Introducing the BSHS Global Digital History of Science Festival
Monday 6th – Friday 10th July 2020
| This Global Digital History of Science Festival is a five-day online celebration run by the British Society for the History of Science featuring talks, discussions, workshops, performances, discussions, and more – free to everyone!
Go to our welcome page to find out more about how the Festival is organised and how to use this website as your guide. |
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| Time (UTC+1) | Thursday 9th July 2020 | |||
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Coffee House | |||
| 10:00 – 11:00 | A welcome guest? Egyptology in History of Science – an interdisciplinary study: networks, narratives, and resources | Electrifying Women (I) | ||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Electrifying Women (II) | George Airy and nineteenth-century science | ||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Electrifying Women (III) | |||
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Lightning Talks D | |||
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Understanding social identities, cultural and political imaginaries in the history of electricity | Elusive Images: Making Visible Things in the History of Science | ||
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Keynote – Jaipreet Virdi: Synchromist Sensibilities: Intersecting Histories of Disability, Art, and Technology | |||
| 20:00 – 21:00 | ‘The Unbelievable Truth’ followed by Public House | |||
| Time (UTC+1) | Friday 10th July 2020 | |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Coffee House | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Darwin Correspondence Project: A Digital History | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | A Grand Tour of the Medieval Cosmos | Performance Lecture: Powers of 10 (1968) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Future Directions in the History and Sociology of Science | |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Conversation with a Predecessor, Frank Sherwood Taylor: A Textfilm by Tim Boon | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | New Perspectives on Women in the Life Sciences and Medicine | Pharmavisions: Catching Glimpses of Biomedical Futures in 1970s Film and TV |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | BSHS Pickstone book prize discussion panel | |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Quiz & Public House | |
Dr. Hilmar Preuß 