9:30am Arrival and tea/coffee
10am Introduction
10:15am Panel 1
Commentator: TBA
David Knight (Durham)
Laughing Gas, materialism, Blasphemy and Coleridge’s Theory of Life
Tom Rossetter (Durham)
Paternalism, Utilitarianism and the Insanity Plea in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain
12pm Break
12:30pm Panel 2
Commentator: Prof Nancy Cartwright
Cathy Gere (University of California, San Diego)
The Monkey in the Panopticon:
Utilitarianism and Neuroscience in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham)
Savage Minds:
Utility, Education and Sir John Lubbock’s Politics of Cognition
Cheryl Lancaster (Durham)
Utilitarian approaches to past and present stem cell research
2:15pm Tea/coffee break
2:45pm Panel 3
Commentator: Prof Andreas Holger Maehle
Aleksandra Traykova (Durham)
Quantifying Disease Then and Now:
Utilitarianism, 19th Century Science and Disease Objectification in Medicine
Sophia Efstathiou (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Use Your Mind:
Exercises in Positive Thinking from Early 20th Century Until Now
4:15pm Close
Contact The Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) for more information about this event.