2008 HSS Meeting Program
(* Indicates Session Organizer)
Thursday, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
HSS Council Meeting, Frick
Thursday, 5:30 -7:00 p.m.
MONO – Co-Plenary Roundtable: Climate Change Science, Environmental Challenges, and Cultural Anxiety
(Precirculated discussion papers (10-15 pages) will be posted by 6 October at http://www.colby.edu/sts/hss2008climate.)
*James R. Fleming (Colby College)
Romantic Climates: ‘A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!’
Marilyn Gaull (Boston University)
Climatological Citizenship: The Many Lives of a Modern Fetish
Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester)
‘Nuclear Winter’ and Global Climatic Change
Matthias Dörries (Université Louis Pasteur)
‘Educational Toys:’ The Evolution and Persistence of Simple Models of Climate Change
Spencer R. Weart (Center for the History of Physics, AIP)
Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar System
Roger D. Launius (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
ALLE – Co-Plenary Workshop: Informational Session About Job Creation in HTSM Through UTeach Natural Sciences
*Abigail Lustig (University of Texas at Austin), Mary Walker (University of Texas at Austin), Brett Bennett (University of Texas at Austin), Alberto Martinez (University of Texas at Austin), Bruce Hunt (University of Texas at Austin)
HOPE – Co-Plenary Committee on Education Workshop: Instruments, Internet, and Innovation in the History of Science Classroom
*Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia)
Reading Artifacts: On Teaching with Historic Scientific Instruments
Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College)
Teaching with Artifacts: The Museum Context
David Pantalony (Canada Science and Technology Museum)
Internet-Based Teaching Tools for History of Science Classes
Peter Ramberg (Truman State University)
Thursday, 7:00-7:45 p.m.
Welcome Orientation for First-time Attendees, Sky Room
Thursday, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
HSS/PSA Reception. Welcome by University of Pittsburgh Provost, James Maher; introduction by Adolf Grunbaum, GB and URBA
Thursday, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chemical History Interest Dinner: The Carlton Restaurant, 500 Grant Street, $40 pp.; $20 student.
Thursday, 8:30-10:30 p.m.
Secrecy, film with commentary by Peter Galison (director), Allegheny
Friday, 7:30-8:45 a.m.
Women’s Caucus Business Meeting, Sky Room
Friday, 7:30-8:45 a.m.
Comm. on Education Meeting, Heinz
Friday, 9:00-11:45 a.m.
OAK – Language, Stories, and Mathematics
Ted Porter (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair
Mathematical Poetics: How Mathematics Became an Art in the 19th Century
*Amir Alexander (UCLA)
The Logic of Women: Words and Reason in the World of Sophia De Morgan
Joan Richards (Brown University)
Modes of Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Mathematics
Jacqueline Wernimont (Brown University)
Formalism and its Discontents: The Danger of Frivolous Mathematics in the Mid-Enlightenment
Matthew Jones (Columbia University)
SKY – Scientific Nationalism and Modern East Asia
Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia), Commentator
A Model of Modernity? Chinese American Scientists in China Since 1971
Zuoyue Wang (CSU Pomona/Harvey Mudd)
Scientific Nationalism in Japan
*Hiromi Mizuno (University of Minnesota)
‘Let’s Have the Proper Number of Children and Bring Them Up Well!’: Family Planning, Biomedicine, and Nation-Building in South Korea, 1961-1968
*John DiMoia (National University of Singapore)
Science, Technical Aid, and Tinkering with Mainframe Computing in Cold War Taiwan, 1955-1965
Honghong Tinn (Cornell University)
PARG – Audio/Visual: Techniques of Speech, Music and Signal
Fantastic Instruments: Berlioz, Meyerbeer, and the Foucault Connection
*John Tresch (University of Pennsylvania)
From Acoustic Image to Sacred Vibrations: Experimental Phonetics and the Invention of Free Verse Poetry in Fin de Siècle France
Robert Brain (University of British Columbia)
Tracing Beauty: A Pianist’s Collection of Fingerprints in Experimental Psychology Around 1900
Julia Kursell (Max Planck Institute)
Signal and Noise: The History of the Audiogram
*Mara Mills (University of Pennsylvania)
TRI – The Hard Parts: Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis
William B. Provine (Cornell University), Chair
The Complexities of Consistency: Sewall Wright, George Gaylord Simpson and Modeling Evolution
*Miranda Paton (Paleontological Research Institution)
The ‘Species Concept’ and the Growth of Paleobiology
David Sepkoski (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)
Of Babies and Bathwater: Osborn, Gould, the Synthesis and Paleontology
Warren D. Allmon (Paleontological Research Institution/Cornell)
German Paleontologists vs. Intelligent Designists
Patricia Princehouse (Case Western Reserve University)
Random Drift and the Evolutionary Synthesis
William B. Provine (Cornell University)
MONO – Isolation or Co-operation? Discipline Formation and Multidisciplinarity in Philosophy of Science in America 1918-1968
*Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia), Chair
The Philosophy of Science Association as an Interdisciplinary Society
Heather Douglas (University of Tennessee)
A ‘Coalition Dominated by the Unorthodox’: The Beginning of the Philosophy of Science Association
Gary Hardcastle (Bloomsburg University)
The Ecumenical Moment: Philosophy of Science, Scientific Philosophy, and Philosophical Science in Interwar America
Joel Isaac (University of London)
Edgar A. Singer, Jr., and American Experimentalism: From Philosophy of Science to Social Science, 1930-1955
Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
SHAD – The Role of Scientific Expertise in Activist Movements
*Lisa Rumiel (York University), Chair
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Scientist Activists: The Activism of Union of Concerned Scientists from 1980 to 1986
Lisa Rumiel (York University)
‘An Elaborate Way of Committing National Suicide’: Carl Sagan,
Popularization, and Nuclear Winter
Paul Rubinson (University of Texas)
Turning ‘Ordinary Housewives’ into ‘Opinion Makers:’ The Scientists’ Movement, the NCAI, and the Nascent Public
Megan Barnhart (University of Minnesota)
‘The Quickening Conscience’: Scientists Protest Agent Orange
Amy Hay (University of Texas - Pan American)
Advocating Ecological Practices as Environmental Activism: Frank Egler and Rights-of-way Management in the 1950s and 1960s
Zach Falck (Independent Scholar)
PARE/F – Standardization in 20th Century Medicine
Nicolas Rasmussen (University of New South Wales), Chair
Standardization and the History of the Medical Sciences
*Jonathan Simon (Université Lyon 1)
From Arrow Poison to IV Drug: African Plant Seeds, C.F. Boehringer Co. and the Question of Standard Drugs, 1900-1930
Christian Bonah (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg)
Classifying Cancers, Standardizing Practice
Tricia Close-Koenig (Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg)
Standardizing Values - the Value of Standardization. Implementation of Serotherapy as Model of Modern Drug Regulation in France and Germany, 1894-1900
Volker Hess (Charité, Berlin)
Friday, 9:00-11:45 a.m.
