizabeth Haines Making Contraception Respectable: Colonial Cartography as Labour Camilla Rostvik Medical Advertising of the Pill in Spain What Can Art Tell Us about CERN? Sam Robinson (1964-1985) Representation and Image in European Constructing Surveillance, Challenging Physics Hannah Kershaw Democracy; Ocean Science and From ‘Any Woman’ Thrush to Pitiful Geopolitics at Gibraltar Nahuel Sznajderhaus AIDS: The Construction of HIV-Positive From the Founding Fathers of Quantum Alice White Identities in Just Seventeen Magazine, Mechanics to the Copenhagen Tickboxes and Testing Men: The Shaping 1983-1997 Interpretation: Historical and of a Psychological Technology in the WWII Epistemological Remarks Laura R. Neff British Army The Abdominal Abyss: The Surgical Alison Boyle Stuart Butler Exploration of Maternal Medicine 1860- The Material and the Microworld: The ‘White Heat’ of Tory Science? 1890 Museum Interpretations of Modern Science, Technology, and Modernism in Physics Anne Hanley Conservative Government 1963-4 Syphilisation and its Discontents: Experimental Inoculation and the Search for Immunity against Syphilis in England, 1860-1880
13.30 – 14.10 Lunch break 14.10 – 14.40 Discussion: “Three things you can do with a History of Science PhD” with Prof. Graeme Gooday (Room: G.37) 14.40 – 16.10 Session 4 Session 5 Natural History and Evolution Appropriating and Applying Knowledge Room: G.36 Room: G.37 Chair: Arik Clausner Chair: Alice White Pedro Ricardo Gouveia da Fonseca Daniele Macuglia Through the Looking Glass: A Clarification Knowledge Transfer in XVII-Century of Historical Myths and Half-truths Rome: The Case of Boscovich and the about Charles Darwin, Darwinism and Roman College, 1726-1760 Evolutionary Theory Katherine Platt Clare O’Reilly Negotiating British-German identities: Darwin, Dogs, Doves and the Tree of Life Siemens contested role in British First World War Industry Natalie Lawrence Tusks, Skins and Bones: The Walrus Lydia Janssen amongst Sailors and Scholars in Early From Literary Genre to Scientific Modern Europe Discipline. Early Modern Antiquarianism and the Development of a Dual Tradition Elizabeth Dobson Jones in National Historiography The Tasmanian Tiger and the Development of Ancient DNA Research
16.30 – 19.00 Wine Reception End of Day 1 THURSDAY 9TH JANUARY 2014 9.00 – 9.30 Tea & Coffee 9.30 – 11.00 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 Biology Science, Technology and Modernity Philosophy of Science I Room: G.36 Room: G.37 Room: 3.11 Chair: Erman Sozodogru Chair: Thomas Palmelund Johansen Chair: Toby Friend Andrea Nunez Casal Jean-Francois Fava-Verde Clare Stainthorp Digressions on Immunity: From Private Wires in Victorian Britain Constance Naden’s Scientific Education the British Embassy in Turkey to the and “Hylo-Idealism” Thomas Palmelund Johansen Yanomami’s Microbiome Profiting from Words: the Philosophie Neil Dewar Arik Clausner Économique of the Printing Machine Proving the Löwenheim-Skolem and A Science for the Empire: The Origins of Completeness Theorems Adrian James Kirwan the British Imperial Bureau of Entomology Ireland’s Early Telegraph Network: Josafat Ivan Hernandez Cervantes Erman Sozodogru Technological Implementation and The Historical Development of the Pluralism in Life Sciences: Building the Expansion on the Periphery of the Union, Rational Agent Concept in Mainstream RNA World 1850-1865 Economics in XX Century Jouni Ahmajärvi Aleš Materna Hugh Mackenzie The Products of Nature and Social Shipbuilding Production for the Austro- Platonic Numbers as Naturally Enabling Inequality - Biological Factors in Gunnar Hungarian Navy by the Vítkovice an Optimal Encounter of Mind with Landtman´s Sociology Ironworks Matter
11.00 – 11.30 Tea & Coffee 11.30 – 13.00 Session 9 Session 10 Session 11 Holding a Mirror to Medicine Agriculture Philosophy of Science II Room: G.36 Room: G.37 Room: 3.11 Chair: Nicholas Binney Chair: Sara Peres Chair: Hugh Mackenzie Alan Mackintosh Andrew Ball Steffan John Why Patent a Medicine? Achieving Better Ways to Kill: Science, the humane The Science and Politics of the Logical Authority in late Georgian England movement and changing economies of Positivists animal slaughter in Britain, 1878-1967 Nicholas Binney Adam Ferner Macrohistory for Medicine’s Sake Matthew Holmes The Rise of the Organism in Analytic Silent Farms: Pesticides and Partridge Metaphysics Agnes Arnold-Foster Poisoning in Britain and Ireland, 1843- Toby Friend Managing Ignorance: Breast Cancer and 1848 its Cures in Britain in the Nineteenth Is ‘Oxygen’ Referentially Stable? Century Kapil Subramanian Jim Grozier Private Tubewells and the Green Falsificationism, Science and Uncertainty Revolution Sara Peres The Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Embodying Conservation as a Global Concern and Enacting the ‘International Seed Treaty’ in the Arctic Permafrost
