‘Science in the City’
A one-day conference
and meeting of the
Irish Network for the History of
Science, Technology and Medicine
3 October 2014
at the
Edward Worth Library
10.30am to 11.00am: Registration and coffee
11.00am to 12.30 pm (Chair: Catherine Cox, UCD)
Adrian Kirwan (NUIM):‘Telegraphy in the nineteenth-century city’.
Tanya O’Sullivan(QUB): ‘The perception of place and the ‘origins of handedness’ debate: towards a cognitive cartography of evolutionary ideas in Late Victorian Dublin’
Tomas Irish(TCD): ‘Irish academic experts in a world war’
12.30pm to 1.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm to 2.30pm: (Chair: Peter Bowler, QUB)
Ida Milne(NUIM): ‘The 1918 flu in Dublin’
Mary Mulvihill (Ingenious Ireland): ‘Science in the city: taking stories onto the street’
2.30pm-2.45pm: Break
2.45pm to 4.00pm: (Chair: Juliana Adelman, SPD)
Foundation of Irish Network for the History of STM
4.00pm: Close
Registration fee: 5 Euro (does not include lunch).
Fee can be paid on the day but places must be booked in advance.
Please contact Juliana Adelman: juliana.adelman@spd.dcu.ie