Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain

Miskell, Louise

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“…17 Examples of the latter can be found in several European countries, like Germany and Italy, where large scientific congresses were held from the 1820s onwards. 18 Early conventions and congresses with border crossing ambitions used elements from these different traditions, while at the same time representing something new in the way they manifested themselves as international. A comparison of the organising of specific meeting series clearly demonstrates this; both the dependence on earlier forms of assembly and the fact that they wanted to be something else and more than their national or local predecessors.…”

Section: European Cultures Of Reform and The Importance Of Public Spementioning

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European Reform Movements and the Making of the International Congress, 1840–1860

Kihlberg

2020

The International History Review

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In historical research on internationalism and the international sphere, the rise of the international congress during the nineteenth century has long played a prominent role. This article investigates the making of the international congress as a phenomenon by comparing three early series of meetingsanti-slavery conventions, peace congresses and philanthropic congresses during the 1840 s and 1850 sas communicative events. The analysis shows that their staging was influenced by the fact that these meetings were organised to mobilise reform movements, and that they relied on a public sphere where elite groups, gathered in the metropoles of Europe, could expect that their speeches would reach geographically dispersed audiences through print media. A general conclusion is that these meetings pioneered a new way of being internationalcalled 'representative internationality' in the articlethrough how they were arranged as independent actors beyond local contexts that could both 'speak for' and 'speak to' different collectives.

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Section: European Cultures Of Reform and The Importance Of Public Spementioning

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European Reform Movements and the Making of the International Congress, 1840–1860

Kihlberg

2020

The International History Review

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“…17 Fairs and exhibitions, such as the 1881 London International Medical and Sanitary Exhibition, were widely attended attractions for the middle and upper classes, and offered various showcases of urban and domestic hygiene. 18 While the majority of hygiene initiatives came from scientists, doctors, philanthropists and civic reformers, sanitary reform increasingly caught the interest of politicians. As early as the 1840s, Edwin Chadwick's campaigns and the 1848 Public Health Act moved sanitation increasingly into the domain of local and national government.…”

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Health by design: teaching cleanliness and assembling hygiene at the nineteenth-century sanitation museum

Buxton¹

2018

Br J Hist Sci

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In 1878, amid a rapidly proliferating social interest in public health and cleanliness, a group of sanitary scientists and reformers founded the Parkes Museum of Hygiene in central London. Dirt and contagion knew no social boundaries, and the Parkes's founders conceived of the museum as a dynamic space for all classes to better themselves and their environments. They promoted sanitary science through a variety of initiatives: exhibits of scientific, medical and architectural paraphernalia; product endorsements; and lectures and certificated courses in practical sanitation, food inspection and tropical hygiene. While the Parkes's programmes reified the era's hierarchies of class and gender, it also pursued a public-health mission that cut across these divisions. Set apart from the great cultural and scientific popular museums that dominated Victorian London, it exhibited a collection with little intrinsic value, and offered an education in hygiene designed to be imported into visitors' homes and into urban spaces in the metropole and beyond. This essay explores the unique contributions of the Parkes Museum to late nineteenth-century sanitary science and to museum development, even as the growth of public-health policy rendered the museum obsolete.

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“…As temporary gatherings of people interested in one or several fields of academic research, teaching, and related practice, academic conferences can be regarded as a key organizational feature of academic life that makes 'invisible colleges' (Crane, 1972) perceptible by creating, reproducing, and changing communications, interactions, and networks between participants. Conferences not only contribute to the formation of epistemic communities (Knorr Cetina, 1999;Becher and Trowler, 2001;Trowler et al, 2012) but may also serve wider socioeconomic, geopolitical, cultural, and symbolic interests at local, regional, national, and international scales (Suppo, 2003;Withers, 2010;Miskell, 2013).…”

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“… At ENANPUR 2005-2013, international paper authors came from twelve countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Uruguay; Canada and the United States; France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. At SIDR 2004-2013, regular conference presenters came from the six countries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States; France, Portugal, and Spain.…”

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Decentralized concentration through cyclical events: The geographies of academic conferences in urban and regional development and planning in Brazil, 2004–2013

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Jöns

2020

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Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain

Cited by 4 publications

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European Reform Movements and the Making of the International Congress, 1840–1860

European Reform Movements and the Making of the International Congress, 1840–1860

Health by design: teaching cleanliness and assembling hygiene at the nineteenth-century sanitation museum

Decentralized concentration through cyclical events: The geographies of academic conferences in urban and regional development and planning in Brazil, 2004–2013

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