1997 HSS Preliminary Annual Meeting Program

Thursday, 6 November


Executive Committee Meeting, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit Set-up, 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HSS Council Meeting, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration, 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.


Plenary Session, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

"Working between the History and the Philosophy of Science"

Philip Kitcher (University of California, San Diego): "Can We Talk? Or do we have nothing to say to one another? On the Relations between History and Philosophy of Science"
Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): "Can Rationality Have a History?"
*Peter Galison (Harvard University): "Relentless Historicism: Machines and Metaphysics"


Friday, 7 November


Registration, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Women's Caucus Meeting, 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Isis Editorial Board Meeting, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.


Sessions 9:00 - 11:45 a.m.


1. New Directions in Newtonian Studies

CHAIR: Jan W. Wojcik (Auburn University)
G.A.J. Rogers (University of Keele): "Newton and the Status of Natural Philosophy"
Robert Iliffe (Imperial College): "Theory and Observation in Newton's Theological Research"
James E. Force (University of Kentucky): "Deism, Miracles, and Sir Isaac Newton's Notion of Natural Law"
J.E. McGuire (University of Pittsburgh): "Constructs, Human and Divine: Newton and the Foundations of Geometry"
*Jan W. Wojcik (Auburn University): "Isaac Newton: A Previously Unpublished Theological Manuscript"

2. Teaching Technologies in Nineteenth-century Medical Sciences

CHAIR: Brian Dolan (Cambridge University)
Conevery Bolton (Harvard University): "Medical Geography and American Medicine, 1830-1850"
Andrew Zimmerman (University of California, San Diego): "Training the Public Eye in the Berlin Museum of Ethnology"
Lisa Herschbach (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine): "Museology and the Rationalization of Medical Expertise"
*Stephen Jacyna (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine): "Ordering Histology in Nineteenth-century Edinburgh"

3. Physics, the State, and the Cultural "Milieu": In Honor of Paul Forman's Sixtieth Birthday

CHAIR: A. Hunter Dupree (Brown University)
COMMENTATOR: Paul Forman (Smithsonian Institution)
John Heilbron (California Institute of Technology): "Scientific Apologetics"
Alexei Kojevnikov (California Institute of Technology): "The Collectivization of Physics: Frenkel, Landau, Bohm, and Quasiparticles"
Jose Sanchez-Ron (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid): "Looking at the Spanish Physical Sciences Under General Franco with Formanian Eyes"
*Sam Schweber (Brandeis University): "The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist: Bethe and Oppenheimer"

4. Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe

CHAIR and COMMENTATOR: *Pamela H. Smith (Pomona College)
Harold J. Cook (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "The Dutch East India Company: Profit and Knowledge"
Mary J. Henninger-Voss (Princeton University): "Sense from Sensuality: Commercial Techniques for Making Early Modern Science"
Deborah Harkness (University of California, Davis): "'Strange' Ideas and 'English' Knowledge: Natural Philosophical Exchange in Elizabethan London"
Antonio Barrerra (University of California, Davis): "Imperial Spain, the Making of the New World, and Early Modern Science"

5. Science in Motion: Expectation and Experience in Scientific Travel

CHAIR: Jordan Kellman (Princeton University)
Jordan Kellman (Princeton University): "Astronomy, Geography and French Colonial Exploration: Laval in the Louisiana Territory"
*Rebecca Ullrich (University of California, Berkeley): "Writing Science: The Use of Scientific Description in Nineteenth-century British Naval Journals"
Helen Rozwadowski (independent scholar): "Seeking Scientific Fortunes: What Voyages Meant to Nineteenth-century Ocean Scientists"
Stuart McCook (College of New Jersey): "Plants and Petroleum: Henri Pittier and the Botanical Exploration of Zulia, Venezuela, 1922"

6. The Promise and Reality of Cultural History of Science

CHAIR and COMMENTATOR: *Robert Richards (University of Chicago)
Mario Biagioli (Harvard University): "What to Do Next"
Alison Winter (California Institute of Technology): "Problems of Language in the Cultural History of Knowledge"
Norton Wise (Princeton University): "Under the Influence"
Cheryce Kramer (Wellcome Institute for the History of Science and Medicine): "W hen Culture Cured"

