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

Events for Friday 26 July, early afternoon

Paper sessions

S005-C. Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800 ▪ Mathematics through the machine's eye: the advent of digital computing

14:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 2.3

S030-A. Is it the medium? Ways of communicating science in twentieth-century Europe ▪ Print, radio, news-reel

14:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

S056-A. Medical knowledge traditions at work, Session A

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.213

S066-C. Planet Earth, the environment, and the Cold War ▪ Environmental monitoring and the ideological battlefield in the environmental sciences

14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 2.219

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

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204

S097-C. From antiquity to tradition? Innovation and the past in East Asian science, technology and medicine, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century ▪ Antiquity, tradition and self-construction in the age of nationalism, part 1

14:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 3.5

S102-C. The historical and cultural dimensions of Islamic science ▪ Mathematics, physics, and the heavens

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218

S103-C. Gaining it / losing it/ regaining it(?) Knowledge production in climate science, status anxiety, and authority across disciplines ▪ Working atmospheres: histories of climate, technology and economics

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 1.218

S104-C. Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back ▪ Infrastructure, instruments & ideas

14:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.010

S113-C. Geologists in the field ▪ Constraints on fieldwork

14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 1.219

T158-C. Knowledge and experiment in natural philosophy ▪ Prints, texts and readings

14:10–15:40 ▪ Roscoe 1.008

T161-C. Modern physics and astronomy at work ▪ Techniques in modern physics

14:00–15:30 ▪ Schuster Blackett

T166-C. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century biological sciences ▪ Philosophy, race, ethnography

14:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007

T172-A. The politics of public health ▪ Public cultures of nineteenth-century medicine

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.204

T178-A. Science, medicine, industry and markets ▪ Medicine, science and industry

14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205

T179. Bio/medical practices

early afternoon ▪ Uni Place 3.205

T196-A. Pedagogy and textbooks ▪ Mathematical and technical pedagogy

14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214

T197-B. History and historiography of the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Nineteenth- and twentieth-century humanities and social sciences

14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.206

Special sessions

E310. The tables turned: Victorian séance event

14:00–15:30 ▪ Pear Lecture Theatre, Coupland 1 Building

Committee meetings

History of Astronomy IUC business meeting

15:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 4.212

Excursions, off-site tours and visits

Victorian street tour at Salford Museum and Art Gallery

14:00–15:00 ▪ Salford Museum and Art Gallery

People’s History Museum tour

14:00–15:00 ▪ People’s History Museum

Imperial War Museum North tour: ‘Saving Lives’

15:00–15:30 ▪ Imperial War Museum North