FOX – Social Science Ideas, Methods, Ethics and Identity in Mid 20th-Century America
Sarah Igo (University of Pennsylvania), Commentator
Laura Stark (Northwestern University), Chair
The Psychology Experiment as Coercion
Jill Morawski (Wesleyan)
Harry Alpert’s Adventure on the Endless Frontier: What is This Thing Called Social Science?
*Mark Solovey (University of Toronto)
Database of Dreams: Toward A Postwar American Science of Subjectivity
Rebecca Lemov (Harvard University)
Behavioral Endocrinology, Bisexual Rats, and ‘the Straight State’
Michael Pettit (York University)
ALLE – Towards a History of Scientific Observation: Empiricism at Home and on the Move
Michael Gordin (Princeton University), Chair
Watching and Waiting: Observation in Medieval Theory and Practice
Katharine Park (Harvard University)
Collective Observation in Early Modern Europe
Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
The Geography of Observation: Natural History, Place, and Visibility in the 18th-century Spanish Empire
Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California)
Frogs on the Mantelpiece: Glimpses into the Observing Life
*Mary Terrall (UCLA)
Sorting Things Out: The Economist as an Armchair Observer
Harro Maas (University of Amsterdam)
PARD – The Culture of Cybernetics: Case-Studies from Soviet Russia & USA
Philipp von Hilgers (Humboldt University, Berlin), Commentator
Design of Control Rooms: Russia Under Brezhnev
*Margareta Tillberg (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Cybernetics as Model in Russian Philosophy from the Modernist Age to Nowadays Thinking
Mirjam Goller (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Toward the Humanistic Calculus: The Formalist Renaissance in Soviet Linguistics, 1950-1963
Maxim Waldstein (Leiden University)
Psychocybernetics in 20th-Century USA
Stefan Rieger (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum)
Friday, 12:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Business Meeting for the Forum for the History of Science in America, Riverboat
Friday, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
TRI – From Dissertation to Book: A Roundtable on First-Time Scholarly Book Publication
Sponsored by GECC
*Jacqueline Wernimont (Brown University), *Roger Turner (University of Pennsylvania), Karen Darling (The University of Chicago Press), Doreen Valentine (Rutgers University Press), Marguerite Avery (The MIT Press)
ALLE – Roundtable/Workshop: Electronic Scholarship and the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
*Sarah Lowengard (Independent Scholar), Chair; *Maria Rentezi (National Technical University of Athens); Brett Bobley (National Endowment for the Humanities); Ben Cohen (University of Virginia); Stephen Greenberg (NIH/NLM); Scott W. Palmer (University of Western Illinois); Urs Schoepflin (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science); Joachim Schummer (editor HYLE); Audra Wolfe (CHF)
CCB – Lunchtime Discussion: Philosophy of Science in the Public Domain, Bending Science: Legal, Historical, and Philosophical Concerns
Sandra Mitchell (Pittsburgh), Chair
Speakers: Wendy Wagner (Case Western), Naomi Oreskes (UCSD), and Nancy Cartwright (LSE)
Friday, 12:30-1:15 p.m.
RIVE – Distinguished Scientist Lecture for the Forum for History of Science in America
‘Culling the Herd’: Eugenics and the Conservation Movement in the U.S., 1890-1940
Garland Allen (Washington University)
Friday, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
Mathematical Luncheon, Hope Room (Courtesy of the Legacy of R.L. Moore Project. Coordinated by the International Commission on the History of Mathematics)
Friday, 1:30-3:10 p.m.
ALLE – Early Modern Arts and Images
Jean-Francois Gauvin (Harvard University), Chair
Faithornes, ‘The Art of Graveing,’ a Language of Accuracy and the Royal Society
Meghan Doherty (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Builders and Users: The Académie Royale des Sciences and the Construction of the Paris Observatoire
Katherine Reinhart (The Johns Hopkins University)
Collaborators or Competitors? The Astronomical Correspondence of G-D Cassini and John Flamsteed
Voula Saridakis (Lake Forest College)
The Emperor and the Alchemist: Habsburg Patronage of Alchemy and its Impact on the Arts
Sally Metzler (Independent Scholar)
Friday, 1:30-3:10 p.m.
