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T193. Science, technology and medicine in the public sphere
Tue 23 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
T193-A. Science, technology and medicine in the public sphere
Tue 23 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
Chair: Jim Secord | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
K. G. Valente | Colgate University, United States
Disseminating and contesting the new infinite in the Hibbert Journal, 1900-10
Dick van Lente | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Explaining computers and automation to large lay audiences: the Netherlands, 1945-1970
Takarabe Kae | Chubu University, Japan
The Smithsonian News Service: focusing on the work of science writer Madeleine Jacobs
Maika Nakao | Keio University, Japan
Modern Japanese physicists and public relations: the cases of Hantaro Nagaoka and Yoshio Nishina
T193-B. Science and religion in local contexts
Tue 23 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
Chair: Roland Jackson twitter | The Royal Institution, United Kingdom
Scott Prinster | University of Wisconsin, United States
The queen dethroned? The changing role of the biblical worldview in the history of science
Francisco Malta Romeiras | University of Lisbon, Portugal
Science and social credibility: the journal Brotéria, 1902-2002
Clara Florensa | Centre d’Estudis d’Història de la Ciència de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CEHIC-UAB), Spain
Spaces for debate between science and religion during the Franco regime in Spain: the ‘Intellectual Conversations in Poblet’
Jonathan Wright | Queen's university Belfast , United Kingdom
‘A kind of freemasonry where religious discourse had no place’? Religion, politics and the realities of science in mid-Victorian Belfast
T193-C. Public cultures of nineteenth-century science
Tue 23 July, 14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
Chair: Edward Davis | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Melanie Keene twitter | Homerton College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Familiarity at work: how to learn about the solar system
Hsiang-Fu Huang | University College London, United Kingdom
劇場中的宇宙：大眾天文演講在十九世紀的倫敦
The universe in a cockpit: orreries, showmen and popular astronomical lectures in London, 1820-1870
Robert G W Anderson | Clare Hall, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Learning from things: workers and mechanics institutes, exhibitions and the public museum movement
Alan Collins | Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Improving memory through natural means: advice on cultivating memory in late nineteenth-century Britain
Location: University Place 2.218
Part of: University Place