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Thursday,
5:00-7:00pm
Plenary Session:
The
Material World of Science: Art, Books and Body Parts
Sara Schechner, Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific
Instruments, "Doing It with Lenses and Mirrors: Recovering the Methods
of Art and Science from Historical Instruments"
Barbara Maria Stafford, University of Chicago, "Polyopticality
and the Limitations of the Hockney Debates"
Roger Gaskell, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, "The Technology
of Illustration: Engravings in Early Modern Natural Philosophy"
Gretchen Worden, Mütter Museum, "From Ruysch to von
Hagens: Changing Representations of the Body"
Commentator: Paula Findlen
Chair: Steven Turner
Friday,
9:00-11:45 am
The
Meaning of the Copernican Revolution: Re-Assessing the Implications
of De-Centering the Earth
Michael J. Crowe, University of Notre Dame, "The Copernican
Revolution and the Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life Debate"
Dennis Danielson, University of British Columbia, "Religious
Affirmations of the Copernican Cosmos"
Rhonda Martens, University of Manitoba, "The Aesthetic
Arguments of Copernicus, Rheticus, and Kepler"
J.B. Shank, University of Minnesota, "The Anxious Anthropocentrism
of the Early Enlightenment"
William L. Vanderburgh, Wichita State University, "Assessing
the Implications of the Copernican Revolution"
Chair: William Vanderburgh
Systems
of Sympathy, Axes of Power: The Role of Occult Philosophies in the Development
of Western Thought
Mark A. Waddell, The Johns Hopkins University, "'O Wondrous
Medicament': The Weapon Salve and its Role as an Exemplar of Occult
Activity in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy"
Allison B. Kavey, Johns Hopkins University, "Occult Thinking
and the Imperial Nation in Elizabethan England"
Jason Ingram, Annenberg School of Communication, University
of Southern California, "The Quest for Correspondence: Bruno, Bacon,
and the Power of Language"
E.R. Truitt, Harvard University, "Necromancy, Automata,
and Mimetic Representation in Twelfth and Early-Thirteenth Century French
Literature"
Christopher Ian Lehrich, Boston University, "Words of
Power: Magical Semiotics and Foreign Language in Cornelius Agrippa and
Athanasius Kircher"
Chair: Michael Sappol
Talking
Heads: Reading the Victorian Body
John C. Waller, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
at University College London, "Heredity, Fatalism and Literature:
Hereditarian Concepts in the Novels of the Nineteenth Century"
Paul White, University of Cambridge, "Of Scientific Character:
The Physiology of Emotion and its Display in Victorian Britain"
Colin Nazhone Milburn, Harvard University, "Science from
Hell: Jack the Ripper and the Vivisected Body"
Sharrona Pearl, Harvard University, "Diagnosis -- Madness:
Physiognomy and Photography in Nineteenth-Century British Asylums"
Commentator: Alison Winter
Chair: TBD
The
Periodical in German Science: Economies of Material and Intellectual
Exchange, 1720-1920
Ian Farrell McNeely, University of Oregon, "The Popular
Enlightenment: Science and Society Before the German University Revolution"
Denise Phillips, Harvard University, "Cosmopolitan Exchange
and Local Spaces: Printed Text and Spoken Word in Early 19th Century
German Science"
Michael D. Gordin, Society of Fellows, Harvard University,
"Let Them Read German: The Zeitschrift für Chemie and the
Making of Russian Chemistry"
Ole Molvig, Princeton University, "Cosmology in Press:
The Published Environment and the Development of a Modern Science, 1900
to 1920 "
Commentator: James Secord
Chair: Thomas Broman
Topographies
of Ethological Knowledge: Distinctive Practices and Conceptualizations
of Animal Behavior
Richard Burkhardt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"The Importance of Practice and Place in the Topography of Ethological
Knowledge: an Analysis of both the Scientific Collaboration and the
Enduring Differences between Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen"
Paul E. Griffiths, University of Pittsburgh, "Place and
Disciplinary Identity in British Animal Behavior Studies"
Mark E. Borrello, Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University,
"Foundations and Failures: V. C. Wynne-Edwards and the Development of
Ethology"
R. Renee Dolney, University of Pittsburgh, "Disciplining
Primates: Ethology, Anthropology, Sociobiology and Primatology"
Commentator: Werner Callebaut
Chair: Paul Griffiths
Clearing
Mists and Slaying Dragons: Border Issues in History of Physics and Its
Historiography
Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota, "Dogs, Fleas,
and Tree Trunks: Marking the Territory of Boltzmann's H-Theorem"
Tilman Sauer, Einstein Papers Project, Caltech, "'Rebirth
of the Dragons' - What do Documents Prove?"
