Meeting Program
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Thursday, November
4
Plenary Session
5:00-7:00 p.m.
75 years of HSS: Perspectives from SHOT, PSA, SSSS, & BSHS
Ballroom (17)
Terry S. Reynolds, President, SHOT, 1998-2000,
and Bruce E. Seely, Executive Secretary, SHOT, 1990-1996,
Parent or Older Sibling?: The History of Science Society and the Founding
of the Society for the History of Technology
Richard Jeffrey, President, PSA, The Career
of Logical Empiricism
Sheila Jasanoff, President, SSSS, Reconstructing
the Past, Constructing the Present: Can Science Studies and History of
Science Live Happily Ever After?
Ludmilla Jordanova, President, BSHS, Is there
an Anglo-American Historiography of Science?
Sesssion Organizers: Frederick Gregory, University of
Florida, and Edith Dudley Sylla, North Carolina State University
Friday, November
5
9:00-11:45 a.m.
*indicates
session organizer(s)
Roots of the History of Science
Frick (CL)
Tore Frangsmyr, Uppsala
University, History of Science as History of Civilization: George
Sarton's Program
Maura C. Flannery, St. John's
University, Science and Religion: Reconsidering the Work of Lynn
White, Jr.
Adam J. Foster, University
of Toronto, In Dilthey's Shadow: Hermeneutics and the History and
Philosophy of Science
I.B. Cohen, Harvard University, Context and Construction: Allies
of the History of Science Old and New
Commentator: Ed Grant, Indiana University
Chair: Ed Grant, Indiana University
Experimental and Conceptual Tools in the Development of Organic
Chemistry
Room D (CL)
*Melvyn C. Usselman, University
of Western Ontario, Liebig's "Kaliapparat" and the Elemental Analysis
of Organic Compounds: A Reconstruction and Reevaluation
*Alan J. Rocke, Case Western
Reserve University, Organic Analysis in France: Apparatus, Method,
Theory, and Style
Ursula Klein, Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Paper-tools and the Formation of a New
Experimental Culture in 19th-century Chemistry
Trevor Levere, University
of Toronto, Handling and Conceptualizing Airs around 1800
Commentator: Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University
Chair: Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University
Corruption, Fraud, and Misconduct in American Science
Room A (CL)
*Paul Lucier, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, The Great California Oil Swindle: Silliman,
Whitney, and the Ethics of Scientific Consulting
Tal Golan, Dibner Institute
for the History of Science and Technology, The Common Liar, the Damned
Liar, and the Scientific Expert: Nineteenth Century Debates Concerning
Scientific Expert Testimony
Claudia Clark, Central Michigan
University, "Let Me Give You an Unbiased Opinion": A Case Study of
Corporate-sponsored Industrial Health Researchers Deceiving Radium
Daniel J. Kevles, California
Institute of Technology, The Baltimore Case: Obligations, Judgment,
and Data
Chair: *Paul Lucier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bridging the Disciplinary Divide: Modelling and the Interactions
Between Economics and the Sciences in the Twentieth Century
Phipps (CL)
Marcel Boumans, University
of Amsterdam, The Economic World in Which We Live
*Suman Seth, Princeton University,
Bulls, Bears and Brownian Motion: Physics and the Rationality of Stock-Market
Pricing
Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College,
Controlling Gunfire: Inventory and Expectations with the Exponentially
Weighted Moving Average
Phillip Mirowski, University
of Notre Dame, From Quantum Mechanics to Cyborgs: John von Neumann
and 20th Century Economics
Commentator: Mary Morgan, London School of Economics
Chair: Mary Morgan, London School of Economics
Theory and Practice in Early Modern Navigation
Parlor E/F (17)
Lesley B. Cormack, University
of Alberta, Edward Wright and Thomas Harriot: The Case for Navigation
as a Transformative Site for the Scientific Revolution
Alison D. Sandman, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Who Marks the X?: Theoreticians vs. Practitioners
in the Construction of Sea Charts in 16th-century Spain
*Eric H. Ash, Princeton University,
Secants and Sailors: Mathematical Expertise and the Art of Navigation
in Elizabethan England
Roxani E. Margariti, Princeton
University, Navigational Encounters: Theory and Practice of Indian
Ocean Navigation by Arabs, Ottomans and Portuguese in the 16th Century
Commentator: Peter Dear, Cornell University
Chair: Peter Dear, Cornell University
All God's Creatures: Religion and Science in Natural History
Allegheny (17)
*Monique Bourque, University
of Pennsylvania, The 'Fabrick of Insects' and the 'Omnipotence of
God': Nature as a Reflection of Divine Intention in the Works of Thomas
Moffett
Clara Pinto-Correia,
Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Portugal),
God Under the Lens
Robert J. Richards, University
of Chicago, The God of the Origin: Darwin's Romantic Transformation
of Nature
Commentator: Paula Findlen, Stanford University
Chair: Paula Findlen, Stanford University
Scientific Texts, Political Texture: Post-Cold War Perspectives
on Soviet Science
Monongahela (17)
Kirill O. Rossianov, Institute
for History of Science and Technology, Moscow, Traveling with Bolsheviks:
