The annual BSHS Postgraduate Conference is run by and for postgraduate research students but welcomes all researchers in any area of HSTM to attend. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the conference will be take place virtually via Zoom.

Held over three days, the conference features the cutting-edge research of postgraduate students working on the history of science, technology, and medicine, in a variety of time periods and geographic locations. We will be hearing a range of papers from postgraduates across the globe which cover everything from vernacular science in colonial Malabar, through aging in early modern England, to the marketing of Ribena as a ‘healthful foodstuff’ during wartime.

The conference will also include a wikithon with the Wellcome Trust’s Wikimedian in Residence Dr Alice White, careers advice from leading figures in a variety of industries, and networking opportunities. Hosted by the University of Birmingham, this virtual conference runs from 28th-30th April 2022, is free to attend, and open to all!.

You can also follow us on Twitter for updates about the conference: @BSHSPostgrads

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Programme

Programme

Thursday 28th April
TimePanel NamePanellistPaper Title
10:45:00Welcome
11:00:00Panel One: Creating & Conveying Scientific KnowledgeAoife SuttonPathological Bodies: Surveying of British Institutions on the Extent and Use of Anatomical Wet Specimen Collections Dating to the 18th-19th Centuries
Kellie VernonHow is a Study of "Heroic Age" Field Based Physiological Experiments Relevant to the History of Science?
Suchismita GhoshScience in the Vernacular: Understanding Production of Knowledge in Colonial Bengal (1800-1900)
M. Syd RosenThe Information Age and the Intermediary: John Brockman, New Media, and Science Writing Since the 1960s
12:20:00Lunch
13:30:00PG Activities & GroupsImran HashmiGraduate Centre for Europe & IGES
Waseem AhmedThe MHR
Zoe Screti BSHS
Other panelists TBA
14:50:00Break
15:00:00Panel Two: The Problems of InnovationKat PojeThe American Decompression Chamber Controversy; or, the Promise of a Technological Solution to an Ethical Issue
Leo ChuContainment Ecology: Systems Ecology and Agricultural Research in Southeast Asia, 1964-1989
Katherine ConroyDisability Perspectives of Surgical Innovation: The Manchester Cochlear Implant Programme
Tathagat BhatiaHydraulic Regime: Quantification, Silt, and Empire in the Later Nineteenth-Century British India
16:20:00Break
16:30:00Panel Three: Science & Society (1)Amie BolissianThankfulness, Hope, and the Comparative Health Evaluations of "Aged Patients" in Early Modern England
Zeynep Kuleli-KarasahanMedical Theory, Body, and Climate in Early Orientalist Thought
Teagan PhillipsIt's a Small World: Charles Elcock and His Place in the Late Victorian Microscopy Community
Alexander M. AizenmanFrancis Bacon and Torture as a Means of Discovery Reconsidering the "Vexation" of Nature
17:50:00End of Day One
Friday 29th April
TimePanel NamePanellistPaper Title
10:45:00Welcome
11:00:00Panel Four: Food Glorious Food: Food and Drink in Times of UpheavalDaniel Ewers"Who's Held Up My Bottle?": Health, Bottle Shortages, and the War Effort in British Advertisements for Ribena Blackcurrant Drink, 1930-1950
Wang Yu-HsuanFrom Isotopes to Food Safety: The Development of Mass Spectrometry in Taiwan, 1980-2008
Ander RedinRational Nutrition: Discourses Around Feeding, Nutrition, Health, and Food Culture in Spain (1893-1939)
Manon C. WilliamsAlcohol Consumption and Disease Susceptibility in the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815)
12:20:00Lunch
13:30:00WikithonAlice White
14:50:00Break
15:00:00Panel Five: Experts and AuthorityKate ErringtonYou and Your Baby (Home, Husband, and Doctor): A Case Study of Maternal Responsibility in the BMA Publication (1957-1985)
Isobel NewbyExpert Scientific Advice in a Novel Epidemic: The 'Right' and 'Wrong' Kinds of Expertise during the BSE Episode, 1988-1992
Ethan MendellFrom the Outside/In: ACT-UP's Women's Committee and the Production of Biomedical Knowledge
Anwar HaneefaVaidyajnanam: 'Scientific' Between Authenticity and Vernacularity in Colonial Malabar
16:20:00Break
16:30:00Panel Six: TherapeuticsStephen Gene MorrisScience's Appropriation of Spiritual Traditions: Medicalising Religion in the 1970s
Kay SimpsonCure by Colour; Health by Design: Howard Kemp Prossor's Hospital Wards in World War I
Swati JoshiChoreo-Care: Lucia and Zelda's Artistic Mode of Self-Care
Andrew JonesA Daily Chemotherapeutic Agent? Lauretta Bender, LSD, and Child Psychopharmacology at Creedmoor State Hospital in the 1960s
17:50:00End of Day Two
Saturday 30th April
TimePanel NamePanelistPaper Title
10:45:00Welcome
11:00:00Panel Seven: Mathematics & MankindKate HindleOn the Thirteen Semi-Regular Solids of Archimedes: Investigating D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Mathematics
Helbert E. Velilla-JimenezDe Quastio de certitudine mathematicarum in the Spanish Empire
Daian Vlad BicaNewton on the Models of Aether and the Law of Universal Gravitation: A Methodological Shift
Jonathan GriffithsPlato's Mathematical Astronomy
12:20:00Lunch
13:30:00Careers WorkshopKim WalkerBiocultural Historian & Author, Kew Gardens
Lauren DeereResearch Engagement Officer, University of Birmingham
Rachel BoonCurator, Science Museum
Lucy SantosPublic Historian
Oliver Carpenter Curator, Science Museum
14:50:00Break
15:00:00Panel Eight: Science & Society (2)Megan FurrA Most Decided Objection': Telegraph Wayleaves and the Changing Rural Landscape
Maja KorolijaIdeology, Scientific Organisation, and Science Policy: Yugoslav Nuiclear Program (1948-1965)
Nai ZakhariaTBD
Kim AlexanderMaking the 'Magic Pill': History, Innovation, and the First Oral Contraceptives
16:20:00Break
16:30:00Panel Nine: Knowledge Production & Academic ExchangeJavier Poveda FigueroaThe Second 'Vis Visa' Debate at the Berlin Academy of Sciences
Georgiana KotsouFunctional Informality: Crafting Social Interaction Toward Scientific Productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences
Pier Luigi PiredduThe Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Icanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach
Joao FerrariHertz's Deflated Mechanics and the Structural Conception of Scientific Objectivity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
17:50:00Closing Remarks
18:00:00End of Day Three