Events
Forthcoming Events
Workshop: Food Substitutes: Making Do and Making Anew in Eighteenth-Century Life |
10am-5pm, 27 June 2025 TR6, The Graduate School, Queen’s University Belfast |
Past Events
Anna McCullough, 'Mowgli and the Beasts: Imperialism, Kinship, and Opposing Evolutionary Narratives in The Jungle Books' |
1pm, 8 November 2024 27 University Square, room 01/003 |
Matthew McMahon, ‘The Exhibited Planetarium - Networks of Creation, Curation and Collaboration in the Armagh Planetarium 1968-1986’ |
1pm, 11 December 2024 27 University Square, room 01/003 |
Peter Bowler, Book Launch: Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present (CUP) |
3-5pm, 22 January 2025 27 University Square, room 01/003 |
David N. Livingstone, Book Launch This event will celebrate the publication of David Livingstone's much-anticipated The Empire of Climate (Princeton University Press). Along with Professor Livingstone, we will be joined by Professor Georgina Endfield FBA (University of Liverpool) and Professor Graeme Swindles (Queen's University Belfast). |
1pm, 24 June 2024 GEO/01/009, Elmwood Building, Elmwood Avenue |
Science Collections and the Humanities: A Roundtable A roundtable discussion involving the science curators and colleagues from National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI) with members of the Science and Culture Research Group addressing the question: How can perspectives from the humanities help us understand and better appreciate the rich science and technology collections held and curated by NMNI? |
12pm, 22nd April 2024 |
Ida Milne, 'My Covid years: the diary of an accidental public historian' Ida Milne (Carlow College) will be speaking to Science and Culture about her current research. |
1pm, Monday 11 December 2023 27 University Square, room 01/003 |
Julie Mathias, Research Discussion Julie Mathias (Queen’s University Belfast) will be speaking on her research into the Irish diaspora, the workhouse and the dissection table in nineteenth-century London. This is a joint event with the History Seminar Series. |
4pm, 17th November 2023 27 University Square, room 01/003 |
Leonie Hannan & Nuala Johnson, Book Launch Book Launch: for Leonie Hannan and Nuala Johnson’s new volumes on material and spatial histories of science. See Eventbrite for further details and registration. |
3pm, 2nd November 2023 27 University Square, room 01/003 |
James Poskett, ‘Horizons: a global history of science' We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. Science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. |
1:30pm, 24th March 2023 |
The Science and Culture Research Group formally launched at the British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference which was hosted at Queen’s University Belfast from 20-23 July 2022.