Plenary Session: Historians and Scientists: What Can We Learn form Each Other?

Chair and Organizer: Frederick Gregory (University of Florida)
Angela N H Creager (Princeton University): "Cultivating Common Ground Between Laboratory and Library in an Age of Culture Wars."
Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT): "Who Knows What Makes Science Work?"
Charles Rosenberg (University of Pennsylvania): "Science in History: Integrating Process and Product."
Silvan S Schweber (Brandeis University): "History in Science: Visions and Agendas."

The Construction of Experience in Ancient Greco-Latin Science

Chair: Peter Barker (University of Oklahoma)
Commentator: Albert Van Helden (Rice University)
B R Goldstein (University of Pittsburgh): "Saving the Phenomena: Models, Observation, and Experience."
* Alan C Bowen (Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science): "The Emergence of Predictive Astronomy in Greco-Latin Antiquity."
A M Smith (University of Missouri): "The Physiological Grounds of Ptolemaic Visual Theory."

Obstacles to a Metrology of Trust in Early Modern Science and Medicine

Chair: Steven J Harris (Brandeis University)
Bruce T Moran (University of Nevada, Reno): "No Title to Truth: Medicinal Witnessing, Testing and the Condemnation of False Claims in Noble Attire."
Steven J Harris (Brandeis University): "Trusting Jesuits: Codes of Conduct among Spiritual Virtuosi."
Lynda Payne-Bury (University of California, Davis): "'A Deep Fund of Hatred and Resentment': Clinical Encounters in Eighteenth-century England."
*Thomas D Wilson (Brandeis University): "Canton's Experiments and Observations from Hell: Allegations of Fraud and Scientific Societies."

The Culture of Theory

Chair and Commentator: Naomi Oreskes (Dartmouth College)
Andrew Warwick (Imperial College): "The House of Theory"
Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University): "Testing Big Theories"
*David Kaiser (Harvard University): "A Psi is just a Psi?"
*Peter Galison (Harvard University): "After Experiments End"

Better Consuming through Chemistry: Corporate Research, Government Regulatory Bodies, and Quality Control of Foods, Drugs, and Agricultural Aids in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century America.

Chair and Commentator: Rima Apple (University of Wisconsin) *Mark T Hamel (University of Pennsylvania): "Purity and Publicity: Nutrition Science, Government Regulation, and Welfare Corporatism in American Food Production, 1890-1930."
Mark R Finlay (Armstrong State College): "The Beneficent Bacteria of Nitro-Culture: The Legume Inoculation Industry in Germany and the United States."
Michael Acherman (University of Virginia): "Improving the Staff of Life: Concerns about the Quality of Bread and the Campaign for Enrichment, 1915-1940."
Gwen Kay (Yale University): "Regulating Beauty: The Role of the Food and Drug Administration in the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act."

The Spoils of War: Contributions to the Scientific Armory from World War I to Vietnam

Chair: Anne C. Fitzpatrick (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Robert W Seidel (Charles Babbage Institute): "War Surplus: The Postwar Transfer of Technology."
*Anne C Fitzpatrick (Los Alamos National Laboratory): "The ABC's of Early Computing."
Atsushi Akera (University of Pennsylvania): "Reconstructing an Historical Epistoemology."
Timothy Moy (University of New Mexico): "Science and Technology for a New Military."
Rebecca Ullrich (Sandia National Laboratory): "Building On and Spinning Off."

Speaking in Tongues: Twentieth Century Science in the American Courtroom

Chair and Commentator: Edward Larson (University of Georgia)
*Tal Golan (University of California, Berkeley): "Scientific Evidence in Early Twentieth-century American Courts."
Shari Rudavski (University of Pennsylvania): "Separating Spheres: Legal Ideology v. Paternity Testing in Divorce Cases."
John P Jackson (University of Minnesota): "Unmasking Bigotry: The Use of Content Analysis to Detect Anti-Semitism in Postwar American Courts."
Geoff Bunn (York University): "Science and Law in America: The Case of the Lie Detector."

