HSTM ANNUAL CONFERENCE
DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY
11&12 NOVEMBER 2016
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FRIDAY
9-10am: registration
10am-11am: Session 1
Session 1A: Soviet science
Konstantin Kiprijanov, ‘Chaos and beauty in a beaker. The early history of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction’
Elena Sinelnikova, ‘Scientific societies vs. research institutes in the first decade of Soviet power’
Session 1B: Early modern medicine
Richard Bellis, ‘A statue engraved in flesh: allusions to the Belvedere torso in Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica (1543) and William Hunter’s The anatomy of the human gravid uterus (1774)
Fabrizio Bigotti, ‘Santorio’s “method to avoid all errors” (1603): quantification and experimentation in early modern medicine
11am-11:30am: TEA
11:30-1:30 pm: Session 2
Session 2A: State science
Veronica McDermott, ‘The evolution of natural science policy in Ireland: a “small state” story’
Ágota Ábrán, ‘Growing plant medicines in the socialist ruins of Romania’
Adrian James Kirwan, ‘The role of telegraphy in the governance and administration of Ireland, c. 1850-1890’
Rory Mawhinney, ‘From Port to Plantation: the geographies of the 1919 British Eclipse Expeditions’
Session 2B: Definitions and their impacts in medicine
Maëlle Duchemin-Pelletier, ‘Still birth is still death’
David Kilgannon, ‘”One class of people who have been neglected”: legislating for the disabled in Ireland, 1948-57’
Harry Quinn Schone, ‘Testing Hacking’s looping effect through discussion with fibromyalgia patients’
Sira Grosso, ‘What is reasonable and what can be proved as reasonable in the realm of medical malpractice claims’
1:30pm-2.30pm: LUNCH
and HSTM Objects discussion panel (TBC)
2.30-4pm Session 3
Session 3A: Science fictions, science futures
Sam Robinson, ‘New Worlds: popularising science in Post-War science fiction magazines’
Mat Paskins, ‘Voices prophesying everything: techno-scientific futures in the twentieth-century periodical’
Paula Murphy, ‘”This endless space between the words”: Spike Jonze’s Her’
Session 3B: Interactions between psychiatry and general medicine
Laura Sellers, ‘Psychiatry and criminality in the late nineteenth-century prison’
Coreen McGuire, ‘Hysterical deafness and malingering in the First World War: the conflict between psychiatry and otology’
Kevin Jones, ‘Beyond the institution: British psychiatry during the inter-war period’
4pm-4.30pm TEA
4.30pm-6pm Session 4
Session 4A: Haematology, oncology, and dentistry
Clifford S. Pukel, ‘Historical revisionism in the history of cancer immunology: the tale of William Coley and Lloyd Old’
Kevin Knowles, ‘Examining sociocultural interactions that impact oral health in the 19th C United States’
Shaun R. McCann, ‘From Herodotus to HIV’
Session 4B: Fevers and epidemics
Philomena Gorey, ‘Puerperal fever in Dublin. The case of the Rotunda Lying-In Hospital’
Patricia Marsh, ‘”Risks from shellfish—watch what you eat”: theories on the spread of typhoid fever in Belfast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’
Margaret Buckley, ‘Childhood epidemics in Limerick City, 1880-1890’
6:15 KEYNOTE, Prof. Peter Bowler, Queen’s University, Belfast
‘Prophets of progress?: Predicting the future of science and technology from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov’
SATURDAY
9-11am: Session 5
Session 5A: Communicating, translating and transmitting scientific ideas
Gary Finnegan, ‘#VaccinesWork: communicating Jenner’s legacy’
Simon Whitehouse, ‘Rand McNally’s geophysical glob: how the earth was depicted during the early Space Age’
Diarmid Finnegan, ‘Reason’s rhetor: Thomas Henry Huxley in America’
Alberto Bardi, ‘Astronomical knowledge in late Byzantium’
Session 5B: Sex, drugs, and humanity
Jennifer Brosnan, ‘The sexual education of medical students during the mid-nineteenth century: euphemism, nether regions, and banter’
Christopher Cavin, ‘Promoting “bonding and comradeship”: cultures of military intoxication in the past and present’
Ciaran McCabe, ‘Humane societies in Ireland and the transatlantic world’
11:00-11:30am: TEA
11:30-1.00pm: KEYNOTE: Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen
Title TBC, topic on the social responsibility of science
1.00-2:30pm LUNCH
and an introduction to Irish content on Wikipedia with Rebecca O’Neill (Hull), bring your laptop and your lunch and learn how to add/modify entries
2:30-4:30 Session 6
Session 6A: Evolutionary ideas in science and medicine
Max Meulendijks, ‘A Darwinian medicine at the Purdysburn Villa Colony: William Graham on evolution, insanity, and degeneration in the Ulster context’
Emily Herring, ‘The reception of Henri Bergson in Britain: a new interpretation of the early career of Julian Huxley’
Ciarán Walsh, ‘The skeleton in the cupboard: unpacking the Ethnographic Survey of Great Britain (Ireland) 1891-1903’
John P. Jackson, Jr., ‘Population genetics, psychometrics, and the definition of race’
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