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HSS PROGRAM Montréal, QC 2010 (Joint Meeting with the Philosophy of Science Association) *Session Organizer(S) HSS PROGRAM Montréal, QC 2010 (Joint meeting with the Philosophy of Science Association) *session organizer(s) Registration -- Grand Salon Foyer (Level 4) Book Exhibit -- Grand Salon A (Level 4) Thursday, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM Thursday, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Saturday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Saturday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sunday, 8:00 AM -- 12:00 PM Sunday, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM THURSDAY, November 4, 2010 HSS Council Meeting -- Salon des Arts (Level 6) Opening Reception -- Thursday, 7:30 – 8:30 PM Thursday, 1:00 – 5:00 PM (joint reception with PSA, cash bar) Grand Salon Foyer & A (Level 4) Becoming Scientific: How Everyday Things Travel To Science and Back – Auteuil A (Level 5) Newcomers’ Welcoming Reception and (Joint session with PSA, 4:30 – 6:45) Mentor-Mentee Gathering -- Grand Salon C 1. Acidity: The Persistence of the Everyday in (Level 4) the Scientific, Hasok Chang, Cambridge Earth and Environment Forum -- Thursday, University 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM 2. Using ‘Race’ in Medicine: Founding Salon des Arts (Level 6) a Ballung Concept, Sophia Efstathiou, Southampton University 3. Heredity’s Baggage, *Gregory Radick, FRIDAY, November 5, 2010 University of Leeds Friday, 7:30 – 8:45 AM 4. Values and the Science of Wellbeing: How Should They Mix?, Anna Alexandrova, HSS Women’s Caucus Breakfast University of Missouri, St. Louis Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) Plenary Session -- Grand Salon B (Level 4) Friday, 9:00 – 11:45 AM Thursday, 5:30 – 7:00 PM (Coffee Break 10:00-10:15 The Challenges and Opportunities of Grand Salon Foyer) Interdisciplinary Teaching (Sponsored by the Committee on Education) Genes and Mechanisms in the Case of Cystic Chair: John Lynch, Arizona State University Fibrosis: Philosophical, Historical and Social Organizers: Kristin Johnson, University of Puget Perspectives Sound; John Lynch, Arizona State University Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) 1. Making Better Scientists: HPS in the Science Chair and Commentator: Miriam Solomon, Curriculum, Hanne Andersen, University of Temple University Aarhus, Denmark 1. A Disease About to Disappear, *Susan 2. Applied History of Science, Melinda Lindee, University of Pennsylvania Gormley, University of Puget Sound 2. Mechanisms, Mutations, and Rational 3. HPS in the Science Curriculum: History and Drug Therapy in the Case of Cystic Philosophy at the Lab Bench, Andrew Fibrosis, Lindley Darden, University of Hamilton, Arizona State University Maryland 4. Why Do I Have to Take This STS Class?, 3. Examining Problems with Using *Kristin Johnson, University of Puget Sound ‘Mechanistic’ Evidence for Managing Cystic Fibrosis, Jeremy Howick CEBM, UK 4. Is My Sick Child Healthy? Is My Healthy 2. The Meaning of Apology. Survivors of Nazi Child Sick?: Changing Parental Experiences Medical Crimes and the Max Planck of Cystic Fibrosis in the Age of Expanded Society, Carola Sachse, Max Planck Newborn Screening, Rachel Grob, Sarah Institute for the History of Science Lawrence College (Child Development 3. The German Physical Society During the Institute) Third Reich, Richard Beyler, Portland State University Community and Isolation in the Ancient 4. The Deutsches Museum in National Sciences Socialism, Stefan Wolff, Forschungsinstitut Été des Indiens (Level 6) Deutsches Museum, München Chair and Commentator: Jan Hogendijk, 5. The Haber-Institute – No Place for Science Utrecht University During National Socialism?, Dieter 1. Accounts, Democracy, and Numeracy in Hoffmann, Max Planck Institute for the Classical Athens, *Serafina Cuomo, History of Science Birkbeck College 2. Authorial Immunity: Rethinking Predicting the Unthinkable: Sciences of Disembodied Knowledge in Early Greek Natural and Social Crisis Medical Writing, Brooke Holmes, Hospitalité (Level 5) Princeton University Chair and Commentator: Matthias Dorries, 3. How is Praying to Statues like Talking to University of Strasbourg Houses?, *Daryn Lehoux, Queen’s 1. The Taming of the Volcano and the University Conquering of Climate, Karen Holmberg, 4. Mapping Ancient Science, Reviel Netz, Brown University Stanford University 2. Enumerating Mischiefs: The Mathematics and Politics of Financial Prediction During Science and Popular Culture: Making and the 1720 South Sea Bubble, *William Communicating Natural Knowledge Deringer, Princeton University Salon des Arts (Level 6) 3. Typhoon Warning and Local Politics in Chair and Commentator: Lynn K. Nyhart, Shanghai’s Inter-Port Meteorological University of Wisconsin, Madison Scheme, 1869-1882, Marlon Zhu, The 1. Genres of Synthesis, and the Works of State University of New York, Binghamton George Gamow, Nasser Zakariya, Harvard 4. The Productivity of