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Preliminary Program

(* indicates session organizer)

Thursday, 19 November

Thursday, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

SPECIAL SESSION: Science and Religion: Current Perspectives
*Jessica Riskin, Stanford University
Commentator: Ann Blair, Harvard University
Chair: Paula Findlen, Stanford University
The Perils of Physico-Theology in Late Seventeenth-century England, Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney
The Changing Boundaries of Science and Religion, Peter Harrison, Oxford University

SPECIAL SESSION: PANEL DISCUSSION: How Should We Write the History of Science?

*Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University
Chair: Kenneth Manning, MIT
Panelists:
Deborah Heiligman, Freelance Author
Thomas Levinson, MIT
William Newman, Indiana University
Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
Jonathan Weiner, Columbia School of Journalism

Thursday, 7:00-7:45 p.m.

First-time Attendees and Mentor/Mentoree Reception

Thursday, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Opening Reception. Cash Bar only

Friday, 7:30-8:45 a.m.

Women’s Caucus Breakfast (Co-chairs: Marsha Richmond & Susan Rensing)

Friday, 9:00-11:45 a.m.

Women’s Strategies for Participating in Science

*Marsha Richmond, Wayne State University

• Twentieth Century Women Scientists through the Decades: Changing Conscious and Unconscious Strategies, Nancy G Slack, The Sage Colleges
• Strategies of Participation by Subordination: Female Technical Assistants in Biological Research of the 20th century, Helga Satzinger, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College
• Strategies in the Cases of Two Pioneer Women Professors: Kristine Bonnevie and Tine Tammes, Ida Stamhuis, Free University of Amsterdam
• Sex and Gender in the Lab: The Strategies for Studying Sex Determination Employed by Anna Rachel Whiting and Phineas Wescott Whiting, Marsha Richmond, Wayne State University

Beyond the Argument from Design: Natural Theology in Late Medieval and Early Modern Catholic Thought

Chair/Commentator, Mordechai Feingold, Caltech

• Noel-Antoine Pluche as a Jansenist Natural Theologian, Ann Blair, Harvard University
• Catholic Natural Theology in Italy after Galileo, Massimo Mazzotti, University of California, Berkeley
• Atheists, Politicians, and Natural Theology in the Work of Leonard Lessius, S.J., *Brian Ogilvie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Astrology as Natural Theology in the Later Middle Ages, Laura Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  

Understanding Extinction

Chair/Commentator: Phillip Sloan, University of Notre Dame

• The Fur Flies over Spotted Cats: Science and the Politics of Endangered Carnivores in the Age of Ecology, Mark V. Barrow, Jr., Virginia Tech
  
• Extinction, Nature’s Economy, and Natural Theology, Kevin Francis, Evergreen State College
  Dying Americans: Race, Extinction and Conservation in the New World, Sadiah Qureshi, University of Cambridge
  
• Hunting America’s Big Game of the Past: Fossil Collecting and the Conservation Ethos, Lukas Rieppel, Harvard University
  
• A Victorian Extinction: The Great Auk, Alfred Newton, and Early Wildlife Protection, *Henry Cowles, Princeton University

The Many Lives of the Projector: Inventors and Charlatans, Philosophers and Statesmen in Elizabethan and Stuart England

Commentator/chair: Lesley Cormack, Simon Fraser University

• ‘The good or bad success of this project’: Projectors and the Fens, 1580-1630, Eric H. Ash, Wayne State University
  
• Character of a Projector: Vernacular Representations of Technological Invention in Seventeenth-century Comedies, Poems and Pamphlets, Jessica Ratcliff, Cornell University
  
• Francis Bacon, the Patent System, and the Utopian Reform of Invention, *Cesare Pastorino, Indiana University
  
• Philosophizing Projectors and Projecting Philosophers: The Late Projects of Cornelis Drebbel (1572-1633), Vera Keller, McGill University

Paraphrasing History: Naming, Translation, and Synonymy in Early Modern China and Japan

Commentator/chair: Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University

• Tradutore, Traditore: Constructing Science Via Translation in China 1600-1900, Benjamin Elman, Princeton University
  
• Anatomy of a Textual Monstrosity: Dissecting the Mingli Tan (De Logica, 1631), Joachim Kurtz, Emory University & Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  
• Radicle Translation: Synonymy and the Roots of Resemblance in Qing Natural History, *Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia
  
• Indexing Nature: Homonymy and Synonymy in Early Modern European and Japanese Encyclopedias of Natural History, Federico Marcon, University of Virginia

Understanding Complexity in Biological Systems

• From Ecosystem to Complex Adaptive System: Shifting Strategies in Modern Ecology, Sharon Kingsland, The Johns Hopkins University
  
• Reassembling the Pieces: Biological Systems and Systems Biology, James Collins, National Science Foundation
  
• The Superorganism: How Did We Come to Understand What It Is? Bert Hölldobler, Arizona State University
  
• Organisms, Systems, and Networks: Overlapping Paradigms to Explain Complexity in 20th Century Biology, Manfred Laubichler, Arizona State University

Defining Applied Science in the Long 19th century: Anglo-American Perspectives in International Contexts

Commentator/chair: James McClellan, Stevens Institute of Technology

• From Art to Applied Science: The Discourse of Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  
• Scientific Authority and the Civil Model: Science, and the State in Different Branches of Anglo-American Engineering, Jennifer K. Alexander, University of Minnesota
  
• Born in Translation: The Origins of the Phrase “applied science,” *Robert Bud, The Science Museum, London
  