Richard Staley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Mimesis
and Analysis in the Development of the Cloud Chamber"
Christopher J. Smeenk, Dept. of History and Philosophy of
Science, University of Pittsburgh, "Pursuit and Persuasion in Inflationary
Cosmology"
Commentator: Arne Hessenbruch
Chair: Elizabeth Paris
Borders:
Place, Culture, Practice
Tom Gieryn, Indiana University, "The City as Laboratory:
Manufacturing Knowledge in Urban Sociology"
Robert E. Kohler, University of Pennsylvania, "Labscapes:
Places of Field Biological Practice"
Lynn K. Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The
Ocean in the Museum: Marine Science and Museum Zoology in early 20th-Century
Germany."
Donald L. Opitz, University of Minnesota, "'A Temple of
Research': Laboratory Life in the Victorian Country House"
Chair and Commentator: TBD
Public
Science: Circulating Knowledge in Enlightenment Europe
Michael D. Cunningham, University of Connecticut, "Antonio
Vallisneri, the Republic of Letters, and the Origin of Fossils"
Massimo Mazzotti, University of Toronto, "Venetian Sunset:
Uses of Light in a Declining Republic"
Shelley Costa, Xavier University, "Mathematics and Gentlemanly
Culture in 18th-century England"
Paola Bertucci, University of Bologna, "Electric marvels,
Controversial Cures: Medical Electricity in Enlightened Italy"
Giuliano Pancaldi, University of Bologna / Dibner Institute,
"Contingency Revisited: Crossing Borders in Late Enlightenment Science"
Chair: TBD
Friday,
12:00-1:00 pm
Pursuing
Oral Histories of Science
Roudtable Discussion
Forum
for the History of Science in America, Distinguished Lecturer
Lecturer To Be Announced
Friday,
1:30-3:10pm
Measuring
Minds
Shachar Link, Stanford University, "Intelligence, Science,
and Power: The Stanford-Binet IQ Test and the Defintion of Intelligence
in the Twentieth Century"
Richard von Mayrhauser, University of California at Berkeley,
"Traversing Cultures, Disciplines, and Cosms (Micro- and Macro-): German
Influences on the Development of Early American Intelligence Testing
"
Paddy Ricard, Wellcome Institute/UCL, "Genetics Meets
Psychiatry: Studying the Inheritance of Mental Disorder in Britain 1930-1945"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
Medical
Encounters Across Asian Borders
Jayanta Bhattacharya, "The Body, Epistemology and Colonial Medicine
in India: An Aporia"
Lara J. Iverson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, "Inclusion/Exclusion:
Representation of the Vietnamese in French Colonial Medical Discourse"
Rey Calingo Tiquia, University of Melbourne, "A Translating
Knowledge Space Between Chinese Medicine and Biomedicine in Australia
"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
American
Topographies: Mapping Forests, Reserves, and the Ocean Floor
Alex Checkovich, University of Pennsylvania, "Regional
Developments: Land-Use Mapping and its Place in American Settlement,
1915-1940"
Hannes Toivanen, School of History, Technology and Society,
Georgia Institute of Technology, "Visual Harvest: Ambiguity, American
Forestry Science and Objective Proof 1900-1940 "
Mason Kent Marker, Oregon State University, "Seeing Planet
Earth Through New Eyes: Technological Advances in Marine Cartography
and the Development of the Heezen/Tharp Map"
James Robert Justus, University of Texas at Austin, "The
Importance of Technological Innovation in Conservation Biology: The
Emergence of Systematic Biodiversity Reserve Network Design"
Chair: TBD
Exploration
at Home and Abroad
M. D. Eddy, University of Durham, "The Natural History
of Exploration in Enlightenment Scotland"
Lawrence S. Dritsas, Centre for African Studies, University
of Edinburgh, "The Role of Expeditions to Central Africa as Observational
Tools for British Scientific Societies in the mid-Nineteenth Century."
