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 Business Meeting and Distinguished Lecture of Technology Grand Salon B (Level 4) 1. Seeing Like Statesmen and Scientists: The Vassiliki (Betty) Smocovitis, Professor of Zoology Role of Techno-Science in the Making of and History, University of Florida, “The Good Modern India, Madhumita Saha, Iowa State Earth” to “Jungle Warfare”: American Botanists University and Their Plants at War, 1942-1945 2. Historical Trajectory of the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Forum for the History of Science in Asia in the ‘Other World’: The Case of India, Organizational Meeting and Brown-bag Lunch Debasmita Patra, Cornell University Été des Indiens (Level 6) 3. Two Controversies, One Narrative: A Strange Discursive Overlap of Scientific Forum for the History of the Mathematical Fraud and Risk Politics in South Korea, Sciences Luncheon, 12:00 – 1:15 PM Dae-Cheong Ha, Seoul National University Café Fleuri 4. Laboratory Studies in China: Mapping The Friday, 1:30 – 3:10 PM History of Modern Science in Contemporary China, Christine Y. L. Luk, Museums and Popularization of Science Arizona State University Mont-Royal (Level 6) Chair: Hanna Rose Shell, Massachusetts Institute Climate Change in the 20th Century of Technology Alfred-Rouleau C (Level 4) 1. Science in Action: the New York Museum Chair: Jim Fleming, Colby College of Science and Industry and the Politics of 1. Carbon, Oceans and the Future, ca Interactivity, Jaume Sastre Juan, CEHIC- 1900-1957, Maria Bohn, Royal Institute of Univeristat Autònoma de Barcelona Technology, Sweden 2. On Display: Examining Contemporary 2. Producing Arctic Climate Change: Hans Exhibits of the 19th-Century Asylum, Ahlmann’s ‘Polar Warming’ Theory in the Jennifer L. Bazar, York University Field and in the Media, 1920 to 1960, 3. “You say musaeum, I say museum…,” Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Martin Weiss, Leiden University, the Technology, Sweden Netherlands 3. Caught between Absolutist Capitalism 4. From Science to Propaganda: The and Blind Environmentalism?, Nils Americanization of Otto Neurath’s Pictorial Randlev Hundebøl, Aarhus University, Statistics (1929-1945), Loic Charles, Denmark EconomiX, INED and University of Reims, 4. Helmut E. Landsberg: “Foremost France; and Yann Giraud, THEMA, Climatologist” within Early Debates of University of Cergy, France Global Climate Change Science, 1950- 1985, Gabriel Henderson, Michigan State Studies in Early Modern Science University Salon des Arts (Level 6) Chair: Renee Raphael, University of Alabama Science in a Canadian Context 1. Fixed Colors in the Works of Francis Hospitalité (Level 5) Bacon: A Reappraisal, Tawrin Baker, Chair: Peter Hodgins, Carleton University Indiana University, Bloomington 1. Negotiated Landscapes: Land Grants and 2. What History of Discoveries/Inventions? Surveying in Upper Canada, 1826-1841, The Case of Leibniz’s Calculating Machine, Sarah-Jane Patterson, University of Toronto Florin-Stefan Morar, Harvard University 2. Just a Theory”: The Atomic Theory Debate 3. Tracing the Industrial Revolutions to its and Ontario’s High School Chemistry Origins: Scientific Knowledges and Textbook, 1905-1909, Michelle D. Technological Innovations in Great Britain Hoffman, University of Toronto (1713-1800), Fabio Zanin, Liceo ginnasio “Brocci” 3. Drawing Canada Together: The Geological 2. Explaining How Drugs Work in the Late Survey of Canada and the Formation of the 17th Century, Saskia Klerk, Institute for Canadian Visual Imagination, Peter History of Science, University of Utrecht, Hodgins, Carleton University the Netherlands 4. The Hospital of the 20th Century: Folk 3. Allegrifying the Spirits’: Scholarly Taxonomies and Contested Ideals, David Melancholy and Study as its Cure in Robert Theodore, Harvard University Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, Stephanie Shirilan, Syracuse University Conceptions of Humanity 4. Astrology, Talismans and Medicine in Alfred-Rouleau A (Level 4) Jacques Gaffarel’s Curiositez Inouyes Chair: Benjamin Harris, University of New (1629), Hiro Hirai, Radboud University Hampshire Nijmegen, the Netherlands 1. The Rise and Fall of British Craniometry, 1860-1900, Elise Juzda, University of Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics Cambridge Grand Salon B (Level 4) 2. When Apes Speak, Marta Halina, Chair: Scott Walter, Nancy Université University of California, San Diego 1. Projective Geometry and the Origins of the 3. Taking Fringe Science Seriously: Examining Dirac Equation, Thomas Pashby, University the Connection between Phrenology and of Pittsburgh Evolutionary Theory, Sherrie Lyons, 2. A Giant’s Singular Struggle: Einstein, de Empire State College Sitter, Weyl, and Klein’s Debate on an 4. Frozen Bodies: Representations of Alleged Singularity, Christian Wüthrich, Catalepsy in French 19th-Century Medical University of California, San Diego Texts, Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau, 3. How Do You Draw a Black Hole? Penrose University of Cambridge Diagrams in Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, 1963-1973, Aaron Sidney Early Modern Mathematics Wright, University of Toronto Alfred-Rouleau B (Level 4) 4. Whence the Banana Bond?, Julia Bursten, Chair: Florence Hsia, University of Wisconsin, University of Pittsburgh Madison 1. Tutors and Textbooks: Vernacular Mathematics in the 20th Century Arithmetic Education in Early Modern Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) England, Jessica Otis, University of Virginia Chair: Nancy S. Hall, University of Delaware 2. Descartes’ Early Algebra, Kenneth 1. The Rise of Non-Archimedean Mathematics Manders, University of Pittsburgh and the Roots of a Misconception, Philip 3. Mathematical Concepts in the 16th- Ehrlich, Ohio University Century: The Case of Geometry and Ratio 2. Calculating Empire: How Mathematics Conception in Theoretical Music, Oscar Education Standards Define Nationalism in Joao Abdounur, Instituto de Matemática e 20th Century U.S., Emily T. H. Redman, Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo; University of California, Berkeley Carla Bromberg, CESIMA (Simao Mathias 3. Place and Space in the History of Center for the History of Science) Pontifical Mathematics: A Comparative Study of the Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil) University of Göttingen and New York 4. Mathematics at Young Universities, Arjen University’s Mathematical Institutes under Dijkstra, University of Twente, the Netherlands the Leadership of Richard Courant, Brittany Shields, University of Pennsylvania Cures and Drugs in the 17th Century 4. Problems of Abstraction: Defining an Grand Salon C (Level 4) American Standard for Collegiate Chair: Matthew Crawford, Kent State University Mathematics Education at the Turn of the 1. The New Chymical Medicine of Franciscus 20th Century, Andy Fiss, Indiana Sylvius: Chrysopoeia, Experiment, Sensation University, Bloomington and Secrecy, Evan Ragland, Indiana University, Bloomington Coffee Break (Grand Salon Foyer) 3:10 – 3:30 PM Friday, 3:30 – 5:30 PM 3. Isaac Newton and the Genesis Creation, Stephen Snobelen, University of King’s “Science and Modernity Redux” College, Halifax Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) Chair and Commentator: Robert Kohler, Concepts of Generation University of Pennsylvania Alfred-Rouleau A (Level 4) 1. The Semblance of Transparency: Chair and Commentator: Erika Milam, Expertise and the Ideology of the Public in University of Maryland, College Park the Enlightenment, Thomas Broman, 1. Generation from Putrefaction in Early University of Wisconsin, Madison Modern Causes of Disease, Frederick W. 2. Modernizing Easter: Astronomy, Foreign Gibbs, George Mason University Affairs, and Confessional Conflict, *Kathryn 2. Growing Intelligence: Nicolas Hartsoeker’s M. Olesko, Georgetown University System (1656-1725) and the Legacy of 3. In “the Capital of all Geist”: Helmholtz and Cambridge Platonism in Dutch-French the Modernization of Science in Berlin, Scientific Thought, Catherine Abou-Nemeh, David Cahan, University of Nebraska Princeton University 3. Enveloped in Mystery: Nineteenth-Century Science, Politics, and Agriculture in Vietnam Embryology Through Miscarriage Materials, and China During the Long 20th Century *Shannon K. Withycombe, University of Été des Indiens (Level 6) Wisconsin, Madison Chair: Fa-ti Fan, The State University of New York, Binghamton Mutations 1. Veterinary Science and Cattle Breeding Hospitalité (Level 5) in Colonial Indochina, Annick Guénel, Chair and Commentator: Angela Creager, Centre National de la Recherché Princeton University Scientifique, Paris and Sylvia Klingberg, 1. Mutation and Utopia: America’s (evening) Universite Paris Primrose Path to the Future, *Jim Endersby, 2. Business as Usual?: Agricultural Research, University of Sussex the Rubber Industry, and Franco-Vietnamese 2. The Promise of Mutation Under Japan’s Relations at the Beginning of Sericultural Empire, Lisa Onaga, Cornell Decolonization, 1945-1954, *Michitake University Aso, University of Wisconsin, Madison 3. Dialectics Denied: Muller, Lysenko, and the 3. Imperial Texts in Socialist China: Fate of Chromosomal Mutation, Luis Republishing Agricultural Treatises in the Campos, Drew University Early Maoist Era, Peter Lavelle, Cornell University Environmental Histories of Science: Knowing 4. Insect Control in Socialist China and Nature, Transforming Nature Corporate America: A Transnational Tale of Alfred-Rouleau C (Level 4) Science and Politics through the Eyes Chair: Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of of Three Entomologists, Sigrid Schmalzer, Technology University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1. Adaptation, Divinity, and the Agricultural Landscape in New York, 1825-1850, Emily Clues from Genesis: The Mosaic Account and Pawley, University of Pennsylvania Early Modern Natural Philosophy 2. Capitalist Nature: The Sciences of Salon des Arts (Level 6) Development in the American West, Chair and Organizer: Maria Portuondo, The 1860-1920, *Jeremy Vetter, Dickinson Johns Hopkins University College Commentator: Ann Blair, Harvard University 3. Assuring Uncertainty: Metals, Biology, and 1. The Biblical Cosmology of Benito Arias Knowledge in the Deer Lodge Valley, Montano, *Maria Portuondo, The Johns Montana, 1880-1920, Kent Curtis, Eckerd Hopkins University College 2. Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Science 4. What Is Habitat?, Peter Alagona, University of Scripture, Andrew Berns, University of of California, Santa Barbara Pennsylvania Discourse and Discovery: Colonial and Physiology and Morphology in the 19th Atlantic Encounters and Ideologies of Modern Century Science Mont-Royal (Level 6) Alfred-Rouleau B (Level 4) Chair: Bert Theunissen, Utrecht University Chair and Commentator: Neil Safier, University 1. Helmholtz’s Curves: Imagery and Precision of British Columbia in His Early Measurements of Physiological 1. Botanical Discovery in a Not So New World: Time, Henning Schmidgen, Max Planck French North American Folk Taxonomies in Institute for the History of Science the 17th and 18th Century, *Christopher M. 2. Respiratory Physiology and the Climbing Parsons, University of Toronto of Mount Everest, Both In and Out of the 2. Cataloging Discovery: Tobacco and Laboratory, Vanessa Heggie, University of Encounter in Sixteenth Century Virginia, Cambridge Kelly Wisecup, University of North Texas 3. The Emergence of Concepts of Inner 3. Transatlantic Hispanic Baconianism as a and Outer Milieus in Anatomy, Pathology Tool for Understanding Spanish and Physiology (Cuvier, Blainville, Broussais, Contributions to Modern Science, Margaret Bernard) 1800-1860, Tobias Cheung, Ewalt, Wake Forest University Humboldt University of Berlin 4. Evolutionary Morphology: A German Objects of Science, Objects of Culture: Models Success in the Netherlands, L. de Rooy, and Specimens in 19th Century Natural University of Amsterdam History Grand Salon B (Level 4) Friday, 6:00 – 6:45 PM Chair: Soraya de Chadarevian, University of Cambridge HSS Awards Ceremony (Please see the program 1. Fashioning Fruit Out of Wax and the and citations beginning on page 36 ) Improvement of Italian Agriculture: The Grand Salon B (Level 4) Case of the Whipple Museum’s Pomological Models, Lavinia