Field Work, International Expeditions, and their Patrons in the 1920s
Karl Hall, Harvard University,
Tests of Strength: Soviet Physics and Industry during the First Five Year
Plan
*Alexei B. Kojevnikov,
American Institute of Physics, Freedom, Collectivism, and Quasiparticles:
Social Metaphors in Quantum Physics
*Slava Gerovitch, Massachussetts
Institute of Technology, Speaking Cybernetically: The Discourse of
Objectivity in the Post-Stalin Era
Commentator: Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona
Chair: Loren Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics From the 1930s
Sky (17)
Dong-Won Kim, Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology, Y. Nishina and the Japanese
Physics Community in the 1930s
Matthew Frank, University of
Chicago, What Mathematics owes to Quantum Mechanics: The work of
von Neumann, 1927-1932
Andris V. Krumins, Institute
for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Symmetry,
Conservation Laws, and Nuclear Interactions
Robert G. Arns, University of
Vermont, The Neutrinos: Conjectures in Search of Evidence
Kent W. Staley, Arkansas State
University, Lost Origins of the Third Generation of Quarks: Philosophy,
Theory, and Experiment
Chair: Cassandra L. Pinnick, Western Kentucky University
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Forum for the History of Science in America Distinguished Historian
Lecture
Urban (17)
Charles Weiner, MIT, Shifting the Focus in History of American
Science: An Eyewitness Account
1:30-3:10 p.m.
*indicates session organizer(s)
The Politics of Cancellation: Recent Science, the Public Policy
Process, and Organized Protest
Room A (CL)
Diana P. Hoyt, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, The Politics of Monkey Business: How it
Came to Be that NASA Abandoned the Bion Project
Victoria P. Friedensen, National
Academy of Engineering, Translating Risk: Public Protest of Technologies
for Space Exploration
Michael N.M.I. Riordan, Institute
for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, The Termination
of the Superconducting Super Collider
Commentator: Teresa L. Kraus, Federal Aviation Authority
Chair: *Roger D. Launius, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Building a Better American: Eugenics and Middle-Class Culture
in the Progressive Era
Frick (CL)
*Matthew Pratt Guterl, Rutgers
University, Homo Albus: Science, War, Middle-Class Patriotism,
and the Emergence of Optic Whiteness
Janet C. Olson, Northwestern
University Library, A Fantasy of Magazine Science: American
Popular Magazines and the Eugenics Movement, 1900-1924
Tanya Hart, Yale University,
Black and Italian Infant Mortality in New York City, 1915-1924
Commentator: Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut
State University
Chair: JoAnne Brown, The Johns Hopkins University
Ecology and Environment
Parlor E/F (17)
Maureen A. McCormick, University
of Oklahoma, The Intersection of Environmental Determinism and Reproductive
Limits in Frank Fraser Darlings Ecology
Thomas Potthast, Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, Origins and Obstacles of Bioethics:
Ecologists and Morals in Germany as Compared to North America, 1930-1960
Gale E. Christianson, Indiana
State University, From Benevolence to Menace: The Scientific Biography
of Global Warming
Jens Lachmund, Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, Maps, Biotopes and the City:
Urban Bio-Ecological Mapping in Germany, 1970-1998
Chair: Robert J. Malone, History of Science Society
Images of Human Nature
Sky (17)
Kathleen M. Crowther-Heyck,
Johns Hopkins University, Fetal Positions: Embryology and Eschatology
in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Joseph M. Gabriel, Rutgers
University, "The Cocaine Nigger Sure is Hard to Kill": Sex, Medicine,
and the Racial Politics of Cocaine, 1880- 1914
Susan A. Miller, University
of Pennsylvania, 'She Knows She is Master': Eugenics and the Camp
Fire Girls
Greg J. Downey, Johns Hopkins
University, Embodying Information: Telegraph Messenger Boys as both
Technologies and Agents
Chair: Sylvia McGrath, SF Austin State University
Negotiating the Boundaries of Mind and Machine
Allegheny (17)
Otniel E. Dror, Getty Research
Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, The Clog in
the Machine: Emotion and Disorder in the Laboratory and Clinic
David E. Millett and Cornelius Borck,
University of Chicago and Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science, Navigating the sea of brain waves: Electroencephalography
in the 1930s and 1940s
Tara H. Abraham, University
of Toronto, Physio(logical) Circuits: The Intellectual Origins of
the McCulloch-Pitts Neural Networks
Katharine Wright, University
of Toronto, Cybernetics and the Politics of Knowledge
Chair: Michael M. Sokal, National Science Foundation
Localization of Scientific Knowledge
Room D (CL)
Margaret Meredith, University
of California, San Diego, How Knowledge Travels: Collaboration and
Credit in Early American Natural Historical Inquiry
Maria M. Lopes and Silvia Fernanda
de Mendonca Figueiroa, Instituto Geociencias-Universidade de Campinas-
UNICAMP, Natural Sciences in Brazil: Local Aspects of the Mondializationof
Sciences in the 19th Century
