Abstract Book | Seattle, WA | 1-4 November 2018 Table of Contents_Toc528229514 “A Totally Unqualified Woman”: Gender and the Policing of Science in the IGY Expedition to South Georgia ...... 1 “Bringing the Bluegrass West: Scientific Agriculture and the California Thoroughbred Industry” ............................ 1 “China as a Field”: Carl Bishop, Ji Li, and the “First Archaeological Expedition in China led by the Chinese Themselves“ ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 “Collecting Evolution in the Galapagos and Rebuilding the California Academy of Sciences” .................................. 2 “Eating Electricity and Delivering India”: Cultural Resistance and Electricity in Late-nineteenth Century Bengali Drama ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2 “Esperienza,” Teacher of All Things: The Musical Art-Science of Vincenzo Galilei .................................................. 3 “Fossil Tug of War: Evolution and Controversy at Liang Bua” ................................................................................ 3 “How Do I Know... Prayers Don’t Do More Good than... Pills”: Don Pedrito Jaramillo, Curanderismo, and the Rise of Professional Medicine in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands over the Turn-of-the-Century ............................... 3 “Humanistic” Science, “Scientific” Humanities: Towards an Integrated History of the Humanities and Science ..... 4 “I Remember When the Russian Satellite Fell”: Cosmos 954 and the Shape of Northern Nuclearity, 1968-1979 .... 4 “I See the Land Desolate”: Competency, Agriculture, and the Omaha Nation ......................................................... 5 “Ikan Bagai Makanan”: Ishak bin Ahmad and the Feeding of Malay Nationalism, 1923-1941 ................................ 5 “Imperfect, Inequitable, and Precarious”: Rationalizing the South Asian Monsoon, 1886-1930 ............................... 6 “In Truth and Service,” Black Academica's Use of Eugenic Science in HBCU Classrooms and Culture, 1910-1940 6 “Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth” ...................................................................................................... 6 “Management” of the Squirrels of Washington, D.C., from the 1950s to the 1980s: Historical Case Studies in the Human-Animal Bond, Nonhuman Charisma, and Network Analysis ...................................................................... 7 i “Negative Miracles”–Lewis Mumford and Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth ....................................... 7 “Now is the Time to Collect: Museums and Salvage Zoology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” ..................... 8 “Of Course, it was Really a Male”: Unknowing Sexual Multiplicity in Nineteenth-century Animal Studies ............. 8 “Our Destiny and Our Duty”: Evolution’s Role in Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth .......................... 9 “Playing the White Man's Game”: Francis La Flesche, Indigenous Ethnology, and Queer Failure ........................... 9 “Sailing for Science: The Voyage of the Blossom” .................................................................................................. 10 “So Degraded in the Scale of Being”: Medical Concepts of Monstrosity and Defective Reproduction in the Nineteenth-century U.S. ........................................................................................................................................ 10 “Temperature, Humidity, and Movement”: The Crisis of Ventilation in Early 20th Century American Medicine. 10 “Thank You for Transformers”: The Post-WWII American-Soviet Scientific Exchange Program ........................... 11 “The Agency of Man on the Earth”: Cross-Disciplinary Studies about Anthropogenic Environmental Change...... 11 “The Counter-Conference”: Professionalism and Social Responsibility in Computer Science, 1968-1971 ............. 12 “The Standard Head”: Identification, Formalization, and Standardization in an Early Facial Recognition Program12 “Their God is Their Belly”: Meat and Medicine in Seventeenth-century Rome ..................................................... 12 “Theory, Observation, and Discipline: The Funafuti Expeditions as Crucial Experiments?” .................................. 13 “Three Million Defective Children”: Saving America with Prenatal Health Care, 1900-1930 ................................ 13 “Tortoise because he taught us”: Animality and Humanity in Grey Walter’s Cybernetic Brains ............................. 13 “To the Malcontent” as Key to Bruno's Italian Dialogues ...................................................................................... 14 “Watts” in a Home: Staging and Selling Domestic Electricity in Interwar Britain .................................................. 14 “What is Mind?”: Friedrich Hayek's Theory of Mind between Vienna, London, and Chicago, 1920-1952 ........... 14 “You are Prejudicing Your Own Case”: Women as Experts, Users, and Disturbances at the 1970 Nelson Hearings on the Pill .............................................................................................................................................................. 15 A Hard Core: Architects and Science in the Research University ............................................................................ 15 A Publishing Machine: The Quest of Botanist P.J. Buch’hoz for Scientific Recognition in Enlightenment France . 16 A Science for “Man with a Capital-M”: Man’s Role and Anthropology in the Atomic Age .................................... 16 A Spectrum of Propaganda and Scientific Exchange: Sino-British Scientific Networks from World War to Cold War ............................................................................................................................................................................... 17 A Table for Two?: Mo Meng Yim and the Origins of Forensic Medicine in Siam (Thailand) ................................ 17 A Tale of Resilience: the Periodic System after Radioactivity and the Discovery of the Neutron ............................ 18 A Tale of Two Neurosciences: Francis Schmitt, Herbert Jasper, and the Twin Births of Organized Neuroscience . 18 A Visit to Biotopia: Genre, Genetics, and Gardening in the Early Twentieth Century ........................................... 18 Advantages of Being a Scientific Outsider: Stanford Ovshinsky's Discovery of Phase-Change Memory .................. 19 All Coherence Gone? A New Isaac Newton ............................................................................................................ 19 All Too Human: Formalizations, Models, and Algorithms in the 20th Century Human Sciences .......................... 20 Alternatives to Fact ................................................................................................................................................. 20 Alum Analysis in Europe, 1750-1810 ..................................................................................................................... 21 Amphibian a priori: Filters, Fields, and the Contested Vision of Neuroscience ....................................................... 21 ii An Arctic Case Study: Humanism in Real Time .................................................................................................... 22 Anglo-American Science and Liberal Religion, 1840-1940 ..................................................................................... 22 Animal Factory: The Rise of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, 1945-2000 ............................................. 22 Architectural Scientists in the Steel City: Computing Urban Form at Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Physical Planning (1969-1974) ............................................................................................................................................ 23 Art Histories around 1900 ..................................................................................................................................... 23 Art-Science: Premodern Theory and Practice Entangled ........................................................................................ 23 Artisans and Artificial Hands: Reading Early Modern Objects Inside and Out ....................................................... 24 As if They were Ministers of God: Religion and Epidemic Control in Nineteenth-Century Mexico ...................... 24 Asia and the Global Origins of the Social Sciences, 1700-1900 .............................................................................. 25 Assaults on the Body of the Sovereign: Poison, Alchemy, and Magic in Sixteenth-century Germany ...................... 25 Attempting Neutrality: IUPAC, IUPAP, and the Resolution of a Cold War Scientific Controversy ....................... 26 Authorship and Cultures of Scientific Publishing, 16th-19th Century ................................................................... 26 Automata and Artifice ............................................................................................................................................ 26 Bateson on Characters, Genes, and Species as Theoretical Elements ....................................................................... 27 Between Dissonance and Nuisance: The Understandings of Noise before the Mechanical Reproduction