Conference - Biographies of Materials at the crossroads between natural sciences and humanities
The overall purpose of this conference is to engage historians in a dialogue with materials scientists in order to better characterize the hybrid life of materials as natural entities and social or economic agents. The biographical metaphor emphasizes the singularity of various materials and additionally favours narratives of the entanglements of environmental cycles (depletion of natural resources, pollution) with human societies and economies.

Co-organised by the Maison Française d’Oxford and the SHAC

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Date: 4 March 2019, 9:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2019)
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organisers: Stephen Johnston (History of Science Museum), Matt Paskins (LSE), Viviane Quirke (Oxford Brookes University), Marie Thébaud-Sorger (MFO), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), John Christie (University of Oxford)
Part of: Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://biographies-of-materials.eventbrite.co.uk/
Cost: Free but booking required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence