Dear Mersenne subscribers,
below you find the preliminary programme for the upcoming
postgrad conference of the British Society for the History of
Science at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine, University of Manchester, Jan. 11-13, 1999.
If you are interested in attending and have not been in touch with
us, please let us know. If you do so before Dec. 10, we might still
be able to arrange for accommodation. We will also try to include
further speakers in the schedule if they let us know about the
subject/title of their presentation before Dec. 10.
There is no registration fee for the conference and student hall
accommodation is available at stlg. 8 per night.
Contacts:
Helen Blackman: [log in to unmask]
Alison Kraft: [log in to unmask]
Carsten Timmermann: [log in to unmask]
Helen Valier: [log in to unmask]
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BSHS POSTGRAD CONFERENCE, JANUARY 11-13, 1999.
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Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University
of Manchester, Mathematics Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
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PROGRAMME
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Monday, January 11
17:00 - 19:00
Reception, CHSTM Library (Maths Tower, Room 3.29)
Tuesday, January 12
10:00 - 11:00
Session 1
* Sam Alberti, Leeds: The practice of biology in late Victorian
Yorkshire
* Alison Kraft, Manchester: Biology research and teaching at
Manchester University
* Jim Endersby, Cambridge: John Dalton Hooker's work on plant
distributions and species
* Discussion
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Session 2
* Simon Werrett, Cambridge: 17th and 18th century Russian Science and
Military Science
* Sarah Glover, Edinburgh: Gender and technology in relation to pilots
* Nicholas Kollerston, London: Eureka and invention moments
* Discussion
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30
Session 3
* Jeremy Vetter, Oxford: A. R. Wallace and the history of the human
sciences
* John Waller, London: Sir Francis Galton, eugenics and late 19th
century biology
* Helen Blackman, Manchester: Female reproductive physiology in late
Victorian England
* John Hopkins, Leicester: Mental health in the British army in the
Great War
* Discussion
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Session 4
* Carsten Timmermann, Manchester: Doctors and healers in interwar
Germany
* Marisa Chambers, Liverpool: Tropical medicine in the 20th century
* Dawn Woodgate, Bath: Vets, surgery and professionalisation issues
* Tim Willis, Sheffield: Local authority health care 1918-1948,
ethics of human experimentation
* Discussion
Wednesday, January 13
10:00 - 11:00
Session 5
* Clive Cohen, London: Chemical engineering
* Tim Cooper, Manchester: Computing and electronic engineering in
Manchester
* David Clark, Warwick: History of Computing
* Discussion
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Session 6
* Helen Valier, Manchester: Clinical science in Manchester
* Birgit Davies, Cheltenham: Breast cancer, patient narratives and
treatment methods
* Stephen Timmons, Anglia: Resistance by nursing staff to IT systems
in the NHS
* Discussion
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45
Session 7
* Louise Gray, London: Physical illness in the German hospitals of
Haina and Merxhausen, 1533-1750
* Arlene McAlister, Manchester: Three 17th century views on matter
and spirit
* Discussion
14:45 - 15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:15
Session 8
* Pete Reffell, Leeds: Social construction of information in Western
society
* John Tresch, Cambridge: 19th century astronomy and contemporary
continental philosophy
* Aileen Fyfe, Cambridge: Science publishing in the 1840s and 1850s
* Discussion
Thursday, January 14
For those interested: Excursion to the Manchester Museum of Science
and Industry
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Carsten Timmermann
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Manchester
Mathematics Tower, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Phone: +44 161 275 5929
Fax: +44 161 275 5699
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