Science and Culture Research Group Book Launch: 9th Dec. 2021

The Science and Culture Research Group look forward to seeing members of Crossing Frontiers Network for the launch of two exciting new books:

• Earth, Cosmos and Culture: Geographies of Outer Space in Britain, 1900–2020 (Routledge) by Dr Oliver Dunnett
• The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America (University of Pittsburgh Press) by Dr Diarmid Finnegan.

Where: Room GEO/01/009, Elmwood Building and via MS Teams
When: Thursday December 9, 2021 3:30–5:00 PM

To register please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-geography-book-launch-tickets-216926522067

Speakers:

• Dr Fraser MacDonald (University of Edinburgh)
• Dr Juliana Adelman (DCU)
• Professor Simon Naylor (University of Glasgow)

The event will be chaired by Professor David N. Livingstone (QUB)

This event will be held both in person and online. Please indicate when you register whether you want to attend in person or online. If the latter, we will send you a link to participate.

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Marvelling at the Skies, 2018

In May-June 2018 we organised a photo exhibition ‘Marvelling at the Skies: Comets through the Eyes of the Anglo-Saxons’ that was held at the Ulster Museum in Belfast https://www.nmni.com/whats-on/marvelling-at-the-skies. The exhibition combined records of comets from Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Bede's Ecclesiastical History) with contemporary images of comets (from the NASA, New York Times, Armagh Observatory, and the Astronomical Association from Northern Ireland), from the earliest contemporary description of a comet in England in MSA in the year 891 under the period of Alfred the Great, to the sighting of a hazy green-hued comet Lovejoy in 2015.

British Academy Showcase, 2018

On Friday 22-Saturday 23 June 2018 the APEX project Before and After Halley: Medieval Visions of Modern Science was featured in the British Academy Showcase in London.

'Before and After Halley: Medieval Visions of Modern Science' explores, for the first time, how medieval records of comets can be used to test the theory that our solar system may include an additional, undiscovered planet: Planet Nine. Combining the skills of a medievalist and an astronomer, this exhibit challenges the assumption that early medieval scientific thought was simple and undeserving of serious scientific investigation.