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| Session 1, Soviet Science, Room B103 |
| Chair: Maria Falina |
| 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’ |
11am-11:30am: TEA (Location TBC)
11:30-1:30 pm: Session 2
| Session 2A, State science, Room B103 | Session 2B, Definitions and their impacts in medicine, Room FG10 |
| Chair: Brian Trench | Chair: Padraig Murphy |
| Veronica McDermott, ‘The evolution of natural science policy in Ireland: a “small state” story’ | Maëlle Duchemin-Pelletier, ‘Still birth is still death’ |
| Ágota Ábrán, ‘Growing plant medicines in the socialist ruins of Romania’ | David Kilgannon, ‘”One class of people who have been neglected”: legislating for the disabled in Ireland, 1948-57’ |
| Adrian James Kirwan, ‘The role of telegraphy in the governance and administration of Ireland, c. 1850-1890’ | Harry Quinn Schone, ‘Testing Hacking’s looping effect through discussion with fibromyalgia patients’ |
| Rory Mawhinney, ‘From Port to Plantation: the geographies of the 1919 British Eclipse Expeditions’ | Sira Grosso, ‘What is reasonable and what can be proved as reasonable in the realm of medical malpractice claims’ |
1:30pm-2.30pm: LUNCH (Location TBC)
FRIDAY CONT’D
2.30-4pm Session 3
| Session 3A, Science fictions, science futures, Room B103 | Session 3B, Interactions between psychiatry and general medicine, Room FG10 |
| Chair: Peter Bowler | Chair: Fiachra Byrne |
| Sam Robinson, ‘New Worlds: popularising science in Post-War science fiction magazines’ | Laura Sellers, ‘Psychiatry and criminality in the late nineteenth-century prison’ |
| Mat Paskins, ‘Voices prophesying everything: techno-scientific futures in the twentieth-century periodical’ | Coreen McGuire, ‘Hysterical deafness and malingering in the First World War: the conflict between psychiatry and otology’ |
| Paula Murphy, ‘”This endless space between the words”: Spike Jonze’s Her’ | Kevin Jones, ‘Beyond the institution: British psychiatry during the inter-war period’ |
4pm-4.30pm TEA (Location TBC)
4.30pm-6pm Session 4
| Session 4A, History of medicine, Room B103 | Session 4B, Fevers and epidemics, Room FG10 |
| Chair: Neasa McGarrigle | Chair: Ida Milne |
| 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) | Philomena Gorey, ‘Puerperal fever in Dublin. The case of the Rotunda Lying-In Hospital’ |
| Kevin Knowles, ‘Examining sociocultural interactions that impact oral health in the 19th C United States’ | 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’ |
| Shaun R. McCann, ‘From Herodotus to HIV’ | Margaret Buckley, ‘Childhood epidemics in Limerick City, 1880-1890’ |
6:15 KEYNOTE, Room D211
Prof. Peter Bowler, Queen’s Universty, Belfast (Chair: Juliana Adelman)
‘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, Room D204 | Session 5B: Sex, drugs, and humanity, Room D205 |
| Chair: Juliana Adelman | Chair: Adrian Kirwan |
| Gary Finnegan, ‘#VaccinesWork: communicating Jenner’s legacy’ | Jennifer Brosnan, ‘The sexual education of medical students during the mid-nineteenth century: euphemism, nether regions, and banter’ |
| Simon Whitehouse, ‘Rand McNally’s geophysical glob: how the earth was depicted during the early Space Age’ | Christopher Cavin, ‘Promoting “bonding and comradeship”: cultures of military intoxication in the past and present’ |
| Diarmid Finnegan, ‘Reason’s rhetor: Thomas Henry Huxley in America’ | Ciarán McCabe, ‘Humane societies in Ireland and the transatlantic world’ |
| Alberto Bardi, ‘Astronomical knowledge in late Byzantium’ |
11:00-11:30am: TEA (Location TBC)
11:30-1.00pm: KEYNOTE, Room D204
Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen (Chair: Padraig Murphy)
‘What is the social responsibility of science?’
1.00-2:30pm: LUNCH (Location TBC)and Wikipedia
and an introduction to Irish content on Wikipedia with Rebecca O’Neill, bring your laptop and your lunch and learn how to add/modify entries, Room D205
2:30-4:30 Session 6
| Session 6A, Evolutionary ideas in science and medicine, Room D204 |
| Chair: Tanya O’Sullivan |
| 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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