Program:
Alan Chalmers: One hundred years of pressure
- Alan Chalmers, Introduction
- John Schuster, Commentary
- Gerhard Wiesenfeldt, Commentary
- Peter Anstey, Commentary
Post-Truth
- Post-truth, hyper-guardianship, and climate change (Darrin Durant)
- Destabilising anti-conservation positions in the post-truth era (Rachel Morgain)
- Gaping lacunae in STS analyses of politics and power (Adam Lucas)
Environmental change, governance and activism
- Anti-nuclear politics after Fukushima: Environmental risks and grassroots activism in Tokyo (Alexander Brown)
- Mapping the road to failure: From the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Climate Change Agreement and its Impacts on the indigenous peoples of Nunavut (Kayla Slade)
- Rethinking the public inquiry on ‘science, technology, development, and environmental change’ in new governance transitions (Richard Hindmarsh and Sara Alidoust)
- Atomic survival: the role of the creative arts in imagining the long nuclear future (Paul Brown)
Psychology, epistemology and scientific practice
- Using concepts as experimental tools: Mental imagery and hallucinations (Eden Smith)
- Totally addicted to love (Gemma Lucy Smart)
- Psycho meets science: Professionals for all seasons, but a profession for none? (Tim Johnson-Newell)
Historical epistemology and modern physics
- Bachelard’s Blue Sky in a new light: energy, materialism and poetics (Douglas Kahn)
- Beyond orthodoxy and heterodoxy: Rethinking the history of quantum mechanics (Kristian Camilleri) [Not given due to illness]
- The unreasonable effectiveness of scientific method (John Wright)
Political economy of science
- A finance model of biomedical research: Insights from military biotechnology (Tatiana Andersen)
- Parameters of possibility: The corporate construction of smart urbanism (Jathan Sadowski)
- Marketing addiction: the ethics of designing products to “hook” the user (David Neil)
History of early 20th century science
- Freud in the Antipodes (Robert M. Kaplan)
- An Australian industrial revolution? (Ian Wills)
- Harold Llewellyn Bassett (1889–1964): did World War 1 spoil this promising chemist’s career? (William Palmer)
Life, death and technology
- The dark synthetic sky: Flying and dying in the analogue atmospheres of flight simulation (Peter Hobbins)
- Understanding the interaction between death, belief and technology: New funeral technologies in India and China (Vishwambhar Nath Prajapati)
- da Vinci and me (Michael Arnold)
From the ground up, indigenous knowledge, performance and technology
- Black as: Performing indigenous difference (Georgine Clarsen)
- Mining, cinema, indigeneity: Indigenous knowledge and histories of resource extraction in Where the Green Ants Dream and Goldstone (Adam Gall)
- Surviving in the settler colony: Knowledge, performance and healing (Anna Haebich)
Early modern mechanics and natural philosophy
- The bird, the poem and the apparel (Alan Salter)
- Machines, motion and the Académie des Sciences (1666–1687) (Luciano Boschiero)
- Newton’s hydrostatics (Alan Chalmers)
- The laws of collision at the Royal Society, 1668–9: Case Study No.5 of the Taylor/Schuster model of ‘Organizing the Experimental Life at the Early Royal Society’ (John A. Schuster)
Universities as frontiers of innovation and its eco-system
- Eco-innovation Fundamentals and University Student Engagement with Business (Sam Garrett-Jones and Belinda Gibbons)
- Process mechanisms for academic entrepreneurial ecosystems: Insights from a case study in China (Gaofeng Yi)
- Corporate and university links in advancing basic science: 2004–2014 (Russell Thomson)
- Universities in the national innovation systems: Asia Pacific diversities (Venni V. Krishna)
Working from the Ground Up: Doing difference in collaborative research in Northern Australia
- Doing Incommensurability, not interdisciplinarity: Cross-cultural management of freshwater on Milingimbi Island (Yasunori Hayashi with George Milaypuma and Leonard Bawayŋu)
- How to do the work of working together: Theorising situations of radical difference to mobilise multiple knowledge systems (Jennifer Macdonald)
- Our work in in-between spaces: Paying close attention to the stories we tell ourselves and others (Greg Williams)
- Ground up methods (Matthew Campbell)
Reproductive technologies
- Gene editing in the Australian media (Heather Bray)
- Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in Ireland: Continuities and change (Patricia Kennedy)
- The history of IVF in India (Vasudha Mohanka)
- IVF in France: a less stratifying experience? (Nicola Marks)
Science communication
- Should Science Communicators learn from the Yogyakartans? (Mita Anggaryani)
- News reporting of scientific understandings of “baby brain’ (Natasha Abrahams)
- Co-construction of multicultural perspectives within science communication: A learning community case study (Sean Perera and Tangyao Zhang)
Classifications
- Classification by Language? Dutch, Latin and Arabic Mathematics in Leiden after 1600 (Gerhard Wiesenfeldt)
- Noah’s Ark and species (John Wilkins)
- Captivity histories (Matthew Chrulew)
Science, state and policy
- Meteorology for whom? State or public (Biswanath Dash)
- Space regulation and policy (Thomas Green)
- “Identity” and governance in synthetic biology: Ambivalence, norms and counter norms, in the “international genetically engineered machine competition” (iGEM) (David Mercer)
Language, paradigms and the origins of science and medicine
- The nineteenth century astronomical lantern set and the visual communication of popular science in Australia (Martin Bush)
- Reclaiming the origin of science for science communication and science studies (Lindy Orthia)
- What can the autism epidemic teach us about paradigm shifts (or lack thereof) in science and medicine? (Toby Rogers)
- Thomas S. Kuhn and the linguistic turn in the philosophy of science (Rey Tiquia)
The Role of Understanding in Science
- Toy Models and Understanding (Patrick McGivern)
An Exploration of Understanding in Thought Experiments (Jarrah Aubourg) - Situated Understanding and the Epistemic Relevance of Diversity (Nicolle Brancazio)
Australian knowledges
- Not caring like the state (Lisa Slater)
- An Australasian science? Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the making of modern anthropology (Sophie Scott-Brown)
- Evaluation as cosmopolitical work in northern Australia (Michaela Spencer)
Reproducibility and open science
- Is replication necessary in ecology? (Ashley Barnett
- Questionable research practices in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Hannah Fraser)
- The replication crisis in science: How do publication bias and low statistical power contribute? (Steven Kambouris)
Bringing dialogue to public engagement in science and technology.
A workshop on communicative practices
HPS Postgraduate Workshop
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