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

Events for Monday 22 July, late morning

Paper sessions

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

11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

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

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

S045-A. Mathematical facets of measurement, measuring units, measured quantities and their uses ▪ How did actors compute with measured numbers? Part 1

11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

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

11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

S062-A. Reworking the history of chemistry: practice, revolution, visualization and exchange ▪ Practice: recovering early alchemy and chemistry

11:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S072-A. 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, Session A

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S075-A. Publishing the sciences ▪ Scientific intelligence and expertise

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

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

11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

S091-A. The achievements of R J Boscovich in the philosophy of nature, astronomy, technique and culture: historical resources and contemporary epistemic reflections ▪ Boscovich’s achievements in the philosophy of nature and modern science

11:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

S092-A. Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ Astronomy and its cultural role in the ancient Near East

11:00–12:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett

S099-A. History of metrology: a view of comparison between the West and the East ▪ Ancient metrology

11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S105-A. One hundred years of the Bohr atom ▪ Foundations

11:10–12:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley

S108-A. Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world ▪ Observers and instruments

11:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S114-A. Mathematics and patronage ▪ Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

T159-A. Place and affect in early-modern sciences ▪ Early modern

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

T163-A. Mapping, geography and geology ▪ The politics of mapping

11:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

T167-A. Working worlds of the twentieth-century biological sciences ▪ Pure and applied life sciences

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

T181-A. Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering ▪ Cultures of knowledge and practice

11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

Special sessions

E118-A. 40th anniversary symposium: the history of ICOHTEC ▪ Get socialised: ICOHTEC in the big picture

11:10–12:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg

Committee meetings

Science and Empire Commission business meeting

11:00–13:00 ▪ Uni Place 4.212

Walks and tours around the Congress site

Manchester Museum tour

12:00–13:00 ▪ Manchester Museum