1998 HSS Annual Meeting Program

Meeting Program | Abstracts

This is the final online version of the program for the 1998 Annual Meeting.

Thursday, October 22
Plenary Session
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Is the Fight Still On? Reflections on the Science Wars in History, Sociology, and Science
New York Room
Allan Franklin (University of Colorado, Boulder) : "Saving the (Epi) phenomena: Tim Buckley was Right"
Harry Collins (University of Wales, Cardiff): "Who is the enemy?"
Jay Labinger (California Institute of Technology): "Is there a science side in the science wars, and should scientists be on it?"

Session organized by Diana Barkan (California Institute of Technology)

Thursday, October 22
8:00 - ? pm

Journal of the History of Biology Workshop: 30 Years of JHB -- A Retrospective (and Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn)
Empire C
Chair: *Garland E. Allen (Washington University, St. Louis)
Session Participants To Be Announced.
Session co-organized by Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University) to be followed by Journal of History of Biology Reception (by invitation only) hosted by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Friday, October 23
9:00 - 11:45 am

Recent Research on the Herschels

Chicago A

Chair: Michael J. Crowe (University of Notre Dame)
Marvin Bolt (Adler Planetarium) "John Herschel's Natural Philosophy: Habits for a Scientific Hobby"
Darin Hayton (University of Notre Dame) "John Herschel's Research into Physical Optics"
Sydney Ross (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) "The Catalogue of the Herschel Library"
*M. J. Crowe & D. R. Dyck (University of Notre Dame & Concord College) "Calendar of the John Herschel Correspondence and John Herschel's Diary"

History and Historiography of Recent Science

Chicago B

Chair: *Horace Freeland Judson (Center for History of Recent Science)
Commentator: Ron Doel (Oregon State University)
Steven C. Weiss (George Washington University) "Weaving Science and Politics in History of Recent of Science: the Case of the Superconducting Super Collider"
Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University) "'Practical History': Beyond Social Context"
Anne Fitzpatrick (Charles Babbage Institute) "Need to know: Threading the Labrynths of Classified Materials for Historical Research"
Carl-Henry Geschwind (George Washington University) "Predictive Ability as a Criterion in Theory Choice: the Dilatancy Model for Earthquake Prediction, 1972-1977"

Cultures of Credit in the Enlightenment

Chicago C

Chair: J.B. Shank (Stanford University)
Commentator: Lissa Roberts (San Diego State University) *John Powers (Indiana University) "Pedagogy and Public Culture: Hermann Boerhaave and the Fortunes of Leyden"
Adrian Johns (University of California, San Diego) "Quackery and Piracy in the Enlightenment: William Raymer and the Forging of Credibility"
John Detloff (Princeton University) "The Chemistry of State: Chemical Knowledge and State Power in Late Eighteenth-century France"

Mathematical Values: Social Mores and Mathematical Practices

New York A

Chair: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University )
Commentator: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University)
Roger Hart (Stanford University) "Quantifying Music: Political Cosmology, Courtly Ritual, and Precision Mathematics in Seventeenth Century China"
*Amir Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles) "Geometrical Landscapes: Dee and Hariot on Empire and Mathematics"
Theodore M. Porter (University of California, Los Angeles) "Social Mathematics"
Joan Richards (Brown University) "Geometry in the Age of Reason: Euclid and the Enlightenment"

Modern Scientific Exploration

New York B

Chair: Richard Sorrenson (Indiana University)
Commentator: Richard Sorrenson (Indiana University)
Jordan Kellman (Princeton University) "Maritime Travel and the Paris Academy of Science"
*Gabriel Finkelstein (Princeton University) "Headless in Kashgar"
Scott Kirsch (University of Oklahoma) "Place and Progress in the Natural and Social Sciences: John Wesley Powell in Washington and the American West"
Stuart McCook (The College of New Jersey) "The Fragile Frontier: Botanical Exploration in Costa Rica, 1880-1940"

Unusual Anatomies and the Politics of Agency

Van Horn B

Chair: *Alice D. Dreger (Michigan State University)
Commentator: Cheryl Chase (Director of the Intersex Society of North America)
Anne Fausto-Sterling (Brown University) "The Saga of Joan/Joan: Using Case Studies to Prove a Point"
Alice Dreger (Michigan State University) "Social Constructivism as Carrot, Stick, Therapy and Guide: An Insider's Observations on the Intersex Rights Movement"

