Conference: "Portraiture and Scientific Identity" (National Portrait Gallery: London, UK, 23-24 June 2000); and Exhibition: "Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000" (14 April-27 August 2000)
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Russell Johnson
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:24:42 GMT0BST
From: Iwan Morus <i.morus@qub.ac.uk>
Subject: FYI: Portraiture and Scientific Identity
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Jon Agar <AGAR@fs4.ma.man.ac.uk> writes:
Portraiture and Scientific Identity
Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th June 2000
at Ondaatje Wing Lecture Theatre, National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery London (NPG) and the British Society for
the History of Science (BSHS) have organised a conference in support
of the NPG exhibition "Defining Features: Scientific and Medical
Portraits 1660-2000" (14 April-27 August 2000)
The conference will appeal to all those with an interest in
contemporary approaches to the study of portraiture and the history of
science; while aimed primarily at the academic community, it should be
accessible to anyone with an informed interest in the topics.
Programme
Friday 23 June 2000
10.00 Registration
10.30 Welcomes
Ludmilla Jordanova, President of BSHS
Charles Saumarez-Smith, Director NPG
'The image of science at the National Portrait Gallery'
Session A Gender and Identity
11.30 Lucia Dacome
'Self-portraiture and anatomical fame in eighteenth
century Bologna'
12.00 Lynne Walker and Deborah Cherry
'Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: image, identity and space'
Discussion
12.45-2.15 Lunch
1.30 Extraordinary General Meeting of the BSHS
Session B Enlightened Images?
2.15 Deborah Jean Warner
'Middle class men of science as portrayed by Mason
Chamberlin'
2.45 Brandon Brame Fortune
'Dr Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia: portraiture,
medicine and the scholarly life'
3.15 Alfred Nordmann
'Lavoisier's art of representation'
3.45 Discussion
4.00 Break
Session C: National Heroes?
4.30 Patricia Fara
'Prismatic images: portraits of Isaac Newton'
5.00 Gertrude Prescott Nuding
'"England's ingratitude": from Trafalgar Square to
Kensington Gardens'
5.30 Discussion
6.00 Break
7.00-8.45 Review and Discussion of the Exhibition "Defining
Features"
Speakers will include Janet Browne
Saturday 24 June
10.00 Registration
Session D: Visual Practice
10.15 Hester Higton
'The scientific portraits of Wenceslaus Hollar'
10.45 Lianne McTavish
'Figuring the hand: portraits of artists and surgeons in
seventeenth century France'
Break
11.45 To be announced
12.15 Discussion
12.45-2.00 Lunch
Session E The Representation of Collective Achievements
2.00 Randolph Cook
'The Arctic Council'
2.30 Sue Rabbitt Roff
'Trinity and the discourse of the virgin bomb'
3.00 Soraya de Chaderevian
'Watson, Crick and the double helix'
3.15 Discussion
Break
Session F: Making and Breaking Lineages
4.00 Paula Lee
'Facing Cuvier'
4.30 Stefan Schwarzkopf
'Portraiture as scientific argumentation: Ernst Haeckel
and his portraits of Goethe, Lamarck and Darwin'
5.00 John Osborne
'"The brutal and uncompromising truth": medical
caricatures in Vanity Fair, 1870-1889'
Closing Discussion
6.00 End
Booking
Full conference fee stlg30
Members of the BSHS stlg25
Students stlg15
One day only: stlg15 (full), stlg12.50 (BSHS members), stlg7.50
(students)
Cheques should be made out to 'National Portrait Gallery' and sent to:
Science Conference
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Enquiries: all practical and administrative queries should be directed
to the Education Department, NPG, 0171 3055 ext 212
All queries about academic content should be addressed to:
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova
School of World Art Studies and Museology
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
Tel: 01603 456161
Fax: 01603 593642
Email: L.Jordanova@uea.ac.uk
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Dr Jon Agar
BSHS Programme Secretary
http://www.bshs.org.uk
Dr Jon Agar
Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Mathematics Tower
Manchester University
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
http://www.man.ac.uk/Science_Engineering/CHSTM/people/agar.htm
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Russell A. Johnson rjohnson@library.ucla.edu