Programme | 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Complete listing of symposia and compiled sessions, ordered by code number

S001. Knowledge preserved, knowledge lost: challenges in collecting and interpreting material culture of science and technology

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

S002. Research in science museums: the state of the art

Tue 23 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

S003. Historical development, contemporary investigations and perspectives of the logical and philosophical foundations of science, technology and medicine

Sat 27 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

S004. Colonial science at work

Sat 27 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

S005. Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800

Fri 26 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S006. Empires of longitude: international perspectives on navigation, mapping and science

Sat 27 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S007. Dynamics of knowledge: how technologies evolve, triumph and die

Fri 26 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

S008. Science as Public Culture revisited

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

S009. Leonardo da Vinci and the history of science

Thu 25 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S010. The introduction of mathematics in Iberoamerica (part II)

Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S011. Les sciences mathématiques 1750-1850: continuités et ruptures

Tue 23 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

S012. Arabic foundations of science

Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S014. Fossil work: making paleontological specimens and knowledge

Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

S015. Novel expertise and emerging specialists

Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

S016. Image-making and knowledge-making in early-modern Europe

Tue 23 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

S017. Boundaries at work: producing experimental and clinical knowledge of/with epilepsy between neurology, psychiatry and neuroscience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Mon 22 July, 11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

S018. Global Spencerism

Sat 27 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

S019. Aspects of the history of radio communications: how radio has transformed the world, and exploration, since the days of David Livingstone (1813-1873)

Tue 23 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

S020. Plant science and global food security in the twentieth century

Tue 23 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

S021. Industrial heritage and history of technology in the Luso-Brazilian world

Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212

S022. From natural history to ecology: towards a comparative history of life sciences in the long nineteenth century

Wed 24 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

S023. Wiring intelligence

Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

S025. Headwinds through the Iron Curtain: fundamental and applied sciences in Communist Eastern Europe

Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

S026. Pratiques et théories dans le champ de la santé mentale: quel(s) rapport(s)?

Mon 22 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

S027. Cross-cultural transmissions of medical knowledge in premodern Asia

Tue 23 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

S028. Genetics, eugenics and culture: transatlantic perspectives, 1900-2000

Sat 27 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

S029. Visual, material and empirical culture in early-modern Iberian science: artifacts, regiments, vessels, nautical charts, natural specimens, cosmographers, naturalist and pilots

Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

S030. Is it the medium? Ways of communicating science in twentieth-century Europe

Fri 26 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

S031. The contribution of Friedrich Engels in the history of science and technology

Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

S033. Paris: capital of hygiene?

Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212

S034. From patronage to biotech: new perspectives on medicine and commerce

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

S035. Image and context: visual representations and the boundaries of scientific practice

Wed 24 July, 09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

S036. Systems biology: a paradigm at work?

Wed 24 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

S037. Cornucopia or Pandora’s box: digital working methods, web portals and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) in the history of science and technology

Tue 23 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

S038. “A work to be done”: the manual and the cognitive in early-modern science

Sat 27 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

S039. Literary history and the history of science

Wed 24 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

S040. Science in agriculture: interactions of science, agriculture and environment

Tue 23 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

S042. Practising photography in the sciences

Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

S043. Creating facts: disputed knowledge-claims in the nineteenth century

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S044. Forensic histories: global perspectives

Fri 26 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

S045. Mathematical facets of measurement, measuring units, measured quantities and their uses

Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

S046. Visual communication in early-modern to modern learned journals

Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

S048. Putting Chinese natural knowledge to work in the long eighteenth century

Thu 25 July, 09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212

S049. Science and optical media: imaging technologies, knowledge formation and the rise of the scientific imagination

Sat 27 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

S051. Population control and reproductive health rights in Cold War Asia

Tue 23 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

S052. The work of medical schools since the Second World War: the reconfiguration of knowledge, practice and pedagogy

Sat 27 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

S053. Knowledge at work across cultural boundaries

Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S054. Alchemy: the relationship between working and knowing from late antiquity to the seventeenth century

Sat 27 July, 14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

S055. Putting knowledge to war: research, development and the image of science in the First World War

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

S056. Medical knowledge traditions at work

Fri 26 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

S058. Working in science and as art: twentieth-century ‘experimental’ relationships