SKY – Managerial Science in Post-War America
Mario Eraso (Ewing Marion Kauffmann Foundation), Chair
The Cold War Modeling Nexus of Economics, Operations Research, and Control Engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology
Judy Klein (Mary Baldwin College)
The Role of Technological Advance in the History of Scientific Practice
Isaac Record (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology)
Literally Above Politics?: NASA, the Deep Space Network, the Congressional Black Caucus, and Apartheid South Africa
Benjamin Wang (Cornell University)
Bringing the Future Closer: The Emergence of the U.S. Academic Supercomputer Centers 1980-1990
Kevin Walsh (University of California, San Diego)
PARD – Women and Patriarchal Science
Wendy Zirngibl (Montana State University), Chair
Five Ways of Being a Scientific Phallocrat: Auguste Comte’s Biological Arguments for the Subjection of Women
Vincent Guillin (College de France)
Conducting Science: The Different Roles of Physical Geography
Michal Meyer (University of Florida)
Gentle-women at London: Gender and the Rise of the Weather Instrument
Brant Vogel (Independent Scholar)
Invisible Work in the Scientific Family: The Case of Early Twentieth-Century Swedish Geology
Staffan Wennerholm (Uppsala University)
FOX – Science and Pedagogy
Nancy Hall (University of Delaware), Chair
Show and Tell: Teaching Natural Philosophy in the American Colonies
Nicholas Spicher (The Johns Hopkins University)
A ‘certain compulsion upon the authorities’: 19th-century Competitive Written Examinations, Objectivity, and Educational Reform
James Elwick (York University)
Disciplining the Mind: Mathematics as the Cold War Subject
Christopher Phillips (Harvard University)
From Johnny to Chomsky
Philip Loring (Harvard University),
SHAD – 19th-Century Science and Technological Aims
Sharrona Pearl (University of Pennsylvania), Chair
Purity vs. Property? The Patenting Context of Constructing ‘Pure’ and ‘Applied’ Electricity 1880-1920
Graeme Gooday (presenter) & Efstathios Arapostathis (University of Leeds)
Taking Aim at Physics: The Ballistic Pendulum, Physics Concepts and Rifle Marksmanship
Bruce Hevly (University of Washington)
Indian War Rocket: A World Class Technology by Local Artisans
H. M. Iftekhar Jaim (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology)
Mining Science and Mining Law on the Comstock Lode
Paul Lucier (Independent Scholar)
OAK – The Christian Confrontation with Science
John Lynch (Arizona State University), Chair
The Germ in the Chalice: A Case When Science Met the Sacred
Matt Gunterman (Yale University)
Sacralized Health and Social Reform: Protestant and Catholic Reactions to Syphilis in America, 1900-1914
Samantha Muka (Florida State University)
Race and Creationism in Europe
Adam Shapiro (University of British Columbia)
PARG – Instruments and Images in the 19th/20th Century
Richard Kremer (Dartmouth), Chair
Representation and Intervention: Visualizing the Pathogenesis of Myocardial Infarction, 1970-1990
David Jones (MIT)
Adulteration and the Microscope: The Limits of Revelation
Meegan Kennedy (Florida State University)
Observation and the Hand: Observing Books and Nebular Research
Omar Nasim (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Observation and the Photographic Method in the Laboratory of the Becquerels
Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University)
PARE/F – The Project of Genetics
Robert Olby (University of Pittsburgh), Chair
German Émigré Geneticists in America, 1930s & 1940s
Melinda Gormley (Oregon State University)
Pricing Thrifty Genes: Chronic Disease and the Thrifty Gene Controversy, 1962-1989
Aaron Mauck (Harvard University)
Photo #51, the CCV Theory, and the Discovery of the DNA Structure
Samuel Schindler (University of Leeds)
The Roots of Organismic Thinking in Systems Biology
Ulrich Krohs (University of
Hamburg)
MONO – Colonial Natural History in the Modern Era
Deepanwita Dasgupta (University of Minnesota), Chair
Globalizing the Strange: The Science of 19th Century Madagascar
Thomas Anderson (Binghamton University)
William Jones and S. N. Bose: Scientific Consensus, Intellectual Authority and the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge-Making in Colonial India
Deepanwita Dasgupta (University of Minnesota)
Breaking Through: Meteors and Universal Knowledge in Colonial South Africa
Elizabeth Green Musselman (Southwestern University)
The Ancient Land of Sheba: Value and Exploration in Early 20th-century America
Lukas Rieppel (Harvard University)
TRI– Medieval Science
Alain Touwaide (Smithsonian Institution), Chair
The Power of Places: Ethnogeography in Thirteenth Century Dominican and Franciscan Missions Accounts
Temitope Charlton (Harvard University)
The Achievements of Albucasis in Neurosurgery
Abdul Nasser Kaadan (Aleppo University)
Necromancy, Celestial Divination, and the Introduction of Arabic Science into England, c. 1050-1125
Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College)
Boethius and the Consolatio quadrivii
Michael Fournier (Dalhousie University)
Friday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
PARE/F – The Uglies of Nature: Observation and Aesthetics in the Oceans
*Katharine Anderson (York University), Chair
Jonathan Smith (University of Michigan, Dearborn), Commentator
The Scientist and the Reef: Coral and the Nature of Ocean Life
Katharine Anderson (York University)
Nature’s ‘Rejectamenta’: Seaweeds and the Scientific Observer
Anne Secord (University of Cambridge)
Cultivating a Sense of Wonder: William Beebe, Rachel Carson and 20th Century Oceanic Natural History
Gary Kroll (SUNY Plattsburgh)
TRI – Intellectual Histories of 20th-century Biology: Discipline Building, Politics, and Philosophy
Betty Smocovitis (University of Florida), Commentator
Holism in Early Sexology: Biological and Philosophical Contexts
*Jason Byron (University of Pittsburgh), Chair
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane’s Intellectual Heritage
*Thomas Cunningham (University of Pittsburgh), Co-chair
Dobzhansky’s Evolutionary Genetics: Natural Populations or Mirroring Morgan?
