A group for scholars interested in electricity and its interactions with people and societies in varied historical contexts. Tweets by @electricpunkah
Leeds, United Kingdom
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Thank you for following the Electrical History Research Group. Set up by a group of scholars based in Leeds, the Group hosts monthly virtual reading groups, and is looking to expand its reach through interviews, reviews and blogs on varied aspects of electrical histories.
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Thank you to all those who joined us and presented in our workshop yesterday! We will be emailing some discussions and recordings of the presentations in the coming weeks.
Session 4 on “Challenging the Modernity framework: adaptation and national cultures of electricity” will begin at 4pm. Papers by @pmc1081 @clarence_hp @mkay162 and Daniel Pérez Zapico.
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Our next session on how the historiography of electricity could benefit from the social sciences is now underway, with papers by Prof Simone Abram, Dr Roman Bolton and Dr Léonard Laborite.
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Our next session on “Social identities and choices in the histories of electricity and electrification”, with papers by @ProfKarenSayer @DrabigailHarris and @electricpunkah begins at 11:30
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Brilliant keynote lecture by Prof Gooday! Lots to think about when it comes to histories of electricity - introducing anthropological, sociological and political theories/electricity and slavery/challenging conceptions of “modernity”
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Our workshop on "Understanding social identities, cultural imaginaries and political agendas in the history of electricity and electrification" begins in less than half an hour. We will begin with an introduction by our organiser Dr Daniel Zapico
One week to go for our workshop on "Understanding social identities, cultural imaginaries and political agendas in the history of electricity and electrification" #histtech #histelectric
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Details of our online workshop “Understanding social identities, cultural imaginaries and political agendas in the history of electricity and electrification” (24th September) are now live on our website
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If you’re interested in joining the workshop, please feel free to contact Daniel Zapico mailto:[email protected] or Animesh Chatterjee @electricpunkah mailto:[email protected]
Live at 1pm today!
Live online tomorrow!
‘Conflict and Identity in the Social Life of Electricity in Colonial Calcutta, c.1880–1925’ by
@LeedsTrinity PhD grad @electricpunkah
28 July 1-2 p.m. on Zoom
tinyurl.com/y7ek4hoq
DM @Woolf2016Leeds for link
#LCVSVirtual #LCVSseminars
Members of the Electrical History Research Group presented at the @BSHSOutreach Global Digital Hsitory of Science Festival last week. Here’s a video of the panel for those interested crowdcast.io/e/understanding…
#histscifest
Join us for our online reading group on Thursday 16 July (4pm BST), where we will be reading and discussing Paul Gilmore's article on "Romantic Electricity, or the Materiality of Aesthetics" (2004)
After yesterday's thought-provoking roundtable session at #HistSciFest, we now look forward to a live #LCVSVirtual seminar by @electricpunkah (1pm, 28 July), where he will speak about his doctoral research on the social life of electricity in colonial Calcutta, c.1880-1925.
More #LCVSVirtual events coming up soon!
Two Twitter presentations from Dr Di Drummond (13th and 20th July), and a live online seminar from Dr Animesh Chatterjee (@electricpunkah) @ 1 p.m. on 28th July. Watch this space!
We have been following the amazing papers and presentations at the #histscifest and are looking forward to our roundtable discussions tomorrow.
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Contributors include @ProfKarenSayer, Prof Graeme Gooday, Daniel Pérez Zapico & José Soto Vejar.
#histelectric #histstm #histtech
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Thank you @HSSGECC for helping us advertise our workshop.
[ONLINE WORKSHOP] Understanding social identities, cultural imaginaries and political agendas in the history of electricity and electrification - CHPS - UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS - 24 SEPTEMBER 2020. Registration is now open. Further details: electricalhistoryresearch.wo…
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