Mon 22 July, 11:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

S059. Space at work: space programmes, the environment and nuclear technology

Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

S060. The transmission of medical knowledge in the Islamic world

Tue 23 July, 14:10–Wed 24 July, 10:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S061. Re-creating past science and technology

Sat 27 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S062. Reworking the history of chemistry: practice, revolution, visualization and exchange

Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S063. The paper world of science in the age of industry and Empire

Tue 23 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

S064. Science × Medicine: Promiscuous Objects, Entangled Problems

Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

S065. Knowledge between transmission and local cultural boundaries: migrating scientists and physicians in the twentieth century

Tue 23 July, 14:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S066. Planet Earth, the environment, and the Cold War

Fri 26 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

S067. Corps, santé, médecine et maladies en milieu de travail en Amérique latine, 19e et 20e siècles

Mon 22 July, 16:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

S069. Putting the human sciences to work: managing human minds and bodies in the twentieth century

Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S070. Transferring and forming pharmaceutical knowledge: from practical work to academic disciplines and back, from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

S071. The science of man? Bounds of knowledge in the twentieth century

Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S072. Preserving scientific heritage to enable working with knowledge: how historians, archivists and scientists can engage in preserving and disseminating scientific heritage via a global online system

Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S073. Medical knowledge at the colonial work front: health reports as research tools

Tue 23 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212

S074. Connected histories? Science and technology from a new historiographical perspective

Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

S075. Publishing the sciences

Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

S076. Theology at work in science / Science at work in theology

Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

S077. Transnational nuclear perspectives

Sat 27 July, 09:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S078. Collecting and using oral histories of science and technology: international perspectives

Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

S079. Materia medica and pharmacy: from the medicinal virtues to the active principles of plants

Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

S081. Between physics and technology: the embodiment of knowledge in the inter-war period

Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

S082. Ideological blueprints: rational choice, equilibrium and planned development in economics

Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

S084. Social science, ideology, and public policy in the United States, 1961 to 2011

Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

S086. Data at work

Mon 22 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

S087. Science and the emotions: transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives

Tue 23 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

S088. Expanding women’s sphere: knowledge and the re-definition of women’s work in the twentieth century

Wed 24 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S089. Beyond the animal model: Linking humans and animals in modern medicine

Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

S091. The achievements of R J Boscovich in the philosophy of nature, astronomy, technique and culture: historical resources and contemporary epistemic reflections

Mon 22 July, 11:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

S092. Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies

Mon 22 July, 11:00–Wed 24 July, 12:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett

S093. New perspectives on classification and methodology in history of science: theoretical and technological bases for managing primary sources

Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S094. History of science and the ecology of knowledge: the limitations, expectations, and needs of four knowledge communities

Fri 26 July, 11:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

S095. Using modern computing power to analyse and explicate ancient astronomical sources: opportunities and challenges

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

S096. The making of transnational science: scientific contacts between China and the West during the late Qing and Republican China

Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

S097. From antiquity to tradition? Innovation and the past in East Asian science, technology and medicine, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century

Fri 26 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S098. Religion and natural knowledge in the encounter of East Asia with Europe, 1600-1800

Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

S099. History of metrology: a view of comparison between the West and the East

Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S100. Comparative perspectives on ancient astronomy: the Chinese and Greek traditions

Tue 23 July, 11:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S101. Ancient cultural and technological interactions between East and West along the Silk Road

Sat 27 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

S102. The historical and cultural dimensions of Islamic science

Fri 26 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

S103. Gaining it / losing it/ regaining it(?) Knowledge production in climate science, status anxiety, and authority across disciplines

Fri 26 July, 09:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S104. Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back

Fri 26 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S105. One hundred years of the Bohr atom

Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley

S106. Philosophy at work in modern physics

Tue 23 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

S107. Poincaré’s Méthodes nouvelles de la mécanique céleste in historical context: bridging the frontiers of knowledge in mathematics, astronomy and wireless tech

Wed 24 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

S108. Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world

Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S110. Homemade science: domestic sites and the gendering of knowledge

Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S111. Geography and its publics

Wed 24 July, 09:10–Thu 25 July, 12:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

S112. Geology in art and literature

Tue 23 July, 09:00–Wed 24 July, 10:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S113. Geologists in the field

Fri 26 July, 09:10–Sat 27 July, 12:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

