SOCIETY PROGRAM SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

All sessions will be held in the Marina (East) Tower at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. The Nautilus rooms are on the lower level; all other meeting rooms are on the lobby level. Room 518 in the Marina Tower has been donated by the hotel for the exclusive use of nursing mothers and mothers wishing to pump milk. We thank the Sheraton for making this room available. Updates and other information during the meeting will be announced on the HSS twitter feed (@hssonline.org), using hashtag #hsspsa12. * denotes session organizer

Registration Desk Book Exhibit Thursday, 12:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. Thursday, 6:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M. Maritime Board Room Grande Ballroom A Friday, 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Friday, 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Grande Ballroom Foyer Grande Ballroom A Saturday, 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Saturday, 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Grande Ballroom Foyer Grande Ballroom A Sunday, 8:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. Sunday 8:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. Grande Ballroom Foyer Grande Ballroom A

Thursday, 15 November

12:00 – 4:30 P.M. 1:15 – 1:45 “Discovering the Oceans’ Role in The Blue Marble: History of Climate: Oceanography meets Oceanography Public Project Remote Sensing,” Erik Conway (Jet Scripps Seaside Forum Propulsion Laboratory, NASA) Joint outreach initiative between the 1:50 – 2:35 History of Science Society and the Panel Discussion: Marine Science and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. All Statecraft events will be held at the Scripps Seaside 2:40 – 3:25 Forum in La Jolla, CA. Buses will be Panel Discussion: Oceanography as running between the meeting hotel and the Global History Scripps Seaside Forum. 3:30 – 4:00 “Oceans and People: Why the 12:00 – 1:00 Humanities? Why History? Why History Lunch of Science?,” Helen Rozwadowski 1:00 – 1:15 (University of Connecticut, Avery Point) Introduction

1:00 – 5:00 P.M. and the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science HSS Council Meeting Chair: Angela Creager, Princeton Executive Center 1 University “On Making History into Philosophy: The

Importance of Kuhn’s Harvard Years,”

2:00 – 3:30 P.M. Joel Isaac (University of Cambridge) “Of Troubled Marriage and Uneasy Colocation: , Contributed Papers: Historical Insights Epistemological Revolutions, for Contemporary Issues Romantic Narratives, and HPS,” Alan Spinnaker 2 Richardson (University of British Sponsored by the Philosophy of Science Columbia) Association “On Tradition and Innovation Before and After Kuhn,” (Oregon Chair: Rose-Mary Sargent (Merrimack State University) College) “What is Uncontroversial about Kuhn?” “Whewell on the Division of Scientific Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz Labor,” Conor Mayo-Wilson University of Hannover) (Carnegie Mellon University) “William Harvey's Bloody Motion: Creativity in Science,” Laszlo 7:30 – 8:30 P.M. Kosolosky (Ghent University) and Dagmar Provijn (Ghent University) Joint HSS/PSA Opening Reception “Shattering the Myth of Semmelweis,” Grande Ballroom Foyer and Grande Dana Tulodziecki (University of Ballrooms A and B Missouri-Kansas City) Sponsored in part by the University of Chicago Press on the occasion of the 50th 6:00 – 7:30 P.M. anniversary of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Plenary Session: History and Cash bar and light hors d’oeuvres. Please Philosophy of Science: 50 Years of be sure to visit the book exhibit area in Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Grande Ballroom A. Scientific Revolutions Grande Ballroom C Graduate and Early Career Caucus This session is jointly sponsored by the Mentor/Mentee Welcoming Reception History of Science Society, the Grande Ballroom B Philosophy of Science Association, and The mentor/mentee reception will be held the Joint Commission of the Division of towards the back of the ballroom for a the History of Science and Technology more quiet setting.

Friday, 16 November

7:30 – 8:45 A.M. When Feeling is Believing: Personal Experience, Perception, and the Struggle to Standardize the Senses HSS Women’s Caucus Breakfast Executive Center 3A Grande Ballroom B Chair: Nadia Berenstein (University of Sponsored in part by the Science and Pennsylvania) Technology Studies Graduate Program at the University of British Columbia Commentator: Emily Thompson (Princeton University) HSS Committee on Honors and Prizes “Flavor Added: The Rise of the Harbor’s Edge Private Dining Room Professional Flavorist and the First Twenty Years of the Society of Flavor Chemists, 1954-1974,” Nadia 9:00 – 11:45 A.M. Berenstein (University of Pennsylvania) Coffee Break 10:00 – 10:15 in Grande “Ethereal Noise of the Theremin: Ballroom Foyer and Executive Foyer Transcending Sensation at the Frontiers of Engineering and Art in The End(s) of the World as We Know 1930s America,” *Joy Wattawa it? Ancient and Early Modern (University of Chicago) Uses of Teleology “Smelling Newtown Creek: Germs, Marina 3 Miasmas, and Lay Ways of Understanding Environmental Health Chair: Peter Distelzweig (University of Hazards in Brooklyn, 1890-1895,” Pittsburgh) Molly Laas (University of Wisconsin, Commentator: Devin Henry (University Madison) of Western Ontario) “Making Vision Visible: Representing “Three Peripatetics on Methodological Remarkable Experiences in the Early Pan-Adaptationism,” Mariska Nineteenth Century,” Carmine Leunissen (University of North Grimaldi (University of Chicago) Carolina) “Experiencing the Ends of Nature: Locality, Embodiment, and William Harvey’s Teleological Vernacularization in Late Colonial Method,” *Benjamin Goldberg Technoscience: European Knowledge (University of Pittsburgh) Cultures in the Twentieth-Century “Descartes' Use of Usus: Grounding Middle East Cartesian Teleological Explanation,” Nautilus 5 Peter Distelzweig (University of Chair and Commentator: Michael Pittsburgh) Osborne (Oregon State University) “Leibniz's Heuristic Teleology,” Justin “Scientific Education and Medical Smith (Concordia University) Practice in Colonial Algeria: The Case

of Native Medical Auxiliaries,”

