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The History of Knowledge in Ireland: Where do we Stand Today? Annual Meeting of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) Network Ireland April 24th 2026 University of Limerick The annual meeting of the HSTM Network Ireland will be held this year, in person, at the University of Limerick. We welcome the submission of … More Call for Paper: HSTM Network Annual Meeting 2026
May 9, 2025 Registration 9:15 – 10.00am 10-11am Opening Remarks and Key Note Dr. Ian Miller Panel 1: Early Science and Medical Practices 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM: Peter J. Bowler Title: “J. Arthur Thomson: Building a Scientific Career in Late Victorian Scotland”11:35 PM – 12:05 PM: Thomas McCloughlin Title: “Naval Surgeons in … More HSTM Network Ireland Conference 2025
‘Between the Global and the Local’ Date: 9/10 May 2025. Location: Ulster University, Belfast Campus. Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome, and need not be related specifically to Ireland. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 31 March … More History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) Network Ireland Annual Meeting 2025
A training workshop organised by Ian Miller, Mark Benson, Rebecca Watterson, Hannah Brown (Schools of History, Communication/Media and Psychology, Ulster University) Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC – IAA). History is everywhere on screen. The past is visualised in historical documentaries, period dramas, films, genealogy shows and horrible histories. Historians provide expert commentary … More Historians on Screen: Turning Research into Broadcast Ideas
Dr Thierry Renaux Aluminium is the most common metal of the Earth’s crust, but it does not exist in its native state. Three successive operations are necessary to obtain pure aluminium: the extraction of the ore, bauxite; the production of the alumina, or aluminium oxide, from this ore; and finally, the production of aluminium. This … More Larne: from Genesis to Dismantling of an Early Alumina Industry (1894-present day)
By Dr Anne Mac Lellan As certain nebulae are resolved into stars by powerful telescopes, so specific chest sounds, obscure from their lowness, may be determined by the double stethoscope. Arthur Leared, 1856. The Great Exhibition, held in London’s Crystal Palace in 1851, displayed the wonderful, the beautiful, the useful and the bizarre inventions of … More Listening with Both Ears: The Irish Origins of the Double Stethoscope
By Dr Conor Heffernan, Ulster University When is it appropriate to criticise, even mock, someone with a medical condition? Is there a point at which we can insult an individual, or even a group, enough for them to overcome their condition? Better yet, can we shame those around them for ‘allowing’ this to happen? What … More “Our Kids are a Nation of Fatties”: Discovering Obesity in Celtic Tiger Ireland
by Dr Mauve Carbonell In the early 1970s, driven by an overall increase in needs for raw materials – aluminium in particular – the Alcan company established an alumina production plant in Aughinish near Limerick.[1] But why build a plant costing several hundred million pounds in the middle of the Irish countryside, in Aughinish, on … More The Largest Industrial Investment in Ireland’s History: The Aughinish Alumina Refinery in a Globalised Aluminium Economy
by Dr Carly Collier ‘Does Dublin enjoy a pre-eminence in typhoid?’ asked an Evening Telegraph journalist in November 1891 of Sir Charles Cameron, Dublin’s esteemed Medical Superintendent Officer of Health.1 As a powerful local government official in a very public-facing role, Cameron was well-known in Dublin already, but as the Telegraph reflected, ‘[o]f late he … More Typhoid, Cockles & Terrorism: How a Disease Shaped Modern Dublin
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, … More History of Science, Technology & Medicine Network of Ireland 2024 Conference
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