Andrew Zimmerman, Columbia
University, Nature and Knowledge-Power at the Hamburg Colonial Institute
Mina Kleiche, Université
Paris7-CNRS (France), To Convert the Morocco into a Vast Orchard:
To Introduce New Agricultural Methods from California to Morocco During
the 1930s
Chair: Keith R. Benson, University of Washington
Interconnections in 18th-century Science
Monongahela (17)
Alexandra V. Bekasova, Institute
for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
"In Search for Sciences": Russian Students in European Universities
at the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Carl Frangsmyr, Uppsala
University, Culture and Climate: A Swedish 18th-century Discussion
Jeff Loveland, University
of Cincinnati, Did Buffon Copy Price?: When Bayesian Results are
not Necessarily Bayesian
Henk Kubbinga, University
of Groningen, Laplace and the Rise of Molecularism
Chair: Joan Richards, Brown University
Science, Technology, Industry and Universities
Phipps (CL)
Jean-Francois Auger, Centre
interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie,
Toward a History of University, Industry and Government Relations: Contractual
Research in Canadian Universities
Scott G. Knowles, Johns Hopkins
University, The Symbol of Safety: Underwriters Laboratories
and the Rise of Consumer Product-Testing in the United States, 1903-1917
Peter D. Reffell, University
of Leeds, Sciences of Management, Technologies of Organisation: Humans
and Machines in the Early Development of the Computer in the US 1900-1930
Thomas C. Lassman, Johns
Hopkins University, University-Industry Relations in Pittsburgh:
Edward Condon and the Rebirth of Industrial Research at Westinghouse,
1937-1945
Chair: Sungook Hong, Victoria College
3:30-5:30 p.m.
*indicates session organizer(s)
The Late, Great Scientific Revolution
Room A (CL)
Andrew Cunningham, University
of Cambridge, The Success of the Scientific Revolution
*Margaret J. Osler, University
of Calgary, The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution
J.E. McGuire, University
of Pittsburgh, Capturing the Past to Seize the Future: Tradition
and the Emergence of the New Science
Commentator: Robert S. Westman, University of California,
San Diego
Chair: Robert S. Westman, University of California, San
Diego
Gender and Science: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Frick (CL)
Ann Hibner Kolbitz, Arizona
State University, Transnational Studies of Gender & Science:
Toward a Broader Perspective
Mary F. Singleton and Pnina G.
Abir Am, University of California, Berkeley, Leadership and
Gender in Science from Margaret Thatcher to Kalyani: British and Foreign
Female Progeny of Nobel Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin
*Abha Sur, MIT, Ordinary/Extraordinay:
Indias First Women Physicists
Commentator: Andrea Rusnock, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chair: Andrea Rusnock, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Personal Identity and Scientific Practice
Sky (17)
*Leo B. Slater, Chemical
Heritage Foundation, A Career in Steroid Chemistry: Percy Lavon Julian
and the Intersections of Science, Business, and Identity
David C. Brock, Princeton University,
Neurasthenia and the Ruthless Discipline of Measuring Physics: A.A.
Michelsons Confrontation with the Values of Precisi
Ralph R. Hamerla, Case Western
Reserve University, Laboratory Practice and Edward Morleys
Personal Identity, 1881-1895
Carsten Reinhardt, University
of Regensburg, Reinventing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Chemistry:
Herbert S. Gutowsky Between Disciplines and Identities, 1948-1968
Chair: *Leo B Slater, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Reconsidering the Amateurs in Science
Allegheny (17)
John T. Spaight, Cornell
University, Redrawing the Boundaries: On the Usefulness of the Terms
Amateur and Professional in Describing Eighteenth-Century Astronomy
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Universities
of Leeds and Sheffield, UK, A Varied Stable: The Multiplicity of
Victorian Amateur Natural History Practices
*Thomas R. Williams, Rice
University, The Evolution of Amateur Astronomy in the United States
in the Twentieth Century
Commentator: Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
Chair: Marc Rothenberg, Smithsonian Institution
Real Science Wars: New Approaches to a Classic Issue
Room D (CL)
Brett D. Steele, University
of California, Los Angeles, Why the Scientific Revolution was so
Revolutionary: Mechanics and the Mechanization of Early Modern Military
Culture
Mary J. Henninger-Voss, Princeton
University, The Arsenal as a House of Experiment
*Michael A Dennis, Cornell
University, Gone to War: Henry Guerlac at the Radiation Laboratory
Commentator: Pamela O. Long, Independent Scholar
Chair: Michael A. Dennis, Cornell University
On the Importance of Having Standards
Phipps (CL
*Amy Slaton, Drexel University,
Materials Standards for Industry and the Obstacle of Scientific Fixity
Susan Lindee, University of
Pennsylvania, Squashed Spiders: The Standardization and Medicalization
of the Human Chromosomes, 1959-1965
*Arne Hessenbruch, Dibner
Institute, Biological, Physical, Technical Standards: What do They
Have in Common?