Hannah-Louise Clark (Princeton University) and Lara Huber (Technische University) Universität, Braunschweig) “A Flood of Disease: The New Human Geography of the Agricultural Disciplining and Popularization in Environment in 20th Century Egypt,” Evolutionary Biology after Jennifer Derr (University of California, the Modern Synthesis Santa Cruz) Nautilus 2 “Whose ‘bilad al-‘ajaib’ [Wonderland]? Chair and Commentator: Vassiliki Betty Aviation in Lebanon under the French Smocovitis (University of Florida) Mandate, 1923-1943,” Daniela Helbig (University of Sydney) “Claiming Darwin: contests over “Who is a Sociologist? The Cultural orthodoxy and public perception,” Politics of Value-Neutrality at the *Myrna Perez () Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Paleontology at the “High 1935-1955,” *Tal Arbel (Harvard Table”? Popularization and University) Disciplinary Status Debates in Recent Paleontology,” David Sepkoski Animal Models beyond Genetics (University of North Carolina) Grande Ballroom C “Making Natural Theology a ‘Science’,” Adam Shapiro (University of Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of Wisconsin, Madison) Science Association “Making Orthogenesis Appealing,” Mark Chair and Commentator: Alan Love Ulett (Arizona State University) (University of Minnesota) “Modeling humans, standardizing the Symposium: Poincaré Reconsidered: environment: Making organisms One Hundred Years Afterwards model humans in research on alcohol Seabreeze 2 addiction,” *Sabina Leonelli Sponsored by the Philosophy of Science (University of Exeter), *Rachel Association Ankeny (University of Adelaide), Chair: Sahotra Sarkar (University of Nicole Nelson (McGill University), Texas, Austin) Edmund Ramsden (University of th Manchester) “Poincaré’s Impact on 20 Century “Modeling failure: Empiricism, evidence, Philosophy of Science,” Yemima Ben- and rhetoric in the development of the Menahem (Hebrew University of early twentieth-century hip fracture Jerusalem) treatments,” Christopher Degeling “The Geometry Behind Poincaré’s (University of Sydney) Conventionalism,” Jeremy Heis “Of mad dogs and men: Creating (University of California, Irvine) standards of validity for animal models “The Relationship of Geometry to of human psychopathology,” Edmund Arithmetic in Poincaré’s Science and Ramsden (University of Exeter) Hypothesis,” Katherine Dunlop “Humanising animals: The search for an (University of Texas, Austin) ideal transgenic mouse model of “Poincaré and the Origins of Special Alzheimer’s disease in the 1990s,” Relativity,” John Stachel (Boston Lara Keuck (Johannes Gutenberg University)

Siting Science: The Role of Locality in The History of Science in the the History of Science Pacific World Seabreeze 1 Executive Center 2A Chair: Kathleen C. Oberlin (Indiana Chair and Commentator: Jacob Hamblin University) (Oregon State University) Commentator: Thomas Gieryn (Indiana “Sustaining an Empire: Russian Science University) in the Pacific World during the First “‘Leaving the fountain head to dry up’: Half of the Nineteenth Century,” Al The Reorganization of Biology at Miller (University of Washington) Harvard University, 1900-1930,” “Internationalism, Science, and the Jenna Tonn (Harvard University) Making of a Pacific World During the “Placing Mathematics: New York Interwar Period, 1919 - 1939,” University's Courant Institute of *Antony Adler (University of Mathematical Sciences,” *Brittany Washington) Shields (University of Pennsylvania ) “Ordering Oceanic Objects: “‘A Glamorous Example from the Mecca Oceanography and Cross-Cultural of Glamour Itself’: Operations Exchange in the Pacific, 1957 – 1958,” Research and the Business of Mass Denzil Ford (University of British Leisure in America after World War Columbia) II,” James D. Skee (University of “SCAP and Scientific Racism in Japanese California, Berkeley) Fisheries Science,” Carmel Finley “Anthropometry and the Standardization (Oregon State University) of Disability Access,” Aimi Hamraie (Emory University) Between Empires: Colonial Technology and Postcolonial Development in Asia Practicing Gender and Gendering Marina 1 Practice in the Field and Lab Chair: *Hiromi Mizuno (University of Nautilus 4 Minnesota) Chair and Commentator: Robert Nye, Commentators: Bradley Simpson Oregon State University (Princeton University) and Suzanne Moon “Mountaineering and the Body Aesthetic (University of Oklahoma) in Victorian Britain,” Michael Reidy “Problematizing Technological (Montana State University) Cooperation: Japan in Asia,” *Hiromi “‘My Dear Dr.’: Women Plant Collectors Mizuno (University of Minnesota) and the Harvard Botanists, 1860- “‘Treasure Island’: Sumatran Oil 1900,” Tina Gianquitto (Colorado Development in Japanese-Indonesian School of Mines) Relations,” Eric Dinmore (Hampden- “‘Simply in their trousers’: Men, Women, Sydney College) and Horticulture at Kew, 1895-1910,” “A View from the Third Goose: Donald Opitz (De Paul University) Indonesian Discourses on Japanese “What’s Gender Got To Do With It?: Models of Industrialization, and Women and Scientific Practice Within Scientific/Technological Cooperation,” the New Experimental Institutes of Suzanne Moon (University of Genetics, 1900-1940,” *Marsha Oklahoma) Richmond (Wayne State University)

