DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES STS Research Day PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 22 May 2013. South Wing 9 Garwood LT
10am WELCOME
10.15am – Chiara Ambrosio, “In Pursuit of Objectivity.”
10.35am – Samantha Vanderslott, “Open Innovation and Neglected Tropical Diseases.”
10.45am - Brendan Clarke, “Planting Evidence Somewhere New.”
10.55am - Sara Peres, “Promising diversity: seed banks and plant breeding for climate
change adaptation.”
11.05am COFFEE
11.30am – Simon Lock and Melanie Smallman, ““Nuclear energy sounded wonderful 40 years
ago”: ‘Engaged’ and ‘non-engaged’ citizens views on CCS.”
11.50am – William Maclehose, “Between image and action: Sleep, psychology and
physiology in the middle ages.”
12.10 LUNCH
2pm – Yafeng Shan, “Rethinking Theory in Science.”
2.10pm – Delores Iorizzo, “Francis Bacon’s Medical Philosophy.”
2.20pm – Rebekah Higgitt, “Longitude cubed: the Longitude Projects at Cambridge and the
National Maritime Museum.”
2.40pm – Brian Balmer, “Anthrax, SALT, Intelligence and Scientific Expertise in the Cold
War.”
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3pm TEA
3.20pm - Timothy G. Nissen, “Designing socially acceptable security technologies when
social engagement is impossible.”
3.40pm - Tom O’Donnell, “Etrath o belaib 'Fornication of the lips': A reading of sexual
transgression in Aided Derbforgaill 'The Tragic Death of Derbforgaill'.”
3.50pm – Tonatiuh Anzures, “Scientific migration and the football market: a policy approach.”
4.00pm - Simon Werrett, “A Cracking History of Recycling.”
4.20pm – Leonie Hannan, “‘From Closet to Still House: Cultures of intellectual life in the
eighteenth-century English home.”
4.30pm GENERAL DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH
5pm FINISH
Organizer: Simon Werrett (s.werrett@ucl.ac.uk)
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