Maddaluno, University of Friday, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Cambridge 2. Displays of Distinction and Decorum: Reception: Canadian Centre for Architecture Dr. Auzoux’s Botanical Models in the (buses will pick up at the hotel’s Jeanne-Mance Growing Educational Marketplace of Late entrance and circulate between the hotel and the 19th-Century America, *Margaret CCA -- tickets required). Sponsorship for this Olszewski, University of Toronto reception provided by the Social Sciences and 3. It’s a Giant… It’s an Elephant… It’s a Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic Mammoth!, Taika Dahlbom, University of Knowledge Cluster. Turku, Finland 4. Tusks at Tufts, Ruthanna Dyer, York The CCA (Centre canadien d’architecture / University Canadian Centre for Architecture http://www.cca. qc.ca/en ) was founded in 1979 to promote public In the Mind’s Eye: Technical Drawing in understanding and appreciation of architecture France and England, 1800-1850 and urbanism, and also to foster research and Grand Salon C (Level 4) public debate on the history, theory and practice of Chair and Commentator: Hamilton Cravens, architecture and urban design in today’s society. It is currently occupies a unique place in Montréal’s Iowa State University cultural and educational landscape, running 1. Technical Drawing and the Société exhibitions through the year and bringing visiting d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, scholars to use its extensive special collections. As 1815-1848, *Andrew J. Butrica, Unaffiliated the venue for some of Montréal’s most exciting 2. British Technical Draughtsmen in the First exhibitions, and as the home of one of the city’s Half of the 19th Century, Frances most interesting bookstores, the CCA was a Robertson, Glasgow School of Art natural choice as a venue for our Friday night 3. Arguing in Pictures: The Visual Rhetoric of reception. Guests will be able to circulate through Mechanical Reliability in Restoration France, the exhibition space, and the bookstore will be Jennifer K. Alexander, University of Minnesota open, so come ready to shop. Getting to the CCA: so at this time) -- this will take you as far as 1920, rue Baile, Montréal, Québec, H3H 2S6 the corner of Rene-Levesque and Guy; then walk the remaining 500 metres along Rene- The CCA is easy to reach by the city’s public Levesque to the corner of Rue du Fort, turn transport system (with a short walk at the end right and enter the CCA from the corner of of the bus or metro journey), and we would rue du Fort and Baile. encourage those who wish to get a feel for Montréal to take public transport (details below). Friday, 7:30 – 9:00 PM The bus and metro are part of the same system and both use the same tickets (which you can buy WORKSHOP: The Legacy of Antiquity: Books in the metro station or on the bus, with correct and Practice change.) Argenteuil (Level 4) For those less adventurous, less mobile, or just Organizer: Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian tired after a long day’s conferencing, we have Institution, Institute for the Preservation of arranged for buses to shuttle on a loop between Medical Traditions the Hyatt and the CCA between 7pm and 10:00. Introduction -- Alain Touwaide

By shuttle bus: orange school buses will pick up On the Authorship and Use of Pharmacological guests from the hotel and loop back and forth. Books in Ancient Mesopotamia: Learned Scholars Depending on trafﬁc, each journey should be or Expert Practitioners?, Barbara Böck, Instituto between 8 and 20 minutes. de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, CCHS – CSIC, Madrid, Spain By metro: from the Place des Arts station (across Ste Catherine St from the hotel and adjoining the Medical Book Learning and Medical Practice mall below), take the Green Line west (direction: in 12th Century Byzantium: Anna and the “Angrignon”) for three stops, and get off at station Physicians, Glen Cooper, Brigham Young “Guy-Concordia”. It’s best to leave the metro University station by the “Saint Mathieu” exit, and then walk three blocks south and one block west. Each way: The Medieval Transmission and Reception of $2.75; $1.75 for those over 65 (tickets available in Hippocrates’ Aphorisms, Faith Wallis, McGill the metro station). University

By city bus: fare each way: $2.75; $1.75 for those Discussion over 65 (tickets available in the metro station, or pay on entering the bus, with exact change). Conclusions and perspectives Option 1 (the 15 bus): from the hotel, walk up to the corner of Blvd de Maisonneuve Psychology in the 20th Century and rue St-Urbain. From there, take the Picardie A (Level 5) number 15 bus (which leaves twice an hour), Chair: Stephen T. Casper, Clarkson University heading west along Blvd de Maisonneuve, 1. Hugo Münsterberg, Psychotechnics, and and get off at St-Mathieu. (This is less than the Psychologizing of Cinema, Jeremy 10 minutes). You could walk the rest of the Blatter, Harvard University way (three blocks south and one block west), 2. “Murder of the Mind?” The Psychosurgery but you might be lucky and find the 165 bus Controversy of the 1970s, Brian Casey, heading south down St-Mathieu, in which National Institute of Health case you could transfer and use it to take the 3. Narratives of the Unconscious: Henry three blocks south (getting off at Baile). You Murray, Literary Interpretation, and the could get the same bus (no. 15) back to the Thematic Apperception Test, Jason Richard Hyatt by catching it on Ste-Catherine St. Miller, University of California, Los Angeles Option 2 (the 535 bus): from the hotel, walk 4. The Birth of Information in the Brain: one block west to Ste-Catherine and Bleury Edgar Adrian and the Vacuum Tube, (OR Rene-Levesque and Bleury); take the Justin Garson, University of Texas, Austin no. 535 bus (they pass every 8 minutes or Making the Sciences Humaines Scientific SATURDAY, November 6, 2010 Picardie B (Level 5) Chair: David Robinson, Truman State University Saturday, 7:30 – 8:45 AM 1. The Language of Objects: Christian Committee on Honors and Prizes Breakfast Jürgensen Thomsen’s Science of the Past, Café