“Before Rolling Thunder: the Pattani- Cesar de Mattos (Universidade Naratiwat Highway Project and Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro) Hyundai Construction’s Role in “The late metastasis in Brazil of the Thailand and Southeast Asia, 1965- university system: A preliminary 1973,” John DiMoia (National survey on mathematics in the context University of Singapore) of the creation of the University of Sao Paulo,” Adriana Cesar de Mattos Modern Instrumentation: Materiality (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio and Metaphor Claro) and Oscar Joao Abdounur Nautilus 3 (University of Sao Paulo) “John von Neumann: Beyond the Theory Chair: Dana A. Freiburger (University of of Games,” Manuela Fernández Pinto Wisconsin, Madison) (University of Notre Dame) “Millikan’s Cauldrons,” Martin Panusch (University of Flensburg) Science, Development, and Nation- “Beyond the Geiger-Müller counter,” Building Sebastian Korff (University of Nautilus 1 Flensburg ) “Hugo Benioff and the fine-tuning of Chair: Neeraja Sankaran (Yonsei seismometers and musical instruments University, Seoul) at Caltech,” Matthias Dorries “The co-production of national and (University of Strasbourg) technological orders: The birth of “Interpreting the electron microscope Israel’s military research images of single atoms in the 1970s,” organization,” Ari Barell (Ben-Gurion Mari Yamaguchi (University of University) Tokyo) “Jackasses aboard the Plane: A History of “Aitionome or autonome? The ‘biological the United States’ Technical clocks problem’ in twentieth-century Assistance to Iran, 1950-1965,” biology,” Jole Shackelford (University Mahdieh Tavakol (Oregon State of Minnesota) University) “The biggest telescope: Europe vs. Interventions in the Exact Sciences America,” David Baneke (VU Marina 5 University Amsterdam) “The Burnetization of Oz? The Chair: Massimo Mazzotti (University of development of WEHI as a Latourian California, Berkeley) center of calculation for immunology “Leibniz’s 1691 demonstration of the in Australia,” Neeraja Sankaran conservation of ‘vis viva’ and (Yonsei University, Seoul) refutation of the conservation of ‘quantitas motus’,” Elay Shech 12:00 – 1:15 P.M. (University of Pittsburgh) “L’uniformité, c’est la mort,” Madeline Committee on Meetings and Programs Muntersbjorn (University of Toledo) Meeting “The role of the Royal Society of London on the historical recognition of Arthur Executive Boardroom Cayley,” Kleyton Godoy and Adriana

Forum for the History of Science in Gomez, (California Institute of America Business Meeting and Technology) Distinguished Lecture “Squirrels, Scopes, and the Pope: Spinnaker Defining the Sacred at Mt. Graham International Observatory,” Leandra Lecturer: James Fleming (Colby College), Swanner (Harvard University) "At the Cutting Edge: Harry Wexler and the Emergence of Atmospheric Science” Science Mediated: Textual Practices and the Circulation of Knowledge in Forum for the History of Science in Medieval Europe and the Middle East Asia Business Meeting Nautilus 5 Marina 1 Chair: Joan Cadden (University of Physical Science Forum Meeting California, Davis) Marina 6 “Translating Illness: Tongues, Bones, and Bodies in Medieval China” Carla Forum for the History of the Nappi (University of British Mathematical Sciences Luncheon Columbia) Harbor’s Edge Private Dining Room “‘So we may learn from our predecessors’: Medical biographies Please note that the lunch is by advanced and the arrangement of the medical registration only. Any historians of community in the Medieval Middle mathematics who would like to be added East,” Ahmed Ragab (Harvard to the Forum’s mailing list should contact University) Karen Parshall at [email protected]. “Romance and Remedy in Late Medieval England,” Julie Orlemanski (Boston Nominating Committee Meeting College) Maritime Board Room “Classifying Knowledge in Tenth-Century Baghdad: Ibn al-Nadim’s Kitab al- Fihrist,” *Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard 1:30 – 3:30 P.M. University)

