Economic History Society
Women’s Committee
14th Annual Workshop
Information and Social Knowledge:
From Gossip to the Internet
Friday 7 November 2003
5.15 p.m. at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House,
Malet Street, London
Round-table discussion information in economic explanation, social and urban history, the history of science and technology and medical history. Speakers: Pat Hudson (University of Cardiff), David Green (King’s College London), Jon Agar (London), Cornelie Usborne (University of Roehampton)
Saturday 8 November 2003
in the Local History Room, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London
9.30 Arrival and coffee
10.00-10.45 Social knowledge and modernity
Adelheid von Saldern (University of Hannover), Modernisation and political systems as challenges for urban ways of living: Towards a history of social knowledge
Chair: Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool)
11.00 -12.15 Gender, power and information technologies
Flis Henwood (University of Brighton), Informing gender: health, the internet, and everyday life
Alison Adam and Helen Richardson (University of Salford), Women working the wires? From the telegraph to telephone call centres
Chair: Cornelie Usborne (University of Surrey, Roehampton)
12.15-1.30 Lunch and Women’s Committee meeting
1.30-2.30 Early Career Researchers’ Panel
Claire Jones (University of Liverpool), There as a mathematician, not a woman: Grace Chisholm Young and the mathematical community at the “shrine of pure thought” in late nineteenth- century Germany
Sandra Mols (University of Manchester), The faulty stardom of early electronic computers: The computing laboratory as a nursery for the curing of computer faults and errors
Chair: Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds)
2.45-4.00 Money and information in everyday life
Judith Spicksley (University of Hull), Was the single woman really marginal? Lending and information networks in seventeenth-century England
David Green (King’s College London), Wealth transmission in the 19th century: Knowing where to find your money
Chair: Pat Hudson (University of Cardiff)
4.00-4.15 Closing discussion
Drinks reception
Accommodation is provided for speakers only. Other participants seeking reasonably-priced accommodation in London are advised to visit the following website and click on WC1:
Conference fee: £25, £12 students and unwaged, includes buffet lunch, coffee, tea and drinks on 8 November. Some bursaries may be available for postgraduate students; please enquire.
Further information: Contact Dr Eve Rosenhaft, School of Modern Languages, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZR (E-mail )
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