Matter and Spirit in 17th-Century Natural Philosophy

Empire B

Chair: Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Commentator: Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Guido Giglioni (Johns Hopkins University) "Matter, Spiritual Superintendency, and Natural Law in Matthew Hale"
*Margaret J. Osler (University of Calgary) "Final Causes and Seminal Principles in Gassendi and Boyle"
Sarah Hutton (The University of Hertfordshire) "Anne Conway's Theory of Substance"

Practice versus Theory Revisited: The Complex Interface between Physics and Engineering in Late-Victorian England

Empire C

Chair: Jed Buchwald (Dibner Institute)
Commentator: Jed Buchwald (Dibner Institute)
Sungook Hong (Dibner Institute) "Hybrids and Mediators: John Ambrose Fleming and Oliver Heaviside"
Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) "Inductions and Reductions: "Professors" and "practitioners" debate the mathematization of self-induction, 1880-95"
*Nani Clow (Harvard University) "Imperial Science versus "the civilizing engineer": Reexamining the Practice versus Theory debates of 1888-90"
Friday, October 23
12:30 - 1:30 pm

Forum for the History of Science in America Distinguished Scientist Lecture

Hatten S. Yoder, Jr. (Director Emeritus, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) "Funding-Directed Science, Freedom of Choice Lost"

New York B

Friday, October 23
1:30 - 3:10 pm

Seeing and Understanding

Chicago A

Chair: Harold J. Cook (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Theresa Levitt (Harvard University) "Clothing the Naked Eye: The Scientific Photography of François Arago and Jean-Baptiste Biot"
Jutta Schickore (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) "The Microscopic Anatomy of the Retina, 1835-1855"
Tom Seppalainen (University of Pittsburgh) "Canceling the Colors: Hering contra Helmholtz"
Andrew Backe (University of Pittsburgh) "The Origin of John Dewey's Views on the Reflex Arc"

Darwinism and Its Discontents

Chicago B

Chair: Bernard Lightman (York University)
James Strick (Arizona State University) "Rising Young Darwinian Star: A New View of Henry Charlton Bastian, 1860-1870"
Abigail Lustig (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
"Altruism and the possibility of progress in Darwin's Origin of Species and Eliot's Middlemarch"
Richard England (Franklin and Marshall College) "Poisoned Milk, False Science: Scientific Authority in "Genesis and Geology" Debates of the 1880's"
Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University of Belfast) "The "Gorilla Sermons" of Bishop E. W. Barnes: Evolutionism and Religion in Early Twentieth-Century Britain"

The Landscape of Science in 19th Century America

Chicago C

Chair: Keith R. Benson (University of Washington)
Daniel Goldstein (University of Iowa) "The landscape of science in nineteenth-century America"
Jordan D. Marche, II (Indiana University) & Theresa A. Marche (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "A "Distinct Contribution": Gender, Art, and Scientific Illustration in Antebellum America"
Nancy Farm Mannikko (Michigan Technological University) "Scientists or Businessmen? Local Engineering Clubs and Professional Identity During the Gilded Age"
R. J. Heinig (University of Notre Dame) "Consensus, Community, and the Creation of Science as Intellectual Authority in 19th-c. America"

Postwar Scientific Reorientations

New York A

Chair: Lillian Hoddeson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Andrew John Robertson (Harvard University) "The Postwar Introduction of American Automatic Control to Japan: Regeneration, Reorientation, and Reconstruction"
Gary J. Weisel (University of Florida, Gainesville) "Between the Laboratory and Space: Three Visions of Plasma Physics"
Kai Handel (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule) "The Uses and Limits of Theory: From Radar Research to the Invention of the Transistor"

The Methods of Modern Physics

Van Horn A

Chair: Michael Riordan (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Arne Schirrmacher (Deutsches Museum, Research Institute for the History of Science) "Planting in the neighbor's garden: Hilbert's investments in early Göttingen quantum physics"
Abha Sur (MIT) "Control and Collaboration in Science in the Indian Context: Unfolding the Raman-Born Controversy"
Edward MacKinnon (California State University Hayward)"Schwinger's Quantum Field Theory: Trajectory of a Methodology"

Colonialism and the Transfer of Scientific Knowledge

Couteau B

Chair: Ronald Rainger (Texas Tech University)
Shang-Jen Li (Imperial College, University of London) "Perfect Adaptation, the Harmony of Nature, and the Natural History of Parasites: Patrick Manson's Study of Filariasis in China"
Suzanne M. Moon (Cornell University) ""Applying Science" to Colonial Development: Agricultural Experiment and Demonstration in the Netherlands East Indies, c. 1905"
Daniel Hopkins (University of Missouri-Kansas City) "A colonial scientist, the end of the slave trade, and the colonization of West Africa"

Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Empire B

Chair: Joella Yoder (Independent Scholar)
H. Darrel Rutkin (Indiana University) "Toward the Modern Configuration of the Mathematical Disciplines: Christopher Clavius and the Rejection of Astrology"
Noah J. Efron (Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology) "Jews, Natural Philosophy and the Eirenic Impulse in Rudolfine Prague"
Alison Sandman (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Local Knowledge vs. Theoretical Understanding: Navigation as Craft and Science in Early Modern Spain"
Alberto Guillermo Ranea (CONICET, Argentina) "Denis Papin (1647-1712?): National hero, servile technician, or natural philosopher?"

Medical Missions

Empire C

Chair: Rima D. Apple (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Michele Thompson (Southern Connecticut State University) "A Medical Mission: The Vietnamese Quest for Smallpox Vaccine in 1820"
Mark Tummers (Institute for the History of Science, Utrecht University) "The Biochemistry of E. C. Slater"
Colin Talley (Emory University) "Foundations, Government, and the Funding of Research on Multiple Sclerosis in the U.S.A., 1920-1960"
Daniel Todes (Johns Hopkins University) "Data processing in Pavlov's physiology factory"

Friday, October 23
3:30 - 5:30 pm

Nature on Display: Science as Mass Entertainment and Education in Germany, 1880-1914

Chicago A

Chair: Donna Mehos (Independent Scholar)
Commentator: Gregg Mitman (University of Oklahoma)
Andreas Daum (German Historical Institute) "Spectacularizing Nature: The "Scientific Theater" in Berlin ca. 1900"
H. Glenn Penny III (University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign) "Learning to See? German Ethnographic Museums, 1900-1914"
*Lynn K. Nyhart (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Science, Art, and Authenticity in German Natural History Displays"

Comparative Perspectives on Academic-Industrial Relations in 20th-Century Chemistry

Chicago B

Chair: Leo B. Slater (Chemical Heritage Foundation)

Commentator: Seymour Mauskopf (Duke University)
*Jeffrey A. Johnson (Villanova University) "Academic-Industrial Relations and Chemical Careers in Germany, 1909-1939"
*Gerrylyn K. Roberts & Robin L. Mackie (The Open University) "Rapprochement? The Social Background of a Profession in Debate: Academic-Industrial Relations in British Chemistry, 1918-1943"
Nathan M. Brooks (New Mexico State University) "Academic Chemists and the Chemical Industry in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1900-1930"

Cold War American Anthropology

Chicago C

Chair: George W. Stocking (University of Chicago)
Commentator: Curtis Hinsley (Northern Arizona University)
*David Madden (Ohio State University) "From Experts to Social Scientists: The American Anthropologists, 1929-1963"
Willow Powers (University of New Mexico) "The Harvard Study of Values: Mirror for Post-War Anthropology"
Matti Bunzl (University of Chicago) "From Positivism to Intepretivism: Historicizing the Crisis in Anthropology"

The Emergence of Astronomy as an Observational Discipline in the Seventeenth Century

New York A

Chair: Wilbur Applebaum (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Commentator: Bruce Stephenson (Adler Planetarium)
James R. Voelkel (Dibner Institute) "Learning to Observe: The Development of Tycho's Observing Program"
*Andrea Murschel (University of Chicago) "Kepler, Galileo, and the Motivation for a New Theory of Observational Instrumentation"
Voula Saridakis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute) " The Role of Scientific Societies in Legitimizing Astronomical Instrumentation and Observation" Patterns of Patronage in Nineteenth-Century American Science

New York B

Chair: Pamela Henson (Smithsonian Institution)
Commentator: Julie R. Newell (Southern Polytechnic State University)
Robert J. Malone (History of Science Society) ""To Take This Trouble, No Inducement Could be Proposed": Thomas Jefferson and William Dunbar"
Lucy Jayne Kamau (Northeastern Illinois University) "William Maclure and his Clients: The Hazards of Patronage"
*James G. Cassidy (Saint Anselm College) "F. V. Hayden and Spencer Baird: Weaknesses in a Relationship"
Session co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in America