7. Place and the Environmental Sciences

CHAIR: Robert E. Kohler (University of Pennsylvania) and Mark L. Hineline (University of California, San Diego)
Dan Flores (University of Montana): "Place: Bioregional History and 'Cow-chip' History of Science"
Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania): "Islands As Strategic Fieldwork Sites"
*Mark L. Hineline (University of California, San Diego): "'Wasteland' without Science: Differentiating the American Desert"
Mark V. Barrow (Virginia Polytechnic Institute): "Pursuing Parakeets in Paradise: Frank Chapman, Fieldwork, and Florida's Endangered Fauna"
Robert Kohler (University of Pennsylvania): "Place as Practice in Field Biology"

8. Creating Cultures of Calculating: Academic Institutions and Pedagogical Practices in the History of Mathematics and Physics

CHAIR: Kathryn M. Olesko (Georgetown University)
David A. Reid (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Public Concerns, Private Pedagogy: Natural Philosophy in the Service of English Rational Dissent, 1757-1803"
Matthew L. Jones (Harvard University): "Taming and Training the Hubristic Savant: Cauchy, the Geometers, and the Scope of Mathematics During the French Restoration"
*David A. Attis (Princeton University): "How the Irish Saved Mathematics: Mathematics and Reform at Trinity College, Dublin, 1815-1835"
David Kaiser (Harvard University): "Dutifully Doodling: Pedagogy, Practice and the Persistent Use of Feynman Diagrams, 1948-1968"
Joakim Marner (Princeton University): "Postgraduate Education at Bohr's Institute: The Interwar Years"

Committee on Honors & Prizes Meeting, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Committee on Education Meeting, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Forum for the History of Science in America Business Meeting, 12:00 - 12:30 p.m.

Afternoon Sessions 1:30 - 3:10 p.m.


9. 20th Century Science

CHAIR: David Cassidy (Hofstra University)
Edward Eigen (MIT): "From the Unseen to the Unseeable, the Photographic Cast of "Modern" French Marine Biology"
Karl Hall (Harvard University): "Soviet Physics at War's End: Party Patronage and Peacetime Agenda"
Sungook Hong (University of Toronto):"From Scientific Effects to Artifacts: The Edison Effect, the Electron Theory, and the Valve"
Andris Krumins (University of Toronto): "Shifting Attitudes towards Proton Stability"

10. Science in the Public Sphere

CHAIR: Anita Guerrini (University of California, Santa Barbara )
Michael D. Gordin (Harvard University): "The Importation of Being Earnest: The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and the Petrine Etiquette Reforms"
Kevin C. Knox (California Institute of Technology): 'Lunaticks' or the Illuminated? Signs, Systems and Scientific Culture in England, 1790-1820"
Jessica Riskin (Iowa State University): "The Defecating Duck, Or, Scenes from the Early History of the Idea of Automation"
R. Andre Wakefield (University of Chicago): "From Natural History to Oeconomia to Technology: Johann Beckmann and the Cameral Sciences of Practice"

11. Field Science on the Pacific Rim

CHAIR: Deborah Day (Scripps Institute of Oceanography)
Mike Sfraga (University of Alaska, Fairbanks): "From Harvard to Hollywood: Bradford Washburn, Interdisciplinary Research and the Exploration of Mount McKinley, 1946-1960"
Peter Neushul (California Institute of Technology) and Zuoyue Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara): "Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: C.K. Tseng and the Development of Marine Science and Technology in Modern China"
Carl-Henry Geschwind (The Johns Hopkins University): "Science California Style: The Case of Earthquake Seismology, 1905-1933"
Roy MacLeod (University of Sydney): "'Strictly for the Birds': The Pacific Ocean Biological Survey, 1963-1971"

12. Early European Science

CHAIR: Ted Davis (Messiah College)
Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay (Montana State University): "Kepler's Laws and the Curve Fitting Problem" (Paper co-authored by G. Brittan, Jr. and S. Nagarajah of Montana State University)
Irving A. Kelter (University of St. Thomas): "Was Pythagoras a Jew?: Renaissance Perceptions of the Ancestry of Copernicanism "
Sheila J. Rabin (St. Peter's College): Was Giovanni Pico della Mirandola the First Modern Historian of Ideas?"
Giancarlo Truffa (independent scholar): "Celestial Mapping in Medieval Europe"

