Exploring Traditions: Sources for a Global History of Science
University of Cambridge 30 November 2013
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25203
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - SG1&2
This workshop is the second in a series that continues an important set of
debates and reflexions on the interaction between histories of the sciences
and models of global history. These debates ask fundamental questions about
what science has meant on the global stage and how sciences have come to
take form through global confrontations, connections and politics. The
first workshop marked the visit to Cambridge of two scholars from South
Africa and India: Prof. Keith Breckenridge (Witwatersrand) and Prof. Irfan
S. Habib (Delhi). The keynote speakers at the second workshop will be Dr.
Lauren Minsky (NYU, Abu Dhabi) and Dr. David Lambert (Warwick). An aim of
these workshops is to link UK-based scholars with those working elsewhere
in the world on questions of the sciences' past. The network is also
connected with the Centres of South Asian Studies and African Studies and
the Faculty of History and the Department of History and Philosophy of
Science in the University of Cambridge. Papers will be presented by
post-graduate students and by post-doctoral scholars. Lambert will discuss
his new book from Chicago University Press. We hope that students and
scholars engaging with histories of science from different vantage points
and at different stages will attend.
Programme
9.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 11.15
NEW HISTORIES OF MEDICINE FOR SOUTH ASIA
Rohan Deb Roy: An unseen, awful visitant": The Production of Burdwan
fever, c. 1870-74
Michael Sugarman: The plague, medicine, and nationalist politics in
Bombay, 1896-1916
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
11.45 - 13.00
NEW HISTORIES OF SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY
David Maxwell: From iconoclasm to preservation: Pentecostal
missionaries and colonial science in Belgian Congo
Tom Smith: Protestant missionaries, islanders, and the cosmology of
time in nineteenth-century Polynesia
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.45
PLENARY SPEAKER
Lauren Minsky (NYU, Abu Dhabi): Commerce and the cult of Khizr:
foregrounding a longue durée sacred geography of healing in the wider
Indian Ocean world
14.45 - 15.30
Arthur Asseraf (Oxford): How do you solve a problem like Algeria?
Colonistics, demographics and the science of settling, 1830-1962
Maziyar Ghiabi: Narcotic Iran: medicine, consumption and abuse in
modern Iranian history
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45
PLENARY SPEAKER
David Lambert (Warwick): Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen's African
geography and the struggle over Atlantic slavery
