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BSHS

Postgraduate Conference

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Programme


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The British Society for the History of Science is a company limited by guarantee:registration number 562208 and charity number 258854.

BSHS Executive SecretaryPO Box 3401, Norwich NR7 7JF(+44) 01603516236Email: [email protected]: www.bshs.org.uk

2014, British Society for the History of Science

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BSHS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies

7 8 9 JANUARY 2015

The Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London

welcomes you to the BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015! This event is an annual

conference for postgraduate scholars# in the history, philosophy and sociology of science,

technology and medicine interested in meeting and sharing# research with other

postgraduate#

scholars. This is a great opportunity to build professional and social networks

within a supportive and# constructive environment. We had an outstanding response for

paper submissions and postgraduate attendance, and we are looking forward to an

extraordinary conference this year. Thank you for your contribution!

Sincerely,

BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015 Committee

Elizabeth Jones

Raquel VelhoErman Sozudogru

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CONFERENCE INFORMATIONWebpage: http://www.bshs.org.uk/conferences/postgraduate-conference/2015-postgraduate-conference-uclFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BSHS.PG.15Twitter: @BSHS_PG_15

#BSHSPG15

CONFERENCE CONTACTSFor information and queries: [email protected] emergencies: (+44) 02076791328

CONFERENCE LOCATIONUniversity College LondonRoberts Building (Malet Place Entrance)Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE(+44) 02076792000http://www.ucl.ac.uk/

University College LondonDepartment of Science and Technology Studies22 Gordon Square, London WC1E 6BT(+44) 02076791328http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts

CONFERENCE ACCOMMODATIONHoliday Inn BloomsburyCoram Street, London WC1N 1HT

(+44) 08719429222http://www.hilondonbloomsburyhotel.co.uk/

TRANSPORTATION INFORMATIONLondon offers taxi, bus, underground and overground transportation. Please note

that all conference events including the Wellcome Wine Reception and Conference

Bright Club Event are walking distance from conference venue.

https://www.tfl.gov.uk/

ARRIVAL INFORMATION

The conference registration desk is in Roberts Foyer. Please collect your namebadge and conference packet.

Tea and coffee and lunch will be provided in Roberts Foyer on 7 January. Tea

and coffee and lunch will be provided in Roberts 422 on 8 and 9 January.

All conference rooms will be marked, but if you need assistance then please ask

the conference registration desk.

If you need to temporarily store your luggage, please ask the conference

registration desk.

If you have applied to BSHS for a Butler-Eyles Travel Grant, please keep your

receipts.

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PRESENTATION INFORMATION

All conference rooms have PowerPoint available. Please upload your presentation

on an USB drive and arrive to the appropriate room 10 minutes prior to the start of

the session. Please save your presentation as a PDF file to avoid incompatibility

issues. Talks should be a maximum of 18 minutes for presentation and followed by

a maximum of 5 minutes for questions. The session chair will record the time.

EVENT INFORMATION

Welcome Wine ReceptionWednesday 7 January17:30-19:30Grant Museum of Zoologyhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology

21 University Street

London WC1E 6DE

Conference Bright Club EventThursday 8 January19:30-22:30Star of Kings Pubhttp://www.starofkings.co.uk/

126 York WayLondon N1 0AX

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WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY 2015

10:30-12:00REGISTRATION, TEA AND COFFEE

Roberts Foyer G02

12:00-12:30WELCOME KEYNOTE BY DR BILL MACLEHOSE

Ambrose Fleming G06

12:30-13:00LUNCH BREAK

Roberts Foyer G02

13:00-14:30SESSION 1, 2 & 3

Ambrose Fleming G06, Roberts 106 & David Davies G08

SESSION 1

Investigative Histories

Room: Ambrose Fleming G06

Chair: Erman Sozudogru

Meritxell Ramirez-i-Olle

An intellectual history of trust andscepticism in science

Tom Kelsay

I am not sure that ProfessorWaddington really got what hehoped for.: A history of theScience Studies Unit from itsinception to the EdinburghSchool

Michael Kattirtzi

A History of Social Research inDEFRA: 2001-present

Joe Simpson

The Francis Crick Institute andthe Political Economy of Hope

SESSION 2

Biotechnology

Room: Roberts 106

Chair: Paul Sims

Carolyn Cobbold

Controlling chemical dyes in foodin the nineteenth century -experimental assemblages

Jennifer Adlem

Mad dogs and English flour: Thework of Edward Mellanby oncanine hysteria and public health.