13. Natural History

CHAIR: Mary P. Winsor (University of Toronto)
Nancy Anderson (University of Michigan): "'Tinged More or Less By the Imagination': Drawing and Photo-micrography in Nineteenth-century Microscopy"
Jenny Beckman (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden): "School and Museum: Teaching Natural History in Sweden, c. 1900"
Ronald Gene Amodeo (University of Minnesota):"Not Amateur, Not Professional: High School Teachers and the New Botany Community, 1880-1917"
Margaret O. Meredith (University of California, San Diego): "Correspondence, Scientific Exchange and the Transatlantic Context of Early American Natural History"

14. 19th Century Physics

CHAIR: Gerald Holton (Harvard University)
Hasok Chang (University College London): "Spirit, Air and Quicksilver: Search for the 'Real' Scale of Temperature"
Xiang Chen (California Lutheran University): "Instruments as Paradigms: Richard Potter and his Photometers"
Diane Greco (MIT): "Unspeakable Practices? On the Commensurability of Knoledge During the Decline of the Magnetische Verein "
Ted Underwood (Cornell University): "'All the Labour Done Under the Sun is Really Done By It': Political Economy Shapes the Reception of Energy Conservation in Britain"

15. 19th Century American Science

Co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in America

CHAIR: Sylvia McGrath (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Michael F. Conlin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "As the World Turns: The Popular and Scientific Reception of J.B.L. Foucault's Pendulum in the United States"
Barrington Steven Edwards (Harvard University): "The Counter Rhetors: Black Intellectualism in the Face of Scientific Racism"
Clark A. Elliott (Burndy Library): "Scientists, Nature, and the Self: Reading Autobiographical Writings from 19th Century America"
Phillip Stevens Thurtle (Stanford University): "Harnessing Heredity in Gilded Age America: Rational Reproduction in a Cultural Context"

16. Optics in the Scientific Revolution

CHAIR: Cassandra Pinnick (Western Kentucky University)
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (University of Twente): "Christian Huygens, Inadvertent Natural Philosopher"
William T. Lynch (Cornell University): "Analogy, Baconian Method, and the Mechanical Philosophy in Hooke's Micrographia "
Andrea Murschel (The University of Chicago): "Kepler on Jean Pena and the Science of Catoptics"
Voula Saridakis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University): "The Hevelius-Hooke Dispute Over the Relative Merits of Naked-Eye vs. Telescopic Sights"

Afternoon Sessions 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

17. Scientific Models as Mediating Instruments

CHAIR: E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University)
COMMENTATOR: Ronald N. Giere (University of Minnesota)
Margaret C. Morrison (University of Toronto): "Models as Autonomous Agents"
Ursula Klein (Harvard University): "Techniques of Modelling in Nineteenth Century Chemistry"
*Mary S. Morgan (London School of Economics): "Models of the Monetary System"

18. Carving the Public Domain: 'Elite' and 'Popular' Cultures of Science

CHAIR: Lissa Roberts (San Diego State University)
Andrea Carlino (University of Geneva): "Paper Bodies: Anatomical Fugitive Sheets "
William Eamon (New Mexico State University): "Science in the Piazza"
*Lissa Roberts (San Diego State University): "The Shock of the New: The Electrical Machine and Cultural Boundaries"
Emma Spary (University of Warwick): "Natural Authorities? The Invention of the Public"

19. Ocean Science, Spectacle and Politics: Historical Explorations in to the Earth's Last Great Frontier

CHAIR: *Ronald Rainger (Texas Tech University)
COMMENTATOR: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego)
*Naomi Oreskes (New York University): "Oceans, Oceanography and the Plate Tectonics Revolution: Site-Specificity and Theoretical Transcendence"
Spencer Weart (American Institute of Physics): "Cold War, Global Warming and the Evolution of Research Plans"
*Gregg Mitman (University of Oklahoma): "From Flippy to Flipper: A Ringside Seat in the Making of an Oceanic Star"

20. Aesthetics, Autobiography and 'Naturphilosophie': Narratives of Nature during the German Romantic Period

CHAIR: Frederick Gregory (University of Florida)
COMMENTATOR: Maria Trumpler (Yale University)
*Joan Steigerwald (York University): "Narratives of Organic Activity: Schelling 's Speculative Science"
Michael Hagner (Max Planck Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte):"Between Neurophysiology and Neuro-poetry: Natural-philosophical Approaches to the Brain around 1800"
E. Hamm (University of British Columbia): "Collections, Publications and Legitimacy: Goethe on Science and Autobiography"

