CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
“CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE”
(Fifth British-North American Joint
Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS)
5-7 August 2004, Halifax, Nova Scotia
This is an archive version of
the conference programme.
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notified to: jan.golinski@unh.edu
Conference abstracts are now
available online (alphabetized by name of author):
(* = session organizer)
THURSDAY 5 AUGUST
08:30-11:00
PLENARY SESSION:
Circulating Knowledge in the Scientific Revolution. (Alumni
Hall)
Margaret Osler, University of
Calgary, “New Wine in Old Bottles: Natural Philosophy in a Period of
Transition.”
Peter Dear, Cornell University, “Circulating
Knowledge between Natural Philosophy and Utility in the Scientific Revolution.”
Robert Westman, University of
California at San Diego, “Circulating
Theoretical Knowledge: Kepler and Galileo in the
Years of Public Silence.”
Chair: Lesley Cormack, University of
Alberta.
11:15-13:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Two Centuries of Creating and Disseminating Science
from the Pacific, 1769-1963. (Seminar Room 4)
Keir Sterling, U.S. Army
Combined Arms Support Command, “Mammal and Bird Collections Made by Titian
Peale during the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, and the Fate of his
Published Account.”
Larry Spencer,
Plymouth State University, “J. Roger
Bray and the History of Forest Ecology in New Zealand.”
*Janet Bell Garber, Independent Scholar, “New
Knowledge Shared between Tasmania and England via the Journal of the Tasmanian
Royal Society of Science, 1839-1849.”
Commentator: Debra Lindsay, University of New Brunswick St John Campus.
Chair: Michael Brodhead, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
Popular Science Writing in the Twentieth Century. (Classroom
3)
Matthew Stanley,
Harvard University, “Physics, Marxism
and Mysticism: Politics and Religion in the Reception of Eddington’s
Science Popularizations.”
Sophie Forgan, University of Teeside, “Common Readers and Intelligent Laymen:
Penguins and Pelican Specials in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain.”
*Peter Bowler,
Queen’s University, Belfast, “Writing
for Science: Scientists and Popular Science Writing in Early Twentieth-Century
Britain.”
Commentator: Peter Broks, University of
the West of England.
Chair: Aileen Fyfe, University College, Galway.
Bacteriology and the Environment. (Scotiabank Room)
*Christopher Hamlin, University of Notre Dame,
“Roasting Germs: Bacteriology in the
Cremation Controversy, 1874-1900.”
*Daniel W. Schneider, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, “Sewage, Science and Control: Science and Labor in the
Activated Sludge Process.”
Angela Gugliotta, University of
Chicago, “Air Pollution as a Threat to Health in the Mellon Institute Smoke
Investigations: Bacteriology, Industrial Exposures and Air Hygiene.”
Chair: Steve Sturdy, University of Edinburgh.
The Empire and the Metropolis. (Haliburton Room)
Hannah Gay, Simon Fraser University and Imperial College London, “Imperial
Science at Imperial College, 1907-47.”
Mike Buttolph, King’s College
London, “J. G. Adami’s Croonian
Lectures of 1917: A McGill Pathologist Confronts the Biologists of London.”
Jean-Pierre Beaud and Jean-Guy Prévost,
Université du Québec à Montréal, “Circulating Knowledge and Scientific-Bureaucratic
Cooperation: The 1920 Imperial Conference and its Context.”
Chair: Elsbeth Heaman, McGill University.
Evolution and Extinctions. (KTS
Lecture Hall)
Patricia Princehouse, Case Western Reserve University, “Transforming
Fossils: Macroevolution, Paleobiology and Punctuated Equilibria in Europe and North America.”
David Boersema, Pacific
University, “Mass Extinctions: Circulating Knowledge and Circulating
Debates.”
Keynyn Brysse, University of
Toronto, “A Hierarchy by Any Other Name: Walter Alvarez and the ‘Spectrum’
of Scientific Disciplines.”
Chair: James A. Secord, University of Cambridge.
Scientists and their Publics in Russia and the USA. (Seminar
Room 2)
Paul
Buckingham, University of Saint Francis, Indiana, “Mathematics on the
Periphery: The Role of the Moscow Mathematical Society in the Creation of a
Russian Mathematics Community.”
