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BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015 Programme
The British Society for the History of Science is a company limited by guarantee:registration number 562208 and charity number 258854.
BSHS Executive SecretaryPO Box 3401, Norwich NR7 7JF (+44) 01603516236Email: [email protected]: www.bshs.org.uk
© 2014, British Society for the History of Science
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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 JonesRaquel Velho Erman Sozudogru
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CONFERENCE INFORMATIONWebpage: http://www.bshs.org.uk/conferences/postgraduate-conference/2015-postgraduate-conference-uclFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BSHS.PG.15Twitter: @BSHS_PG_15
#BSHSPG15
CONFERENCE CONTACTSFor information and queries: [email protected] emergencies: (+44) 02076791328
CONFERENCE LOCATIONUniversity College London Roberts Building (Malet Place Entrance)Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE(+44) 02076792000http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
University College LondonDepartment of Science and Technology Studies22 Gordon Square, London WC1E 6BT(+44) 02076791328http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts
CONFERENCE ACCOMMODATIONHoliday Inn BloomsburyCoram Street, London WC1N 1HT(+44) 08719429222http://www.hilondonbloomsburyhotel.co.uk/
TRANSPORTATION INFORMATIONLondon 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.
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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 ReceptionWednesday 7 January17:30-19:30Grant Museum of Zoologyhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology
21 University StreetLondon WC1E 6DE
Conference Bright Club EventThursday 8 January19:30-22:30Star of Kings Pubhttp://www.starofkings.co.uk/
126 York WayLondon N1 0AX
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WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY 2015
10:30-12:00REGISTRATION, TEA AND COFFEERoberts Foyer G02
12:00-12:30WELCOME KEYNOTE BY DR BILL MACLEHOSEAmbrose Fleming G06
12:30-13:00LUNCH BREAKRoberts Foyer G02
13:00-14:30SESSION 1, 2 & 3Ambrose Fleming G06, Roberts 106 & David Davies G08
SESSION 1Investigative HistoriesRoom: Ambrose Fleming G06Chair: Erman Sozudogru
Meritxell Ramirez-i-OlleAn intellectual history of trust and scepticism in science
Tom Kelsay“I am not sure that Professor Waddington really got what he hoped for.”: A history of the Science Studies Unit from its inception to the “Edinburgh School”
Michael KattirtziA History of Social Research in DEFRA: 2001-present
Joe SimpsonThe Francis Crick Institute and the Political Economy of Hope
SESSION 2BiotechnologyRoom: Roberts 106Chair: Paul Sims
Carolyn CobboldControlling chemical dyes in food in the nineteenth century - experimental assemblages
Jennifer AdlemMad dogs and English flour: The work of Edward Mellanby on canine hysteria and public health.
Alex MankooTeargas – We haven’t got the foggiest: Deconstructing the Ambiguities of Creeping Legitimisation
Joshua HuttonFunding biodefence: Gaps in the fence?
SESSION 3Alternative HistoriesRoom: David Davies G08Chair: Natalie Lawrence
Alexander IosadTranslating Western natural knowledge in 18th-century Russia: texts, attitudes, disciplines
Yoshimi TakuwaSince when did the Japanese see indigo in rainbows?: A fusion of Newton's theory and folklore
Hattie LloydMr. Davy's lectures - read all about it!
Helen-Frances PilkingtonScience, heal thyself: Charles Dickens's call for scientific reform in the 1830
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WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY 2015
14:40-15:50SESSION 4 & 5Ambrose Fleming G06 & David Davies G08
SESSION 4Sociobiology & MindRoom: Ambrose Fleming G06Chair: Helen-Frances Pilkington
Valentine HoffbeckFrom "unproductive" to "social burden": The use and misuse of mental diagnosis to classify the mentally challenged
Eilis KempleyIn Awe of Insanity: The Mescaline Experiments of Julian Trevelyan
Pedro Ricardo FonsecaAvante Sociobiologia? The sociobiology debate in Portugal (1975-1982).
SESSION 5Technopolitics & WarRoom: David Davies G08Chair: Arik Clausner
Paul ColemanFull of hot air: The role of the Northcliffe Press in the development of aviation technology in Britain 1900-1914.
Aaro SahariPowering through the Cold War pack ice
Saara MatalaTechnopolitics of Cold War shipbuilding - Finnish-Soviet Nuclear icebreaker project 1961-1989
16:00-17:00OPTIONAL EXCURSION TO WELLCOME COLLECTIONMeeting point: Roberts Foyer G02
17:30-19:30WELCOME WINE RECEPTIONGrant Museum of Zoology
END OF CONFERENCE DAY 1
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THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2015
9:30-11:00SESSION 6, 7 & 8Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 6Biopolitics & InnovationRoom: Roberts 309Chair: Raquel Velho
Agnes Arnold-ForsterThe Function of Incurability: Breast Cancer in the Image and Identity of the Medical Elite in Britain, 1789-c.1835
Carlos BarradasUnintended Consequences: From Clinicians to Patients and Back Again
Christiaan de KoningBeyond Cure and Controversy - Exploring the deployment of Genetically Modified Insects (GMIs) in Panama and Spain
Taemin WooFrom Human Genome Project to Synthetic Biology : The Governance of ‘Big Biology’ in South Korea
SESSION 7State Sponsorship vs. Private Reward: The role of the twentieth-century General Post Office in Warfare and Welfare.Room: Roberts 421Chair: Oliver Marsh
Alice HaighState-sponsored Secrets: GPO engineering research and WW1
Coreen McGuire‘Now Deaf Ears Can Hear Again!’ Advertising Hearing Loss: Post Office promotion of public amplified telephony and private hearing aids.
Sean McNallyThe Socialist Black-Box: the role of the GPO in State-sponsored Hearing Aids
Jacob WardResearch Transplanted and Privatised: Post Office/British Telecom R&D in the digital and Information Era
SESSION 8Histories & MedicineRoom: Roberts 508Chair: Alexander Iosad
Ianto Thorvald JocksPharmacological Parallels between 1st Century Rome and 19th Century Dorpat – The Reception of Scribonius Largus' Compositiones Medicamentorum in German Scholarship between 1880 and 1930
Manikarnika DuttaDegenerate Space and Drinking Habits: Health of European Sailors in Colonial Calcutta
Mujeeb KhanNegotiating Medicine: The Ishinpō and Locality
Farrah LawrenceNative American Medical Knowledge and Practice: Comments on an outdated historiography and new approaches
11:00-11:30TEA AND COFFEE BREAK WITH BSHS OUTREACHRoberts 422
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THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2015
11:30-13:00SESSION 9, 10 & 11Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 9Science & EmpireRoom: Roberts 309Chair: Dolores Iorizzo
Jessica PriceWitchcraft and the East India Company, 1668-1736 Edward John GillinMechanics and Mathematics: the politics of building time at Parliament, 1845-1855.
Erika JonesMicroscope Images from the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876): Constructing the Oceans for Science and Empire
Arik Clausner‘The Minor Horrors of War’: Insects, the British Empire, and the First World War
SESSION 10Science & Broadcasting Room: Roberts 421Chair: Jacob Ward
Adrian James KirwanThe telegraph nationalisation debate and its impact on the United Kingdom’s nationalised telegraphs, c. 1860-1870
Michael GuidaSonic therapy: birdsong on the radio during the Second World War
Jared KellerScience in the Broadcast Booth: Science Popularisers, the BBC, and the Public During the Post-World War II Period
Rupert Cole‘Quite extraordinarily irresponsible’?: BBC2’s Controversy series, 1971-1975’.
SESSION 11Science & BodyRoom: Roberts 508Chair: Agnes Arnold-Forster
Sadie HarrisonMind of the Marquise: Madame de Pompadour and the Subversion of Enlightened Anatomy
Alexandra IonFrom the „natural” body to the anthropological type. The making of historical bodies in the beginnings of the Romanian physical anthropology
Eileen LearyBodies Politic: Unwrapping the Treatment of Mummies in Colonized Egypt
Kathryn TicehurstMarginal Men? Anthropology, assimilation and colonial constructions of partial Aboriginality in “settled” Australia, 1940-1965
13:00-13:30LUNCH BREAK WITH BSHS OUTREACHRoberts 422
13:30-14:00LUNCH SEMINAR BY DR REBEKAH HIGGITTRoberts 421
14:00-14:30TEA AND COFFEE BREAKRoberts 422
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THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2015
14:30-16:00SESSION 12, 13 & 14Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 12Science & Public DiscoursesRoom: Roberts 309Chair: Meritxell Ramirez-i-Olle
Erin BeestonA space to congregate, educate and exhibit: sites of knowledge production and consumption at the Camp Field, Manchester
Jia-Ou SongLost in Communication: Staff-Visitor Relations Set Against Physical Sciences in Chinese Museums
Kanta DihalThe Limits of Affective Engagement in Science Books for Children
SESSION 13Philosophy of ScienceRoom: Roberts 421Chair: Toby Friend
Hugh MacKenzie Intention as primary cause in Plato
Valeria MottaEmotions: structures in interaction
Jim Grozier Early Measurements of Electric Charge
SESSION 14Science & Case StudiesRoom: Roberts 508Chair: Coreen McQuire
Andrew BallAnatomy of an abattoir: Medicine, the meat trade and making space for slaughter at Woodside Lairages, Port of Liverpool, 1879-1913
Marcin KrasnodebskiCan science feed on the economic crisis? The case of resin chemistry in France in the interwar period.