Matthew Dunn (Indiana University)
PARG –The Eye Through Time
Architectures of Communication: Cybernetics, Temporality, and Perception in Post-War American Design
*Orit Halpern (New School for Social Research), Chair
An Eye for an Eye: On Cinematographic Morality
Jimena Canales (Harvard University)
Deep Frame: Picturing the Body in Early Cinema
Despina Kakoudaki (American University)
Impressed Images
Josh Ellenbogen (University of Pittsburgh)
FOX – To Market: A New Look at the Medical Marketplace
*Suzanne Fischer (University of Minnesota), Commentator
Gwen Kay (SUNY-Oswego), Chair
Competitive Education: Pharmaceutical Marketing and the
Dissemination of Medical Innovation
Jeremy Greene (Harvard University)
Marketing Measurement: Anthropometric Technologies in the American Marketplace
Deborah Levine (Washington University)
Apologia for Quackery: Medical Entrepreneurship and the Problem of Efficacy
Suzanne Fischer (University of Minnesota)
PARD – Scientific Objects in Motion
Adelheid Voskuhl (Harvard University), Commentator
Objects in Motion: Networks, Trust and Science in the Eastern Mediterranean
*Avner Ben-Zaken (Harvard Society of Fellows), Chair
Encyclopedias and the Long-distance Exchange of Specimens
*Daniel Margocsy (Harvard University)
Circulating Knowledge or Superstition?
Koen Vermeir (University of Leuven)
SHADY – Compelling Cosmogonies: World-building in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
*Allison Kavey (CUNY John Jay College), Chair
Lawrence Principe (The Johns Hopkins University), Commentator
Complementary Cosmogonies: Paracelsus on the Creations by God the Father and God the Son
*Dane Daniel (Wright State University)
‘The Mistriss of Her Own Operation:’ The Relationship between the Divine and the Natural and the Potential for Practitioners in Agrippa’s Cosmogony
Allison Kavey (CUNY John Jay College)
The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler
Sheila Rabin (St Peter’s College)
ALLE – Divergent Struggles in the Evolution of Relativity
Richard Staley (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Chair & Commentator
From Ampère’s Kinematics to Einstein’s Relativity
*Alberto Martínez (University of Texas at Austin)
Cambridge Dynamics and German Relativity, 1909-1915
Scott Walter (Université Nancy 2, France)
‘Not Only Because of Theory’: Eddington and His Theory-Testing Bias in the 1919 Eclipse Expedition
Daniel Kennefick (University of Arkansas)
MONO – Animal Biographies
Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Chair & Commentator
Seeing the Gorilla
Janet Browne (Harvard University)
Western Science and the Octopus: The Unkept Promises of a Laboratory Animal
Fabio de Sio (Naples Zoological Station, Italy)
Bees of the Hive
*Tania Munz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Friday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
OAK – Imperial Legacies of Early Modern Science
Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan), Chair & Commentator
Trading Zone or Battleground? Power, Knowledge, and ‘Nature’ in 17th-century New France
Steven James Harris (Harvard University)
Local Experts, Imperial Agents, and Experience as Common Ground: The Sixteenth-Century Science of the Atlantic World
Antonio Barrera-Osorio (Colgate University)
Government by Questionnaire: Epistemic Technique as Political Technology in the Early Modern English Atlantic World
*Matthew Underwood (Harvard University)
SKY – Spaces and Places in the History of American Social Science
James Capshew (Indiana University), Chair & Commentator
The Mind in the Urban Jungle: Chicago’s Psychology in the 1890s
Christopher Green (York University)
Private Words, Private Actions: The ‘MIT Space’ and Chomskyan Linguistics, 1957-1968
Janet Martin-Nielsen (University of Toronto)
Putting Behavior in its Place: The Sites and Spaces of Behavior Modification, 1950s-1970s
*Alexandra Rutherford (York University)
Friday, 5:00–6:00 p.m.
HSS Committee on Research and the Profession, Parkview East
Friday, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Carnap Edition Reception, in hallway near Urban Room
Friday, 5:45 p.m.
Earth and Environment Forum Meeting, Oakmont
Friday, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
HSS and PSA Reception, Grand Ballroom
Friday, 9:30-11:00 p.m.
Graduate Student Party, Grand Ballroom
Co-sponsored by GECC
Saturday, 7:30-8:45 a.m.
HSS Osiris Breakfast, Parkview East
HSS Committee on Meetings and Programs, Heinz
Saturday, 9:00-11:45 a.m.
ALLE – How Well Do “Facts” Travel?
*Mary Morgan (London School of Economics & University of Amsterdam), Chair & Commentator
You Can Argue with the Facts: A Political History of Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes (University of California, San Diego)
Scientific Facts and Building Artefacts
Simona Valeriani (London School of Economics)
Archaeological Facts in Transit
Alison Wylie (University of Washington)
Cases as ‘Fact Carriers’ in Contemporary Medicine
Rachel Ankeny (University of Adelaide)
MONO – Physics, History, and Beyond: Seeing the World through Spencer Weart’s Eyes
*David Kaiser (MIT), Chair
*Patrick McCray (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Spencer Weart (American Institute of Physics), Commentator
Scientists in Power: Pioneering the Modern History of Physics
Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University)
Nuclear Images, Nuclear Imaginaries, Nuclear Fears: Cultural History Beyond ‘The Public’
Ellen Bales (University of California, Berkeley)
‘More is Different’, or ‘the transition from quantity to quality’
Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia)
The ‘Social Discovery’ of Global Warming
Deborah Coen (Barnard College, Columbia University)
PARE/F – Human Sciences and Empire
John Jackson (University of Colorado-Boulder) Chair & Commentator
Empiricism and Empire: Robert Owen’s Scotland in the Romantic Age
Cornelia Lambert (University of Oklahoma)
Serving the Empire: Nineteenth-century Women Archaeologists in the Field
Kathleen Sheppard (University of Oklahoma)
From Tropical Agriculture to Ethnobotany: Trajectories of American Agricultural Science in the Philippines, 1898-1946
Theresa Ventura (Columbia University)
Race Crossing in Hawai‘i: Harry L. Shapiro and the Chinese-Hawaiian Project, 1926-1936
*Christine Manganaro (University of Minnesota)
OAK – Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe
*Margaret J. Osler (University of Calgary), Chair
God and Early Modern Natural Philosophy
*Peter Harrison (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)
Kircher’s Singing Cats, or, Syncretism as Catholicism
Mark Waddell (Michigan State University)
Isaac Newton: Biblicist or Deist?
