Terry S. Reynolds, President, SHOT, 1998-2000, and Bruce E. Seely, Executive Secretary, SHOT, 1990-1996, Parent or Older Sibling?: The History of Science Society and the Founding of the Society for the History of Technology
Richard Jeffrey, President, PSA, The Career of Logical Empiricism
Sheila Jasanoff, President, SSSS, Reconstructing the Past, Constructing the Present: Can Science Studies and History of Science Live Happily Ever After?
Ludmilla Jordanova, President, BSHS, Is there an Anglo-American Historiography of Science?
Sesssion Organizers: Frederick Gregory, University of Florida, and Edith Dudley Sylla, North Carolina State University

Tore Frangsmyr, Uppsala University, History of Science as History of Civilization: George Sarton's Program
Maura C. Flannery, St. John's University, Science and Religion: Reconsidering the Work of Lynn White, Jr.
Adam J. Foster, University of Toronto, In Dilthey's Shadow: Hermeneutics and the History and Philosophy of Science
I.B. Cohen, Harvard University, Context and Construction: Allies of the History of Science Old and New
Commentator: Ed Grant, Indiana University
Chair: Ed Grant, Indiana University

*Melvyn C. Usselman, University of Western Ontario, Liebig's "Kaliapparat" and the Elemental Analysis of Organic Compounds: A Reconstruction and Reevaluation
*Alan J. Rocke, Case Western Reserve University, Organic Analysis in France: Apparatus, Method, Theory, and Style
Ursula Klein, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Paper-tools and the Formation of a New Experimental Culture in 19th-century Chemistry
Trevor Levere, University of Toronto, Handling and Conceptualizing Airs around 1800
Commentator: Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University
Chair: Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University

*Paul Lucier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Great California Oil Swindle: Silliman, Whitney, and the Ethics of Scientific Consulting
Tal Golan, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, The Common Liar, the Damned Liar, and the Scientific Expert: Nineteenth Century Debates Concerning Scientific Expert Testimony
Claudia Clark, Central Michigan University, "Let Me Give You an Unbiased Opinion": A Case Study of Corporate-sponsored Industrial Health Researchers Deceiving Radium
Daniel J. Kevles, California Institute of Technology, The Baltimore Case: Obligations, Judgment, and Data
Chair: *Paul Lucier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam, The Economic World in Which We Live
*Suman Seth, Princeton University, Bulls, Bears and Brownian Motion: Physics and the Rationality of Stock-Market Pricing
Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College, Controlling Gunfire: Inventory and Expectations with the Exponentially Weighted Moving Average
Phillip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame, From Quantum Mechanics to Cyborgs: John von Neumann and 20th Century Economics
Commentator: Mary Morgan, London School of Economics
Chair: Mary Morgan, London School of Economics

Lesley B. Cormack, University of Alberta, Edward Wright and Thomas Harriot: The Case for Navigation as a Transformative Site for the Scientific Revolution
Alison D. Sandman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Who Marks the X?: Theoreticians vs. Practitioners in the Construction of Sea Charts in 16th-century Spain
*Eric H. Ash, Princeton University, Secants and Sailors: Mathematical Expertise and the Art of Navigation in Elizabethan England
Roxani E. Margariti, Princeton University, Navigational Encounters: Theory and Practice of Indian Ocean Navigation by Arabs, Ottomans and Portuguese in the 16th Century
Commentator: Peter Dear, Cornell University
Chair: Peter Dear, Cornell University

*Monique Bourque, University of Pennsylvania, The 'Fabrick of Insects' and the 'Omnipotence of God': Nature as a Reflection of Divine Intention in the Works of Thomas Moffett
Clara Pinto-Correia, Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Portugal), God Under the Lens
Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago, The God of the Origin: Darwin's Romantic Transformation of Nature
Commentator: Paula Findlen, Stanford University
Chair: Paula Findlen, Stanford University