Perspectives on the History of East Asian Science: Papers in Honor of Joseph Needham

Chair and Organizer: C Michele Thompson (University of Washington)
Commentator: Nathan Sivin (University of Pennsylvania)
Bridie Andrews and Arne Hessenbruch (Cambridge University): "Universal Science and the Good Expert: Joseph Needham's History of Science."
Francesca Bray (University of California, Berkeley): "Reproduction, Gender, and Class in Chinese Medical Theory."
Peter J Gola s (University of Denver): "Joseph Needham and Chinese Technology"
Shigehisa Kuriyama (International Research Center for Japanese Studies): "Knowledge, Experience, and Economic Change in Eighteenth-century Japan."

Science and the Public Sphere

Chair: David Rhees (Bakken Institute of Electricity and Life)
Jorge Caizabes (Illinois State University): "Climate, Race, and Statecraft in Colonial Spanish America, 1550-1800."
Vladimir Jankovic (University of Notre Dame): "Aurora Borealis vs. Aerial Warriors in the Contest for Hanoverian Firmament."
Craig Sean McConnell (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Cambridge Cosmology and the Origins of the Big Bang-Steady State Debate, 1948-1959."
Amy Bix (Iowa State University): "'Physics in Overalls': The Scientific Community's Response to Depression-era Public Criticism."

The Rhetoric of Science

Chair: Allen G Debus (University of Chicago)
Matthew L Jones (Harvard University): "The Latest News, Some Letters, and a Short Story: Blaise Pascal Demonstrates the Vacuum."
Christina M Petto (Indiana University): "The Rhetoric of Scientific Authority in Early Modern French Cartography."
Jonathan Simon (University of Pittsburgh): "The Chemical Revolution and Pharmacy."
Amy L Fairchild (Columbia University): "'They Come With all Kinds of Contagious Diseases': Immigration and the Rhetoric of Bacteriology."

Metaphor in Science

Chair: Paul Theerman (Smithsonian Institution Archives)
David I Spanagel (Harvard University): "From Tribal Lands to Virgin Wilderness: Deploying Natural Science After Tippecanoe."
Ursula Klein (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): "Chemical Formulae as Paper: Tools in 19th-century Organic Chemistry."
Edward Eigen (MIT): "La Renaissance du Vide: French Scientists and Engineers Confront the Shore and the Sea, 1850-1890"
Kelly Hamilton (Saint Mary's College): "Darstellungen in The Principles of Mechanics and the Tractatus: The Representation of Objects in Relation in Hertz and Wittgenstein."

The Personal Equation: Lives in Science

Chair: Helena Pycior (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Ronald E Mickens (Clark Atlanta University): "Imes of the USA"
Rayvon David Fouche (Cornell University): "Institutional Racism and the African-american Scientist: The Experiences of Percy Lavon Julian."
Alexi Assmus (Princeton University): "A Couple in the Atomic Age: Mary de Coningh and Henry de Wolfe Smyth." Gennady Gorelik (Boston University): "Why Did George Gamow Leave Russia?"

Biology and Technology in the Twentieth Century

Chair: Garland Allen (Washington University)
Daniel Friedman (St. Clare's Hospital): "'Experimental Medicine' and 'Biophysics' in Leningrad, circa 1930."
Rachel Ankeny Majeske (University of Pittsburgh): "An Historical Examination of the 'Worm Project': Choice and Use of C elegans as a Model Organism."
Mark S. Lesney (University of Florida): "Emerging Edens: The Biotechnology Transformation of American Agriculture."

Funding at Work: The Case of Robert Yerkes and Behavioral Research

Chair: Michael Solal (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Wade Pickren (University of Florida): "Robert M Yerkes and the Development of Comparative Psychopathology, 1906-1921."
Nadine Weidman (Harvard University): "The Science of Aggression at the Institute of Human Relations."
Donald A Dewsbury (University of Florida): "The Impact of Changing Funding Patterns on Research: The Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology as a Case Study."

Analytic Approaches to the History of Science

Chair: TBA
Karl Hall (Harvard University): "The Moral Economy of Soviet Physics, circa 1937."
Cassandra L Pinnick (Western Kentucky University): "What's Wrong With the Strong Program's Case Study of the 'Hobbes-Boyle Dispute?'"
John Sutton (University of Sydney): "Catastrophic Interference: Superposition and Its Dangers in Historical Theories of Memory and Mind."
David Aubin (Princeton University): "Is Chaos Postmodern?: Towards a Cultural History of Nonlinear Science in France, 1968-1981."

