Regents
Room
Chair And Commentator: Robert Nye (Oregon State University)
Eric Caplan (University of Chicago): "Anxiety
and Identity: American Nervousness, 1809-1909"
*Daniela Barberis (University of Chicago):
"Charcot's Conception of the Self"
Paul Lerner (Columbia University): "Jewish
Neurologists in the 'German National Cause': Diagnosis and Identity
in World War I"
Marc Roudebush (University of California,
Berkeley): "The Nerves of the Nation: Hysteria and Its Treatment
in France During World War I"
2.
Constructing Deviants in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Mental
Science
Collegiate
Room
Chair and Commentator: Elizabeth Lunbeck (Princeton University)
Cheryce Kramer (University of Chicago):
"Time as Totem: A Day in the Life of a Black Forest Asylum"
*John Carson (Wellcome Institute): "Between
Law and Medicine: Mental Deficiency and Medical Jurisprudence"
Stephanie H. Kenen (University of California,
Berkeley): "'The Current Hysteria Over Sex Offenders': Alfred Kinsey
and the Study of Child Molestation"
Geoff Bunn (York University): "Constructing
the Suspect: Examining the History of the Lie Detector"
3.
Writing up in the Field: Darwin's Thoughts on Species while in South
America
Presidents
Room
(Co-sponsored by the Pacific Circle)
Chair: Philip F. Rehbock (University of Hawaii)
Commentator: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania)
Anne Larsen (Independent Scholar): "Does
a Bird in the Hand Equal a Bird in the Book? Actual and Virtual
Specimens in Early English Zoology, 1800-1840."
*Sandra Herbert (University of Maryland,
Baltimore County): "Charles Darwin: Writing Up in the Field"
Jane Camerini (Independent Scholar): "Victorians
in the Field"
Elizabeth A. Hanson (University of Pennsylvania):
"Popular Science in the Field: Collecting Animals for the National
Zoo, 1937-1940"
4.
Revisiting American Biology Revisited
Nolte
Room
(Jointly Sponsored by HSS and the Forum for the History of Science
in America) Chair: Philip Pauly (Rutgers University)
*Barbara A. Kimmelman (Philadelphia College
of Textiles and Science): "Missing Links: Botany, Breeders,
and Evolution, 1880-1920"
*Mark T. Hamel (University of Pennsylvania):
"Table Settings: Tracking Research Techniques in American Food
Science, 1880-1932"
Karen A. Rader (Harvard University): "Making
Mice: The Intellectual and Institutional Origins of a Standard Biomedical
Research Organism"
Co-Commentators: Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University) and
Philip Pauly (Rutgers University)
5.
Reference Works in the History of Science
Coffman
Room
Chair and Commentator: *Marc Rothenberg (Smithsonian Institution)
Clark A. Elliott (Harvard University):
"Reference Tools and the Definition of a Field: The Case of History
of Science in the United States"
Gregory A. Good (West Virginia University):
"Boundaries, the Earth, and History: The Value of Casting the Net
Widely"
John Lankford (Kansas State University):
"Can (Should) Reference Works be Objective, Value-Free, and Neutral?
A Rhetorical Question"
Helaine Selin (Hampshire College): "Making
an Encyclopedia on the History of Non-Western Science"
6.
Cosmic Crucibles: From Rhetoric to Reality
Northrop
Room
Chair and Commentator: To be determined
Barbara Becker (Southwest Regional Laboratory):
"Intimate Relations: Breaching the Boundary between Terrestrial
Physics and the Physics of the Sidereal Heavens"
David DeVorkin (Smithsonian Institution):
"A Reconnaissance of New Territory: Astronomers Confront the Atom,
1900-1940"
*Karl Hufbauer (University of California,
Irvine): "Physicists as Astrophysical Interlopers: Motives and Results,
1900-1940"
Sylvan S. Schweber (Brandeis University
& Harvard University):"The Ultimate Cosmic-Crucible Question: 'Do
the Laws of Nature Evolve?' "
7.
Managing Nature: Science, Politics, and Environment in the West
Alumni
Room Chair and Commentator: Gregg Mitman (University of
Oklahoma)
Christian C. Young (University of Minnesota):
"Wildlife Management and Scientific Expertise on the Kaibab Plateau"
Joseph E. Taylor, III (University of Washington):
"Conjuring Salmon: Science and Institutions in American Fish Culture"
*Matthew W. Klingle (University of Washington):
"Plying Atomic Waters: Lauren Donaldson and the 'Fern Lake Concept'
of Watershed Management"
8.
