Workshop Schedule

Engineering space in the nineteenth century: environment, science, technology and the transformation of space

John Clark and Bernhard Struck
University of St Andrews
Institute for Environmental History and the Centre for Transnational History

Venue
University of St Andrews
New Hall, North Haugh, Function room second floor

Friday, 4 September 2009

9.30-9.45 Welcome and Introduction

9.45-10.20 Dr Richard Noakes (University of Exeter), 'Settling the nerve centres of empire: remote stations and the Eastern Telegraph Company circa 1870-1918'

10.20-10.55 Simone Müller (Free University Berlin), 'The Transatlantic Telegraph and the Wiring of the World: Cultural networks in maritime space, 1858-1902'

10.55-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.05  Eike-Christian Heine (Technische Universität Braunschweig), 'Infrastructure and space in Northern Sweden. The construction of transport- and military infrastructure in Lapland between 1859 and 1902'

12.05 -12.40 Professor Crosbie Smith (University of Kent), 'The Coal Question: Engineering Spaces of Ocean Steam Navigation'

12.40-1.45 Lunch

1.45-2.20 Christine DeLucia (Yale University), 'Mastering North and South: The Production of Environmental Knowledge and Modern Identities through Polar Maritime Technologies'

2.30 Depart for Dundee

3.00-5.00 Discovery Point, Dundee

5.00 Depart for St Andrews

6.30 Dinner (New Hall)

Saturday, 5 September 2009

9.30 -10.05 Professor Harriet Ritvo (MIT), 'Lifting the Face of Nature:  Thirlmere as Lake and Reservoir'

10.05-10.40 Dr John Thistle (University of British Columbia), 'Grappling with Grasshoppers: Science, Space, and the Problem of Insect Outbreaks in British Columbia Grasslands'

10.40-11.15 Coffee

11.15-11.40 Dr. Timothy Cooper (University of Exeter), 'Disposable ecologies:  The Victorian idea of waste and the limits of `sustainability' '

11.40-12.30 Discussion

12.30 Close