• “Vague and artificial”: The Historically Elusive Distinction Between Pure and Applied Science, Graeme J. Gooday, University of Leeds

Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through the Textbooks. (I) From the Origin to the Eve of Quantum Mechanics: SESSION I

• Drude’s Lehrbuch der Optik, Marta Jordi Taltavull, University of Barcelona, Max Planck Institute for History of Science
  
• Against the Wind: Otto Sackur and His Daring Lehrbuch der Physikalische Chemie, *Massimiliano Badino, Max Planck Institute for History of Science
  
• Fritz Reiche’s 1921 Quantum Theory Textbook, Clayton A. Gearhart, St. John’s University
  Sommerfeld’s Atombau und Spektrallinien, Michael Eckert, Deutsches Museum
  
• Max Born’s Vorlesungen über Atommechanik, Domenico Giulini, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

The Psychological Society: Origins, Boundaries, Limits

Commentator/chair: Greg Eghigian, Pennsylvania State University

• The Utilitarian Self: The Neurosciences and Political Reform in Nineteenth-century Britain, Cathy Gere, University of California, San Diego
  
• On Hans, Rolf, and Others: Wonder Animals in French Psychical Research and Early Psychology, Sofie Lachapelle, University of Guelph
  
• Deception, the “Law of Economy,” and the Making of Psychological Americans, *Michael Pettit, York University
  
• Escaping the “Alien Framework”: Indigenizing Psychology in India, Wade Pickren, Ryerson University

Networks/Communities in Early Modern Science

Commentator/chair: Alix Cooper, SUNY, Stony Brook

• Cultivating a Discipline: Marin Mersenne as Mathematical Intelligencer, *Justin Grosslight, Harvard University
  
• The Camel’s Face: Exotic Animals in the Sixteenth-Century Arts and Sciences, Daniel Margocsy, Northwestern University
  
• ‘Rest assured, I expect some pretty things from Candia’: Venetian Apothecaries and the World of Collecting, Valentina Pugliano, Oxford University
  
• Contradictory Tropics: Columbian Geopolitics in Oviedo’s Official Histories of the Indies, Nicholas Wey-Gomez, Brown University

SPECIAL SESSION: Session 1: Roundtable Discussion on Classification in Special Fields in the History of Science

*Stephen Weldon, University of Oklahoma

• History of Science and the Universal Decimal Classification, Elaine de Souza, PUC-SP
  
• Sources on Medieval Arabic Science, Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb, Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in History, PUC-SP
  
• Problems of Classification Considering Chinese Texts in History of Science, Georges Métailié, CNRS
  
• Documents on Latin American Colonial Science, Márcia H. M. Ferraz, Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in History, PUC-SP
  
• Issues in Classification and Controlled Vocabulary: Experiences from Work in Nineteenth-Century American Science, Daniel Goldstein, University of California, Davis

Friday, 12:00-1:15 p.m.

Forum for the History of Science in America Business Meeting

Friday, 12:00-1:15 p.m.

Forum for the History of the Mathematical Sciences luncheon.
All those interested in the history of mathematics are invited to this complimentary event, sponsored by the Legacy of R.L. Moore Project. Seating is limited, and reservations are required. Contact Karen Parshall at khp3k@virginia.edu if you would like to attend.

Friday, 1:30-3:10 p.m.

• Mathematical Genealogies: Astronomy, Geometry, Number Theory
  Realism in Ptolemaic Astronomy: The Case of the Flawed Lunar Model, Elizabeth Burns, University of Toronto
  
• Geometrical Loci: Ancient and Modern, Sabetai Unguru, University of Tel-Aviv
  
• Irrational Ratios: Music and the Development of the Modern Concept of Number, Peter Pesic, St. John’s College
  
• “Seeking Our Own Forerunner”: A Reappraisal of the Role of the Idea of “the Intellectual Sameness of Mankind” in Mei Wending’s (1633-1721) Study of Western Mathematics, Shin Min Cheol, Seoul National University

Induction, Error, and Context: Problems in the Philosophy of Science

• Jacopo Zabarella’s Real Influence on Early Modern Science, John P. McCaskey, Stanford University
  
• On Leaping to Conclusions Inductively: Interpretation and Anticipation in Bacon’s Cosmological Reasoning, Daniel Schwartz, University of California, San Diego
  
• Is it Wrong Not to Speak About Errors? Bart Karstens, University of Leiden
  
• Autonomy and Delocalisation of Knowledge, Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, University of Leiden

Manifold Forms of Natural Knowledge Transmission

• To Popularize Medicine: A Study on Medicine and Society in China (10-12th century), Ruixue Yan, Peking University
  
• How Did Knowledge Circulate in Early Modern Natural History? Aldrovandi’s Building Blocks, Fabian Krämer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  
• Receipt Books: Evidence of Non-traditional Alchemy, Robin L. Gordon, Mount St. Mary’s College
  
• Botany between Knowledge and Science: Botany in the Romantic Vienna and “Voyages into the Flower Fields of Life,” Marianne Klemun, University of Vienna

Astronomy and Society

• Hidden Eclipses and Misidentified Comets: Debate and the Extent of Astronomical Knowledge in 10th-12th Century Japan, Kristina Buhrman, University of Southern California
• On the Boredom of Science: Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Astronomy, Kevin P. Donnelly, Brandeis University
• Frederik Kaiser, Popular Astronomy, and the Decline of Natural Theology, Frans van Lunteren, Leiden University
• Educating Astronomers. The Astronomical Community, 1880-1940, David Baneke, Leiden University