Edward B.
Davis, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, “Popularizing Elite Views on Science
and Religion: Religious Pamphlets by Leading Scientists in the 1920s.”
Chair: Dan Falk,
Toronto.
Studies in Early-Modern Science. (Archibald
Room)
Peter Schimkat, Independent
Scholar, “The Astronomer-Accountant in the 16th Century: A Case Study on Landgraf Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel
(1532-1592).”
Ian Stewart,
University of King’s College, “Knowledge
Circulation and William Gilbert’s A New
Philosophy Concerning our Sublunary World.”
Anna Marie Roos, University of
Minnesota Duluth, “Salient Circulations of Chemical Knowledge and Natural
History: Martin Lister (c. 1638-1712), Volatile Salts and Fool’s Gold.”
Alvan Bregman, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Alligation
Alternate and The Composition of Medicines:
Mathematics and Medicine in Early-Modern England.”
Chair: Kathryn Morris, University of
King’s College.
14:00-15:45
PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Transplanting Science in Transatlantic Communities in
the 19th Century. (Haliburton Room)
*Aileen Fyfe,
National University of Ireland – Galway,
“Bringing British Popular Science to America: The Role of Technology in the
Negotiations of W. & R. Chambers.”
Robert J Scholnick, College of
William and Mary, “Blasphemy, Subversion, and Transmutation: Vestiges (1844) Comes to America.”
Leslie Howsam, University of
Windsor, “Transatlantic Collaboration and the New Scientific History.”
Chair: Bertrum MacDonald, Dalhousie
University.
Physical Science and the Changing Sense of Reality in
the Early Twentieth Century. (KTS Lecture Hall)
Charlotte Bigg, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Zurich, “Brownian Motion and Microphysical
Reality, circa 1900.”
Richard Staley,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The
Co-Creation of Classical and Modern Physics.”
Suman Seth, Cornell University, “‘Experimentalised Theory’: Arnold Sommerfeld
and the Early Quantum Theory, 1918-1925.”
Commentator & Chair: *Otto Sibum, Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
Signs and Questions of Induction. (Scotiabank Room)
*Daryn Lehoux, University of
King’s College, “Signs, Symptoms, and Predictive Inference in the Ancient
Sciences.”
*Jay Foster,
University of Toronto, “The Order of
Nature and the Order of Language: Thomas Reid on the Semiotics of Perception.”
Gordon McOuat, University of
King’s College, “Agassiz and Alien Abduction.”
Chair: Daryn Lehoux, University of King’s College.
Networking Human Origins: Case Studies in the History
of Anthropology and Archaeology. (Alumni Hall)
Marianne Sommer, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, “A Lady Comes of Age: Do Modern Science Projects
Produce Definitive Reports?”
Staffan Müller-Wille, Max-Planck-Institute
for the History of Science, “From Race Biology to Human Genetics: The
Anthropological Survey of the ‘Swedish Lapps’ 1922-1941.”
Conor Burns, University of Toronto,
“Institutional Agendas, Correspondence Networks and Archaeology in the Ohio
Valley, 1880-1894.”
Commentator & Chair: Joan Gero, American
University.
Twentieth-Century Technological Systems. (Seminar
Room 2)
Roland Wittje, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, “Launching from the Physics
Department towards Industry Building: The Transition of Practices between
Amateur Radio, Research and Commercial Radio Manufacturing in Norway During the
Interwar Period.”
Vera Pavri-Garcia, University of Toronto, “Technological
Doublespeak: Metaphors, Public Policy and the Development of the First Domestic
Communications Satellite Technology in Canada.”
Chair: Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire.
Geology in 19th-century North America. (Classroom
3)
Rob-Roy
Douglas, University of Alberta, “Finding Fossils and Building Reputations:
John William Dawson, Charles Lyell and the Joggins Fossil Beds.”
Robert H. Silliman, Emory University, “Floods, Ice Floes, or
Glaciers: Nova Scotia’s Conflicting
Testimony in 19th-Century Interpretations of the Diluvium-Drift.”
Commentator & Chair: Ernst Hamm,
York University.
International Exchange and the Treatment of Disease. (Archibald
Room)
Bert Hansen,
Baruch College, The City University of
New York, “Forgotten Pioneers: Pasteur Institutes in the USA, 1885-1944.”
Chair: Darwin Stapleton, Rockefeller
Archive Center.
Reconfiguring the Disciplines. (Seminar
Room 4)
Robert S. Leventhal, College of
William and Mary, “The Entropy Effect: Tracing the Impact of the Second Law
in the Human Sciences of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century.”
Rivers Singleton, Jr., University of
Delaware, “Disciplinary Origins of Biochemistry, Two Case Studies.”
Andrea Loettgers, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Zurich, “Modeling and Simulating the Brain.”
Chair: Yves Gingras, Université de Québec à Montréal.
16:00-18:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Isaac Newton: Private Texts, Public Texts. (Classroom
3)
Jean-François Baillon, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III, “Newton’s ‘Two notable
Corruptions of Scripture’: The Further History of a Manuscript.”
Scott Mandelbrote, Peterhouse, Cambridge,
“Printed and Manuscript Publication of Isaac Newton’s Nachlass.”
*Stephen Snobelen, University of
King’s College, “Isaac Newton, Pythagorean Style and the Esoteric/Exoteric
Divide.”
Rob Iliffe, Imperial
College, London, “Prospects for the Newton Project: An Integrated Research
Resource for the Study of the Interconnectedness of Newton’s Literary Output.”
Chair: Larry Stewart, University of Saskatchewan.
Channels for Establishing Physical Organic Chemistry. (Haliburton Room)
Jerome A. Berson, Yale
University, “Did the Montpellier Conference at the end of the 1940s Promote
or Hinder the Development of Physical Organic Chemistry?”
Pierre Laszlo,
Ecole polytechnique,
“Neville Vincent Sidgwick’s Organic Chemistry of Nitrogen (1910) and Edwin S. Gould’s Mechanism and Structure in Organic Chemistry
(1959): A Comparative Analysis.”
John D. Roberts,
Caltech, “The Place of Physical
Organic Chemistry in Elementary Organic Textbooks.”
Stephen L. Weininger, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, “Early British and American Textbooks in Physical
Organic Chemistry : A Comparison Among Watson, Dewar, Ingold,
Branch and Calvin, Remick and Gould.”
Chair: Pierre Laszlo, Ecole polytechnique.
Indexical Organisms: Exemplars and Biological Problems
in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
(Seminar Room 4)
Ruthanna Dyer, York University, “George Allman (1812-1898): Protoplasm and the Individual.”
*James Elwick, University of
Toronto, “Questions Incarnate: Exemplar Invertebrates and mid-century
Victorian biology.”
Andrew Reynolds,
University College of Cape Breton,
“Amoebae as Exemplar Cells: the Protean Nature of Elementary Organisms.”
Luis Campos,
Harvard University, “‘Secret of Life
Unveiled!’: Popular Accounts and the Synthesis of Artificial Life.”
Commentator & Chair: Kenton Kroker, York
University.
Latin America in the Circulation of Scientific
Knowledge. (Scotiabank Room)
Laura Chazaro, El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico, “Engagements and Disengagements: Medical
Practices, Bodies and Instruments in Mexico, 1890-1915.”
Shawn Mullet,
Harvard University, “Philanthropy and
Physics at the University of São Paulo.”
Dimitri Della Faille De Leverghem, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Representations
of Latin America in North American Sociology (1945-1970).”
Chair: Lesley Cormack, University of
Alberta.
Studies in the Sciences of the Enlightenment. (Archibald
Room)
Eric Palmer,
Allegheny College, “The Enlightenment
in Process: Leibniz, Voltaire, and Noël Pluche.”
Adriana S. Benzaquén, Mount Saint Vincent University, “The
Doctor, the Child, and the Mother: The Formation and Circulation of a Medical
Science of Childhood in the European Enlightenment.”
Lucia Dacome, Wellcome Trust Centre,
University College London, “Thickening Blood: The Display of Circulation in
the Eighteenth Century.”
Chair: Barbara Finan, University of
New Hampshire.
