BSHS Annual Conference 2014: Draft Programme

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BSHS Annual Conference 2014 DRAFT PROGRAMME ONLY
BSHS Annual Conference 2014: Draft Programme

Friday 4 July

Academic Session 1
‘Mutual transformation of Colonial
09.00–11.00
and Imperial botanizing? The
intimate and remote collaboration
Nature Repurpos’d: Recycling Ideas,
bJuentwg Leeeen (CNheuendgh aTmya Riheysoeanr acnhd
Images, Objects and Spaces in Early
IInshstiidtouytea, TCsaumtobmridug ien) Colonial Korea’
Modern Europe

‘From ethnoscience to ethnology:
Organiser: Jennifer Rampling
iGnedoifgf eBniol (uUsn pilvaenrts iktyn oowf Blerditgiseh i n
Chair: Anke Timmermann
ICmolpuemribaila c)o ntext’

‘The adaptive adept: retooling
mJenendiifeevra Rl aampppalirnagtu (sP froinrc eeatrolny

mUnoidveerrsni tcyh) ymistry’
‘“The Minor Horrors of War”:
iAnrsikec Ctlsa, uthsne eBrr (iUtinshiv Eermsiptyir oef, aSnt d the
FAinrdsrt eWwos)r ld War’

‘A quintessential craft: Hieronymus
Semantic History of “Thinking about
Brunschwig’s adaptation of learned
Science” in the Twentieth Century
aTlicllhmeamninc aTl acaopnec e(Uptnsi voefr dsiitsyt iollfa tion
iCnatmo barritdisgaen)a l medicine making’

Organiser: Robert Bud

Chair: tbc
‘Preserving the cutting edge:

woodblocks, visual knowledge, and
B‘Beansoicît r Geosedainr c(hIN aRnSd, Qinuneobveact)i on: the
rBercuyccel iTn.g M porraacnti (cUesn iovfe brsoittayn oifc al
“new” semantic pair’
iNlleuvsatdraat)i on in early modern Europe’

‘Science policy in search of new

Dseémsiraénet iSccsh: abuazsi (cT reecshenairscchh ein the era
‘SMimakoinn Wg ae rhroemtt e(U fonriv secriseintyc eC oinll eegaer ly
oUfn tihveer Ssietcäotn Mdü Wncohreldn )W ar’
mLoonddeornn) England’
Colonial and Imperial Science

‘Modernity, mobility and
modernization: “fundamental

rSeasbeinarec Chl”a irnk ea (nUenwiv veirssiiotyn ooff Ycoorlok)n ial
Chair: tbc
development, 1940-1960’

‘“The minds of men are on the

Jmamovees” P: poshkreetnt o(lUongiyv einrs Biteyn ogfa li print
‘Making sense of modernity: the
Ccualmtubrreid, 1g8e)4 5 -1850’
categories of pure and applied
sRcoibeenrcte B inu dt h(eSc pieunbcleic M spuhseeurme o) f early
twentieth-century Brita in’
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Genetics Friday 4 July
Academic Session 2
11.30–13.00

Chair: Fern Elsdon-Baker
Creating “Useful Knowledge”: British

Oceanic Mapping, 1700-1900
‘The rhetoric of genes: utopian
pMraoumriizsieos Eosfp ao psirtaog (mUnativice rssciiteyn ocfe ,
1Sa9n3t0ia-2g0o0) 0’

Organiser: Georgina Rannard
Chair: tbc

‘The biology of altruism and the
‘Public charts and public service:
post-war social order: a
hMyedgraong rBaaprhfoicr da r(Ugunmiveernsti tiny othf e
rSeacroanhs Sidweernastoionn ( Uonf itvheer smiteya onfi nOgx ford)
nCainmebtereidngthe) c entury’
behind inclusive fitness’

‘A“nEnrrieo nJaemouiess aosns (uUmnpivteiorsnisty r eogf aLredeidnsg)
‘Empire and “useful knowledge”:
genes” in the twentieth century’
cGheaorrtgiinnga t Rhaen Bnraitrids h(U Antilvaenrtsicit yw oofr ld,
1E6di6n0b-u1r7g2h0)’

‘Cataloguing Dolly: the curious tale
oCfla arrec hBiuvtetso na n(Ud nainviemrsaitl yg oenf etics in