Aant Elzinga, Goteborg University, "Beyond the Ends of
the World: Nationalism and Internationalism in Antarctic Exploration
and Imagination 1895-1914"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
Disciplinary
Spaces in 20th Century Life Sciences
Ana Barahona, National University of Mexico, UNAM, "The
Institutionalization of Genetics in Mexico"
Edna Suárez, National University of Mexico (UNAM),
"Inscriptions and Concepts in the Origins of Molecular Evolution"
James E. Strick, Princeton University, "Creating a Cosmic
Discipline: The Crystallization and Consolidation of Exobiology, 1957-1997"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
Individuals
and Communities in Victorian and Post-Victorian England
Kathryn Angelyn Neeley, University of Virginia, "Science
as an 'Extensive and Splendid Prospect': The Distinctly Non-Disciplinary
Rhetoric of Science in Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the
Physical Sciences"
Richard England, Salisbury University, "Reading Science
After the Oxford Movement: Edward Pusey's Scientific Friendships in
a Time of Conflict"
James Elwick, University of Toronto, "Herbert Spencer
and the Ontogeny of an Author"
Peter John Bowler, Queen's University, Belfast, "From
Science to the Popularization of Science: The Career of J. Arthur Thomson"
Chair: TBD
Research
Comunities in 20th Century Physics
Arne Schirrmacher, Munich Center for the History of Science
and Technology, "On the Social Space Between Discipline and Individual
Scientist: The Topography of the Mathematical-Physical Community in
Early Twentieth Century Göttingen"
Suman Seth, Princeton University, "The Heroic Death of
a Photogrammeter: Theoreticians as the Kaiser's Physicists"
Chen-Pang Yeang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
"From Long-Distance Radio to Ionospheric Science: Formation of a Research
Area "
Gary J. Weisel, Penn State, Altoona, "Identity and Unity:
The Plasma Physics Community of the 1960s"
Chair: TBD
Astronomy
in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Marco Zuccato, University of Melbourne, "A Historiographical
Problem: Gerbert of Aurillac and the Introduction of Arabic Astronomy
to Tenth-Century Europe."
Richard L. Kremer, Dartmouth College, "The Nature of the
Almanac: Producers and Consumers in the Astrological Marketplace of
Late Fifteenth-century Europe"
Sven Dupre, Ghent University, "The Prehistory of the Telescope
in the 16th Century: The Circulation of Knowledge Embodied in Optical
Instrumental Practice"
Maria M. Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University, "Secret
Science: Eclipses and Longitude in 16th century Spain"
Chair: TBD
Friday,
3:30-5:30pm
Visualizing
Colonial Nature: Science in the Spanish Americas
Antonio Barrera, Colgate University, "Things from the
New World: Reports, Curiosities, and Commodities"
Daniela Bleichmar, Princeton University, "Translating
Nature: The Production and Uses of Natural History Pictures in Colonial
Science"
Paula De Vos, San Diego State University, "Research and
Development in the Colonies: The Relaciones Geograficas and the Search
for Indigenous Drugs, 16th-19th Centuries"
Chair and Commentator: Susan Deans-Smith
Circulating
Medical Knowledge in Inter-War America
Alexandra M. Lord, United States Public Health Service,
"'A People's War:' The United States Public Health Service and the Circulation
of Knowledge Regarding Venereal Disease, 1920-1929"
Laura E. Ettinger, Clarkson University, "'The Forgotten
Man:' New York City's Maternity Center Association Educates Expectant
Fathers"
Michelle L. McClellan, University of Georgia, "'Carrying
the Message:' The Role of Alcoholics Anonymous in Popularizing the Disease
Model of Alcoholism"
Chair and Commentator: Jacqueline Friedlander
Ethnicities
of 20th Century Physics
Ruben Martinez, University of Texas at Austin, "The Whiteness
of Luis Alvarez"
Rebecca Press Schwartz, Princeton University, "The Military-Industrial-Scientific
Complex Meets the International Jewish Conspiracy: Antisemitism and
Anticommunism on the Manhattan Project"
Benjamin Chester Zulueta, University of California, Santa
Barbara, "Rescuing China: The Formation of Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals,
Inc. and the Beginnings of Chinese Scientific Immigration to the United
States During the Early Cold War"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
How
Visual Science Cultures are Formed and Stabilized
Klaus Hentschel, Historian of Science, Goettingen, "The
Shaping of Spectroscopic Visuality"
Kaerin Nickelsen, Institute for Philosophy, "Stabilization
and Progress: The Visual Culture of 18th -Century Scientific Plant Drawings"
Robert Michael Brain, Harvard University, "Must We Mean
What We See? E.J. Marey and Graphic Methods in Late 19th- Century Experimental
Science"
Kathryn Olesko, Georgetown University, "Vision and Culture
in the Romantic Era: Helmholtz's Sources"
Chair: TBD
Popularization
of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
Kevin Chang, The University of Chicago, "Medicine For
Ladies: The Introduction of Georg Ernst Stahl's Gynecological Work to
the Popular Book Market"
Patrick Singy, University of Chicago, "Tissot's Avis
au peuple sur sa sant: A Medical Book for Nobles, the People, and
Horses"
James G. Donat, "Empirical Medicine in the 18th Century:The Rev.