Experimentum Crucis and Other Myths: Textbook Treatments of Scientific
Controversies
Rotary
Room
Chair and Commentator: Chris Ritter (University of California, Berkeley)
James Strick (Princeton University): "Pasteur
and Tyndall on Spontaneous Generation: The Role of Biology Textbooks
in Creating an Experimentum Crucis"
Shelley Costa (Cornell University): "'Our'
Notation from Their Quarrel: The Leibniz-Newton Controversy as Embodied
in Calculus Textbooks"
*Maria Trumpler (Yale University): "Defining
Disciplinary Characteristics: Rhetorical Uses of the Galvani-Volta
Debate in Physics and Physiology Textbooks"
Committee
on Honors and Prizes, 12:00-1:30 pm Alumni
Room
Committee
on Education, 12:00-1:30 pm Big
Ten Room
Osiris
Editorial Board, 12:00-1:30 pm Collegiate
Room
Forum
for the History of Sceince in America, Business Meeting, 12:00-12:30
pm Nolte Room
Forum
for the History of Science in America, 12:30 - 1:30 pm Nolte
Room
1:30-3:10
pm
* Indicates session organizer(s)
9.
Late Medieval and Early Modern Science
Regents
Room
Chair: Michael Shank (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Alnoor Dhanani (Independent Scholar): "Impetus
Theories of Motion in Medieval Islamic Natural Philosophy"
Gl A. Russell (Texas A & M University):
"Vesalius and Hunayn Ibn Ishq on the Eye: A Case of Perceptual Determinism
in Ocular Iconography"
Steven Eardley (University of Wisconsin,
Madison): "The Pliny Debate and its Mythic Underpinings"
Ofer Gal (University of Pittsburgh): "Producing
Knowledge in the Workshop II: Hooke's Clocks and Hooke's Law"
H. Floris Cohen (University of Twente):
"Toward a New Big Picture of the Scientific Revolution: Some Introductory
Considerations"
10.
Science and Ideology
Collegiate Room Chair: Ben Harris (University of
Wisconsin, Parkside)
Chris Dickson (Clemson University): "Kropotkin
and the Science of Anarchism"
R. Lanier Anderson (Haverford College):
"Rickert and Dilthey on the Human Sciences"
Jennifer Alexander (University of Washington):
"Efficiency: A Scientific and Social Value in Weimar Germany"
Deborah Kamrut-Lang (Massachusetts Institute
of Technology): "Redefining American Genetics: The American Response
to Lysenko, 1932-1937"
11.
Enlightenment Science and the Public Sphere
Presidents
Room
Chair:
Thomas L. Hankins (University of Washington)
LeeAnn Hansen (California State University,
Fullerton): "Dissecting the Soul: Karl Philipp Mortiz and Psychology's
Public Sphere"
Michael Lynn (University of Wisconsin, Madison):
"The Popularization of Natural Philosophy in Enlightenment France"
Geoffrey Sutton (Macalester College): "The
Demonstration of Enlightenment"
Louise Y. Palmer (Yale University): "Linking
Field Experience with Laboratory Experiments: The Context for Lavoisier's
First 'journal d'experiences', 1764 to 1766"
Jonathan Simon (University of Pittsburgh):
"What Else Was New About the New Chemistry"
12.
Life Sciences in the Field, Museum, and Laboratory
Nolte
Room
Chair: Evelynn Hammonds (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Amy Ackerberg (Iowa State University): "The
Question of Race: James Cowles Prichard and Nineteenth-Century Ethnology"
Tracy Teslow (University of Chicago): "Anomaly
or Standard?: Racial Science on Display at the Field Museum of Natural
History"
Katherine Whalen (University of California,
Davis): "Robert Boyle: Agricultural Literature and the Rhetoric
of Experiment Reporting"
Abigail Lustig (University of California,
Berkeley): "The Invention of Horticulture in Britain and France,
1750-1850"
13.
Physicists
Coffman
Room
Chair: Roger Stuewer (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
Vena Kostroun (University of California,
Berkeley): "Another Look at the Origins of Statistical Physics"
Alan F. Chalmers (University of Sydney):
"Maxwell's Lagrangian Formulation of Electromagnetic Theory"
John Jenkin (La Trobe University): "Henry
Who?-Henry Hermann Leopold Adolph Brse, An Unknown Scientist Whose
Influence was Nevertheless Profound"
Karl Hall (Harvard University): "Lev Landau
and the Agonistic Field"
Gennady Gorelik (Boston University): "Theoretical
Physicists in Social Practice"
14.
20th-century Biomedicine
Northrop
Room
Chair: Rima Apple (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Etienne Lepicard (The Hebrew University
and Hadassah Medical School): "Alexis Carrel, An American Perspective"
Douglas Allchin (University of Minnesota):
"The Unfinished History of Florigen (1937-?)"
Julia Rechter (University of California,
Berkeley): "Of Men and Monkey Glands: Sex Hormones and Rejuvination
in 1920s America"
Elizabeth Watkins (Harvard University):
"Social Problem, Scientific Solution: The Conception of Oral Contraception"
Sally Smith Hughes (University of California,
San Francisco and Berkeley): "The San Francisco AIDS Epidemic: The
Initial Biomedical Response"
15.
Science in Universities and Research Schools
Alumni
Room
Chair: Jim Capshew (Indiana University)
Bert Theunissen (Utrecht University): "Dutch
Universities and the 'German Model': The Case of Pieter Harting"
Frans van Lunteren (University of Utrecht):
"'From the Measurement to Knowledge': The Rise of Experimental Physics
in the Netherlands"
Nadine Weidman (Harvard University): "Defining
Interdisciplinarity: The 'Science of Man' at Yale's Institute of
Human Relations"
16.