EEddiinnbbuurrgghh ’M ain Library)
‘From description to theory: how
cAolirsatal rire eSfpso cnhsaeln (gVeadn ndienrebtielte nth-
Images of the Sciences
cUennivtuerrsyi thyy)d rography’

Citizen Science: Constructing Nineteenth

Century Scientific Communities
Chair: Rebekah Higgitt
‘When Urania Meets Terpsichore: an

early nineteenth-century lecture on
Organisers: Gowan Dawson and
aHsstiraonngo-Fmuy H inu atnhge L(Uonrdiv ersity College
Geoff Belknap
CLohnadmobne)r lain’s Plays’
Chair: Jonathan Topham

‘Citizen Science on the rocks:

palaeontology and psychometry in
‘Visualising human emotion:
tGhoew raenc oDnaswtrsuocnt i(oUnn oivfe prrseithyi ostfo ric
FArllaisnoçno iHs-uFertazn (cDke’ sM aornchtfiovret at the
mLeoicnesstteerrs)’
CUonlilvèegres idtye) F rance’
Sally Frampton (University of Oxford)

‘Citizen Science, Citizen Medicine’
‘Framing relativity: artistic glimpses
of Einstein’s theory’

John G. Hatch (Western University)
‘Illustrating Citizen Science – the use

oGfe oimffraegye sB einlk nnianpe t(eUennitvhe-rcseitnyt oufr y
‘CAatm thilela e Mdgøer ko fR tøhsetviri ku (nUivneivresers: iatyrt o f
pLeeircieosdtiecra)l culture’
aMnadn scchieesntecer) a t CERN, 1954-2014’
BSHS Annual Conference 2014 DRAFT PROGRAMME ONLY
Scientific Careers Alison Hess (Science Museum,
London)
Simon Naylor (University of Glasgow)
Klaus Staubermann (National
Chair: tbc Museums of Scotland)

‘Rebelling against the “System”:
Embarking on a Scientific Career in Friday 4 July
BRurittha iWn afrionmma Wn o(Urlndi vWerasri tTyw oof Ktoen tth)e
Academic Session 3
early Post-War Period’
Session 3: 14.00–15.30

Reception of Ancient and Early Modern
‘Discrepancies become disturbing:
Mathematical Sciences
changing attitudes towards women
sScailelyn tHisotrsr oacnkds e(nUgniinveeersrist yin o Bf ritain
dLeuirciensgt etrh)e late 1960s and 1970s’

Chair: tbc

‘The dissemination Tofe tGrraebeikb lsocsience
‘Autobiography and the history of
iBno tjihdea Nr Deaimr Eitarsotv: (thBea ycearsies cohfe
Afolriseonns iAcd sacmie n(Sche eifnf itehlde Htwaellnatmie th
CAlkaauddeimusie P dtoerle Wmiys’sse nschaften) ’
Ucennivtuerrsyi’t y)
Archaeology, Anthropology and Human

Identity
‘GGreeogrgg De eS tYroaucnhga n(’Tsh Aer Aabmiecr Eicuacnli d
mUnainvuersscirtiyp itn’ Cairo)

Chair: tbc

Darwin[ Tinh iIrbde priaap er tbc]
‘Excavating ‘Deep History’:

aArmchaanedoal oRgeiecsa (l Ufineilvde prsriatyc toicf eY aonrkd)
narratives of human identity’

Chair: tbc

‘Controversial archaeology as
‘Darwin in Portugal: The
entrepreneurship: Pedra Furada
introduction of Darwin in
aMnidqu tehle C Barraaznidliealnl BFairrsutz Azim erican
PAonrat uLegouneoser Psceireenircae (aUnndi vceurlstiutrye o f
((U19n7iv9e-r2s0it0a9t )A’ utònoma de Barcelona)
(C1o8im65b-r1a9) 1 4)’

‘The making of the Mexican face:
‘The role of Júlio Augusto Henriques
A“Cbaigraamil eNxi”e vaensd-D tehleg ahdisot o(Nrya otifo nal
in the advancement of scientific
Acruitmoinnoaml ioduesn Utinfiicvaetrisoitny’ of Mexico)
knowledge at the University of
CJooãiom Rburai :P nitaat u(Uranli vheisrstoitryy o, fb Cootaimnyb ra)
People, Place and Things: Locating the
and pharmacy’
History of Technology