Strains of Definition in 20th-Century Biology: E. Coli, Sex, Death, Life

• Cultures of Cultures: Standardizing a Model Organism at the Yale E. Coli Genetic Stock Center, 1968-1990, Thomas J.H. Reznick, Yale University
  
• How the X and Y Became the Sex Chromosomes, Sarah S. Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  
• Researching Aging under Glass: The Discovery of the Hayflick Limit and the Molecularization of Cellular Aging, 1961-1992, Lijing Jiang, Arizona State University
  
• Cell Model Experiments, Biosignatures and Microscopy in the 1930s: Wilhelm Reich’s Bion Experiments, James E. Strick, Franklin and Marshall College
  

Technology Transfer: To, From, and Around East Asia

• The Typing Rebellion: Toward a Global History of the Chinese Typewriter, Thomas S. Mullaney, Stanford University
• Engineers as the Agents of Science and Empire, 1880-1914, Xiao (Shellen) Wu, Princeton University
• Japanese Chemistry and the Russo-Japanese War, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Self-Sufficiency for the Colony or for the Empire? Research of Substitutes at Central Research Institute in Korean Peninsula Under Japanese Colonial Rule in the Late 1930s, Taehee Lee, Seoul National University

Theories of Mind, Brain, and Cognition in Social Engagement

• Giving Shape to the Common Brain: Cerebral Organization and Political Unity in the 18th Century, Nima Bassiri, University of California, Berkeley
• “Crazy, bedeviled, bewitched or something”: Concepts of Insanity in the United States, 1800-1843, Rachel Ponce, University of Chicago
• Nervous Societies and the Fragmented Self – Sigmund Freud and Biological Psychiatry, Katja Guenther, Princeton University
• Crisis and Method. Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations in History of Economic Thought, Andreas Georg Stascheit, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts
  

Industrial and Technological Research Communities of the Mid-20th Century

• Where are the I.G. Farben Observatories? The World of Industrial-Scientific Collaboration in German Astrophysics, Juan Andres Leon, Harvard University
• Fundamental Research at Du Pont in the Interwar Years and the Rise of ‘Microphysical Thinking’, Augustin Cerveauz, Université de Strasbourg, France
• The Formation of Spectroscopy Users’ Group and the Changing Status of Spectroscopy, Mina Park, MIT
• Fact, Fiction, and Fortran: Computers Between Science and Engineering at MIT and Carnegie Tech, 1962-1975, Andrew B. Mamo, University of California, Berkeley

Teaching the History of Science Using the Web, Sponsored by Committee on Education

*Michael Reidy, Montana State University

• Online Images and Learning: Going Beyond Visual Aids, Kerry V. Magruder, University of Oklahoma
• Blogging the Classroom? The Promise and Limits of Web 2.0 for Teaching the History of Science, Audra J. Wolfe, University of Pennsylvania
• Your Daily History of Science: Blogging a Discipline, Michael D. Barton, Montana State University

Friday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Science as Empire? Natural Knowledge, Political Economy, and Imperial Governance in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Chair: Robert Westman, University of California, San Diego

• Scientific Practices in the Iberian Atlantic: The Comprehension of the New World and the Construction of a Eurocentric World Picture, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Universidad de los Andes
• Scientific Practice as Political Economy in the English West Indies, 1650-1688, Matthew Underwood, Harvard University
• The Order of Nature and Empire at Stake: A Botanical Debate in the Spanish Atlantic (1792-1801), *Matthew J. Crawford, University of California, San Diego
• On the Practice of Collecting Natural Objects in the Spanish Context: Old Bureaucratic Devices for New Scientific Aims? 1712-1812, Marcelo Fabion Figueroa, European University Institute

Popularizing and Policing ‘Darwinism’ 1859-1900

• Charles Kingsley: Darwin’s Other Bulldog, *Piers Hale, University of Oklahoma
• Asa Gray: Design Theorist Among the Darwinians? T. Russell Hunter, University of Oklahoma
• St George Jackson Mivart: Theistic Evolutionist and Darwinian Outcast, John M. Lynch, Arizona State University
• Anglo-American Popularisers of Evolution, 1859-1900, Bernard Lightman, York University

Baroque Science

• Making “Nothing, All”: Imagination, Passions, and Early Modern Science, Raz Chen-Morris, Bar-Ilan University
• From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science, Ofer Gal, University of Sydney
• The Baroque Nature of Boyle’s New “Physico-Chymical” Science, *Victor Boantza, McGill University
• Instruments and the Habits of Knowledge, Jean-Francois Gauvin, Harvard University

From Gibbs to Einstein, In Memory of Martin J. Klein

Chair: Jed Z. Buchwald, Caltech

• Einstein, Lorentz & M. Klein, A. J. Kox, University of Amsterdam
• Thermodynamics and Relativity: Einstein and Klein, Daniel Siegel, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Fathoming Max Planck: A Personal Account of Klein, Kuhn, and the Shaping of Quantum History, Allan Needell, Space History Division, NASA
• Martin Klein and Chinese Studies in the History of Modern Physics, Danian Hu, The City College of the City University of New York
• Fathoming Einstein: M. Klein & The Einstein Papers Project, *Diana Kormos Buchwald, Caltech

Beyond the Cabinet: Collections and Collecting in Twentieth Century Science

Chair: Robert Kohler, University of Pennsylvania

• Laboratories, Museums, and the Comparative Perspective: Alan A. Boyden’s Serological Taxonomy, 1925-1962, Bruno J. Strasser, Yale University
• Building a Statistical Laboratory: A Collector’s Tale, *Dan Bouk, Colgate University
  