Alex MankooTeargas We havent got thefoggiest: Deconstructing theAmbiguities of CreepingLegitimisation

Joshua Hutton

Funding biodefence: Gaps in thefence?

SESSION 3

Alternative Histories

Room: David Davies G08

Chair: Natalie Lawrence

Alexander Iosad

Translating Western naturalknowledge in 18th-centuryRussia: texts, attitudes, disciplines

Yoshimi Takuwa

Since when did the Japanese seeindigo in rainbows?: A fusion ofNewton's theory and folklore

Hattie LloydMr. Davy's lectures - read allabout it!

Helen-Frances Pilkington

Science, heal thyself: CharlesDickens's call for scientific reformin the 1830

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WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY 2015

14:40-15:50SESSION 4 & 5

Ambrose Fleming G06 & David Davies G08

SESSION 4Sociobiology& Mind

Room: Ambrose Fleming G06

Chair: Helen-Frances Pilkington

Valentine Hoffbeck

From "unproductive" to "socialburden": The use and misuse ofmental diagnosis to classify thementally challenged

Eilis KempleyIn Awe of Insanity: The MescalineExperiments of Julian Trevelyan

Pedro Ricardo Fonseca

Avante Sociobiologia? Thesociobiology debate in Portugal(1975-1982).

SESSION 5Technopolitics & War

Room: David Davies G08

Chair: Arik Clausner

Paul Coleman

Full of hot air: The role of theNorthcliffe Press in thedevelopment of aviationtechnology in Britain 1900-1914.

Aaro SahariPowering through the Cold Warpack ice

Saara Matala

Technopolitics of Cold Warshipbuilding - Finnish-SovietNuclear icebreaker project1961-1989

16:00-17:00OPTIONAL EXCURSION TO WELLCOME COLLECTION

Meeting point: Roberts Foyer G02

17:30-19:30WELCOME WINE RECEPTION

Grant Museum of Zoology

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THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2015

9:30-11:00SESSION 6, 7 & 8

Roberts 309, Roberts 421 & Roberts 508

SESSION 6Biopolitics & Innovation

Room: Roberts 309

Chair: Raquel Velho

Agnes Arnold-Forster

The Function of Incurability:Breast Cancer in the Image andIdentity of the Medical Elite inBritain, 1789-c.1835

Carlos BarradasUnintended Consequences: FromClinicians to Patients and BackAgain

Christiaan de Koning

Beyond Cure and Controversy -Exploring the deployment ofGenetically Modified Insects(GMIs) in Panama and Spain

Taemin WooFrom Human Genome Project toSynthetic Biology : TheGovernance of Big Biology inSouth Korea

SESSION 7State Sponsorship vs. PrivateReward: The role of thetwentieth-century General PostOffice in Warfare and Welfare.

Room: Roberts 421

Chair: Oliver Marsh

Alice Haigh

State-sponsored Secrets: GPOengineering research and WW1

Coreen McGuire

Now Deaf Ears Can Hear Again!Advertising Hearing Loss: PostOffice promotion of publicamplified telephony and privatehearing aids.

Sean McNally

The Socialist Black-Box: the roleof the GPO in State-sponsoredHearing Aids

Jacob Ward

Research Transplanted andPrivatised: Post Office/BritishTelecom R&D in the digital andInformation Era

SESSION 8Histories & Medicine

Room: Roberts 508

Chair: Alexander Iosad

Ianto Thorvald Jocks

Pharmacological Parallelsbetween 1st Century Rome and19th Century Dorpat TheReception of Scribonius Largus'Compositiones Medicamentorum

in German Scholarship between1880 and 1930

Manikarnika Dutta

Degenerate Space and DrinkingHabits: Health of EuropeanSailors in Colonial Calcutta

Mujeeb Khan

Negotiating Medicine: The Ishinp!and Locality

Farrah Lawrence

Native American MedicalKnowledge and Practice:Comments on an outdatedhistoriography and newapproaches

11:00-11:30TEA AND COFFEE BREAK WITH BSHS OUTREACH

Roberts 422

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11:30-13:00SESSION 9, 10 & 11


SESSION 9Science & Empire

Room: Roberts 309

Chair: Dolores Iorizzo

Jessica Price

Witchcraft and the East IndiaCompany, 1668-1736

Edward John Gillin

Mechanics and Mathematics: the

politics of building time atParliament, 1845-1855.

