Date: Monday, November 1 2004 07:23 am
From: Anna Marie Roos <[log in to unmask]> add to contacts
Subject: Conference announcement: History of Science/Environmental
History
To celebrate the Anglo-American ties of University of Minnesota Duluth's
Study Abroad Programme and the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the
University of Birmingham, we are exploring the effects of environment on
American and British culture in a one-day history of science conference.
Because both England and Northern Minnesota have unique environmental
conditions and challenging weather, socio-cultural adaptations and
assumptions are strikingly different, yet also revealing of a shared
humanity.
"There's something in the Air: Environment, Sensibility and American and
British Culture" will be held Saturday, 19th March 2005 at the Annex,
Winterbourne Botanic Gardens, 58, Edgbaston Park Road, University of
Birmingham from 10.00am-4.30pm. The conference website and
registration
form is at: www.d.umn.edu/~aroos/airconference
A registration of 25 pounds includes a lunch of both American and
British comfort foods, a number of fascinating talks, as well as a movie
screening. The fee is 15 pounds for students and concessions.
Speakers will include:
1. Dr. Mark Harrison--Director, Wellcome Unit for the History and
Understanding of Medicine; Fellow and Reader, Green College, Oxford
University:
"Climate and constitution: the return of tropical invalids to resorts in
Britain"
2. Dr. Anna Marie Roos--Director, University of Minnesota Duluth's Study
in England Programme, Associate Professor of History, University of
Minnesota
Duluth:
"Acids in the Air: Isaac Newton, Bryan Robinson, and the search for
life's breath in the eighteenth century"
3. Dr. Stephen Mosley--Professor of History, University of Birmingham,
Selly Oak Campus, Centre for Life Long Learning
"The Destruction of Daylight: Sun, Smoke, and Health in Britain and the
United States, 1880-1940"
4. Dr. Vladimir Jankovic, Wellcome Research Lecturer in History,
University of
Manchester--
"Air and 'The Invention of Exposure' in Britain, ca. 1800"
5. Dr. J.E. Thornes, Reader in Applied Meteorology, Department of
Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
Edgbaston Campus
"Constable's Meteorological Understanding and his Paintings of Skies"
Please join us for a fascinating day of scholarly discourse, good food,
and cross-cultural insights. If you have any further questions, please
contact Anna Marie Roos at [log in to unmask]
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Anna Marie Roos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
University of Minnesota Duluth
Director, Study in England Programme, 2004-5
University of Birmingham
Selly Oak Campus
Birmingham B29 6LL
England
email: [log in to unmask]
Office: 0121/415-8444
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