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HSS 2000 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Thursday, 2 November
Plenary Session
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Particularity and its Problems
Heinrich von Staden, Institute for Advanced Study, 'For
the most part...' particularity and the language of exception in ancient
science
Kathryn Olesko, Georgetown University, Aesthetic Precision:
Particularity and Social Fact
Robert Kohler, University of Pennsylvania, Particularity
in Field Biology
Chair and Commentator: Andrew Warwick, Imperial College
Organizers: Thomas H. Broman, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Lynn K. Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and John Harley Warner,
Yale University
Reception
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Hyatt Hotel, Regency Centre
Reception
7:30-9:30 p.m. (Ticketed Admission)
Museum of Anthropology
Hosted by the President's Office of the University of British
Columbia. This reception complements the special sessions, "Nature's
Empires: Museums and the Cultivation of Knowledge in the Pacific."
Friday, 3 November
9:00 11:45 a.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Crafting Knowledge, Defining Nation: Science and Identity
in Canadian History
*Edward Jones-Imhotep,
Harvard University, Ionograms, Identity, and the Idea of North
Stephen Bocking, Trent University,
Science, Politics, and Perceptions of the Arctic Environment
Suzanne Zeller, Wilfrid Laurier
University, Elective Affinities: National Identity and Early Timber
Researches at McGill University, 1894-1910
Chair: Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Coping with Information Overload in Early Modern Natural
Philosophy
Richard Yeo, Griffith University,
A Solution to the Multitude of Books: Ephraim Chambers Cyclopaedia
(1728) as "the Best Book in the Universe"
*Ann Blair, Harvard University,
Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload
Brian Ogilvie, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, The Many Books of Nature: How Renaissance Botanists
Created and Responded to Information Overload
Jonathan Sheehan, Indiana University,
From Philology to the Fossil: The Biblical Encyclopedia in Early Modern
Europe
Chair and Commentator: Daniel Rosenberg, University of Oregon at
Eugene
Voyages of science/The science of voyages
*Jordan Goodman, University
of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Mr Huxleys
Voyage? Making Imperial Space and Knowledge in the mid-19th Century
Londa Schiebinger, Max
Planck Instiute for the History of Science, Gender in the Voyages
of Scientific Discovery
Richard Sorrenson, Indiana
University, From South Col to South Pole: Sir Edmund Hillary and the
British Commonwealth Expeditions to Everest and Antarctica in the 1950s
Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute
for the History of Medicine, Scientific Research Expeditions: Scott
and the Discovery, 1901-1904
Commentator: Marie-Noelle Bourguet, University of Paris 7-Denis
Diderot
Chair: Rebecca Ullrich, Sandia National Laboratories
Science in Twentieth-Century China: The Importance
of Place
Elena Songster, University
of California, San Diego, Forests Stand for Pandas: Scientific Forestry
and Nature Reserves in Sichuan, China
Grace Shen, Harvard University,
Mining the Cave: Global Visions and Local Traditions in the Story of Peking
Man
*Sigrid Schmalzer, University
of California, San Diego, Breeding a Modern China: The Making of the
Dingxian Pig, 1929-1937
Brian Greene, University of California,
Los Angeles, Making the Invisible Visible: The Public Health Efforts of
W.W. Peter and Tee Han Kee in Early 20th Century China and The Phillipines
Commentator: Bridie Andrews, Harvard University
Chair: Marta Hanson, University of California, San Diego
Science and Cinema
Susan E. Lederer, Yale University,
Celluloid Science: Teaching Science Using Popular Film in the 1930s and
40s
*Hannah L. Landecker, Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science, Microcinema: Time Lapse
Cinematography in Biology 1909-1930
T. Hugh Crawford, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Filming the Event: Technology, Temporality, and the
Object of Science
*Karen A. Rader, Sarah Lawrence
College, Teaching "Science and Film:" Visual Representation
as a Pedagogical Window on Artistic and Scientific Practice
Chair: Hannah L. Landecker, Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science
Contested Darwinisms: Lives, Organisms, and Synthesis
Stories
Robert J. Richards, The University
of Chicago, Why Haeckel Became a Virulent Darwinian
Sander Gliboff, The Johns Hopkins
University, The Case of Paul Kammerer
*Patricia Princehouse, Harvard
University, Mutant Phoenix: Macroevolution from Germany to the U.S.
Chris Pires, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Power of the Unified Narrative: Placing Botany in the Evolutionary Synthesis
Chair and Commentator: Garland Allen, Washington University
Biological Invaders, Scientific Defenders: Entomologists
and Exotics,
1776-1968
*Philip J. Pauly,
Rutgers University--New Brunswick, Fighting the Hessian Fly: Ecology
and Diplomacy in a Time of Revolution
George Gale, University of Missouri,
Kansas City, Comprehending the Catastrophe: The Role of Medical Models
in the Phylloxera Grapevine Disaster, France 1870-1900
Sarah Jansen, University of Cambridge
/ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Arsenic and Candy:
The Colorado Beetle in Germany, 1875-1914
Joshua Buhs, University of Pennsylvania,
The Naturalization of the Imported Fire Ants
Commentator: Mark L. Winston, Simon Fraser University
Chair: Michael A. Osborne, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Values of Interdisciplinarity
Jeremiah James, Harvard University,
Disparate Bonds: Ends and Means in Early Quantum Chemistry
Silvan S. Schweber, Brandeis
University, Interdisciplinarity, Theory, the Computer and the Physical
Sciences.
