This is just to remind any interested parties that the registration deadline fo
r
the conference
Science and Technology in Ireland, 1780-1920:
historical and
cultural perspectives
is Monday, May 23rd.
See programme and contact details
below
If you wish to register and will be unable to do so by the closing date,
please email:
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Science and technology in Ireland,
1780-1920
Thursday, 23 June 2005
Registration by 23 May
http://www.bshs.org.uk/
conf
Contact: Juliana Adelman ([log in to unmask])
10-11:30 am
Scie
nce and Irish Culture
Chair: Patrick Wyse Jackson
Political Science: time in Y
eats
and Beckett
Nicholas Allen
University of North Carolina
Isaac Butt, Zool
ogy and Civilisation
Eve Patten
Trinity College, Dublin
Irish Catholicism, Scie
nce and the Conflict Hypothesis
Don O’Leary
University College, Cork
12-1 pm
Ap
plying Science
Chair: Elizabeth Neswald
The Irish Seaweed Industry 1700-2005:
an indigenous science-based industry
Peter Childs
University of Limerick
Belfas
t: Desire for Water
Michael Reinsborough
Queen’s University of Belfast
1-2 pm
Lunch
2-3:30 pm
Museums and Science Education
Chair: Peter Bowler
Sir Robert K
ane (1809-1890): an innovative educator in Victorian Ireland
Clara Cullen
Univer
sity College, Dublin
Showcasing science in London and Dublin
Alison Boyle
Scien
ce Museum, London
Serene Temple of Knowledge: the Museum of Irish Industry, 184
5-1867
Enda Leaney
National University of Ireland, Galway
4-5 pm
Scientific Exp
lorations
Chair: Juliana Adelman
Irish Explorers of the Jordan Rift and the Eup
hrates
Valley in the 1830's: Science, Adventure and Imperialism
Haim Goren
Tel-
Hai Academic College, Israel
Early Marine Surveys off the West of Ireland, 1858
-1914
Timothy Collins
National University of Ireland, Galway
5:15-6pm
Plenary
A
n Experimental Nation?
Innovating in Science and Civic Society in Nineteenth-Ce
ntury Ireland
Jim Livesey
University of Sussex
Juliana Adelman
Department of
History
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland
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Juliana Adelman
Department of History
National U
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Ireland
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