Session 1: New Disciplines and Practices in the 20th century
- Jenny Marie, The migration of Rockefeller money to geneticists working in 1930’s Britain
- Ben Mayhew, John Bowlby’s model of development
- Nestor Herran, Reactors, isotopes and the rise of Spanish Nucleonics
- Sandra Mols, Why Georges Lemaitre, an astronomer, became interested in calculators and the impact of his practice of computing on calculators on his later research
Session 2: The making of science and scientists in the 19th century
- Jim Mussell, The scientist as editor and the editor as scientist in the late nineteenth century periodical
- Rebekah Higgitt, Francis Baily’s 1835 ‘Account of the Reverend John Flamsteed’
- Peter Skelton, Mummy why is the sky blue? Tyndall, Ruskin, and the colour of Athena’s eyes
- John Heard, The invention of the pure mathematician in Victorian England
- Emily Winterburn, William Herschel learns how to be a natural philosopher
- Vincent Guillin, Epistemological obstacles in the founding of French scientific psychology: Theodule Ribot and Kantiansim
Session 3: Astronomy and astrology in the 17th century
- Kevin Killeen, Early modern microcosms and scientific mimesis
- Tayra Lanuza, A Spanish Dominican friar and his combination of Christian belief and traditional astrology
Session 4: Natural Philosophy and Medicine in the long 18th century
- Raquel Delgado-Moreira, What’s Newton’s manuscript on Solomon’s temple about?
- Jon Bateson, The Birth of the history of medicine? Crisis and history in the early eighteenth century.
- Terence Banks, The metaphorical origins of modern science: figurative and mathematical languages in the early modern period.
Session 5: Scientific societies and science in the 19th century
- Ayako Sakarai, Old and new venues of social pleasures-how the zoo replaced the promenade in late nineteenth century Frankfurt am Main
- Lawrence Dritsas, ‘Expedition science’ in central Africa, 1850-1870
- Leigh Bregman, Dr. Andrew Smith: personal ambition, professional advantage and the institutionalisation of science in early 19th century Cape Town.
Session 6: Psychology, philosophy and the nature of science
- Chiara Ambrosio, Iconicity, models and visual metaphors
- Daniel Friesner, Extramission theories of vision in children and in ancient science
Session 7: Medicine in the 19th century
- Vanessa Heggie, Food, drink and exercise; degeneration debate in Manchester, 1898-1908
- An Vleugels, Class, gender and alcohol in the making of the Habitual Drunkards Act, 1870-1879
- Michael Bresalier, Collecting flu: the Local Government Board and the making of a ‘modern’ pandemic, 1888-1895
- Paula Hellal, Dr Charles West: nineteenth Century perspectives on childhood aphasia
- Neil Pemberton, Gesticulating and speaking in late Victorian England: the oral-sign dispute and the construction of deafness
Session 8: Science, trade and industry in the 19th century
- Dimitrios G Ierapetritis, Travellers and geographers and the mastic gum trade of the Chios island
- James Sumner, Adulteration and porter brewing around 1800
- Anna Simmons, Chemists and consultants: the pharmaceutical trade at Apothecaries’ Hall, 1881-1904
Session 9: 20th century science, science policies and culture
- Jessica Reinisch, Allied health policy in occupied Germany, 1945-1949
- Henrick Knudsen, Persuading the reluctant patron: state and science in Denmark, 1945-1960
- Sabine Clarke, Colonial products research and the West Indies, 1940-1960
- Louise Jarvis, Why be a Lamarckian?
Session 10: 20th century biographies
- Annette Lykknes, Ellen Gleditsch — pioneer in radio chemistry
- Simon Olling Rebsdorf, Growing up with astronomy: Bengt Stromgren’s early years, 1908-1935
- S.Turchetti, Italian academic refugees in Britain, 1930-1950
Session 11: Early modern medicine and natural philosophy
- Catherine Rider, Magical cures in late Medieval medicine
- Samuel Doble Gutierrez, The Galilean telescope: not only a single tube with two lenses