‘Different truths at different levels:

Ccolamram Fulnoirceantsiao n( Upnoilviceyrs oitna te volution
Organiser: Alison Hess
Ainu Ftòrnanomcoa’s d Sep Baainr c(e1l9on3a9)- 1975)’

Roundtable participants:
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Experiments in Twentieth-Century
Agricultural Science (1)
‘Communicating across the Channel
tRoo cnoanns Ltreu Rcot uaxb s(Ptraarcits )m achines. W.
Ross Ashby’s letters to J. Riguet’
Organiser: Giuditta Parolini
Commentator: Jonathan Harwood
‘“Choose the one that makes the best
‘Environmental interference and the nJaomisees” :S suemllninegr (cUonmivpeurtseitry t eocf hnology
hereditary touchstone: the design iMna tnhceh aegsete or)f mundanity’
and management of agricultural
eDxopmeirnimic eBnetrsr yin ( UCanmivebrrsiidtgye o, f1 L9e2e0d-s)
1950’
‘“American machines are the
greatest”: popular representations
‘GTihued irtotale P oafr sotlaintiis (tBicesr liinn efire Zlde ntrum of computer technology and the
efüxrp Weriismseennstgse’ schichte/Technische gHraonwntahh o Gfr aenn hAamme r(Uicnainv ecrosmityp uotf eSrt
Universität Berlin) cAunldturerwe’s )
Friday 4 July
‘Engineering a chilly reception:
Academic Session 4
ePxapuel rSimmiethn t(sU inni vperrosliotyn gCionlgle tghee life of
16.00–18.00
hLoonrtdiocunl)t ural produce, 1917-1930’

The Mathematical and the Baconian
Army and Navy Science
Sciences Revisited: Traditions of French

Physical Science during the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries

Chair: tbc

‘Physical deterioration, national
Organiser: Daniel Jon Mitchell
eEflfiiscei eSnmciyth, a (nUdn tivheer Rsiotyy aolf NOaxfvoyr,d )
Chair and Commentator: Robert Fox
1880-1910’

‘“Les Minéralogistes-Physiciens”:

physics at the Jardin du Roi from
‘Vítkovice Ironworks and the
CMhicahrlaeesl DBuycfaroyf tto ( MAnatxo Pinlaen-Ccké sar
Rothschild family (1891-1914):
BInesctqituuetere flo’ r the History of Science)
contracts, patents and new
technologies applied in ship
pArleošd Mucattieornn fao (rU tnhiev eHrasbitsyb oufr Ogs trava)

monarchy’
‘The Berthollet-Haüy controversy:
dSteefpinhieten pTr. oIrpisohr t(iUonnsiv ienr scihtye mofi stry

aCnadm cbrryidsgtael)l ography’
‘De-militarising management
sAcliiceen cWeh ainted ( “USneitvtelirnsgit dy oowf Kne innt )C ivvy
Street” after World War II’

Computers and Cybernetics
‘From corps to discipline: Pierre

Bertin, Jean-Charles d’Almeida, and
tDhaen tireal nJosnfo Mrmitcahtieolnl ( oUfn Fivreernscihty of

pCahmysbicrsid cg.1e)8 63–1880
Chair: tbc
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Maternal and Infant Health Policy, Health, Environment

Chair: tbc Chair: tbc

‘Examen obstetricum – midwifery ‘Economics and the behavioural
aSonndi ao bHsoterntr (icUsn iinv eerasritlyy omf oVdieenrnna ) sCcaitehnecreins em Hoevrefemlde n(Lt:M thUe M causneic ohf)
Vienna’ Jacob Marschak, 1955-1964

‘The apotheosis of Semmelweis and ‘Who defines medical research
Claotne sntainnectee Een. Pthu-tcneanmtu (rIyn dinetpeernedset nint policy? Patients, politics and the
spcuhbolliacr h)y giene’ case of Chronic Fatigue
SAynnddrerwom Bela/cMky (aUlgniicv ersity of
EMnacnecphheasltoemr yelitis’

