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BRITISHSOCIETYFOR THEHISTORYOF SCIENCE
POSTGRADUATECONFERENCE
LEEDS8—9—10JANUARY
2014
The British Society for the History of Science is a company limited by guarantee, registration number 562208 in England; registered charity number 258854.Address for communications: BSHS Executive Secretary, PO Box 3401, Norwich, NR7 7JF Tel: +44 (0)1603 516 236Email: [email protected] ; Web: www.bshs.org.uk© 2014, British Society for the History of Science
BSHS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE8–9–10 JANUARY 2014UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK
Welcome to the 2014 BSHS Postgraduate Conference! We at Leeds had a phenomenal response from the postgraduate community and are very happy to be hosting an annual event that goes from strength to strength. The following three-days promise to be exciting and stimulating (not to mention fun). The conference is a great opportunity for postgraduates in the history/philosophy/sociology/et al.ology of science, technology, and medicine to participate in thoughtful discussions, test and exchange ideas, but also relax and enjoy everything Leeds has to offer. We were of course particularly pleased with the great number of papers that blend historical and philosophical perspectives, which marvellously showcase the tradition of the Leeds Centre for HPS. So, without further ado, thank you all very much, welcome to Leeds, and let’s begin!
To contact the organisers before, during or after the conference, please email:
Emergency ContactIf you have an emergency and need to contact the organisers out of hours during the period of the conference, you may call 07741331138.
Conference web pagehttp://www.bshs.org.uk/conferences/postgraduate-conference/2014-po-stgraduate-conference-leeds
University of LeedsWoodhouse Lane,Leeds, LS2 9JT switchboard: +44 (0)113 2204100http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/20014/about/157/how_to_find_us(including directions to campus and local bus services)
IBIS Hoteltelephone number: +44 (0)113 2204100http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-3652-ibis-leeds-centre/index.shtml
Local Bus Services Please see the websites of First Leeds, West Yorkshire Metro and Leeds City Bus.
TaxisAmber Cars: +44 (0)113 2636445Arrow: +44 (0)113 2585888Premier: +44 (0)113 2697676
If you have applied to the BSHS for a Butler-Eyles Travel Grant, please keep your travel receipts.
• Pick up your registration pack from the conference registration desk in the Parkinson Court on arrival to the conference venue.
• Tea and Coffee will be provided before the conference begins in the Centenary Gallery, where all subsequent refreshment and lunch breaks will be held.
• All conference rooms will be clearly signposted, but if help is needed please go to the conference registration desk (or, alternatively, to the Parkinson Building reception desk).
• If you need some place to temporarily store your baggage, please ask at the registration desk.
All conference rooms have PowerPoint facilities. Please bring your presentation on an USB stick and come to the session room where you are to present at least 10 minutes before the start of the session to upload it. We recommend that you save your presentation as a PDF file to avoid any incompatibility issues. Presentations should be max. 18 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of question/discussion.
The welcome reception will be held on the evening of Wednesday 8th January at the Centenary Gallery.
The conference dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday 9th January at The Faversham, 1-5 Springfield Mount, LS2 9NG, on the southern edge of the University campus.