Erika Jones

Microscope Images from theChallenger Expedition(1872-1876): Constructing theOceans for Science and Empire

Arik Clausner

The Minor Horrors of War:

Insects, the British Empire, andthe First World War

SESSION 10Science & Broadcasting

Room: Roberts 421

Chair: Jacob Ward

Adrian James Kirwan

The telegraph nationalisationdebate and its impact on theUnited Kingdoms nationalisedtelegraphs, c. 1860-1870

Michael GuidaSonic therapy: birdsong on theradio during the Second WorldWar

Jared Keller

Science in the Broadcast Booth:Science Popularisers, the BBC,and the Public During the Post-World War II Period

Rupert Cole

Quite extraordinarilyirresponsible?: BBC2sControversy series, 1971-1975.

SESSION 11Science & Body

Room: Roberts 508

Chair: Agnes Arnold-Forster

Sadie Harrison

Mind of the Marquise: Madame dePompadour and the Subversion ofEnlightened Anatomy

Alexandra Ion

From the natural body to theanthropological type. The makingof historical bodies in thebeginnings of the Romanianphysical anthropology

Eileen Leary

Bodies Politic: Unwrapping theTreatment of Mummies inColonized Egypt

Kathryn Ticehurst

Marginal Men? Anthropology,assimilation and colonialconstructions of partialAboriginality in settled Australia,1940-1965

13:00-13:30LUNCH BREAK WITH BSHS OUTREACH

Roberts 422

13:30-14:00LUNCH SEMINAR BY DR REBEKAH HIGGITT

Roberts 421

14:00-14:30TEA AND COFFEE BREAK

Roberts 422

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SESSION 12Science & Public Discourses

Room: Roberts 309

Chair: Meritxell Ramirez-i-Olle

Erin Beeston

A space to congregate, educateand exhibit: sites of knowledgeproduction and consumption atthe Camp Field, Manchester

Jia-Ou SongLost in Communication: Staff-Visitor Relations Set AgainstPhysical Sciences in ChineseMuseums

Kanta Dihal

The Limits of AffectiveEngagement in Science Books forChildren

SESSION 13Philosophy of Science

Room: Roberts 421

Chair: Toby Friend

Hugh MacKenzie

Intention as primary cause inPlato

Valeria Motta

Emotions: structures in interaction

Jim Grozier

Early Measurements of ElectricCharge

SESSION 14Science & Case Studies

Room: Roberts 508

Chair: Coreen McQuire

Andrew Ball

Anatomy of an abattoir: Medicine,the meat trade and making spacefor slaughter at WoodsideLairages, Port of Liverpool,1879-1913

Marcin Krasnodebski

Can science feed on theeconomic crisis? The case ofresin chemistry in France in theinterwar period.

Yewande Okuleye

Medical Cannabis or CannabinoidPrescription Medicine?Constructing respectability as abusiness strategy

16:15-17:00CONFERENCE KEYNOTE BY PROF HASOK CHANG

Roberts 106

17:00-19:30 BREAK FOR CONFERENCE ATTENDANTS

19:30-22:30CONFERENCE BRIGHT CLUB EVENT

Star of Kings Pub



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FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 2015

10:30-12:00SESSION 15, 16 & 17


SESSION 15Medieval & Early ModernScience

Room: Roberts 309

Chair: Hattie Lloyd

Alessandra Petrocchi

Early Medieval Indian ArithmeticalPractices

Natalie Lawrence

Between objects and emblems:early modern creature histories

Katerina Georgoulia

Painting Physiology in EarlyModern Period: The Constructionof a Healthy Self-Image