*Jamie N. Cohen-Cole, Princeton
University, The Cognitive Revolution and the Culture of Interdisciplinarity
Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University,
Accelerating Discovery: Bioinformatics and Interdisciplinarity
Chair and Commentator: Cathryn L. Carson, University of California,
Berkeley
Cultures of 20th-Century Astronomy
Matthew Stanley, Harvard University,
Science and the Spiritual Quest: Religion, Epistemology, and Eddington's
Stellar Models
Keith R. Lafortune, University
of Notre Dame, Pickerings Harem and the New Sociology of Astronomy,
1877-1919
Abha Sur, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Identity and Ideology in Meghnad Sahas Physics
David P.D. Munns, Johns Hopkins
University, Becoming Astronomy: Why Cosmic Noise became Radio Astronomy
JoAnn Palmeri, Independent Scholar,
Sagan and Shapley: The Astronomer as Prophet of Science in the Twentieth
Century
Chair: Pamela E. Mack, Clemson University
1:30 p.m. 3:10 p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
State-Sponsored Science during the Cold War
Audra J. Wolfe, University
of Pennsylvania, Protecting Turfs (Literally): Negotiating the Meanings
of Exobiology at the Dawn of the Space Age
Ulf von Rauchhaupt, Max-Planck-Institute
for the History of Science, Colorful Clouds: West Germanys First
Steps into Experimental Space Science in the Early 1960s
Gerard J. Fitzgerald, Carnegie
Mellon University, "Mechanization through Standardization,"
Bacteriological Engineers and Biological Weapons at LOBUND,1928-1955
Rebecca P. Schwartz, Princeton
University, Writing the Authorized Biography of the Manhattan Project:
Harry DeWolf Smyth and the Smyth Report
Chair: TBA
Expanding Conceptions of the Scientific Revolution
Maurice A. Finocchiaro,
University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Giordano Bruno, 1600-2000
David N. Harley, University of
Notre Dame, "The Scientific Revolution": Boxing for England?
Eric J. Palmer, Allegheny College,
A Philosophical Education Program: Descartes selon lordre des
recitations
Jongtae Lim, Harvard-Yenching
Institute, Taming the Spherical Earth and "Globalizing"
the Traditional Cosmology in the Late Choson Dynasty Korea
Chair: Sheila Rabin, St. Peter's College
Science, Culture and Weltanschauung in Interwar Europe
Cristina Chimisso, Open University,
UK , Hélène Metzger: The History of Science between
the History of Mentalities and Total History
Sofie Lachapelle, University
of Notre Dame, Materializing Authority: The 1922 Psychical Experiments
at the Sorbonne
Susan M. Lanzoni, Harvard University,
On the Common Ground of Experience: Ludwig Binswangers Phenomenological
Psychopathology
Deborah R. Coen, Harvard University,
Taking Natures Pulse: The Place of the Organic in Austrian Physics
Chair: Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University
18th and 19th-Century German physiology and philosophy
Monica Libell, Dept. of History
of Science and Ideas, Lund, Sweden, Physiology, Civilization and the
Pain of Vivisection
Nancy A. Anderson, University
of Michigan, One Complex Amoeba: Image, Imagination, Cell Theory and
the Bioplasson Doctrine
Chair: TBA
Psychology and Society in Mid-20th Century America
Session co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of
Human Science
John Carson, University of Michigan,
Peace Work: Intelligence, Merit, and the Limits of Democracy
Sarah E. Igo, Princeton University,
Arguing with Gallup: Popular Challenges to Scientific Polling,
1936-1948
Wade E. Pickren, American Psychological
Association, Life and the "Age of Psychology": The Public
Image of Psychology in the 1950s
Nathan L. Ensmenger, University
of Pennsylvania, Chess Players, Music Lovers, and Mathematicians:
Towards a Psychological Profile of the Ideal Computer Scientist
Chair: Elizabeth Lunbeck, Princeton University
Growing and Knowing: Science, Standardization, and
American Youth
*Heather Munro Prescott,
Central Conneticut State University, "I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf,"
or What is "Normal" Adolescent Development?
Susan A. Miller, University of
Pennsylvania, Health in the Balance: Learning Lessons from the Landscape
at Girls Summer Camps, 1910-1930
Elizabeth A. Toon, Cornell University,
Measuring Up: Schoolchildren and Representations of Physical Growth in
the Interwar United States
Chair and Commentator: Sarah W. Tracy, University of Oklahoma
Readers, Writers, and Audiences, 15001900
Richard D. Cunningham, Pennsylvania
State University, Moveable Visual Images and Active Reading Practices
in the Education of Sixteenth-Century English Navigators
Nicole C. Howard, Indiana University,
The King, the Courtier and the Clockmaker: Christiaan Huygens and Interpretations
of Audience
Ellen J. Valle, University of
Turku, Finland, From Sloane to Owen: Epistolary Episodes in the Construction
of Natural History
Aileen Fyfe, University of Cambridge,
Industrialised Conversion: publishing popular science and religion in
Victorian Britain
Chair: H.F. Cohen, University of Twente
Redefining Physics: Science, Culture, and Politics
in the 20th Century East Asia
*Kenji Ito, Harvard University,
"Culture of Calculating": Theory and Practice of Theoretical
Physics in the 1920s Japan
Dong-Won Kim, Korea Advanced Institute
of Science & Technology, Why Physics? The Conflicting Role and
Image of Physics in South Korea
Danian Hu, Yale University, The
"Great Proletarian Scientific Revolution": Einstein and his
Relativity during Chinas Cultural Revolution
Commentator: James R Bartholomew, Ohio State University
Chair: Martin J Klein, Yale University
Exploring the Earth: Conceptual and Economic Infrastructures,
16501900
Andre Wakefield, Dibner Institute
for the History of Science and Technology, Science and Silver in the
Mines of Central Europe, 1650-1850
Alexey V. Kuprijanov, The
S.I.Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Natural
History in Russia before the 1860s: Conceptual and Institutional Developments
Brian C. Shipley, Dalhousie
University, "My fact, therefore, I now consider established beyond
controversy": William E. Logan, the Origin of Coal Debate, and the
Writing of the History of Geology
Steven W. Ruskin, University
of Notre Dame, Private Science, Public Imagination, and the Ambitions
of Empire: Perceptions of John Herschels Cape Voyage, 1833-1838
Chair: Ernst Hamm, York University
3:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Natures Empires: Museums and the Cultivation
of Knowledge in the Pacific
Part I Exploring Meanings
Session co-sponsored by the Pacific Circle
Introduction: Roy MacLeod and Philip F. Rehbock,
Viewing the Pacific through European Eyes: Constructing Meanings and Memories
Sujit Sivasundaram, Christ's
College, University of Cambridge, Objects of this World: Missionaries,
Musuems and the South Pacific
Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The School for Naturalist-Voyagers
Jim Endersby, University of
Cambridge, "From Having No Herbarium": Local Knowledge vs. Metropolitan
Expertise: Joseph Hooker's Australasian Correspondence with William Colenso
and Ronald Gunn
Janet Garber, Independent Scholar,
Jane Franklin and the Natural History Museum Idea in Tasmania
Chair:
Roy McLeod, University of Sydney
Prospects for a History of Social Science
Session co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of
Human Science
Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University,
The Social Science Disciplines in Europe and the U.S.: Enlarging the Historical
Lens
*Theodore M. Porter, University
of California, Los Angeles, Project for a History of Social Science,
1750-1890
Mitchell Ash, University of Vienna,
A Human Science? Psychology as Science and Profession, 1850-1970
Mary Furner, University of California,
Santa Barbara, The Enlightenment Ideal, the Social Sciences, and Governance,
1880's-1940's
Chair: Theodore M. Porter, University of California, Los Angeles
A Civilizing Science: The Political Culture of Public
Health in 19th-Century France
Session co-sponsored by the American
Association for the History of Medicine
*Ann F. La Berge, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dirty Stories: Investigative
Reporting as Scientific Practice on the 19th-Century French Health Councils
David Barnes, Harvard University,
Street-Level Etiologies: The Political and Cultural Stakes of "Local
Knowledge" in French Public Health, 1880-1900
Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College,
Science Marches across the Threshold: From Public Health to Domestic Hygiene
in Nineteenth-Century France
Chair and Commentator: Martha Hildreth, University of Nevada, Reno
Authority, Originality, Piracy: Histories of Intellectual
Property
Mario Biagioli, Harvard University,
Inventions, Instruments, and Discoveries: Priority and Intellectual
Property in Galileos Venice
*Ken Alder, Northwestern University,
"PASCAL DEFEATS NEWTON!" Or, Originality and Verisimilitude
in History and Science
Adrian Johns, University of California,
San Diego, What We Can Learn from the History of Piracy
Chair and Commentator: Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science
Science and National Politics in Twentieth-Century
Yugoslavia
Ljubinka Trgovcevic, Historical
Institute, Belgrade, Science of Borders: The Uses of Jovan Cvijics