21. Science in Motion: Microscopical Practices and their Travels acros s Professional, National and Institutional Borders

CHAIR: John Heilbron (California Institute of Technology))
*Tal Golan (University of California, Berkeley): "Blood Will Out: Microscopic al Practices and their Travels across Professional, National and Institutional borders"
Gregory Mann (University of California, San Diego): "Widely Used, But Still Negotiable: Golgi Staining at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
Nicolas Rasmussen (University of Sydney): "Biological Electron Microscopy Comes to Post-War Australia: A Natural Experiment in the Transplantation of Experimen tal Cultures"

22. "Fitting In": Genetics and Evolutionary Theory, 1930-1960

CHAIR and COMMENTATOR: Richard Burian (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
*Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis (University of Florida): "Keeping Up with Dobzhansky: G. Ledyard Stebbens, Jr. and Plant Evolution, 1936-1950"
Kim Kleinman (Webster University): "His Own Synthesis: Corn, Edgar Anderson, and Evolutionary Theory in the 1940s"
Judy Johns Schloegel (Indiana University): "Anomaly, Unification, and the Irony of Personal Knowledge: Tracy Sonneborn and the Species Problem in Protozoa, 1954-1957"

23. The Victorian Scientific Hero: Genius, Character, and Work in the Age of Professionalization

CHAIR: Katherine Anderson (York University)
COMMENTATOR: Jennifer Tucker (California Institute of Technology)
William J. Ashworth (University of Liverpool): "'Labour harder than thrashing': John Flamsteed, Property, and Intellectual Labour in Nineteenth Century England"
*Paul White (independent scholar): "The Discipline of Feeling in Laboratories of Life"

24. Negotiating Roles: Social Shapings of Mathematical Practice

CHAIR and COMMENTATOR: Judith Grabiner (Pitzer College)
Lesley Cormack (University of Alberta): "The Problems of Three Kingdoms: Geography and the Creation of Britain"
Massimo Mazzotti (University of Edinburgh): "The Geometers of God. Pure Mathematics and the Revolution"
*Katherine Hill (University of Edinburgh): "Imperial Achievements: Negotiating a Role for Mathematics in Navigation"

HSS Reception at Birch Aquarium 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Interest Group Meetings, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
History of Astronomy

  • Early Science
  • History of Chemistry

Evening Workshops 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.


25. Beyond Lecture

CHAIR: Marjorie Malley
*Barbara J. Becker (WestEd): "MindWorks: Making Scientific Concepts Come Alive"
Michael J. Crowe (University of Notre Dame): "Investigating the Ways of Nature: An In-class Experiment"
Lisa Rosner (Richard Stockton College): "Is There Phlogiston in the House?"
Barbara Welther (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Hands-On History for Astronomy Students"


26. HSS Committee on Diversity Workshop: "Teaching about Race and Science"

CHAIR: Bonnie Blustein (Independent Scholar)
COMMENTATOR: To Be Announced Evelyn Hammonds (MIT)
Jonathan Marks (Yale University)
Joe Graves (Arizona State University)
*Garland Allen (Washington University)
Bonnie Blustein

27. Going on the Job Market in the 1990s: Prospects and Pitfalls

CHAIR: Jessica Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)
Paul Farber (Oregon State University)
Linda Gerstein (Haverford College)
Brett Steele (University of California, Los Angeles)
*Jessica Wang (University of California, Los Angeles )

28. 'Scientists Under Hitler': Twenty Years of Scholarship on the History of Science under National Socialism

CHAIR: Mark Walker (Union College)
COMMENTATOR: Alan Beyerchen (Ohio State University)
Raymond Stokes (University of Glasgow)
Mitchell Ash (University of Iowa)
Ute Deichmann (University of Cologne)
*Mark Walker (Union College)

HSS Women's Caucus 25th Anniversary Reception, 9:00 p.m.

Saturday, 8 November


Registration, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Committee on Diversity Meeting, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Committee on Independent Scholars, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Forum for the History of Science in America, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Morning Sessions 9:00 - 11:45 a.m.