Foundations of Scientific Knowledge
Rotary
Room
Chair: Arleen Tuchman (Vanderbilt University)
Linda Strauss (Pacific Northwest College
of Art): "Stage Magicians, Spiritualists and Science in the Late
Nineteenth Century"
Stephen P. Weldon (University of Wisconsin,
Madison): "Defending Science Against Religion: Secular Intellectuals
in Modern America"
William C. Summers (Yale University): "Concept
Migration: The Case of 'The Target Theory' in Physics and Biology"
G. C. G. (Trudy) Dehue (University of Groningen):
"Transfer of Thoughts, Transfer of Training, and Controlled Randomized
Design"
3:30-5:30
pm Special Session in Honor of David C. Lindberg's 60th Birthday
* Indicates session organizer(s)
"Perfecting
Tradition and Re-thinking Revolution: Discarded Images and New Visions
of the Scientific Revolution"
Nolte
Room
Chair: David C. Lindberg (University of Wisconsim, Madison)
A. Mark Smith (University of Missouri-Columbia):
"Through a Glass Darkly: The Problem of Image-formation in Medieval
and Renaissance Optics"
William B. Ashworth (University of Missouri-Kansas
City): "Visual Perceptions: Images, Optics, and the Scientific Revolution"
Robert Hatch (University of Florida): "After
Images: The Retina, the Witness, the Private Eye"
Commentator: Robert S. Westman (University of California-San Diego)
17.
Toward a Physiology of the Mind
Regents
Room
Chair and Commentator: R. Steven Turner (University of New Brunswick)
Michael Frampton (University of Chicago):
"Embodiments of Will: the Investigation of Motor Physiology in Greek
Antiquity"
*Karl Galle (University of Chicago): "Galvanism
and the Physiological Demarcation of Sensation, Volition, and Involuntary
Movement"
Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania):
"The Development of Natural Scientific Psychology: History and Myth"
18.
Scientists as Theologians
Collegiate
Room
>Chair and Commentator: Edward B. Davis (Messiah College)
Michael W. Tkacz (Gonzaga University):
"Albert the Great: A Theologian on the Possibility of a Natural
Science"
*William E. Carroll (Cornell College):
"Galileo as Counter Reformation Exegete"
Kathy J. Cooke (Quinnipiac College): "Edwin
Grant Conklin: The Theology and Science of Human Progress"
19.
Biography and Styles of Science at Mt. Wilson Observatory:
Harlow Shapley, Edwin Hubble, and Walter Baade
Presidents
Room
Chair and Commentator: Ronald Brashear (The Huntington Library)
Barbara Welther (Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory): "Harlow Shapley: The Daring Young Man With the New
Cosmic Keys"
*Gale E. Christianson (Indiana State University):
"Edwin Hubble: No Dreamy Realms of Speculation"
Don Osterbrock (Lick Observatory): "Walter
Baade: Columbus of the Cosmos"
20.
Contested Science in Seventeenth-century France
Coffman
Room
Chair: Elizabeth A. Williams (Oklahoma State University)
*Kathleen Wellman (Southern Methodist
University): "Science at the Bureau d'adresse"
Martha Baldwin (Harvard University): "Going
for the Jugular: Early Blood Transfusion Experiments"
Beverly Bengston Hill (Duke University):
"Anatomy and Popular Scientific Culture in 17th-century France"
Estelle Cohen (University of Minnesota):
"Presenting the New Anatomy at the Jardin du Roi: Pierre Dionis
in Performance and Print, 1673-1782"
21.
The Laboratory and the Classroom: Educational Reform in England,
Germany and Sweden, Circa 1900
Northrop
Room
Chair and Commentator: Kathryn M. Olesko (Georgetown University)
Michael Nott (Sheffield Hallam University):
"The Introduction of the Physics Laboratory in School Science Education:
Keeping Scientists in Their Place"
Richard Staley (University of Cambridge):
"Industrial Competition and Science Education: Comparing Cultures
in the Anglo-German Education Reform Debates, Circa 1900"
*Thomas Kaiserfeld (Royal Institute of
Technology): "The Teacher in the Laboratory: The Introduction of
Experimental Work in the Swedish Secondary School Science Curriculum,
1905"
22.
Strangers in the Land
Alumni
Room
*David I. Spanagel (Harvard University):
"'To Ruin or Rule Us': American Anxieties About Resident European
Geologists from 1812-1842"
Robert H. Silliman (Emory University): "Lyell
and Agassiz in the Launching of American Geology"
Paul Lucier (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute):
"Carpetbag Geology: Scientific Consultants in the Reconstruction
South"
Commentator: Julie Newell (Southern College of Technology)
23.