Physics and Its Interdisciplinary Connections. (KTS
Lecture Hall)
Richard Noakes, University of Cambridge, “Making Physics
Psychic: The New Physics and Audiences for the Occult in Britain, 1870-1920.”
Falk Mueller, University of Halle, “How Vacuum Travelled
in the 19th Century or How Geissler, Hittorf and Crookes Met Virtually
in Edison’s Workshop.”
Graeme Gooday, University of
Leeds, “Recirculating the Electric Fluid: 20th
Century Reappropriations
of Franklinian
Theory.”
Helena M. Pycior, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Bridging
Physics and Medicine: Marie Curie and the Medical Applications of X-rays and
Radioactivity.”
Chair: Jaume Navarro, University of Cambridge and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
Psychology in 20th-Century Culture. (Alumni
Hall)
Ben Harris and Sara Amadon, University
of New Hampshire, “Transatlantic Popular Psychology: The Americanization of
Couéism in the 1920s.”
Henderikus J. Stam and René Van Hezewijk, University
of Calgary and Open University,
Netherlands, “Phenomenological Psychology in Europe and North America: The
case of Johannes Linschoten and the Demise of the ‘Utrecht
School’.”
Julien Prud’homme, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Une appropriation sélective et localisée. La
circulation en milieu clinique des nouvelles catégories diagnostiques en thérapie du langage, 1985-2000.”
Chair: Michael Sokal, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.
FRIDAY 6 AUGUST
08:30-11:00
PLENARY SESSION:
Mediators and Knowledge Networks in Late-Eighteenth-Century Imperial Experience. (Alumni
Hall)
James Delbourgo, McGill University,
“Double Agents: Knowledge and Knowledge-Producers in Atlantic Circulation.”
Kapil Raj, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris, “Indian Detours of British Geography: Putting James Rennell on the Map.”
Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, “Full Steam Ahead: Failed Inventors and Entrepreneurial
Networks in Eighteenth-Century Europe.”
Simon Schaffer,
University of Cambridge, “Instruments
as Cargo in the China Trade.”
Chair: Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire.
11:15-13:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Industrial Enlightenment. (Haliburton Room)
*Larry Stewart,
University of Saskatchewan,
“Manufacturing Enlightenment : The Factory and the Laboratory at the End of the
Eighteenth Century.”
Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, “The French Assess
the Challenge, 1800-1850.”
Commentator: Joel Mokyr, Northwestern
University.
Chair: Otto Sibum, Max-Planck
Institute for History of Science, Berlin.
Visual Illustration and Popular Science. (Alumni
Hall)
*Constance Areson Clark, Randolph-Macon
Woman’s College, “The Cave Man, the Strenuous Life, and the Irreverent
Funny Pages.”
Julie K. Brown, Independent
Scholar, “Devising the ‘Speaking Picture’: Displays of Health and
Medicine
at
International Expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.”
Bernard Lightman, York
University, “Depicting Nature, Defining Roles: Visual Images and Female Popularizers of Victorian Science.”
Chair: Martin Fichman, York
University.
Metropolitan vs. Settler Science in the Field: Forming
Knowledge about Animals in Southern Africa and the Western United States. (KTS
Lecture Hall)
*Jeremy Vetter,
University of Pennsylvania, “Settler
Science Goes Metropolitan? Studying Birds and Mammals at the Colorado Museum of
Natural History, 1901-1920.”
Karen Brown,
Oxford University, “Onderstepoort and the Development of Veterinary Medicine in
South Africa c.1908-1950.”
Emily Pawley,
University of Pennsylvania,
“Specimens of Sportsmanship: British Mammal Collecting in Southern Africa,
1870-1917.”
Commentator & Chair: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota.
Exhibiting Human Beings in the 19th Century. (Classroom
3)
Sharrona Pearl, Harvard University, “Dramatic
Readings: Uses of Physiognomy on the Victorian Stage.”
Sadiah Qureshi, University of
Cambridge, “Living Curiosities: Human Ethnological Exhibition and the
Emergence of Ethnology, 1810-1854.”
Beverley Eadie, York University, “Science, Spectacle,
and Fears of Contamination: Mesmerism in
Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain.”