• Taking Stock: Situating and Standardizing Collection Practices in the International Biological Program, 1962-1974, Joanna Radin, University of Pennsylvania
• Accounting for Taste: Home Economists, Quantification, and Changing Eating Patterns in 20th Century America, Gabriella M. Petrick, New York University

Techniques of the Subject in the Human Sciences

Sponsored by the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences
Commentator: Henrika Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania

• Subjects of Delusion: Early Twentieth Century Psychopathological Methods, *Susan Lanzoni, MIT
• Seeing the Heart: Feeling Emotions, Otniel E. Dror, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• The Multiple Psychologies of Subjectivity: Accountings of Experiments in mid-Century America, Jill Morawski and Nicholas Alt, Wesleyan University

Mathematical Recreations and the History of Mathematics

• Having Laid Great Wagers: Mathematical Instruments as Popular Culture in Early Modern England, *Kathryn James, Beinecke Library, Yale University
• Franklin’s Mathematical Recreations, Paul Pasles, Villanova University
• Playing Cards and American Mathematical Learning, 1800-2000, Peggy Kidwell, Smithsonian Institution
• WFF ‘N PROOF and other Mathematical Recreations from the 1960s, David L. Roberts, Prince George’s Community College

Technoscience, Past and Present

• Science and Power: Toward a History of Applied Science, Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina
• Hybrid Experts in Eighteenth-century Prussia, *Ursula Klein, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Naturalizing Natural Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan: The Career of Hiraga Gennia (1729-1779), Lissa Roberts, University of Twente
• From Private Networks to Bureaucratic Procedures, Beate Ceranski, University of Stuttgart

Small Groups, Big Science

Commentator: Nathaniel Comfort, Johns Hopkins University

• The Board and the Ward: Practicing Ethics at the National Institutes of Health circa 1953, *Laura Stark, Wesleyan University
• Smokers, Salons, and Small Groups: Modeling Society in Cold War America, Jamie Cohen-Cole, Yale University
• Between the Doctor and His Plumber: Making Embryo Research Ethics Public, J. Ben Hurlburt, Harvard University

Coughing it Up to Everything Else: The Unnatural History of the Tobacco Industry

Commentator/chair: Angela Creager, Princeton University

• Tobacco Industry Research on Smokers and Smokers’ Behavior in the Era of the Tobacco and Health Crisis, 1950-1990, Louis M. Kyriakoudes, The University of Southern Mississippi
• Filter Farce or Filter Frustration? Dashed Faith in Big Science, and the Intractable Cigarette “Filter Problem,” *Bradford Harris, Stanford University
• “It Has the Potential of Waking a Sleeping Giant”: The Tobacco Industry’s Private Debate on Publishing Internal Polonium Research, *Brianna Rego, Stanford University
• Agnotology in Action: The History of Popular Ignorance of Tobacco Harms as Revealed through the Tobacco Industry’s Formerly Secret Archives, Robert N. Proctor, Stanford University

Friday, 6:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Announcement of 2009 Awards & Prize Winners

Friday, 6:45-7:45 p.m.

Distinguished Lecture, M. Norton Wise, UCLA, “On Science as Historical Narrative”

Friday, 7:45 - 8:30 p.m.

Reception, Cash Bar only

Saturday, 9:00-11:45 a.m.

Reorienting Galileo in his Different Intellectual Traditions

Chair: Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Indiana University

• Practitioners, Galileo and the Emergence of Pre-Modern Mechanics, Matteo Valleriani, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Strange Realism: Galileo’s Struggle with Astronomical Hypotheses, Mario Biagioli, Harvard University
• The Information Order of Galileo’s ‘Dialogue,’ Nick Wilding, Georgia State University
• The Cannon Tables of the ‘Two New Sciences’: Connections between Galileo’s Mechanics and Contemporary Astronomical Practice, *Renee J Raphael, University of Cambridge
  
• Rethinking 1633: Writing about Galileo after the Trial, Paula Findlen, Stanford University

Producing Knowledge for Policy: Research Program Planning and Scientific Assessments

Chair: Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego

• Collapse and Translation: How Scientists Assess the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, *Jessica O’Reilly, Princeton University & University of California, San Diego
• Constructing Science and Politics in Global Affairs, Clark Miller, Arizona State University
  Producing Knowledge for Policy: Ozone Depletion Science and Scientific Assessments,
• Keynyn Brysse, Princeton University and University of California San Diego
• The Past, Present, and Future of West Antarctica: Research on the Behavior of a Continent, 1957-1990, William Thomas, American Institute of Physics
  

The Faces of Natural Theology: God’s Book(s) of Nature?