USEFUL INFORMATION
ON ARRIVAL
CONFERENCE DINNER
WELCOME RECEPTION
INSTRUCTIONS TO SPEAKERS
2014 BSHS POSTGRADUATE
CONFERENCE
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
WEDNESDAY 8TH JANUARY 2014
10.30 – 12.00
16.30 – 19.00
End of Day 1
14.10 – 14.40
13.30 – 14.10
12.00 – 13.30
14.40 – 16.10
Session 1Sex and Sexualised Disease Room: G.36Chair: Becky Bowd
Agata IgnaciukMaking Contraception Respectable: Medical Advertising of the Pill in Spain (1964-1985)
Hannah KershawFrom ‘Any Woman’ Thrush to Pitiful AIDS: The Construction of HIV-Positive Identities in Just Seventeen Magazine, 1983-1997
Laura R. NeffThe Abdominal Abyss: The Surgical Exploration of Maternal Medicine 1860-1890
Anne HanleySyphilisation and its Discontents: Experimental Inoculation and the Search for Immunity against Syphilis in England, 1860-1880
Session 4 Natural History and EvolutionRoom: G.36 Chair: Arik Clausner
Pedro Ricardo Gouveia da FonsecaThrough the Looking Glass: A Clarification of Historical Myths and Half-truths about Charles Darwin, Darwinism and Evolutionary Theory
Clare O’ReillyDarwin, Dogs, Doves and the Tree of Life
Natalie LawrenceTusks, Skins and Bones: The Walrus amongst Sailors and Scholars in Early Modern Europe
Elizabeth Dobson JonesThe Tasmanian Tiger and the Development of Ancient DNA Research
Session 2 Science, Technology and the State Room: G.37 Chair: Daniele Macuglia
Elizabeth Haines Colonial Cartography as Labour
Sam Robinson Constructing Surveillance, Challenging Democracy; Ocean Science and Geopolitics at Gibraltar
Alice White Tickboxes and Testing Men: The Shaping of a Psychological Technology in the WWII British Army
Stuart Butler The ‘White Heat’ of Tory Science? Science, Technology, and Modernism in Conservative Government 1963-4
Session 5 Appropriating and Applying KnowledgeRoom: G.37 Chair: Alice White
Daniele Macuglia Knowledge Transfer in XVII-Century Rome: The Case of Boscovich and the Roman College, 1726-1760
Katherine Platt Negotiating British-German identities: Siemens contested role in British First World War Industry
Lydia Janssen From Literary Genre to Scientific Discipline. Early Modern Antiquarianism and the Development of a Dual Tradition in National Historiography
Session 3 Philosophy and Representation in Physics Room: 3.11 Chair: Nahuel Sznajderhaus
Camilla Rostvik What Can Art Tell Us about CERN? Representation and Image in European Physics
Nahuel Sznajderhaus From the Founding Fathers of Quantum Mechanics to the Copenhagen Interpretation: Historical and Epistemological Remarks
Alison Boyle The Material and the Microworld: Museum Interpretations of Modern Physics
Registration, Tea & Coffee
Wine Reception
Discussion: “Three things you can do with a History of Science PhD” with Prof. Graeme Gooday (Room: G.37)
Lunch break
THURSDAY 9TH JANUARY 2014
9.00 – 9.30
13.00 – 13.40
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11.00 – 11.30
9.30 – 11.00
11.30 – 13.00
Session 6 Biology Room: G.36Chair: Erman Sozodogru
Andrea Nunez CasalDigressions on Immunity: From the British Embassy in Turkey to the Yanomami’s Microbiome
Arik ClausnerA Science for the Empire: The Origins of the British Imperial Bureau of Entomology
Erman Sozodogru Pluralism in Life Sciences: Building the RNA World
Jouni AhmajärviThe Products of Nature and Social Inequality - Biological Factors in Gunnar Landtman´s Sociology
Session 9 Holding a Mirror to MedicineRoom: G.36 Chair: Nicholas Binney
Alan MackintoshWhy Patent a Medicine? Achieving Authority in late Georgian England
Nicholas BinneyMacrohistory for Medicine’s Sake
Agnes Arnold-FosterManaging Ignorance: Breast Cancer and its Cures in Britain in the Nineteenth Century
Session 7 Science, Technology and Modernity Room: G.37 Chair: Thomas Palmelund Johansen
Jean-Francois Fava-VerdePrivate Wires in Victorian Britain
Thomas Palmelund JohansenProfiting from Words: the Philosophie Économique of the Printing Machine
Adrian James KirwanIreland’s Early Telegraph Network: Technological Implementation and Expansion on the Periphery of the Union, 1850-1865
Aleš MaternaShipbuilding Production for the Austro-Hungarian Navy by the Vítkovice Ironworks
Session 10 AgricultureRoom: G.37 Chair: Sara Peres
Andrew Ball Better Ways to Kill: Science, the humane movement and changing economies of animal slaughter in Britain, 1878-1967
Matthew HolmesSilent Farms: Pesticides and Partridge Poisoning in Britain and Ireland, 1843-1848
Kapil SubramanianPrivate Tubewells and the Green Revolution
Sara PeresThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Embodying Conservation as a Global Concern and Enacting the ‘International Seed Treaty’ in the Arctic Permafrost
Session 11 Philosophy of Science IIRoom: 3.11 Chair: Hugh Mackenzie
Steffan John The Science and Politics of the Logical Positivists
Adam FernerThe Rise of the Organism in Analytic Metaphysics
Toby FriendIs ‘Oxygen’ Referentially Stable?