Writing the Lives of Women in Science

Chouteau B

Chair: Joy Harvey (Independent Scholar)
Lee B. Kass (Cornell University) "Fact, Fiction and Faulty Memories: Documenting Barbara McClintock's Life and Work"
Nancy Slack (Russell Sage College) "Grace Pickford: Eminent Scientist, Uncredited Wife and Research Advisor "
*Ann Hibner Koblitz (Arizona State University) "Writing the Lives of Russian 'Women of the Sixties'"
Marilyn B. Ogilvie (University of Oklahoma) "Collective Memory-Collective Forgetting"

Medical and Philosophical Origins of the Human Sciences

Van Horn

Chair: Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech)
Barbara Naddeo (The University of Chicago) "The Science of Man as the Science of Men: Anthropology in the Kingdom of Naples, 1760-1800"
Elizabeth A. Williams (Oklahoma State University) "Faith and Human Science: Reconsidering Anticlericalism in French Medicine and Anthropology"
*Daniela Barberis (The University of Chicago) "Philosophy and the Autonomy of Sociology in Fin-de-Siecle France"
Francesca Bordogna (Northwestern University) "Philosophy and the Human Sciences in the Work of William James: James's 'Temperament Thesis'"

Scholastics Versus Moderns in the Scientific Revolution

Benton

Chair: Roger Ariew (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
Marcus Hellyer (Brandeis University) "What is a Peripatetic?: The Case of the German Jesuits"
Helen Hattab (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) "From Teleology to Mechanism: The Jesuits, Basso and Descartes on Natural Causation"
Douglas Jesseph (North Carolina State University) "Hobbes, the Jesuits, and Mathematical Method"
*Roger Ariew (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) "Descartes, the Jesuits, and the Scotists"

Friday, October 23
7:30 - 9:00pm

Caught in the Web: Teaching History of Science with New Technologies

Empire B

Chair: *Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College)
Commentator: Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College)
E. Boyles, M. Largent & S. Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota) "Enhancing a Course Using the WWW"
J. Cain (University College London) "Have I Wasted my Summer on this Web Site?"
S. J. Livesey (University of Oklahoma) "Commbase: Collective Biography and Teaching the Middle Ages"
Kathy Ketchum & Jan Sigler (Paseo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts) "WGBH's Science Odssesy: Collaborative high school teaching of evolution"

Last Resort by Jack D. Pressman: Appraisal and Appreciation

Empire C

Chair: Deborah Coon (University of New Hampshire)
*Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania) "Scope and Method" Context"
Caroline Acker (Carnegie Mellon University) "Toward the Psychology of Adjustment"
Johannes Pols (Harvard University) "Biologizing Psychology"
Session co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Human Science

John Lankford's American Astronomy: A Roundtable Discussion

Empire A

Chair: *Marc Rothenberg (Smithsonian Institution)
Commentator: John Lankford (Kansas State University)
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (Encyclopaedia Brittanica): "TBA"
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell (Smithsonian Institution) "Cohorts, Elites and Communities: A View of Lankford's American Astronomy"
David Strauss (Kalamazoo College) "Reflections on Lankford's American Astronomy"

Focus on Teaching Non-Historians (Roundtable)

Chouteau A

Chair: Garland Allen (Washington University)
Richard Beyler (Portland State University) "Teaching Outside the Comfort Zone of One's Disciplinary Expertise"
Paul Farber (Oregon State University) "General Biology and the Historical Approach"
Naomi Oreskes (University of California, San Diego) "Teaching Geology as Historically Contextualized Ideas and Practices"
*David Spanagel (Emerson College) "Mathematics, Science, Ethics and Values, All Rolled Into One"

Art as Science

Chouteau B

Chair: William Ashworth (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Jean A. Givens (University of Connecticut) "Drawn from Life: Nature, Observation, and Image-Making in Gothic Art"
*Karen M. Reeds (Independent Scholar) "Portraying Plants Circa 1500: A Technique that Failed"
*Cynthia M. Pyle (New York University) "Scientific Illustration Circa 1600: Drawing, Woodcut and Copper Plate"

Saturday, October 24
9:00 - 11:45 am

Work and Waste: Historical and Historiographical Considerations

Chicago A

Chair: Jennifer Alexander (University of Washington)
Commentator: M. Norton Wise (Princeton University)
William J. Ashworth (University of Liverpool) "'Between the Trader and the Public': Defining Measures and Markets in 18th-century England"
Timothy L. Alborn (Harvard University) "Wasted Work: Doctors and Bodies in Early Victorian Life Insurance"
*Elizabeth Green Musselman (Indiana University) "Work,Waste, and Body Management in 19th-century British Natural Philosophy"
Robert M. Brain (Harvard University) "The Chaos of Value-Standards: Workers, Wastrels, and Webers in Wilhelmine Germany"