Spiritual Geographies Historicizing Rachel Carson: New Executive Center 3A Contexts for Understanding Silent Chair and Commentator: Tracy Leavelle Spring (Creighton University) Grande Ballroom C “A Place Where No Men Dwell, Nor Chair and Commentator: Pnina Abir-Am Souls Pass Away: Defining Spiritual (WSRC – Brandeis University) Landscapes in Giambattista Riccioli’s Co-Sponsored by the HSS Women’s Selenography,” *Meridith Beck Sayre Caucus, the Earth and Environment and Nicolas Jacobson (University of Forum, and the Forum for the History of Wisconsin, Madison) the Chemical Sciences “'The World Not Be Round': God, Science, and Empire in Christopher “Pulp Science; or, Placing Silent Spring Columbus's Account of Earthly into a Literary Genre,” Melinda Paradise (1498),” Nicolas Wey- Gormley (University of Notre Dame)

“Silent Spring and the Chemical Organizer: Chen-Pang Yeang (University Century,” Frederick R. Davis (Florida of Toronto) State University) “Modems, Missiles, and Air Defence “Carson and the Chemists: Debating Systems: Noise as a Data Science After Silent Spring,” David Communication Problem,” Shawn Hecht (Bowdoin College) Bullock (Simon Fraser University) “Concepts and Significance of Noise in Modern China and Transnational Acoustics: Before and After the Great Science War,” Roland Wittje (University of Marina 1 Regensburg) Chair: Zuoyue Wang, California State “‘Forgetting’ Physics: The Physicalization Polytechnic University, Pomona of History and Memory,” Aaron Sidney Wright (University of Toronto) “Transnational Science and Knowledge in

Transit: The Movement of Agricultural Experts, Collectors, and Credit Knowledge within and between China and the U.S., 1940s-1980s,” Sigrid Executive Center 2A Schmalzer (University of Chair: Pamela M. Henson, Smithsonian Massachusetts, Amherst) Institution “Designing an IVF Strategy for Chinese “Under the microscope: Mary Ward, Circumstances: Zhang Lizhu and the Matilda Knowles and Sydney Mary Human in vitro Fertilization Research Thompson Christen: Three Irish ladies in Peking University Third Hospital of the laboratory,” Dawn Digrius 1982 – 1988,” Lijing Jiang (Arizona (Stevens Institute of Technology) State University) “The evolution of the local expert: Frank “Science in Motion: How Agricultural Stephens, a case study,” Matthew Research Not Only Survived but Laubacher (Ashford University) Flourished at Tsinghua University, “Understanding Sociality before 1934-1947,” *Xuan Geng (University Sociobiology: Leo Pardi’s Studies on of Minnesota) Social Dominance in Italian Paper “Religion, Science, and Nationalism: Wasps (1939-1952),” Guido Caniglia Public Health Education in China, (Arizona State University) 1911-1927,” Shawn Foster (University “From dragon bones to human ancestors: of Minnesota) The ownership, value, and exchange of paleoanthropological objects across a Understanding Noise in Twentieth- colonial world,” Adrian Young Century Physics and Engineering (Princeton University) Part 1 Seabreeze 1 Science and Statecraft in Latin America Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of Executive Center 1 Science Assocation Chair: Matthew Crawford, Kent State Chair: Jed Buchwald (California Institute University of Technology) “Genes and atoms in Mexico during the Commentator: Shaul Katzir (Tel Aviv Cold War: Tensions and synergies University) between modernity and nationalism,” Edna Suàrez (Universidad Nacional

Autónoma de México) and Gisela Chair: Sander Gliboff, Indiana University Mateos (Universidad Nacional “Connecting genetics, evolutionary theory Autónoma de México) and practical animal breeding: Arend “The influence of Rockefeller Foundation Hagedoorn (1885-1953),” Bert in the education of Mexican Theunissen (Utrecht University) Agronomists (1941-1963),” Francisco “Modeling gene action, Richard Serrano and Eva Rivas (Tecnológico Goldschmidt, and a historical de Monterrey) mystery,” Ehud Lamm (Tel Aviv “The grand amigo: Alexander Wetmore, University) US international relations, and the “Human manufacture or product of Smithsonian Institution in Latin nature? The first life patent in Canada, America,” Camilo Quintero 1976-1982,” Rebecca Moore (Universidad de los Andes) (University of Toronto) “The Brazilian Center for Health Studies “Gene-environment interaction in the 21st and health reform movement: History, century: Its rise, its fall, its rise?” politics, and public health (Rio de James Tabery (University of Utah) Janeiro, 1970-1980),” Daniela Sophia (Museu de Astronomia, Brazil) Peering Into the Mind in the 19th and 20th Centuries Science, Politics, and Secrecy Nautilus 3 Nautilus 1 Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of Chair: Marc Rothenberg, National Science Science Association Foundation Chair: Jamie Cohen-Cole, George “Reluctant demobilization: Ernest Washington University Solvay’s scientific patronage of the “The power of the imagination or a vital International Institutes for Physics and magnetic fluid at work? Mesmerism Chemistry and the legacy of World and the introduction of inhalation War I,” Kenneth Bertrams (Free anesthesia,” Ernest B. Hook University of Brussels ) (University of California, Berkeley) “We’re not going to learn this stuff from “Brain Injuries and the Photography of Mata Hari: Vannevar Bush and the Dreams: A Case Study of Psychiatry troubled history of the CIA Scientific and Psychology in WWI,” Scott Branch, 1947-1948,” Matthew Penney Phelps (Harvard University) (The Center for the Study of “The early history of fMRI experimental Intelligence) designs,” Hawon Chang (Seoul “Dutch ultracentrifuge technology made National University) secret (1954-1969),” Abel Streefland

