Engineering space in the nineteenth century: environment, science, technology and the transformation of space
Workshop | 4-5 September 2009, St Andrews
Convenors: John Clark and Bernhard Struck
Programme
Friday, 4 September 2009
9.30-9.45 Welcome and Introduction
9.45-10.20 Dr Richard Noakes (University of Exeter), ‘Settling the nerve centres of empire: remote stations and the Eastern Telegraph Company circa 1870-1918’
10.20-10.55 Simone Müller (Free University Berlin), ‘The Transatlantic Telegraph and the Wiring of the World: Cultural networks in maritime space, 1858-1902’
10.55-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.05 Eike-Christian Heine (Technische Universität Braunschweig), ‘Infrastructure and space in Northern Sweden. The construction of transport- and military infrastructure in Lapland between 1859 and 1902’
12.05 -12.40 Professor Crosbie Smith (University of Kent), ‘The Coal Question: Engineering Spaces of Ocean Steam Navigation’
12.40-1.45 Lunch
1.45-2.20 Christine DeLucia (Yale University), ‘Mastering North and South: The Production of Environmental Knowledge and Modern Identities through Polar Maritime Technologies’
2.30 Depart for Dundee
3.00-5.00 Discovery Point, Dundee
5.00 Depart for St Andrews
6.30 Dinner (Agnes Blackadder Hall)
Saturday, 5 September 2009
9.30 -10.05 Professor Harriet Ritvo (MIT), ‘Lifting the Face of Nature: Thirlmere as Lake and Reservoir’
10.05-10.40 Dr John Thistle (University of British Columbia), ‘Grappling with Grasshoppers: Science, Space, and the Problem of Insect Outbreaks in British Columbia Grasslands’
10.40-11.15 Coffee
11.15-11.40 Dr. Timothy Cooper (University of Exeter), ‘Disposable ecologies: The Victorian idea of waste and the limits of `sustainability’ ‘
11.40-12.30 Discussion
12.30 Close