Openness and Secrecy in Early Modern Knowledge Traditions

Chicago B

Chair: William R. Newman (Indiana University)
Commentator: Bruce T. Moran (University of Nevada, Reno)
*Pamela O. Long (Independent Scholar) "Openness and Secrecy in the "Occult" Traditions of Early Modern Europe"
Jole Shackelford (University of Minnesota) "Documenting the Factual and Artifactual: Ole Worm and Public Knowledge"
Mary E. Fissell (Johns Hopkins University) "Hairy Women, Naked Truths, and the Secrets of Nature: Gendering Knowledge in Early Modern English Popular Medicine"

Modeling Practices and Explanatory Strategies in Twentieth Century Science

Chicago C

Chair: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University)
Commentator: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University)
Eric Francoeur (Ecole des Mines, Paris) "Structures and Constraints: Mechanical Molecular Models in Chemistry"
Angela Creager (Princeton University) "Models and Materials in Virus Research, 1930-1960"
*David Aubin (CRHST, La Villette) "From Catastrophe to Chaos: Topology and Modeling, 1960-1975"

Scientific and Political Negotiations of Radiation Safety Issues

New York A

Chair: Robert Proctor (Pennsylvania State University)
Commentator: Karen Rader (Sarah Lawrence College)
Gilbert Whittemore (Independent Scholar) "Postwar Establishment of Plutonium Exposure Limits"
Joshua Silverman (Carnegie Mellon University) "Risk Assessment and Public Relations in Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing"
*Ioanna Semendeferi (University of Minnesota) "Exploiting Uncertainty in Radiation Limits: Monticello Dissenters, Health Physicists, and the Civilian Nuclear Power Debate"
Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania) "The Repatriation of Atomic Bomb Victim Body Parts to Japan: Natural Objects and Diplomacy"

Scientific Encounters between East Asia and "the West"

New York B

Chair: Shigehisa Kuriyama (International Research Council for Japanese Studies)
Commentator: Daniel Bays (University of Kansas, Lawrence)
Hsiu-Yun Wang (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Exoticism, the Body, and Missionary Medicine: American Women Medical Missionaries in China, 1875-1949"
*Fa-Ti Fan (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "What is a Mo?: Nineteenth-century Western Research into Chinese Literature on Natural History"
Hsian-Lin Lei (University of Chicago) "From Changshan to a New Antimalarial Drug: Re-Networking Chinese Drugs and Excluding Traditional Doctors"
Kae Takarabe (Nagoya University) "Samurai at the Smithsonian: First Japanese Visitors to Natural History Museums in the U.S."

Science and Democracy in Postwar America

Chouteau B

Chair: David Hollinger (University of California, Berkeley)
Commentator: Jessica Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)
*S.M. Amadae (University of California,Berkeley) "From Deweyan public sphere democracy to Arrovian market democracy"
Zuoyue Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Banking on technological skepticism: American scientists and public policy during the Cold War"
*Peter J. Westwick (University of California, Berkeley) "Secret science: A classified community and the national labs"
David Kaiser (Harvard University) "Berkeley Physics in the Fifties: Loyal Theorists and Appropriate Assignments"
Session co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in America

The Concept of Genetic Disease

Empire B

Chair: Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania)
Commentator: Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania)
*David Magnus (University of Pennsylvania) "The Development of the Concept of Genetic Disease"
Diane Paul (University of Massachusetts, Boston) "PKU and the Concept of Genetic Disease"
Erika Wojciuk (Princeton University) "Forming the Gordian Knot: The establishment of a genetic etiology for Tourette syndrome, 1960s-1990s"
Robert Proctor (Pennsylvania State University): "The Fertile Face of Fascism: The Forgotten Breakthroughs of Nazi Cancer Research"

Gender in the Theory and Practice of Science

Empire C

Chair: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota)
Commentator: Andrea Woody (University of Washington)
*Cherilyn Lacy (Hartwick College) "Gender and the Limits of Medical Science in Late Nineteenth-century France"
Tracy Teslow (University of Chicago) "Gendered Strategies, Gendered Knowledge: Exhibiting the Anthropology of Race"
Kristina Rolin (University of Helsinki) "Can Gender Ideologies Influence Physical Sciences?"

