iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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By discipline
Mathematics
Astronomy
Technology and communications
Systems, data, automation, computation
Measurement
Physics and natural philosophy
Chemistry and alchemy
Earth, geology, climate, oceans
Life sciences and natural history
Medical and human sciences
Ecology and environment
Social sciences
Philosophy and logic
Mathematics
S005. Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800
Fri 26 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3
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
S045. Mathematical facets of measurement, measuring units, measured quantities and their uses
Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
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
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
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
Astronomy
S092. Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies
Mon 22 July, 11:00–Wed 24 July, 12:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett
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
S099. History of metrology: a view of comparison between the West and the East
Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
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
S129. Islamic astronomy in its cultural context
Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett
T157. Pre-modern astronomy and cosmology
Sat 27 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
T161. Modern physics and astronomy at work
Fri 26 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett
Technology and communications
S007. Dynamics of knowledge: how technologies evolve, triumph and die
Fri 26 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
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
S021. Industrial heritage and history of technology in the Luso-Brazilian world
Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212
S023. Wiring intelligence
Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219
E047. Historical and contemporary communications technologies in Africa: a case study in Cameroon and wider reflections
Wed 24 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219
S059. Space at work: space programmes, the environment and nuclear technology
Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009
S074. Connected histories? Science and technology from a new historiographical perspective
Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
S081. Between physics and technology: the embodiment of knowledge in the inter-war period
Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5
S104. Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back
Fri 26 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010
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
E118. 40th anniversary symposium: the history of ICOHTEC
Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg
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
Q127. ICOHTEC special topics in the history of technology
Thu 25 July, 09:10–Sat 27 July, 10:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg
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
T181. Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering
Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
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
Systems, data, automation, computation
S005. Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800
Fri 26 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3
S036. Systems biology: a paradigm at work?
Wed 24 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205
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
S086. Data at work
Mon 22 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219
S116. The history and philosophy of mathematical optimization
Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205
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
T156. Topics in the history of modern mathematics
Sat 27 July, 16:10–16:55 ▪ Uni Place 4.212
Measurement
S045. Mathematical facets of measurement, measuring units, measured quantities and their uses
Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
S099. History of metrology: a view of comparison between the West and the East
Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
T157. Pre-modern astronomy and cosmology
Sat 27 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
T161. Modern physics and astronomy at work
Fri 26 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett
Physics and natural philosophy
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
S081. Between physics and technology: the embodiment of knowledge in the inter-war period
Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5
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
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
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
Chemistry and alchemy
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
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
S104. Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back
Fri 26 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010
T162. Aspects of the history of modern chemistry
Thu 25 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
Earth, geology, climate, oceans
S014. Fossil work: making paleontological specimens and knowledge
Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5
S066. Planet Earth, the environment, and the Cold War
Fri 26 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219
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
S108. Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world
Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010
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
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
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
Life sciences and natural history
S018. Global Spencerism
Sat 27 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5
S020. Plant science and global food security in the twentieth century
Tue 23 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
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
S034. From patronage to biotech: new perspectives on medicine and commerce
Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206
S036. Systems biology: a paradigm at work?
Wed 24 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205
S040. Science in agriculture: interactions of science, agriculture and environment
Tue 23 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
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
T153. New themes and approaches in science studies
Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213
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
T179. Bio/medical practices
Single session. Fri 26 July, early afternoon ▪ Uni Place 3.205
Medical and human sciences
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
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
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
S044. Forensic histories: global perspectives
Fri 26 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213
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
S056. Medical knowledge traditions at work
Fri 26 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213
S060. The transmission of medical knowledge in the Islamic world
Tue 23 July, 14:10–Wed 24 July, 10:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010
S064. Science × Medicine: Promiscuous Objects, Entangled Problems
Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
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
S073. Medical knowledge at the colonial work front: health reports as research tools
Tue 23 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212
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
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
T159. Place and affect in early-modern sciences
Mon 22 July, 11:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
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
T192. Medicine and the media
Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
Ecology and environment
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
S040. Science in agriculture: interactions of science, agriculture and environment
Tue 23 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
T165. Contexts of natural history
Tue 23 July, 09:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
T186. Ecology, conservation, environment
Wed 24 July, 14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213
Social sciences
S018. Global Spencerism
Sat 27 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ 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
Philosophy and logic
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
S012. Arabic foundations of science
Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010
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
S106. Philosophy at work in modern physics
Tue 23 July, 09:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5
S116. The history and philosophy of mathematical optimization
Thu 25 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205
T151. Philosophical issues
Wed 24 July, 16:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213