Centre and periphery in the history of science, technology and medicine
This one-day conference took place at CHSTM in March 2006. It addressed issues concerning the role of centres of innovation or construction of knowledge as well as associated periphery areas, in their identification, their interdependence, and their importance in shaping science, technology and medicine.
Programme
Saturday 11 March 2006
Room 2.57, Simon Building, Brunswick St, University of Manchester
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-11.00 Roy MacLeod (University
of Sydney and Oxford)
On 'Centre' and 'Periphery': A Brief History of Use and Misuse
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.30 Kostas Gavroglu
(University of Athens)
The Sciences and the European Periphery: Comments on Historiographical Issues
12.30-13.15 Lunch
13.15-14.30 Vladimir Jankovic
(University of Manchester)
Headhunt: The Visiting Scientist Program at the U.S. National Meteorological
Center, ca. 1980
14.30-14.45 Tea
14.45-15.15 Heloise Finch
(University of Michigan)
Awkward Simultaneities: The Omega navigation system in the Indian Ocean during
the Cold War
15.15-15.45 Rita Lobo (Universidade
Nova de Lisboa)
Centre or Periphery: The history of Portuguese Tropical Medicine, 1902-1935
15.45-16.15 Sarah Dry (University
of Cambridge)
London Heroes: Bringing the edge of danger into the centre of the city
16.15-16.45 Concluding general
discussions.
The conference was organised by Gaël Lancelot, Fiona Kilpatrick and Jorge Lossio.