JOINT MEETING BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ...

Friday, 13 July
Jenny Bangham, University of Cambridge, Skulls from the Dead, Blood from the
Living: Studying Human Heredity and Race in Interwar Britain
Commentator and Chair: Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania
JOHN TYNDALL AND HIS CORRESPONDENCES
CAFÉ 58 (IRVINE, 1ST FLOOR)
*Efram Sera-Shriar, York University, What’s in a Letter?: A Critical Examination of
Victorian Letter Writing Practices
Ursula DeYoung, Harvard University, Reconciling God with Nature: John Tyndall’s
Science and the Philosophies of Carlyle, Emerson, and Goethe, as Seen through his
Correspondence with Thomas Hirst
Geoffrey Belknap, University of Cambridge, John Tyndall and the Public(s)
Communication of Science
Commentator and Chair: Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break (Houston Hall Reading Room)
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
CORRESPONDENCE, MANUSCRIPTS, AND DIGITALIZATION
CLASS OF ’49 (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Robert Anderson, University of Cambridge, Editing Joseph Black’s Correspondence
Roderick Home, University of Melbourne, A Scientific News Service in Late-
Eighteenth-Century London
Frank James, The Role of Editing Manuscripts in Post-1945 History of Science
Stephen Weldon, University of Oklahoma, Digitizing Bibliography: On the Impact of
Electronic Media on Classification in the History of Science
Chair: Stephen Weldon, University of Oklahoma
ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD
CAFÉ 58 (IRVINE, 1ST FLOOR)
Silvia De Bianchi, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, “The Starry Sky above Me”: The
Role of Paradoxes in Kant’s Cosmology and Theoretical Philosophy
Karen Detlefsen, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Janiak, Duke University,
Émilie Du Châtelet on Gravity and the Nature of Matter
John Gascoigne, University of New South Wales, The Enlightenment, the Pacific
Laboratory and Natural History
Chair: John Gascoigne, University of New South Wales
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