‘Alexander Gordon, puerperal fever, )
aHnedn reym Kprieruiczimsman i n(T ehigeh Ctoelelengthe -of
cWeonotustreyr )m edicine’ M‘Waottrhlde wdy Hnoalmmiecss :( Unneoiv-eMrsailttyh oufs ian
eLceoedlosg) y 1948-1972’

‘“Don’t Kill the Baby”: maternal
aGdwveinceit hli tSeiroabthuarne iCnr oCsasn (aWdail farnidd ‘JColnim Agataorl o(Ugyn,i vcelirmsiatyte C cohllaenggee L aonndd otnh)e
ELanugrlaienrd U, 1n9iv2e0rs-1it9y)4 0’ UK government response’
Technology and Communication
Experiments in Twentieth-Century
Agricultural Science (2)

Chair: tbc

Organiser: Giuditta Parolini ‘Technological convergence and
Chair: Gregory Radick tArdarniasant lJaanmteics cKoirmwmanu n(iNcaattiioonna: al case
sUtnuidvyer osfit Iyr eolfa Inredl,a 1n8d5, 0M–a6y6n’ ooth)
‘From breeding experiments to stem
cell research: animal genetics in
EMdiginubeul rGgahr cainad-S tahnec hcloo (nUinngiv oefr sDitoyl loyf
Ethdein sbhueregph’ ) ‘Generating public trust in
GYuretoe nIswhiicbha sOhbi s(eKryvoattoo Uryn iTviemrseit iyn) late
nineteenth-century Britain’

‘Constructing animal welfare
sAcnidenrecwe: Geathrdicisn,e erx (pUenriivmeersnitt ya nofd ‘Keeping the lights on: oral histories
dEidsicnibpulirngeh-)b uilding’ and the development of the British
eTloemct rLiecaitny (sBurpitpilsyh sLyisbtreamry f)r om
nationalisation to privatisation’

‘“Big Science” in the field:
eAxnpgeerlaim Ceansstsid, ye x(pKeinrgti’sse C aonllde gpeo licy ‘Modernism and the motorways:
oLonn bdaodng)e rs and bovine TB’ pCaumbleicr ocno nRtoebsetarttiso (nU onfiv tehres iftuyt oufr e of
tMraannscphoesrtte (r1)9 45-1963)’

Concluding roundtable
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Saturday 5 July Agriculture, Science and Politics
Academic Session 5
09.00–11.00

Chair: tbc
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early

Science and Medicine
F‘Hruanmkp Ah.rJ.yL .D Jaavmye as n(dT hthe eR Boyoaalr d of
AIngsrtiictuutltiounre) ’

Chair: Jennifer Rampling

‘Political natural history? Francesc
‘EAdsusayrrdiaon E tseccohbnairc a(Ul pnrivoecresdituyr oesf and
Darder and the acclimatization
tChaeli lfaonrngiuaa, gBee rokf eallecyh)e my’
mOloivveerm Heoncth iand Cela (tCaloonnsieaj oa rSouupnedri or de
1In9v0e0st’ igaciones Científicas)

‘Ancient traditions in foreign

mMuedjeieebv aKlh caunlt (uUrnesiv: eerasritlyy ofof rmulators
‘The curious case of George
nCaegmobtriaidtigneg) medicine’
Compere and the economic
eEndtwoamrod lDogeivsetsso inn (AAuussttrraalliiaa,n 1 900-
1N9a1ti0o’n al University)

‘All in the mind: brain, soul, and
mJesesnictaal W dirsiogrhdt e(rP irnin tcheet ofonu Urnthiv ersity)

century CE’
‘Between science and politics:
PPeodrtruog Ruiecsaer dboio Floongsisetcsa’ d(Uifnfeivreernstiitayt eodf

sCtoainmcbersa t)o wards Lysenkoism’
‘Scientific instruments in Middle
ESenbg lFisahlk: p(Uionniveeerrsiintgy uofs eCsa mofb trhied ge)
Adapting Techniques and Technologies
vernacular’
in the Life Sciences
The Mad, the Bad, and the
Misunderstood: Reinterpreting Actors in
the British Search for the Longitude

Chair: tbc

‘Classifying the patient: individuality
Organiser: Alexi Baker
Eanlid A tnhdeerrasp (eJouhtincs b Hlooopdklientst iUnngi vine rlsaittey )
Chair/commentator: Rebekah
nineteenth-century medicine’
H‘ iggitt

Jane Squire: class, gender, and
‘Geoffrey Keynes: medical
rAelelixgii oBna kiner t h(Uen sievaerrcshit yfo orf the
sGaevraanldt -Kcountcnhoeirs s(Beuinrg ahnadm littoenr ary
lCoanmgibtruiddeg’e )
bUinbilvieorgsriatyp)h er’
‘

EKónino wPhinilgli pyos u(Ur npilvaecres:i twy hoef n was an
‘Re-use and re-design as principles
eCxapmebdriitdiognea) ry astronomer?’
of the development of laparoscopic
sRuarmgeornya: Ain. nBoravautni o(nU nthivreorusgithy noof vel
iCnasmtrburmidegnet)s in gynaecology’

‘STohpohmiea Ws Yaroiunngg (,U sneicvreertsairtyy oafn d
sCuapmebrrinidtgene)d ent’
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‘“Technologies of life”: a tentative ‘Natural philosophy in seventeenth-
mGioudliealn foo Pr athnec ahlidsit o(Uryn iovfe trhsiet yli ofef cReicnhtuarrdy SCearmjebarnitdsgoen: (aT trailnei toyf Cthorlleeeg e,
sBcoileongcneas) a nd demography” nCaomtebbroiodkgse’)
Science and the Unknowable

‘AAnlckhe eTmimy mate rCmamanbnr i(dDgaer –w ain c Coolllelectgiev,e
pCaermsbpreicdtgivee) ’
Chair: tbc
Experiments on Animals and Humans
‘Reconciling science and religion:
FHeedrebreircto SMpoerngcaenr,t it h(‘eS aNpeiwen za’
URenfioverrmsiattài odni ,R aonmd at)h e unknowable’
Chair: tbc

‘Investigating snakes in Company
‘Estranged bedfellows: borderland IJanmdieas: Rex. pHearlilm (Uennitvse, rasniteyc dofo tes, and
science, Eastern Orthodoxy and aCnatmidbortidesg’e )
cKaolsetnads aTra rmefpoarkmisa (tNioant iionn tawl eHnetlileetnhic-
Rceensetuarrych G Froeeucned’a tion)

‘Victoria’sP irnovtiescitbiloen v oivf iAsneicmtoarlss: A ct
Pveenteorm Hooubsb sinnsa (kUens,i vsetrrasiyt yd oofg Ssy adnnde y)
‘A mind-reading girl, psychophysical the 1881 ’
eKnaetyragy M, aisnhdu arilst e(rUendi vsetrastietsy ionf fin-de-
sMièicchleig Rauns, sAina’n Arbor)
‘Syphilisation and its discontents:
experimental inoculation and the
sAenanrec hH afonrl eimy (mUunnivietyrs aitgya oinf st syphilis
‘Finding Meaning in Digital Data: iCna Emnbgrliadngde,) 1860-1880’
Physics in the News,1885–1925’
Vivien Hamilton (Harvey Mudd New Horizons and Roads Well Travelled:
College) An Open Discussion of the History of
Saturday 5 July Science, Technology and Medicine in
Academic Session 6 World War One
11.30–13.00

Natural Philosophy in Medieval and
Organiser: Michael Weatherburn
Early Modern Cambridge: A Reappraisal

of ManuscriptCulture and Knowledge
GRroauenmdeta Gboleo dpaayr t(iUcinpiavnertssi:t y of Leeds)
Production
S abine Clarke (University of York)

Michael Weatherburn (Imperial

College)

Organiser: Anna Marie Roos
Science at School
Chair: Bruce Moran

‘Francis Willughby (1635–72): the

Achnynma iMcaalr cieu lRtuoores (aUt nTirvienristiyt yC oofll ege,
Chair: tbc
LCianmcoblrni/dUgen’i versity of Oxford)

