Event 5
Below is the programme of studies prepared for this course. Resources generated for some of the sessions can be accessed through the links included in the programme.
Day 1: Science and Film: The Material Culture of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Blythe House, Science Museum)
| Session 1 | Scott Anthony (Cambridge): ‘The GPO Film Unit: Science and Technology on Popular Display in the 1930s’ (film screening and workshop) |
| Session 2 | Peter Morris (Science Museum): ‘The Man in the White Suit: Science in British Film in the 1950s’ (slides) |
| Session 3 | Final round-up discussion |
Day 2: Image and Object in Art and Science (London Consortium)
| Session 1 | Steven Connor (London Consortium): ‘Object Lessons: Thing Theories and Material Culture’ (handout) (reading) (see Films) |
| Session 2 | Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck): ‘Glass Reflections’ (see Films) |
| Session 3 | Esther Leslie (Birkbeck): ‘Liquid Crystals’ (see Films) |
| Session 4 | Participants exchanged views and experiences on working on and with material objects |