John Wesley's Search for Remedies that Work "
John C. Powers, New School University, "Chymistry, Medicine,
and Popular Demand: The Chemical Market at the University of Leiden,
1670-1740"
Chair: Allen Debus
Religion
and Science in the Trenches
Jeffrey P. Moran, University of Kansas, "African Americans
and the Scopes Trial: The Secular Black Elite Responds"
Ryan Cameron MacPherson, University of Notre Dame, "Science,
Religion, and Human Origins in the Hillhouse Neighborhood at Yale College,
1829-1859"
G. Blair Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Religion
and Science Closer to the Pew: The Unity Debate in the American Popular
Religious Press"
Commentator: Edward Larson
Chair: Ronald Numbers
Science
and Empire: Views from the Colonies
Fa-ti Fan, Binghamton University, "Science and Informal
Empire: Victorian Naturalists in China"
Andrew Goss, University of Michigan, "Desk Science: Managing
Biology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1880-1910"
Matthias Doerries, Universite Louis Pasteur, "Krakatau,
the World as Laboratory"
Commentator: Suzanne Moon
Chair: Jane R. Camerini
Friday,
7:30-9:00pm
History
of Science on the Web: Teaching, Education, and Public Awareness (Sponsored
by the Committee on Education)
Workshop Participants: Albert Van Helden, Robert Hatch, David
Mossley
Saturday,
9:00-11:45am
Circulation
at the Carnegie Department of Embryology c1913-1970
Garland Allen, Washington University, St. Louis, "From
Embryology to Genetics and Back Again: The Path to a New Synthesis"
Elizabeth Hanson, The Rockefeller University, "Colonizing
the Laboratory: Rhesus Monkeys as Research Material at the CIW"
Hannah Landecker, Rice University, "The Lewis Films: Tissue
Culture, Embryo Culture and Early Twentieth-Century Biological Cinema
at the Carnegie Institution"
Adrianne Noe, Armed Forces Inst. of Pathology/Nat Mus of Health
and Medicine, "The Uses of the Carnegie Human Embryology Collection"
Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco,
"Studies in the Reproductive Sciences at the CIW's Department of Embryology,
1913-1955"
Chair: Jane Maienschein
The
Objects of Our Knowledge: Some Goals and Materials of Early Astronomy
Liba Taub, University of Cambridge, "Out of the Hands
of Zeus: Astronomy and Weather Prediction in Ancient Greece and Rome"
James Evans, University of Puget Sound, "The Astrologer's
Apparatus: A Picture of Professional Practice in Greco-Roman Egypt"
Francois Charette, Dibner Institute, "The Visual Cultures
of Islamic Astronomical Practice"
Bruce Eastwood, University of Kentucky, "Circulation of
Astronomical Knowledge in the Carolingian Renaissance: The Case of Planetary
Diagrams in Manuscript"
Bruce Stephenson, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum,
"Seeing Through Objects: X-rays and Astrolabes"
Chair: Matthew Dowd
The
Legacies of Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Nickles, University of Nevada, Reno, "Kuhn and
the Agendas of History and Philosophy of Science"
Peter Machamer, University of Pittsburgh, "Scientific
Normativity as Non-Epistemic: A Hidden Kuhnian Legacy "
Gonzalo Munevar, Lawrence Technological University, "A
Defense of Kuhn's Importance to the Philosophy of Science"
Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, "The Costs of the
Kuhnian Legacy for Science Studies"
Chair and Commentator: Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Manifesting
and Circulating the Supernatural: Spiritual Science and Psychical Research
in medieval, early modern and modern contexts
Leah DeVun, Columbia University, "Human Heaven: Visions
of the Natural World in the Alchemy of John of Rupescissa"
Johannes Wilfried Dillinger, University of Trier, Germany,
"Wealth, Health, and Heaven: Treasure Wizards in Early Modern Germany"
Diana Lyn Laulainen-Schein, University of Minnesota, "Paul
