History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) Network Ireland Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the HSTM Network Ireland will be held this year, in person, at Dublin City University.
Date: 21st April 2023
Location: Dublin City University, St Patrick’s Campus, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
Rooms F215 and F216
Registration Fee: €5/10 unwaged/waged (fee does not include lunch)
(Please note: Papers will be delivered on Friday, 21st April. On 20th April there will be an afternoon tour of libraries and archives meeting in Dublin city centre.)
Archive and Library Tour – 20th April:
We will meet at 2pm at the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (https://goo.gl/maps/rJo2neJXE9pFJcky7).
There will be some walking involved between the three stops. If you have a Leap card, please bring it. If not, don’t worry.
Our second stop will be Marsh’s Library (https://goo.gl/maps/hnzdFYbgKw95HEko7) and our final stop the Worth Library (https://goo.gl/maps/W9xnyDPJbNkKnPq7A).
Register via QR code or here: https://forms.gle/1LXtT7BhqrEBVydQA
Live captioning of all sessions (supported by ISL STEM Glossary Project)
Please direct any queries to Juliana Adelman (Juliana DOT Adelman AT dcu.ie)
930 to 10: Registration (tea, coffee and pastries available)
10 to 1130: Session 1 (parallel sessions)
1A: Medical education and medical practice in the 20th C
Chair: Harriet Wheelock
Gabriel Opare, Trained to train: Trinity-trained medics on the West African Coast in the 20th century
Julie Crowley, The history of casualty care during the Great War
Kelly Adamson, ‘Are they content to shovel it into its grave and forget about it?’: state reactions to infant diarrhoea and enteritis in wartime Dublin, 1939-48
1B: Technology and society from the 19th to the 21st century
Chair: Rebecca Watterson
Adrian Kirwan, ‘By Electric Telegraph’: telegraphic news in Ireland, c. 1850-1880
Conor Heffernan, For mash get Smash: technology, modernity and mashed potatoes in 1970s Ireland
Kate Pleace, How has egg freezing changed over the last ten years?
1130 to 12: Coffee/tea
12 to 130: Session 2 (parallel sessions)
2A: Performing science and the figure of the scientist
Chair: Sparky Booker
Diarmid Finnegan, John Tyndall’s accents: the performative politics of science lectures in the late nineteenth century
Héctor Muiños, Bringing John Tyndall back to life: the creation of a historical novel with a scientist as its protagonist
Paddy Holt, ‘This Poore Business’: experiment and Protestant experience in Restoration Ireland
2B: Medicine and society in the 20th C
Chair: Daithí Ó Corráin
Ian Miller, Starving to death in 20th C Ireland
Hannah Brown, Living with polio in 20th C Belfast
Rebecca Brown, The early 20th C experience of blind workers in Derry and Belfast
130 to 230: Lunch & meeting of the HSTM Network
(Lunch is in the St Pat’s canteen, pay your own way, dietary requirements catered for)
230 to 4: Session 3
Circulating science and medicine
Chair: Elena Schaa
Anna Gasperini, Guiding the mother: framing mother and child health in popular medical literature (1850-1914)
Sue Hemmens, The prodigious story of Jane Hodge: fasting and bodily control in early modern Ireland
4 to 430: Closing remarks
Dr Ida Milne, Chair of the HSTM Network Ireland
Elena Schaa, Member of the HSTM Network Ireland committee
Conference dinner is at 5pm at Shouk, Drumcondra (for those who have registered)
Register via QR code or here: https://forms.gle/1LXtT7BhqrEBVydQA
Live captioning of all sessions (supported by ISL STEM Glossary Project)
Please direct any queries to Juliana Adelman (Juliana DOT Adelman AT dcu.ie)
HSTM Network Ireland 