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 the Mid-18th Century: The Medical Career of Edward McClaughlin RN”
12:05 – 12:40
Coffee Break
Panel 2: Public Health and Medical Initiatives
12:40 PM – 1:00 PM: Sean Farrell
Title: “A steady surveillance of this town: Sanitary Politics in Belfast, 1847-54”
1:05 PM – 1:25 PM: Dr. Robyn Atcheson
Title: “For Women, by Women: Belfast’s Lying-In Hospital 1793–1851”
1:30 PM – 1:50 PM: Rebecca Brown
Title: “The Creation of Belfast Workshop for the Industrious Blind”
1:50 PM – 2:45 PM: Lunch Break
Panel 3: Social and Cultural Perspectives
2:45 PM – 3:05 PM: Tad Brown
Title: “Groundnuts and Self-Governance in Colonial Agricultural Research”
3:10 PM – 3:30 PM: Marie Lynch
Title: “Malaria Therapy for Syphilis at Ireland’s Oldest Psychiatric Hospital”
3:35 PM – 3:55 PM: Shu Wan
Title: “Medicine or Miracle?: Deaf Therapy and Its Ideological Implications in Socialist China”
3:55 PM – 4:10 PM: Coffee Break
The Politics of Medicine and Public Health
4:10 PM – 4:30 PM: Conor Heffernan
Title: Sudden Athlete Death Syndrome in Irish Sport
4:35 PM – 4:55 PM: Ida Milne
Title: TBD
5:00 PM – 5:20 PM: Sean Roe
Title: Gordon Holmes and The Irish Spirit Of Adventure: Lessons for Modern Thinkers
5:20 PM – 5:30 PM: Closing Remarks
6pm Dinner (TBD)
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