29. Gender Theory and Images of Science

CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: *Ann Hibner Koblitz (Hartwick College)
Mary Beth Ruskai (University of Massachusetts, Lowell): "Science Studies, Gender Studies, and the 'Insider' Perspective: Views of a Woman Mathematical Scientist
Meera Nanda (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): "Non-Western Ecofeminism, Critiques of Science, and Indian Women's Lives"
Noretta Koertge : "Gendered Metaphors: Uses and Abuses in Feminist Historiography"

30. Revisiting Lyell at the Bicentennial of His Birth: Geology, Biology, Anthropology

CHAIR: *Robert H. Silliman (Emory University)
A.B. Van Riper (Kennesaw State University): "Lyell and Human Antiquity: The Limits of Scientific Authority"
Leonard G. Wilson (University of Minnesota): "Lyell and the Origin of Species by Natural Selection"
Joe D. Burchfield (Northern Illinois University): "Late Victorian Critics of Uniformitarianism"

31. New Directions in the Cultural History of Chinese Science and Medicine

CHAIR: Mario Biagioli (Harvard University)
COMMENTATOR: Benjamin Elman (University of California, Los Angeles)
Marta Hanson (University of California, San Diego): "Biology Recapitulates Ecology: Disease, Space and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China"
Charlotte Furth (University of Southern California): "Storia Literati Doctor: The Practice of Chinese Medicine in the Seventeenth Century"
Bridie Andrews (University of London): "How Does Acupuncture Work? A Political-Historical Survey"
*Roger Hart (Stanford University): "Proof, Propaganda, and Patronage: The Dissemination of Western Studies in Seventeenth-century China"

32. The Public Face of Science in the Eighteenth Century

CHAIR and COMMENTATOR: Paula Findlen (Stanford University)
*Alice Walters (University of Massachusetts, Lowell): "Racing for Greenwich: Public Astronomy and the Solar Eclipse of 1764"
Lodewijk E. Palm (University of Utrecht): "Natural History in Broadside and Sermon: Addressing the Dutch Public on the Shipworm Catastrophe of the 1730s"
Michael R. Lynn (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Boulevard Physics: Natural Philosophy and the Credulity of the Parisian Public"
*James Evans (University of Puget Sound): "Worlds in Collision: The Universal Systems of Insiders and Outsiders in Enlightenment France"

33. Measurement and Heroism in Scientific Travel

CHAIR: Mary Terrall (University of California, Los Angeles)
Amir Alexander (Stanford University): "Exploration Mathematics: The Rhetoric of Discovery and the Rise of Infinitesimal Methods"
*Mary Terrall (Harvard University): "Argonauts of Science: Measuring the Earth's Shape"
Michael Dettelbach (Smith College): "Economy and Heroism in Humboldtian Travel"
Michael Bravo (Manchester University): "Mapping the Lines of Cross-Cultural Incommensurability: The Ethnography of Heroic Explorers"

34. Durkheim's Recently Discovered Early Philosophy Lectures and the Emergence of Social Science

Co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences

CHAIR: Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Robert A. Jones (University of Illinois): "Religion, Realism, and Rousseau"
*Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute of Technology): "Representations in the Sens Lectures"
Neil Gross (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Analogy and Realism in Durkheim's Thought"
Daniela S. Barberis (University of Chicago): "Durkheim, the foundation of the Annee sociologique and the Revue de metaphysique et de morale"

35. Science and International Relations during the Cold War

CHAIR: Roger H. Stuewer (University of Minnesota)
COMMENTATOR: David Holloway (Stanford University)
James Hershberg (George Washington University): "James B. Conant, Science, and the Cold War"
Rip Bulkeley (independent scholar): "The International Geophysical Year and the Origins of the Antarctic Treaty"
Konstantin Vladimirovich Ivanov (Tula State Pedagogical University): "A Political Tool? The Soviet Academy of Sciences as an Actor in International Politics"
*Kai-Henrik Barth (University of Minnesota): "Shaping Science, Building International Relations: Science and Diplomacy in Early Nuclear Test Ban Negotiations"

