HPS Work-in-progress seminars: Semester 1, 2023/24

Work-in-progress seminars are all on Tuesdays in Botany House 1.03, 12:00-13:00 (PM). All of them will be in hybrid format.

You are welcome to bring along some lunch and carry on the conversation afterwards (13:00-14:00) as well! Note: this will sometimes have to be 13:00-13:30 (term 1, 23/24).

If any queries: Stefan Bernhardt-Radu; prsbr@leeds.ac.uk

All the sessions can be accessed via zoom here:

Zoom link / Meeting-ID: 878 1247 4624 (if logging without a university account, a code is requested; either look at the weekly-circulated HPS research digests; or e-mail Stefan for the code)

Online Word Document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ceaMJCsINef1y5yet9Op4GuQP3sGfRFyL4Mwh9qKU2Y/edit?usp=sharing

October 3: Welcome: HPS Meet, Greet & Lunch

October 10: Jon Topham “Really Useful Knowledge”

October 17: Jamie Stark “Microbes for All: starting to make histories of culture collections”

October 24: Yihan Jiang “A Theory of Causation for Ontic Structural Realists”

October 31: B.V.E. Hyde “Rethinking Conflicts of Interest”

ROOM CHANGE! BAINES WING 1.16. November 7: Adrian Wilson “The eighteenth-century Great Instauration: next steps”

November 14: Josh Hillman “A new approach to the Industrial Revolution; or, is my JRF proposal any good?”

November 21: Franziska Kohlt, “Childish Things?: The uses of books with – and without – pictures and conversations in the SDUK’s ‘Libraries’” (Note: Fran Kohlt’s talk has been moved from, while Alex King’s to, the 5th of December).

November 28: Jon Hodge and Greg Radick, “Darwin, Wallace and Counterfactual History”

December 5: Alexander King “An encyclopaedia for the working class? Audience and readership for nineteenth reference works”

A publication by Leeds HPS students!

The Science Museum’s prestigious online Journal has just published an article co-authored by two PRHS postgraduate students, Alexander King and Nela Spurná (written with PRHS staff member Graeme Gooday): ‘1876 and All That: the ‘Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus’ as a case study in crowd-sourced international public science’  In 2021-22, under Gooday’s supervision, Nela and Alex undertook an online placement module (PRHS 5000M) at the Science Museum for the MA programme in ‘Science, History and Society’. This article features their research on the fate of exhibition of scientific instruments in 1876 that has long been seen as a key moment in the origins of the modern Science Museum in South Kensington, London. The Science  Museum is now planning a 150th anniversary event for that exhibition in 2026, and this article will inform their planning of their exhibits and public engagement programme.

Franziska Kohlt’s Chapter in ‘RecordCovid19’, edited by Kristopher Lovell

Our centre’s research diversity comprises, amongst others, much-needed work on Covid-19. Fran has just had a chapter published in RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic, edited by Kris Lovell (Coventry University). A link to the publisher’s page of the book can be found here:

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110731002/html.

Continue reading Franziska Kohlt’s Chapter in ‘RecordCovid19’, edited by Kristopher Lovell

Greg’s public lecture about ‘Disputed Inheritance’ at the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society; 25.10.23, 19:30

Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society   

Free public lecture: 25 October 2023  7:30pm

Disputed inheritance: the battle over Mendel and the future of biology

A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics

Speaker: Professor Gregory Radick, University of Leeds

Location:  University of Leeds Business School, Maurice Keyworth Lecture Theatre (G.02),

Campus map location here

Attendance is free – but please reserve your place here

(NB Zoom link for remote viewing is supplied upon registration)

Continue reading Greg’s public lecture about ‘Disputed Inheritance’ at the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society; 25.10.23, 19:30