Jim GrozierFalsificationism, Science and Uncertainty
Session 8 Philosophy of Science I Room: 3.11 Chair: Toby Friend
Clare StainthorpConstance Naden’s Scientific Education and “Hylo-Idealism”
Neil DewarProving the Löwenheim-Skolem and Completeness Theorems
Josafat Ivan Hernandez CervantesThe Historical Development of the Rational Agent Concept in Mainstream Economics in XX Century
Hugh MackenziePlatonic Numbers as Naturally Enabling an Optimal Encounter of Mind with Matter
Tea & Coffee
Lunch Break
Tea & Coffee
THURSDAY 9TH JANUARY 2014
13.40 – 14.10
15.40 – 16.10
14.10 – 15.40
19.00 – 21.00
Session 12 Science in/from the Observatory Room: G.36Chair: Lee Macdonald
Lee MacdonaldRe-establishing Kew Observatory, 1840-1842
Ken Corbett ‘The best Mean Time the Observatory Can Supply’: Experiments with Clock Coordination in Victorian London
Margarita García de Cortázar NebredaAstronomy in the Spanish Newsreel (NO-DO) from 1943 to 1963
Session 13 Historiography and the Scientist Room: G.37 Chair: Matteo Corso
Schilt Kees-Jan“I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally” - Why Isaac Newton might never have published, and why he yet did
Ruth WainmanLearning to Become a Scientist: The Shaping of the Scientist in Family Life and Education in Wartime and Early Post-War Britain
Matteo CorsoHow a Potter Becomes a Scientist: The History of Science Dealing with Josiah Wedgwood
Oliver MarshLife Cycle of a Star: Media Myths of Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman
Session 14 The Mind and the Brain Room: 3.11 Chair: Bill Jenkins
Rebecca O’NealWhich Way Is Up? Brain Dissection and Theoretical Insights
Bill JenkinsGeorge Combe, Phrenology and Heredity: Social Lamarckism in Mid-ineteenth-century Edinburgh?
Sarah CrookPsychiatric Knowledge and the General Practitioner: Maternal Distress in the Community in 1960s Britain
Discussion: “Museums and the History of Science” with Dr. Claire Jones (Room: G.37)
Tea & Coffee
Conference Dinner
End of Day 2
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FRIDAY 10TH JANUARY 2014
9.30 – 10.00
13.30 – 14.10
14.10 – 14.40
11.30 – 12.00
10.00 – 11.30
12.00 – 13.30
Session 15 Chemistry Room: G.36Chair: Catherine Rushmore
Haileigh RobertsonPolychrests and Eprouvettes: Using and Testing Gunpowder in the 17th Century
Catherine Rushmore“No Known Antidote” Paraquat and its Domestic Users in Britain
Galina ShyndriayevaModern Sensibilities: Materials and Expertise in the Early Twentieth-century Perfume Industry
Session 18 Power and IdentityRoom: G.36 Chair: Alice Haigh
Kate Mahoney“The Personal is Political”? Consciousness-Raising and Changing Definitions of “Therapy” in the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1969-1979
Andrew BlackWho Defines Medical Research Policy? Patients, politics and the Case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Zhang Xiao LongMedical Statistics Started in the Late Qing Dynasty
Hannah Grenham‘Freaks, Knurds, Hackers and Assorted Hangers On’: The Impact of the Computer Hobbyist Movement on Domestic Computing in the United States
Session 16 Medieval and Early-Modern Science Room: G.37 Chair: Natasha Cutts
Christopher BraunThe ‘Science of the Letter Mîm’ – Occult Practices and the Search for Hidden Riches in Medieval Egypt
Alessandra PetrocchiSanskrit Mathematical Writings in Ancient and Medieval India: Between Oral Tradition and Literary Texts
Natasha CuttsWith What Kind of Body Shall They Come?: The Resurrection Body in Early Christianity
Frances Maguire‘The Lords Name Be Praised for our Life and Health’: Bills of Mortality in Seventeenth-Century England
Session 19 Representing and InterveningRoom: G.37 Chair: Ageliki Lefkaditou
Damian HughesHidden in plain sight: Early ecology as visual science
Justine CookRoad Signs, Design Aesthetics, and History of Technology
Yin Chung AuThe interplay between biomedical research and drawings: apoptosis 1970s – 2005
Session 17 Politics in the Museum Room: 3.11 Chair: Erin Beeston
Jia-Ou SongSticking Your Nose in It: The Changing Effects of Political Influences in Chinese Science Museums from the Early c20th to the Present Day
Erin Beeston‘Off the rails’: A Space for Heritage - Liverpool Road Station, Manchester
Alice HaighMind, Body and Business. Elevating the Masses by Means of the Bethnal Green Museum
Tea & Coffee
Lunch Break
Discussion: “How to Improve your Writing” with Prof. Greg Radick (Room: G.37)
Tea & Coffee
End of Conference
DELEGATE LIST
NAME EMAIL
Ahmajärvi, Jouni [email protected]
Arnold-Foster, Agnes [email protected]
Au, Yin Chung [email protected]
Ball, [email protected]
Beeston, [email protected]
Berry, Dominic [email protected]
Binney, Nicholas [email protected]
Black, [email protected]
Bowd, Becky [email protected]
Boyle, Alison [email protected]
Braun, [email protected]
Butler, Stuart [email protected]
Casal, Andrea Nunez [email protected]
Chatterjee, [email protected]
Clausner, Arik [email protected]
Cook, Justine [email protected]
Corbett, Ken [email protected]
Corso, Matteo [email protected]
Crook, Sarah [email protected]
Cutts, Natasha [email protected]
Dewar, Neil [email protected]
Elcoat, Jo [email protected]
Fava-Verde, Jean-Francois
Ferner, Adam [email protected]
Fonseca, Pedro [email protected]
NAME EMAIL
Friend, [email protected]
Grenham, Hannah [email protected]
Grozier, Jim [email protected]
Haggarty, Alister [email protected]
Haigh, Alice [email protected]
Haines, [email protected]
Hanley, Anne [email protected]
Hernantez, Josafat [email protected]
Holmes, Matthew [email protected]
Hughes, Damian [email protected]
Ignaciuk, Agata [email protected]
Janssen, Lydia [email protected]
Jenkins, Bill [email protected]
Johansen, Thomas [email protected]
John, Steffan [email protected]
Jones, Elizabeth Dobson
Kershaw, [email protected]
Kirwan, Adrian James [email protected]
Lawrence, Natalie [email protected]
Lefkaditou, Ageliki [email protected]
Liu, Hongjin [email protected]
Macdonald, Lee [email protected]
Mackenzie, Hugh [email protected]
Mackintosh, Alan [email protected]
Macuglia, Daniele [email protected]
DELEGATE LIST
NAME EMAIL
Maguire, Frances [email protected]
Mahoney, Kate [email protected]
Marsh, Oliver [email protected]
Materna, Ales [email protected]
McGuire, Coreen [email protected]
Nebreda, Margarita [email protected]
Neff, Laura R [email protected]
Noble, Rebecca
O'Neal, Rebecca [email protected]
O'Reilly, Clare [email protected]
Peres, Sara [email protected]
Petrocchi, Alessandra [email protected]
Pilkington, Helen-Frances
Platt, [email protected]
Price, Jessica [email protected]
Robertson, Haileigh [email protected]
Robinson, [email protected]
Røstvik, Camilla [email protected]
Rushmore, Cat [email protected]
Schilt, Kees-Jan [email protected]
Shyndriayeva, Galina [email protected]
Song, Jia-Ou [email protected]
Sozodogru, Erman [email protected]
Stainthorp, Clare [email protected]
Stoddart, Lorna [email protected]
NAME EMAIL
Subramanian, Kapil [email protected]
Sznajderhaus, Nahuel [email protected]
Wainman, Ruth [email protected]
White, Alice [email protected]
Long, Xhang Xiao [email protected]
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