Chair: Joan Steigerwald,
York University.
International Migration and Scientific Careers. (Seminar
Room 4)
Joanne A.
Charbonneau and Richard E. Rice, Independent
Scholars, “Circulating Scientific Knowledge Between Europe and North
America: The Role of Women in Physics and Chemistry Before WWI.”
Robin Mackie,
Gerrylynn K Roberts, and Anna Simmons, The Open University,
UK, “The Circulation of Expertise: British Chemists Abroad, 1890-1939.”
Christian Fleck
and Werner Reichmann, University of Graz, “A Collective Biography
(Prosopography) of German-Speaking Sociologists.”
Chair: Eric L. Mills, Dalhousie University.
Geometry and Early-Modern Science. (Scotiabank Room)
Mary Domski, California
State University, Fresno, “The Geometry of the Principia: Understanding Newton’s Public Claims in the Preface.”
Chair: Stephen Snobelen,
University of King’s College.
13:00-14:00
WEBSITE DEMONSTRATION:
“Profiles in
Science: A Tool for Educators in History of Science and Medicine.”
Presented by: Paul
Theerman, National
Library of Medicine.
(KTS
Lecture Hall)
14:00-15:45
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
James A. Secord
University of Cambridge
“Knowledge in Transit”
Chair: Simon Schaffer, University of
Cambridge.
(Alumni
Hall)
16:00-18:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Instruments and Ideologies: The Diffusion of Chemical
Knowledge. (Scotiabank Room)
Martha Harris,
University of Toronto, “The Braggs
and X-ray Crystallography: Translation of Scientific Knowledge from Spots to
Spectrometers.”
Gillian Gass, University of
Toronto, “Spheres of Influence: Illustration, Notation, and John Dalton’s
Conceptual Toolbox, 1803-1835.”
Victor D. Boantza, University of
Toronto, “Collecting Airs and Ideas: Joseph Priestley’s Style of
Experimental Reasoning and
Rhetoric.”
Commentator & Chair: David M. Knight, Durham
University.
Atlantic Geologies.
(Classroom 3)
Elizabeth Haigh, Saint Mary’s
University, “Maritime Geology in the Work of Abraham Gesner.”
*Brian C. Shipley, Rutgers University, “Logan
at Joggins: Fieldwork in the Carboniferous between
Britain and Canada.”
Paul Lucier, Independent
Scholar, “The Albert Controversy: Geology, Industry, and the Law in the
Mid-Nineteenth Century
Maritimes.”
*Debra Lindsay,
University of New Brunswick, Saint John,
“Prototaxites
(Daw.) v. Nematophycus (Carr.): Geologists v. Botanists in the
Formative Period of the Science of Paleobotany.”
Commentator & Chair: David Spanagel, Harvard
University.
The Scientist as Historian of Science. (Archibald
Room)
*Rebekah Higgitt, Imperial
College London, “‘To Make Men Wise’: Aims and Uses of the History of
Science in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain.”
*Anna Mayer,
University of Florida, “Historical
Verification in Scientific Humanism.”
Michael A. Dennis, Independent Scholar,
“Libraries, Laboratories, Weapons and Scientists: History of Science Goes to
War!”
Tom Scheinfeldt, George Mason
University, “Scientific Servants in the Inter-war Museum.”
Chair: Christopher Chilvers,
Science Museum, London.
Circulating Knowledge in the Medieval Period. (Seminar
Room 2)
Gregg De
Young, The American University in Cairo, “Gerard Of Cremona’s
Translation Of Euclid’s Elements In
Relation To Its Arabic Antecedents.”
Shana Worthen, University of
Toronto, “Late Medieval Histories of Timekeeping Devices.”
Robert Ralley, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge,
“Circulating Manuscripts and the Assembly of Textual Authority in Fifteenth Century
English Medicine.”
Chair: Margaret Osler,
University of Calgary.
The Life-Sciences in their Social Context. (KTS
Lecture Hall)
Dawn M. Digrius, Drew
University, “Seeing More Clearly: Microscopy and European Paleobotany in the Nineteenth Century, 1831-1868.”
Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, University of Victoria. “Circulating Gendered Knowledge: Catharine Parr Traill’s Colonial Science Lessons, 1836-1895.”
Chair: Peter Bowler, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Natural Knowledge and Imperial Networks. (Seminar
Room 4)
Charlotte M. Porter, University of Florida, “Natural
History and the Skin Trade: William Bartram in East
Florida.”
Ellen Valle,
University of Turku,
Finland, “The ‘Colonial Exchange’ in 18th Century Natural History.”
Jim Endersby, University of
Cambridge, “The Vagaries of a Rafinesque: Classifying
Naturalists in Early Nineteenth-Century America.”
Chair: Neil Safier, University of Michigan.
Biology and Philosophy. (Haliburton Room)
Joan Steigerwald, York
University, “The Insurrection of Nature: The Problem of Science in German
Idealism.”
Kevin S. Amidon, Iowa State
University / Free University of Berlin, “‘A Mighty Fortress of Free
Thought...’: The Biological Sciences between Discipline and Public in the
1877-78 Haeckel-Virchow Controversy.”
Martin Fichman, York University,
“Alfred R. Wallace’s Evolutionary Philosophy: The North American Connection—William
James and Charles Peirce.”
Chair: Mary Terrall,
UCLA.
SATURDAY 7 AUGUST
08:30-11:00
PLENARY SESSION:
Circulating Psychological Knowledge. (Alumni
Hall)
Graham Richards,
Staffordshire University, “Spreading
Psychological Knowledge: Top-down, Bottom-up, and Simply Rotating.”
Trudy Dehue, University
of Groningen, “Revolving Truths: Psychotropic
Drugs and Experimental Research.”
Rhodri Hayward,
University of East Anglia, “Gerald
Heard (1889-1971) and the Religious Psychology of Popular Science.”
Kurt Danziger, York
University, “A Knowledge that Travels Often but Not Well.”
Chair: Michael Sokal, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.
11:15-13:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Tacit, Embodied, Reified: The Circulation of Surgical
Knowledge. (Archibald Room)
*Thomas Schlich, McGill
University, “What is Special about Surgical knowledge?”
*Susan Lederer, Yale
University, “Insides Out: Patients
and Surgical Knowledge.”
Julie Anderson,
University of Manchester, “Greenhouses
and Body Suits: The Challenge to Knowledge in Early Hip Replacement Surgery.”
Chair: Ronald L. Numbers, University of
Wisconsin—Madison.
Knowledge on the Go: North American Institutions and
the International Exchange of Scientific Text and Specimens, 1850s-1950s. (Alumni
Hall)
Bertrum H. MacDonald, Dalhousie
University, “The Smithsonian Institution as Promoter of Science: The
Diffusion of Scientific Information in Nineteenth-Century North America.”
J.T.H. Connor
and Michael G. Rhode, National Museum of Health and Medicine,
Washington, “The United States Army Medical Museum as International
Scientific Resource.”
*Jennifer J. Connor, University of the Sciences in
Philadelphia, “A ‘purely scientific’ Goal: Constructing an International
Exchange of Biomedical Literature.”
Commentator & Chair: Philip Teigen, National
Library of Medicine, Washington.
Equations, Algorithms, and Images: Computer
Simulations and the Development of New Sciences. (Seminar
Room 4)
Johannes Lenhard, University of Bielefeld, “Phillips’ Experiment and Arakawa’s Trick:
Transitions in the Development of Computer Simulations.”
*Ann Johnson,
Fordham University, “Algorithmic
Images: How Programmers Helped to Create a New Technoscientific
Field.”
Commentator: Jeffry Ramsey, Smith College.
Chair: Ann Johnson, Fordham University.
Beyond the Observatory: Writing Popular Astronomy
Around 1900. (Haliburton Room)
David H. DeVorkin, Smithsonian
Institution, “‘A Monthly Classification of the State of Astronomy’: Henry
Norris Russell’s Column for Scientific
American.”
Bernard Lightman, York
University, “Celestial Objects for Common Readers: T. W. Webb as Popularizer of Science.”
*Robert Smith,
University of Alberta, “The Story of
the Heavens and Great Astronomers: R. S. Ball and Popular Astronomy.”
