Global Science - 15 October 2013 - Feeling between the Lines: Astronomical Situation and Global History in the Pacific
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Eóin Phillips (University of Cambridge)
Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge) Abstract This talk will seek to explore the potential problems and gains that might be had by thinking about the history of the sciences from a 'global' perspective. It will suggest that while the idea of the 'global' gives us room to trace material flows of goods/knowledge, the trend to conceptualise and represent 'global' movement as homogenising and 'flat' should be treated with caution. Instead, this talk will point to the importance of a global history of science in providing the conceptual room - with all its spatio-temporal possibilities - to explore the connection between physical movement of humans and materials and the role of feeling, reflection and contradiction that often attended attempts to make an enterprise 'global', but which can so easily be made silent by naturalising the idea of the global. |
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| Created: | 2013-10-18 10:10 |
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| Collection: | Global Science |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Glenn Jobson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | CRASSH; Global Science; |
| Abstract: | Eóin Phillips (University of Cambridge)
Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge) Abstract This talk will seek to explore the potential problems and gains that might be had by thinking about the history of the sciences from a 'global' perspective. It will suggest that while the idea of the 'global' gives us room to trace material flows of goods/knowledge, the trend to conceptualise and represent 'global' movement as homogenising and 'flat' should be treated with caution. Instead, this talk will point to the importance of a global history of science in providing the conceptual room - with all its spatio-temporal possibilities - to explore the connection between physical movement of humans and materials and the role of feeling, reflection and contradiction that often attended attempts to make an enterprise 'global', but which can so easily be made silent by naturalising the idea of the global. |
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