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

Events for Monday 22 July, early afternoon

Paper sessions

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

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

S026-A. Pratiques et théories dans le champ de la santé mentale: quel(s) rapport(s)?, Session A

14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

S045-B. Mathematical facets of measurement, measuring units, measured quantities and their uses ▪ How did actors compute with measured numbers? Part 2

14:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

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

14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

S062-B. Reworking the history of chemistry: practice, revolution, visualization and exchange ▪ Visualising: the matter of form in modern chemistry

14:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S072-B. 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 ▪ Sharing knowledge in context: linked data and online technologies in scientific archives

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S075-B. Publishing the sciences ▪ Periodicals and popularisation

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

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

14:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

S086-A. Data at work ▪ Biology, agriculture and medicine

14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

S091-B. The achievements of R J Boscovich in the philosophy of nature, astronomy, technique and culture: historical resources and contemporary epistemic reflections ▪ Boscovich’s heritage in the European context

14:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

S092-B. Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ Instruments and inscriptions in Greco-Roman astronomy

14:00–15:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett

S099-B. History of metrology: a view of comparison between the West and the East ▪ Metrology and standardization

14:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S105-B. One hundred years of the Bohr atom ▪ Elucidations

14:10–15:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley

S108-B. Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world ▪ Expeditions

14:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S114-B. Mathematics and patronage ▪ Nineteenth and twentieth centuries

14:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

T159-B. Place and affect in early-modern sciences ▪ Spaces and practical knowledge

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

T163-B. Mapping, geography and geology ▪ Geological travels

14:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

T167-B. Working worlds of the twentieth-century biological sciences ▪ Eugenics

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

T181-B. Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering ▪ The machine

14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

Special sessions

E118-B. 40th anniversary symposium: the history of ICOHTEC ▪ From hardware to software: changes in the ICOHTEC research agenda

14:10–15:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg