Event 6
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 Gender: New Perspectives (University of Leicester)
| Session 1 | Gowan Dawson (Leicester): ‘“And if it be a Pretty Woman all the Better”: The Cultural Politics of Sexual Selection’ (workshop) |
| Session 2 | Mike Brown (Roehampton): ‘Victorian Medicine and Masculinity at Home and Abroad’ (slides) |
| Session 3 | Claire Brock and Holly Furneaux (Leicester): ‘Women Surgeons and Male Nurses in Wartime’ (preparation) (reading) |
Day 2: Constructing a Science of Society (Keele University)
| Session 1 | Gordon Fyfe (Keele): ‘Visualizing Society: Museums, Social Science, and Keele’s Sociology Archive’ |
| Session 2 | Chris Renwick (York): ‘Back to the Future: Patrick Geddes, Biology, and a Counterfactual History of British Sociology’ |
| Session 3 | Helen Burton (Keele): Demonstration of the Le Play Archive Catalogue and opportunity for students to look at some of the material (flyer) (handout) |