iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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Events for Friday 26 July, early morning
Paper sessions
S005-A. Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800 ▪ Approaching machines and mathematics
09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3
S007-A. Dynamics of knowledge: how technologies evolve, triumph and die ▪ What is progress?
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
S044-A. Forensic histories: global perspectives ▪ Spaces and traces: global takes on forensic investigation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213
S066-A. Planet Earth, the environment, and the Cold War ▪ A 'Red' International Geophysical Year? Alliances and divisions in episodes of international scientific collaboration
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219
S097-A. From antiquity to tradition? Innovation and the past in East Asian science, technology and medicine, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century ▪ Antiquity and tradition before the colonial eras
09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5
S102-A. The historical and cultural dimensions of Islamic science ▪ Transmission of knowledge over time and between cultures
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
S103-A. Gaining it / losing it/ regaining it(?) Knowledge production in climate science, status anxiety, and authority across disciplines ▪ Climates of conquest? Anxieties about climate variability and change in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218
S104-A. Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back ▪ Early synthetic materials
09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010
S113-A. Geologists in the field ▪ Methodology of fieldwork
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219
S117-C. The institutionalization of mathematics and the founding of national societies, Session C
09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4
P120-G. Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Weapons of mass destruction
09:10–10:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley
W131-K. 32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Heritage and collections
09:00–10:30 ▪ Schuster Rutherford
T158-A. Knowledge and experiment in natural philosophy ▪ Working with Newton: contexts of Newtonianism in the eighteenth century
09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008
T161-A. Modern physics and astronomy at work ▪ Twentieth-century astronomy
09:00–10:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett
T166-A. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century biological sciences ▪ Networks of circulation and exchange
09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
T170. Medicine and colonialism
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204
T175-A. Contemporary medical practice and ethics, Session A
09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205
T195-A. Science education ▪ The role of HSTM in teaching to scientists, medics and engineers
09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009
Committee meetings
Women and Gender Studies Commission business meeting
09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
CHAMA business meeting, Session A
09:10–10:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5
Excursions, off-site tours and visits
Jodrell Bank Observatory excursion (Friday)
09:15–13:00