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Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science:
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
18-21 July 2007
Conference Programme to date
Wednesday 18 July
| 14.00 - 17.00 | Registration (Tea and Coffee available from 3.30 pm) |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Plenary Address |
| 18.45 - 19.30 | Welcome Reception - Raeburn Room, Old College |
| 19.30 - | Dinner (own arrangements) |
Thursday 19 July
Session 1: Production of Scientific Knowledge
| 09.15 - 10.15 | Dr Iwan Morus (History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth) |
| 10.15 - 11.15 | Professor Charles Withers (Geography, University of Edinburgh) 'Geographies of Civic Science? Geography and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain, c.1831 - c.1939' , Abstract |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Dr Sam Alberti (History, University of Manchester) 'Identity, Material Culture and the Status of the Museum' Abstract |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch (own arrangements) |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Dr Anne Secord (HPS, University of Cambridge) 'Pressed into Service: the Spaces of Botanical Collecting and the Production of Scientific Knowledge' Abstract |
| 15.00 - 16.00 | Professor Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota) 'Concepts of Place in Museum Space at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum' Abstract |
| 16.00 - | Free time (self-led Tour of Scientific Edinburgh or Tour of Edinburgh Bookshops) |
| Time tbc | Behind scenes tour of Royal Scottish Museum |
Friday 20 July
Session 2: Mobility of Scientific Knowledge
| 09.15 - 10.15 | Dr Lawrence Dritsas (Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh) |
| 10.15 - 11.15 | Dr Donald L. Opitz(DePaul University) |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University) 'Science, Nature and the Spaces of Colonialism in British Ceylon' Abstract |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch (own arrangements) |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Professor Crosbie Smith (History of Science, University of Kent) '"Trial by Space": Re-inventing the Marine Steam Engine (1850 - 1885)' Abstract |
| 15.00 - 16.00 | Dr Graeme Gooday (HPS, University of Leeds) 'Electricity and the Sociable Circulation of Fear and Fearlessness' Abstract |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee/Tea |
Session 3: Consumption of Scientific Knowledge
| 16.30 - 17.30 | Dr Diarmid Finnegan (Geography, Queen's University of Belfast) |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Dr Simon Naylor (Geography, University of Exeter) 'Consuming a Scientific County: Mapping Cornwall' Abstract |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday 21 July
Session 3 (continued)
| 09.15 - 10.15 | Professor David Livingstone (Geography, Queen's University of Belfast) |
| 10.15 - 11.15 | Dr Aileen Fyfe (History, NUI Galway) 'Science and the Victorian Tourist' Abstract |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Dr Jon Topham (HPS, University of Leeds) 'Science, Print, and Crossing Borders' Abstract |
| 12.45 - 13.15 | Afterword Professor Nicolaas Rupke (History of Science, Göttingen) |