Carter: Patriarchal Deviancy and Witchcraft Accusation in Colonial Virginia"
Anne Christina Rose, Johns Hopkins University, "'La Mademoiselle
Magnetique' and 'La Jeune Fille Electrique': Staging and Investigating
Unusual Psychic and Somatic powers, 1838-1846"
Sofie Lachapelle, University of Notre Dame, "Between Miracle
and Sickness: Louise Latreau and the Experience of Stigmata and Ecstasy"
Chair: James Bono
Crossing
Borders, Claiming Space: Modern Geoscientific Exploration and the Construction
of Place
Marianne Sommer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
"The Romantic Cave? The Scientific and Poetic Quests for Subterranean
Spaces"
Minakshi Menon, Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill
University, "Neptunists, Vulcanists and Indianists: Geological Fieldwork
in Colonial India"
Naoki Yamaguchi, Tohoku University, "Japanese impelialism
and Colonial Science in China: Studies on Activities of Central Research
Institution of South Manchurian Railway Company"
Sabine Höhler, Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science, "A Sound Survey: The Oceanographical Advance into the Deep
in Weimar Germany"
Grace Yen Shen, Harvard University, "Interior Designs:
Wartime Geology and Visions of Chinese Nationhood"
Chair: Naomi Oreskes
Practical
Knowledge and the State, 1550-1850
Tara E. Nummedal, Brown University, "Making Money: Alchemy
and Economy in Sixteenth-Century Central Europe"
Eric H. Ash, Wayne State University, "Enlarging the Realm:
Land Reclamation and the Seventeenth-Century English State"
Simon Werrett, Max Planck Insitute for the History of Science,
"Explosive Affinities: Natural Philosophers and Pyrotechnicians in the
Enlightenment"
Andrew John Lewis, American University, "Gathering for
the State: Natural History and the Economies of the Early American Republic"
Chair and Commentator: Mary Terrall
Family
Networks and the Circulation of Science
Joy Harvey, University of Oklahoma, "Circling around Darwin:
Darwin's Science as a Family Enterprise"
Marsha L. Richmond, Wayne State University, "The `Domestication'
of Heredity: The Familial Network of Geneticists at Cambridge University,
1895-1910"
Nancy G. Slack, The Sage Colleges, "Husbands/Wives, Sisters/Brothers:
Family Networks in American Botany and Zoology"
Ann Shteir, York University, "Collecting for William Hooker:
Networks and Family Practices in Colonial Quebec and Newfoundland"
Commentator: Anne Secord
Chair: Bernard Lightman
'Social
Science Confidential': Constructing and Critiquing 'Mass Society' in
the Postwar United States
Thomas Chappelear, University of Chicago, "The Mismeasure
of Management: Personality in the Postwar Corporation"
Jamie Cohen-Cole, Princeton University, "Creativity: the
Post WWII Answer to the Problems of Mass Society, 1945-1965"
Sarah E. Igo, University of Pennsylvania, "Aggregate Anxiety:
Social Statistics and the Making of American "Mass Society" "
Debbie Weinstein, Harvard University, "The Personality
Factory: Family, Race, and Gender in Postwar Social Science"
Commentator: John Carson
Chair: Howard Brick
Saturday,
12:00-1:30pm
Reader's
Theatre
Organized by Todd Savitt, East Carolina University Medical
School
Arabic/Islamic
Science and the Scientific Tradition in the West: Problems and Prospects
A Roundtable Discussion
Organizer:
G. A. Russell, Texas A & M University
Saturday,
1:30-3:10pm
Domesticating
the Wild West
Philip Pauly, Rutgers University, "Sequoias in Dubuque:
Asa Gray, Forest Geography, and the Problem of the Prairie"
Jeremy Vetter, University of Pennsylvania, "Knowledge
Moving Across Geographical Borders: The Circulation of Scientific Data
and Objects from Field Sites in the Late Nineteenth-Century U.S. Central
West"
Jane P. Davidson, University of Nevada Reno, "Edward Drinker
Cope, W. E. Webb, and Buffalo Land: Joint Authors?"