Kirill O. Rossianov, Institute for History of Science and Technology, Moscow, Traveling with Bolsheviks: Field Work, International Expeditions, and their Patrons in the 1920s
Karl Hall, Harvard University, Tests of Strength: Soviet Physics and Industry during the First Five Year Plan
*Alexei B. Kojevnikov, American Institute of Physics, Freedom, Collectivism, and Quasiparticles: Social Metaphors in Quantum Physics
*Slava Gerovitch, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Speaking Cybernetically: The Discourse of Objectivity in the Post-Stalin Era
Commentator: Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona
Chair: Loren Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dong-Won Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Y. Nishina and the Japanese Physics Community in the 1930s
Matthew Frank, University of Chicago, What Mathematics owes to Quantum Mechanics: The work of von Neumann, 1927-1932
Andris V. Krumins, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Symmetry, Conservation Laws, and Nuclear Interactions
Robert G. Arns, University of Vermont, The Neutrinos: Conjectures in Search of Evidence
Kent W. Staley, Arkansas State University, Lost Origins of the Third Generation of Quarks: Philosophy, Theory, and Experiment
Chair: Cassandra L. Pinnick, Western Kentucky University

Charles Weiner, MIT, Shifting the Focus in History of American Science: An Eyewitness Account

Diana P. Hoyt, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, The Politics of Monkey Business: How it Came to Be that NASA Abandoned the Bion Project
Victoria P. Friedensen, National Academy of Engineering, Translating Risk: Public Protest of Technologies for Space Exploration
Michael N.M.I. Riordan, Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, The Termination of the Superconducting Super Collider
Commentator: Teresa L. Kraus, Federal Aviation Authority
Chair: *Roger D. Launius, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

*Matthew Pratt Guterl, Rutgers University, ‘Homo Albus’: Science, War, Middle-Class Patriotism, and the Emergence of Optic Whiteness
Janet C. Olson, Northwestern University Library, ‘A Fantasy of Magazine Science’: American Popular Magazines and the Eugenics Movement, 1900-1924
Tanya Hart, Yale University, Black and Italian Infant Mortality in New York City, 1915-1924
Commentator: Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut State University
Chair: JoAnne Brown, The Johns Hopkins University

Maureen A. McCormick, University of Oklahoma, The Intersection of Environmental Determinism and Reproductive Limits in Frank Fraser Darling’s Ecology
Thomas Potthast, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Origins and Obstacles of Bioethics: Ecologists and Morals in Germany as Compared to North America, 1930-1960
Gale E. Christianson, Indiana State University, From Benevolence to Menace: The Scientific Biography of Global Warming
Jens Lachmund, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Maps, Biotopes and the City: Urban Bio-Ecological Mapping in Germany, 1970-1998
Chair: Robert J. Malone, History of Science Society

Kathleen M. Crowther-Heyck, Johns Hopkins University, Fetal Positions: Embryology and Eschatology in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Joseph M. Gabriel, Rutgers University, "The Cocaine Nigger Sure is Hard to Kill": Sex, Medicine, and the Racial Politics of Cocaine, 1880- 1914
Susan A. Miller, University of Pennsylvania, 'She Knows She is Master': Eugenics and the Camp Fire Girls
Greg J. Downey, Johns Hopkins University, Embodying Information: Telegraph Messenger Boys as both Technologies and Agents
Chair: Sylvia McGrath, SF Austin State University

Otniel E. Dror, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, The Clog in the Machine: Emotion and Disorder in the Laboratory and Clinic
David E. Millett and Cornelius Borck, University of Chicago and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Navigating the sea of brain waves: Electroencephalography in the 1930s and 1940s
Tara H. Abraham, University of Toronto, Physio(logical) Circuits: The Intellectual Origins of the McCulloch-Pitts Neural Networks
Katharine Wright, University of Toronto, Cybernetics and the Politics of Knowledge
Chair: Michael M. Sokal, National Science Foundation

Margaret Meredith, University of California, San Diego, How Knowledge Travels: Collaboration and Credit in Early American Natural Historical Inquiry
Maria M. Lopes and Silvia Fernanda de Mendonca Figueiroa, Instituto Geociencias-Universidade de Campinas- UNICAMP, Natural Sciences in Brazil: Local Aspects of the ‘Mondialization’of Sciences in the 19th Century
Andrew Zimmerman, Columbia University, Nature and Knowledge-Power at the Hamburg Colonial Institute
Mina Kleiche, Université Paris7-CNRS (France), To Convert the Morocco into a Vast Orchard: To Introduce New Agricultural Methods from California to Morocco During the 1930’s
Chair: Keith R. Benson, University of Washington