eography at the Paris Peace Conference 1919-20
*Vladimir Jankovic, University
of Manchester, Fear and Medical Politics of the 1999 Solar Eclipse
in Serbia
Marija Sesic, Museum of Science
and Technology, Belgrade, The Electrical Icon: National Appropriations
of Nikola Tesla, 1945-1999
Commentator: Gale Stokes, Rice University
Chair: Ron Doel, Oregon State University
Polemics, Philosophy, and Experiment in Chymistry
William Newman, Indiana University,
The Fire-Analysis Debate Before Boyle and Van Helmont
Bruce T. Moran, University of
Nevada-Reno, Libavius, Polemics & Alchemy: The Transmutation of
Emotion and Rationality
*Alice Stroup, Bard College,
Duclos on Boyle: A French Academician Criticizes "Certain Physiological
Essays"
Chair and Commentator: Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Progressive Science and Technology: The Role of Scientists
and Engineers in the American Progressive Movement
*Christian C. Young, Mount Angel
Seminary, American Wildlife Organizations in the Progressive Era
*Mark A. Largent, Oregon State
University, Biological Justifications for Progressive Reform
Jennifer K. Alexander, University
of Minnesota, Engineers, Charlatans, and Progressive Efficiency
Chair and Commentator: Barbara A. Kimmelman, Philadelphia University
Music and Science in Cultural Context
Anna Sofie Christiansen,
University of Copenhagen,, Hermann Scherchens Gravesano Project:
Cultural Globalization through Scientific Verification of Western Art
Music
*Charles M. Brotman, University
of Rochester, Helmholtzian Acoustics in a Darwinian Key: James Sully,
Edmund Gurney, and the Psychology of Music in Victorian Culture
Brandon Konoval, University
of British Columbia, Music and the Book of Nature: Pythagorean Tradition
and Empirical Mathematics in the Discourses of Vincenzo Galilei
Chair and Commentator: Amy S. Bix, Iowa State University
Victorian Crisis of Objectivity: The Revolt Against
Scientific Completeness
Joan L. Richards, Brown University,
Sophia and Augustus DeMorgans Faith of Mind
*Paul J Croce, Stetson University,
William James on the Healing Arts
Frederick Gregory, University
of Florida, Continental Critiques of Scientific Objectivity
Chair and Commentator: Jon Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Stevens
Point
7:30 9:00 p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Natures Empires: Museums and the
Cultivation of Knowledge in the Pacific
Part II Creating Memories
Session co-sponsored by the Pacific Circle
John Barker, University
of British Columbia, Dangerous Artifacts: A Case Study in Local and
Global Negotiations of the Meaning of Indigenous Objects
Alexia Bloch, University of British
Columbia, Crisis or Crossroads?: Museums in the Russian Far East Reinterpreting
State Narratives
Kerri Inglis, University of Hawaii,
The Representation and Commodification of Suffering: Kalaupapa National
Historical Park
Chair: Roy McLeod, University of Sydney
Making Encyclopedias in the History
of Science: Mechanics, Benefits, Tribulations (A Roundtable Discussion)
Gary B. Ferngren, Oregon State University
Gregory A. Good, West Virginia University
Sylvia K. Miller, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Publishers
Valerie Tomaselli, The Moschovitis Group
Arne Hessenbruch, Dibner Institute
Chair: *Helaine Selin, Hampshire College
Teaching Controversial Topics in the History of Science
Committee on Education Workshop
Edward B. Davis, Messiah College,
Teaching Science and Religion
David C. Lindberg, University
of Wisconsin, Teaching the History of Science and Religion in a Public
University: Pitfalls and Opportunities
Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania,
Science Students and the Science Wars
Londa Schiebinger, Pennsylvania
State University, Approaches to teaching Gender in Science
Bruce Hunt, University of Texas,
Austin, Teaching the History of the Atomic Bomb
Chair: *Pamela H. Smith, Pomona College
Saturday, 4 November
9:00 11:45 a.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Revolutionary Science
*Theresa Levitt, Harvard University,
Regenerated Art and Engineering Drawing: The Jacobin Foundations of the
Ecole Polytechnique
Denise Phillips, Harvard
University, Citizenship and Science: German Civic Science Societies
and the Revolutions of 1848
Alexei Kojevnikov, Center
for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, The Great War,
the Russian Civil War, and the Invention of Big Science
Cong Cao, University of Oregon,
Ideology and Chinese Science
Commentator: Dorinda Outram, University of Rochester
Chair: Roger Hahn, University of California, Berkeley
Natural Knowledge, Expertise and the Early Modern State
Eric H. Ash, Princeton University,
Queen v. Northumberland: Royal Mining Rights and the Dilemma of Expertise
Emily K. Brock, Princeton University,
Gardeners and Botanists in the Study of Forests in England, 1650-1800
Florence C. Hsia, Wayne State University,
Missionaries, Monks, and Mathématiciens du roi in the Ancien Régime
*Matthew L Jones, Columbia University,
Calculating Machinery: Pascal and Leibniz on Knowledge and Spectacle in
the Early Modern State
Jordan Kellman, Louisiana State