Commentator: Christopher Hamlin, University of Notre Dame

• Charles Bovelles: Natural Theology and the Harvest of Late Medieval Mysticism, *Richard Oosterhoff, University of Notre Dame
• Lutherans Read the Book of Nature, Kathleen Crowther, University of Oklahoma
• ”Ex Naturae Libro Declarabimus”: William Harvey and Natural Theology, Benjamin Goldberg, University of Pittsburgh
• The Credible Audiences of the Natural Theology, Adam Shapiro, University of British Columbia

Envisioning and Implementing Science and Technology in Japan, 1860-1960

Commentator: James Bartholomew, Ohio State University

• The Origin of Modern Developmentalism in Japan, Nobuhiro Yamane, Waseda University
• Made For Japan: Sorting Silkworms and Standardizing Cocoons, *Lisa Onaga, Cornell University
• Japanese Engineers and “Comprehensive Technology” in Wartime “Manchukuo” and China, 1931-1945, Aaron S. Moore, Arizona State University
• Securing “National” Food and Science: Examining Japan’s Science on Whales, Fumitaka Wakamatsu, Harvard University

Risk and Scientific Authority

• Science, Certainty, and the “Negro Question”: A Narrative of Life at Risk, 1896, Megan Wolff, Columbia University
• Coronary Artery Disease and the Consolidation of Medical Authority, Todd Olszewski, National Institutes of Health
• Making the Crash Barrier: Medical Authority, Engineering Culture, and Bureaucratic Practice in American Automotive Safety, 1966-1980, Lee Vinsel, Carnegie Mellon University
• “These rays that blast and wither but do not consume”: American Physicists’ Evolving Rhetoric on Radiation, 1895-1935, *Matthew Lavine, Mississippi State University
• Mothers and Home Isolation in Early Twentieth Century American Medical Practice, Bridget Collins, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics Through the Textbooks (II) Quantum Books in a Time of Fast Change: SESSION II

Commentator: David Kaiser, MIT

• Van Vleck’s Quantum Principles and Line Spectra (1926), Michael Janssen, University of Minnesota
• Teaching Quantum Physics in Cambridge, *Jaume (James) Navarro, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/University of Cambridge
• The Infancy of Quantum Statistics, Daniela Monaldi, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Pauli’s 1933 Die allgemeinen Prinzipien der Wellenmechanik, Don Howard, University of Notre Dame

Notes from Underground: Digging Through Narratives in the Earth Sciences

Commentator: Mott Greene, University of Puget Sound

• Accounts of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University
• “Did You Feel It?” Earthquake Spotters in the Nineteenth-Century Alps, *Deborah Coen, Barnard College
• The Chilean Earthquake and the Pulse of the Earth, Matthias Dörries, University of Strasbourg
• Serpentine Histories: Thinking About Assembling California, Jon Christensen, Stanford University

Jesuit Science and Faith at the Margins of Empire: French and Spanish Missionary Botany, Surgery, and Natural History in the Colonial Atlantic World

Commentator/chair: Alan Greer, University of Toronto

• Reevaluating and Assessing the American Sources of Nieremberg’s Historia Naturae (1635), Domingo Ledesma, Wheaton College
• The Natural History of Secrets: The Jesuit Encounter with the Indigenous Knowledge Systems of French North America, Christopher M. Parsons, University of Toronto
• The Blood of Christ and the Knowledge of Man: Jesuit Natural Philosophy and Medicine Confront Jesus’ Sacred Heart in Eighteenth-Century Mexican Anatomical Analysis, Michelle Molina, Northwestern University
• From the Rhetoric of Savagery to a Science of Race: Humans as a Category of Analysis in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Natural History, Río de la Plata, 1754-1790, *Kristin Huffine, Northern Illinois University

A Question of Order? Standardizing Time, Space, and Self

Commentator: Kenneth Alder, Northwestern University

• Standard Timescales: Between Science and History, Jimena Canales, Harvard University
• Standardizing Identity Pragmatically: Civil Status Standards in Imperial Germany, *Deborah A. Brown, UCLA
• Interrupted Narratives: Standardizing Time on Indian Railways, Ritika Prasad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• The Standardization of Space: Cartographic Grids and the Politics of Computation, William Rankin, Harvard University

SPECIAL SESSION: I’ve Got a Ph.D. in the History of Science, Now What? Historians at Work in a Down Economy

Sponsored by the Graduate Student and Early Career Caucus
Chair: *Gina Rumore, University of Minnesota
*Jacqueline Wernimont, Brown University
Marc Rothenberg, National Science Foundation
Liba Taub, Whipple Museum, University of Cambridge
Ronald Brashear, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Pamela O. Long, Independent Scholar
David Lebrun, Film Maker

Saturday, 12:00 12:30 p.m.

Forum for the History of Human Sciences Business Meeting

Saturday, 12:00-1:15 p.m.

SPECIAL SESSION: American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe—‘Meet the Author’

Chair: Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University at Corvallis
Commentator: John G. Krige, Georgia Tech

• Science and Cold War Secrecy: The Contents of Cold War Science, Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University
• The Post WW2 Americanization of International Science and the Transnationalization of American Science, Zuoyoe Wang, Harvey Mudd College & Pomoma College, CA
• The Contents of Cold War Science? Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
• Resistance to American Hegemony: Neutralizing Science in Postwar European Scientific Organizations, Bruno J. Strasser, Yale University
• European Science and US Philanthropy: The Rockefeller Foundation Between Communism and Anti-Communism, *Pnina G. Abir-Am, Brandeis University & Scientific Legacies

Saturday, 12:00 1:15 p.m.

Forum for the History of Human Sciences Distinguished Lecture

Saturday, 1:30-3:10 p.m.