Commentator & Chair: Barbara Becker,
University of California, Irvine.
Colonialism and the Human Sciences. (Scotiabank Room)
Ricardo Roque, University of
Cambridge, “What’s In a Head? Anthropology and the Circulation of ‘Stuffed Human
Heads’.”
Neil Safier, University of
Michigan, “Boundary Expeditions, Geographic Networks and the Circulation of
Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Amazonia.”
Chair: Kapil Raj, Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Science from the Fringe. (KTS
Lecture Hall)
Sherrie
Lyons, SUNY Empire State, “Swimming at the Edge of Scientific
Respectability: Sea Serpent Investigations in the Victorian Era.”
Robert Paul,
Dalhousie University, “The Influence
of Eastern Philosophies on the Foundational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
from William James to David Bohm.”
Betty M.
Bayer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, “‘Cognitive Dissonance’—Circulating
Medium for Scientific Psychology, Prophesiers, and Cultural Revolution?”
Chair: Vicky Carroll, University of Cambridge.
Printing, Publishing, and Circulating Books. (Classroom
3)
Philip Davis
Loring, Harvard University, “Baskerville’s
Victory.”
Alan Rauch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
“Manufacturing Knowledge: Private Subscription Libraries and Public Erudition.”
Robin E.
Rider, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “End Runs and the Publishing of
Science.”
Chair: Robert J. Malone, History of
Science Society.
13:00-14:00
VIDEO PRESENTATION:
“An Academy in Crisis:
The Hiring of James Mark Baldwin and James Gibson Hume
at the University of Toronto in 1889.”
Presented by: Christopher
D. Green, York University.
(KTS
Lecture Hall)
14:00-15:45
PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Knowing the Oceans.
(Seminar Room 4)
Dane Morisson, Salem State
College, “Conflating the Pacific: Captain Edmund Fanning’s Construction of
Peoples and Oceans in Voyages Round the
World (1833).”
*Matthew McKenzie, Sea Education Association,
“Sounding the Banks: Fishermen as Marine Scientists and Ecological Indicators
on the Scotian Shelf, 1800-1860.”
Jennifer Hubbard, Ryerson University, “The
‘Ayes’ of Fisheries Science: Fishermen and their Relations with Scientists.”
Commentator & Chair: Helen Rozwadowski, University of
Connecticut.
A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Protecting
the Public from Vulgarizers, Quacks, and Charlatans
in Victorian England. (Alumni Hall)
Christine Garwood, Open University, UK,
“Drawing a line between Science and Pseudo-Science: Reactions of Amateurs and
Professionals to the ‘Flat-Earth’ Campaign, 1850-1880.”
Suzanne Paylor, University of
Leeds, “Communicating Popular Darwinism(s): Late Nineteenth-Century Popularisers and Professionals in Print and in Practice.”
*Erin McLaughlin-Jenkins, University of
Victoria, “Yesterday’s Hero: T. H. Huxley and the Victorian Left.”
Chair: Bert Hansen, Baruch College, The City
University of New York.
Literature and Science in Circulation. (Classroom
3)
*Kate Price,
Homerton College Cambridge, “Science, Poetry and
Popularisation.”
Jeff Wallace,
University of Glamorgan,
“Literature, Science and Humanism.”
Guy Ortolano, Northwestern
University, “F. R. Leavis, Literary Criticism,
and the Origins of a Critique of Science.”
Chair: Stephen L. Weininger,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Natural History in 18th- and 19th-Century France. (KTS
Lecture Hall)
Mary Terrall, UCLA, “All
in a Day’s Work: Réaumur and Natural History in the
Enlightenment.”
Snait B. Gissis, Tel Aviv
University, “Interactions between Social and Biological Thinking: The Case
of Lamarck.”
Chair: Simon Werret, University of
Washington.
Science and International Politics in the 20th
Century. (Scotiabank Room)
Christopher Chilvers, Science Museum, London, “The History of Science
as an Intellectual Movement: The 1931 Second International Congress of the
History of Science and Technology as a Public Platform for Science.”
Patrick Petitjean, Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique,
“Needham, UNESCO and International Relations of Science, 1946-1950.”