13.00 – 13.40 Lunch Break (programme continues on next page) THURSDAY 9TH JANUARY 2014 (continued) 13.40 – 14.10 Discussion: “Museums and the History of Science” with Dr. Claire Jones (Room: G.37) 14.10 – 15.40 Session 12 Session 13 Session 14 Science in/from the Observatory Historiography and the Scientist The Mind and the Brain Room: G.36 Room: G.37 Room: 3.11 Chair: Lee Macdonald Chair: Matteo Corso Chair: Bill Jenkins Lee Macdonald Schilt Kees-Jan Rebecca O’Neal Re-establishing Kew Observatory, 1840- “I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally” Which Way Is Up? Brain Dissection and 1842 - Why Isaac Newton might never have Theoretical Insights published, and why he yet did Ken Corbett Bill Jenkins ‘The best Mean Time the Observatory Ruth Wainman George Combe, Phrenology and Heredity: Can Supply’: Experiments with Clock Learning to Become a Scientist: The Social Lamarckism in Mid-ineteenth- Coordination in Victorian London Shaping of the Scientist in Family Life and century Edinburgh? Education in Wartime and Early Post-War Sarah Crook Margarita García de Cortázar Nebreda Britain Astronomy in the Spanish Newsreel (NO- Psychiatric Knowledge and the General DO) from 1943 to 1963 Matteo Corso Practitioner: Maternal Distress in the How a Potter Becomes a Scientist: The Community in 1960s Britain History of Science Dealing with Josiah Wedgwood Oliver Marsh Life Cycle of a Star: Media Myths of Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman
15.40 – 16.10 Tea & Coffee 19.00 – 21.00 Conference Dinner End of Day 2 FRIDAY 10TH JANUARY 2014 9.30 – 10.00 Tea & Coffee 10.00 – 11.30 Session 15 Session 16 Session 17 Chemistry Medieval and Early-Modern Science Politics in the Museum Room: G.36 Room: G.37 Room: 3.11 Chair: Catherine Rushmore Chair: Natasha Cutts Chair: Erin Beeston Haileigh Robertson Christopher Braun Jia-Ou Song Polychrests and Eprouvettes: Using and The ‘Science of the Letter Mîm’ – Occult Sticking Your Nose in It: The Changing Testing Gunpowder in the 17th Century Practices and the Search for Hidden Effects of Political Influences in Chinese Riches in Medieval Egypt Science Museums from the Early c20th to Catherine Rushmore the Present Day “No Known Antidote” Paraquat and its Alessandra Petrocchi Domestic Users in Britain Sanskrit Mathematical Writings in Erin Beeston Ancient and Medieval India: Between ‘Off the rails’: A Space for Heritage - Galina Shyndriayeva Oral Tradition and Literary Texts Liverpool Road Station, Manchester Modern Sensibilities: Materials and Expertise in the Early Twentieth-century Natasha Cutts Alice Haigh Perfume Industry With What Kind of Body Shall They Mind, Body and Business. Elevating the Come?: The Resurrection Body in Early Masses by Means of the Bethnal Green Christianity Museum Frances Maguire ‘The Lords Name Be Praised for our Life and Health’: Bills of Mortality in Seventeenth-Century England 11.30 – 12.00 Tea & Coffee 12.00 – 13.30 Session 18 Session 19 Power and Identity Representing and Intervening Room: G.36 Room: G.37 Chair: Alice Haigh Chair: Ageliki Lefkaditou Kate Mahoney Damian Hughes “The Personal is Political”? Consciousness- Hidden in plain sight: Early ecology as Raising and Changing Definitions of visual science “Therapy” in the British Women’s Justine Cook Liberation Movement, 1969-1979 Road Signs, Design Aesthetics, and Andrew Black History of Technology Who Defines Medical Research Policy? Yin Chung Au Patients, politics and the Case of The interplay between biomedical research Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic and drawings: apoptosis 1970s – 2005 Encephalomyelitis Zhang Xiao Long Medical Statistics Started in the Late Qing Dynasty Hannah Grenham ‘Freaks, Knurds, Hackers and Assorted Hangers On’: The Impact of the Computer Hobbyist Movement on Domestic Computing in the United States 13.30 – 14.10 Lunch Break 14.10 – 14.40 Discussion: “How to Improve your Writing” with Prof. Greg Radick (Room: G.37) End of Conference DELEGATE LIST NAME EMAIL NAME EMAIL tobythomasfriend@googlemail. Ahmajärvi, Jouni [email protected] Friend, Toby com
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