Hanna Rose Shell, Harvard University, "The Soul in the
Skin: William Temple Hornaday and the Buffalo Group"
Chair: TBD
Biological
Threats
Gerard Fitzgerald, Carnegie Mellon University, "'A Purely
American Disease': Francisella tularensis and the Industrialization
of a United States Biological Weapon: 1911-1962"
James Nelligan, University of Illinois-Urbana, "'Secrecy
at All Costs': Moral Dilemmas and Changing Norms in Cold War Biological
Weapons Science"
Matt Chew, Arizona State University, "The Invasion of
the Second Greatest Threat"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
Blood,
Cycles, Rhythm: Topics in Gendered Modern Medicine
Sarah Goodfellow, Pennsylvania State University, "Menopause:
Hers and His? Medical Visions of the Climacteric in the Late 19th and
Early 20th Centuries"
Paula Viterbo, George Washington University, "I Got Rhythm:
Gershwin and Birth Control in the 1930s"
Stephen Gregory Pemberton, Rutgers University, "Sufferer,
'You Aren't Alone': Hemophilia, Gender, and the Discipline of Hematology,
1952-1964"
Lara Freidenfelds, Harvard University, "Talking about
PMS: Crossing Boundaries of Gender, Medicine and Mentionability"
Chair: TBD
20th
Century Physical Sciences in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
Boumsoung Kim, The University of Tokyo, "When do the Earthquakes
Break Out?: Fusakichi Omori (1868-1923) and Meteorological Seismology"
Danian Hu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "The
Introduction of Relativity in China"
Kenji Ito, Harvard University, "Physics at War in Japan:
Nishina Yoshio's Propaganda for "Pure Science" during World War II"
Roderick Home, University of Melbourne, "The Rush to Accelerate:
Early Australian Attempts to Establish a Research Program in Nuclear
Physics"
Chair: TBD
Scientific
Education and Scientific Method
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, "The Useful Art of Mental Discipline:
The Historical Role of Geometry Education in American Culture"
John L. Rudolph, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The
Scientific Method and Public Schooling in the Early 20th Century"
Alistair Sponsel, Princeton University, "Debating the
Purpose of an Undergraduate Training in Science: 'Depth' versus 'Breadth'
on the Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos, 1914-1950."
Daniel Patrick Thurs, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
"Scientific Methods and the Boundaries of Science"
Chair: TBD
Chemists
and Chemistry in Early Modern Europe
Anna Marie Eleanor Roos, University of Minnesota - Duluth,
"The Circulation of Salts: Thomas Philipot and Iatrochemical Theories
of the Tides in Seventeenth-Century England"
Douglas Allchin, "James Hutton and Coal: From Finessing Phlogiston
to Interpreting the Natural Economy"
Victor Boantza, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, "A
Post Mortem Defense of a Scientific Entity: Richard Kirwan's
Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids"
Frank A.J.L. James, Royal Institution, "Visiting the Enemy:
Humphry Davy in Napoleon's Europe, 1813-1815"
Chair: TBD
Bodies
on Display in 18th Century and Early 19th Century Europe
Lucia Dacome, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
at UCL, "Somatic thresholds: Modelling Anatomy in Eighteenth-century
Italy"
Kathryn A. Hoffmann, University of Hawaii-Manoa, "Public
Anatomy and Prying Gazes: Sex, Voyeurism and Anatomical Knowledge in
the Enlightenment"
Sarah E. Mitchell, University of Southampton, "Exhibiting
Monstrosity: The 'Original Siamese Twins' and Their 1829 World Tour"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
Romantics,
Murderers, and DNA: Science and Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries
John Tresche, "Between Mechanics and Romanticism: Restoration
Sciences and Arts"
Laura J. Snyder, University of Chicago, "Sherlock Holmes,
Scientific Detective: Images of Science in 19th century British Detective
Fiction"
Stephen Kern, Ohio State University, "A Cultural History
of Causality: The Progress of Science and the Whatchemacallit of Literature"
Pippa Tandy, The University of Western Australia, "The
'DNA of the Present' in the Fossil Record of the Cold War, Through the
Imagery of Science Fiction Author J.G. Ballard, Related Sources, Artifacts
and Documents in Various Media"
Chair: TBD
Saturday,
3:30-5:30pm
Science,
Public Health and the Tobacco Industry: Using Internal Industry Documents
in Historical Research
Howard I. Kushner, Emory University, "Piblic Policy and
the Tobacco Industry: an Historical Investigation of Persistent Smoking"
Joshua Dunsby, University of California - San Francisco,
"The Currency of Tobacco Science Politics: Credibility, Public Relations,
and Experts in Second-Hand Smoke Control Policy"
Mark Parascandola, National Cancer Institute, "The U.S.