Alexandra V. Bekasova, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, "In Search for Sciences": Russian Students in European Universities at the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Carl Frangsmyr, Uppsala University, Culture and Climate: A Swedish 18th-century Discussion
Jeff Loveland, University of Cincinnati, Did Buffon Copy Price?: When Bayesian Results are not Necessarily Bayesian
Henk Kubbinga, University of Groningen, Laplace and the Rise of Molecularism
Chair: Joan Richards, Brown University

Jean-Francois Auger, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie, Toward a History of University, Industry and Government Relations: Contractual Research in Canadian Universities
Scott G. Knowles, Johns Hopkins University, The Symbol of Safety: Underwriters’ Laboratories and the Rise of Consumer Product-Testing in the United States, 1903-1917
Peter D. Reffell, University of Leeds, Sciences of Management, Technologies of Organisation: Humans and Machines in the Early Development of the Computer in the US 1900-1930
Thomas C. Lassman, Johns Hopkins University, University-Industry Relations in Pittsburgh: Edward Condon and the Rebirth of Industrial Research at Westinghouse, 1937-1945
Chair: Sungook Hong, Victoria College

Andrew Cunningham, University of Cambridge, The Success of the Scientific Revolution
*Margaret J. Osler, University of Calgary, The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution
J.E. McGuire, University of Pittsburgh, Capturing the Past to Seize the Future: Tradition and the Emergence of the New Science
Commentator: Robert S. Westman, University of California, San Diego
Chair: Robert S. Westman, University of California, San Diego

Ann Hibner Kolbitz, Arizona State University, Transnational Studies of Gender & Science: Toward a Broader Perspective
Mary F. Singleton and Pnina G. Abir Am, University of California, Berkeley, Leadership and Gender in Science from Margaret Thatcher to Kalyani: British and Foreign Female Progeny of Nobel Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin
*Abha Sur, MIT, Ordinary/Extraordinay: India’s First Women Physicists
Commentator: Andrea Rusnock, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chair: Andrea Rusnock, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

*Leo B. Slater, Chemical Heritage Foundation, A Career in Steroid Chemistry: Percy Lavon Julian and the Intersections of Science, Business, and Identity
David C. Brock, Princeton University, Neurasthenia and the Ruthless Discipline of Measuring Physics: A.A. Michelson’s Confrontation with the Values of Precisi
Ralph R. Hamerla, Case Western Reserve University, Laboratory Practice and Edward Morley’s Personal Identity, 1881-1895
Carsten Reinhardt, University of Regensburg, Reinventing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Chemistry: Herbert S. Gutowsky Between Disciplines and Identities, 1948-1968
Chair: *Leo B Slater, Chemical Heritage Foundation

John T. Spaight, Cornell University, Redrawing the Boundaries: On the Usefulness of the Terms Amateur and Professional in Describing Eighteenth-Century Astronomy
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, UK, A Varied Stable: The Multiplicity of Victorian Amateur Natural History Practices
*Thomas R. Williams, Rice University, The Evolution of Amateur Astronomy in the United States in the Twentieth Century
Commentator: Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Chair: Marc Rothenberg, Smithsonian Institution

Brett D. Steele, University of California, Los Angeles, Why the Scientific Revolution was so Revolutionary: Mechanics and the Mechanization of Early Modern Military Culture
Mary J. Henninger-Voss, Princeton University, The Arsenal as a House of Experiment
*Michael A Dennis, Cornell University, Gone to War: Henry Guerlac at the Radiation Laboratory
Commentator: Pamela O. Long, Independent Scholar
Chair: Michael A. Dennis, Cornell University

*Amy Slaton, Drexel University, Materials Standards for Industry and the Obstacle of Scientific Fixity
Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania, Squashed Spiders: The Standardization and Medicalization of the Human Chromosomes, 1959-1965
*Arne Hessenbruch, Dibner Institute, Biological, Physical, Technical Standards: What do They Have in Common?
Chair and Commentator: Angela Creager, Princeton University

Christopher J. Ritter, University of California, Berkeley, The Impulse to Visualize and Meaning-in-Practice: Chemical Models, 1857-1874
*Peter J. Ramberg, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Representational and Exemplary Models in Stereochemistry, 1874-1900
Eric Francoeur, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, From physical to virtual models: the origins of interactive molecular graphics
Chair and Commentator: Stephen J. Weininger, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

*Andrew C. Warwick, Imperial College, From Maxwell’s "Treatise" to the Cambridge Maxwellians
Bruce J. Hunt, University of Texas, Taking the Measure of Maxwell’s "Treatise"
Ronald Anderson, Boston College, Exploring the Mathematical Strategies of Maxwell’s "Treatise"
Chair and Commentator: Jed Z. Buchwald, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology

Cathy Gorn, National History Day, Evaluating National History Day Projects
James Evans, University of Puget Sound, Hands-On Projects in Pre-Modern Astronomy
Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University, Science and Technology in the Making (STIM): Media-Intensive Tools for Teaching and Research
Joseph N Tatarewicz, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Alternative Literary Forms of History–Conceiving, Executing, and Evaluating
Chairs: *Lisa Rosner, Richard Stockton College and Diane Lashinsky

John Carson, University of Michigan, From the Pathological to the Normal: Zenderland on Goddard and the Meanings of Intelligence in America
Hans Pols, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Henry Herbert Goddard, Feeblemindedness, and the Debate on Citizenship
Garland E. Allen, Washington University, Feeblemindedness and the Biology of Criminality: The Wedding of Goddard’s Criminal Imbecile and Eugenics in the Municipal Court of Chicago
Commentator: Leila Zenderland, California State University–Fullerton
Chair: Garland E. Allen, Washington University
Session organized by John P. Jackson, University of Colorado–Boulder

Alexander J. Boese, University of California, San Diego, The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: Science and Enlightenment in Antebellum America
Robert Hendrick, St. John’s University, "Coating the Edge of the Cup": The Scientist as Popularizer in Fin-de-Siècle France
Wade E. Pickren, American Psychological Association, APA Archives and the APA Public Information Campaign Since WWII
Bruce V. Lewenstein, Cornell University, Have Books Mattered in American Science Since 1945?
Chair: Paul L. Farber, Oregon State University

*Diederick Raven, Utrecht University, Zilsel’s Project on the Emergence of Modern Science
*Anna K. Mayer, HPS, Cambridge (UK), Setting up a Discipline: Disputes on the HS Committee, 1936-1951
Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University, Science at a Crossroads: Defining and Prescribing an Uncertain Future
Roger Hahn, University of California, Berkeley, History of Science at Berkeley Before and After World War II
Commentator: Arnold Thackray, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Chair: David Lindberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Alan C. Bowen, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science, Simplicius and the Early History of Greek Planetary Theory
José Chabás, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, The Diffusion of the Alfonsine Tables: The Case of the "Tabulae Resolutae"
Michael H. Shank, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Goldsteinian Themes in Regiomontanus’s Defense of Theon
*Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma, Constructing Copernicus
Commentator: Bernard R. Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Nancy Siraisi, Hunter College and the Graduate School City University of New York

*Theresa Levitt, Harvard University, Le rouge et le vert: Colors of Opposition in Restoration France
Tim Lenoir, Stanford University, "To Make Sensuous Man Rational, You Must First Make Him Aesthetic:"–Physiological Aesthetics and the Normalization of Taste in Germany, 1860-1895
*Debbie Coen, Harvard University, The "Irreplaceable Eye" and the "Irrecoverable I": Human and Mechanical Detectors in Viennese Physics, 1918-1926
Michael Lynch, Brunel University, The Composition of Objects: False Colour and Digital Images
Commentator: M. Norton Wise, Princeton University
Chair: Erwin Hiebert, Harvard University

*Frederick B. Churchill, Indiana University, August Weismann in a Mendelian World
Ida H. Stamhuis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Mendelian Genetics and Probabilistic Reasoning: A Fruitful Combination
Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Carl Correns: After Mendel and Beyond
Marsha L. Richmond, Wayne State University, Richard Goldschmidt’s Epigenetic Interpretation of Mendelism
Commentator: Robert Olby, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: William Provine, Cornell University

James Strick, Arizona State University, NASA, the Cold War and the "Nucleic Acid Monopoly": Sidney Fox, Stanley Miller and Origin of Life Research, 1953-1972
David K. van Keuren, Naval Research Laboratory, Cold War Science in Black and White: U.S. Intelligence Gathering and Its Scientific Cover at the Naval Research Laboratory, 1948-1962
Maura P. Mackowski, Arizona State University, Human Factors: Science, Technology, and Cold War Politics in the NASA Astronaut Selection Process
*Mark Solovey, Arizona State University, WEST, Social Science on the Cold War Battlefield: Project Camelot and the 1960s Debate Over Scholarly Objectivity and the Political Corruption of Research
Commentator: Bart Hacker, Smithsonian Institution
Chair: Bart Hacker, Smithsonian Institution