Saturday, October 24
1:30 - 3:10 pm

19th Century German Science

Chicago A

Chair: Frederick Gregory (University of Florida)
Diane Greco (Dibner Institute) "Visibility and Transparency in Terrestial Magnetism, 1818-1838"
John Simmons Ceccatti (University of Chicago) "Traditional skills and innovative techniques in the brewery: "Pure yeast culture" and the transformation of brewing practices in Germany at the end of the 19th century"
Sarah Jansen (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science) "The Emergence of the "Insect Pest" as "Cause" for Plant Diseases in Germany, 1880-1920: The Relationship between Etiology, Representation, and Intervention"
Anne Mylott (Indiana University) "Sex and the Single Pollen Cell"

The Business of Science & Technology in the US

Chicago B

Chair: Paul Theerman (Smithsonian Institution)
Larry Owens (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "Sam Prescott's Search for the "Perfect Cup of Coffee": MIT and the Culture of Science in the 1920s"
Edward J. Vinarcik (Ford Motor Company) "Henry Ford's Aviation Ventures"
Peder Anker (Harvard Universtiy) "History of Ecology and Aviation Technologies"
Emily Thompson (University of Pennsylvania) "Science, Technology and the Meaning of Noise in 20th-c. America"

Psychology and Psychological Dimensions in Science

Chicago C

Chair: C. Stewart Gillmore (Wesleyan University/Stanford University)
Judy Johns Schloegel and Henning Schmidgen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) "Microorganisms as Psychological Objects, 1887-1909"
Jamie Cohen-Cole (Princeton University) "Cognitive Psychology and the (A)Political Ideology of Cold War Science"
Hunter Crowther-Heyck (Johns Hopkins University) "Laboratories of the Mind: RAND's SRL and Carnegie Tech's Laboratory for Organizational Behavior"
Nadine Weidman (Harvard University) "The Aggression Debate and the Ethics of Science Popularization"

Science Abroad

New York A

Chair: D. Graham Burnett (Columbia University)
Frans van Lunteren (Institute for the History of Science, Utrecht University) "Humboldtian ideals and practical benefits: the foundation of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute"
Juliette Chung (Department of History, University of Chicago) "A Comparative Study of the Structure of Disciplinary Deployment and Eugenics in China"
Frederick R. Davis (Yale School of Medicine) "Winston Churchill's Bowl of Turtle Soup: Archie Carr and the Development of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation and Conservation Biology"

The Principles of Physics

New York B

Chair: Anita Guerrini (University of California, Santa Barbara)
James Evans (University of Puget Sound) "A Chapter from the General History of Irony: The Least-Action Principle from Maupertuis to General Relativity"
Michael D. Gordin (Harvard University) "Making Newtons: Mendeleev, Metrology, and the Chemical Ether"
Edward Jurkowitz (University of Illinois at Chicago) "Max Planck's Strategies for Investigating the Micro-world"
Bert Theunissen (Institute for the History of Science, Utrecht University) "H. A. Lorentz' views on science"

The Historiography of the Scientific Revolution

Chouteau B

Chair: Alan Shapiro (University of Minnesota)
H. Floris Cohen (University of Twente) "The Legitimation of Early Modern Science: An Attempt at Conceptual Cleansing"
Jean De Groot (Catholic University of America)"The Method of Aristotelian Statics in Galileo's Two New Sciences"
Edward B. Davis (Messiah College) "Boyling Mad? On Editing a New Edition of Robert Boyle's Works"
Peter Murray Jones and Linda Ehrsam Voights (Kings College, Cambridge) "A New Research Tool for Ancient and Medieval Science: The Electronic Thorndike Kibre Project"

Law & Science

Empire B

Chair: Ed Larson (University of Georgia)
Cassandra Pinnick (Western Kentucky University) "Linking Law and Science"
Tal Golan (Dibner Institute) "Why we need a new history of science in the courts"
R. Andre Wakefield (University of Chicago) "Police Chemistry"

American Scientific Institutions and Their Context

Empire C

Chair: Julie Newell (Southern Polytechnic State University)
Gary Kroll (University of Oklahoma) "The Explorers Club and the American Search for New Frontiers"
Hae-Gyung Geong (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Building a Bureaucracy in the Field: The Bureau of Entomology and Insect Control"
Stephen Bromage (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "William Laurence and the Creation of Popular Consensus for Postwar Science"
Melody R. Herr (Johns Hopkins University) "Private Meanings and Public Images: Archaeologists as Historians"

Saturday, October 24
3:30 - 5:30 pm

Investigations of Scientific Sprawl: Coping with the Multi-Institutional Research Project