Practices of Experience in Early Modern Natural History

Chair: Karen M Reeds (Rutgers University Press)
Commentator: Alix Cooper (Harvard University)
*Brian W Ogilvie (Max-Planck-Institut fÄr Wissenschaftsgeschichte): "Travel in Renaissance Natural History."
Tomomi Kinukawa (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) and Natural History."
Staffan MÄller-Wille (University of Bielefeld): "Form and Function of Means of Representation in Linneaus's Botany."

The Material Culture of Science in the Enlightenment

Chair: Thomas L Hankins (University of Washington)
Commentator: Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire)
*Theodore S Feldman (University of Southern Mississippi): "How Instruments Begin: the Intellectual Construction of the Barometer, 1630-1700."
Alice N Walters (University of Massachusetts, Lowell): "Acquiring Astronomy: The Commercial and Cultural Lives of Astronomical Media."
Patricia Fara (Cambridge University): "'I am my Beloveds, and His Desire is Towards Me': Magnetic Compasses of the Eighteenth Century."

The Nature of Ethics and the Ethics of Nature

Chair: Kathy Cooke (Quinnipiac College)
Commentator: Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University)
Phillip R Sloan (University of Notre Dame): "Nature, Ethics, and History in French Enlightment Biology."
Robert R Richards (University of Chicago): "Romantic Foundations on Darwinian Evolutionary Ethics."
*Margo Vicedo (Arizona State University, West): "The Laws of Inheritance and the Rules of Ethics."

The Research Imperative Twenty-five Years Later: Contemporary Perspectives on the Historiography of German Science

Chair: Thomas Broman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
David Cahan (University of Nebraska): "Helmholtz and the Institutionalization of Science in Germany, 1837-88."
*Thomas Broman and Lynn Nyhart (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Research Disciplines and Scientific Communities: A Reassessment."
*Kathryn M Olesko (Georgetown University): "Interpretation and Historical Explanation in Wissenschaftsgeschichte."
Steven Turner (University of New Brunswick): "The Research Imperative as an Historiographic Problem: Three Decades and Counting."

Women and Scientific Pedagogy: Four Views

Chair and Organizer: Peggy Aldrich Kidwell (Smithsonian Institution)
Bernard Lightman (York University): "Popularizers and Pedagogy
M R Levin (Case Western Reserve): "The Establishment of an Undergraduate Zoology Curriculum at Mt Holyoke, 1873-1900."
Marsha Richmond (Wayne State University): "The Balfour Laboratory and the Scientific Education of Women at Cambridge, 1884-1914."
Della Dumbaugh Fenster (University of Richmond): "Leonard Dickson and the University of Chicago, 1900-1940: An 'Open-minded' View about Women Graduate Students in Mathematics."

NSF and the Crisis in National Science Policy during the 1960s

Chair and Commentator: George Mazuzan (National Science Foundation)
Tody Appel (Yale University): "NSF and the Ecology of Biological Disciplines in the 1960s."
David van Keuren (Naval Research Laboratory): "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: the National Science Foundation and Disputes over R & D Management in Project Mohole."
*Mark Solovey (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "NSF and the Effort to Create a National Social Science Foundation."

The Studies of cultural and Research Practices of Science in Russia

Chair: Keith R Benson (University of Washington)
Alexandra V Bekasova (Russian Academy of Sciences): "Scholarly Pursuits of a Russian Aristocrat."
Yulia Lajus (Russian Academy of Sciences): "Science, Politics and Practice in the Fishery: Science, Industrialists and Fishers in the Russian North, 1898-1940."
Daniel Alexandrov (Russian Academy of Sciences): "Scientific 'Kruzhok': The Culture and Practice of Private Gatherings and Private Study Circles in Russian Science."
Commentator: Robert Kohler (University of Pennsylvania)

Interest Group in the History of Astronomy

Journal of the History of Biology Panel Discussion

Digital Libraries for Ancient Science

Chair: Sebastian Heath (University of Michigan)
*Gregory Crane (Tufts University): "New Technologies for Reading: Aristotle and Euclid as Case Studies."
David A Smith (Tufts University): "Building a Digital Library for Ancient Culture."
Kenneth Morrell (Rhodes College): "Evaluation of Digital Resources"
D Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross): "Visualizing Space: Ancient Geographers Viewed with Modern Geographic Information Systems."