Chair and Commentator: Angela Creager, Princeton University
The Same and Not the Same: Changing Theory and Representational
Inertia in Chemical Models, 1857-1940
Parlor E/F (17)
Christopher J. Ritter, University
of California, Berkeley, The Impulse to Visualize and Meaning-in-Practice:
Chemical Models, 1857-1874
*Peter J. Ramberg, Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, Representational and Exemplary
Models in Stereochemistry, 1874-1900
Eric Francoeur, Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, From physical to virtual models:
the origins of interactive molecular graphics
Chair and Commentator: Stephen J. Weininger, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
Writing and Reading a Scientific Classic: Making Sense of Maxwells
"Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism"
Monongahela (17)
*Andrew C. Warwick, Imperial
College, From Maxwells "Treatise" to the Cambridge
Maxwellians
Bruce J. Hunt, University of
Texas, Taking the Measure of Maxwells "Treatise"
Ronald Anderson, Boston
College, Exploring the Mathematical Strategies of Maxwells
"Treatise"
Chair and Commentator: Jed Z. Buchwald, Dibner Institute
for the History of Science and Technology
7:30-9:00 p.m.
*indicates session organizer(s)
Beyond the Term Paper: Assigning and Assessing Non-Traditional
Projects in the History of Science
Allegheny (17)
Cathy Gorn, National History
Day, Evaluating National History Day Projects
James Evans, University of
Puget Sound, Hands-On Projects in Pre-Modern Astronomy
Timothy Lenoir, Stanford
University, Science and Technology in the Making (STIM): Media-Intensive
Tools for Teaching and Research
Joseph N Tatarewicz, University
of Maryland Baltimore County, Alternative Literary Forms of HistoryConceiving,
Executing, and Evaluating
Chairs: *Lisa Rosner, Richard Stockton College and Diane Lashinsky
Historicizing Intelligence: A Critical Appraisal of Leila Zenderlands
Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins
of American Intelligence Testing
Parlor E/F (17)
Session sponsored by the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences
John Carson, University of
Michigan, From the Pathological to the Normal: Zenderland on Goddard
and the Meanings of Intelligence in America
Hans Pols, Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Henry Herbert Goddard, Feeblemindedness,
and the Debate on Citizenship
Garland E. Allen, Washington
University, Feeblemindedness and the Biology of Criminality: The
Wedding of Goddards Criminal Imbecile and Eugenics in the Municipal
Court of Chicago
Commentator: Leila Zenderland, California State UniversityFullerton
Chair: Garland E. Allen, Washington University
Session organized by John P. Jackson, University of ColoradoBoulder
Workshop on Writing in Science: Its Past and Future
Phipps (CL)
Alexander J. Boese, University
of California, San Diego, The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: Science and
Enlightenment in Antebellum America
Robert Hendrick, St. Johns
University, "Coating the Edge of the Cup": The Scientist
as Popularizer in Fin-de-Siècle France
Wade E. Pickren, American
Psychological Association, APA Archives and the APA Public Information
Campaign Since WWII
Bruce V. Lewenstein, Cornell
University, Have Books Mattered in American Science Since 1945?
Chair: Paul L. Farber, Oregon State University
MIT Race and Science Web site project
Room D (CL)
Saturday, November
6
9:00-11:45 a.m.