Chicago A

Chair: Joan Warnow-Blewett (American Institute of Physics)
Commentator: Dan Kevles (California Institute of Technology)
John Krige (Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques) "Constructing Credibility at/of CERN: The Boson Bonanza"
Wesley Schrum (Louisiana State University) and Ivan Chompalov "A Typology of Multi-Institutional Collaborations in Science"
*Joel Genuth (American Institute of Physics) "Scientific Opportunities and the Structure of Multi-Institutional Collaborations"

Competition, Collaboration, and the Fight for Resources: Machines in High Energy Physics

Chicago B

Chair: Allan Franklin (University of Colorado)
Commentator: Michael Riordan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Karl Hall (Harvard University) "How to Build a "Lawrence machine," Soviet-style"
*Elizabeth S. Paris (University of Pittsburgh) "Lord of the Rings: SLAC, CEA, the AEC, and the Fight to Build the First U.S. Electron-Positron Collider"
Lillian Hoddeson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "Collaboration, Competition, and Disjunction at The Superconducting Super Colliders Frontier Outpost in Berkeley, 1983-1988"

Classification and Demarcation in 19th and 20th Century Science

Chicago C

Chair: *John Carson (University of Michigan)
Commentator: John Carson (University of Michigan)
Constance Malpas (History of Science Society) "The History of Pseudencéphale, or, How one Head Lost its Mind"
*Paul Lucier (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) "The Strange Case of the Albert Mineral: Science, Industry, Law and the Production of Knowledge"
Michael Dennis (Cornell University) "Knowledge and Secrecy Revisited: Classified Knowledge in Cold War America"

Why Corn?: Studies of a Model Organism at the Crossroads of 20th Century Science, Technology, and Agriculture

New York A

Chair: Deborah Fitzgerald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Commentator: Deborah Fitzgerald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
*Kim Kleinman (Missouri Botanical Garden/Webster University) "Edgar Anderson: Interdisciplinary Authority on What Was NOT Known about Corn"
Nathaniel Comfort (Center for History of Recent Science, George Washington University) "Making Sense of McClintock's Studies of the Races of Maize"
Mark S. Lesney (Center for History of Recent Science, George Washington University) "Managing Monocots, Making Maize: Biotechnology from A to Zea"

The Artist as Scientist in Early Modern Europe

New York B

Chair: Albert Van Helden (Rice University)
Commentator: *Eileen Reeves (Princeton University)
Pamela H. Smith (Pomona College) "Nature, Naturalism, Natural Philosophy: Artisans and Realism in Early Modern Europe"
Mary J. Henninger-Voss (Princeton University) "Beyond Perspective: Theaters of Art and Nature"
Paula Findlen (Stanford University) "Representing Nature: The Painting of Knowledge in Early Modern Italy"

Race & US Science

Empire A

Chair: Michael M. Sokal (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Brad D. Hume (Indiana University) "Words, Blood, and Property: Lewis Henry Morgan's Kinship System and the Doctrine of Indigenous Republicanism"
John P. Jackson (Florida State University) "Science for Segregation: Wesley C. George, Carleton Putnam and the Biology of the Race Problem"
Ido Oren (University of Minnesota) "A Skeleton in the Closet of American Political Science: Disciplinary Sympathy Toward Nazism"

Women, Gender and Science in Early Modern Europe

Chouteau B

Chair: *Andrea Rusnock (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Commentator: Mary Terrall (University of California, Los Angeles)
Deborah Harkness (University of California-Davis) "From a Practical Standpoint: Rethinking Women's Participation in Early Modern Science and Medicine"
Lisa T. Sarasohn (Oregon State University) "Margaret Cavendish's Role as Patron"
Estelle Cohen (Harvard University) "Arguing about Ovaries in the Eighteenth Century"

Perspectives on Science

Empire B

Chair: Everett Mendelsohn (Harvard University)
Alan Rauch (Georgia Institute of Technology) "'Send me Annihilation' as Soon as you Can: The Making of Sir David Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia"
B. Allart (Utrecht University) "Perspectives on science and its social significance in the Netherlands, 1840-1920"
Lodewijk C. Palm (Institute for the History of Science - University of Utrecht) "The history of science in the Netherlands: new trends and challenges"

Sunday, October 25
9:00 - 11:45 am

The Culture of Technology in East Germany: From Technical Standards to Computer Mania

Chicago A

Chair: Paul Josephson (University of New Hampshire)