Popular and Professional Contexts of Evolutionary Biology after
World War II
Rotary
Room
Chair: *Joel B. Hagen (Radford University)
Joel B. Hagen (Radford University): "'Darwin's
Missing Evidence': The Popularization of H.B.D. Kettlewell's Experiments
with Peppered Moths"
Dave W. Rudge (University of Pittsburgh):
"The Use of Controls in Kettlewell's Investigations of the Peppered
Moth, Biston betularia"
Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. (University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "Adaptive Radiation at Oxford: Niko
Tinbergen and the Reformation of the Aims and Methods of Ethology"
Joe Cain (University of Minnesota): "Going
Public: Post-Synthesis Popular Writings of George Gaylord Simpson"
24.
Centennial of Roentgen's Discovery of X-Rays
Bakken
Library
Chair: *David J. Rhees (The Bakken Library and Museum)
Spencer Weart (American Institute of Physics):
"Roentgen Before the Roentgen Rays"
Nahum Kipnis (The Bakken Library and Museum):
"Physicists' Response to the Challenge of X-Rays, 1895-1912"
Joel Howell (University of Michigan): "Early
Diagnostic Radiology: Machines, Pictures, and Power, 1895-1925"
Commentator: Nancy Knight (American College of Radiology)
Note: This session will be held at the Bakken Library and Museum.
Transportation to and from The Bakken will be provided.
McCormick's
Book
Exhibit, 8:00am-5:00 pm
H.H. Humphrey Room
Saturday
28 October
9:00-11:45 am
* Indicates session organizer(s)
25.
What Makes Us Move?
Coffman
Room
(Co-sponsored by HSS and the Forum for History of Human Science)
Chair and Commentator: Garland E. Allen (Washington University)
*Onno G. Meijer (Free University): "Introduction:
What Makes Us Move? Locomotion Studies in the 19th and 20th Centuries"
*Mary Mosher Flesher (Smith College): "Moving
in Space, Marching in Time: The Weber Brothers"
Onno G. Meijer (Free University): "No Two
Movements are Ever the Same: Nikolai Bernstein"
Rob Bongaardt (Free University): "Quick
and Dirty Moves: Gel'fand and Tsetlin"
26.
Revisiting Gender, Nature, and the Laboratory
Faculty
Room
Chair: *Evelynn Hammonds (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Co-Organizers: HSS Committee on Women Co-Chairs, Angela N. H. Creager
(Princeton University) and Evelynn Hammonds (Massachusetts Institute
of Technology) Alison Li (York University):
"Negotiating Meanings: Hormones in Defining Sex and Gender"
Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute
of Technology): "Developmental Biology as a Feminist Cause?"
Londa Schiebinger (Pennsylvania State University):
"Gender Analyses of Science: Is Critique Enough?"
Terri Hopper (Princeton University): "'Radioactive
Ladies and Gentlemen': Women and Men of the Radioactivity Community,
1919-1939"
Commentator: Norton Wise (Princeton University)
27.
Emile Durkheim and Philosophy of Science
Northrop
Room
Sponsored by the Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science
(HOPOS) Chair: *Cassandra L. Pinnick (Western Kentucky University)
Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College):
"Functionalism in Sociology and the Problem of Social Change"
Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute of Technology):
"A Functionalist Theory of the Categories"
James Maffie (California State University,
Northridge): "Epistemology in the Face of Strong Sociology of Knowledge"
Stephen Turner (University of South Florida):
"Durkheim's Prerogative Instances"
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen (University of Rochester):
"Durkheimian Social Science and the Feminist Sociology of Knowledge:
A Response to Warren Schmaus's Durkheim's Philosophy of Science
and the Sociology of Knowledge"
28.
Part I: Shaping the Contours of the 'New Biology', 1930-1960: Redefining
Disciplinary Boundaries
[Part II: see session 51, Sunday, 9:00-11:45
am]
Regents
Room
Chair: Doris T. Zallen (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University)
William Bechtel (Washington University):
"Defining Cell Biology: Explicit Activities Directed at Defining
the Discipline"
*D. George Joseph (Yale University): "F.
O. Schmidt and the Physiological Tradition in Early Molecular Biology,
1927-1955"
Susan B. Spath (University of California,
Berkeley): "Mediating Among Disciplines from Physics to Molecular
Biology: C. B. van Niel's Course in 'General Microbiology', 1932-1962"
Judy Johns Schloegel (Indiana University):
"Negotiating the Boundaries of Microbial Genetics: Tracy M. Sonneborn
and the Margin and Main stream in the 'New Biology"
29.
Huygens's Legacy
Alumni
Room
Joella Yoder (Independent Scholar): "The
Lost de motu and the Found de vi"
Andrea Murschel (University of Chicago):
"The Development and Design of Huygens's 'Automaton Planetarii"
*Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (University of
Twente): "Huygens's Dioptrica: Science and Technology in The 17th
Century"
Commentator: Albert van Helden (Rice University)
30.