God, Soul, and Matter in Early Modern Cosmology

• Before Copernicus, Were the Celestial Orbs ‘fictions’? Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma
• Kepler’s Astrology and the International Year of Astronomy, Patrick J. Boner, The Johns Hopkins University
• Newton’s Empiricism and the Emanation of Space in De Gravitatione, Mary Domski, University of New Mexico
• Newton in North America: The Reception of Newton’s Theory of Comets in the Colonies, Tofigh Heidarzadeh, University of California, Riverside

Early Modern Engagements in the Study of the Earth and of Life: Magic, Religion, Physics, and History

Chair: Jessica Riskin, Stanford University

• Franciscans at the Boundaries of the Natural and the Permissible in Early Modern Venice, Jonathan W. Seitz, Drexel University
• The Toad in the Stone: Vitalism, Fertility and Earth History in Early Modern Europe, Lydia Barnett, Stanford University
• André François Deslandes (1689-1757). History and Physics in Early 18th-century France, Marita Huebner, University of California, Berkeley
• Secularization of Science? A Case Study, Monika Gisler, ETH Zurich

Botany and Zoology Across Borders

• Seeds of Knowledge: Dutch Botany in Brazil and Southeast Asia (1596-1696), Matthew B. Watts, University of Alabama
• Imagining a Tropical Laboratory: US Science in the Caribbean after 1898, Megan Raby, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• At Home in the Wild: Ynes Mexia, Naturalist, Kathryn Davis, San Jose State University
• Birds Over the Borders: Imperial Power and National Pride in U.S.-Colombia Scientific Relations, 1910-1948, Camilo Quintero, Universidad de los Andes

Extreme Physics: Experimental and Theoretical Frontiers, 1860 to the Present

• “No such spectrum as I expected!”: William Huggins and the Riddle of the Nebulae, Barbara J. Becker, University of California, Irvine (retired)
• Leiden’s Quest for Cold and the International Temperature Scale 1927, Dirk van Delft, Museum Boerhaave/Leiden Observatory
• On the Emergence of Deviant Science: The Opposition to the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s, Milena Wazeck, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• The Multiple Ways to Decoherence, Fabio Freitas, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Food and Water: Public Health, ca. 1850-1950

• Reasoning about Cholera: John Snow and the Miasma Theory of Disease, Dana Tulodziecki, University of Missouri, Kansas City
• A Conflict of Analysis: Milk Adulteration and Analytical Chemistry in Victorian Public Health, Jacob A. Steere-Williams, University of Minnesota
• “The Science of Living Begins at the Mouth”: When Nutrition Became a Part of Food and Eating, 1880-1920, Chin Jou, Princeton University
• Food Psychology, Food Technology: Ancel Keys and the WW II Development of the K Ration, Sarah W. Tracy, University of Oklahoma

Alternative Pictures of Evolution

Chair: Abigail Lustig, University of Texas

• How Darwin Drew the Primate Phylogenetic Tree, Joy Harvey, University of Oklahoma
• The Spencer-Weismann Dispute and Alternative Evolutionary Mechanisms in the 1890s, Trevor Pearce, University of Chicago
• Morphogenesis, Slime Molds, and Searching for Shared Developmental Processes, Mary E. Sunderland, University of California, Berkeley
• Sociobiology and the Superorganism, Abigail Lustig, University of Texas

Secret, Proprietary, and Privileged Knowledge

Chair: Cathryn Carson, University of California, Berkeley

• Secrecy and the Bomb, From the Postwar to the Cold War, Alex Wellerstein, Harvard University
• Fat Men, Not Little Boys: The Trinity Test and the Use of the First Atomic Bombs, Bruce J. Hunt, University of Texas
• Who Owns What? Private Ownership and the Public Interest in Recombinant DNA Technology in the 1970s, Doogab Yi, National Institute of Health
• Discriminating Appraisers: A Study in Historical GIS, Jennifer Light, Northwestern University

Workshop-Digital Media and the History of Science

*Dawn Digrius, Stevens Institute of Technology

• What is Digital History? Trevor Owens, George Mason University
• NINES, Dana Wheeles, University of Virginia/NINES
• History and Digital Technology, Jeremy Boggs, George Mason University
• Rethinking Archives, Rethinking Publishing: The Digital Humanities, Jo Guldi, University of Chicago
  

SPECIAL SESSION: Session 2: Roundtable Discussion on Classification in the History of Science in Different Media

*Ana Alfonso-Goldfarb, Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in History of Science, PUC-SP

• Images as Documents for the History of Science: Some Remarks Concerning Classification, Maria Helena Roxo Beltran & Vera C. Machline, Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in History of Science, PUC-SP
• Management of Digital Media in History of Science, Silvia Waisse Priven, Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in History of Science, PUC-SP
• Classification Issues Related to Metadata, Software Archives, and Virtual Objects, Henry Lowood, Stanford University Libraries
• Information Retrieval in History of Science Resources on Internet: The End of Classifications? Christine Blondel, CNRS, CRHST

SPECIAL SESSION: History of Science in Film

A Screening of “Proteus” and a Conversation with Director David Lebrun
*Lynnette Regouby, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Film-60 minutes plus discussion

