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

IUHPS-DHST Commission symposia

CHAMA: DHST Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval 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

S129. Islamic astronomy in its cultural context

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

C255. CHAMA business meeting

Fri 26 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

DHST Bibliography and Documentation Commission

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

E300. Neu-Whitrow Bibliography Prize presentation and Commission on Bibliography and Documentation business meeting

Fri 26 July, 16:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

DHST East Asia Commission

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

C266. East Asia Commission business meeting

Fri 26 July, 17:45–19:00 ▪ Room 2.57, Simon Building

CHOSTIS: DHST Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies

S102. The historical and cultural dimensions of Islamic science

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

S129. Islamic astronomy in its cultural context

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

C258. CHOSTIS business meeting

Fri 26 July, 16:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

DHST International Commission on the History of Meteorology

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

C254. Meteorology Commission business meeting

Fri 26 July, 12:45–13:45 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

DHST Commission on the History of Modern Chemistry

S104. Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back

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

C252. Modern Chemistry Commission business meeting

Sat 27 July, 11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

DHST Commission for the History of Modern Physics

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

C264. Modern Physics Commission business meeting

Tue 23 July, 12:45–13:45 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

DHST Oceanography Commission

S108. Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world

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

C260. Oceanography Commission business meeting

Tue 23 July, 09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

DHST Pacific Circle Commission

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

S108. Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world

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

C263. Pacific Circle Commission business meeting

Fri 26 July, 11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

SIC: DHST Scientific Instrument Commission

W131. 32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium

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

C253. Scientific Instrument Commission business meeting

Wed 24 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Schuster Rutherford

DHST Teaching Commission

C283. Teaching Commission business meeting

Thu 25 July, 12:45–13:45 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

DHST Commission on Women and Gender Studies

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

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

Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

C251. Women and Gender Studies Commission business meeting

Fri 26 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204