presentations from the workshop:
​'Narrative science in techno-environments: integrating history of science with environmental history and humanities'

Sponsored by The British Academy. 

It was organised in partnership with the British Society for History of Science, the British Society for Literature and Science and the European Research Council.

These presentations were filmed during a two-day interdisciplinary workshop that took place at the LSE over the 18th-19th of July 2019. The full programme from the event is still accessible via the event page. It was made possible thanks to the generous support of the British Academy (grant number BARSEA19\190021).  It expands on the work of the Narrative Science project, a European Research Council funded project based at the London School of Economics (grant agreement No. 694732). ​News from the network and the directory of members can be found here. We would like to record our very sincere thanks to Dr Jon Adams who took pains to edit these videos to include the slide shows and ensured the recordings were of the highest quality.
(For those who aren't familiar, it is probably best to set the quality to HD by clicking on the little cog icon on the bottom right, otherwise the appearance is a little grainy).

Dominic J. Berry (LSE)
Introduction: Narrative science in techno-environments

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Ina Linge (University of Exeter)
Narrating Human-animal Sexual Nature around 1920: Richard Goldschmidt, Magnus Hirschfeld and Hanns Heinz Ewers

Amelie Bonney ​(University of Oxford)
Toxic Colous

Louise Coueffe (University of Angers)
Botanical Space

Greg Lynall (University of Liverpool)
Reading Renewables: Stories of Solar Power
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John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford)
“Have they remained what they were in Europe?”: narrative, organisms, and environment in explorations of South America

Harriet Ritvo (MIT)
The Stakes of Species​

Saliha Bayir ​(University of Kassel)
​Microbial Ecology

Ágota Ábrán ​(History and Art Museum Zalau)
Roadside Weeds

João P. R. Joaquim ​(Charles Universiry, Prague)
Cold War Agriculture Museums

Ellie Armstrong ​(UCL)
​Tropics/Science

Aadita Chaudhury ​(York University)
​Chasing Fires

Mauricio Nicolas Vergara (Università della Svizzera italiana/University of Göttingen)
​Avalanches War

Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent)
Sugar in the air: carbon narratives, futures and endings

Animesh Chatterjee (Leeds Trinity University)
Urban, political and cultural environments in late-19th century Bengali anticolonial representations of electricity

Lachlan Fleetwood ​(University of Cambridge)
Global Mountains


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sam smiley (Astrodime Transit Authority​)
Ornamentalism: The Migrations and Translations of Japanese Knotweed

Middle section available via sam's site. Click here!

Jon Agar (UCL)
"British Nature was Lost Here, 1964-71": what's at stake when scientists, nature writers and bureaucrats tell stories

Anahita Rouyan (Independent scholar and consultant)
Producing Mutations: Scientific Plant Breeding and Narratives of Nature in the Progressive-Era United States, 1900-1914

Alex Hall (University of Birmingham)
Who speaks for the flood? Exploring agency, expectations and the supernatural in extreme weather events