*indicates session organizer(s)
The History of the Discipline: ca 1930-1950
Frick (CL)
*Diederick Raven, Utrecht
University, Zilsels Project on the Emergence of Modern Science
*Anna K. Mayer, HPS, Cambridge
(UK), Setting up a Discipline: Disputes on the HS Committee, 1936-1951
Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard
University, Science at a Crossroads: Defining and Prescribing an
Uncertain Future
Roger Hahn, University of California, Berkeley, History of Science
at Berkeley Before and After World War II
Commentator: Arnold Thackray, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Chair: David Lindberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The New History of Astronomy: A Session in Honor of Bernard
R. Goldstein
Phipps (CL)
Alan C. Bowen, Institute for
Research in Classical Philosophy and Science, Simplicius and the
Early History of Greek Planetary Theory
José Chabás, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, The Diffusion of the Alfonsine Tables: The
Case of the "Tabulae Resolutae"
Michael H. Shank, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Goldsteinian Themes in Regiomontanuss
Defense of Theon
*Peter Barker, University
of Oklahoma, Constructing Copernicus
Commentator: Bernard R. Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Nancy Siraisi, Hunter College and the Graduate School
City University of New York
Off Color: The Science, Art, and Politics of Seeing Beyond Black
and White
Parlor E/F (17)
*Theresa Levitt, Harvard
University, Le rouge et le vert: Colors of Opposition in Restoration
France
Tim Lenoir, Stanford University,
"To Make Sensuous Man Rational, You Must First Make Him Aesthetic:"Physiological
Aesthetics and the Normalization of Taste in Germany, 1860-1895
*Debbie Coen, Harvard University,
The "Irreplaceable Eye" and the "Irrecoverable I":
Human and Mechanical Detectors in Viennese Physics, 1918-1926
Michael Lynch, Brunel University,
The Composition of Objects: False Colour and Digital Images
Commentator: M. Norton Wise, Princeton University
Chair: Erwin Hiebert, Harvard University
Mendel: The First Dozen Years (1900-1912+)
Allegheny (17)
*Frederick B. Churchill, Indiana
University, August Weismann in a Mendelian World
Ida H. Stamhuis, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, Mendelian Genetics and Probabilistic Reasoning: A Fruitful
Combination
Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science, Carl Correns: After
Mendel and Beyond
Marsha L. Richmond, Wayne
State University, Richard Goldschmidts Epigenetic Interpretation
of Mendelism
Commentator: Robert Olby, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: William Provine, Cornell University
Cold War Politics and American Science, 1940s-1960s
Monongahela (17)
James Strick, Arizona State
University, NASA, the Cold War and the "Nucleic Acid Monopoly":
Sidney Fox, Stanley Miller and Origin of Life Research, 1953-1972
David K. van Keuren, Naval
Research Laboratory, Cold War Science in Black and White: U.S. Intelligence
Gathering and Its Scientific Cover at the Naval Research Laboratory, 1948-1962
Maura P. Mackowski, Arizona
State University, Human Factors: Science, Technology, and Cold War
Politics in the NASA Astronaut Selection Process
*Mark Solovey, Arizona State
University, WEST, Social Science on the Cold War Battlefield: Project
Camelot and the 1960s Debate Over Scholarly Objectivity and the Political
Corruption of Research
Commentator: Bart Hacker, Smithsonian Institution
Chair: Bart Hacker, Smithsonian Institution
Readers and Publics for Early Modern Science
Sky (17)
Alix Cooper, University of
Puget Sound, Death and the Naturalist: The Labor of Posthumous Publication
in Early Modern Europe
Alice Walters, University
of Massachusetts at Lowell, The Profits of Plagiarism: Henry Baker,
George Adams, and "The Microscope Made Easy"
*Mary Terrall, University
of California, Los Angeles, Fashionable Readers of Natural Philosophy
Thomas H. Broman, The
Segmentation of the Literary Market and Periodical Publishing in the 18th
Century
Commentator: Ann Blair, Harvard University
Chair: Ann Blair, Harvard University
Astrological and (Al)Chemical Themes in Early Science
Room D (CL)
James A. Altena, University
of Chicago, Elements, Mixis and Dynamis: Aristotelian Chemistry Reconsidered
Steven R. Vanden Broecke, K.U.
Leuven, The Low Countries and the Expectation of a Second Flood in
February 1524
Margaret D. Garber, University
of California, San Diego, Naturalizing the Spectrum: Observation,
Alchemy, and the Physics of the Rainbow
H. Darrel Rutkin, Indiana
University, Galileo Astrologer: New Perspectives on his Early Career
Chair: Pamela H. Smith, Pomona College
Victorian Women Bridging Art and Science
Room A (CL)
Barbara T. Gates, University
of Delaware, Of Fungi and Fables: Beatrix Potters Science and
Storytelling
Ann B. Shteir, York University,
Emma Peachey and Wax Flower Modeling
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, University
of Oklahoma, To Look at One Thing and See Another: Two Women Geologists,
Ida Ogilvie and Maria Ogilvie-Gordon
Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Dalhousie
University, Painting Outside the Lines: Marianne Norths Botanical
Art
Commentator: Cynthia Russett, Yale University
Chair: Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University
1:30-3:10 p.m.
