Research Seminar Series Spring 2019

These seminars are free to attend and open to science museum staff, students, museum professionals and academics with a research interest in the history of science, technology, medicine and museums as well as material and visual culture more broadly. Running on alternate Tuesdays from 5 February–2 April 2019, 

Feel free to bring a packed lunch to eat during the seminar. The entrance is on Queens Gate—click for map

Seminar dates

The Future We Avoided: The Horrors of Scientific Progress in Alternate History and Science Fiction: Glyn Morgan (Science Museum)
Date: Tuesday 5 February, 13.00–14.00
Location: Dana Studio

Shared telecommunications knowledge between Oliver Heaviside and his brother and Post Office engineer Arthur West Heaviside in the late nineteenth century: Elizabeth Bruton (Science Museum)
Date: Tuesday 19  February, 13.00–14.00
Location: Dana Studio

Science, Art and Machines: Benjamin Cheverton and the mechanical reproduction of sculpture: Ben Russell (Science Museum)
Date: Tuesday 5 March, 13.00–14.00
Location: Dana Studio

When Popular Bird-Watching became Scientific: Co-operation and Mass Observation in Britain: Michael Guida (University of Sussex)
Date (RESCHEDULED): Tuesday 16 April, 13.00–14.00
Location: Dana Studio

An Eighteenth-Century Medical Pamphlet on the King’s Evil: Changing Forms and Changing Readers, 1760-1797: Hannah Bower (Science Museum/University of Oxford)
Date: Tuesday 2 April, 13.00–14.00
Location: Dana Studio