Divine Providence and the Mechanical Philosophy

Chair and Organizer: Jan Wojcik (Auburn University)
Commentator: J E McGuire (University of Pittsburgh)
Margaret J Osler (University of Calgary): "Triangulating Divine Will."
Lawrence M Principe (Johns Hopkins University): "Robert Boyle and Limits of Mechanism."
Kathleen Whalen (University of California, Davis): "New Philosophy, Agricultural Literature and Divine Providence."
Jane E Jenkins (Illinois Institute of Technology): "Robert Boyle, Henry More, and the Ensoulment of Human Beings."

Revising John Herschel

Chair: Harvey W Becher (Northern Arizona University)
Commentator: Gregory A Good (West Virginia University)
Harvey W Becher (Northern Arizona University): "John Herschel's Philosophy of Science in Political-Social Context."
William J Ashworth (University of Liverpool): "The Roaming Eye of the State: John Herschel and the Work of Mapping in Early-Victorian Britain."
Marvin Bolt (University of Notre Dame): "John Herschel: Using His Correspondence Calendar to Address Previous Analyses and to Ascertain the Details and Significance of his Legal Training."
*Elizabeth Green (Indiana University): "Spectres of Herschel: A Victorian Scientist Confronts his own Exculsive Methodology."

Nature on Display: Interpreting the Natural World in Zoos, Museums, and Gardens

Chair and Commentator: Sally G Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota)
Richard W Burkhardt, Jr (University of Illinois): "Constructing the Public Zoo: Images on Nature and Problems of Practice at the Paris Menagerie, 1793-1848."
*Elizabeth Hanson (University of Pennsylvania): "Nature Civilized: The Middle Landscape and the Origins of American Zoos."
Cornelis Sears (University of California): "Bomas, Jungles and Kopjes: African Habitats in American Popular Culture."
Katie Janssen (University of Pennsylvania): "A Garden Fit for Africa: Making Africa Fit for a Garden."

Science in the Agricultural Context

Chair: Eric D Kupferberg (MIT):
Kathy J Cook (Quinnipiac College): "'Good Seek?": Quality of Seed and Quality of Life in Late Nineteenth Century American Agriculture."
*Eric D Kupferberg (MIT): "Between Pathogenic and Productive Germs: Dairy Bacteriology, 1900-1920."
George Gale (University of Missouri, Kansas City): "The Great Dying of the Vine: Science and Social Interactions during the European Wine Plague, 1870-1900."
Craig Stillwell (Michigan State University): "Poultry and Pediatrics: The Collaboration between Avian Pathology and Clinical Immunity in Early Models of Immunologic Systems."
Mark Madison (Harvard University): "'Explanation, Prediction and Control': The Rise and Fall of American Agroecology in the 1960s."

Negotiating Culture in the History of Radiation

Chair and Commentator: Robert Proctor (Pennsylvania State University)
Martina Blum (Technische Universitat MÄnchen): "Female Radiographers and the Question of Technical Skill."
Rebecca Herzig (MIT): "Fates Worse Than Death: Medical Therapeutics and the 'North American Hiroshima Maiden Syndrome.'"
Russell Olwell (MIT): "Radiation Protection for Workers at Oak Ridge: Scientific Debate and Workplace Practice, 1942-1950."
*Karen Rader (Princeton University): "The Mouse's Tale: Modeling and Managing Radiation Risk in Post-war America."

Committee on Education Session

Beyond Lecture

Chair and Organizer: Marjorie Malley (Independent Scholar)
Paul Farber (Oregon State University): "Using Role Playing in a Lecture Course."
Albert van Helden (Rice University): "Teaching Galileo: From Web Page to Class Discussion."
Daniel M (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Demonstration Experiments: Beyond the Talking Head."
Joan Richards (Brown University): "Using the Galileo Telescope in Teaching."

