Preliminary Programme

Showing: Science & Technology (all days)
Wed 4 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 5 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30
    19.00 - 20.15
    20.30 - 22.00

Fri 6 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 7 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 17.00

All days
Wednesday 4 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
G-2 LAT06 Traveling Scientists and the Politics of Translating Science in the Americas
MAP/OG/018 Maths and Physics
Networks: Latin America , Science & Technology Chair: Brett Troyan
Organizer: Jadwiga E Pieper Mooney Discussants: -
Philipp Altmann : Imported Sociology and Local Marxism: Ecuadorian Social Sciences between the Blocs
Benjamin Cowan : Race, Gender, Cold War Fears, and the Subjectivities of Etymology: the Linguistic Purchase of Machismo
Jadwiga E Pieper Mooney : Traveling Experts in the Americas: Doctors, Demographers, and the Deployment of Science in the Cold War
Peter B. Soland : ‘Tickling the Dragon's Tail': Technocracy, Moral Politics, and Nuclear Policy in Latin America



Wednesday 4 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
L-4 TEC06 New STS Perspectives on Innovation and Resistance
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Viktor Borisov : A Steel Bullet for Russian Army (1760 – 1762): between Magic and Science
Felicitas Soehner : Social Ethical Implications and their Medical-historical Framework of Human Genetics in Germany – in the Memory of Contemporary Witnesses



Thursday 5 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
L-8 TEC01 Patents and Innovation
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Michelangelo Vasta
Organizer: Alessandro Nuvolari Discussants: -
Ugo Gragnolati, Alessandro Nuvolari : Innovation, Localized Knowledge Spillovers and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850
Mario Holzner, Stefan Jestl : State Capacity and European Technological and Economic Development from 1870 to 1913
Jochen Streb, Sybille Lehman-Hasemeyer : Inventors' Experience and Expectation in the German State of Wuerttemberg, 1818-1866



Friday 6 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
L-9 TEC02 Patents and Innovation in the European Periphery (Spain, Italy and Sweden)
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Andersson, Fredrik Tell : From Fighting Monopolies to Promoting Industry - Patent Laws and Innovation in Sweden 1819-1914
Patricio Saiz : "Use It or Lose It" - Innovation Under Short-Lived Patents: Evidence from 19th Century Working Clauses
Michelangelo Vasta : The Early Phases of the Italian Patent System (1861-1870)



Friday 6 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
L-10 TEC03 Science and Technology in Authoritarian Regimes: Implications for STS
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Pedro Ruiz-Castell
Organizers: Pedro Ruiz-Castell, Carlos Tabernero Discussant: Carlos Tabernero
Dolores Augustine : The German Democratic Republic: a Technological Dictatorship
Lino Camprubí : Authoritarian or Capitalistic? Historical Categories for Spanish Cold War Science
Clara Florensa : Science and Science Communication in the Political Struggle between Different Francoist Factions



Saturday 7 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
F-13 RUR07a Policies of Innovation and Technological Change in European Atlantic Agricultures (1945 – 2000) I
MAP/OG/017 Maths and Physics
Networks: Rural , Science & Technology Chair: Mats Morell
Organizers: Bruno Esperante Paramos, Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto Discussants: -
Alba Díaz Geada : Dairy Specialization in Rural Galiza. Resistances and Adaptations in Capitalist Modernization under Franco Dictatorship
Bruno Esperante Paramos : Policies of Technological Change and Moto-mechanization in the Galician Agriculture 1939-1986
Daniel Lanero Táboas : A Successful Experience of Dairy Specialization: the Región of Beira Litoral, 1960 – 1980 (Portugal)
Margot Lyautey : Fertilizers in France and Germany from the 1930’s to the 1950’s


L-13 TEC05 Public Statistics and Quantification Tools to Measure the Rich and the Poor in Europe
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Science & Technology Chair: Cecilia Lanata Briones
Organizers: Cecilia Lanata Briones, Béatrice Touchelay Discussant: Béatrice Touchelay
Helena Bergman, Johan Edman & Lena Erikson : Scientific State or State Science? The Knowledge-base of Swedish Welfare Research and Welfare Policy 1915–2015
Florence Jany-Catrice : Conflicts in Measuring and Using a Price Index - the Case of France over the Twentieth Century
Andrew Newell, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos : Inequality among Working Households in Europe, 1890-1960
Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk, Corinne Boter : Household Consumption in the Dutch Empire, 1890-1930



Saturday 7 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
B-14 MAT11 Energising the Home: the Role of Women in Energy Choices
OSCR Lanyon Building
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Science & Technology Chair: Graeme Gooday
Organizer: Abigail Harrison Moore Discussant: Graeme Gooday
Abigail Harrison Moore : Suggestions for Domestic Energy Decisions: a Womens’ Guide to Lighting the Home.
Sorcha O'Brien : Electrical Demonstrators and Irish Countrywomen: Official and Voluntary Promotion of Irish Rural Electrification
Ruth Sandwell : Women as Energy Agents: the Case of Rural Canada, 1880-1950
Karen Sayer : Light Assembling and Reflecting Gender in the Provincial English Middle Class Home, 1815-1900


L-14 TEC04 Scientific and Technological Expertise about Natural Resources: Cases from Russia and Neighboring Countries
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari
Organizer: Julia Lajus Discussants: -
Alexandra Bekasova : Emergence of Material Scientists’ Expert Community in Imperial Russia: Intensive Industrial and Transport Network Development, Quality of Construction Materials and “the Cement Question”, 1880-1915
Evgeniya Dolgova : Was the Scientific Community in the USSR Communist (?): Statistical Documents on Scientists in 1929-1937
Julia Lajus : Concept of ‘Natural Resources’ and Changing Attitudes towards Resources and its Users in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Jonathan Oldfield : The Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces of Russia (KEPS) and the Development of Russian Geography, 1915-1930


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