‘JSoc Eielcnotaiftic ( Uednuivceartsiiotny oinf Leeigehdtse) enth-
century schools’
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Melanie Keene (Homerton College,
‘COabmjebcrti dlegses)o ns go to school’ ‘British travellers and the sublime
volcano: science, faith and aesthetic
iGna fberuiedlael MSiuclièly ( Ionfd tehpee enidgehntet)e nth
century’
‘The diseases of scholars: trans- Editorial and Commercial Practices in
ARetlbaenctcica mR.e Ndoiceiln (eP alynmdo Aumthe Srticaaten the Phil Trans 1750-1914
sUcnhioveorlssi, t1y7) 60-1850’
Science on Screen
Chair: Gowan Dawson

‘For the sole use and benefit of this
Chair: tbc Society’: The institutional takeover
oNfo tahhe MPhoxilhoasmop (hUicnaivl eTrrsaitnys oacf tSito ns
‘Van Leeuwenhoek – The Movie: aAnndd rietsw asf)t ermath, 1750-1827’
cMinieenmekae a tse a Hgeennnt eopf en (aMtiuosneaul mid entity
aBnoder shcaieanveti,f Lice ihdeernit)a ge’

A‘Pihleielons Foypfhei (cUaln Tivrearnssitayc otifo Snts A annddr ethwes )
book trade in 1827 and 1907’
‘Fear of Freud: psychiatry,
psychoanalysis and movie
cDeanvsido rAs.h Kipir ibny t(hUen UivSe rasnitdy UoKf , 1930- ‘Editing the Philosophical
1M9a6n8c’h ester) Transactions in an age of
Jpurloiefe MssciDoonuagliazallt-iWona taenrds (University
ospf eSct iAanlidzaretiwosn), 1854–1911’

‘Lights, camera, miracle: the Mathematics in the Nineteenth and
aSeersmthoentisc fsr oomf w Socniednecre and religious Twentieth Centuries
Wsciiellniacme iRn. IMrwacina uMleoyo (nU’sn ifvilemrs siteyr ioefs
Manchester) ’

Chair: tbc
Saturday 5 July
‘ECl.i-zVa.b Metohu Lreewy’iss s(iUnngilvee srcsiietyn coef Sotf
Academic Session 7
aAlngderberwa sa)n d geometry’
14.00–15.30

Mountains and Volcanoes

‘SFteerfadniniea nUd. E Rmuidnigoe –r a(U hnisivtoerrsiaitny ooff St
mAnadtrheewmsa) tics’

Chair: tbc

‘The facts of the matter? Natural
‘Developing astrodynamics at the
Dknaowwnl Jeadcgkes oonf mWoilulinatmaisn (sU inni veearrsliyt y of
JAPllLa fnr oDm. G e. lOlilplesye s(I tnod nepuemnedreincta l
Smt oAdnedrrne wEus)r ope’
isnchteoglarar)ti on’

‘CVoersinunviau Gs:u aenrr oab (jUecnti voefr cshiteym ofic Baal ri)

inquiry’
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Colonial Medicine and Public Health
‘Corpus Newtonicum:
rKeeceosn-Jsatnr uSccthinilgt (IUsanaivce Nsietwy otof nSu’ss sex)
Chair: tbc working methods’

‘“The door to the Frontiersman’s
heart”: medical intervention on ‘PAe eptreiro rMitüyü crasseep p– (wThaoll iwnna sU tnhieve frirssitty
ZBurijatijsah T Ianudqiae’esr h (oUsntiilvee rAsfigtyh aonf Oxford) toof Tteeacchhn oNleowgyt)o n?’
border’

‘Meat, murrain, germs: examining D‘Tahnei erleec Mepatcioung loiaf N(Uenwivtoernsiiatny iosfm in
epizootics, veterinarians, and eCihgihcategeon)t h-century Rome’
sSaanmitiparayr nsac iSeanmcea innt aC o(Gloenoiragl iBa engal,
1Co8l5le0g-1e 9a2n0d’ State University)

‘TChoonmstarsu Bctuinncge N (eDwurtohna m– bUinoigvrearpsihtyy)
and the historiography of science’
‘Colonial medical knowledge and its Sites of Science in the Eighteenth and
lRimosiat sW inil lMiaomzas m(Ubniqivueer saitty t hoef tthuer nF roefe Nineteenth Centuries
tShtaet tew) entieth century’
50 Years of Horizon (1)
Chair: Hasok Chang