Fleuri Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen, Roskilde Osiris Editorial Board Breakfast University, Denmark Touraine (Level 5) 2. ‘The Missing Link Expeditions’, 1921- 28: or, How Peking Man Wasn’t Found, Committee on Education Café Fleuri Peter C. Kjaergaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark Saturday, 9:00 – 11:45 AM 3. An Informant’s Guide to Observing (Coffee Break 10:00-10:15 Man: Ethnographic Questionnaires, and the Grand Salon Foyer) Development of Early Observational Practices in ‘the Field’, Efram Sera-Shriar, Artifacts of Science University of Leeds Salon des Arts (Level 6) Chair: Benjamin Wilson, Massachusetts Institute Techniques and Instruments for Science of Technology Auteuil A (Level 5) Commentator: Roger Launius, Smithsonian Chair: Dana Freiburger, University of Wisconsin, National Air and Space Museum Madison 1. IYA 2009 – 400 Years of Objects and the 1. Mastering the Play of Light and Shadow”: Construction of Their Messages, Marv Bolt, Doctors, Opticians and the Shadow Test in Adler Planetarium and Museum Late 19th-Century America, He Bian, 2. Recontextualizing the V-2, David DeVorkin, Harvard University Smithsonian National Air and Space 2. Scientific Creativity in Peripheral Science: Museum C.V. Raman and the Construction of a 3. Re-examining Icons on Display, David Mechanical Violin-Player, Deepanwita Pantalony, Canada Science and Technology Dasgupta, University of Minnesota Museum 3. Playing with Colour: Variants of 4. The Moon on Display: The Exhibition of a Newtonianism in London’s Optical Moon Rock at the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair, Instrument Making Community, Karen M. *Teasel Muir-Harmony, Massachusetts Buckle, University College London Institute of Technology 4. Mechanical Objectivity or Instrumentalizing Theory? Introducing Automatic Recorders Spatial Knowledge: Writing and Drawing as in Radio Ionospheric Sounding, 1930-39, Epistemic Practices Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto Grand Salon B (Level 4) Chair and Commentator: Seymour Mauskopf, Travelling and Collecting in the 18th and 19th Duke University Centuries 1. The Space of Drawing, the Time of Anjou A/B (Level 5) Modeling: Representing Comets in the Later Chair: Richard Bellon, Michigan State University 17th Century, Matthew C. Hunter, 1. The Growth of Collaborative Collecting: California Institute of Technology Spencer F. Baird, Robert Kennicott, and the 2. Tools for Reordering: Commonplacing and Hudson Bay Company, Matthew Laubacher, the Space of Words in Linnaeus’ Philosophia Arizona State University Botanica, *Matthew D. Eddy, Durham 2. Botany: Its Key Role in Imperial Expansion, University Elisabeth de Cambiaire, University of New 3. John Herschel’s ‘Working Skeletons’: A Look South Wales at the Procedures of Drawing Nebulae, 3. Itinerant Savants: Dutch Humboldtians and Omar W. Nasim, Swiss Federal Institute of the Multiple Purposes of Travel, Azadeh Technology Achbari, Free University Amsterdam 4. The Portrait of a Species: A Case Study on Biological Drawing, Barbara Wittmann, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Thinking with Specimens: Collections-Based 4. The History of a Typo: Himalayan Glacier Research in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Predictions and the Intergovernmental Panel Été des Indiens (Level 6) on Climate Change, *Jessica O’Reilly, Chair and Commentator: Cathryn Carson, University Of California, San Diego and University of California, Berkeley Princeton University 1. Collections-based Research at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, *Mary Sunderland, Science and American Empire University of California, Berkeley Alfred-Rouleau B (Level 4) 2. Taxon-Focused Research in Collections- Chair and Commentator: Paul Sutter, University Based Biology, James R. Griesemer, of Colorado-Boulder University of California, Davis 1. Sixty-one Years of Soledad: University and 3. Collections and Analyses in Lab and Field: Corporate Science at Harvard’s Research Some Problems with a Distinction, Elihu R. Station in Soledad, Cuba, 1898-1959, Gerson, Tremont Research Institute Megan Raby, University of Wisconsin, Madison History of Mathematics: New Perspectives 2. Baseline Archipelago: U.S. Insular Science from the Far East: China, Japan, and Vietnam and the Re-mapping of the Philippines, Mont-Royal (Level 6) Scott Kirsch, University of North Carolina, Chair and Organizer: Joseph Dauben, National Chapel Hill Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, and The City 3. America’s Rubber Empire: Ecology, Disease, University of New York and Commerce in the Making of Firestone 1. Mathematical Content of Newly-Published Plantations Company, Gregg Mitman, Bamboo Strips of the Qin Dynasty, Yibao University of Wisconsin, Madison Xu, Borough of Manhattan Community 4. The Social Science of Assimilation in College (The City University of New York) the Settler Colony of Hawai‘i, *Christine L. 2. Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra, Roger Manganaro, University of Minnesota Hart, University of Texas, Austin 3. Samurai Culture and the Fashioning of Rethinking the Emergence of Islamic Science Mathematics in Japan, Tomoko Kitagawa, Hospitalité (Level 5) Harvard University Chair: Sally Ragep, McGill University 4. Trigonometric Tables in China, Jiang-Ping Organizer and Commentator: F. Jamil Ragep, Jeff Chen, St. Cloud State University McGill University 5. Chinese Mathematics in Vietnam: 1. Early Islam’s Reactions to Astrology, Robert Transmission and Adaptation, Alexei Volkov, Morrison, Whitman College National Tsing Hua University 2. Narratives of Science, Keren Abbou Hershkovits, McGill University The Science, Politics, and Publics of Climate 3. Dead Texts Versus Living Teachers: Remarks Change on the Transmission of Greek Mathematics Alfred-Rouleau A (Level 4) into Arabic, Jan P. Hogendijk, University of Chair and Organizer: Jessica O’Reilly, University Utrecht, the Netherlands of California, San Diego and Princeton University 4. Why Greek Rational Sciences Were Needed Commentator: Keynyn Brysse, Princeton in the Abb sid Court, Taro Mimura, University University of Tokyo

1. Climate Science, Truth, and Democracy, There is Something in the Air: Chemistry, Evelyn Fox-Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Medicine, and Enlightenment Reform Technology Alfred-Rouleau C (Level 4) 2. Neo-liberalism, Resistance to Climate Chair and Commentator: Trevor Levere, Science, and the Legacy of the Cold War, University of Toronto Naomi Oreskes, University of California, 1. The Origins of William Brownrigg’s Theory San Diego of Airs: Links between Medicine and 3. The Public Role of Climate Scientists, Pneumatic Chemistry, Leslie Tomory, Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University Independent Scholar 2. Modernizing Medicine in the 4. Between Healers and Jurists: Abortion in Enlightenment: John Pringle and the Tridentine Italy, John Christopoulos, Medical Place of Chemical Knowledge, University of Toronto Erich Weidenhammer, University of Toronto 3. Making Chemistry Matter: D’Arconville and Saturday, 9:30-11:30 AM the Problem of Putrefaction in Nominating Committee – Touraine (Level 5) Enlightenment France, Margaret Carlyle, McGill University Saturday, 12:00 – 1:15 PM 4. Measuring Airs and Virtues: Debating Eudiometry between the Medical Forum for the History of Human Science Environment and the Experimental Sphere, Business Meeting and Distinguished Lecture: *Victor Boantza, McGill University Mary S. Morgan, Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics, London School Controlling Life in 20th-Century Biology: A of Economics and University of Amsterdam, Session Inspired by the Work of Philip J. Pauly “Recognising Glass Ceilings and Sticky Grand Salon C (Level 4) Floors.” - Grand Salon C (Level 4) Chair: Nathan Crowe, University of Minnesota Commentator: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State Graduate and Early Career Caucus (GECC) University Business Meeting (drinks and light snacks will be 1. Recasting “Chemical Warfare” in the 1960s: served) - Alfred-Rouleau A (Level 4) Coevolutionary Studies and the Evolution of “Natural Insecticides,” *Rachel Mason Committee on Meetings and Programs Dentinger, Unaffiliated Meeting - Café Fleuri 2. A Science of Control?: A History of Nuclear Transfer Experiments, 1940s-1970s, Nathan Global Histories of Science: Exploring New Crowe, University of Minnesota Resources on the Web - Été des Indiens (Level 6) 3. “A Modified Kind of Man and a Modified Chair: Jan Golinski, University of New Kind of Nature”: Charles Elton’s Vision of Hampshire Millennial Conservation, Matthew Chew, 1. History of Science in Latin America and the Arizona State University Caribbean, Julia Rodriguez and Jan 4. Live Animals in Museums: Reframing the Golinski, University of New Hampshire Science of Life, From ‘The Watchful 2. World History of Science Online, Stephen Grasshopper’ to ‘The Insect Zoo’, Karen Weldon, HSS Bibliographer/University of Rader, Virginia Commonwealth University Oklahoma 3. Rational Sciences in Islam, Sally Ragep, Women as Subjects of Science (Sponsored by the McGill University HSS Women’s Caucus) Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) Saturday, 12:00 – 3:00 PM Chair: Sheila Faith Weiss, Clarkson University Committee on Publications Meeting 1. ‘Femmes fatales’. Examining Criminal Touraine (Level 5) Women in 19th-Century France, Aude Fauvel, Max Planck Institute for the History Saturday, 1:30 – 3:10 PM of Science 2. A Feminist Reproductive Health Coalition: Research at the Frontier: Scientific Practices Feminist Health Activists and Emergency and the Dynamics of Expansion Contraception in the United States, Alfred-Rouleau C (Level 4) 1970-2000, Heather Munro Prescott, Chair: Bruce Hevly, University of Washington Central Connecticut State University 1. Terrestrial Physics as Investment in Frontier 3. Regenerative Medicine in Context: Co- Building, Bruce Hevly, University of evolving Conceptions of the Fetus and its Washington Worth, Andrew J. Hogan, University of 2. Malaria, Railroads and the Inner Exploration Pennsylvania of Brazil, Jaime Larry Bechimol, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz 3. Frontier Organisms: Genetics, the 1. Natural Histories of State and Industry: Circulation of Karakul Sheep and the Proto-Industrial Artisan Production and Imperial Landscapes of Fascism, *Tiago State Sciences in18th-Century Europe, Saraiva, University of Lisbon Adelheid Voskuhl, Harvard University 4. The Scientific Landscape of the Portuguese 2. Ars and Scientia in Venetian Shipbuilding Far-East: Port Wine, Phylloxera and Practice During the Late Middle Ages and Railways, Marta Macedo, University of the Renaissance, Lilia Campana, Nautical Lisbon Archaeology Program 3. Diagramming the Sea: Depicting Charts and Rethinking the History of Organicism: New Currents in 17th-Century Navigation Perspectives on Vital Science Textbooks, Margaret Schotte, Princeton Alfred-Rouleau A (Level 4) University Chair and Commentator: Daniel McKaughan, Boston College Animating the Heavens and the Earth 1. Blumenbach’s Theory of Vital Forces: A Hospitalité (Level 5) Research Program?”, François Duchesneau, Chair: Faith Wallis, McGill University Université de Montréal 1. The Animation of the Heavens in Albert the 2. From Substantival to Functional Vitalism Great’s De caelo et mundo, Adam Takahashi, and Beyond: Animal Economies, Radbound University Nijmegen Organisms and Existential Attitudes, Charles 2. God, Intellect and Angels in the Cosmology T. Wolfe, University of Sydney of Julius Caesar Scaliger, Kuni Sakamoto, 3. Biophysics and Holism at the University University of Tokyo of Chicago, 1928-1945: Resistance to 3. Ptolemy: Altering Data to Fit the Model, Molecularization, *Phillip R. Sloan, Jacqueline Feke, Stanford University University of Notre Dame 4. A Tale of Two Astronomies: Late Renaissance 4. The Organicist Moment at Cambridge and Astrology and Biological Rhythms, Why It Was Nearly Lost, Erik Peterson, Jole Shackelford, University of Minnesota University of Notre Dame Pre-modern Medicine Progressive Science? Embodiment and Reform Mont-Royal (Level 6) in Progressive America Chair: Valentina Pugliano, Oxford University Alfred-Rouleau B (Level 4) 1. Healing by Incantation in Medieval China, Chair: Garland Allen, Washington University Yan Liu, Harvard University 1. The Metaphysical Club, Pragmatism, 2. The Medieval Hippocrates: a Late Middle and the Search for New Methods in Ages Transformation of the Greek Medical American Biology, 1880-1910, Keith R. Tradition, Marco Viniegra, Harvard Benson, University of Washington (Paper University will be read by Michael Reidy.) 