Conference on: 'Communities of knowledge in nineteenth-century Ireland: science, culture and society'
22-23 February 2007
UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland in association with the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the History of Irish Science
http://www.ucd.ie/hii/
The near-final programme for this event follows. For more information, please contact the organising committee of Marc Caball, Clara Cullen [[log in to unmask]] and Mary Daly.
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Thursday 22 February 2007
Welcome Introduction 1.30 pm - 2.00 pm
The Learned Societies and Museums (2.00 pm - 3.15 pm)
Chair: To Be Arranged
Michael Ryan (Chester Beatty Library) - Learned societies
Mary Daly (UCD) - The Statistical and Social Enquiry Society
Clara Cullen (UCD)- The Museum of Irish Industry
Tea/Coffee 3.15pm-4pm
Science and Antiquarianism in Provincial Ireland (4pm-5.15pm)
Chair: John McCafferty (UCD)
Marc Caball (HII) - AB Rowan and The Kerry Magazine.
Juliana Adelman - Science and Society in Nineteenth Century Provincial Ireland
Ruth Bayles (QUB) - Belfast Society of Natural History
5.15 pm - 6pm
Developments in contemporary national science policy
Dr Michael John Gorman, (senior manager of the 'Discover Science and Engineering' programme at Forfás)
Reception at 6.00 and Dinner at 7.30 pm
Friday 23 February
Science and the University (9.15am-10.30am)
Chair: Aileen Fyfe (NUIG)
Greta Jones (UU) - Darwin and the Universities
Patrick Wyse Jackson (TCD) - A Girdle of Granite: the institutionalisation of geological studies in Ireland, 1770s to 1860s.
Julia Sigwart (UCD) - Natural History in Victorian Ireland
Tea/Coffee (10.30am-10.45am)
Applied Science, Engineering, Medicine and Natural History (10.45am-12 pm)
Chair: Professor Des Fitzgerald (UCD)
Catherine Cox (UCD) - Psychiatric Knowledge and Lay Communities in Nineteenth Century Ireland
Ron Cox (Director, Centre for Civil Engineering Heritage, TCD) - Engineering Ireland, 1850-1900: transportation and public health.
Brendan O'Donoghue - The Leahy Family [provisional title]
Key Note Lecture (12pm-1pm)
Chair: Peter Bowler (QUB)
Jim Bennett (Director, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford) - Science and public life in nineteenth-century Ireland: the case of Thomas Romney Robinson.
CLOSURE DISCUSSION 1pm-1.30pm
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Dr Aileen Fyfe
Department of History
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway
Tel. +353 (0)91 493791
Fax. +353 (0)91 494556
http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/fyfe/
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