36. Alchemy and Corpuscles: New Directions in Early Modern Matter Theory

CHAIR: Margaret J. Osler (University of Calgary)
William R. Newman (Indiana University): "Alchemical Corpuscular Theory and the Art/Nature Debate: The Case of Daniel Sennert"
*Margaret Osler (University of Calgary): "Fishlines, Sky Hooks, and Vapor Trails: Non-Epicurean Themes in Gassendi's Atomism"
Margaret G. Cook (University of Calgary): "Divine Artifice, Corpuscular Mechanism, and Chemical Experiment: Robert Boyle's Experimental Philosophy of Nature"
Lawrence M. Principe (The Johns Hopkins University): "Wilhelm Homberg: Chrysopoeia and Corpuscularianism at the Academie Royale des Sciences"

Committee on Meetings & Pograms Meeting, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Committee on Research & the Profession Meeting, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Committee on Publications Meeting, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Committee on Finance Meeting, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Forum for the History of Human Science Meeting, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

 

Afternoon Sessions 1:30 - 3:10 p.m.


37. New Laboratory Sites

CHAIR: Sharon Kingsland (The Johns Hopkins University)
Robert Bud (The Science Museum): "Doing Applied Science: Research Agendas and Instruments"
Jamie Cohen-Cole (Princeton University): "Inventing the Science of Mind: Techniques of Socialization and Cultures of Research at Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies"
Otniel E. Dror (Princeton University): "Lords of Illusion: the Artifice, the Real and the Making of Multiple Realities in the Clinic and Laboratory"
Youngran Jo (University of Toronto): "Equality and Efficiency in the Physiology of Women: Studies on Work and Menstruation in Interwar Britain"

38. Empire and Exploration

CHAIR: Arleen Tuchman (Vanderbilt University)
Richard Bellon (University of Washington): "Joseph Hooker's Scientific Explorations in India, 1848-1851"
D. Graham Burnett (Columbia University): "The Aesthetics of Empire: Landmarks, Landmarking, and the Interior Expedition"
Fa-Ti Fan (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Natural History, Art, and Commerce: The Practice of British Naturalists in the China Trade"
M. Margaret Lopes (University of Southwestern Louisiana) and Silvia F. de M. Figueiroa (University of Campinas, Brazil): "North and South American Connections in the 'Sciences of the Museums' (1870-1910)"

39. 20th Century American Science

Co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in America

Sonja Amadae (University of California, Berkeley): "Managing the National Security State: Decision Technologies and Policy Science in Cold War America"
Lillian Hoddeson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "The Invention of the Transistor and the Reality of the Hole"
Robert A. Jacobs (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "Sharing the Horizon with the Atomic Bomb"
Donald E. Osterbrock (Lick Observatory, UCSC): "George Ellery Hale, Caltech Astrophysics, and Palomar Observatory: 1920-1972"

40. Science and Agriculture

CHAIR: Zeno Swijtink (Sonoma State University)
Daniel Alexandrov (Russian Academy of Sciences): "The Museum Lifeworld of Aristocratic Entomology"
Stephane Castonguay (Université du Quebec à Montréal): "More Than a Three Letter Word: Economic Entomology after World War II"
George Gale (University of Missouri, Kansas City): "Toutes nos vieilles vignes sont fatalement condamnées à disparaitre: Scientific Controversy Regarding the Cause of the French Grapevine Plague, 1875-1890"
Mark T. Hamel (University of Pennsylvania): "From Field (through Lab) to Table: Agriculture in the Aggregation of Sites, Samples, and Statistics"

41. History of the Behavioral Sciences

CHAIR: Benjamin Harris (University of Wisconsin, Parkside)
Peder Anker (Harvard University): "Arthur George Tansley's Social Psychology and Ecology in the Context of South African Racism"
John Carson (Cornell University): "Intelligence and Its Discontents: The Culture of IQ in Interwar America"
Christopher S.W. Koehler (University of Florida): "The Systematics of Sexual Aberration: Richard Goldschmidt and the Discourse of Intersexuality"
Mary Brown Parlee (MIT): "'Assisting A Discipline in the Making': Warren Weaver and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program in Neuroscience, 1969-1976"

42. Science and Humanism

CHAIR: Vernon Rosario (University of California, Los Angeles)
Stephen J. Cross (Independent Scholar): "The Evolution of a Scientific Humanist: Julian Huxley's Spiritual Aeneid"
Matthias Dorries (Forschungs Institut/Deutsches Museum): "Science as Religion: Ernest Renan's L'Avenir de la Science"
Casper Hakfoort (University of Twente):"Ostwald and Boltzman on the Theory of Happiness"
Myles W. Jackson (University of Chicago): "Beating the Measure and Measuring the Beat: Science and Music in Early Nineteenth-Century German Territories"