University, Jean Mattieu de Chazelles and the Birth of Naval Science
in 17th-century France
Chair: Pamela H. Smith, Pomona College
From the Ground Up: Insects and Models of Science,
Reason and Community
John Clark, University of Canterbury
Kent, History from the Ground Up: Bugs Political Economy and God in
Early Nineteenth Century Britain
*Katharine Anderson, York
University, Instincts and Instruments
Alison Winter, California Institute
of Technology, Snails, Leeches, Mediums, and Conductors: The Use of
Living Things as Instruments in Mid-Nineteenth Century Europe
Charlotte Sleigh, University
of Kent at Canterbury,, Brave New Worlds: Sociological Explanations
of the Ants in the 1920s & 1930s
Chair and Commentator: Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Maps for Enlightenment: Cartography and Science in
the Eighteenth Century
Matthew H. Edney, University
of Southern Maine, Mapping Eighteenth-Century Intersections of Scientific
and Cartographic Practices
Anne Godlewska, Queen's University--Kingston
When is Description Mere Description? The Nature of 18th-Century Geography
Michael T. Bravo, University of
Cambridge, Enlightened Precision in Geography and Anthropology
Michael S Dettelbach, Smith
College, Map as Metaphor, Map as Math: The Meanings of Cartography
in the Enlightenment
Commentator: John Heilbron, Oxford
Chair: *D. Graham Burnett, University of Oklahoma
Representations and Reality: Iconography and Gendered
Careers in Science
Session sponsored by the HSS Womens Caucus
Maura C. Flannery, St. Johns
University, The Lab Coat: Symbol of Science as a Male Pursuit
Robert Hendrick, St. Johns
University, Gender Stereotyping in Visual Images of French Science
Popularization,1870-1914
Abena Osseo-Asare, Harvard
University, Gender and Workplace in the Gold Coast
Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley,
University of Northern British Columbia, Gendered Careers? Canadian
Women in Science, 1890-1970
Elizabeth Hanson, The Rockefeller
University, Women Scientists at the Rockefeller Institute: A Collective
Biography
Chair: Amy Slaton, Drexel University
Organized by: Abha Sur, MIT
Spaces of Health and Illness
Session co-sponsored by the American Association
for the History of Medicine
*Gregg Mitman, University of
Oklahoma, Hay Fever Holiday: Health, Leisure, and Place in Gilded
Age America
Scott Kirsch, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, Harold Knapp and the Ad Hoc Working Group on
Radioiodine in the Environment: Contested Spaces
Michelle Murphy, Max Planck Institut
für Wissenschaftgeschichte, Buildings for Bodies: Ordinary Places,
Chemical Exposures, and the Politics of (Im)Perceptibility in the Late
Twentieth Century U.S.
Chair and Commentator: Christopher C. Sellers, SUNY-Stony Brook
Constructing Cells and Growing Organisms
Topics in the History of Cytology and Developmental Biology I
Frederick B. Churchill, Indiana
University, Situating a New Science: Boveri and the Embryological
Analysis of Chromosomes
*Marsha L. Richmond, Wayne
State University, Cell Theory on the Eve of Genetics
James Strick, Arizona State University,
The Cell and the Origin of Life: H.C. Bastian's Ideas, 1880-1915
Susan Spath, University of California-Berkeley,
A New Cell Theory in 1962: The Procaryote/Eucaryote Distinction
Chair: Richard M. Burian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
Astronomy and Its Histories: A Session in Honor of
Owen Gingerich
Robert S. Westman, University
of California, San Diego, Keplers Early Astrological Problematic
Sara Schechner, Harvard University,
Material Culture of Astronomy in Daily Life: Sundials, Science, and Social
Change
*James R. Voelkel, Johns Hopkins
University and Owen Gingerich,
Harvard University, Giovanni Antonio Maginis Keplerian
Tables of 1614 and Their Implications for the Early Reception of Keplerian
Astronomy
Joann Eisberg, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Making a Science of Observational Cosmology:
The Cautious Optimism of Beatrice Tinsley
Commentator: Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Chair: Richard L. Kremer, Dartmouth College
North-South Scientific Relations During the Cold War
*Tanya J. Levin, Johns Hopkins
University, Winning the Hearts and Minds of Third World Peoples: US
Oceanography During the Cold War
Hebe Vessuri, Venezuela Institute
of Scientific Research, Venezuelan Oil and the Building Up of National
Science and Technology in the Cold War
*Alexis De Greiff, Imperial
College and the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Universidad Nacional
de Colombia, The North-South Exchange Viewed from the Boundary: Abdus
Salams Conception of Scientific Internationalism During the Cold
War
Commentator: John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chair: Zuoyue Wang, California State University, Pomona
1:30 p.m. 3:10
p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Laboratory Science and Contingent Knowledge in American
Veterinary Medicine
Philip M. Teigen,
National Library of Medicine, Science, Society, and Culture in
the Establishment of the Harvard School of Veterinary Medicine
Olivia Walling, University of
Minnesota, The Intellectual and Social Life of Nineteenth Century
