Please see a revised programme below for this event to commemorate Silvanus Phillips Thompson, who died one hundred years ago.
This workshop should be of interest to historians of science & technology; historians of instruments; historians of intellectual property; historians of science & religion; Quaker historians and historians of the book.
Although the registration deadline is 13th September, places are limited so early registration is strongly advised.
Register here (standard fee £25): tinyurl.com/AfLevents
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‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916)
https://silvanuspthompson.wordpress.com
A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his Death to be held on Friday, 16 September 2016 at the Westminster Quaker Meeting House, 52 St. Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4EA.*
Sponsored by the British Society for the History of Science, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the University of Leeds.
PROGRAMME
10.00-10.30 Arrival, registration and coffee
10.30-11.15 Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds), “Silvanus Phillips Thompson: Polymath, Authority and Critic”
11.15-11.45 Mat Paskins (University of Aberystwyth), “Silvanus Thompson’s Working Worlds”
11.45-12.30 Matt Stanley (New York University), “The Quaker Silvanus Thompson, Scientist and ‘Sincere Friend’”
Lunch
1.30-2.00 Steve Pumfrey (University of Lancaster), “Thompson on Gilbert’s De Magnete”
2.00-2.30 Geoffrey Cantor (University of Leeds & UCL), “Thompson, Biographer”
2.30-3.00 Annie Jamieson (National Media Museum), “There is light that our eyes will never see”: Silvanus Thompson and the Photography of the Invisible”
Tea
3.30-4.00 Stathis Arapostathis (University of Athens) and Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna), “The Dilemma of a Professor: Beat Them or Join Them – or else? Silvanus P. Thompson and the Business of Electricity”
4.00-4.30 Anne Barrett (Imperial College, London) & Anne Locker (Institution of Engineering & Technology), “The Thompson Archives”
4.30-5.00 Round table discussion on Thompson’s historical significance and directions for future research.
To register for the workshop, visit tinyurl.com/AfLevents . The charge for the day is £25 (£10 for AfL members), including morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.
Please register before 13 September
* The Westminster Quaker Meeting House is very close to Leicester Square underground station (which is served by the Piccadilly and Northern Lines).
Leave the station by exit 1, turn left and left again at the third passageway (Cecil Court).
The passageway leads to St. Martin’s Lane almost opposite the Meeting House.
USE THE SIDE ENTRANCE, which is on Hop Court (slightly to the right, facing you, between the Côte Brasserie and the GymBox).
That entrance will be staffed from 10.00 to 10.30 and instructions left outside for late arrivals.
If disabled access is required, please contact the organisers in advance through the workshop website: https://silvanuspthompson.wordpress.com