Topics in the History of Science

Chair: John Heilbron (University of California, Berkeley)
James Evans (University of Puget Sound): "The Aequatorium Astronomicum of Johann Schžner."
H H Kubbinga (University of Groningen): "Max Planck: Molecularism and Quantum Theory."
Shirley Martin (University of Chicago): "The Influence of Kraepelin on American Psychiatry: The Case of August Hoch."

Topics in the Geophysical Sciences

Chair: James Fleming (Colby College)
Ezio Vaccari (University of Genoa): "Classification of Mountains and Early Stratigraphical Studies in Eighteenth-century Italy."
Donald D. Clayton (Clemson University): "Radiogenic Iron"
Herb Folsom (Iowa State University): "A Hundred Years War Heats Up: Lunar Cratering Theory During the Space Age."
Merry Maisel (University of California, San Diego): "Climate in the Ascendant, 1970-1975: When Quantity Became Quality."

Instruments in Scientific Discourse

Chair: Karen V H Parshall (University of Virginia)
Matthew Robert Goodrum (Indiana University): "The Role of Instruments and Research Practices in John Ellis's Classification of Corals and Sponges."
John Powers (Indiana University): "Some Like it Hot: Herman Boerhaave, Daniel Fahrenheit, and the Multiple Meanings of Thermometry."
Francesca Bordogna (University of Chicago): "Scientific Objectivity and Psychical Research, 1880-1900."
Leo B. Slater (Princeton University): "Stabilizing the Invisible: Molecular Structure in Twentieth-century Organic Chemistry."

Women, Children, and Medicine

Chair: Ray Kondrata (National Museum of American History)
Anne Christina Rose (Johns Hopkins University): "A Credible Subject?: Using Children in Romanticist Experimentation"
Lisa Hendrickson (University of Washington): "Motherhood and Mental Illness in Nineteenth-century England."
Joanne Woiak (University of Toronto): "'Where To Get Men?': British Eugenic Discourses on Alcoholism and Motherhood."
Judith Anne Houck (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "'Hold Oneself Well in Hand': Women Physicians Confront Menopause, 1900-1936."

Competing Styles in Science

Chair: Bruce Hunt (University of Texas, Austin)
Olivier Lagueux (Yale University): "Drawing the Line: The Geoffroy St. Hilaire's Joint Study on Double Monsters."
Theresa Rudd (Iowa State University): "Caloric and the Physical Ether in the Thought of Augustin Fresnel."
Xiang Chen (California Lutheran University): "Dispersion, Refractive Indices, and the Acceptance of the Wave Theory."
Sungook Hong (University of Toronto): "Styles and Credit in Scientific Engineering: J A Fleming and Bridging the Atlantic Through the Ether."

Writing and Rewriting the Record in Nineteenth-century Biology

Chair: Phillip Pauly (Rutgers University)
James A Marcum (Houghton College): "Defending the Priority of 'Remarkable Researches': Reconstructing a Scientific Discovery."
Ida H Stamhuis and Onno G Meijer (Vrije Universiteit): "The Correspondence of Hugo de Vries (1848-1935) With His Friend and Colleague Jan Willem Moll."
James Strick (Princeton University): "Purity and Contamination: The X Club Agenda and John Tyndall's Campaign Against Spontaneous Generation, 1870-1878."
Ronald S Vasile (Chicago Academy of Sciences): "An Episode in Scientific Nationalism: William Stimpson as a Reviewer for the American Journal of Science, 1858-1863."

Twentieth-century Science in National Contexts

Chair: Gerald Holton (Harvard University)
Annemarie de Knecht - van Eekelen (Free University of Amsterdam): "The Concept of Endocrinology: On Biomedical Research in the Netherlands (1920-1940)"
David P D Munns (Sydney University): "The Origins of Radio Astronomy in Australia."
Katherine Pandora (University of Oklahoma): "Natural History and Psychological Habitats: Roger G. Barker and the Emergence of Ecological Psychology in Post-World War II America."
Catherine A Christen (Johns Hopkins University): "A Rainforest 'Laboratory and Classroom': Field Science and Conservationism at Rinc-n de Osa Station, Costa Rica, 1962-1973."