S114. Mathematics and patronage

Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

S115. Mathematical knowledge at work in Ancient China

Tue 23 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

S116. The history and philosophy of mathematical optimization

Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

S117. The institutionalization of mathematics and the founding of national societies

Thu 25 July, 09:00–Fri 26 July, 12:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

P119. Everlasting bath: the history of sauna technology and culture

Sat 27 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley

P120. Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group

Wed 24 July, 09:10–Fri 26 July, 12:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley

P121. Men, knowledge and technologies in the development of the modern oil industry up to the early decades of the twentieth century

Wed 24 July, 14:10–15:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg

P123. The invisible bicycle: new insights into bicycle history

Tue 23 July, 11:10–Wed 24 July, 12:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg

P124. Generating knowledge in practice: experiments in the building sector

Sat 27 July, 14:10–15:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley

P125. Enforced specialization in computing technology: debugging the history of cooperation and competition in COMECON countries

Tue 23 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

Q127. ICOHTEC special topics in the history of technology

Thu 25 July, 09:10–Sat 27 July, 10:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg

S129. Islamic astronomy in its cultural context

Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett

W131. 32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium

Tue 23 July, 09:00–Fri 26 July, 12:30 ▪ Schuster Rutherford

P132. Sonic skills at work: listening as an entrance to knowledge acquisition

Sat 27 July, 11:10–12:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg

P133. Knowledge for use: universities, industry and roots of the knowledge economy

Sat 27 July, 14:10–15:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg

T151. Philosophical issues

Wed 24 July, 16:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

T152. Gender at work

Tue 23 July, 16:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

T153. New themes and approaches in science studies

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

T154. Sources and biography

Sat 27 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

T155. Early-modern mathematics

Tue 23 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

T156. Topics in the history of modern mathematics

Sat 27 July, 16:10–16:55 ▪ Uni Place 4.212

T157. Pre-modern astronomy and cosmology

Sat 27 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

T158. Knowledge and experiment in natural philosophy

Fri 26 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

T159. Place and affect in early-modern sciences

Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

T160. Topics in nineteenth-century physics

Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

T161. Modern physics and astronomy at work

Fri 26 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett

T162. Aspects of the history of modern chemistry

Thu 25 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

T163. Mapping, geography and geology

Mon 22 July, 11:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

T165. Contexts of natural history

Tue 23 July, 09:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

T166. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century biological sciences

Fri 26 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

T167. Working worlds of the twentieth-century biological sciences

Mon 22 July, 11:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

T170. Medicine and colonialism

Fri 26 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

T171. Medical authority boundaries and medical knowledge

Sat 27 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

T172. The politics of public health

Fri 26 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

T173. Medical ethics and psychology

Sat 27 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

T174. Twentieth-century medicine

Sat 27 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

T175. Contemporary medical practice and ethics

Fri 26 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

T176. East Asian medicine

Fri 26 July, 16:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

T177. Images and models in modern medicine

Wed 24 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

T178. Science, medicine, industry and markets

Fri 26 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

T179. Bio/medical practices

Single session. Fri 26 July, early afternoon ▪ Uni Place 3.205

T180. Scientific expeditions, travels and colonialism

Sat 27 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

T181. Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering

Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

T182. Post-Second World War science and technology

Tue 23 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

T183. Twentieth-century sciences in comparative (inter)national contexts

Wed 24 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

T184. International organisations in twentieth-century science, technology and medicine

Sat 27 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

T185. Science, technology and medicine and the state

Sat 27 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

T186. Ecology, conservation, environment

Wed 24 July, 14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

T190. Literary approaches in the history of science, technology and medicine

Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

T191. Science and art

Fri 26 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

T192. Medicine and the media

Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

T193. Science, technology and medicine in the public sphere

Tue 23 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

T195. Science education

Fri 26 July, 09:00–Sat 27 July, 17:30 ▪ Multiple locations

T196. Pedagogy and textbooks

Fri 26 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

T197. History and historiography of the history of science, technology and medicine

Fri 26 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

S199. Science, technology and medicine in the Ottoman Empire

Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

T201. History of technology

Wed 24 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

T202. Information technology, communications, networks

Sat 27 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

T203. Technical cultures of practice and knowledge

Sat 27 July, 09:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

T204. Science and technology museums in context

Wed 24 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212

T210. Islamic science and medicine

Sat 27 July, 16:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219