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HSS 2000 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

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 Huxley’s 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, Pickering’s Harem and the New Sociology of Astronomy, 1877-1919
Abha Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Identity and Ideology in Meghnad Saha’s 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 Germany’s 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 l’ordre 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 Binswanger’s Phenomenological Psychopathology
Deborah R. Coen, Harvard University, Taking Nature’s 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, 1500—1900

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 China’s Cultural Revolution
Commentator: James R Bartholomew, Ohio State University
Chair: Martin J Klein, Yale University

Exploring the Earth: Conceptual and Economic Infrastructures, 1650—1900

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 Herschel’s Cape Voyage, 1833-1838
Chair: Ernst Hamm, York University

3:30 p.m. — 5:30 p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)

Nature’s 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 Galileo’s 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 Cvijic’s 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 Scherchen’s 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 DeMorgan’s 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)

Nature’s 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 Women’s Caucus

Maura C. Flannery, St. John’s University, The Lab Coat: Symbol of Science as a Male Pursuit
Robert Hendrick, St. John’s 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, Kepler’s 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 Magini’s ‘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 Salam’s 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 Manson’s 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 Colorado–Boulder, 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 Balam’s
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 Cushing’s 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, Bohr’s 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 Oppenheimer’s 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, Chicago’s Eskimo Village: Reconsidering Race at the World’s 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, Rome’s Second Galileo: Father John Zahm’s 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 Humboldt’s 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 Petty’s 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, Queen’s 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: Steinbeck’s 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: America’s Contribution to Australia’s 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, Brodie’s "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

Galileo’s 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, Galileo’s 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 Darwin’s 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