Dear List Members,
This is an invitation on behalf of the students on the course HPSC 3007
- Topics in the History of the Physical Sciences (STS Department,
University College London). In this course, undergraduate students are
asked to form a "scholarly community" and produce original research on
various aspects of the history of electricity. More information about
the course and its pedagogical aims can be found here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/study/hpsc/3007 .
The students will be delighted to share their discoveries with the rest
of the HPS community, in an afternoon of presentations on the theme
"Electrocultures: Electricity Wild and Domesticated 1800-1970". Please
join us, and feel free to circulate the details of the event (which you
will find below) among colleagues and students.
The event is open to everyone, but if you are planning to attend please
reply to [log in to unmask] . This is just to make sure that there
will be enough space for our guests and enough refreshments for the
reception afterwards!
Best wishes,
Chiara Ambrosio, Matthew Paskins and the Students on HPSC 3007
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Electrocultures: Electricity Wild and Domesticated 1800-1970
An afternoon of presentations organised by the students on the course
HPSC 3007 – Topics in the History of the Physical Sciences
Supported by
Department of Technology Studies – UCL
Teaching Innovations Grants - UCL
The Higher Education Academy
Monday 28 May 2012
3.00pm
Garwood Lecture Theatre
UCL
3.00 – 3.20
Welcome and Introduction
Chiara Ambrosio and Matthew Paskins
3.20 - 4.20 Session 1
Social Histories of Electricity across the Medical and Physical Sciences
Carys Lewis
“Electricity and Epilepsy: How far have Neurological Discoveries Helped
Society Accept Epilepsy as a Neurological Condition?”
Naresh Balasingham
“Resistance towards Discovery and Innovation: The Case of the Electrical
Excitability of the Motor Cortex”
Bella Eacott
“Electricity meters, Trust and the Relationship between Electricity
Suppliers and Consumers at the end of the 19th Century”
4.20 – 4.40 Break
4.40 – 5.40 Session 2
Practices on Display: from Faraday to Electronic Music
Alex Mair
“How Faraday Stole Maxwell's Lightning: an Analysis of Faraday and
Maxwell's Respective Mathematical Practices”
Clio Heslop
“Electrical Objects: Public Displays and the Scientific Community 1825-1855”
Belinda Li
“Oramics Revisited”
5.40 Concluding remarks and reception
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Dr. Chiara Ambrosio
Teaching Fellow in Philosophy of Science
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel. (+44) 02076790166
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/ambrosio
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/basc/
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