John Henry (University of Edinburgh)
What Does Religion Have to Do with the Scientific Revolution?
Margaret J. Osler (University of Calgary)
Saturday, 9:00-11:45 a.m
SHAD – Negotiating the Human: Paleoanthropology’s Images, Objects, and Audiences
*Jesse Richmond (University of California, San Diego), Chair
Humanity’s Uncertain Boundaries Until the 1930s: A Late Consensus on Slow Zoological and Paleontological Surveys
Richard Delisle (University of Chicago)
Defending Australopithecus as a Human Ancestor: Raymond Dart, the Osteodontokeratic, and Tool-use as a Criterion for Establishing the Phylogenetic Status of Hominids
Matthew Goodrum (Virginia Tech)
Le Gros Clark vs. Zuckerman: Reckoning Ancestry and Expertise in Post-war Paleoanthropology
Jesse Richmond (University of California, San Diego)
PARG – Science, Politics, and Culture: New Perspectives on Science and Medicine in Modern East Asia and Beyond
*Yibao Xu (Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York), Commentator & Chair
An American Entomology in China: J. G. Needham and His Chinese Colleagues
Fa-ti Fan (The State University of New York at Binghamton)
One Doctrine, Two Different Consequences: The Contentions of Relativity in China and the Soviet Union
*Danian Hu (The City College of New York)
When Did Chinese Medicine Become Korean?: ‘Local Botanicals’ in the Korean Tradition of Medicine
Soyoung Suh (University of California at Los Angeles)
Beyond Changing Symbols: The Transmission of the Calculus to China and Japan in the Nineteenth Century
Chia-Hua Lee (University of Tokyo)
A Glacial Reception: Li Siguang, Quaternary Geology and Politics of Scientific Persuasion
Grace Shen (York University)
FOX – Studies in the Internationalization of Mathematics: Goals, Strategies, and the Outcomes in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Sponsored by the International Commission for the History of Mathematics
Deborah Kent (Hillsdale College), Chair
The Internationalization of Mathematics in a World of Nations: 1800-1960
*Karen Parshall (University of Virginia)
Western Mathematics in the Middle Kingdom: Elite versus Grass Roots Strategies
Joe Dauben (City University of New York)
Mathematics at World’s Fairs: Chicago 1893 and St. Louis 1904
David Zitarelli (Temple University)
Gertrude Cox in Africa: A Case Study in Science Patronage and International Statistics Education in the Cold War
*Patti Hunter (Westmont College)
SKY – Communicating Knowledge: Changing Ideas of Risk, Uncertainty, and the Public in Twentieth-Century American Science
*Michael Egan (McMaster University), Chair
Vernacular Knowledge and Expertise: The Center for the Biology of Natural Systems and the Science of the Environmental Crisis
Michael Egan (McMaster University)
Fighting Fat: The USDA, the Cold War, and Standards of Bodily ‘Fitness’
Kelly Moore (University of Cincinnati)
Making Sense of Human Biomonitoring Studies: The Evolving Politics of Communicating Exposure Results by Governments, Industries, and NGOs
Jody Roberts (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
’Known Knowns,’ ‘Known Unknowns,’ and ‘Unknown Unknowns’: Communicating the Risks of Bisphenol A in the Plastics Age, Late 1970s to the Present
Sarah Vogel (Columbia University)
PARD – Crisis? What Crisis? Causes and Contexts of the Crisis in Psychology in Early 20th-century Europe
Francesca Bordogna (Northwestern University), Commentator
Bühler’s Crisis of Psychology and the Origins of Popper’s Critical Rationalism
Thomas Sturm (presenter) & Annette Mülberger (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Cries of ‘Crisis’ in Turn-of-the-Century French Psychology
John Carson (University of
Michigan)
Koehler, Koffka, and the ‘Crisis’ in Psychology
Gary Hatfield (University of
Pennsylvania)
Edmund Husserl and the Crisis of Philosophy
*Uljana Feest (Technische Universität, Berlin)
TRI–Genetics & Biomedicine
M. Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania), Commentator
Why is Victor McKusick Considered the ‘Father of Medical Genetics’?
Nathaniel Comfort (The Johns Hopkins University)
Artificial Radioisotopes and Cancer: Experimental Therapies, Diagnostic Methods, and Risk in the Atomic Age
*Angela Creager (Princeton University), Chair
Genetics and Public Health in the 1960s
Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA)
Heredity in the Clinic: Early Cytogenetics from London to Madrid, 1956-1966
Maria Jesús Santesmases (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid)
Saturday, 12:00-12:30 p.m.
Forum for the History of Human Sciences Business Meeting, Welk
Saturday, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
HSS Nominating Committee, Parkview East
Graduate Student Early Career Caucus Meeting/Luncheon, Carnegie III (Bring Own Lunch)
Committee on Honors and Prizes, Churchill
Saturday, 12:00-3:00 p.m.
HSS Committee on Publications, Parkview West
Saturday, 12:30-1:15 p.m.
WELK – Forum for the History of Human Sciences Distinguished Lecture
Personal Equations: Reflections on the History of Fieldwork, with Special Reference to British Anthropology
Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania)
Saturday, 1:30-3:10 p.m.