Alix Cooper, University of Puget Sound, Death and the Naturalist: The Labor of Posthumous Publication in Early Modern Europe
Alice Walters, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, The Profits of Plagiarism: Henry Baker, George Adams, and "The Microscope Made Easy"
*Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles, Fashionable Readers of Natural Philosophy
Thomas H. Broman, The Segmentation of the Literary Market and Periodical Publishing in the 18th Century
Commentator: Ann Blair, Harvard University
Chair: Ann Blair, Harvard University

James A. Altena, University of Chicago, Elements, Mixis and Dynamis: Aristotelian Chemistry Reconsidered
Steven R. Vanden Broecke, K.U. Leuven, The Low Countries and the Expectation of a Second Flood in February 1524
Margaret D. Garber, University of California, San Diego, Naturalizing the Spectrum: Observation, Alchemy, and the Physics of the Rainbow
H. Darrel Rutkin, Indiana University, Galileo Astrologer: New Perspectives on his Early Career
Chair: Pamela H. Smith, Pomona College

Barbara T. Gates, University of Delaware, Of Fungi and Fables: Beatrix Potter’s Science and Storytelling
Ann B. Shteir, York University, Emma Peachey and Wax Flower Modeling
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, University of Oklahoma, To Look at One Thing and See Another: Two Women Geologists, Ida Ogilvie and Maria Ogilvie-Gordon
Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Dalhousie University, Painting Outside the Lines: Marianne North’s Botanical Art
Commentator: Cynthia Russett, Yale University
Chair: Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University

David C. Gooding, University of Bath, Experimenting with an Experimentalist: the computational simulation of a competent experimentalist
Herbert A. Simon, Carnegie Mellon University, The Discovery of Magnetic Induction of Current:The Interplay of Phenomena and Concepts
*Ryan D. Tweney, Bowling Green State University, Faraday and the "Golden Green": Metacognition and Discovery in Victorian Science
Commentator: Michael E. Gorman, University of Virginia
Chair: Ryan D. Tweney, Bowling Green State University

*Tara E. Nummedal, Stanford University, ‘Proper Bees’ and ‘Rotten Drones’: True and False Alchemists in Early Modern Central Europe
Claudia Stein, University of Stuttgart, Institute for the History of Medicine, Early Modern Medical Identity: Charlatans on Trial in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg
Janice L. Neri, University of California, Irvine, Truth, Deception and Illusion in Sixteenth-Century Images of Nature
Chair and Commentator: William Eamon, New Mexico State University

Michael F. Robinson, University of Wisconsin, Blonde Eskimos and Yellow Journalism: Reforming the Arctic Narrative in Progressive America
Gary M. Kroll, University of Oklahoma, The Self-Effacing Hero of Science: William Beebe and his Literature of Oceanic Natural History
*Craig S. McConnell, University of Wisconsin, Universal Myths: Narrative Expectations and the Origin of the Cosmos
Commentator: D. Graham Burnett, University of Oklahoma
Chair: William C. Kimler, North Carolina State University

Paul Wood, University of Victoria, Science, Politeness, and the Scottish Universities in the Enlightenment
*Margaret Schabas, York University, David Hume and Experimental Science
Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara, Virtuous Performance: Monro primus, Hutcheson, and Public Anatomy
Commentator: Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario
Chair: Trevor Levere, University of Toronto

Mark R. Finlay, Armstrong Atlantic State University, International Science on the Fringes: Agricultural Sciences and the Culture and Language of International Science
*Helen M. Rozwadowski, "Fish Know No National Frontiers": Internationalism and Environmental Pragmatism in European Marine Science
Sverker Sorlin, Umea University, International cooperation in Scandinavian Polar geoscience, 1930-1960: Variations on heroes and nationalism
Commentator: Daniel Alexandrov, European University at St. Petersburg
Chair: Helen M. Rozwadowski

