iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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Events for Wednesday 24 July, early morning
Paper sessions
S015-A. Novel expertise and emerging specialists, Session A
09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009
S022-A. From natural history to ecology: towards a comparative history of life sciences in the long nineteenth century, Session A
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
S029-A. Visual, material and empirical culture in early-modern Iberian science: artifacts, regiments, vessels, nautical charts, natural specimens, cosmographers, naturalist and pilots, Session A
09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
S031-A. The contribution of Friedrich Engels in the history of science and technology ▪ The actuality of Engels' work
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213
S035. Image and context: visual representations and the boundaries of scientific practice
09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008
S036-A. Systems biology: a paradigm at work?, Session A
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205
S060-C. The transmission of medical knowledge in the Islamic world, Session C
09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010
S064-A. Science × Medicine: Promiscuous Objects, Entangled Problems, Session A
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
S069-A. Putting the human sciences to work: managing human minds and bodies in the twentieth century ▪ Governing minds and bodies with the human sciences
09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
S088-A. Expanding women’s sphere: knowledge and the re-definition of women’s work in the twentieth century, Session A
09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3
S092-H. Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ Ptolemy Graecus, Arabus, Latinus, part 1
09:00–10:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett
S096-A. The making of transnational science: scientific contacts between China and the West during the late Qing and Republican China, Session A
09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4
S107-A. Poincaré’s Méthodes nouvelles de la mécanique céleste in historical context: bridging the frontiers of knowledge in mathematics, astronomy and wireless tech ▪ Wireless technology and theory, 1896-1914
09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5
S111-A. Geography and its publics ▪ Multiple publics, part 1
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219
S112-E. Geology in art and literature ▪ Communicating geological knowledge
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218
P120-A. Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Premodern military technology
09:10–10:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley
P123-B. The invisible bicycle: new insights into bicycle history ▪ Adoption, appropriation, demonstration
09:10–10:40 ▪ Schuster Bragg
T183-A. Twentieth-century sciences in comparative (inter)national contexts ▪ Mid twentieth-century applied sciences
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
T190-A. Literary approaches in the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Literary approaches
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
T201-A. History of technology ▪ Ships
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214
T204-A. Science and technology museums in context ▪ Science and technology collections in museums
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.212
Special sessions
E047-A. Historical and contemporary communications technologies in Africa: a case study in Cameroon and wider reflections ▪ Generating knowledge
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219
Committee meetings
Scientific Instrument Commission business meeting
09:00–10:30 ▪ Schuster Rutherford
Excursions, off-site tours and visits
Jodrell Bank Observatory excursion (Wednesday)
09:15–13:00