Part I: The Earth Sciences in the Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Centuries
[Part II: see session 46, Saturday, 3:30-5:40]
Nolte
Room
Co-sponsored by HSS and Friends of GeoClio
Chair : Ronald Rainger (Texas Tech University)
Co-Organizers: David K. van Keuren (Naval Research Laboratory);
and Ronald Rainger (Texas Tech University)
Helen Rozwadowski (University of Pennsylvania):
"Naturalists, Yachtsmen, and the Navy: Patronage and Nineteenth-Century
Oceanography"
Gary E. Weir (Naval Historical Center):
"Necessity Is The Mother Of Oceanography: Scripps and the U.S. Navy
Hydrographic Office, 1919-1936"
Naomi Oreskes (Dartmouth College): "Looking
For A Few Good Women: The Bathythermograph and Military Patronage
of Feminized Scientific Labor"
Commentator: James R. Fleming (Colby College)
31.
History of Science and the Rhetoric of Science
Presidents
Room
Chair: John A. Campbell (University of Memphis)
*Michael S. Reidy (University of Minnesota):
"The Historical Development of the Scientific Article"
Joseph Harmon (Argonne National Laboratory):
"A Rhetorical Approach to the History of the Article"
Alan Gross (University of Minnesota): "The
Convergence of Rhetoric and History Illustrated: The Discovery of
Chlorine"
Peter Robert Dear (Cornell University):
"Rhetoric as Topic and as Tool in the History of Science"
32.
Astronomy
Rotary
Room
Chair: James Evans (University of Puget Sound)
James Evans (University of Puget Sound):
"The Life of Numbers: Toward a History of the Star Declinations
in Almagest VII, 3"
Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College) and
Jerzy Dobrzycki (Institute for the History of Science, Warsaw):
"Peurbach and Maraghan Astronomy: The Astronomical Tables of Johannes
Angelus and their Implications"
Rienk H. Vermij (University of Groningen):
"The Debate on Copernicanism in the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth
Century"
Thomas G. Franzel (Oregon State University):
"The Strange and Checkered Career of Carrington's Law"
Committee
on Meetings and Programs, 12:00-1:30pm
Collegiate Room
Committee
on Research and the Profession, 12:00-1:30pm
Alumni Room
Committee
on Publications, 12:00-1:30pm
Presidents Room
NEH
Discussion Group, "History of Science and Technology in Integrated
Education: The NEH-NSF-FIPSE Leadership Opportunity in Science and
Humanities Education (LOSHE), 12:00-1:30pm
Big
Ten Room
Chair and Comment: Daniel P. Jones, (National Endowment for the
Humanities)
Deborah J. Coon (University of New Hampshire):
"The Origins and Goals of the LOSHE Program"
Michael Gorman (University of Virginia):
"Using Case Studies to teach Invention to Engineering and Humanities
Undergraduates"
Arleen Tuchman (Vanderbilt University):
"An Interdisciplinary Minor in Science, Technology, and Humanities"
*Michael Sokal (National Endowment for the
Humanities and Worcester Polytechnic Institute): "The Future of
the Joint S&H Program"
Daniel P. Jones "The Future of the National
Endowment for the Humanities"
Forum
for the History of Human Sciences, Business Meeting, 12:00 - 1:30
pm
Cofffman Room
1:30-3:10
pm
* Indicates session organizer(s)
33.
Living Systems in the Age of Reason
Faculty
Room
Chair: Shirley Roe (University of Connecticut)
Sarah J. Lewis (Yale University): "Jean
Pecquet (1622-1674) and Medical Science in Seventeenth-Century France"
Javier Moscoso (Harvard University): "The
Deviant as Normative: The 'Scientific Uses' of Physical Abnormalities
During the Mid-18th Century"
Carlos Lopez-Beltran (National University
of Mexico): "Les Maladies Hrditaires: 18th Century Disputes in France"
Andrea Rusnock (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute):
"Macrographia; Or, the Study of Population in the 18th Century"
Louise E. Robbins (University of Wisconsin,
Madison): "Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century France"
34.
Conservation and Ecology
Coffman
Room
Chair: Lynn Nyhart (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Mark G. Madison (Harvard University): "From
Plow to Bough: John Burroughs and the Origins of Agrarian Conservation"
Robert Lovely (Wisconsin Academy of Sciences,
Arts and Letters): "The Food Studies of Stephen A. Forbes: Prelude
to Ecology"
Sara F. Tjossem (University of Minnesota):
"The Search for Human Ecology"
Eugene Cittadino (Independent Scholar):
"Lebensraum and Lebensgemeinshaft: Ecology and Ideology in Interwar
Germany"
35.
Laws of Nature, Laws of State
Northrop
Room
Chair: Michael Sokal (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Daniel Brown (University of Cambridge):
"Bentham, Brougham and the 'Rational' Reform of English Law"
Tal Golan (University of California, Berkeley):
"Science on The Witness Stand"
Shari Rudavsky (University of Pennsylvania):
"Silent Star: Why the Blood Test Had No Say in the Chaplin Paternity
Case"
John P. Jackson (University of Minnesota):
"A Failed Union: The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund's Committee
of Social Science Consultants"
36.
Beyond Western Science
Ballroom
A
Chair:Nancy Slack (Russel Sage College)
Fa-Ti Fan (University of Wisconsin, Madison):
"Botany in Ch'ing China"
Florence Hsia (University of Chicago):
"Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759), Historian of Chinese Astronomy"
Matthew Robert Goodrum (Indiana University):
"Confronting the Knowledge of the Other: Early Interpretations of
the Mayan Calendar and the Question of a Mayan Astronomy"
Abha Sur (Harvard University): "Saha and
the Development of Modern Indian Science"
37.
Scientists, Identity, and Professionalization
Regents
Room
Chair: Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania)
Sylvia W. McGrath (Stephen F. Austin State
University): "Training Women for Science: Frieda Cobb Blanchard
and Her Mentors"
Richard H. Beyler (German Historical Institute):
"The Figure of the 'Dangerous Specialist' in Post-1945 Critiques
of Science and Technology in Germany"
David Kaiser (Harvard University): "'Skins
as Tough as Leather': The Making of Young Physicists at Harvard
in the 1950s"
Anders Lundgren (Uppsala University): "Engineers
Turned Scientists? The Formation of the Swedish Chemical Society"
38.
Modern Physical Science
Ballroom
B
Chair: Diana Barkan (California Institute of Technology)
Xiang Chen (California Lutheran University):
"The Role of Procedural Knowledge in the 'Optical Revolution'"
Edward Jurkowitz (Rathenau Fellowship):
"The Conceptualization of 'Coherence' in Superconductors"
Andrea I. Woody (University of Pittsburgh):
"Quantum Mechanics Meets the Chemical Bond: A Story of Conceptual
Development and Mathematical Representation"
Peter Ramberg (Johns Hopkins University):
"Stereochemistry in Gemany: Research Schools, Discipline Formation,
and National Styles in Science"
39.
Science in 19th-century England
Nolte
Room
Chair: Tim Alborn (Harvard University)
David A. Valone (California Institute of
Technology): "William Whewell's Reading of Maria Edgeworth: Gender,
Morality, and the Creation of the Scientific Persona"
Sonia Uyterhoeven (University of Cambridge):
"'A Plunge into Unmitigated Materialism': Student Debates on Science,
Education, and Tripos Reform in Late Victorian Cambridge"
Sergio F. Martinez (Instituto de Investigaciones
Filosoficas): "Chance as an Explanatory Factor in Darwin's Theory
and its Implications for the Understanding of the Reception of the
Theory"
Marvin Bolt (University of Notre Dame):
"Early Nineteenth-century Science and Society: Sir John Herschel,
Scientism, and Political Economy"
Michael J. Crowe (University of Notre Dame)
and David R. Dyck (University of Winnipeg):
"The John Herschel Correspondence Project"
40.
Scientific Institutions in Post-War America
Rotary
Room
(Jointly Sponsored by HSS and the Forum for the History of Science
in America)
Chair: Alex Pang (University of California, Berkeley)
Irving Fernando Elichirigoity (California
Institute of Technology): "From Servomechanisms to Planet Management:
The Emergence of System Dynamics"
Kregg M. Fehr (Texas Tech University):
"Clouds Over Washington: A History of U.S. Civil Defense, 1948-1963"
Patrick A. Catt (Indiana University): "'Science
On the Barricades': Physical Scientists and the Relevancy Issue
of Military Support for Basic Research in America, 1965-70"
Judy E. O'Neill (Charles Babbage Institute):
"Managing Cold War Science: The Department of Defense's Program
in Computer Science Research, 1962-1972"
Jordan D. Marche, II (Indiana University):
"The Planetarium in America, 1930-1970: A Social History"
3:30-5:30
pm
* Indicates session organizer(s)
41.
Cancer's Causes: Knowledges and Practices
Nolte
Room
Chair and Commentator: Charles Rosenberg (University of Pennsylvania)
Nathaniel Comfort (SUNY, Stony Brook and
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): "Rous's Reception: Tumor Viruses
in the Context of the Germ Theory"
*Christopher Sellers (New Jersey Institute
of Technology, Rutgers-Newark): "Culture of Disbelief: Agnosticism
Towards Environmental Cancer Among American Medical Researchers
of the 1930s and 1940s"
Robert N. Proctor (Pennsylvania State University):
"Did Nazi Cancer Policy Influence German Cancer Rates?
42.
Gender and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Faculty
Room
Chair and Commentator: Margaret Jacob (The New School for Social
Research)
Deborah Harkness (Colgate University):
"Managing an Experimental Household: The Case of Jane Dee"
*Paula Findlen (University of California,
Davis): "Perilous Endeavor: The Moral Status of the Early Modern
Female Natural Philosopher"
Mary Terrall (Independent Scholar): "Metaphysics,
Mathematics and the Gendering of Science in 18th-century France"
43.
Positivism: 19th and 20th Century
Alumni
Room
Sponsored by the Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science
(HOPOS)
Chair: Don Howard (University of Kentucky)
Organizer: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
Robert DiSalle (University of Western Ontario):
"Reconsidering Ernst Mach on Space, Time, and Motion"
George A. Reisch (University of Chicago):
"How Postmodern was Neurath's Idea of Unified Science?"
Grol Irzik (Bogazici University): "Linguistic
Frameworks, Theories, and Normal Science"
Commentator: Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
44.
The Provinces and the Biomedical Sciences: A Comparative Perspective
Presidents
Room
Chair and Commentator: Thomas Broman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Anita Guerrini (University of California,
Santa Barbara): "A Scot Abroad in the Eighteenth Century"
*Elizabeth A. Williams (Oklahoma State
University): "Vitalism and the Montpellier-Paris Rivalry"
Marsha Richmond (Wayne State University):
"Romanticism and the Institutionalization of Naturphilosophie in
Bavaria"
45.
Galileo and the Churches
Northrop
Room
Chair: Richard S. Westfall (Indiana University)
Giancarlo Nonnoi (University of Gagliari):
"Bishop Wilkins and Galileo"
*Michael Segre (University of Munich):
"Galileo, John Paul II and Etiquette"
Maurice A. Finocchiaro (University of Nevada,
Las Vegas): "Toward a Critical History of the Galileo Affair, 1633-1995"
Commentator: Robert S. Westman (University of California, San Diego)
46.
Part II: The Earth Sciences In the Postwar Period
[Part I: see session 30, Saturday, 9:00-11:45 am]
Regents
Room
Co-sponsored by HSS and Friends of GeoClio
Chair: Michele Aldrich (American Association for the Advancement
of Science)
Ronald E. Doel (Smithsonian Institution
and Georgetown University): "The Military Origins of U.S. Environmental
Science, 1945-1965"
*David K. van Keuren (Naval Research Laboratory):
"Drilling To The Mantle: Project Mohole and Federal Support for
the Earth Sciences After Sputnik"
Kai-Henrik Barth (University of Minnesota):
"Detecting The Cold War: Seismology and Nuclear Weapons Tests"
Commentator: Michael A. Dennis (Cornell University)
47.
Varieties of Experiment
Rotary
Room
Chair and Commentator: Phillip Sloan (University of Notre Dame)
Rose-Mary Sargent (Merrimack College):
"Exploratory Experiments: Scientists at Play"
*Craig R. Stillwell (Michigan State University):
"Reaping the Errors of Nature: 'Experiments of Nature' in 20th-century
Medical Science"
Mary M. Thomas (University of Minnesota):
"The Nature of Measurement and the Measurement of Nature: Instruments,
Experiments, and the Transfer of Tools and Techniques"
48.
Becoming a Science: Observation, Theory and Aesthetics in Twentieth-century
Cosmology
Coffman
Room
Chair: Joann Eisberg (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Helge Kragh (University of Olso): "Art,
Dogma, or Science? The Discussion of Cosmology's Scientific Status
in the 1950s and 1960s."
Woodruff T. Sullivan, II (University of
Washington): "The Invisible Universe: Radio Stars and Cosmology
in the 1950s"
JoAnn Palmeri (University of Oklahoma):
"Scientists and the Postwar Popularization of Cosmology"
*Joann Eisberg (University of California,
Santa Barbara): "'A Brief, Bright Pattern': Beatrice Tinsley, Cosmology,
and the Evolution of Galaxies."
HSS
Distinguished Lecture: A.I. Sabra, Harvard University
Mayo Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 6:00-7:00
pm
HSS
President's Reception, 7:00-8:00pm (for HSS prize and award winners)
Presidential Suite
HSS
Pre-Banquet Reception, 7:00-8:00pm
Ballroom Prefunction Area, Faculty Room
HSS
Banquet, 8:00-10:00pm
Ballroom
HSS
Graduate Student Reception, 10:00 pm
Faculty Room
HSS
Business Meeting, 8:00-9:00 am
Ballroom B
Book
Exhibit, 8:00 am-12:00 pm
H.H. Humphrey Room
Sunday,
29 October
9:00-11:45 am
* Indicates session organizer(s)
49.
Psychotherapy in North America
Alumni
Room
(Jointly Sponsored by HSS and the Forum for the History of Science
in America) Chair and Commentator: Anne Harrington (Harvard University)
*Hans Pols (University of Pennsylvania):
"Seeing One's Problems Frankly in the Face: Moral Reeducation as
Psychotherapy, 1900-1920"
Kathleen W. Jones (Virginia Polytechnic
and State University): "Assessing the Child's Input: Psychiatrist-Patient
Relationships in the Origins of Child Guidance"
Rachel I. Rosner (York University): "Is
Cognitive Therapy a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? The Psychoanalytic
Agenda of Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy"
50.
Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe: New Perspectives
Northrop
Room
Chair: *Margaret J. Osler (University of Calgary)
Peter Barker (University of Oklahoma): "Religion
and Natural Philosophy in Lutheran Responses to Copernicus"
Margaret J. Osler (University of Calgary):
"From Immanent Natures to Nature as Artifice: The Reinterpretation
of Final Causes in 17th-century Natural Philosophy"
Jan W. Wojcik (Auburn University): "Robert
Boyle, Isaac Newton, and the 'Universal Hypothesis'"
James E. Force (University of Kentucky):
"The New Jerusalem and the Old Athens: Newton's Synthesis (Again)"
51.Part
II: Shaping the Contours of the 'New Biology', 1930-1960: Institutional
Context and National Style
[Part I: see session 28, Saturday, 9:00-11:45 am]
Regents
Room Chair: Robert C. Olby (University of Pittsburgh)
Organizer: D. George Joseph (Yale University)
Soraya de Chadarevian (University of Cambridge):
"From Biophysics to Molecular Biology: Institutional and Disciplinary
Strategies in Post-war Britain"
Nicolas Rasmussen (University of Sydney):
"Midcentury Biophysics: The Atom Bomb and the Origins of Molecular
Biology in America"
Angela N. H. Creager (Princeton University):
"Building on Viruses at Berkeley: Wendell Stanley's Strategies (and
Failures) in Reconfiguring Post-war Biology"
Peter Westwick (University of California,
Berkeley): "Medical Physics at Berkeley: The Institutional Situation
of an Emerging Discipline"
Commentator: Pnina G. Abir-Am (Boston University)
52.
The Local and the International: Cultures of Science in Early Modern
Germany
Presidents
Room
Chair: Bruce T. Moran (University of Nevada, Reno)
Steven J. Harris (Brandeis University):
"Concentrating Nature: Jesuit Natural History in the German Assistancy"
*Alix Cooper (Harvard University): "Decoding
The Domestic: The Emergence of the Local Natural History in Germany"
*Marcus Hellyer (University of California,
San Diego): "Libertas Philosophandi or Soliditas Sententiae?: Jesuit
Physics in Early Modern Germany"
Bruce T. Moran (University of Nevada, Reno):
"Faith, Scripture, and Alchemy: Libavius vs. the Jesuits"
53.
Science in the American West
Rotary
Room
(Jointly Sponsored by HSS and the Forum for the History of Science
in America)
Chair: Robert W. Seidel (Charles Babbage Institute)
David Strauss (Kalamazoo College): "A 'Proper'
Bostonian on Mars Hill: Percival Lowell and His Observatory"
*George E. Webb (Tennessee Technological
University): "The Scientific Community in the Far West, 1910"
Judith R. Goodstein (California Institute
of Technology): "Mathematics at Caltech in Millikan's Time"
Commentator: Keith R. Benson (University of Washington)
54.
German Scientists from Nazism to Socialism: Three Case Studies
Faculty
Room
Chair: Kristie Macrakis (Michigan State University)
*Dieter Hoffmann (FSP Wissenschaftsgeschichte):
"Scientist, Anti-Nazi, Stalinist, Dissident: Robert Havemann - A
German Life"
Mark Walker (Union College): "Friedrich
Mglich: The Prodigal Son"
Mitchell G. Ash (University of Iowa): "Mobilizing
Resources, Constructing Continuities: Kurt Gottschaldt and Psychological
Twin Research in Nazi and Socialist Germany"
Commentator: Kristie Macrakis (Michigan State University)
55.
History of Mathematics
Coffman
Room
Chair: Bruce Hevly (University of Washington)
Madeline M. Muntersbjorn (University of
Toledo): "Covert Algebra? Fermat and the Treatise on Rectification
1660"
Lisa Shabel (University of Pennsylvania):
"Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics in its Historical Context"
Francesca Bordogna (University of Chicago):
"Mathematical Practices and Underlying Philosophies: A Nineteenth-century
Case Study"
Berna Kilic Eden (University of Chicago):
"From Formal Logic to the Frequency Theory: Venn and Peirce in the
Quantification of Syllogism"
56.
Science in the Field
Nolte
Room
Chair: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
Nicolaas A. Rupke (University of Gttingen):
"Humboldt's Fame"
Robinson M. Yost (Iowa State University):
"Voyages, Instruments and Theories: The Study of Terrestrial Magnetism
in Great Britain, 1780s-1830s"
Lodewijk C. Palm (University of Utrecht):
"Dutch Shipworm Research 1858-1870: Science for the Safety of the
People"
Janet Garber (Independent Scholar): "'For
Fear of Increasing the Confusion': Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-century
Attempts to Make Sense of the Natural World"
Mark V. Barrow, Jr. (Virginia Polytechnic
and State University): "Alternative Visions: Scientific Ornithologists
and the Rise of Birdwatching in the United States"
9:00-11:45
am Special Session Sponsored by HSS Committee on Education:
"Teaching the Histories of Non-western Scientific Traditions"
Ballroom
A
Chair: Douglas Allchin (Independent Scholar)
James Bartholomew (Ohio State University):
"Teaching the History of Japanese Science"
Thomas Glick (Boston University): "Teaching
the History of Latin American Science"
William Summers (Yale University): "Teaching
the History of Chinese Science"
Gloria Emeagwali (Central Connecticut State
University): "Teaching the History of African Science"
William Johnson (Texas Tech University):
"Teaching the History of Science in India"