National Cancer Institute and the Search for 'Less Hazardous Cigarettes'"
Commentator: Allan Brandt
Chair: Mark Parascandola
Constructing
Cold War Physics
Alexander Brown, MIT, "The Rhetoric and Reality of Cold
War Physics Manpower: A Quantitative Analysis of Graduate Education
in Physics in Britain and Germany, 1900-1970"
David Kaiser, M.I.T., "Putting the 'Big' in 'Big Science':
Cold War Requisitions and the Production of American Physicists after
World War II"
John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology, "The Three
Faces of Science in the 1950s"
Chair and Commentator: Cathryn Carson
Classification
in Early Modern Europe
Susan McMahon, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
"Classification: Sorting out Early Modern England"
Jonathan Simon, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
"Marbles, Gems, and Figured Stones, or How to Arrange a Mineral Collection
in the Eighteenth Century"
Sarah Lowengard, "Number, Order, Form. Classification and Representation
of Color in 18th Century Europe"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
The
Political History and Political Future of Philosophy of Science
Don Howard, University of Notre Dame, "Past and Prologue:
Resuming the Conversation with Neurath about the Role of Social and
Political Values in Theory Choice"
George Reisch, Independent Scholar, "From 'The Life of
the Present' to 'The Icy Slopes of Logic': Logical Empiricism and the
Unity of Science Movement in America"
John McCumber, Northwestern University, "Diverse Dangers,
False Friends: Political Crosscurrents Affecting Philosophers in the
McCarthy Era"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: Alan Richardson
Disease
and Culture: Maladies de L'esprit in Revolutionary France
Sean M. Quinlan, University of Idaho, "The Limits of Rejuvenation:
Nervous Disease, Corporeal Rehabilitation, and Family Hygiene after
the Terror"
Anne Catherine Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
"Diseases of the Over-Cultured: Melancholia, Degeneration, and the Thinking
Man in the Wake of Rousseau"
Elizabeth A. Williams, Oklahoma State University, "From
"the Vapors" to "Hysteria": Class, Gender, and Diagnostic Transformation
in the French Revolution"
Commentator: Matthew Ramsey
Chair: TBD
Oeconomic
Borders with Enlightenment Natural Philosophy
Lisbet Rausing, Imperial College, London, "Underwriting
the Oeconomy: Linnaeus on Nature and Mind"
Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia, "Adam
Smith's Debts: Labor, Wealth, and Deception"
Evelyn L. Forget, University of Manitoba, "Evocations
of Sympathy: Sympathetic Imagery in Eighteenth-Century Social Theory
and Physiology"
Commentator: Roger Hahn
Chair: David Wilson
French
Science Beyond the Hexagon
Jordan Kellman, Louisiana State University, "Crossing
the Pond: Charles Plumier and Colonial Botany in the 17th-century French
Caribbean"
Richard C. Keller, Washington University in St. Louis/University
of Wisconsin-Madison, "Psychiatry Across Borders: Contesting Diagnosis
in Colonial North Africa"
Lewis Pyenson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, "Blowing
Hot and Cold: Science in French North America, 1600-1900"
Florence C. Hsia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Keeping
the Faith: French Science in Late Imperial China"
Chair: Florence Hsia
Places
of Knowledge and Pleasure: Science, Popular Culture and Zoos in Germany
and Austria 1850-1950
Oliver Hochadel, Institute for Science Studies, Vienna University,
"Outside the Cages. The Spectators at the Vienna Zoo in the 19th and
Early 20th Century"
Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "Science
in the Tierpark: Alexander Sokolowsky"
Veronika Hofer, Independent Scholar/Vienna Austria, "In
Search of Territory: Animal Psychology and the Problem of Naturalistic
Displays in the Vienna Zoological Garden under Otto Antonius 1925-1945"
Chair and Commentator: Mitchell Ash
Sunday,
9:00-11:45am
The
Empire's New Mind: Abstracting Nature, Mechanising Thought
William J. Ashworth, Dibner Institute/University of Liverpool,
"Romanticizing the Mind: William Whewell, Political Economy and Mathematics
in Georgian England"
Gordon McOuat, University of King's College / Dalhousie University,
"(George) Benthamite Logic: Quantifying Predicates between Radical Nominalism
and High Tory Naturalism"
Alan Richardson, University of British Columbia, "Radical
Disinterpretation: Algebraic Logic and the Symbolic Mind"
Joan L. Richards, Brown University, "Radical Interpretations:
Logic as the Grammar of Reason in Victorian England"
Chair and Commentator: TBD
The
Rhetoric of Science: Any Interest to Historians?
