Conference themes:

• Production of scientific knowledge
  
  
• Mobility of scientific knowledge
  
  
• Consumption of scientific knowledge

The importance of space and the situated nature of knowledge in understanding the history of intellectual and social change have been increasingly acknowledged by scholars in a variety of disciplines. In this context, the 'spatial turn' evident in the history of science has been paralleled by work in geography which has paid attention to science's discovery, the sites of its reception and justification and studies of the nature of science's movement across space. In this regard, the time is right to reinforce interdisciplinary enquiry and establish new research frontiers by exploring the significance of geographical thinking to the making, movement and reception of science, here in the nineteenth century.

Speakers:

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Download the Registration Form. Please send the completed registration form to Robert Groves, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP by 18 June 2007.

Conference Organisers:

This conference is sponsored by: The Economic & Social Research Council, The British Academy, The British Society for the History of Science, Queen's University Belfast, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Historical Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) and The University of Edinburgh (Moray Endowment Fund).