Are you a postgraduate student interested in joining us for a workshop on 5 October to discuss 'The Opportunities and Challenges of Studying 20C HSTM? Are you supervising a PGR student working in the field of 20th-century history of science, technology and medicine? If so, please circulate this offer of help towards attending the workshop.
We can now offer seven bursaries worth £190 to PGR attendees towards the costs of their travel and accommodation, thanks to an award from the School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester.
We are also inviting delegates to join us after the workshop for an evening meal at Mackay's Hotel, which is being funded by an award from the AHRC White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-opportunities-challenges-of-studying-20c-hstm-tickets-48755795898
Programme
9.15-9.45 Registration and coffee
9.45-9.55 Welcome and introductions
9.55-11.00 Keynote address
Power/leaks: what we learn from the availability of new primary sources, Professor Jon Agar, University College London
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.50 Panel One: Using collections
Typewriters in Scotland 1880-1930: practical and theoretical challenges of using museum typewriter collections, James Inglis, University of St Andrews and National Museums Scotland
Museum objects as sources in researching the twentieth-century history of science and technology, Georgina Lockton, University of Leicester and Science Museum
Using an adapted Winterthur model to assess the intellectual ownership of collections, Laura Volkmer, University of Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland
12.50-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.00 Introduction to the Nucleus archive, followed by a mini-tour to view items from the collections, Gordon Reid, archivist, Nucleus
15.00-15.20 Tea break
15.20-16.50 Panel Two: Using archives
Out of a nuclear darkness: atomic archives and folk memory, Annie Gilfillan, University of the Highlands and Islands
Online Platforms as Unstable Archives: Following the Fukushima Disaster on (and against) Wikipedia, David Moats, Linköping University
Institutional history, classified information and the military/civilian divide – the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, 1933-1956, Rachel Boon, University of Manchester/Science Museum/BT Archives
16.50-17.15 Wrap up and thanks
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