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Day 1 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Registration is now closed for catering purposes. If you would still like to attend (without lunch) please see booking email below.
Thursday 6 June – 09:45-16:15
Programme
09:45-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks: Dr Alex Aylward
10:15-11:35 Panel 1: Interactive Display (Technology) Chair: Tadhg Goodison
Joseph Foster, Battling the biscuit: the role of dental laboratories in the Royal Air Force Dental Branch, 1939-1945
Elena Morgana, The liquor Alkahest: a universal solvent fostering alchemical networks in the 1660-1670s
Asmita Sarkar, The search for a suitable apparatus: X-rays and medicine in colonial and post-colonial India (1897-1960)
11:35-11:55 Break
11:55-13:15 Panel 2: Gift Shop (Public Engagement) Chair: Elizabeth Schulz
Elizabeth Monthofer, The history of bioequivalence: an ethics case study of Hatch-Waxman
Han Zhang, Sanitary nationalism: the body, germs, and state sovereignty in the Patriotic Health Campaign
Utsa Bose, “An ill-feeling”: perspectives on the bubonic plague pandemic in Calcutta 1890-1920
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-16:00 Panel 3: Lecture Theatre (Pedagogy) Chair: Molly Wilson
Tadhg Goodison, Unveiling the pedagogical legacy of John Phillips: exploring material culture and educational practices in 19th-century geology at Oxford University
Ellen Hausner, From figure to glyph: the transmission of meaning in visual alchemical texts, c. 1450-1700
Elizabeth Schulz, The growth of the Tree of Life: pedagogical, heuristic, or theory-generative? Manifestations in textbooks, popular science, and specialist science, 1860-1960
Joseph Drakeley, Building the Nuffield science advanced physics course
16:00-16:15 Closing Remarks: Professor Rob Iliffe
Date:
6 June 2024, 9:45
Venue:
History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Part of:
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Booking required?:
Required
Booking email:
belinda.clark@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