'A Useful Lesson': Science in the Aid of the Common Wealth

Chair and Commentator: Adrian Jones (California Institute of Technology)
Katherine Hill (University of Toronto): "The Rhetoric of Utility: Negotiating the Role of Mathematical Practitioners in Early Modern England."
Deborah Harkness (Colgate University): "Elizabeth's Alchemists: Natural Philosophy for the Common Wealth."
*Lesley Cormack (University of Alberta): "An Image of Empire: Rhetoric, Patronage and Geography at the Stuart Court."

The Fate of the Homunculus: The Artificial Human from Middle Ages to Modernity

Chair and Commentator: Richard Noll (Independent Scholar)
*William Newman (Harvard University): "The Homunculus and His Medieval Forebears."
Martha Baldwin (Stonehill College): "Religious Constraints on Experimentation: the Homunculus Debate in the Seventeenth Century."
Clara Pinto-Correia (University of Lisbon): "The Homunculus: Historiographic Misunderstandings of Preformationist Terminology."

Science and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-century France

Chair: Thomas Broman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Commentator: Mary Terrall (Independent Scholar)
John Dettloff (Princeton University): "The Chemistry of Reaction: J-C de Lamtherie and the Science of Public culture, 1785-1792."
*Michael R Lynn (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Popular Science in the Public Sphere: Pilatre de Rozier and the MusÚe de Monsieur in Late Eighteenth-century Paris."
J B Shank (Stanford University): "From 'Geometrie' to 'Analyse': Mathematical Physics and the Boundary between Academy and Public in France, 1730-1750."

The Objective Body: Expertise and Apparatus

Chair and Commentator: Ellen Herman (Harvard University)
John Carson (Cornell University): "Managing Anomalies: Big Minds, Little Heads, or What to do about Broca's Brain?"
Ken Alder (Northwestern University): "The Honest Body: Lie Detectors and the Dream of Scientific Justice."
Theodore M Porter (University of California, Los Angeles): "Instrumental Knowledge, or, Trusting No One, Life Insurers Resort to Measurement."

Natural History: New Directions in Biography

Chair: Nathaniel C Comfort (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Commentator: Gerald Geison (Princeton University)
Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania): "The Scientific Romance: Purity, Self-sacrifice and Passion in Popular Biographies of Marie Curie."
Judy Johns Scholoegal (Indiana University): "Biology as Biography and Biography of Biology: Intimacy, Subjectivity, and 'Understanding' in the Experimental Work of H S Jennings, Tracy Sonneborn, and Paramecium aurelia."
*Nathaniel C Comfort (SUNY, Stony Brook): "Great Wits Jump: Barbara McClintock's Rigor and Fancy."

Microbes, Medicine, and Agriculture between the Wars

Chair: William C Summers (Yale University)
Commentator: Pauline M H Mazumdar (University of Toronto)
*J Andrew Mendelsohn (Max-Planck Institut fÄr Wissenschaftsgeschichte): "The Romantic Reaction in Epidemiology after World War I."
Olga Amsterdamska (University of Amsterdam): "From the Field to the Laboratory: Experimental Epidemiology, 1920-1945."
Jill E Cooper (Rutgers University): "From the Soil to Scientific Discovery: Rene Dubos and the Ecological Model for Microbial Investigation, 1924-1939."

Session Societies and Social Responsibility in Postwar America

Chair: James H Capshew (Indiana University)
Commentator: Everett Mendelsohn (Harvard University)
Kai-Henrik Barth (University of Minnesota): "Shots for Science: Seismologists, Nuclear Weapons Tests, and the Internal Structure of the Earth, 1945-1970."
*Patrick Catt (Indiana University): "Putting the 'Social' into the American Physical Society: The Creation of the Forum on Physics and Society, 1967-1973."
Micheal D. Gordin (Harvard University): "'Trust, but Verify': Sverdlovsk, Yellow Rain, and the Crisis of Biological Arms Control, 1979-1994."

History of Science Society Lecture

Reception

Banquet

Pretexts to Pictorial Arguments?

