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Past readings

We read and discuss papers from across the history of science. Find detailed information on papers from recent meetings elsewhere on the site, and a selection of articles from previous reading group meetings below.  

2018 - 2019

Chair:
Santiago Guzman Gamez

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2017 - 2018

Chair: Santiago Guzman Gamez

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  • Riggs, Christina 'Shouldering the Past: Photography, archaeology, and collective effort at the tomb of Tutankhamun' History of Science 55:3 (2017)
     

  • Nelson, Amy “What the Dogs Did: Animal Agency in the Soviet Manned Space Flight Programme.” BJHS Themes 2 (2017): 79–99.
     

  • Rafael Mandressi 'Affected Doctors: Dead Bodies and Affective and Professional Cultures in Early Modern European Anatomy' Osiris 31.1 (2016)
     

  • Daston, Lorraine. "The Sciences of the Archive." Osiris 27, no. 1 (2012): 156-87. doi:10.1086/667826.

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2016 - 2017

Chair:
Farrah Lawrence-Mackey 

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  • Rich McKay, '"Patient Zero": the absence of a patient's view of the early North American AIDS epidemic', Bulletin of the history of medicine, 2014, Vol. 88(1), pp.161-94.
     

  • Lukas Rieppel, 'Plaster cast publishing in nineteenth-century palaeontology', History of Science, 2015, Vol. 53(4), pp. 456-491.
     

  • Jessica Ratcliff, ‘The East India Company, the Company’s Museum, and the Political Economy of Natural History in the Early Nineteenth Century’, Isis, 2016, Vol. 107(3), pp. 495-517.
     

  • Kelly Whitmer's 'Imagining uses for things: Teaching “useful knowledge” in the early eighteenth century,' History of Science, 55:1 (2017).
     

  • Alex Csiszar's "How lives became lists and scientific papers became data: cataloguing authorship during the nineteenth century" BJHS 50:1 (March 2017) pp.23-60.
     

  • Kara Swanson's "Rubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office," Isis 108, no. 1 (March 2017): 40-61.
     

  • Soppelsa, Peter. “Visualizing Viaducts in 1880s Paris.” History and Technology 27, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 371–77. doi:10.1080/07341512.2011.604178.
     

  • Hirsh, Max. “What’s Missing from This Picture? Using Visual Materials in Infrastructure Studies.” History and Technology 27, no. 3 (September 2011): 379–87. doi:10.1080/07341512.2011.604180.
     

  • Elizabeth Yale's "Marginalia, Commonplaces, and Correspondence: Scribal Exchange in Early Modern Science." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biol & Biomed Sci 42, no. 2 (2011): 193-202.
     

  • Benoit Godin's paper 'Technological Innovation; On the Origins and Development of an Inclusive Concept', Technology and Culture 57:3 (2016).

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