Literary Engineering Workshop

Humanity Manse, College Bounds
University of Aberdeen

10 am – 5.15 pm Wednesday 17 March 2010

Organizers: Casper Andersen (Aarhus) and Ben Marsden (Aberdeen)

In association with the Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy

Speakers for this workshop include:

Casper Andersen (University of Aarhus): ‘Engineering journalists and the British Empire 1890-1930: The case of Stafford Ransome’

Mike Chrimes (Institution of Civil Engineers, London) ‘Aspects of the literary output of British engineers in the nineteenth century ‘

Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) ‘Righting wrongs and re-writing rights: Oliver Lodge & Silvanus Thompson’s alternative narratives of electrical invention’

Chris Macleod (University of Bristol) ‘Authorship, intellectual property and British aeronautical engineering in the early twentieth century’

Ben Marsden (University of Aberdeen) ‘Re-reading Brunel: cultures of reading and writing in early nineteenth-century engineering’

Frances Robertson (Glasgow School of Art) ‘William Johnson (1823-1864) and the “world of industrial readers”’

Chair / commentator:
Don Leggett (University of Kent)
Ralph O’Connor (University of Aberdeen)
Klaus Staubermann (National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh)

For further details, and if you wish to attend (places may be limited), please contact: Ben Marsden (b.marsden@abdn.ac.uk).