(Leiden University) Science in Early America “Behind a Veil of Smoke: The Rise of the Department of Research and Marina 5 Development at Philip Morris, 1940- Chair: Gregory Good, American Institute 1960,” Brianna Rego (University of of Physics California, San Francisco) “The evolution of observational astronomy in colonial America,” Genetics In and Out of the Lab Tofigh Heidarzadeh (Huntington Nautilus 2 Library)

“The science of a geographer: Thomas Hutchins and the development of 3:30 – 3:45 P.M. Trans-Appalachian North America, Coffee Break 1762-1789,” Simon Thode (Johns Grande Ballroom Foyer and Hopkins University) Executive Foyer “Robert Hare: Chemist and Electrician,” Amy Fisher (University of Puget Sponsored in part by the University of Sound) Chicago Press Journals Division “Honor, slavery, and empiricism: The practice of agricultural science in the 3:45 – 5:45 P.M. mid-nineteenth-century South,” Timothy Minella (University of South Nature’s Circuits in the Early Modern Carolina) Atlantic

Representation and Visualization in Executive Center 3A Modern Science Chair: Daniela Bleichmar (University of Nautilus 4 Southern California) Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of “‘Sweating Together’: Transatlantic Science Association medicinal exchanges, 1516-1643,” Krista Turner, University of North Chair: Soraya de Chadarevian (University Carolina of California, Los Angeles) “Jamaica Transplanted: Sir Arthur “The Mistral Wind: A Comparison of Rawdon’s Irish Garden,” Kate Mulry Scientific and Artistic Techniques of (New York University) Observation in the Nineteenth “‘An Object Worthy of Interest, Curiosity Century,” Catherine Dunlop (Montana and Attention:’ The Atlantic State University) Circulations of Cinchona Bark in the “Of Sausages and Skeletons: Kekulé and Early Eighteenth Century,” Matthew Crum Brown’s Chemical Diagrams Crawford (Kent State University) and the Desiderata of Visual “How to Be a Biopirate: A British Representations,” Ari Gross Naturalist “Bioprospecting” in Spanish (University of Toronto) America,” *Kathleen Murphy “‘Without a Single Flap’: Louis-Pierre (California Polytechnic State Mouillard’s Observations of Soaring University) Birds and the Idea of fixed-wing Flight, 1881-1897,” Marie Elizabeth Reappraising Scientific Institutions: Burks (Massachusetts Institute of The Role of Alchemy and Early Technology) Chemistry “Anatomy in 2.5D: From the Edinburgh Nautilus 3 Stereoscopic Atlas to eHuman,” Devin Gouvêa (University of Chicago) Chair and Commentator: Tara Nummedal (Brown University) “Adapting the Adept: Appropriating Alchemical Expertise. Material and Social Practices in the late seventeenth-century Academy of

Curiosi,” *Margaret Garber (California “Illustrated Naval Reform: Juan José State University, Fullerton) Navarro and nautical science in the “The End of Alchemy? Public Faces and early Spanish Enlightenment,” Secret Practices at the Académie Marcelo Aranda (Stanford University) Royale des Sciences in the Eighteenth “Sowing the Seeds of Enlightenment Century,” Lawrence Principe (Johns Productivity,” Lissa Roberts Hopkins University) (University of Twente) “An Unlikely Center of Science: The Swedish Bureau of Mines in the The Biopolitics of Food: Potatoes, Eighteenth Century,” Hjalmar Fors Bodies, and the 18th-Century State (Uppsala University) Nautilus 1

Experience as a Mechanism of Chair and Commentator: Dana Simmons Appropriation and Transformation of (University of California, Riverside) Ancient Science “The Potato in Early Modern Europe,” Executive Center 2A Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick) Chair: Peter McLaughlin (Ruprecht-Karls- “The Potato and Its Advocates in 1790s Universität Heidelberg) France,” Emma Spary (University of “Diagrams and Transformations of Cambridge) Mechanical Knowledge,” Joyce van “Potatoes and Biopower in Eighteenth- Leeuwen (University of Pittsburgh) Century Bavaria,” *Claudia Stein “Re-experiencing geometry in Roman (University of Warwick) surveyors’ texts,” Courtney Ann Roby (Cornell University) From Working Mothers to Alpha “Transformation of Euclid’s Optics in Males: Gendered Lessons from the Late Antiquity,” Harald Siebert (Max Animal Kingdom, 1871-1971 Planck Institute for the History of Grande Ballroom C Science) Chair and Commentator: Georgina “Ancient Pneumatics Transformed During Montgomery (Michigan State University) the Early Modern Period,” *Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for “Matriarchal spiders, Affectionate Song- the History of Science) birds and Murderous Rabbits: The animal kingdom and debates about Beyond the Public Sphere: Material gender in Britain, 1859 - 1913,” Practices and Enlightenment Science Philippa Hardman (University of Marina 1 Cambridge) “‘To Teach the Truth in Nature’: Chair: *Paola Bertucci (Yale University) Antoinette Brown Blackwell’s “Visualizing the Vulgar in the early- Evolutionary Arguments on Behalf of modern laboratory,” Larry Stewart Working Mothers,” *Kimberly Hamlin (University of Saskatchewan ) (Miami University) “Le Mécaniste Philosophe: artisanal “Alpha Males: Men of Science and other epistemologies and experimental Primates in the 1960s,” Erika Milam practices in 18th-century France,” (Princeton University) Paola Bertucci (Yale University)