3. Herophilus’ Pulsating Medicine, Deirdre 2. The Fate of a Progressive Science: The Moore, University of King’s College Harvard Fatigue Laboratory, Athletes, and the Science of Work, *Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Industry, Patronage and Science Yale University Été des Indiens (Level 6) 3. Biological Analogies in History: Theodore Chair: Margot Iverson, Institute of Medicine Roosevelt, Nature, and National Character, 1. The Chemical Foundation as Academic/ Henry Cowles, Princeton University Industry Interface, 1919-1941, Tom 4. Female and Fowl: Eugenic and Euthenic Scheiding, Elizabethtown College; and Phil Conflicts about the Body and Reproduction Mirowski, University of Notre Dame in Early Twentieth Century America, Kathy 2. Selling the Research Idea: The National Cooke, Quinnipiac University Research Council’s Promotion of Industrial Research, 1916-1945, Eric S. Hintz, Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern Period University of Pennsylvania (paper will be Salon des Arts (Level 6) read by Margot Iverson, Institute of Chair: Larry Stewart, University of Saskatchewan Medicine) 3. Regulation and Evolution of the The Development of Biology in a Model Biopharmaceutical Sector: A Technocracy: Science and the Soviet Union ‘Begriffsgeschichte’ of Non-inferiority Grand Salon B (Level 4) as a Testing Standard for Antibiotics, Arthur Chair: William C. Summers, Yale University Daemmrich, Harvard University Commentator: Miklos Muller, Rockefeller 4. Negotiating Scientific and Industrial University Management: The Micromotion Films of 1. The Cache Economy: Science, Capital and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, 1912-1924, Arlie Socialism, Jenny Leigh Smith, Georgia R. Belliveau, York University Institute of Technology 2. Differing Scientific Visions Approach Biology and Ideology Climate Change: The Development of the Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, Chair: Marsha Richmond, Wayne State University Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University 1. Mendelism and Eugenics in Vienna: 3. Youthful Perceptions, Foreign Illusions: L.C. Mendel’s Rediscoverer Erich Tschermak- Dunn, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Huxley and Seysenegg and His Active Involvement with the Soviet Union, *William deJong-Lambert, Eugenics, Veronika Hofer, University of The City University of New York and Vienna Columbia University 2. ‘Falling in Love Intelligently’: Eugenic Love in the Progressive Era, Susan Rensing, Saturday, 3:10 – 3:30 University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 3. From Organic Morphogenesis to Liberal Coffee Break (Grand Salon Foyer) Socialism: Eugenio Rignano and the “Centro-Epigenetic” Hypothesis of Heredity Saturday, 1:30 – 5:00 PM and Development, Maurizio Esposito, Leeds University, England Poster Session - Grand Salon Foyer (Level 4) 4. From ‘Passive Confidence’ to ‘Neo- 1. An Analysis of Sturm’s Theorem: “A rare Romanticism’? The American Socialist Left example of simplicity and elegance” and Popular Evolutionary Theory in The Emerging from a Network of Scientific International Socialist Review, 1900-1918, Inquiry and Informing Further Innovation James Fiorentino, University of in Algebra, Frederick W. Sakon, Florida State Massachusetts, Amherst University 2. From J. Winthrop, Jr. to E.E. Barnard: The Science in America before 1900 Arduous Path to the First Sighting of the Grand Salon C (Level 4) Fifth Satellite of Jupiter, François Wesemael, Chair: David Sepkoski, University of North Université de Montréal Carolina, Wilmington 3. Organizing Knowledge: The Periodic Table 1. “What is the Consensus of Opinion as in Popular Culture, Ann E. Robinson, to...?”: The Age of the Earth Debates and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Meaning of Scientific Consensus at the 4. Development and Senescence: Growing Up End of the 19th Century in America, and Old and the Making of Biogerontology, Sylwester Ratowt, American 1900-1950, Hyung Wook Park, University Philosophical Society of Durham 2. Lester Frank Ward v. Othniel C. Marsh: 5. SPACE MADNESS: The Dreaded Disease Defining the Mesozoic, Debra Lindsay, That Never Was, Matthew H. Hersch, University of New Brunswick HSS-NASA Fellow in the History of Space 3. Knowing Nature, Knowing Gender, and Science Eating Turkey: Agriculture and Natural 6. “Why does a human, a mammal, have to History in 19th-Century America, Neil drink milk of cow, another mammal?”— Prendergast, University of Arizona ‘ Milk Myth, A Study on Milk Phenomena in Contemporary China Since 1980s, Song Tian, Beijing Normal University

7. The Role of Interferometry in the Aether of Discourse in 17th-Century Amsterdam, Debate Throughout the 19th Century, Eric Jorink, Huygens Institute (Royal Dutch Roberto A. Pimentel and Carlos B. G. Academy of Arts and Sciences) Koehler, Universidade Federal do Rio de 2. Maths and the City. Positioning the Janeiro Teaching of Elementary Mathematics in 17th-Century Amsterdam, Tim Nicolaije, Saturday, 3:30 – 5:30 PM University of Twente, the Netherlands 3. Mobilizing Learning for Urban Affairs in Reexamining the Uneasy Partnership: Golden Age Amsterdam, *Fokko Jan Economics, the Nation State, and the Public Dijksterhuis, University of Twente, the Welfare, 1920s-1980s Netherlands (Sponsored by the Forum for the History of Human Science) - Grand Salon C (Level 4) From Wartime Experience to “Big Science” in Chair and Commentator: Sarah Igo, Vanderbilt Asia (1931- ) - Alfred-Rouleau B (Level 4) University Chair: Tae-ho Kim, D. Kim Foundation 1. Re-Imagining Markets: The U.S. Consumer Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University Movement and Federal Economists, 1920- 1. Patriots’ Pancake: War and Nutrition Science 1970, Thomas A. Stapleford, University of in Wartime China, 1931–1945, Seung-Joon Notre Dame Lee, National University of Singapore 2. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You 2. Dependent on the Enemy’s Path: Japanese Stronger: Patrons, Public Image, and Fertilizer Factories and Synthetic Fiber Research in Economics, 1970-1985, Tiago Industry in North Korea, Tae-ho Kim, Mata, University of Amsterdam D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 3. To Measure, Monitor, and Manage the Columbia University Nation’s Social Progress: U.S. Senator Walter 3. “Going Nuclear?”: From AERI to KAERI, Mondale’s Initiative to Create a Council 1955-1978, the South Korean Case of of Social Advisers, 1967-1974, *Mark Nuclear Energy, *John DiMoia, National Solovey, University of Toronto University of Singapore 4. A Space Science Virtuoso in Japan: The Seeds of Change: Agricultural Production, Historical Evolution of the Institute of Space Commercial Interests, and the Science of and Astronautical Science, Yasushi Sato, Breeding, 1850-1940 National Graduate Institute for Policy Alfred-Rouleau A (Level 4) Studies, Japan Chair and Commentator: Daniel Kevles, Yale University Losing Arguments in Early Modern Science 1. Prolific: Valuing Proprietary Staple Varieties Mont-Royal (Level 6) in 19th-Century America, Courtney Chair: James Byrne, Princeton University Fullilove, Columbia University 1. Cure-All or Helpful Herb? Debates about 2. From Farm to Can: The Canning Industry the Panacea in Early Modern Europe, Alisha and Agricultural Production in the Early Rankin, Tufts University 20th Century, Anna Zeide, University of 2. The Sudden Death of the Burning Wisconsin, Madison Salamander, Nicholas Popper, College of 3. Breeding the Roentgen Regal Lily: William and Mary Agricultural and Horticultural Research at 3. ‘Trials about the Art of Flying in the Air’: the General Electric Laboratory, 1930-1940, The Possibility of Flight in the 17th *Helen Anne Curry, Yale University Century, Natalie Kaoukji, University of Cambridge Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam as a Site of 4. Too Metaphysical or Too Naturalistic? Knowledge Critiques of 17th-c. Aristotelianism, *Craig Alfred-Rouleau C (Level 4) Martin, Oakland University Chair and Commentator: Harold Cook, Brown University 1. Cultures of Collecting and Communities Episodes in Early Science 3. Kepler’s Notion of Empirical Value, Été des Indiens (Level 6) Jonathan Regier, Université Paris 7 Chair: Pamela Long, Independent Scholar 4. Thomas Hobbes on Simple Conceptions & 1. Foundations of an Ancient Optical Textbook, the Nature of Science, Marcus P. Adams, Al-Bas ’ir F ‘Ilm Al-Man zir, Comparing with University of Pittsburgh Today’s Textbooks and Major Books of Optics Before it, Maryam Farahmand, University of Natural History, Bugs and Plants Tehran Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) 2. Mechanics in the Aristotelian Physical Chair: Nicholas Dew, McGill University Problems, Jean De Groot, Catholic 1. Between Love and Science: Apicultural University of America Research and Ethical Beekeeping in the 3. Science and Instruments: Levi ben Gerson’s British Isles, c. 1750-1850, Adam Ebert, (1288–1344) Pinhole Camera, Yaakov Zik, Mount Mercy College University of Haifa 2. “A Treatise of Buggs”: The Use and Re-Use 4. “You Asked Me, Princess, how Thunder of Natural History in 18th-Century and Lightning Happen”: Byzantine Science England, Jennifer Steenshorne, Columbia and Learning in the 11th and 12th University Centuries, Anne-Laurence Caudano, 3. Newtonian Vegetables and Perceptive Plants, University of Winnipeg Susannah Gibson, University of Cambridge 5. Determinism in Abu Ma‘shar’s Defense of Astrology, Teri Gee, University of Toronto Saturday, 4:00 – 6:00 PM Darwin on Reason and Method Salon des Arts (Level 6) Taming the Information Beast Chair: Robert Richards, University of Chicago Argenteuil (Level 5) 1. Charles Darwin and the Natural History of Chair: Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Exeter Reason, Kathryn Tabb, University of Organizers: Isabelle Charmantier, University of Pittsburgh Exeter, and Bruno Strasser, Yale University 2. Darwinian Evolution: An Implication 1. Natural History and Information Overload: Regarding the Scientific Method Itself, G. the Case of Linnaeus, *Isabelle Charmantier, Arthur Mihram, Princeton, NJ; Danielle University of Exeter Mihram, University of Southern California 2. The Search for Order and the Order of 3. Darwin and Wallace on Morals and Ethics: Search: Archiving Species in Print circa Two Different Views from Natural Selection, 1900, Alex Csiszar, Harvard University Rosaura Ruiz Gutierrez, School of Sciences, 3. Staying Afloat in the ‘Flood of New National Autonomous University of Mexico Information:’ Computers in America’s Cold 4. Darwin’s Rhetorical Use of Methodological War Scientific Data Crisis, Joseph Naturalism in The Origin of Species, November, University of South Carolina Stephen C. Dilley, St. Edward’s University 5. The Rhetoric of Probability: How Darwin Industrial Food and the Biopolitics of Overcame the Argument from Design, Nutrition Science Daniel A. Newman, University of Toronto Picardie A (Level 5) Chair and Organizer: Helen Veit, Michigan State Revisiting the Beginning of Modern Science University Hospitalité (Level 5) Commentator: John Waller, Michigan State Chair: Robert Westman, University of California, University San Diego 1. Electric Dairyland: Science, Technology and 1. The Scientific Revolution: The Master Milk Production in Britain, 1850-1940, Narrative Replaced, H. Floris Cohen, Christopher Otter, Ohio State University University of Utrecht, the Netherlands 2. The Cultural Algebra of Nutrition: Rational 2. The Reception of Descartes’ Machine Eating & Dietary Substitution in the Psychology in Medical Writers and Natural Progressive Era, *Helen Veit, Michigan State Philosophy, Gary Hatfield, University of University Pennsylvania 3. Killer Carbs? The Biopolitics of only venue close to the hotel that could fulfill the Amylophobia from Graham to Gluten-Free, capacity requirements of the HSS-PSA for the Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Whitman College Saturday-night event.