*indicates session organizer(s)
Cognitive Understandings of Michael Faraday: New Tools and
New Interpretations
Phipps (CL)
David C. Gooding, University
of Bath, Experimenting with an Experimentalist: the computational
simulation of a competent experimentalist
Herbert A. Simon, Carnegie
Mellon University, The Discovery of Magnetic Induction of Current:The
Interplay of Phenomena and Concepts
*Ryan D. Tweney, Bowling Green
State University, Faraday and the "Golden Green": Metacognition
and Discovery in Victorian Science
Commentator: Michael E. Gorman, University of Virginia
Chair: Ryan D. Tweney, Bowling Green State University
Putting Fraud on Trial: Dishonest Quacks, False Alchemists and
Deceptive Painters in Early Modern Europe
Frick (CL)
*Tara E. Nummedal, Stanford
University, Proper Bees and Rotten Drones:
True and False Alchemists in Early Modern Central Europe
Claudia Stein, University of
Stuttgart, Institute for the History of Medicine, Early Modern Medical
Identity: Charlatans on Trial in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg
Janice L. Neri, University of
California, Irvine, Truth, Deception and Illusion in Sixteenth-Century
Images of Nature
Chair and Commentator: William Eamon, New Mexico State
University
Science, Popular Literature, and Narrative Traditions
Room A (CL)
Michael F. Robinson, University
of Wisconsin, Blonde Eskimos and Yellow Journalism: Reforming the
Arctic Narrative in Progressive America
Gary M. Kroll, University of
Oklahoma, The Self-Effacing Hero of Science: William Beebe and his
Literature of Oceanic Natural History
*Craig S. McConnell, University
of Wisconsin, Universal Myths: Narrative Expectations and the Origin
of the Cosmos
Commentator: D. Graham Burnett, University of Oklahoma
Chair: William C. Kimler, North Carolina State University
Intersections of the Moral and the Natural in the Scottish Enlightenment
Sky (17)
Paul Wood, University of Victoria,
Science, Politeness, and the Scottish Universities in the Enlightenment
*Margaret Schabas, York University,
David Hume and Experimental Science
Anita Guerrini, University
of California, Santa Barbara, Virtuous Performance: Monro primus,
Hutcheson, and Public Anatomy
Commentator: Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario
Chair: Trevor Levere, University of Toronto
Internationalism and Science
Allegheny (17)
Mark R. Finlay, Armstrong
Atlantic State University, International Science on the Fringes:
Agricultural Sciences and the Culture and Language of International Science
*Helen M. Rozwadowski, "Fish
Know No National Frontiers": Internationalism and Environmental Pragmatism
in European Marine Science
Sverker Sorlin, Umea University,
International cooperation in Scandinavian Polar geoscience, 1930-1960:
Variations on heroes and nationalism
Commentator: Daniel Alexandrov, European University at
St. Petersburg
Chair: Helen M. Rozwadowski
Museology and Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Room D (CL)
M. Rene Burmeister, Rutgers
University, Public Instruction or Obscene Advertising?:
Popular Anatomical Museums in Nineteenth-century London
*Constance A. Malpas, Princeton
University, Organizing Pathology: The Architecture of Anatomy at
Mid-Century
Erin H. McLeary, University
of Pennsylvania, Pathologists, Professionalism, and the Public: The
Medical Museum Enters the Twentieth Century
Commentator: John Harley Warner, Yale University
Chair: Gretchen Worden, Mütter Museum, College of
Physicians of Philadelphia
Personal Trajectories in Science and the Humanities
Parlor E/F (17)
Graham R. Shutt, University
of Washington, Emerson and the Uses of Natural History
Joel S. Schwartz, College
of Staten Island, CUNY, Out from Darwins Shadow: George John
Romanes Efforts to Popularize Science
Maria M. Farland, Columbia
University, Gertrude Steins "Brain Work"
Charles R. Thorpe, Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, The Cultivated Expert: Self
and Power in the Career of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Chair: Philip F. Rehbock, University of Hawaii
Twentieth-Century War, Government, and Science
Monongahela (17)
Ann Johnson, Fordham University,
Rebuilding the Engine: British Science Policy after World War I
Amy S. Bix, Iowa State University,
Physics and Chemistry for Victory: Americas Engineering, Science,
and Management War Training Program, 1940-45
Hunter A. Crowther-Heyck,
Johns Hopkins University, A Place at the Table: the Social
Sciences and the Federal Patron
Edward Jones-Imhotep, Harvard
University, Constructing Reliability: Cold-War Military Electronics
and the 'Topside' Ionogram
Chair: Pamela E. Mack, Clemson University
3:30-5:30 p.m.
*indicates session organizer(s)
Scientific Personae
Frick (CL)
Francesca M. Bordogna, University
of Notre Dame, Three Rival Scientific Personae in American Psychology,
1890-1920
Myles W. Jackson, Willamette
University, Harmony and Camaraderie: The Persona of the Naturforscher
Andrew Mendelsohn, Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science, The Scientist as Technocrat
Commentator: *Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science
Chair: *Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the
History of Science
Is "Literature and Science" Historical?
Room A (CL)
Bernard Lightman, York
University, The Story of Nature: Victorian Popularizers and Scientific
Narrative
Jonathan Smith, University
of Michigan, Dearborn, "Darwins Cirripedia and
Dickenss Little Dorrit
*Laura Dassow Walls, Lafayette
College, "Consilience Revisited: or, Why Should a Thoreauvian
Read Whewell?"