The Science and Technology of Finance The Entanglement of Biology and in Twentieth-Century U.S. Medicine: Making Knowledge in the Nautilus 4 Modern Biomedical Sciences Chair: Jonathan Levy (Princeton Nautilus 2 University) Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of Commentator: Theodore Porter Science Association (University of California, Los Angeles) Chair: Nathaniel Comfort (Johns Hopkins “Quants on Trial: Actuaries’ Market University) Mathematics in the 1905 New York “Cloning Frogs for a Cause: The State Life Insurance Investigation,” Motivations Behind the First Nuclear *Dan Bouk (Colgate University/Max Transplantation Research, 1942-1952,” Planck Institute for the History of Nathan Crowe (Arizona State Science) University) “Risk Classification, Actuarial “Converging on the Gene: The Somatic Rationality, and the 1980s Insurance Mutation Theory of Carcinogenesis,” Discrimination Debates,” Caley Horan Angela Creager (Princeton University) (Princeton University) “From Polio to p53: The Life of Simian “The "Push Button Monster": The Rise of Virus 40,” *Robin Scheffler (Yale Computerized Credit Reporting in the University) United States,” Josh Lauer (University “Chromosomes in the Clinic: Cytogenetic of New Hampshire) Analysis and ‘Epigenetic’ Thinking in 1980s Medical Genetics,” Andrew U.S. Scientific Ambitions and Public Hogan (University of Pennsylvania) Good in the 20th Century Marina 5 Writing the History of Science through Maps, Film, and Web Chair: Mary S. Morgan (London School of Economics) Executive Center 3B “Without Water There is No Life: John Co-chairs: William Rankin, Hanna Rose Reber and the San Francisco Bay Shell, and Alex Wellerstein Model (1907 - 1963),” Michael Co-commentators: William Rankin, Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania) Hanna Rose Shell, and Alex Wellerstein “Shifting the Burden of Proof: Moving “Mapping and the Spatial History of Economic Policy Research into the Science,” William Rankin (Yale Laboratory,” Harro Maas (University University) of Amsterdam) “Cinehistory and Experiments on Film,” “The Ford Foundation and the Hanna Shell (Massachusetts Institute Measurement of Values, 1947-1957,” of Technology) *Paul Erickson (Wesleyan University) “Networked history: Thinking through the “Merton, Mass Persuasion, and War-Time Web,” Alex Wellerstein (American Propaganda,” Mary S. Morgan Institute of Physics) (London School of Economics)

Understanding Noise in Twentieth- Politics and Metaphor in Ecology, Century Physics and Engineering 1870-1970 Part 2 Nautilus 5 Seabreeze 1 Chair: David Spanagel (Worcester Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of Polytechnic Institute) Science Association “Adapting academic morphology to state Chair: Jed Buchwald (California Institute and nature: The ‘realist’ biology of of Technology) Dutch station directors Paulus Hoek Commentator: Joan Lisa Bromberg (Johns and Melchior Treub, 1870-1910,” Hopkins University) Robert-Jan Wille (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) “The Rise and Triumph of the Sigmas,” “The Asiatic racial form in environmental Allan Franklin (Cornell University) and public health history: The menace “Noise as a Limit to Physical Measuring of Japanese plant and human Processes: Models and Justifications in immigrants,” Jeannie Shinozuka the 1920s,” Martin Niss (Roskilde (University of California, Los University) Angeles) “Two Mathematical Approaches to “Weeping cactus, sighing trees: Random Fluctuations,” *Chen-Pang American ecologists and the tools of Yeang (University of Toronto) physiological fieldwork,” Emily Brock

(University of South Carolina) Contributed Papers: Methodological “Anthony David Bradshaw: The Origins Issues in Biology of Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity,” Marina 4 Erick Peirson (Arizona State Sponsored by the Philosophy of Science University) Association Chair: Monika Piotrowska (Florida International University)

“Defusing Ideological Defenses in

Biology,” Angela Potochnik

(University of Cincinnati)

“Population Genomics and Empirical

Insufficiency,” Francis Cartieri

(University of Cincinnati)

“The Nature of Exploratory

Experimentation and Its Relation to

Theory in the Life Sciences,” Stephan

Guettinger (London School of

Economics)

“Why Do Biologists Use So Many

Diagrams?” Benjamin Sheredos,

Daniel C. Burnston, Adele

Abrahamsen, and William Bechtel

(University of California, San Diego)

6:00 – 7:15 P.M. 7:30 – 8:30 P.M.

Distinguished Lecture Data Management and the Historian: A Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Workshop on New Federal Guidelines Max Planck Institute for the Maarina 1 History of Science Chair: Audra Wolfe (The Outside Reader) “Cultures of Experimentation” Participants: Jon Stiles (University of California, Berkeley) Dominique Tobbell (University of Minnesota) Alex Wellerstein (Center for History of Physics)

8:00 – 10:00 P.M.