Laboratory Methods, A Longhorn View
*Susan D. Jones, University of
Colorado, Creating a Scientific Context for Contingent Knowledge in
Veterinary Medicine
Commentator and Chair: Barbara Rosenkrantz, Harvard University
Forging Alchemical Identities: Strategies for Legitimating
Authority in Early Modern Alchymia
Tara E. Nummedal, Stanford
University, Gender, Authority and the Alchemical Career of Anna Maria
Zieglerin
Hereward Edmund Tilton, University
of Queensland, Count Michael Maier and the 'Imposture' of Rosicrucianism:
Defending Alchemy in a Virtual Arena
* Margaret D. Garber, University
of California, San Diego, Legitimating Magic in Post-Rudolfine Prague:
The Role of Light in the Alchemical Philosophies of Marcus Marci von Kronland
Chair and Commentator: Deborah Harkness, University of California,
Davis
Science and Race in the 20th Century
Shang-Jen Li, The Wellcome Institute
for the History of Medicine, Woman and Worm: Gender and Patrick Mansons
Parasitological Research
Peder J. Anker, Harvard University/University
of Oslo, Holism and Ecological Racism: The History of South African
Human Ecology
John P. Jackson, University
of ColoradoBoulder, The Scientist as Social Activist: The Career
of Robert E. Kuttner, 1951-1982
Lisa H. Weasel, Portland State
University, Race and Gender through the Microscope: A Feminist Perspective
on Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cell Line
Chair: Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University
Ancient and Medieval Natural Knowledge
and Practices
Karin Tybjerg, University
of Cambridge, Wonder Making and the Rhetoric of Wonder in Hero of
Alexandria
Gerardo V. Aldana, Harvard University,
(Re-)Creation in Classic Maya Times: Astronumerology and Secret Knowledge
in Kan Balams
Mary K.K. Yearl, Yale University,
The Time of Bloodletting
Alain Touwaide, Independent
Scholar, Arabic Science in Byzantium: The Case of Botany
Chair: Joan Cadden, University of California, Davis
Philosophy and Mind in the 18th and
19th Centuries
Benjamin W. Redekop, Kettering
University, Thomas Reid and the Problem of Induction: From Common
Experience to Common Sense
LeeAnn Hansen, California State
University Fullerton, Constructing a Public Psychology: Karl Philipp
Moritz and the Magzin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde
André R. LeBlanc, CIRST,
Université du Québec à Montréal, On Negative
Hallucinations and the Origins of the Unconscious
Alan W. Richardson, University
of British Columbia, The Insecure Path of a Science: Kant and the
Rethinking of Logic in the 19th Century
Chair: Margaret Schabas, York University
Displaying Biomedical Authority in Modern
Anglo-American Culture
Session co-sponsored by the American
Association for the History of Medicine
Erin H. McLeary, University
of Pennsylvania, War Pathologies/the Pathology of War: Museum Collecting
in the First World War
Ock-Joo C. Kim, Harvard University,
Knowledge Out of Suffering: Harvey Cushings Brain Tumor Registry
Marianne P. Fedunkiw Stevens,
Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
Malaria and 20th Century Medicine: Fighting Disease with Film, 1940-2000
Chair: Rima Apple, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Constructing Cells and Growing Organisms
Topics in the History of Cytology and Developmental Biology II
*Manfred D. Laubichler, Princeton
University, From a Developmental Point of View: Theories of Development
in the Conception of Theoretical Biology
Jane Maienschein, Arizona State
University, On the Organism in Development and Heredity
Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth
College, Johannes Holtfreter and the Politics of Gastrulation
Sabine Brauckmann, University
of Muenster, Chemical Embryology: The Search for the Organizer
Chair: Gerald L Geison, Princeton University
Physics in 20th-Century Europe: From
the Classical World to the Quantum Universe
Robert G. Arns, University of
Vermont, Persistence of Belief in a Mechanical Ether in the Twentieth
Century
Theodore Arabatzis, Dibner
Institute, M.I.T., & Univ. of Athens, The "Discovery"
of the Electron and the Atomism Debate
Scott D. Tanona, Indiana University,
Bohrs Correspondence Principle: Deducing Atomic Structure from Spectral
Phenomena
Frans H. van Lunteren, Utrecht
University, Paul Ehrenfest and Dutch Physics in the Interbellum Period
Chair: J.C. Evans, University of Puget Sound
Theory Comes West: The Beginnings of Theoretical Astrophysics
in Western America
David DeVorkin, National Air
and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Bringing Theory
to Mount Wilson in the 1920s
Donald Osterbrock, University
of California, Santa Cruz, Herman Zanstra, Donald Menzel, and the
Zanstra Method of Nebular Astrophysics
*Karl Hufbauer, University
of California, Irvine, J. Robert Oppenheimers Path to Black
Holes
Commentator: Robert Smith, University of Alberta
Chair: Peggy Kidwell, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution
3:30 p.m. 5:30
p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Science in National and Transnational Contexts
Jorge Canizares Esguerra, SUNY-Baffalo,
Postcolonial Nature: Nature Narratives and Nation-Building in 19th-Century
Latin America
