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

Events for Friday 26 July, late morning

Paper sessions

S005-B. Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800 ▪ Numerical mathematics and analog computing

11:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S007-B. Dynamics of knowledge: how technologies evolve, triumph and die ▪ Constructing technologies

11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

S044-B. Forensic histories: global perspectives ▪ Questions of expertise: experts in criminal investigations and criminal trials

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

S066-B. Planet Earth, the environment, and the Cold War ▪ Resources and national security

11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

S094-A. History of science and the ecology of knowledge: the limitations, expectations, and needs of four knowledge communities, Session A

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

S097-B. From antiquity to tradition? Innovation and the past in East Asian science, technology and medicine, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century ▪ Transmission and traditions: East Asian versus Western technology and medicine

11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S102-B. The historical and cultural dimensions of Islamic science ▪ Medicine in context

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

S103-B. Gaining it / losing it/ regaining it(?) Knowledge production in climate science, status anxiety, and authority across disciplines ▪ Narratives on climate and water

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S104-B. Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back ▪ Late advanced materials

11:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S113-B. Geologists in the field ▪ The importance of place

11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

S117-D. The institutionalization of mathematics and the founding of national societies, Session D

11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 2.4

P120-H. Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Cold War military technology

11:10–12:40 ▪ Schuster Moseley

W131-L. 32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ The big picture: documenting and displaying historic instruments and their makers

11:00–12:30 ▪ Schuster Rutherford

T158-B. Knowledge and experiment in natural philosophy ▪ Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century natural philosophy

11:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

T161-B. Modern physics and astronomy at work ▪ Theory in early twentieth-century physics

11:00–12:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett

T166-B. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century biological sciences ▪ The history and philosophy of biology

11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

T175-B. Contemporary medical practice and ethics, Session B

11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 3.205

T191. Science and art

11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

T197-A. History and historiography of the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Histories of the history of science, technology and medicine

11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

Committee meetings

CHAMA business meeting, Session B

11:10–12:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.5

Pacific Circle Commission business meeting

11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

Walks and tours around the Congress site

Manchester Museum tour

12:00–13:00 ▪ Manchester Museum

Excursions, off-site tours and visits

Working Class Movement Library tour

12:00–13:00 ▪ Working Class Movement Library