HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
© Alexandra Goh McMillen
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Welcome to the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology’s Night at the Museum!
On 6 and 7 June, our docents will guide you through our ‘HSMT museum’ in five sessions: Interactive Display (Technology), Gift Shop (Public Engagement), Lecture Theatre (Pedagogy), Uncomfortable Collections (Colonialism), and Cataloguing Office (Definitions). This annual conference, put on by the Centre for HSMT, and co-organised by MSc, MPhil, and first-year DPhil students, is an exciting time for them to share their work and for others in the community to hear about wonderful new research in the field. Join us for two days of exploration and conversation!
Thursday 6 June 09:30-16:30 (includes lunch) - * registration has now closed but if you would like to attend a session please contact belinda.clark@history.ox.ac.uk
Friday 7 June 09:30-13:30 - registration not required
Programme
Day 1: Thursday 6 June | |
09:30-10:00 |
Registration |
10:00-10:15 |
Opening Remarks: Dr Alex Aylward |
10:15-11:35 | Panel 1: Interactive Display (Technology) |
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Chair: Tadhg Goodison |
Joseph Foster, Battling the biscuit: the role of dental laboratories in the Royal Air Force Dental Branch, 1939-1945 | |
Elena Morgana, The liquor Alkahest: a universal solvent fostering alchemical networks in the 1660-1670s | |
Asmita Sarkar, The search for a suitable apparatus: X-rays and medicine in colonial and post-colonial India (1897-1960) | |
11:35-11:55 | Break |
11:55-13:15 | Panel 2: Gift Shop (Public Engagement) |
Chair: Elizabeth Schulz | |
Elizabeth Monthofer, The history of bioequivalence: an ethics case study of Hatch-Waxman | |
Han Zhang, Sanitary nationalism: the body, germs, and state sovereignty in the Patriotic Health Campaign | |
Utsa Bose, “An ill-feeling”: perspectives on the bubonic plague pandemic in Calcutta 1890-1920 | |
13:15-14:15 | Lunch |
14:15-16:00 | Panel 3: Lecture Theatre (Pedagogy) |
Chair: Molly Wilson | |
Tadhg Goodison, Unveiling the pedagogical legacy of John Phillips: exploring material culture and educational practices in 19th-century geology at Oxford University |
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Ellen Hausner, From figure to glyph: the transmission of meaning in visual alchemical texts, c. 1450-1700 |
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Elizabeth Schulz, The growth of the Tree of Life (ToL): pedagogical, heuristic, and theory constitutive, 1860-1960 | |
Joseph Drakeley, Building the Nuffield science advanced physics course |
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16:00-16:30 | Closing Remarks: Professor Rob Iliffe |
Day 2: Friday 7 June | |
09:30-10:00 | Registration |
10:00-10:15 | Opening Remarks: Dr Hohee Cho |
10:15-11:35 | Panel 4: Uncomfortable Collections (Colonialism) |
Chair: Philippa Monk | |
Yiming Gao, Epidemics in the international settlement of Shanghai (1900–1945): evaluating the public health intervention of the Shanghai Municipal Council and the factors that shaped their response |
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Rutuja Rokade, Marginalised bodies, disease outbreaks and colonial intervention in British India during the long nineteenth century |
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Marielle Masolo, Medicine and miracle: Kimbangu and prophetic healing in the Belgian Congo, 1918-1930 |
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11:35-11:55 | Break |
11:55-13:15 | Panel 5: Cataloguing Office (Definitions) |
Chair: Joseph Foster | |
Alexandra Goh McMillen, A (botanic) garden of forking paths: diverging approaches to botany in 17th-century England, with chamomile as a case study |
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Philippa Monk, Inventing a global disease: finding and treating yaws in Greater India, 1860-1960 |
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Molly Wilson, Reassessing Rosenhan: Pseudo-patients and schizophrenia diagnosis |
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13:15-13:30 | Closing Remarks: Dr Sloan Mahone |