9:30–10:45 a.m. | Women and Popular Science: Practices
and Representations (Ann Shteir, York University) |
‘Diffusing’ Phrenology through
Public Lectures (John van Wyhe, University of Cambridge) |
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10:45–11:15 a.m. | Coffee |
11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Publishing ‘Popular Science’ in
Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (Jon Topham, University of Leeds and University of Sheffield) |
The Natural History of Visiting (Vicky Carroll, University of Cambridge) |
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12:30–1:00 p.m. | Discussion |
1:00–2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
2:30–3:45 p.m. | ‘More the Aspect of Magic than Anything Natural’:
The Philosophy of Demonstration in Victorian Popular Science (Iwan Rhys Morus, Queen’s University of Belfast) |
Popularising the Popular: Science and Class in Mid-nineteenth-century
Manchester (Anne Secord, University of Cambridge) |
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3:45–4:15 p.m. | Coffee |
4:15–5:30 p.m. | Printed Museums: The Recreation of the Visiting Experience
on the Printed Page (Aileen Fyfe, National University of Ireland, Galway) |
How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk (Jim Secord, University of Cambridge) |
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5:30–6:00 p.m. | Discussion |
7:00 p.m. | Evening Banquet |
9:30–10:45 a.m. | Visitors, Curators and Objects in British Museums of Anatomy and Natural History c.1860–1900 (Sam Alberti, University of Manchester) |
The Mimic Sea: Victorian Aquaria as Means of Popular Science (Sofia Akerberg, University of Umea) |
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10:45–11:15 a.m. | Coffee |
11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Entertaining Uncertainties and Illuminating Risks: Late Victorian Household Consumption of Popular Texts on Electricity (Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds) |
Science Lectures for the People (Bernard Lightman, York University) |
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12:30–1:00 p.m. | Discussion |
1:00–2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
2:30–2:55 p.m. | Discussant on Experiences of Popular Science (Jonathan Rose, Drew University) |
2:55–3:20 p.m. | Discussant on Sites of Popular Science (Sophie Forgan, University of Teesside) |
3:20–4:30 p.m. | Discussion |
4:30–5:30 p.m. | Reception |