PARG – Managing Risk: Assuaging Doubt
Fritz Davis (Florida State University), Chair
Risky Drinking: Conceptions of Risk in Debates about Prohibition, 1900-1920
Grischa Metlay (Harvard University)
Regulating ALARA – as Low as Reasonably Achievable? Health-Physics Practice and Profession
Ioanna Semendeferi (University of Houston)
‘Our ‘doubts’ in fact appear to me as sacred’: William Froude, Test Tanks and Victorian Doubt
Don Leggett (University of Kent)
ALLE – Dimensions of a Scientific Career
Paul Halpern (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia), Chair
The Tragic Final Years of Paul
Ehrenfest
Paul Halpern (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia)
When Science is Paradise: Research and Boundaries in Astrid Cleve von Euler’s Scientific Career
Kristina Espmark (Umeå University, Sweden)
Women of Science and Wife of a Scientist: Ida Noddack-Tacke, (1896-1978)
Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Independent Scholar) & Annette Lykknes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Planck’s Unification of Physics within German Liberal Culture
Edward Jurkowitz (Illinois Institute of Technology)
PARE/F – Mechanism and Life in the 18th Century
Sara Miles (Esperanza College, Eastern University), Chair
Why Did Nobody Ever Discover Photosynthesis? Dr. Ingen Housz and the Discovery of Photosynthesis
Geerdt Magiels (VUB Free University Brussels)
Mediating Models and Machines: John Smeaton and the Interactions between Natural Philosophy and Engineering in 18th-century Britain
Minwoo Seo (Seoul National University)
Playing Music on a Weaving Machine: The Relation between Nature, Science, and Technique in Charles Bonnet’s Statue of Organized Bodies
Tobias Cheung (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Man as Machine, Man as Plant: Analogies of the Body in La Mettrie’s L’homme plante
Lynnette Regouby (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
OAK – Collectors and Museums
Bruno Strasser (Yale University), Chair
Specimen, née Example: Zoological: Objects of Inquiry since 1655
Taika Dahlbom (University of Turku, Finland)
Arctic Exploration & Ethnological Collecting in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Amy Margaris (Oberlin College) and Linda T. Grimm (Oberlin College)
Between Science and History: Archaeological Conceptions of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America
Conor Burns (York University)
Science or Spectacle: The Tale of a False Dichotomy
Sarah Mitchell (University of Southampton)
SHAD – Paradigms of Medical Science
Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney/University of Wisconsin, Madison), Chair
Attitude musulman maghrébine devant la folie and Le phénomène de l’agitation en milieu psychiatrique: An Extended Critique of Psychiatry in the West
Mazi Allen (Saint Mary’s College of California)
Living Versus Dead: The Making of the Semple Anti-rabic Vaccine
Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Kent at Canterbury)
From Public Health to Eugenics: The 1937 Typhus Epidemic in Istanbul
Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli (State University of New York at Binghamton)
What is ‘Colonial’ about Colonial Medicine and Science?
Eun Jeong Ma (Cornell University)
PARD – Harvey and the 17th-Century Science of Life
Mordechai Feingold (California Institute of Technology), Chair
De Artificio Mechanico Musculorum: The Mechanical Problems in William Harvey’s De motu locali animalium
Peter Distelzweig (University of Pittsburgh)
De Generatione Animalium and the New Science
Benjamin Goldberg (University of Pittsburgh)
Language of the Heart: The Mingling of Metaphoric and Literal References to the Heart and Blood in the Writings of Harvey and His Contemporaries
Randy Kidd (Bradley University)
Thomas Willis’s Experimental Chemical Anatomy
Joel Klein (Indiana University)
Saturday, 1:30-3:10 p.m.
TRI – Science and the American Public
Giny Cheong (George Mason University), Chair
Scientific Americans: Nuclear Physics and Nationalism after Hiroshima
David Hecht (Bowdoin College)
Confusing Deliberation: What ‘cloning’ Means for Democracy
James Hurlbut (Harvard University)
Martian Madness: Orson Welles’ ‘War of the Worlds’ and the Construction of Mass Panic as a Response to Advances in Science and Technology, 1938-2003
Daniel Thurs (University of Portland)
‘A Far-Out Device’: Confronting the Thrilling, People-Killing Neutron Bomb in Carter-Era America
Matt Tribbe (University of Texas at Austin)
SKY – In Darwin’s Day
Rebecca Kinraide (Boston University), Chair
Continuity in Scientific Concept Use: Homology in the 19th Century before and after Darwin
Ingo Brigandt (University of Alberta)
Did the Land Rise or the Seas Recede? Robert Chambers’s Ancient Sea-Margins: Its Contribution to 19th-Century Scientific Controversy
Sondra Cooney (Kent State
University)
William Bateson’s Unacknowledged Debt to Charles Darwin’s Research Associate George Romanes
Donald Forsdyke (Queen’s University, Canada)
MONO – Philosophical Perspectives on Experiments and Models
Jacob Stegenga (University of California, San Diego), Chair
Electrolysis before the Modern Ionic Theory: Underdetermination, Closure and Pluralism
Hasok Chang (University College, London)
Comparative Study of Experimentation in the Physical Sciences in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Paolo Palmieri (speaker) (University of Pittsburgh), Eric Hatleback (University of Pittsburgh), & Elay Shech (University of Pittsburgh)
John Dalton: From Puzzles to Chemistry by Way of Meteorology
Karen Zwier (University of Pittsburgh)
Gravity & Newton’s Substance Counting Problem
Hylarie Kochiras (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
FOX –Ancient Science
Edith Sylla (North Carolina State University), Chair
Perspective in Ptolemy’s Almagest and Planetary Hypotheses
Elizabeth Burns (University of Toronto)
Aristotle’s Account of Vision as Instrumental to His Account of Thinking in De Anima
Eli Diamond (Dalhousie University)
The Moral Dimension of Galen’s Ideal Doctor
Marco Viniegra (Harvard University)
URBA – Posters
Outside Book Exhibit Room (Urban)
Joseph C. Arthur [1850-1942]: First Proof of Bacteria as the Cause of Plant Disease
Grant Barkley (Kent State University)
The Common View of Michelson’s Experiment
Harry Mark (Independent Scholar)
Comics in the TV Weather Report