Commentator: David Knight, University of Durham
Chair: George Levine, Rutgers University
The Computer as a Scientific Instrument
Sky (17)
Stephen B. Johnson, University
of North Dakota, Computers and the Practice of Psychology
Joel Hagen, Radford University,
Computers as Scientific Instruments in Structural and Evolutionary
Biochemistry
*Robert W. Seidel, University
of Minnesota, High Energy Physics and High Speed Computing
Commentator: Anne Fitzpatrick, George Washington University
Chair: Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute
Making Science Travel, Travel in the Making of Science: The
Role of 17th- & 18th-century Corporate Networks
Allegheny (17)
Harold J. Cook, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Introducing Asian Medicine to Europe: The Dutch
East India Company and its Rivals
Gerald A. Ward, Dibner Institute
and Boston University, From Merchant Adventurers to Merchants of
Light: The Advent of English Joint-Stock Trading Companies and the Making
of Bacons Great Instauration
Florence C. Hsia, Northwestern
University, Cherishing Observations from Afar: European Contexts
for Jesuit Astronomical Work in China
*Steven J. Harris, Wellesley
College & Boston College, Cumulative Representations: How Corporate
Networks Help Make Science Globally Mobile & Locally Progressive
Chair: *Steven J. Harris, Wellesley College & Boston College
Philosophies of Social Science in the French and American Traditions
Monongahela (17)
Daniela S. Barberis, University
of Chicago, Durkheim, Duhem, and the Misfortunes of Realism
*David L. Hoyt, University
of California, Los Angeles, Sociologys Primitives and the Empires
Associates: Greater France, 1890-1914
Dave Madden, University of
Chicago, Culture, Personality, and the Philosophy of Social Science
in American Anthropology between the First and Second World Wars
Chair and Commentator: John Gilkeson, Arizona State University
Bodies of Knowledge of Bodies in 18th-century France
Phipps (CL)
Emma Spary, Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Berlin, Limiting Cases: Extraordinary
Eaters as Surgical Bodies in 18th-century France
*Jonathan Simon, Centre de
Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques (CRHST), Skeletons
in the Cabinet
Jessica Riskin, MIT, Moving
Anatomies
Commentator: Lissa Roberts, San Diego State University
Chair: Henry Krips, University of Pittsburgh
"Chymistry" and "Chemistry" - Stability,
Transformation, and Rejection in the Century Before Lavoisier
Parlor E/F (17)
*William R. Newman, Indiana
University, An Ungentlemanly Gentleman: Boyles Appropriation
of Chymical Knowledge
Lawrence M. Principe, Johns
Hopkins University, Experiment in Chymistry and the Notebooks of
George Starkey
John Powers, Indiana University,
History and Alchemy in the Chemical Work of Herman Boerhaave
Kevin Chang, University of
Chicago, In Search of True Sulphur: Georg Ernst Stahls "Zymotechnia
Fundamentalis"
Chair: Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Disease Entities in "Defined" Populations Within the
Americas
Room D (CL)
Paul Kelton, Southern Connecticut
State University, Avoiding the Smallpox Spirits: Epidemics and Southeast
Indian Survival to 1800
George Joseph, Yale University,
"A Colony in the Homeland": Leprosy and Tropical Medicine
in Progressive Era Massachusetts
David Abernathy, University
of Washington, Canal Cartographies: Disease, Territoriality, and
Scientific Evidence in the Panama-Nicaragua Route Dispute
Commentator: *Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University
Chair: *Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University
HSS Distinguished Lecture
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Charles Coulston Gillispie Princeton University
The Past as Prologue
Introduction by: Theodore Porter UCLA
Ballroom (17)
Sunday, November
7
9:00-11:45 a.m.