Alan Gross, University of Minnesota, "Communicating Science:
Visuals"
Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington, "Shaping Science
with Rhetoric: Uniting Historical and Rhetorical Approaches to Research"
Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland, "Rhetorical
Figures and Scientific Invention"
Commentators: Keith Benson, Michael Reidy, John Jackson
Chair: Jan Golinski
Exploring
Intersections of History and Policy: A Public Discussion
Commentator: TBD
Chair: Erik Conway
Taking
Stock: Historiographic Reflections on Model Organisms in the Life Sciences
Cheryl Logan, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
"Boundaries in the Use of Test Animals: Albino Rats as 'Representatives,'
as 'Standards,' and as 'Models'"
Karen A. Rader, Sarah Lawrence College, "Animals as Laboratory
Organisms, Laboratory Organisms as Animals"
Judy Johns Schloegel, Indiana University, "Organisms Unbound:
Transience and the Lives of Model Organisms"
Rachel A. Ankeny, University of Sydney, "What Can the
Human Sciences Reveal about Cases?: Connections between Model Organisms
and People as Models"
Chair and Commentator: Angela N. H. Creager
Crossing
the Boundaries: Translators and Translations in the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance
Sonja Brentjes, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, "Cooperation,
Silence and Change: the Transfer and Circulation of Maps between Western
Asia and Western Europe (15th - 18th Centuries)"
Glen M. Cooper, Brigham Young University, "The Latin Translations
of the Treatise On Asthma of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204): Toward
a Methodology of Arabo-Latin Lexicography"
Maria Amalia D'Aronco, University of Udine, "Translating
Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon England"
Robert Morrison, Whitman College, "Judeo-Arabic Astronomy
in Hebrew"
Teresa J. Baluk-Ulewicz, Jagiellonian University of Cracow,
"Self-Evaluation and Programme Definition in Pioneering Conditions:
The Classic Apology for Adaptation in the Polish Translation of Castiglione's
Il Cortegiano by Tukasz Gornicki (1566)"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
Productive
Principles: Constructing Knowledge and Power at the Interface between
Science, Technology and Culture
Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, "In the Garden of
Earthly Design"
Larry Stewart, University of Saskatchewan, "Making Energy
Matter: Contesting Invention in the Late Eighteenth Century"
Adrian Johns, University of Chicago, "The Invention of
Piracy: Commerce, Craft, and the Construction of Crossed Boundaries
1660-1730"
Mary Henninger-Voss, Princeton University, "Theory and
Practice in Early Modern 'Big Ideas'"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: Pamela Smith
Exploring
Authority and Exploding Boundaries: The Trafficking Between High and
Low Culture in Early Modern Europe
Jason Harris, Trinity College, Dublin, "De Jode, Ortelius,
and the Market for Maps"
Alisha Rankin, Harvard University, "Laywomen, Physicians,
and the Exchange of Medical Recipes in Sixteenth-century Germany "
Elizabeth H. Lee, Harvard University, "'Heeding the Marvels
that God Made': Pilot-Poet Jean Parmentier and Knowledge of the New
and Marvelous"
Andrew W. Sparling, Duke University, "The Experience and
Authority of an Artisan Adept: the German Alchemist Johann Rudolph Glauber
(1604-1670)"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: TBD
Natural
Knowledge, American Identities
Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan/Charles Warren
Center, Harvard University, "The Humors of New World Science"
Alice N. Walters, University of Massachusetts, Lowell,
"Dependence and Independence: Importing English Science in America's
Early National Period"
Katherine Pandora, University of Oklahoma, "Peter Parley
as a Scientific American: Creating an Indigenous Literature for the
Children's Republic of Science"
Ann Johnson, Fordham University, "The Tradition of Practical
Science in Antebellum America"
Commentator: TBD
Chair: Michael Sokal
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