Saturday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Posters

• Cognitive Illusions and the Evolution of Science, Burton Voorhees, Athabasca University
• International Year of Astronomy Celebrating the Publication of Kepler’s Astronomia Nova, 1609: Kepler’s Construction of the First-Ever Planetary Orbit, A.E.L. Davis, Imperial College (retired)
• Computers and the Visual Language of Paleobiology, David Sepkoski, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
• The Geography of Transnational Scientific Correspondence during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, Elise S. Lipkowitz, Northwestern University
• Transplantation and Tolerance: Theoretical Study of Organismic Changes and Expertise in Tissue Transplantation in Peter Brian Medawar’s Immunological Research, Hyung Wook Park, University of Minnesota
• A New History of the Discovery of the 20 Canonical Amino Acids, Rachel Rodman, University of Wisconsin
• Historical Scholarship and Digital Archival Collections: The Contagion and Expeditions and Discoveries Websites at the Open Collections Program at Harvard University, Rebecca H Wingfield, Harvard University
• The Changing Place of Mathematics at U.S. Universities: 1865-1880, Andrew Fiss, Indiana University
• The Rise of Radio Astronomy in the Netherlands: 1944-1956, Astrid Elbers, Leiden University
• The Development and Popularization of the Big Bang Theory, Gustavo Rocha, State University of Feira de Santana
• The Significance of Experience in the Periphery. Engineers from the First World in the Second Half of 19th-century Chile, Jaime Parada, Universidad Católica de Chile & Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile
• Global Science from a Dutch Perspective: Dutch Participation in 19th-century Humboldtian Networks, Azadeh Achbari, Free University of Amsterdam
• The Pasteurization of American Mushroom Caves: A Study in Mycological Secrecy, Greg Brick, University of Minnesota
• The Air-Pump at the Princely Court: Natural Philosophy or Useful Technology? Peter Schimkat, Independent Scholar
• Domestication & Decline: The Degeneration Thesis of Curt P. Richter, Nick Blanchard, Oregon State University

Saturday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

The Dutch Descartes: Empiricism and Medicine

Chair: Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University

• Descartes and Medical Cartesianism, Harold J. Cook, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College
• Cartesian Sex. René Descartes, Dutch Physicians and the Problem of Procreation in the Seventeenth Century, Eric Jorink, Huygens Institute
• Christiaan Huygens and the Limits of Mechanism, *Rienk Vermij, University of Oklahoma

Speaking of Darwin: The Meaning and Application of Evolution in the Twentieth Century

Commentator/chair: Vassiliki (Betty) Smocovitis, University of Florida

• “The Great Grandfather of Hybrid Corn”: Charles Neo-Darwin & Identity Formation among the Maize Hybridizers, Theodore J. Varno, University of California, Berkeley
• Evolution in the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study: How the Modern Synthesis Permeated 1960s American Classrooms, Joy M. Lisi Rankin, Yale University
• Between the Two Biologies: Competing Visions of Molecular Evolution, *Sage R. Ross, Yale University

The Paris Academy of Sciences in Print

Commentator/chair: Lawrence Principe, The Johns Hopkins University

• The Histoire des Animaux and the Early Publication Projects of the Paris Academy of Sciences, Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University
• Paper Voyages: Publishing the Paris Academy of Sciences’ Scientific Expeditions, *Florence C. Hsia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Mathematics, Print Culture, and the Paris Academy of Sciences, Robin E. Rider, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Scientific Conventions in Third Republic France

Commentator: Peter Galison, Harvard University

• Conventionalism in Practice: Henri Poincaré’s Analysis of Otto Wiener’s experiment (1890), Scott Walter, Université Nancy 2
• On the Conventionality of Simultaneity, Connemara Doran, Harvard University
• Conventions and the Organization of Scientific Research at the Turn of the 20th century, *Alex Csizar, Harvard University

Practicing Borderland Science: Medical Physics and the Production of Biological Knowledge

Commentator: Nicholas Rasmussen, University of New South Wales

• Medical Physicists, Biology and the Physiology of the Cell (1920-1940), Alexander Schwerin, Technical University Braunschweig
• “Whither Medical Physics”? Medical Physics in Britain, 1943-1960, Alison Kraft, University of Nottingham
• Circuit Morphology: Interwar Medical Physics and the Excitable Cell, *Max Stadler, Imperial College

The Known and the Lived: Science and Experience in 20th-century Biology, Physics and Earth Sciences

Commentator: Adhelaid Voskuhl, Harvard University

• Cell Cultures and the Specificity of Life: From Philosophy of Biology to Histories of the Organism, Isabel Grabel, Columbia University
• Turbulent Times: Pilots, Physicists, and the Problem of Scale, Daniela Helbig, Harvard University
• Earthrise, or the Globalization of the World Picture, *Benjamin Lazier, Reed College

Listening, Attention: Performance and Perception in German Concert Culture, 1865-1965

Commentator: TBA

• The Aesthetics of Attention: Ernst Mach’s Accommodation Experiments, His Musical Aesthetics, and His Friendship with Eduard Kulke, *Alexandra Hui, Mississippi State University
• Listening to Emotions. Musical Hermeneutics and the Concert Hall in the Culture of the Fin de Siècle, Hansjakob Ziemer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Listening to Noise: The Global Village as Concert Hall, Ute Holl, Bauhaus Universität Weimar

Practices of Science in Modern India

Chair: Asif Siddiqui, Fordham University

• Constructing Bhadralok Physics: Images and Practices of Modern Science in Early 20th-century India, Somaditya Banerjee, University of British Columbia
• The Importance of Being Nuclear: Science and State Formation in India, Jahnavi Phalkey, Georgia Tech-Lorraine
• Ninety: A Story of Indian Thorium, Jaideep A Prabhu, Vanderbilt University

Collaborations in Twentieth-century Mathematics

• Unwilling Collaborations: Mathematics and the Ethics of Professional Responsibility during the Cold War, Sarah Bridger, Columbia University
• “If you would consider a woman...” Gertrude Cox and Collaboration in Experimental Statistics 1940-64, Edith D. Sylla, North Carolina State University
• Gertrude Cox and Ronald Fisher: Two Statistical Pioneers Often Collaborate and Sometimes Collide, *Nancy S. Hall, University of Delaware

Panel Discussion: Federal Funding Opportunities in the History of Science, NEH, NSF, NIH

*Julia Nguyen, NEH
Frederick Kronz, NSF
Robert Martensen, NIH

Saturday, 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Society Reception, Museum Tour and Dinner

In honor of the 2009 Prize winners.
Heard Museum (http://www.heard.org)

Sunday, 9:00-10:00 a.m.

