{"id":533,"date":"2015-10-01T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T08:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/?p=533"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:47:56","slug":"wunderkammer-reading-group-autumn-term-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/2015\/10\/01\/wunderkammer-reading-group-autumn-term-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Wunderkammer reading group &#8211; Autumn term programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WUNDERKAMMER: Centre for the History of the Sciences Reading Group<\/p>\n<p>Alternate Tuesdays, 17:30 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicorninn.com\/\">Unicorn Inn<\/a>, St Dunstan&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>except Week 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>13 October 2015 (Week 3) \u2013 <strong>Stuff and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Non<\/span>Sense<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.1086\/498593\">Objects and the Museum<\/a>\u201d, <em>Isis<\/em> 96 (2005), 559-71.<\/li>\n<li>Dan Hicks, \u201cThe Material-Cultural Turn: Event and Effect,\u201d in <a href=\"http:\/\/library.kent.ac.uk\/cgi-bin\/resources.cgi?url=http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780199218714.001.0001\"><em>The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies<\/em><\/a>, ed. Dan Hicks and Mary Carolyn Beaudry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>27 October 2015 (Week 5) \u2013 <strong>Childish Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melanie Keene, \u201c\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.1086\/518188\">Every Boy and Girl a Scientist: Instruments for Children in Interwar<\/a> Britain\u201d, <em>Isis<\/em> 98 (2007), 266-89.<\/li>\n<li>Alice R. Bell, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B8Ec9ES5IgZsYlo0UUhYanJWME0\/edit\">The Childish Nature of Science: Exploring the Child\/Science Relationship in Popular Non-Fiction<\/a>\u2019, in Alice R. Bell, Sarah R. Davies and Felicity Mellor (eds), <em>Science and Its Publics<\/em> (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp. 79-98.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>10 November 2015 (Week 7) \u2013 <strong>Instruments &amp; Observatories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simon Schaffer, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.1086\/663608\">Easily Cracked: Scientific Instruments in States of Disrepair<\/a>\u201d, <em>Isis<\/em> 102 (2011), 706-17.<\/li>\n<li>David Aubin, \u201cA History of Observatory Sciences and Techniques\u201d, in Jean-Pierre Lasota (ed.), <em>Astronomy at the Frontiers of Science<\/em> (Springer Verlag, 2011), pp. 109-21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>25 November 2015 (Week 9) \u2013 <strong>Slowly Does It<\/strong> **at 14:30-16:00 in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=CNWsr6\">CNWsr6<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great Lakes Feminist Geography Collective, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/12192676\/For_Slow_Scholarship_A_Feminist_Politics_of_Resistance_through_Collective_Action_in_the_Neoliberal_University\">For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University<\/a>\u201d, <em>ACME<\/em> (forthcoming).<\/li>\n<li>Isabelle Stengers, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/we.vub.ac.be\/aphy\/sites\/default\/files\/stengers2011_pleaslowscience.pdf\">\u2019Another science is possible!\u2019 A plea for slow science<\/a>\u201d, Inaugural Lecture for Willy Calewaert Chair (2011).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>8 December 2015 (Week 11) \u2013 <strong>Audiences <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florence Grant, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S0007087414000582\">Mechanical Experiments as Moral Exercise in the Education of George III<\/a>\u201d, <em>British Journal for the History of Science<\/em> 48 (2015), 195-212.<\/li>\n<li>Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman, \u201cScience in the Marketplace: An Introduction\u201d, in <em>Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences <\/em>(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. 1-19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is welcome! Readings will be available in hard copy at the School of History Office, or please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/staff\/profiles\/higgitt.html\">Rebekah Higgitt<\/a> if you would like more information, to join the Wunderkammer or CHOTS email newslists, or to suggest future readings and themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUNDERKAMMER: Centre for the History of the Sciences Reading Group Alternate Tuesdays, 17:30 in the Unicorn Inn, St Dunstan&#8217;s\u00a0except Week 9 &nbsp; 13 October 2015 (Week 3) \u2013 Stuff and NonSense Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, \u201cObjects and the Museum\u201d, Isis 96 (2005), 559-71. Dan Hicks, \u201cThe Material-Cultural Turn: Event and Effect,\u201d in The Oxford Handbook of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/2015\/10\/01\/wunderkammer-reading-group-autumn-term-programme\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}