{"id":461,"date":"2014-10-13T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/?p=461"},"modified":"2014-10-13T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:33:09","slug":"wunderkammer-autumn-programme-for-the-chots-reading-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/2014\/10\/13\/wunderkammer-autumn-programme-for-the-chots-reading-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Wunderkammer: autumn programme for the CHOTS reading group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wunderkammer is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/centres\/sciences\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for the History of the Sciences<\/a>&#8216; reading group. For those who don\u2019t already know, it is held fortnightly during term time, on odd weeks. This term we&#8217;ll meet in the back room of the\u00a0<strong>Unicorn Pub on St Dunstan\u2019s at 18:00<\/strong>. Here is the programme for the autumn\u00a0term. Some readings are available online, but hard copies of all of them are made available in the office of the School of History. All are welcome to come along.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/staff\/profiles\/higgitt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact me<\/a>\u00a0if you have any questions or problems in getting hold of the readings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>14 October (Week 3):\u00a0<strong>Time and Longitude as Popular (History of) Science<\/strong>\u00a0 introduced by Rebekah Higgitt<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rebekah Higgitt, \u201cThe Contenders\u201d, in Richard Dunn &amp; Rebekah Higgitt, <em>Finding Longitude: How Ships, Clocks &amp; Stars Helped Solve the Problem of Longitude<\/em> (Collins, 2014), pp. 34-65.<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Dartnell, \u201cTime and Place\u201d &amp; \u201cThe Greatest Invention\u201d, in <em>The Knowledge<\/em> (The Bodley Head, 2014) pp. 248-86.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>28 October (Week 5):\u00a0<strong>Objectivity\u00a0<\/strong>introduced by Charlotte Sleigh\/Omar Nasim<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lorraine Daston &amp; Peter Galison, \u201cEpistemologies of the Eye\u201d, in <em>Objectivity<\/em> (Zone Books, 2007), pp. 17-53.<\/li>\n<li>Omar Nasim, TBC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>11 November (Week 7):\u00a0<strong>The Scientific Life<\/strong>\u00a0 introduced by Ruth Wainman<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steven Shapin, \u201cThe Scientist and Civic Virtues\u201d, in <em>The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2008), pp. 165-208.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Savage, &#8220;1954: The Challenge of Technical Identity&#8221;, in <em>Identities and Social Change in Britain Since 1940<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 67-92.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>25 November (Week 9):\u00a0<strong>Stepping Away from Social Construction?\u00a0<\/strong>introduced by Rebekah Higgitt<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harry Collins &amp; Robert Evans, <a href=\"https:\/\/catalogue.kent.ac.uk\/Record\/998802\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rethinking Expertise<\/em><\/a>, (University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. 1-44<\/li>\n<li>Bruno Latour \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruno-latour.fr\/sites\/default\/files\/89-CRITICAL-INQUIRY-GB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern<\/a>\u201d, Critical Inquiry 30(2004): 225-48<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9 December (Week 11):\u00a0<strong>Beyond the Two Cultures\u00a0<\/strong>introduced by Rebekah Higgitt\/Charlotte Sleigh<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guy Ortolano, <em>The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 28-65<\/li>\n<li>Second reading TBC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wunderkammer is the\u00a0Centre for the History of the Sciences&#8216; reading group. For those who don\u2019t already know, it is held fortnightly during term time, on odd weeks. This term we&#8217;ll meet in the back room of the\u00a0Unicorn Pub on St Dunstan\u2019s at 18:00. Here is the programme for the autumn\u00a0term. 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