Weather and Climate University Prediction, Samuel Randalls, University 2. The Only Real Skeleton in Europe: College London Diplodocus, Andrew Carnegie, and German Rivalry, Ilja Nieuwland, Huygens Institute Embedding the History of Mathematics in the of The Royal Netherlands Academy of History of Science Sciences (Sponsored by the Forum for the History of the 3. Zen and the Art of Textbook Writing, Mathematical Sciences) David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Alfred-Rouleau A (Level 4) Technology Chair and Commentator: Karen Parshall, 4. Collectors for Hire: Charles Sternberg and University of Virginia the Commercial Fossil Trade, 1870-1930, Organizer: Peter Pesic, St. John’s College, Santa *Lukas Rieppel, Harvard University Fe, NM 1. Mathematical Matter, Amir Alexander, Scientific Institutions and Nazism University of California, Los Angeles Mont-Royal (Level 6) 2. Algebraic Collisions: Challenging Descartes Chair and Organizer: Mark Walker, Union with Cartesian Methods, Scott J. Hyslop, College Indiana University, Bloomington 1. The Research Program “The History of 3. Mathematical Models and the Mechanical the German Research Foundation, 1920- Philosophy in 17th-Century Physiology: 1970,” Karin Orth, University of Freiburg Comparing the Mathematical Theories of Muscle Contraction of Giovanni Alphonso British Columbia Borelli and Johannes Bernoulli, Emil 4. Surfing on the Sea of Brain Waves: Sargsyan, Indiana University, Bloomington Electroencephalography in Performance 4. Mathematics as Culture, or Getting Out of Art, Cornelius Borck, Institute for the the Ghetto, Massimo Mazzotti, University History of Medicine and Science Studies, of California, Berkeley University of Lübeck, Germany The War of Guns and Mathematics: Military- Rethinking Science and Race: Darwin, Boas, Scientific Collaborations and Methods in and Dobzhansky Ballistics from Euler to World War II Grand Salon C (Level 4) Alfred-Rouleau B (Level 4) Chair: John Beatty, University of British Chair and Commentator: Matthew Jones, Columbia Columbia University 1. Darwin’s Explanation of Races by Means of 1. Off the Target? Exact Solution to Sexual Selection, Roberta Millstein, Approximate Differential Equations in 18th- University of California, Davis and 19th-Century Ballistics, Dominique 2. Racial Science and the Burden of Proof in Tournès, Université de la Réunion, France the Work of Franz Boas, John P. Jackson, 2. Doctrine, Virtues and the Scientific Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder Method in a Military Context: The French 3. Franz Boas’s Interest in Human Gâvre Commission for Ballistics, 1829- Genetics, Evolutionary Biology and Physical 1918, *David Aubin, Université Pierre et Anthropology, Veronika Lipphardt, Marie Curie, Paris 6 Humboldt University of Berlin 3. Mathematicians and Exterior Ballistics in 4. Races as Gene Pools: Reservoirs, Puddles, America, 1880-1940, Alan Gluchoff, and Playing Cards, *Lisa Gannett, Villanova University Saint Mary’s University 4. Trajectories After Aberdeen: Exploring Effects of the WWI Experience on American Creating and Crossing Disciplines Mathematicians, Deborah A. Kent, Grand Salon B (Level 4) Hillsdale College Chair: Jutta Schickore, Indiana University 5. From Canon Shell Trajectories to Atoms: 1. Data-Gathering, Professionalization, and Douglas Hartree and Ralph Fowler’s WWI Specialization: Constructing a Paradigm in Ballistics and the Calculation of Atomic Astrophysics During the First Half of the Properties, Edward Jurkowitz, Max Planck 20th Century, Erik P. Norquest, University Institute for the History of Science of Texas-Pan American 2. New Disciplinary Dynamics in Post World Entanglements of Instruments and Media in War II Brain Research: The Case of Francis Investigating Organic Worlds O. Schmitt’s Neurosciences Research Alfred-Rouleau C (Level 4) Program at MIT, Tara H. Abraham, Chair and Commentator: Jan Golinski, University University of Guelph of New Hampshire 3. Balkanizing Physics: Division vs. Unity 1. ‘Machina anthropometrica’: Weighing and the Establishment of American Solid Perspiration in the Long 18th Century, State Physics in the 1940s, Joseph Martin, Lucia Dacome, Institute for the History and University of Minnesota Philosophy of Science and Technology, 4. Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: University of Toronto Shifting to Biology from Physics in Practice, 2. The Subject as Instrument: Galvanic Park Doing, Cornell University Experiments, Organic Apparatus and 5. Measurement of X-Radiation: From Problems of Calibration, *Joan Steigerwald, Biology to Physics and Back, William C. York University Summers, Yale University 3. A Brief History of Slime: Protoplasm, Ectoplasm and the Instruments of Infra- Visibility, Robert Brain, University of Friday, 12:00 – 1:15 PM Science in Modern Asia Été des Indiens (Level 6) Forum for the History of Science in America, Chair: Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Massachusetts Institute
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