Science and technology in Ireland, 1780-1920: historical and cultural perspecti
ves
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
Science and
Irish Culture
Chair: Patrick Wyse Jackson
Political Science: time in Yeats an
d Beckett
Nicholas Allen
University of North Carolina
Isaac Butt, Zoology and
Civilisation
Eve Patten
Trinity College, Dublin
Irish Catholicism, Science and
the Conflict Hypothesis, Don O’Leary
University College, Cork
12-1 pm
Applying
Science
Chair: Elizabeth Neswald
The Irish Seaweed Industry 1700-2005: an indig
enous science-based industry
Peter Childs
University of Limerick
Belfast: Desir
e 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 Kane (180
9-1890): an innovative educator in Victorian Ireland
Clara Cullen
University Col
lege, Dublin
Showcasing science in London and Dublin
Alison Boyle
Science Museu
m, London
Serene Temple of Knowledge: the Museum of Irish Industry, 1845-1867
E
nda Leaney
National University of Ireland, Galway
4-5 pm
Scientific Exploration
s
Chair: Juliana Adelman
Irish Explorers of the Jordan Rift and the Euphrates V
alley in the 1830's: Science, Adventure and Imperialism
Haim Goren
Tel-Hai Acade
mic College, Israel
Early Marine Surveys off the West of Ireland, 1858-1914
Tim
othy Collins
National University of Ireland, Galway
5:15-6pm
Plenary
An Experim
ental Nation? Innovating in Science and Civic Society in Nineteenth-Century Irel
and
Jim Livesey
University of Sussex
Juliana Adelman
Department of History
N
ational University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland
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