Eckhardt Fuchs, Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, The Mechanics of Transnational Science:
The Escuela Internacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia Americanas (EIAEA)
and the Scientific Exploration of Pre-Columbian Mexico
*Fa-ti Fan, Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Nature and National Narratives in Early
Twentieth-Century China
Juliette Chung, Harvard University,
Transnational Science: the Japanese Establishment of Shanghai Natural
Science Institute and the Knowledge of Taxonomy in China, 1923-1945
Chair: Harold J. Cook, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Science and Spectacle of Man: Popularization and
Professional Debates in American Anthropology
Kevin J. Francis, University
of Minnesota, Popularization and the Role of Humans in late Pleistocene
Extinctions, 1927-1957
Juliet Burba, University of Minnesota,
Collecting for "The Science of Man": Expeditions and Expositions
in Physical Anthropology
Michael Robinson, University
of Wisconsin, Chicagos Eskimo Village: Reconsidering Race at
the Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1893
Commentator: Henrika Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Alison Wylie, Washington University
Biology, Sexuality, and Morality in Modern France
Anne C. Vila, University of Wisconsin,
Sex, Procreation, and the Scholarly Life from Tissot to Balzac
Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist
University, Biology and Sexuality Morality in the French Enlightenment
*Elizabeth A. Williams, Oklahoma
State University, The Scientific Discourse of Hysteria in Enlightenment
France
Chair and Commentator: Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University
Modern Science and the Clergy
John Stenhouse, University
of Otago, Protestant Missions and Modern Western Science, 1790-1930
William A. Durbin, Washington
Theological Union, Romes Second Galileo: Father John Zahms
Abortive Synthesis of Evolution and Faith
Edward B. Davis, Messiah College,
Science and Religion, Chicago Style: Liberal Protestants and Science in
the Age of Bryan
Commentator: David A. Hollinger, University of California
Chair: Mark A. Kalthoff, Hillsdale College
North Sea Passage: Cross-Channel Scientific Currents,
1780-1850
Trevor H. Levere, Institute
for the History and Philosophy of Science, Univ. Toronto, Cosmopolitan
Isolates at Home and Abroad: Chemists and Physicians in the 1780s and
1790s
Phillip R. Sloan, University of
Notre Dame, German Biology Comes to London: The Role of the College
of Surgeons, 1814-1840
Petra Werner, Berlin-Brandenburgisches
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Composing the Picture of Nature, or Alexander
von Humboldts English Correspondents
Chair and Commentator: *Philip Rehbock, Department of History,
University of Hawaii
Amateurs of Science in Early Modern Europe
William Eamon, New Mexico State
University, Amateur Science in the Piazza: The Scientific
Underworld of Sixteenth-Century Italy
Lisa T. Sarasohn, Oregon State
University, Samuel Sorbiere: Amateur and Broker of Science
Mordechai Feingold, Dibner
Institute, Amateurism and Science: A Reevaluation
Commentator: Andrea Carlino, Institut Louis-Jèantet d'Histoire
de la Medecine
Chair: Joella Yoder, Independent Scholar
Uncle Sam in the Laboratory: Biomedical Science and
the Federal Government
Session co-sponsored by the American
Association for the History of Medicine
*Buhm Soon Park, National Institutes
of Health, More Academic Than a University: Three Freedoms and the
Laboratory of Molecular Biology at NIH, 1961-1981
John P. Swann, Food and Drug Administration,
Institutionalizing Regulatory Science and Research in the FDA
John Parascandola, Public
Health Service, Science and Sex: The Venereal Disease Education Campaign
of the U.S. Public Health Service in World War II
Caroline Hannaway, National
Institutes of Health, NIH Scientists and International Understanding
of the Spread of HIV
Chair: Victoria Harden, National Institutes of Health
Mechanics and Imagery
David McGee, University of Toronto
/ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, William Pettys
Double-Bottom
*Wolfgang Lefèvre, Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science, Drawings in Ancient Treatises
on Mechanics
Marcus Popplow, University of
Bremen / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, The Role
of the Engineer Drawings in the Emergence of Classical Mechanics
Chair and Commentator: Bert S. Hall, University of Toronto
Exhibiting the Evanescent in Victorian Science and
Technology
Nani N. Clow, Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Should We Trust the Expert?:
Re-examining the Debates Concerning Scientific Credibility, Expertise,
and Method in Late-Victorian Psychical Research
Iwan R. Morus, Queens University,
Belfast, Mastering the Invisible: Technologies of the Unseen at the
Mid-Victorian Exhibition
*Richard J. Noakes, University
of Leeds, Imponderables in the Balance: Rewriting the
History of Victorian Physics and Psychical Research
Commentator: Otto Sibum, Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science
Chair: Bruce J. Hunt, University of Texas
HSS Distinguished Lecture
6:00 7:00 p.m.
Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University
"The Cultural and Political Sources of Science as Social Practice"
Introduction by Diana Barkan, California Institute of Technology
Sunday, 5 November
9:00 11:45 a.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Computer Simulations as Evidence, Experiment, and Argument:
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Models and Simulations
*Naomi Oreskes, University of
California, San Diego, Computer Models and The Rise of Prediction
in the Earth Sciences
Dale Jamieson, Carleton College,
Managing Planet Earth: The Rise of Coupled Models and Integrated Assessments
Daniel Haag, University of Hohenheim,
Stuttgart, Ecosystem Simulation: Dynamical State Systems vs. Self-Modifying,
Historical Systems
*Mary S. Morgan, London School
of Economics and University of Amsterdam, Thought Experiments and
the Generation of Economic Evidence
Chair: *Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
Co-Chair: Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics and University
of Amsterdam
Psychology, Popularization, and the Public
Session co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of
Human Science
Benjamin Harris, University
of Wisconsin, Parkside, Tabloid Psychology, 1920-1940: Did Superstition
Win?
Leila Zenderland, California
State University, Fullerton, Of Mice, Men, and Mercy-Killing: Steinbecks
Novel and the Euthanasia Debate
Hans Pols, University of New Hampshire,
Teaching Adjustment: Undergraduate Psychology Courses in Human Development,
1920-1960
Mark Eddy, University of Oklahoma,
Educating the Individual: Competing Visions of the Self and Calls for
Educational Reform
Commentator: Kathleen W. Jones, Virginia Polytechnic
Chair: Katharine Pandora, University of Oklahoma
Resurrecting Physical Theory: Approaches to Theory
Construction, 1700-1970
Mary Terrall, University of
California, Los Angeles, Vis Viva Revisted
Mi Gyung Kim, North Carolina State
University, Genealogy, Memory, and the Chemical Table
*Michael D. Gordin, Harvard University,
A Hierarchy of Sorts: D. I. Mendeleev and the Periodic Table
David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, A Wing and a Prayer: Roger Babson and the Rediscovery
of General Relativity, 1948-1968
Chair and Commentator: M. Norton Wise, Princeton Univeristy
Proprietary Knowledge in Biomedical Science and Industry,
1890-Present
Jack Wilson, Washington and
Lee University, U.S Patents on Organisms Prior to Diamond v. Chakrabarty
*Nicolas Rasmussen, Steroids
at War: Biomedical Researchers, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Hormones
of the Adrenal Cortex, 1940-1946
Mark Cortiula, University of
New South Wales, The Science of Separation: Americas Contribution
to Australias Post-War Blood Fractionation Program
Christophe Lecuyer, Dibner Institute
for the History of Science and Technology, Instrumentalizing Medicine:
Physics Research, Medical Practice, and the Development of Linear Accelerators
for Cancer Therapy at Stanford University and Varian Associates, 1952-1975
Rachel Ankeny, Davis Center for
Historical Studies, Princeton University, Public Versus Private Knowledge:
The Historical Evolution of Community Standards for Data Sharing in the
Human Genome Project
Chair: Paul Theerman, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes
of Health
Method in the 19th-Century Physical
Sciences
Sungook Hong, University of Toronto,
One Faith, One Weight, One Measure: Language and the History
of Units and Standards
Peter J. Ramberg, Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, Making Instruments "Transparent"
in Organic Chemistry: The Case of Halogen Addition Reactions
Andrea I. Woody, University of
Washington, Brodies "Calculus": A Chemistry with No
Future as Window onto the Past
David A. Pantalony, University
of Toronto, Bringing Sound Into the Laboratory: The Visual Analysis
of Compound Tones
Matthias Doerries, Max Planck
Institute Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, Self-Effacement
and Objective Knowledge: Henri-Victor Regnault
Chair: Ken Caneva, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro
Putting Nature on Show in Early Modern Europe
Michael John Gorman, Dibner
Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Johannes Kepler
and the Death of Painting
Janice L. Neri, University of California,
Irvine, The Visual Rhetoric of Insect Illustration: Technology and
Visuality in the Seventeenth Century
*Nicholas Dew, Cambridge University,
The Menagerie of Versailles and the Visualisation of Nature
Simon Werrett, Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, An Odd Sort of Exhibition: Spectacles
of Science and the Russian State in the Eighteenth Century
Chair and Commentator: TBA
Galileos Optics
Eileen Reeves, Princeton University,
Galileo and the Reflecting Telescope: Some Speculation
* Sven Dupre, Ghent University,
Galileo, Optics and the Pinelli Circle
Yaakov Zik, University of Haifa,
Israel, Beyond the Naked Eye
A. Mark Smith, University of Missouri-Columbia,
Galileos Telescope: Theoretical Implications
Filippo Camerota, Istituto
Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, The Portrait of the Moon:
Linear Perspective and the Scientific Representation of the Celestial
World
Chair: Albert Van Helden, Rice University
Darwinian Heresies
*Abigail J. Lustig, Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, Natural Atheology and Evolutionary
Explanations of the Origins of Religion
Michael Ruse, University of Guelph,
How Darwinian is neo-Darwinism?
Stephen G. Alter, Gordon College,
Unconscious Selection and Darwins Distribution Thinking
Robert N. Proctor, Pennsylvania
State University, When did Humans become Human? The Impact of Racial Liberalism
on the Recognition (and Denial) of Fossil Hominid Diversity 1944-2000
Commentator: John Beatty, University of Minnesota
Chair: *Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago
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