Saturday, 5:00 – 6:00 PM FALL BACKWARDS (PLEASE NOTE: Montréal will switch back to Committee on Research and Profession EST time Sunday morning. Meeting Move your watches back one hour.) Touraine (Level 5)

Saturday, 6:00 – 7:00 PM SUNDAY, November 7, 2010

HSS Distinguished Lecture Sunday, 9:00 – 10:00 AM Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) HSS Business Meeting (Please see agenda on Nancy Siraisi, page 43 ) - Picardie B (Level 5) (Distinguished Professor Emerita in History at Sunday, 10:00 – 12:00 PM Hunter College and at the Graduate Center, City Opportunities and Challenges: Plants and University of New York) Evolution (1920-1950) What Was Medicine Hospitalité (Level 5) 1450-1620 and What Chair and Commentator: Vassiliki (Betty) Did It Have To Do with Science? Introduction Smocovitis, University of Florida by Ann Blair, Harvard University, Henry Charles 1. Where Are the Plants? Simpson’s Lea Professor of History ‘Tempo and Mode,’ Evolutionary Studies and Paleobotany, *Dawn M. Digrius, Saturday, 7:30 – 9:30 PM Stevens Institute of Technology 2. Systematics and the Origin of Species from HSS/PSA Joint Dinner – Complexe Desjardins Edgar Anderson’s Viewpoint, Kim (central fountain area off of level 4) Kleinman, Webster University Wine for this dinner is provided by an anonymous 3. The Sociology of Plants and Neo-Darwinism donor in honor of Allan Rex Sandage, maven of in the Twentieth Century, Adam Lawrence, the Hubble constant University of California, Los Angeles

The Complexe Desjardins in downtown Montréal Medicine, Science, and the Stomach, 1540-1840 houses the offices of several companies, including Salon des Arts (Level 6) the Desjardins bank (the largest association of Chair and Organizer: Elizabeth Williams, credit unions in North America, founded in 1900) Oklahoma State University and some branches of the Québec government. It 1. Fat, Dumb, Slow, and Prone to Sudden also houses the Hyatt Regency Hotel, this year’s Death: Obesity in Early Modern Medicine, HSS/PSA meeting location. Especially useful in Michael Stolberg, University of Würzburg winter, the Complexe is an important node in 2. The Ghastly Kitchen, Anita Guerrini, Montréal’s underground city (RÉSO), the largest Oregon State University indoor “city” in the world. The large atrium built 3. Martyrs to the Stomach: Self-Experiment at the center of the Complexe, where the HSS/ in the Science of Digestion of the Late 18th PSA dinner will be held, is used year round to Century, *Elizabeth Williams, Oklahoma host a variety of spectacles and exhibitions, record State University television shows, and launch music records from 4. The Burning Pleasures of Gastro-Chic: Québécois artists. Spacious, multifunctional, and Modern Stimulants, Health, and the well sunlit, this atrium has become over time a ‘Nervous Temperament’ from Lorry to carrefour of Montréal’s cultural and community Balzac, Anne C. Vila, University of life. We have chosen the Atrium because it is the Wisconsin, Madison Gendering the Human Brain: Science, University Language, and Sex Difference in the 19th and 3. A Not-so-Short History of Computational 20th Centuries - Été des Indiens (Level 6) Science: Building a Scientific Discipline in Chair and Commentator: Sarah S. Richardson, the Digital Age, *Ann Johnson, University of Harvard University South Carolina 1. Woman, Know Thyself: Gender, Phrenology, and the Female Brain, Carla J. Bittel, Scientific Organizations and Research Practices Loyola Marymount University in Nationalist Times - Argenteuil (Level 5) 2. Helen Hamilton Gardener’s Brain: Chair and Commentator: Jeffrey Johnson, Contested Understandings of Brain Science Villanova University and Feminist Applications of the Scientific 1. Research Divisions in Imperial Germany, an Method, *Kimberly A. Hamlin, Miami Organizational Scheme for War and Peace, University of Ohio *Jeremiah James, Fritz Haber Institute 3. Silas Weir Mitchell’s Nervous Malady and its 2. Materials, Methods, and Management: The Influence on the Rest Cure, Anne M. Stiles, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Physical Washington State University Chemistry Under the National Socialists, 4. Transgendered Cells: A History of Thomas Steinhauser, Fritz Haber Institute Metaphors about Astrocytes, Meg Upchurch, 3. Survey as Resource: The Geological Survey Transylvania University of China and Scientific Nationalism, 1928- 1949, Grace Shen, Princeton University Once Bitten, Twice Shy? Early Modern Naturalists, Insects, and Animals Science, Identity and Race Jeanne-Mance (Level 6) Anjou A/B (Level 5) Chair and Commentator: Paula Findlen, Stanford Chair: John Carson, University of Michigan University 1. Gender Conservatism and Racial Liberalism 1. The Body of the Animal: `Hunting in US Psychiatry: Dr. Viola W. Bernard and Epistemology’ and the Study of Animals in the Community Service Society of Harlem, Early Modern Europe, Massino Petrozzi, 1943-1945, Dennis A. Doyle, Mississippi The Johns Hopkins University State University 2. John Donne’s Flea and Robert Hooke’s 2. Personalized Medicine or Scientific Racism? Louse: What Vermin Meant in 17th- The Persistence of the Genetic Theory of Century England, *Lisa T. Sarasohn, Oregon Race and its Modern Day Tuskegee, Andrea State University Patterson, California State University, 3. Insect Theology: Friedrich Christian Fullerton Lesser, Pierre Lyonet, and the Intersection of 3. We can’t relocate the world: Activism and Enlightenment Natural History and the Bravo Medical Program, Laura Natural Theology, Brian Ogilvie, University Harkewicz, University of California, San Diego of Massachusetts, Amherst Expeditions, Imperialism and Science Computers as Scientific Instruments: Alfred-Rouleau A (Level 4) Technologies, Scientific Practices, and Social Chair: Pnina G. Abir-Am, Brandeis University Structures - Picardie A (Level 5) 1. “Botanical Monroe Doctrine” in Puerto Chair: Adelheid Voskuhl, Harvard University Rico: Contours of American Imperial Commentator: Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute Scientific Expeditions and Research Stations, of Technology 1898-1933, Darryl E. Brock, Fordham 1. Recipes for Any Occasion. Computational University Chemistry and the Desktop Computer, Johannes Lenhard, Bielefeld University, 2. Imperialism and Mathematics, Kevin Germany Lambert, California State University, 2. Splitting and Optimizing in Mathematics Fullerton and Politics: The History of “Lions-Marchuk” 3. A School for Naturalist Voyagers in the Cooperation in Numerical Methods (1966- Jardin des Plantes: Field Science During the 1993), Ksenia Tatarchenko, Princeton “Golden Age” of French Natural History (1796 – 1850), Antony Adler, University of Washington 4. Intersecting Worldviews: Ricci World Maps in China, Ying Jia Tan, Yale University

Knowledge and Politics of Climate in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Auteuil A/B (Level 5) Chair: Miruna Achim, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico Commentator: Jean-François Gauvin, McGill University 1. Climate, Biopolitics and the Environmental Reﬂexivity of Modernity (18th and 19th Centuries France), *Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Harvard University 2. Hippocratism and Urban Reform: Mexico City and Lima, Late 18th Century, Miruna Achim, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana 3. Deforestation, Climate Changes and the Environmental Heritage of the French Revolution, Fabien Locher, Centre national de la recherché scientiﬁque, Paris