Gennady Gorelik, Boston
University, “Circulating Top-Secret Knowledge for the History of the H-Bomb.”
Chair: Margaret Rossiter, Cornell
University.
Knowledge from a Distance. (Archibald
Room)
Margaret Meredith, Universiteit Maastricht, “The Contingencies of Communication: European Knowledge
of American Natural Productions in a Transatlantic Context, 1760-1810.”
William D. Lauffer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
“The Lost Physics of the Wilkes Expedition, 1838-42.”
Amanda Rees, University of
York, UK, “A Place that Answers Questions: Primatological
Field Sites and the Making of Authentic Observations.”
Chair: Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge.
Twentieth-Century Medical Sciences. (Haliburton Room)
Steve Sturdy, University of
Edinburgh, “From Bedside to Bench and Back: Cases, Programmes,
and the Cycle of Scientific Knowledge Production in Edinburgh Medicine,
1880-1920.”
Emm Barnes, University of
Manchester, “The UK Childhood Cancer Study Group, 1977 to the Present: Studies
in Co-operation and Curability.”
Chair: Julie Anderson, University of Manchester.
16:00-18:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Magical Science or Scientific Magic? The Specific
Problems of Transmitting Magical and Alchemical Knowledge. (Seminar
Room 4)
Anke Timmermann, University of
Cambridge, “A Square Circle: Authors, Writers and Readers of Late Medieval
Alchemical Poetry.”
*Koen Vermeir, University of Leuven, “Openness and Secrecy in Transmitting ‘Magical
Knowledge’.”
Karin Leonhard, University of
Leipzig, “Magical Moments in Early Microscopy: Dalenpatius
Sees Something that Leeuwenhoek Does Not See.”
Oliver Hochadel, Independent
Scholar, “Fraudbusters: Magicians as Experts on Deception
in Natural Philosophy.”
Chair: Koen Vermeir, University of Leuven.
Migrating Neutral Particles in Physics: The Neutral Particle
and the Neutrino. (Scotiabank Room)
Allan Franklin,
University of Colorado, “Where Are
The Neutrinos? The Early History of the Solar Neutrino Problem.”
*Gisela Mateos, National
Autonomous University of Mexico, “The Neutrino: From Elementary Particle to
Measurement Tool.”
*Jaume Navarro, University of
Cambridge and Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona, “Neutrinos and the Scattering of a Team Group: Theory and
Experiment in the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930s.”
Chair: Sylvan S. Schweber, Dibner Institute.
Between Science and the Market. (Classroom
3)
*Iwan Rhys Morus, Queen’s University Belfast, “Selling
Skill: The Magic Lantern and the Presentation of Technical Ingenuity.”
Andre Wakefield,
Pitzer College, Claremont, “The German
Sciences of State Promotion.”
Leonard Rosenband, Utah State
University, “Accounting for Productivity: Papermaking in Western Europe and
America, 1750-1850.”
Commentator: *Will Ashworth, Liverpool
University.
Chair: Lissa Roberts, University of Twente.
Disciplines, Domains and Boundaries: Circulating Eugenic
Knowledge. (Alumni Hall)
Etienne Lepicard, Tel Aviv
University, “Popular Science, Research Institutions and War: Alexis Carrel
and the Transformation of Eugenics during WWII.”
Victoria Solan, Yale
University, “Model Skulls and Healthy Houses: Popular Science and Domestic
Architecture in Mid-Nineteenth Century America.”
Lynne Curry,
Eastern Illinois University, “From
Germs to Genes: Scientific authority and eugenic theory in the U. S. Supreme
Court.”
Julia Schaefer,
Heinrich-Heine
University, “Framing the Colonial Body: The German Doctor as Knowledge Producer.”
Commentator & Chair: *Edmund Ramsden, University of
Manchester.
Computing and Artificial Intelligence. (KTS
Lecture Hall)
Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “The
Circulation of Knowledge and Disciplinary Formation: Modern Computing as an
Ecology of Knowledge.”
Chigusa Kita, Kansai University, “The Structure of
Technology Transfer: Comparative Case Studies in the Transfer of Fundamental
Knowledge About Computing from the United States to Japan between 1950 and 1980.”