Dolores Iorizzo

Bacon's History of Life and Deathand the Origins of Modern

Scientific Observation

SESSION 16Enlightenment Science

Room: Roberts 421

Chair: Carolyn Cobbold

Rafael Dias da Silva Campos

Enlightenment medicine in thePortuguese America (Brazil): thecase of rebel physicians

James Cullis

Climate, Providence and Agencyin the Work of Henry Home, LordKames

Hongjin Liu

What can a HPS learn from WarDiary

SESSION 17Contemporary Science &Technology

Room: Roberts 508

Chair: Hsiang-Fu Huang

Paul Sims

Bread versus beauty: contestedmodernity and the British nuclearpower programme, 1955-1963

Thomas TurnbullFrom William Stanley Jevons toBrookes versus Grubb: energyconservation and the market forenergy in the United Kingdom

Hannah Grenham

Challenged by Change: theComputerisation of the PoliticalProcess in the United States

Camilla Mrk RstvikGendering CERN

12:00-12:30TEA AND COFFEE BREAK

Roberts 422

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FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 2015

12:30-14:00SESSION 18, 19 & 20


SESSION 18

Science & Applications

Room: Roberts 309

Chair: Kanta Dihal

Catherine France

Franois Blondel, absolutism andthe art of launching bombs

Maria Montava Gadea

A Double-Acting Steam Engine inBarcelona (1804-1806). TheContribution of FrancescSantpon

Ale"Materna

The Rothschild Family and theScience During Industrialisation inthe Central Europe (1830-1918)Railways, Steelworks,Shipbuilding and Coal Mining inMoravia and Austrian Silesia

SESSION 19

Omnischambles? How tocreate, implement and avoidpolicy.

Room: Roberts 421

Chair: Mujeeb Khan

Andrew Black

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?That is the question: Britains

troubled history with measles andits vaccines.

Stuart Butler

Barbados is Cheaper thanNorfolk: Policy-making withoutconsent in the Black ArrowProgramme 1964-1971

Hannah Elizabeth

Is this perhaps too controversialeven for us? The production and

dissemination of AIDS educationpacks for children by the FamilyPlanning Association in the late80s & early 90s

SESSION 20

Science & Environment

Room: Roberts 508

Chair: Stefano Sandrone

Matthew Holmes

Another Plea for Sparrows:Economic Ornithology in theBritish Press, 1850-1914

Paul SmithHorticultural and agriculturalresearch stations in the UK,1910-1930: a feast of variables.

Sophie Greenway

Growing well: Dirt, health and thehome gardener in mid-twentieth-century Britain

14:00-14:30LUNCH BREAK

Roberts 422

14:30-15:00CLOSING REMARKS BY DR CHIARA AMBROSIO

Roberts 106

15:30-17:00OPTIONAL EXCURSION TO SCIENCE MUSEUM

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DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIESSTS wants people to think about science differently. We want to understand science as a

force in modern society. We want to understand what underpins its successes and failures.

We want to understand its boundaries and concentrations. We want to know why while

people sometimes love science, and sometimes hate it, they increasingly use science to

do things in our lives.

Staff

18 core academic staff

3 research or teaching fellows

4 professional services staff

Research Areas

history and philosophy of science

science policy and governance

science communication and public engagement

Department History

In 1921 University College London established the first university department in Britain in

the field of history and philosophy of science. The Department has offered graduate

degrees since then, and many leading scholars in this field began their careers withdegrees from UCL. In 1993 an undergraduate BSc programme was launched, with an

expanded staff that also included scholars in science communication and science policy.

To reflect the widening interdisciplinary nature of our work, the name of the Department

was changed in 1996 to the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS). STS is

unique in the UK in combining in one department teaching and research in history and

philosophy of science with social studies of science (including science policy, public

understanding of science and science communication).#

In 1924 STS launched its first Masters degree. In 1987 postgraduate teaching in our

department was merged with similar activities at Imperial College London and the then

Wellcome Institute to create the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and

Technology. At its inception, this was the only such programme in the UK. A decade later,

staff were boasting, "we lead the field in feeding outstanding students into PhD

programmes and research careers." Our most recent masters programme launched in

2013, offering 2 degrees together with diplomas and certificates.

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