Robert Boyle Winter School,
7 December 2018,
The Boardroom,
Dr Steevens’ Hospital,
Dublin 8.
 9:45am: Registration
10.15am-11.00am:
Professor Michael Hunter (Professor emeritus, Birkbeck College, London):
‘Robert Boyle: A Complicated Man’.
11.00am-11.30am: Coffee break
11.30am-12.15pm:
Professor Luke Gibbons (Professor of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies Maynooth University):
‘The Politics of Things: Robert Boyle and Contemporary Debates in Philosophy and Social Theory.’
12.15pm-1.00pm:
Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln):
‘Robert Boyle and Pre-Newtonian ideas about Colour.’
1:00pm-2.15pm: Lunch
2.15pm-3.00pm:
Dr Cordula Weiss, Paul Nugent, Eoin Gill, Dr Sheila Donegan:
‘Light, Colour and Cold: recreation of some of Boyle’s Experiments.’
3 pm:
Panel Discussion. This will be followed by tours of the Worth Library until 4.45pm.
Booking: To book please book on eventbrite ‘Robert Boyle Winter School’.
This event is a joint initiative of the Robert Boyle Summer School and the Edward Worth Library, Dublin.