HSS Business Meeting

Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Drawing in Print Culture: Why Cartoons Matter to the History of Science

Commentator: Constance Clark, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
Chair: Bert Hansen, Baruch College

• Science Most Attenuated: The Entertaining and Educational Development of Television Weather Cartoons, *Roger Turner, University of Pennsylvania
• Demonizing Evolution: Fundamentalist Cartoons from the Scopes Era, Edward Davis, Messiah College
• Graphic Tales of Cancer in Modern America, Michael Rhode, National Museum of Health and Medicine

Beyond Evolution vs. Special Creation: the Complexity of the Species Question in the Age of Darwin

• The Autogenesis of Species in German Science, 1790-1860, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
• ”[A]s we rise in the animal scale”: Recapitulation, Progressive Development, and Teaching Comparative Anatomy in 1835 Britain, James Elwick, York University
• Darwin’s “Conversion” Reconsidered (Again!), Paul D. Brinkman, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
• Darwin’s Methodologically Conservative Revolution, *Richard D. Bellon, Michigan State University

Knowledge and Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Chair: William Eamon, New Mexico State University

• Translatio as Scientific Practice: Chaucer as “Lewd Compilator” of the Treatise on the Astrolabe, Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr University
• Universalizing Nature: Prediction and Observation in Renaissance Astrometeorology, Darin Hayton, Haverford College
• Making Remedies as Wissenschaft in Early Modern Germany, *Alisha Rankin, Tufts University

Families, Households and Scientific Work in France, 1620-1750

Chair: Andrea Rusnock, University of Rhode Island

• Family Status and Engineering Authority: The Case of Pierre-Paul Riquet and the Canal du Midi, Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego
• The Family in the Network of Scientific Creativity: The Case of Claude Perrault, 1666-1688, *Oded Rabinovitch, Brown University
• Natural History Household: Réaumur and Hélene Dumoustier, Mary Terrall, UCLA
• Scientific Families: Emilie du Châtelet and the Domestic Intellectual, Meghan Roberts, Northwestern University

Eugenics after 1945

Commentator: Phillippa Levine, University of Southern California

• Swedish Eugenics – Was it Ever Abandoned? The Transformation of the Discourse and Practice on Reproductive Control in the 1960s and 1970s, Mattias Tydén, Institute for Future Studies
• From Neon Genesis to Ectogenesis: The Phenomenology of Posthuman Eugenics in Japan, Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Old Eugenics, New Eugenics, and the Long Twentieth Century, *Alison Bashford, Harvard University

Photography and Authenticity in Nineteenth Century Science

Chair: Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan College

• W.H.F. Talbot and Roger Fenton at the British Museum. Photographs as Proxy in 19th-century Assyriology, Mirjam Brusius, Cambridge University
• Is Photography Trustworthy? Depicting Antiquity in 19th-century Archaeology, Stefanie Klamm, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Authenticating Nature: Situating Photographic Trust in the Late Nineteenth Century Scientific Periodical Press, *Geoff Belknap, Cambridge University
• Portraits of a Spark: Authenticating the Invisible in Victorian Physicists’ Images of Electricity, Chitra Ramalingam, Harvard University

Historical Science in Historical Science: Historical Records as Scientific Evidence

Chair: David Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Past as Prediction: Victorian Scientists on Ancient Eclipses and the Power of Science, Matthew Stanley, New York University
• Dr. Velikovsky’s Catastrophic World: Historical Evidence and Cosmological Conflict in the Construction of Scientific Boundaries, Michael Gordin, Princeton University
• Antiquities, Artifacts, and Agriculture: The Intersection of Natural and Human History in Early Modern Britain, Elizabeth Yale, Harvard University

Making Earth Science: Practices, Concepts, Things

• How American were the 49ers? The Transmission of Prospecting Knowledge from Germany to America, Warren Dym, Bucknell University
• Earth, Wind, Water and Mining Machines: Leibniz, Andre Wakefield, Pitzer College
• Archaeology and Erudition: Serapis and Suess, *Ernst Hamm, York University

States, Institutions, and Cultures of High Latitude Science During the Twentieth Century

Chair: Michael Robinson, University of Hartford

• Bona Fides and Indiscretions: Defining Scientists and Explorers in the Interwar Canadian North, Christine Sawchuck, Cambridge University
• Heroes in the Age of Polar Aviation, 1925-1930, Marionne Cronin, University of Toronto
• Ivory Towers and Icy Frontiers: Cambridge and British Polar Exploration, 1920-1958, *Peder Roberts, Stanford University
• Memory and Legacy: the Divergent Fate of the International Biological and Geophysical Polar Years, Michael Bravo, Cambridge University

Models as Technologies of Conciliation in the Early Modern Republic of Letters

Chair: Matt Jones, Columbia University

• Orreries and Bowling Greens. Real and Imaginary Models in ‘familiar’ Introductions to Astronomy, c. 1730-1780, Florence Grant, King’s College, London
• Condillac’s Exemplary Theory, Jeff Schwegman, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Restitution, Plans and Knowledge in Architecture and Natural Philosophy, ca. 1650-1750, Alexander Wragge-Morley, Cambridge University
• Making Philanthropy with Models, *Kelly Whitmer, Max Planck Institute for History of Science
  

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