43. 17th Century Science

CHAIR: Faye Getz (Independent Scholar)
Klaas van Berkel (University of Groningen): "The Illusions of Martinus Hortensius. Science and the Limits of Patronage in the Dutch Republic"
Florence Hsia (The University of Chicago): "For the Greater Glory of God and King: Jesuits and the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1680-1700"
Ivo Schneider (Deutsches Museum): "Villains and Plagiarizers or Gifted Creators of the Absolutely New? A Distinction Between Common and Private Intellectual Property in the 17th Century"
Richard J. Sorrenson (Indiana University): "Visible Technicians"

44. Chemistry in 19th and 20th Century Science

CHAIR: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University)
Buhm Soon Park (The Johns Hopkins University): "Teaching the Theory of Resonance: Pauling, Wheland, and Their Pedagogical Strategies for Quantum Chemistry"
Christopher Ritter (University of California, Berkeley): "Re-presenting Science: Frankland, Brodie, Education, and Practice in Nineteenth-century Chemistry"
G.J. Somsen (Universiteit Utrecht): "War and Peace in Chemistry: Controversy and Collaboration among Macromolecule and Colloid Chemists, 1922-1939"
Andrea I. Woody (The University of Chicago): "Mendeleev, Meyer, and the Periodic Law: How Representing IS Intervening"

Afternoon Sessions 3:30 - 5:30


45. Science, Industry, and Social Vision: Perspectives on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

CHAIR and COMMENTATOR: Keith R. Benson (University of Washington)
Philip J. Pauly (Rutgers University): "Biology and Democracy: The Aims of the Founders of the Scripps Institution"
Eric L. Mills (Dalhousie University): "Putting Spots on Tigers: Teaching Physical Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography before World War 2"
*Ronald Rainger (Texas Tech University): "Industry, Science and Power: Roger Revelle and the Postwar Development of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography"

46. Victorian "Sturm und Drang": German Romanticism and British Scientific Naturalism

CHAIR: Trevor Levere (University of Toronto)
COMMENTATOR: *Bernard Lightman (York University)
*Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles): "Romantic Positivism -- The Attraction of Opposites"
George Levine (Rutgers University): "Karl Pearson and Romantic Idealism"
James Strick (Arizona State University): "Huxley, Tyndall and Urschleim: The Scientific Naturalists and Spontaneous Generation"

47. Science on Show

CHAIR and COMMENTATOR: Robert Rydell (Montana State University)
*Iwan Rhys Morus (Queen's University, Belfast): "Bodies of Invention: Constructing the Victorian Inventor-Entrepreneur"
Abigail J. Lustig (University of California, Berkeley): "Botany Deeply Implanted"
Robert Brain (Harvard University): "Showcasing State Science in the French Third Republic: E.J. Marey and the Paris Physiological Station"

48. The Business of Science

CHAIR: Robert H. Kargon (The Johns Hopkins University)
COMMENTATOR: John W. Servos (Amherst College)
Anthony S. Travis (Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at Hebrew University): "Heinrich Caro: Laying the Foundations of the Modern Chemical Industry"
Paul Lucier (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): "Oil Booms & Science Busts: The Failure of Geology in the Early Petroleum Industry"
*Susan W. Morris (Johns Hopkins University): "Henry Rowland as Scientist-Entrepreneur"

49. Weather Diaries in Eighteenth-century Europe

CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: James R. Fleming (Colby College)
Theodore Feldman (University of Southern Mississippi): "Institutional Weather Diaries of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"
Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire): "Human Barometers and Daily Drill: Recording Weather and Disease in Eighteenth-century England"
*Vladimir Jankovic (University of Kentucky): "'Hot Beyond Bearing': Unusual Weather in Early English Diaries"

50. Engendering Masculinity in the Cultures of Science and Technology

CHAIR: *Karen Rader (Princeton University)
COMMENTATOR: Jane Camerini (University of Wisconsin)
Elizabeth Potter (Mills College): "Making Masculinity/Making Science: The Case of Robert Boyle"
Nina Lerman (Whitman College): "Manhood and Manual Training: Shopwork and Science in Late Nineteenth-century American Technical Education"
Paul Edwards (Stanford University): "Nerd Worlds: Computer Hackers, Unofficial Culture, and Masculine Identities"

