Registration: Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, & Spiritualism (4/24/2014)

Registration now open!

Royal Society, London, 

April 24, 2014

Workshop 2:  Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, & Spiritualism 

Oliver Lodge’s work in telecommunications arose from his life-long interest in the ether.  This workshop explores Lodge’s impact on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century  telecommunications, particularly wireless telegraphy and radio, but situates this alongside his interest in more esoteric etheric phenomena.  Studying Lodge’s spiritualism provides a new way of understanding his physics, but also a way of approaching broader communication networks, occult or otherwise, of the period.

This one-day workshop features papers by Peter Bowler, Elizabeth Bruton, Christine Ferguson, David Hendy, Richard Noakes, and J. Patrick Wilson.

Registration is free but places are limited.  To register, email oliverlodgenetwork@gmail.com giving your name and any dietary requirements.

Further details (including the programme) are available here: <http://www.oliverlodge.org/workshop-2-wireless/>

Reminder: Making Waves: Oliver Lodge and the Cultures of Science, 1875-1940 (9/13/2013; 11/9/2013)

Making Waves: Oliver Lodge and the Cultures of Science, 1875-1940

Call for Papers: 

Workshop 1: "Civic Science: Oliver Lodge, Physics, and the Modern University"

University of Birmingham, 

Saturday November 9, 2013
Deadline September 13, 2013

The physicist Oliver Lodge spent most of his scientific career at the newly founded University College Liverpool before joining the University of Birmingham as its first Principal in 1900, retiring in 1919.  This workshop, the first in a series of four organized by James Mussell and Graeme Gooday’s AHRC Research Network ‘Making Waves, Oliver Lodge and the Cultures of Science, 1875-1940’, will investigate both the place of science within the university and the place of the university in the city. Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Modernity at the University of Birmingham, we invite papers that consider Lodge’s legacy for the University and Birmingham, as well as those that consider the place of science in the civic university at the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth.

Proposals are invited for papers of 40 minutes that explore any of the following themes:

Oliver Lodge’s career at the University of Birmingham

The creation of the civic university

The place of science in the civic university

The relationship between pure and applied science within the university

Oliver Lodge’s influence on the city of Birmingham

University science education in the late 19th / early 20th century

The creation of the University of Birmingham at Edgbaston

Oliver Lodge’s complementary careers within and beyond the university

Science communication and popular science in the late 19th / early 20th century

Oliver Lodge’s wife and family and their respective lives, careers, and legacies

Please send proposals (500 words) to by September 13, 2013

This project is funded by an AHRC Research Networking Grant.  Further details, including forthcoming symposia about Lodge, can be found here: <http://www.oliverlodge.org>.  Follow us on Twitter @oliverjlodge