M. Rene Burmeister, Rutgers University, Public Instruction or ‘Obscene Advertising’?: Popular Anatomical Museums in Nineteenth-century London
*Constance A. Malpas, Princeton University, Organizing Pathology: The Architecture of Anatomy at Mid-Century
Erin H. McLeary, University of Pennsylvania, Pathologists, Professionalism, and the Public: The Medical Museum Enters the Twentieth Century
Commentator: John Harley Warner, Yale University
Chair: Gretchen Worden, Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Graham R. Shutt, University of Washington, Emerson and the Uses of Natural History
Joel S. Schwartz, College of Staten Island, CUNY, Out from Darwin’s Shadow: George John Romane’s Efforts to Popularize Science
Maria M. Farland, Columbia University, Gertrude Stein’s "Brain Work"
Charles R. Thorpe, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, The Cultivated Expert: Self and Power in the Career of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Chair: Philip F. Rehbock, University of Hawaii

Ann Johnson, Fordham University, Rebuilding the Engine: British Science Policy after World War I
Amy S. Bix, Iowa State University, Physics and Chemistry for Victory: America’s Engineering, Science, and Management War Training Program, 1940-45
Hunter A. Crowther-Heyck, Johns Hopkins University, A Place at the Table: the Social Sciences and the Federal Patron
Edward Jones-Imhotep, Harvard University, Constructing Reliability: Cold-War Military Electronics and the 'Topside' Ionogram
Chair: Pamela E. Mack, Clemson University

Francesca M. Bordogna, University of Notre Dame, Three Rival Scientific Personae in American Psychology, 1890-1920
Myles W. Jackson, Willamette University, Harmony and Camaraderie: The Persona of the Naturforscher
Andrew Mendelsohn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, The Scientist as Technocrat
Commentator: *Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Chair: *Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Bernard Lightman, York University, The Story of Nature: Victorian Popularizers and Scientific Narrative
Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan, Dearborn, "Darwin’s Cirripedia and Dickens’s Little Dorrit
*Laura Dassow Walls, Lafayette College, "Consilience Revisited: or, Why Should a Thoreauvian Read Whewell?"
Commentator: David Knight, University of Durham
Chair: George Levine, Rutgers University

Stephen B. Johnson, University of North Dakota, Computers and the Practice of Psychology
Joel Hagen, Radford University, Computers as Scientific Instruments in Structural and Evolutionary Biochemistry
*Robert W. Seidel, University of Minnesota, High Energy Physics and High Speed Computing
Commentator: Anne Fitzpatrick, George Washington University
Chair: Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute

Harold J. Cook, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Introducing Asian Medicine to Europe: The Dutch East India Company and its Rivals
Gerald A. Ward, Dibner Institute and Boston University, From Merchant Adventurers to Merchants of Light: The Advent of English Joint-Stock Trading Companies and the Making of Bacon’s Great Instauration
Florence C. Hsia, Northwestern University, Cherishing Observations from Afar: European Contexts for Jesuit Astronomical Work in China
*Steven J. Harris, Wellesley College & Boston College, Cumulative Representations: How Corporate Networks Help Make Science Globally Mobile & Locally Progressive
Chair: *Steven J. Harris, Wellesley College & Boston College

Daniela S. Barberis, University of Chicago, Durkheim, Duhem, and the Misfortunes of Realism
*David L. Hoyt, University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology’s Primitives and the Empire’s Associates: Greater France, 1890-1914
Dave Madden, University of Chicago, Culture, Personality, and the Philosophy of Social Science in American Anthropology between the First and Second World Wars
Chair and Commentator: John Gilkeson, Arizona State University

Emma Spary, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Limiting Cases: Extraordinary Eaters as Surgical Bodies in 18th-century France
*Jonathan Simon, Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques (CRHST), Skeletons in the Cabinet
Jessica Riskin, MIT, Moving Anatomies
Commentator: Lissa Roberts, San Diego State University
Chair: Henry Krips, University of Pittsburgh

*William R. Newman, Indiana University, An Ungentlemanly Gentleman: Boyle’s Appropriation of Chymical Knowledge
Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University, Experiment in Chymistry and the Notebooks of George Starkey
John Powers, Indiana University, History and Alchemy in the Chemical Work of Herman Boerhaave
Kevin Chang, University of Chicago, In Search of True Sulphur: Georg Ernst Stahl’s "Zymotechnia Fundamentalis"
Chair: Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University