51. Science and Religion in Postwar Astrophysics

CHAIR: Ronald L. Numbers (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
COMMENTATOR: Owen Gingerich (Harvard University)
JoAnn Palmeri (University of Oklahoma): "An Astronomer Beyond the Observatory: Harlow Shapley on Religion in an Age of Science"
*Craig Sean McConnell (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Banishing God from the Heavens: Fred Hoyle, Science, and Religion"
Ernan McMullin (University of Notre Dame): "Origins of the Anthropic Principle"

52. The Scientist As Political Animal in 1960s America

>Co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in America

CHAIR: James H. Capshew (Indiana University)
COMMENTATOR: Charles Schwartz (University of California, Berkeley)
*Patrick Catt (Indiana University): "The Politics in/of Mathematics: Radical Mathematicians and the American Mathematical Society, 1965-1970"
Kelly Moore (Columbia University): "Smoke But No Fire: Radical Women and American Science"
Garland Allen (Washington University): "Radical Politics, Marxism and the History of Science: From the 1960s to Social Constructionism"

HSS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
"Blood, Dirt, and Monograms: A particular History of Graphs"
Thomas L. Hankins (University of Washington)
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Pre-Banquet Reception, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
President's Reception, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
HSS Banquet, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Graduate Student Party, 10:00 p.m. -

 

Sunday, 9 November


Book Exhibit, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HSS Business Meeting, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
DVHSP Meeting, *:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Morning Sessions 9:00 - 11:45 a.m.


53. Joseph Henry: Bicentennial Commemoration

Co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in America>

CHAIR: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota)
COMMENTATOR: Marc Rothenberg (Smithsonian Institution)
*Albert Moyer (Virginia Tech): "Prof. Henry, Mr. Faraday, and the Hunt for Electromagnetic Induction"
Paul Theerman (Smithsonian Institution): "Joseph Henry's Conception of Scientific Knowledge"
David Hochfelder (Case Western Reserve University): "Joseph Henry and the Telegraph"

54. Networks and Institutions: Rethinking "Big Science"

CHAIR: Bruce Hevly (University of Washington)
COMMENTATOR: Ron Doel (Oregon State University)
Sharon Kingsland (The Johns Hopkins University): "Botanical Research Networks in Early Twentieth Century America"
*Robert W. Smith (National Air and Space Museum): "Nuclear Airplanes, Institutional Survival, and the Origins of 'Big Science'"
Catherine Westfall (Michigan State University): "Networking and Accelerator History"

55. From Wilderness to Reform: Women Scientists in the Field

CHAIR: Naomi Oreskes (Gallatin School, NYU)
COMMENTATOR: Nancy C. Slack (Russell Sage College)
Donald D. Beaver (Williams College): "'Stories from Strange Lands' or Early Natural History in Tropical West Africa: How Sara Bowdich (1791-1856) Became a Naturalist and Popularizer, 1816-1856"
Marianne G. Ainley (University Northern British Columbia): "Women and Field Work in Canada: Persistence and Strategies, 1815-1990"
Pamela M. Henson (Smithsonian Institution): "Invading Arcadia: Women Scientists in the Field in Latin America, 1900-1950"
Katherine S. Milar (Earlham College): "Balancing Science and Service: Women in Applied Psychology"

56. New Perspectives on Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe

CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Mordechai Feingold (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): "Where Was Solomon's House? Collaborative Forms of Intellectual Work in Renaissance Europe"
*Ann Blair (Harvard University): "The Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance"
Peter Dear (Cornell University): "Reflections on Recent Historiography"

57. Disease and Development: Local Determinants and Colonial Responses in East and Southeast Asia

CHAIR: Michele Thompson (University of Washington)
*Michele Thompson (University of Washington): "The History of Smallpox in Vietnam"
Chia-Feng Chang (Tsing Hua University): "Legends, Rituals and Smallpox"
Annick Guenel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): "Smallpox Prophylaxis in Vietnam During French Colonialization"
Laurence Monnais Rousselot (Universite de Paris 7): "Learning Medicine from the Ecole de Medecine de Hanoi"
David Biggs (University of Washington): "Civilizing Cochin China"

Osiris Editorial Board Meeting, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

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