HSTM Network Ireland

HSTMI annual conference, 26-27 April, 2024, Carlow College 

Friday 26 April 2024.  

11.00 am -11.30 am: Registration.  

Opening remarks, Carlow College Vice President Dr Eric Derr and Dr Ida Milne, chair, HSTMI 

Location: TBD 

Panel 1: Cultures of Science and Knowledge  

Time: 11.30 am – 1 pm.  

Chair: Dr Ida Milne (Lecturer in European History, Carlow College).  

Location:  

• Harriet Wheelock (PhD Researcher/Keeper of Collections at Royal College of Physicians of Ireland): ‘‘People will be Eager to Get Them’: Medical Collecting Networks in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland’.  
• Brian Trench (Science Communication Researcher and Trainer): ‘Personalities and Publics in Irish 19th century Science Popularisation’.   
• Dr James Dingley (Political and Historical Sociologist): ‘What is History? ‘.  

Lunch 1-2pm Carlovian Dining Hall soup and sandwiches for delegates 

Archives Panel 2 pm-3.20pm 

• Ms Barbara McCormack (Librarian of the Royal Irish Academy): ‘HSTM collections in the Royal Irish Academy’. 
• Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin): ‘HSTM collections in the Edward Worth Library’. 
• Dr Susan Hemmens (Deputy Director of Marsh’s Library): ‘HSTM collections in Marsh’s Library’. 
• Ms Evi Numen (Curator of the Old Anatomy Museum, Trinity College Dublin): ‘HSTM collections in the Old Anatomy Museum, Trinity College Dublin’. 
• Ms Harriet Wheelock (Keeper of the Royal Collections of Physicians Ireland Library): ‘HSTM collections in RCPI’. 
• Ms Natasha Serne (Archivist of the Royal Dublin Society Library): ‘HSTM collections in the RDS’. 

Panel 2a: Medical Innovations from the 18^th to the 21^st Century 

Time: 3.40-5.30.  

Chair: Ms Hannah Brown (PhD Researcher in Medical History, Ulster University).  

Location: TBD 

• Dr W. Bernard Carlson (Program Manager for the TechInnovate and AgInnovate Programs, University of Galway): ‘Engineering a Dent in the Universe: Reflections on What it Takes to Save Babies in Africa’.  
• Dr Thomas McCloughlin (Assistant Professor of Biology and Education, Dublin City University): ‘The Three Lives of the Nooth Apparatus in the DCU Science Archive’.  
• Dr Anne Mac Lellan (Senior medical scientist in Connolly Hospital and part-time lecturer in NCAD): ‘Arthur Leared: The Wexford Doctor who Invented the Double Stethoscope’.  
• Mr Noel Carolan (PhD Researcher in History, Dublin City University): ‘‘A shaded candle-lamp is every whit as good as an electric one’: Lantern slide projection and mobilising the response to diminishing food supply in Ireland in 1895 and 1918’.  

Panel 2b: Controversies in Science 19^th century to 21^st Century. 

Time: 3.30-5.30pm  

Chair: Dr Jean Mary Walker (Independent Researcher).  

• Dr Mauve Carbonell (Associate Professor of History at Aix-Marseille Université): ‘The largest industrial investment in the history of the Republic of Ireland: the alumina refinery in Aughinish in a globalised aluminium economy ‘.  
• Dr Thierry Renaux (Independant Researcher): ‘Larne, from genesis to dismantling of an early alumina industry’.  
• Dr Morgan Wait (Post Doctoral Researcher, University College Dublin): ‘Youth Rebellion, Drug Use, and the Irish Summer of Love’.  
• Mr Raphaël Lavie (PhD Researcher at Sorbonne University): ‘Between global and local, the Human Genome Project’.  

Friday Evening: 

Wine Reception  

Time: 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm  

Location: Carlovian Dining Hall 

Public Panel: Chair Eoin Gill 

Time: 6.30 pm – 7 pm 

Location:  Cobden Hall 

Keynote Speech and Public Lecture: Cobden Hall 

Speaker: Dr Diarmid Finnegan (Reader in History of Science and Religion, Queens University): ‘John Tyndall’s Belfast Address at 150: histories and legacies of an infamous lecture’. 

 Chair: Dr Juliana Adelman (Assistant Professor in History, Dublin City University).  

Time: 7 pm 

Conference Dinner:  Dinn Ri, Tullow Street, Carlow, Ireland.  

Time: 8.30 pm  

Dinner at own expense.  

Saturday 27 April 2024.  

Panel 4: Epidemics and Disease in Ireland in 19^th and 20^th century.   

Time: 9.30 am -11.20 am.  

Chair: Dr Ian Miller (Senior Lecturer in Medical History at Ulster University).  

• Dr Conor Heffernan (Lecturer in Social Sciences of Sport at Ulster University): ‘Between Science and Sensationalism: The Obesity Epidemic in Late Twentieth Century Ireland’.  

• Dr Carly Collier (Post Doctoral Researcher, University College Dublin): ‘‘She died of a fever, and no-one could save her’: Molly Malone, cockles and mussels, and Dublin’s struggle with typhoid c.1860-1940’.   
• Dr Jean Mary Walker (Independent Researcher): ‘Controlling patient agency in a hospital where societal transgression was the cause of illness’. 
• Hannah Brown (PhD Researcher in Medical History, Ulster University): ‘The 1957 Polio Epidemic in Belfast: A Media Perspective’.  

Carebreak/Coffee. 

Panel 5 : Caregiving and medicine in 19^th and 20^th century Ireland.  

Time: 11.30 pm – 1.20 pm.  

Chair: Dr Penny Humby (Carlow College).  

• Ms Helen Doyle (PhD Researcher in History, Maynooth University): ‘The role of the Medical Profession in the committal of Dangerous Lunatics: The case of Bridget McCreedy’. 
• Ms Adrienne Corless (PhD Researcher in History, South East Technological University): ‘Professionalising Midwifery in an era of Conflict: Ireland 1914-1923’. 
• Kevin Finnan, (PhD Researcher in History, Dublin City University): ‘ The response of the Irish medical profession to the 1921 Hospitals order’.  
• Julie Crowley, (PhD Researcher in History, South East Technological University): ‘Caregiving at Irish Military Hospitals during and After the First World War, 1914-1929’. 

Closing Keynote 

Time: 1.30 pm  

Chair: Dr Anne Mac Lellan  

Speaker: Michele Bobyn (Master Lecturer, Laurentian University): ‘The Surprising History (and Future) of Forensic DNA Analysis’.  

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