Roger Turner (University of Pennsylvania)
Nanoimage Work at the Exploratorium’s Viz Lab
Kathryn Vignone (Cornell University)
Francis Crick’s Golden Helix
Robert Olby (University of Pittsburgh)
Science, Art, and the Perception of Nature: Maria Sybilla Merian and Alexander Von Humboldt in the New World
Tamara Caulkins (Central Washington University)
Saturday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
PARG – The Order of Language: Forms of Print and Early Modern Natural Knowledge
Adrian Johns (University of Chicago), Chair
The Order of Things: Translating Chinese and Arabic Nature In Early Modernity
Carla Nappi (Montana State University)
Languages, Circulation and Authorship: Publication and Translation of Albrecht von Haller’s Dissertation on Irritability
Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica)
The Grammar of Anthropology: Hugh Blair, Print Culture and Human Origins
*Matthew Eddy, Durham University,
SHAD – Desiderata, Errata, Queries: List-making and the Organization of Natural Knowledge, Material Goods, and the Community in Early Modern Science
Pamela Smith (Columbia University), Chair & Commenter
The Desiderata List: Collecting the Future in the Early Modern Past
Vera Keller (McGill University)
Letters and Lists for Practical Botanisers: Apothecaries Think Natural Knowledge in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Valentina Pugliano (Oxford University)
Papering the Counties: Circulation and Use of Query Lists in Seventeenth-Century British Natural History
*Elizabeth Yale (Harvard University)
PARE/F – Beauty and the Beast: Gender and Evolution at the Animal-Human Boundary
Abigail Lustig (The University of Texas at Austin), Chair & Commentator
Bearded Ladies, Hypertrichosis, and Evolutionary Anxieties about Gender, 1878-190
*Kimberly Hamlin (Miami University, Ohio)
The Problem with Beauty: Aesthetics, Rationality, and Female ‘Choice’
*Erika Lorraine Milam (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Gender and Aggression in 1960s Popular Ethology
Nadine Weidman (Harvard University)
Saturday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
FOX – To Explain and Protect: A Century of Scientific Research on Children
Sponsored by the Forum for the History of Human Science
Hamilton Cravens (Iowa State University), Chair & Commentator
‘Unnatural and Monstrous’: Creating ‘Child Suicide’ in the Nineteenth Century
Kathleen Jones (Independent Scholar)
‘At Risk’: Why Childhood Matters for History of Science
*Ellen Herman (University of Oregon)
The Secret Life of Children: Searching for Children’s Natural Emotional Needs from London to Baltimore, via Uganda
*Marga Vicedo (University of Toronto)
PARD – Thinking with Machines
Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University), Chair
*Peter Machamer (University of Pittsburgh)
Hamlet and Other Machines
Alan Gabbey (Barnard College, Columbia University)
The Limits of Thinking with Machines: The Problem of Percussion
Sophie Roux (Université Grenoble II/Institut universitaire de France)
Mechanical Foundations for Collision
*Maarten Van Dyck (Ghent University)
ALLE – Nuclear Bombs, Radiation, and Risk: The United States’ Nuclear Weapons Program, 1945-1966
Jacob Darwin Hamblin (Clemson University), Chair & Commentator:
‘The Greatest Laboratory Experiment of History’: Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, and the Geography of Science during the Early-Postwar Period
*E. Jerry Jessee (Montana State University)
Southern Devices: Atomic Testing in Mississippi, 1964-1966
David A. Burke (Auburn University)
Selective Illumination: Using the Scientific Uncertainty of the Bravo Medical Program to Establish ‘Changed Circumstances’
Laura J. Harkewicz (University of California, San Diego)
OAK – New Studies of Religion and Science in America and Great Britain
*Edward B. Davis (Messiah College), Chair
Creation and the Natural World: The Popularization of Science during the Second Great Awakening, 1776-1840
Lily Santoro (University of Delaware)
The Place of Victorian Scientific Naturalism in the History of Science and Religion: Great Britain and America, 1830-1934
R. Clinton Ohlers (Independent Scholar)
Beyond Christian Darwinism: The Rev. John Gulick on Science, Religion and the Limits of Language
Richard England (Salisbury University)
Progressive Catholics and Evolution in the American Public Sphere: The Early Twentieth Century
Alexander Pavuk (University of Delaware)
SKY – Science and Spectacle in 18th-century Europe
Tom Broman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Chair
Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire), Commentator
The Balloon Spectator
*Mi Gyung Kim (North Carolina State University)
Controlling Spectacle and the Policing of Aeronautics in Europe at the End of the Eighteenth Century
*Michael Lynn (Agnes Scott College)
Science Goes Pyrotechnic: Fireworks as a Resource for Electrical Performance in the Eighteenth Century
Simon Werrett (University of Washington)
MONO – The Spread of the History of Science: Appropriations, Nationalisms, and Globalizations Since Basalla
*Abena Dove Osseo-Asare (University of California, Berkeley), Chair
Buhm Soon Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Commentator
Scientific Citizens: Experiments in Flag Nationalism and Laboratory Science in Ghana, 1956-1977
*Abena Dove Osseo-Asare (University of California, Berkeley), Chair
Pedagogical Structure and Failure of Knowledge Transmission: Marginalization of the History of Science in Japan
Kenji Ito (Sokendai, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Populist Science: Politics and National Projects in Mexico, 1970-1976
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (University of California, Santa Barbara)
TRI – Nervous Nellies: Neuroscience in the 20th Century
Howard Chiang (Princeton University), Chair
Cultures of Adrenaline
Otniel Dror (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
A Body Made of Nerves: Early 20th-Century Neuroscience and the Rise of Cerebrocentrism
Katja Guenther (Harvard University)
Neurotic Dogs, Drunken Cats: Jules Masserman, Horsley Gantt, and the Development of Animal Models of Neurosis, 1930-60
Cai Guise-Richardson (Iowa State University)
Physics in Use: Models of Electricity in 19th-Century Electrotherapy Textbooks
Vivien Hamilton (University of Toronto)
Saturday, 6:00-6:45 p.m.