Commentator: Paul Josephson (University of New Hampshire)
Ray Stokes (University of Glasgow) "Building the Virtual Wall: Technical Standards & German Technological Culture, 1945-1962"
Dolores Augustine (St. Johns University) "The Role of Technical Experts in the Early East German Semi-conductor Industry: Innovators, System Critics or Drones?"
*Kristie Macrakis (Michigan State University) "Computers and Espionage in East Germany"

Expertise and Authority in Early Modern Science and Medicine

Chicago B

Chair: Robert Martensen (University of Kansas Medical Center)
*Eric H. Ash (Princeton University) "Experience, Expertise, and Elizabethan Arctic Navigation "
Matthew L. Jones (Harvard University) "Effacing Expertise: Descartes' Geometry as Spiritual Exercise"
Robert Goulding (St. Hugh's College, Oxford) "Expertise versus Scholarship: The 1570 Lectures of Henry Savile at Oxford"
Lynda Stephenson Payne (Oberlin College) "'It was asked him what the splene was': Galenic anatomy and claims for expertise, authority, and morality, among early-modern English surgeons"
Session co-organized by Deborah Harkness (University of California, Davis)

American Life Sciences

Chicago C

Chair: Sylvia McGrath (SF Austin State University)
Vincent Wan (University of Chicago) "The Adaptive Landscape: an Evolving Metaphor"
Kelly Hamilton (Saint Mary's College)"Edward Stuart Russell and Zoological Research at the Lowestoft Laboratory"
George Joseph (Yale University) "Physiologists Face 'Going Molecular': Professional Identity and Professional Anxiety in Mid-Twentieth Century American Physiology"

Early Modern Science

New York A

Chair: Alan Cottrell (Cottey College)
Glen Cooper (Columbia University) "Galen's Astronomical Theory of the Critical Days"
Bernardo Jefferson de Oliveira (Federal University of Minas Gerais) "The Skeptical Evaluation of Teché and the Bacon' Science"
Susan McMahon (University of Alberta) "The Politics of Botany: John Ray's Catalogus Cantabrigium (1660)"

Romantic Science and Its Politics

New York B

Chair: Mark Finlay (Armstrong Atlantic State University)
Michael S. Reidy (University of Minnesota)"The Flux and Reflux of Humboldtian Science"
Karen E. Geraghty (University of Chicago) "Romanticism and the Vienna Medical School of the Nineteenth Century"
Michael Morse (University of Chicago) "Celts, Early Romantics, and the Peopling of Britain"
Alan D. Krinsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Let Them Eat Horsemeat!: Politics, Food Sciences, and Dietary Practices in Nineteenth-Century France"

The History of Mathematics

Chouteau B

Chair: Helena Pycior (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
James R. Fleming (Colby College) "Joseph Fourier and the "Greenhouse Effect""
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings (Iowa State University) "Analysis and Synthesis in John Playfair's Elements of Geometry"
Shelley Costa (Cornell University) "Mathematics, gender and the periodical press in 18th-c. England"

The RAND Corporation and the Ambitious Career of Systems Analysis, 1945-1975

Empire B

Chair: Martin Collins (National Air and Space Museum)
Commentator: Everett Mendelsohn (Harvard University)
Martin Collins (National Air and Space Museum) "Weapons and 'Weak' States: RAND, the Air Force, and the Origins of Systems Analysis, 1945-1950"
*Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi (Wesleyan University) "'Military Planning in an Uncertain World': Herman Kahn's 1955 lectures on systems analysis"
David Jardini (Carnegie Mellon University) "Systems Science on the Urban Frontier: The New York City-RAND Institute, 1967-1975"

Naturalists in the Twentieth Century

Empire C

Chair: Mark Barrow (Virginia Tech)
Commentator: Mark Barrow (Virginia Tech)
Mark Largent (University of Minnesota) "Vernon Kellogg and the Science of Bionomics, 1900-1915"
Juan Ilerbaig (University of Minnesota) "Not "things" but processes: C. C. Adams and the Methodological Reformation of Natural History"
*Christian C. Young (Mount Angel Seminary) "Surveys, Studies, and Standardization: Methods and Ideals in Field Biology in the Early Twentieth Century"

The Psychical & the Subjective

Empire A

Chair: Deborah Coon (University of New Hampshire)
Joseph Wachelder (University of Maastricht) "Subjective Visual Phenomena and the "Optical" Revolution around 1830"
Andrea Williams-Wan (University of Chicago) "The Science of Survival: Sir Oliver Lodge and Psychical Research"
Daniel Friedman (St. Clare's Hospital) "Guarding Objectivity: Langmuir's Pathological Science Colloquium"

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