Isis Editorial Board Dinner Haarbor’s Edge Private Dining RRoom

HSS Graduate and Early Career Caucus Mixer The Tipsy Crow (Gaslamp Quarter) The mixer will be at The Tipsy Crow on the corner of 5th Ave. and F St. in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. The conference shuttle will be circulating between Gaslamp and the Sheratonn. Email Nathan Crowe ([email protected]) before 5:00 pm or arrive before 9:00 to avoid a cover charge.

Saturday, 17 November

Nils Güttler (Max Planck Institute for 7:30 – 8:45 A.M. the History of Science) “Theory and Practice in the Works of Forum for the History of the Chemical Gregor Mendel and Erich Tschermak,” Sciences Meeting Sander Gliboff (Indiana University) Marina 1 Unruly Experiments: Developing Chair: Seymour Mauskopf (Duke Scientific Practices around Live University) Specimens in 20th century Biological Breakfast may be ordered at the Sciences restaurant, or you may bring your own. Nautilus 2 Osiris Editorial Board Meeting Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of Harbor’s Edge Restaurant Science Association Chair and Commentator: Karen Rader (Virginia Commonwealth University) “‘These animals are so perishable’: The 9:00 – 11:45 A.M. desires and difficulties of studying the physiology of medusae in the Coffee Break 10:00 – 10:15 in Grande laboratory, 1850-1930,” *Samantha Ballroom Foyer and Executive Foyer Muka (University of Pennsylvania) “Studying Speciation: Ensatina Natural History in Central Europe, eschscholtzii and the Ring Species from Cameralism to Genetics Concept,” Mary Sunderland Nautilus 1 (University of California, Berkeley) Chair: Lynn K. Nyhart (University of “A Bird in Hand: Bird-Banding and Wisconsin, Madison) Environmental Ethics in Wildlife Biology,” Kristoffer Whitney “Natural Historical Knowledge and (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Agricultural Experimentation: Theory “The making of a territorial antelope,” and Practice in the German Etienne Benson (Max Planck Institute Enlightenment,” Denise Phillips for the History of Science) (University of Tennessee)

“The First German Darwinist,” *Gabriel American Motherhood at the Finkelstein (University of Colorado Intersection of Nature and Science, Denver) 1945-1975 “Alternation of Generations as a Model for Evolution,” Lynn K. Nyhart Seabreeze 1 (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Chair and Commentator: Rebecca Plant “Zooming-In: Amateurs, Professionals (University of California, San Diego) and the Mapping of German “Konrad Lorenz and the Science of Landscapes in the Late 19th Century,” Emotion,” Nadine Weidman (Harvard University)

“The Feminization of Empathy in Post “The Atomic Spy: Klaus Fuchs (1911- War America,” Susan Lanzoni 1988),” Dieter Hoffmann (Max Planck (Independent Scholar) Institute for the History of “The Science of Breastfeeding and the Science/Humboldt University) Nature of Maternal Authority,” *Jessica Martucci (Mississippi State Theorizing and Exploring Asia through University) the Natural Sciences “The Bowland Bust and the Marina 3 Criminalization of Traditional Chair and Commentator: Yoshiyuki Midwifery in California,” Wendy Kikuchi (Harvard University) Kline (University of Cincinnati) “‘The Place that Offers the Greatest Sites of Experimentation in Human Interest:’ Northeast Asia in the Age of Biology: The Harvard Fatigue Darwinian Revolution,” *Kuang-chi Laboratory Hung (Harvard University) Nautilus 4 “South in East Asia and the Collection of Natural History,” John Mathew Chair and Commentator: Joanna Radin (Harvard University ) (Yale University) “When life gives you lemons: Frank “The Physiology of Extremes – Ancel Meyer’s agro-utilitarian vision of the Keys and the International High Far East (1908-1918),” Xan Sarah Altitude Expedition to Chile,” Sarah Chacko (University of California, Tracy (University of Oklahoma) Davis) “90 Minutes: Elton Mayo, Lawrence J. “Evolutionary Asiacentrism, Peking Man, Henderson, and the making of the 90- and the Origin of Sinocentric minute interview,” Mateo Munoz Ethnonationalism,” Hsiao-pei Yen (Harvard University) (Harvard University) “Labor, Organization, and Human Biology: The Committee on Industrial Historicizing the World: Practices for Physiology 1928-1938,” *Jason Oakes Reconstructing the Past (University of Pennsylvania) Grande Ballroom C

Chair and Commentator: Robert Richards Living with the Bomb (University of Chicago) Grande Ballroom B “Antiquarian Research, Problems of Chair: David Cassidy (Hofstra University) Reproduction, and the Scientific Commentator: David Holloway (Stanford Reconstruction of the Past,” *Kasper University) Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde “‘I Admit It, I Was Crazy’: From Carl- University) Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Weapons “Historicizing the Nebulae in the for Hitler, to Denial of Responsibility, Nineteenth Century,” Omar W. Nasim and Finally to ‘Living with the (Eidgenössische Technische Bomb’,” *Mark Walker (Union Hochschule Zürich) College) “Comparison as History: Comparative “Reconsidering the Interpretively Elusive Philology and the Historical Studies of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” Barton Languages in the Nineteenth Century,” Bernstein (Stanford University) Kevin Chang (Harvard University)

