iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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By period
Pre-modern
Early modern
Long eighteenth century
Long nineteenth century
Twentieth century and contemporary history
Pre-modern
S027. Cross-cultural transmissions of medical knowledge in premodern Asia
Tue 23 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205
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
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
S115. Mathematical knowledge at work in Ancient China
Tue 23 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4
T157. Pre-modern astronomy and cosmology
Sat 27 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
Early modern
S016. Image-making and knowledge-making in early-modern Europe
Tue 23 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
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
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
S046. Visual communication in early-modern to modern learned journals
Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008
S076. Theology at work in science / Science at work in theology
Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
T155. Early-modern mathematics
Tue 23 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213
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
Long eighteenth century
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
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
T172. The politics of public health
Fri 26 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
T181. Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering
Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
Long nineteenth century
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
S033. Paris: capital of hygiene?
Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212
S043. Creating facts: disputed knowledge-claims in the nineteenth century
Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218
S063. The paper world of science in the age of industry and Empire
Tue 23 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ 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
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
T172. The politics of public health
Fri 26 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
T181. Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering
Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
S199. Science, technology and medicine in the Ottoman Empire
Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010
Twentieth century and contemporary history
S020. Plant science and global food security in the twentieth century
Tue 23 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
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
S033. Paris: capital of hygiene?
Tue 23 July, 09:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212
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
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
S058. Working in science and as art: twentieth-century ‘experimental’ relationships
Mon 22 July, 11:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219
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
S071. The science of man? Bounds of knowledge in the twentieth century
Wed 24 July, 14:00–17:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
S081. Between physics and technology: the embodiment of knowledge in the inter-war period
Wed 24 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5
S086. Data at work
Mon 22 July, 14:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219
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
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
T153. New themes and approaches in science studies
Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213
T156. Topics in the history of modern mathematics
Sat 27 July, 16:10–16:55 ▪ Uni Place 4.212
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
T167. Working worlds of the twentieth-century biological sciences
Mon 22 July, 11:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206
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
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
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
T195. Science education
Fri 26 July, 09:00–Sat 27 July, 17:30 ▪ Multiple locations