THE SOUTH KENSINGTON INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF
TECHNOLOGY
A collaborative enterprise of the Science Museum and the Centre for
the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College
SUMMER 1999
Seminars in the History of Science and Technology
Wednesday 26 May Railway and Canal Engineering in 19th
Century Canada
Christopher Andreae, Historical Research,
Ontario
Wednesday 9 June Displaying Scientific and Medical Portraits:
Towards a New Exhibition at the National
Portrait
Gallery
Ludmilla Jordanova, University of East
Anglia
Wednesday 7 July Nature and Waste Water in 19th Century
Britain
Raymond Smith, Dorking
Seminars begin at 16.00 tea at 15.45
Location: Collections Division Seminar Room, North Entrance,
The Science Museum, London
All are welcome. If you are not at the Science Museum or Imperial
College but would like to attend, please telephone in advance so that
we can advise you should there be any last minute change to the
programme.
For further details please contact Dr Robert Bud, The Science
Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD. Tel: 0171 938 8041 e-
mail [log in to unmask]
CONFERENCES
Defiant Modernism 25-26 June 1999. Conference sponsored by The
Science Museum, British Society for the History of Science and the
Institute of Contemporary British History at the Science Museum,
Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD.
The term `Defiant Modernism', describes a historical epoch of
enormous change as the technologies developed during the Second
World War were exploited in war and thereafter adapted for civilian
use.
Speakers include: Jon Agar, Robert Bud, Richard Coopey, David
Edgerton, Henry Etzkowitz, Bart Hacker, Gabrielle Hecht, David
Matless, and Jon Turney.
For more information and to register please see conference website
(http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/researchers/defiant.HTML) or contact Jane
Davies on 0171 938 8076 or [log in to unmask]
Information Technology Policy: International Perspectives
22-24 July 1999. The Business History Unit, LSE, in cooperation with
the Science Museum, will be holding a conference on "Information
Technology Policy: International Perspectives".
The conference will chart the history of policies to promote IT
production and use in Europe, the USA, Asia and ex-Soviet countries.
Speakers include: Bill Aspray, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Richard Coopey,
Jane van Den Ende, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, Junya Nishimoto, Arthur
Norberg, and Seiichiro Yonekura.
For further details contact Sonia Copeland, BHU/LSE Tel: 0171 955
7109. Fax: 0171 955 6861. Email: [log in to unmask]
Robert Bud
Head of Research (Collections)
The Science Museum, London SW7 2DD, UK
Tel: (+44) (0) 171 938 8041
Fax: (+44) (0) 171 938 8050
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/collections/staff/r_bud.html
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