Announcement of 2008 Awards and Prize Winners (see page 68) Grand Ballroom
Saturday, 6:50-7:50 p.m
History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture (Grand Ballroom)
Lowering the Tone in the History of Science: A Noble Calling
Steven Shapin (Harvard University)
Introduction by Janet Browne
Saturday, 7:50-8:15 p.m
Cash Bar, Grand Ballroom
Saturday, 8:00-10:00 p.m
Society Dinner, Grand Ballroom
Sunday, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
History of Science Society Business Meeting. All HSS members are welcome. Refreshments will be served. (See agenda page 69), Sky Room.
Sunday, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
HSS Finance Committee, Sky Room
Sunday, 9:00-11:45 a.m.
PARE/F – Animals, Biologists and Their Common Habitat
*Raf De Bont (University of Leuven), Chair
A Curiosity Becomes Standard: On the Mexican Axolotl’s Journey from ‘Nature’ to Scientific and Popular ‘Culture’, ca. 1860–1900
*Christian Reiss (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
‘So Full of Romance, so Unspoiled, Rough, Rugged and Primitive’: The Bird Observatory in Rossitten and ‘Experimental’ Field Culture
Raf De Bont (University of Leuven)
‘Trusting Friends’: Robert Mearns Yerkes and ‘Miss Congo’
Georgina Montgomery (Michigan State University)
Between Alps, Operating Room, Stable and Laboratory: A Topography of Sheep in Modern Trauma Surgery (1960- )
Martina Schlünder (University of Giessen)
TRI – Heredity After Darwin: The Search for a Synthesis
What Weldon Wanted: New Light on His Biometric Program
Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)
Bateson’s Pre-Mendelian Study of Variation and Heredity
*Marsha Richmond (Wayne State University)
Johannsen’s Genotype Theory and His Critique of Darwinism
Nils Roll-Hansen (University of Oslo)
The Pragmatist’s Path: Herbert Spencer Jennings and the Study of Heredity, Variation, and Evolution
Judy Johns Schloegel (Independent Scholar)
Morphology Strikes Back: Richard Semon and a Counter-Revolt Against Genetics & Experimentalism
*Sander Gliboff (Indiana University)
OAK – Uncertainties: New Directions in the Study of the Life and Work of Werner Heisenberg
Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley), Chair
Heisenberg’s Observables and Sommerfeld’s ‘Lawful Regularities’: Re-thinking the Methodological Origins of Matrix Mechanic
*Suman Seth (Cornell University)
Revisiting Heisenberg, Uncertainty, and Quantum History
David Cassidy (Hofstra University)
Heisenberg and Quantum Mechanics in Cultural Context: The Search for a New Weltanschauung
Kristian Camilleri (University of Melbourne)
Was Heisenberg Really Unphilosophical? Reflections from Practice and Theory
Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley)
FOX – Vertical Geographies of Science
Michael Robinson (University of Hartford), Chair
From the Quarries to the Peaks: John Tyndall’s Vertical Physics
*Michael Reidy (Montana State University)
Rocky Mountain High Science: Teaching, Research, and Nature at Field Stations
Jeremy Vetter (Dickinson College)
Managing Vertical Distance: The Harvard College Observatory’s Boyden Expeditions
Catherine Nisbett (University of Chicago)
Tracing Arsenic through Mines, Mountains, and Groundwater in the Bengal Delta and Central Idaho
Brianna Rego (Stanford University)
SHAD – Early Modern Science and Medicine
Peter Barker (University of Oklahoma), Chair
Giving the Pox: A Case of Medicine and Polemic in Enlightenment France
Victoria Meyer (University of Virginia)
The Best of All Panglosses
Eric Palmer (Allegheny College)
Students as Weapons: The Lyon Theses on Le Sage’s Theory of Gravitation (1770)
James Evans (University of Puget Sound)
Homo vermiculosus: Nicolas Andry and 18th-century Parasitology
Julie Grissom (University of Oklahoma)
The Theology of Large Numbers: A Conjecture
David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (Madrid))
Sunday, 9:00-11:45 a.m.
MONO – Control and Scientific Boundaries
Peter Schimkat (Independent Scholar), Chair
Bridging the Gap: Science Service, Scientists, and the Press
Cynthia Bennet (Iowa State University)
A Fact-in-Waiting: William James and Experimental Telepathy
Krister Knapp (Washington University in St. Louis)
Burning Questions: Justus Liebig on Spontaneous Human Combustion
Robert Schombs (Cornell University)
Finding a Stable Species: Physiology and Specificity in Ferdinand Cohn’s Bacterial Taxonomy
Christina Matta (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Mesmeric Science in the Mid Nineteenth Century
David Schmit (College of St. Catherine)
ALLE – Organizing/Publicizing Science
Marlous Blankesteijn (University of Amsterdam), Chair
Nature’s Contributors and the Changing of the Scientific Guard, 1869-1900
Melinda Baldwin (Princeton University)
Centralizing the Scientific Machine: Bibliographical Controversies at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Alex Csiszar (Harvard University)
Anglo-Japanese Chemistry Contacts in Action: The English Model of Chemical Education in Meiji Japan
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi (Sokendai, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Changing Bodies of Knowledge, Policy Implementation and Legitimacy in Dutch Regional Water Management 1970 - 2000: Water Boards and Their Quest for Sustainable Development
Marlous Blankesteijn (University of Amsterdam)