Department of Science and Technology Studies
First Annual Research Day
Wednesday 23 October, 1-5pm
22 Gordon Square, room G.3
SESSION 1 (1pm-2:20pm; bring your lunch)
1:00-1:20
Leigh Bregman
Dr. Andrew Smith: Personal ambition, professional advantage and the
institutionalisation of science in early 19th century Cape Town
1:20-1:40
Louise Jarvis
Toward an anatomy of long-term scientific controversies: a study of
perpetuation forces
1:40-1:50
Dr Jane Gregory
Coping with scandals among the non-dead
1:50-2:00
Prof. Arthur Miller
Art/Science/Creativity
2:00-2:20
General discussion
BREAK (coffee/tea and biscuits will be provided)
SESSION 2 (2:40pm-3:40pm)
2:40-3:00
Rob Doubleday
Corporate uses of “transparency” in GM food controversies
3:00-3:10
Jack Stilgoe
Mobile health risks: attempting a sociology of public science
3:10-3:20
Simon Lock
Writing a social history of the public understanding of science
3:20-3:30
Bill Best
After the bang: the public inquiry process and the policy response to
technological catastrophes
3:30-3:40
General discussion
BREAK
SESSION 3 (4pm-5pm)
4:00-4:20
Jenny Marie
History of genetics in Britain
4:20-4:30
Irena McCabe
John Tyndall: “Second to none as populariser, second best as
researcher”?
4:30-4:40
Chiara Ambrosio
Iconicity, models and visual metaphors in Pablo Picasso: creativity,
network thinking and visual cognition
4:40-4:50
Georgette Taylor
“A spectacle agreeable to the spirit”: the translation of Geoffroy’s
Affinity Table across the English Channel
4:50-5:00
General discussion
WINE (5pm-)
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