Dear all,
Please find details below about an all-day symposium in Cambridge on
‘Geographies of scientific practice’, Friday 14 January 2005. Please
circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. Attendance is free and
all are welcome.
Thanks very much,
Richard Powell and Simon Reid-Henry
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Cambridge Historical and Cultural Geography Symposium
"GEOGRAPHIES OF SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE"
Friday 14 January 2005
10.00 Prof. S.R. Epstein (Economic History, LSE)
Technological transfer in pre-modern Europe, 1200-1800
10.45 Prof. Charles Withers (Geography, Edinburgh) A Geography of the
Atlantic Enlightenment: Thermometric navigation and the Gulf Stream,
1769-1832
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Dr. Sujit Sivasundaram (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge)
Geographical knowledge, scientific engineering and the British conquest of
Ceylon
12.45 Dr. Richard Powell (Geography, Cambridge) Observing field practices:
documenting the contested spaces of High Arctic environmental science
1330 Lunch
1430 Dr. Bronwyn Parry (Geography, Queen Mary)
Title tbc
1515 Dr. Simon Reid-Henry (Geography, Queen Mary)
Practicing intellectual property: Cuban bioscience and the TRIPS accord
1600 Tea
1630 Discussion
ALL WELCOME ATTENDANCE FREE In order that we have an idea of numbers for
coffee/lunch, please could anyone who wishes to attend email Prof. Richard
Smith ([log in to unmask]). The symposium will be held in the Department of
Geography (Main Building), University of Cambridge, Downing Place,
Cambridge. http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/contacts/directions/
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