‘Public science at the Society for the
Organiser: Tim Boon EMnactothuerwag Peamseknints o (fU Anritvse, rsity College
Chair: tbc Horizon MLoannduofna)c tures and Commerce’
J ean-Baptiste Gouyon (Science
M‘Auns oeruaml hRiessteoaryrc ohf Associate’ )

Horizon ‘“Raptures, transports, and
surprising flights of fancy”: British
F‘Aeblisceitnyc Me aelnlodr a (lIimenpaetrioianl Cino llege) CCauilttluinre Ds oohf eBratyll o(Uonniivnegr saintyd othf e
physics’ SCcaomttbirsihd gEen)l ightenment’

‘The go-betweens: the changing role
of anchor men, reporters and ‘The East India Company and
Tprimes Benotoenr s(S icni esnciceen Mceu sTeVu m) sJecsiseinctai fRica ptcrlaifcft (icYea lien- NImUpS eCroiallle ge)
documentary’ London, c. 1815–51’
S aturday 5 July
‘“Glasgow is our laboratory”:
Academic Session 8
metropolis, province and
16.00–18.00
Bphenil oMsaorpshdiecna l( eUnngivineerseirtiyn ogf c. 1840s–

1A9b0er0d’ een)
Newton and Newtonianism

Chair: Anna Marie Roos
BSHS Annual Conference 2014 DRAFT PROGRAMME ONLY
Laboratory Medicine in the Nineteenth 50 years of Horizon (2)
and Early Twentieth Centuries

Organiser: Tim Boon Horizon
Chair: tbc
Documentary screening of
‘Henry H. Cheek: a transformist at Sunday 6 July
EBdilil nJebnukrignhs U(Unniviveerrssiittyy M ofe Eddicianlb urgh)
Academic Session 9
School, 1826–31’
09.00–11.00

Early Modern Natural Philosophy
‘The reception of the cell theory in

nineteenth-century French biology:
aL acuormenpta Lriosiosnon b aetnwd eMeanr Pioanr iTs haonmd as

S(StrAaGsEb,o Uunrigv’e rsity of Strasbourg)
Chair: David Beck

‘The mind in motion: Margaret

CAanvneen Md.i sThh, eolrl g(Nanaitci omnaatl eUrniaivliesrmsi,t ay nodf
‘Economies of limitation: Jacques
tShineg mapoobrieli)t y of thought’
LRoebebec’sc am Ke.c Wharnigishtti c( Bcoirnkcbeepctki,o n of
eUnneivregrys’i ty of London)

‘The concept of “action at a

distance” and proper philosophical
‘From pathological collections to
lIarenngeu aGgoeu dina rlaotuel is (eUvneinvteeresnittyh o-f
bKiaorbina nTkysb:j emregd (iMciendei caasl aM cuosleleiocnti,o n
cAetnhetunrsy) England’
sUcnieivnecres’i ty of Copenhagen)
Physiologia
Communicating (with) Hearing Loss,

1840–1950
‘“Systems or Nothing”:
aLnizda tBhlea kHei s(tUonriyv oerf sSitcyie onfc Teo, r1o5n0t0o-)
1700’

Organiser: Graeme Gooday

Chair: Richard Noakes
‘Elements of interdisciplinarity in

early modern historical writing. The
‘Circulating knowledges of
uLysde ioaf J “aanusxsielnia (rFyW scOie-Vnlcaeasn” diner eeanr/lKy U
nKianreetne eSnaythe-rc (eLneteudrsy T sroilnuittiyo ns to
mLeoudveernn) antiquarian historiography’
U“hneiaverirnsigt ylo) ss”’
Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century
Science

‘Amplification with ambivalence: the
vGarraieemd ef oGrotuodnaeys (oUf neiavrelyrs eitlye cotfr Lice eds)

hearing aids’
Chair: Ben Marsden

Coreen McGuire (University of Leeds)
‘Kaleidoscopic vision: David
‘Amplifying historical voices’
BIwreawn sRtheyrs a Mndo rtuhse ( aArbte orfy ssteweiyntgh
tUhniinvgesr’s ity)

‘S“eMaend MrecsNcaol”l:y t (hUen pivreer-sNitHyS o of rLiegeindss) o f
state-sponsored auditory assistance’