Paul Kelton, Southern Connecticut State University, Avoiding the Smallpox Spirits: Epidemics and Southeast Indian Survival to 1800
George Joseph, Yale University, "A Colony in the Homeland": Leprosy and Tropical Medicine in Progressive Era Massachusetts
David Abernathy, University of Washington, Canal Cartographies: Disease, Territoriality, and Scientific Evidence in the Panama-Nicaragua Route Dispute
Commentator: *Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University
Chair: *Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University

Ralph Drayton, University of Wisconsin, "In the Heart of any Incepting Student": Religion and Medical Astrology in Montpelier c. 1400
Richard L. Kremer, Dartmouth College, From Text to Trophy: Shifting Functions of Regiomontanus’s Library
*Karl L. Galle, Imperial College, Was Copernicus also a Poet? The "Septem Sidera" and the Astronomer-Poet Tradition in Central Europe
Adam Mosley, Cambridge University, Truth and Correspondence: Some Comments on the Epistolary Genre and Early-Modern Astronomical Writings
Kristine L. Haugen, Princeton University, Varieties of Divination: Richard Bentley and the Astrological Poem of Manilius
Chair: James J. Bono, State University of New York, Buffalo

Diana E. Long, University of Southern Maine, Their Secret Gardens: Women and the Pleasures of Endocrine Laboratory Life, 1930-1960
Joy Harvey, Harvard University, The Mystery of the Nobel laureate and the Vanishing Wife
*Mary Brown Parlee, MIT, Visible Bodies and Invisible Work: Gender, Scientific Authority, and the Institutionalization of the Neurosciences at MIT
Commentator: Ann F. La Berg, Virginia Tech
Chair: Mary Brown Parlee, MIT

Walter Grunden Bowling Green, and Zuoyue Wang California State Polytechnic University at Ponoma, ‘Ideologically Correct’ Science
Yakov Rabkin, University of Montreal, Science and Totalitarianism
Richard Beyler, Portland State University, Science Policy in Post-1945 West Germany and Japan between Ideology and Economics
Stuart Leslie, Johns Hopkins University, Korean Science at the Crossroads
Chair: *Mark Walker, Union College

Nathan M. Brooks, New Mexico State University, N.N. Zinin and Synthetic Dyes: The Road Not Taken
David E. Lewis, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Zinc Alkyls in Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Cutting Edge Chemistry at Kazan’
Masanori Kaji, Tokyo Institute of Technology, D.I. Mendeleev and the Concept of Chemical Elements
*Richard E. Rice, James Madison University, Hydrating Ions in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Ignoring Them in Leipzig and Baltimore
Chair and Commentator: Seymour H. Mauskopf, Duke University

Peter K. Machamer, University of Pittsburgh, Origins of Science as Mechanisms
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Oregon State University, Interpreting the ‘Mona Lisa’ of Chemical Reactions: Explanation, Mechanism and Methodological Values
*Lindley Darden, University of Maryland, College Park, The Mechanism of Protein Synthesis in the 1950s-1960s: Biochemists vs. Molecular Biologists
Carl Craver, Florida International University, Discovering Long Term Potentiation
Commentator: Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
Chair: Philip Pauly, Rutgers University

Nicole C. Howard, Indiana University, Beyond Artificial Wings: A Reassessment of Hooke’s Role in the History of Anatomy
Fokko jan Dijksterhuis, University of Twente, Once Snel breaks down: From Geometrical to Physical Optics in the Seventeenth Century
Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and Gordon Brittan, Jr., Montana State University, Gingerich’s Kepler: What is Wrong with his Historiography of Science?
Matthew L. Jones, Harvard University, Accounting for Circle and Self: Leibniz and his Arithmetical Quadrature of the Circle
Alberto Guillermo Ranea, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Galileo’s Authority and Its role in 17th-century Natural Philosopy
Chair: TBA

Kalevi Kull, University of Tartu, A Case of Anancasm: Nomogenetic School in Biology
Sabine Brauckmann, University of Muenster, Fields and Open Systems, or Two Models of Theoretical Biology
Robert A. Skipper, Jr. University of Maryland, College Park, Whatever Happened to the Fisher-Wright Controversy?
Elena A. Aronova, Institute for History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lamarckism, Neodarwinism, and Plant-lice: Interpreting Experiments in the Studies of Experimental Evolution
Stéphane Castonguay, Cornell University, Crop Protection, Agricultural Sciences and the Fundamentalization of Applied Biology
Chair: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University

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