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Posted by Graeme Gooday

ELECTRIFYING CULTURES: STANDARDIZATION vs. DIVERSITY
IN HISTORIES OF ARTEFACT AND EXPERIMENT

Conference URL: http://www.hps.leeds.ac.uk/HPSNews/ElectrifyingCultures.htm

Location: Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, 10-12 September 2006
 (http://www.universallyleeds.co.uk//maps/Devonshire2pp.pdf )

  Sponsored by the International Electrotechnical Commission, founded 1906 
********** 50 years of History & Philosophy of Science at Leeds ********** 

This conference explores the themes of homogeneity and heterogeneity in 
the electrified cultures of the modern world (1750-2000): computing, 
experimentation, lighting, medicine, power and telecommunications. Papers 
offer fresh perspectives on the history and historiography of
electricity in Europe , America and Asia , raising key questions about the 
cultural and political interaction of bodies, artefacts, systems, 
practices, theories and expertise. For twenty first century scholarship 
that looks beyond assumptions of consensus and closure, this meeting 
reconsiders the many-levelled symbiosis of diversity and standardization 
in both the
laboratory and the public domain.

Registration deadline: 30 June 2006
Registration forms can be downloaded from:
http://www.hps.leeds.ac.uk/HPSNews/IECregistrationform.rtf
http://www.hps.leeds.ac.uk/HPSNews/IECregistrationform.pdf


SPEAKERS and provisional paper titles:

Efstathios Arapostathis (University of Oxford)
A.B.W Kennedy in the Electric Light and Power Industry, 1889-1914: Cases 
of Expertise, Practices and Style

Paola Bertucci (University of Bologna)
Electric Conversations: shocks and attractions for public and private 
Enlightenment

Christine Blondel (CNRS, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, Paris)
The 'universal vogue' of medical electricity in France at the turn of 20 
th century: electrical artefacts as boundary objects between physicists, 
physicians, instrument makers, electrical engineers and consumers.

Hasok Chang (University College London)
The standardisation of electrolysis

Chris Chilvers (Technical University of Denmark)
Was submarine telegraphy the great imperial project?

John Christie (University of Leeds)
[On Benjamin Franklin - title TBA]

Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds)
Electrifying history: rethinking conformity and diversity in cultures of 
technoscience

Hans-Georg Hofer (University of Freiburg)
Collecting Objects, Picturing Bodies: Towards a Cultural History 
of 'Electropathology'

Bruce J. Hunt (University of Texas)
Cable Telegraphy, Electrical Measurement, and the Evolution of Maxwell's 
Field Theory

Sungook Hong (Seoul National University)
Power, Wonder and Suspicion: The Cultural Meaning of Electricity in 
Korea , 1885-1910.

Akiko Ito (University of Minnesota)
The virtue of uselessness-the rise and fall of the electrotherapist in 
early twentieth century Japan

Annie Jamieson (University of Leeds)
More Than Meets The Eye: Challenging the Historiography of the Medical X-
Ray, 1896-1914

Peter C. Kjærgaard (University of Århus)
Visions of an Electric Future

Stephen Lax (University of Leeds)
'Leaving it to the engineers' - the emergence of standards for digital 
radio broadcasting

Iwan Morus (University of Aberystwyth)
Fitting Physics to the Body

Christopher Otter (New York University)
Electrifying Perception: Colour, Distance and Detail, 1875-1900

Chitra Ramalingam (Harvard University)
Portrait of a spark: electricity and the invisible at the birth of 
microphysics

Karen Sayer (Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds)
Landscapes of Light

H. Otto Sibum (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
What is that thing called energy?

James Sumner (University of Manchester)
Subcultures against standards: transferability versus 'deep control' among 
British microcomputer users

Special guest speaker:
Ronnie Amit, Chief Executive of the IEC

Commentators:
Geoffrey Cantor (University of Leeds)
Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna)
Greg Radick (University of Leeds)

Contact:
Programme enquiries  email: Graeme Gooday, [log in to unmask]

Registration enquiries  email: Leucha Veneer, [log in to unmask]

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