Yewande OkuleyeMedical Cannabis or Cannabinoid Prescription Medicine? Constructing respectability as a business strategy
16:15-17:00CONFERENCE KEYNOTE BY PROF HASOK CHANGRoberts 106
17:00-19:30 BREAK FOR CONFERENCE ATTENDANTS
19:30-22:30CONFERENCE BRIGHT CLUB EVENTStar of Kings Pub
END OF CONFERENCE DAY 2
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FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 2015
10:30-12:00SESSION 15, 16 & 17Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 15Medieval & Early Modern ScienceRoom: Roberts 309Chair: Hattie Lloyd
Alessandra PetrocchiEarly Medieval Indian Arithmetical Practices
Natalie LawrenceBetween objects and emblems: early modern creature histories
Katerina GeorgouliaPainting Physiology in Early Modern Period: The Construction of a Healthy Self-Image
Dolores IorizzoBacon's History of Life and Death and the Origins of Modern Scientific Observation
SESSION 16Enlightenment ScienceRoom: Roberts 421Chair: Carolyn Cobbold
Rafael Dias da Silva CamposEnlightenment medicine in the Portuguese America (Brazil): the case of rebel physicians
James CullisClimate, Providence and Agency in the Work of Henry Home, Lord Kames
Hongjin LiuWhat can a HPS learn from War Diary
SESSION 17Contemporary Science & TechnologyRoom: Roberts 508Chair: Hsiang-Fu Huang
Paul Sims‘Bread versus beauty’: contested modernity and the British nuclear power programme, 1955-1963
Thomas TurnbullFrom William Stanley Jevons to Brookes versus Grubb: energy conservation and the market for energy in the United Kingdom
Hannah GrenhamChallenged by Change: the Computerisation of the Political Process in the United States
Camilla Mørk RøstvikGendering CERN
12:00-12:30TEA AND COFFEE BREAKRoberts 422
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FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 2015
12:30-14:00SESSION 18, 19 & 20Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508
SESSION 18Science & ApplicationsRoom: Roberts 309Chair: Kanta Dihal
Catherine FranceFrançois Blondel, absolutism and the art of launching bombs
Maria Montava GadeaA Double-Acting Steam Engine in Barcelona (1804-1806). The Contribution of Francesc Santponç
Aleš MaternaThe Rothschild Family and the Science During Industrialisation in the Central Europe (1830-1918)– Railways, Steelworks, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining in Moravia and Austrian Silesia
SESSION 19Omnischambles? How to create, implement and avoid policy.Room: Roberts 421Chair: Mujeeb Khan
Andrew Black‘To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? That is the question”: Britain’s troubled history with measles and its vaccines.
Stuart Butler“Barbados is Cheaper than Norfolk”: Policy-making without consent in the Black Arrow Programme 1964-1971
Hannah Elizabeth‘Is this perhaps too controversial even for us?’ The production and dissemination of AIDS education packs for children by the Family Planning Association in the late 80s & early 90s
SESSION 20Science & EnvironmentRoom: Roberts 508Chair: Stefano Sandrone
Matthew HolmesAnother Plea for Sparrows: Economic Ornithology in the British Press, 1850-1914
Paul SmithHorticultural and agricultural research stations in the UK, 1910-1930: a feast of variables.
Sophie GreenwayGrowing well: Dirt, health and the home gardener in mid-twentieth-century Britain
14:00-14:30LUNCH BREAKRoberts 422
14:30-15:00CLOSING REMARKS BY DR CHIARA AMBROSIORoberts 106
15:00-16:30OPTIONAL EXCURSION TO SCIENCE MUSEUMMeeting Point: Roberts Foyer G02
END OF CONFERENCE DAY 3
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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THANK YOU FOR ATTENDINGBSHS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 2015
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