20/05/2022
Registration is now open for the British Society for the History of Science Conference in Belfast, 20 July to 23 July 2022. Several of our staff and students are presenting papers, as part of the large and exciting programme on a huge range of topics in history of science, medicine and technology.
On Thursday 21st July, 11:30am – 1pm, PhD student Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh is giving a talk on Soils, Stars, and Statecraft: Cosmological Conceptions of Agriculture in China and Europe, ca.1600-1789.
On Thursday 21st July, 2pm – 3:30pm, Associate Professor Mary Brazelton is presenting a paper on Penicillin production and industrial infrastructure in urban China, 1945-49.
On Thursday 21st July, 2pm – 3:30pm, Affiliated Researcher Edwin Rose is talking about Information, Empire and the Theology of Nature in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 1760-1820.
On Thursday 21st July, 4pm – 5:30pm, PhD student Leo Chu is presenting on Reforming the Green Revolution through Ecology, in Southeast Asia, 1964-2000.
On Thursday 21st July, 4pm – 5:30pm, PhD student Zsuzsanna Ihar is presenting a paper on The Virile Crescent: Pure Seeds, Demonstration Farms, and the British Mandate’s Vision to Re-Engineer Iraq.
On Thursday 21st July, 4pm – 5:30pm, PhD student Theo Di Castri is giving a talk entitled From Heart Disease Prevention to Delinquency and Drug Prevention: J. David Hawkins and the Rise of Criminological Risk Factor Reseach, 1970s-1990s.
On Friday 22nd July, 9am – 11am, PhD student Olin Moctezuma-Burns is talking about Seeds of Knowledge: a list format at the boundaires of global exchanges.
On Friday 22nd July, 9am – 11am, Research Fellow Sebestian Kroupa is giving a presentation on Persian bezoars, Chinese tea and Japanese ambergris: Jesuit commercial ventures across the late seventeenth-century Pacific.
On Friday 22nd July, 11:30am – 1pm, PhD student Eoin Carter is giving a talk on The birth of Isis: Eliza Sharples, freethinking feminism and political astronomy in the 1830s.
On Friday 22nd July, 2pm – 4pm, PhD student L. Joanne Green is presenting a paper called Pubs and butterfly pictures: Working-class entomologists in Britain during the nineteenth century.
On Friday 22nd July, 4:30pm – 6pm, Emeritus Professor Jim Secord is giving a talk on Inventing the Scientific Revolution.
On Friday 22nd July, 4:30pm – 6pm, PhD student Marabel Riesmeier is talking about Collective Epistemic Humility in the Development of Structural Formulas.
On Saturday 23rd July, 9:30am – 11am, MPhil student Ashley Cooper is presenting on The Long March into the DSM: Tracing the Emergence of Prolonged Grief as a Diagnostic Category from Freud to COVID-19.
On Saturday 23rd July, 11:30am – 1pm, PhD student Miles Kempton is giving a talk on Communicating Ethology from London Zoo to The Naked Ape.
On Saturday 23rd July, 11:30am – 1pm, PhD student Alexander van Dijk is presenting a paper on Dutch comparative religion in the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-centuries.
On Saturday 23rd July, 2pm – 3:30pm, PhD student Claire Oliver is giving a talk called Signal Spaces: Meterology at the International Exhibitions 1851-1900.
On Saturday 23rd July, 2pm – 3:30pm, MPhil student Ethan Mendell is presenting a paper entitled From the Outside/In: ACT-UP’s Women’s Committee and the Production of Biomedical Knowledge.
Find out more about the conference and register at https://bshs-conference.org.uk/