Chair: Paula Findlen (University of California, Davis)
Commentator: Robert Westman (University of California, San Diego)
William Ashford (University of Missouri, Kansas City): "Second Impressions."
Seraphina Cuomo (Cambridge University): "Tartaglia, Self-fashioning, and Backbiting in Sixteenth-century Mechanical Prefaces."
Liba Taub (Whipple Museum of the History of Science): "Instrumental Images in Tycho Brahe's Work."
*Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge University): "Leonhart Fuchs on the Importance of Pictures."

In Honor of the Smithsonian's Sesquicentenial

Chair, Commentator, and Organizer: Pamela Henson (Smithsonian Institution)
Albert E Moyer (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University): "Joseph Henry's Perception of American Science and His Vision for the New Smithsonian Institution."
Nathan Reingold (Smithsonian Institution): "The Smithsonian and the History of Science."
Marc Rothenberg (Smithsonian Institution): "'The Man of Science Has No Country': Nationalism v. Internationalism at the Early Smithsonian."
Deborah Jean Warner (Smithsonian Institution): "History of Science in a Museum Context."

Dmitrii Mendeleev: New Perspectives

Chair: Loren R. Graham (MIT)
Beverly Almgren (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science): "D I Mendeleev and Siberia:
Frances M Stackenwalt (East Central University): "Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev and the Development of Russian Petroleum"
Richard E Rice (University of Montana): "Mendeleev as a Public Opponent of Spiritualism"
*Nathan M Brooks (New Mexico State University): "Dmitii Mendeleev as Director of the Central Board of Weights and Measures."

Sexual Difference and Disease in the Twentieth Century

Chair and Commentator: Joan Cadden (Kenyon College)
Organizer: Angela N H Creager (Princeton University) for the HSS Committee on Women
Elizabeth Lunbeck (Princeton University): "Genealogies of Female Disorder: From the Hysteric to the Borderline."
Anne Fausto-Sterling (Brown University): "Naming and Measuring: Standardization and the Meaning of Sex Hormones from 1925 to 1940."
Michelle Murphy (Harvard University): "Pathogenic Office: Theorizing Agency, Work, and Health in the Information Economy."

Cultural Meanings of the Quantum: Making and Interpreting the 'Quantum Revolution

Chair and Commentator: Norton M Wise (Princeton University)
Alexei Kojevnikov (Institute for History of Science and Technology): "Philosophy in Early Quantum Mechanics: High-principled Opportunism, Cultural Values, and Academic Ritual."
*Edward Jurkowitz (Max-Planck-Institute fÄr Wissenschaftsgeschichte): The Berlin Physicists and Their Reaction Against Quantum Mechanics."
Richard H Beyler (German Historical Institute): "The Quantum Comes Alive: Physicists Response to the Problem of the Organic."
Cathryn Carson (Stanford University): "Interpreting the Quantum Revolution: Heisenberg as Popular Speaker."

Dr. Faustus at the Bedside: Exploring the Culture of Clinical Investigation in Twentieth-century American Medicine

Chair: Robert Martensen (University of Kansas)
Commentator: Susan Lederer (Penn State University)
*Nancy Rockafellar (University of California, San Francisco): "Town, Gown, and Lab Coat: Clinical Research and Professional Rivalries Among American Physicians."
*Michael Thaler (University of California, San Francisco): "Tough Turf: The Politics of Informed Consent in the Lab of Experimental Oncology, 1947-54."
Barton C Hacker (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory): "Fallout in California: Early Biomedical Research at the Livermore Laboratory."
Jay E Gladstein (University of Washington): "'Readin', Writin', and Drugin'': Political Obstacles to Clinical Trails of Ritalin on Children, 1971-1980.

The Role of Technology and Technique in the Development of post-World War II American Science

Chair: Joseph C Pitt (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Commentator: Bruce W Hevly (University of Washington)
Richard Burian (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University): "On Stabilizing a Signal in a 'messy' Science: Technique in the Analysis of Protein Synthesis."
*Michael Seltzer (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University): "Science and Its Technological Infrastructure: Radiation Genetics in the Cold War."
Gary Weisel (University of Florida): "The Atomic Energy Commission's 1958 Decision to Declassify Project Sherwood and the Foundation of Plasma Physics as a Discipline."
Steven Weiss (George Washington University): "Federal Research Funding: Guiding the Practice of Research of Just Another Jobs Program?"

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