*indicates session organizer(s)
Historical Writing on American Science Revisited: The Current
State of the Field
Monongahela (17)
Session sponsored by Forum for the History of Science in America in
celebration of its 15th anniversary
Please note: This session will occur 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Introduction by: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, University
of Minnesota
Ronald R. Kline, Cornell University,
Historical Writing on Business, Technology, and Industrial Research
James R. Fleming, Colby College,
The Historiography of Science, Technology and the Environment: An American
Perspective
Keith Wailoo, Harvard University,
The Body in Parts: Recent Historiography on Disease and the Biomedical
Sciences
Katherine Pandora, University
of Oklahoma, Varieties of Historiographic Experience: Writing Intellectual
and Cultural Histories of American Science
Ronald E. Doel, Oregon State
University, Foreign Pursuits: Linking Diplomatic History with the
History of Science
Commentator: Margaret W. Rossiter, Cornell University
Chairs: *Karen Rader, Sarah Lawrence College, *Clark
A. Elliott, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
and *Jessica Wang, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles
Astronomy, Humanism, and the Literary Arts
Room D (CL)
Ralph Drayton, University
of Wisconsin, "In the Heart of any Incepting Student":
Religion and Medical Astrology in Montpelier c. 1400
Richard L. Kremer, Dartmouth
College, From Text to Trophy: Shifting Functions of Regiomontanuss
Library
*Karl L. Galle, Imperial College,
Was Copernicus also a Poet? The "Septem Sidera" and the
Astronomer-Poet Tradition in Central Europe
Adam Mosley, Cambridge University,
Truth and Correspondence: Some Comments on the Epistolary Genre and
Early-Modern Astronomical Writings
Kristine L. Haugen, Princeton
University, Varieties of Divination: Richard Bentley and the Astrological
Poem of Manilius
Chair: James J. Bono, State University of New York, Buffalo
Refocusing the Spotlight: From Science Stars to the Backstage
Crew
Parlor E/F (17)
Diana E. Long, University of
Southern Maine, Their Secret Gardens: Women and the Pleasures of
Endocrine Laboratory Life, 1930-1960
Joy Harvey, Harvard University,
The Mystery of the Nobel laureate and the Vanishing Wife
*Mary Brown Parlee, MIT, Visible
Bodies and Invisible Work: Gender, Scientific Authority, and the Institutionalization
of the Neurosciences at MIT
Commentator: Ann F. La Berg, Virginia Tech
Chair: Mary Brown Parlee, MIT
A Comparative Approach to Science and Ideology
Frick (CL)
Walter Grunden Bowling Green,
and Zuoyue Wang California
State Polytechnic University at Ponoma, Ideologically Correct
Science
Yakov Rabkin, University of
Montreal, Science and Totalitarianism
Richard Beyler, Portland State
University, Science Policy in Post-1945 West Germany and Japan between
Ideology and Economics
Stuart Leslie, Johns Hopkins
University, Korean Science at the Crossroads
Chair: *Mark Walker, Union College
Cutting-Edge Chemistry: Some 19th-century Russian Contributions
Phipps (CL)
Session sponsored by Mendeleev Interest Group
Nathan M. Brooks, New Mexico
State University, N.N. Zinin and Synthetic Dyes: The Road Not Taken
David E. Lewis, University
of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Zinc Alkyls in Synthetic Organic Chemistry:
Cutting Edge Chemistry at Kazan
Masanori Kaji, Tokyo Institute
of Technology, D.I. Mendeleev and the Concept of Chemical Elements
*Richard E. Rice, James Madison
University, Hydrating Ions in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Ignoring
Them in Leipzig and Baltimore
Chair and Commentator: Seymour H. Mauskopf, Duke University
The Enduring Search for Mechanisms
Room A (CL)
Peter K. Machamer, University
of Pittsburgh, Origins of Science as Mechanisms
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Oregon State
University, Interpreting the Mona Lisa of Chemical Reactions:
Explanation, Mechanism and Methodological Values
*Lindley Darden, University
of Maryland, College Park, The Mechanism of Protein Synthesis in
the 1950s-1960s: Biochemists vs. Molecular Biologists
Carl Craver, Florida International
University, Discovering Long Term Potentiation
Commentator: Naomi Oreskes, University of California,
San Diego
Chair: Philip Pauly, Rutgers University
Intersections and Contentions in 17th-century Science
Sky (17)
Nicole C. Howard, Indiana
University, Beyond Artificial Wings: A Reassessment of Hookes
Role in the History of Anatomy
Fokko jan Dijksterhuis, University
of Twente, Once Snel breaks down: From Geometrical to Physical Optics
in the Seventeenth Century
Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and
Gordon Brittan, Jr., Montana State University, Gingerichs
Kepler: What is Wrong with his Historiography of Science?
Matthew L. Jones, Harvard University,
Accounting for Circle and Self: Leibniz and his Arithmetical Quadrature
of the Circle
Alberto Guillermo Ranea, Universidad
Torcuato Di Tella, Galileos Authority and Its role in 17th-century
Natural Philosopy
Chair: TBA
Alternative Approaches in the Biological Sciences
Allegheny (17)
Kalevi Kull, University of
Tartu, A Case of Anancasm: Nomogenetic School in Biology
Sabine Brauckmann, University
of Muenster, Fields and Open Systems, or Two Models of Theoretical
Biology
Robert A. Skipper, Jr. University
of Maryland, College Park, Whatever Happened to the Fisher-Wright
Controversy?
Elena A. Aronova, Institute
for History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lamarckism,
Neodarwinism, and Plant-lice: Interpreting Experiments in the Studies
of Experimental Evolution
Stéphane Castonguay, Cornell
University, Crop Protection, Agricultural Sciences and the Fundamentalization
of Applied Biology
Chair: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University
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