“Flattened Objects: Ethnographic Visual “Blas Cabrera as a philosopher of science: Techniques for Historicizing General relativity and French Humankind in the Kaiserreich,” conventionalism in early 20th century Marissa Petrou (University of Spain,” Pablo Ruiz de Olano California, Los Angeles) (University of Notre Dame) “‘Mathematics is inhuman like every Neuroscience and Pathology between diabolic machine’: Paul Ehrenfest as a Lab and Clinic critic of modern science and culture,” Marina 5 Frans van Lunteren (VU University of Amsterdam) Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of “Weisskopf and the physical significance Science Association of divergences in QED,” Matthew Chair: David Teira (Universidad Nacional Gorski (University of Notre Dame) de Educación a Distancia, Spain) and Alexander Blum (Max Planck “From the technologies of brain research Institute for the History of Science) to the brain as technology: On the “Against the impossible picture: construction of neurological selfhood Feynman’s heuristics in his search for in nineteenth-century neuroscience,” a divergence-free quantum Nima Bassiri (Duke University) electrodynamics,” Adrian Wuthrich “The investigative role of prefrontal (University of Bern) lobotomy,” Joseph McCaffrey (University of Pittsburgh) Expanding Worlds of Evolution “Before ‘cortin’ became cortisone: Nautilus 5 Dwight J. Ingle, the Mayo Foundation, Chair: Stephen Dilley (St. Edward’s and the physiology of the adrenal University) cortex,” Tulley Long (University of Minnesota) “Nineteenth-century botany and the roots “Pathological anatomy slides from of scientific philology,” Kelly Kistner research to cancer treatment to film in (University of Washington) interwar France,” Tricia Close-Koenig “Embryology and the American eugenics (Université de Strasbourg) movement,” Jill Briggs, University of “The impartiality of clinical trials California, Santa Barbara historically reexamined,” David Teira “C. H. Waddington’s approach to (Universidad Nacional de Educación a science: Cases from embryology and Distancia, Spain) evolution,” Elizabeth O’Neill (University of Pittsburgh) Making and Remaking the Modern “Defending God’s honor: Dobzhansky on Physical Sciences the divine in evolutionary history,” Executive Center 3A Stephen Dilley (St. Edward’s University) Chair: Joseph Martin (University of Minnesota) Going to Press: Publication Strategies “Scientific practice in the contexts of Executive Center 2A peripheral science: C. V. Raman and Chair: JB Shank, University of Minnesota his construction of a mechanical violin-player,” Deepanwita Dasgupta Commentator: Florence Hsia (University (University of South Carolina) of Wisconsin, Madison)

“Le Clerc v. Mallemant de Messange: Harbor’s Edge Restaurant Proof, Priority and Exact Data in Artisanal Scientific Writing,” *Oded 12:00 – 1:15 P.M. Rabinovitch (Tel-Aviv University) “‘Dans un très-bel ordre’: Reframing Forum for the History of Human Early Modern Mathematical Science Business Meeting and Manuscripts in Print,” Robin Rider Distinguished Lecture (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “‘Printing for Private Circulation”: The Marina 4 Emergence of the Offprint, Alex Lecturer: Theodore Porter (University of Csiszar (Harvard University) California, Los Angeles), “Funny Numbers” Sense, Body, and Knowledge in the Early Modern World HSS Graduate and Early Career Nautilus 3 Caucus Member Luncheon Chair: Alain Touwaide, Institute for the Marina 2 Preservation of Medical Traditions and Come meet your GECC officers and enjoy Smithsonian Institution drinks and desserts while we discuss what “Teaching materia medica in a botanical future events GECC might hold. Please garden? Between natural history, bring a lunch. botany and the foundations of medicine at Leyden University,” Society for Socially Engaged History Saskia Klerk (Utrecht University, and Philosophy of Science Meeting Netherlands) Marina 3 “Humanist medicine and the rise of empiricism: The diaries and letters of The inaugural and organizational meeting Georg Handsch (1529-1578),” Michael for a new sub-association focused on the Stolberg (University of Würzburg, social engagement of our professions. Germany) The 25th Anniversary of Uneasy Careers “‘Being the World Eternal…’ The age of & Intimate Lives, Women in Science, the earth in Renaissance Italy,” Ivano 1789-1979: Then (1987) and Now (2012) dal Prete (University of Minnesota) - Lessons from a Collective Experience “Magnification: How to turn a spyglass into an astronomical telescope,” Spinnaker Yaakov Zik (University of Haifa, Chair: Karen Reeds (Princeton Research Israel) and Giora Hon (University of Forum) Haifa, Israel) Participants: “John Locke, morality, and sensations in Marilyn B. Ogilvie (University of the Essay Concerning Human Oklahoma) Understanding,” Louis Caron Ann B. (Rusty) Shteir (York University) (University of Cambridge) Ann Hibner Koblitz (Arizona State University)

11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Nancy G. Slack (Russell Sage College) (University of Committee on Research and the Minnesota) Profession Meeting Joy Harvey (Independent Scholar)

*Pnina G. Abir-Am (WSRC – Brandeis Ground Water Geology,” Greg Brick University) (University of Minnesota) “Wielding Productivity: The Marshall ‘Baroque Science’: Roundtable Plan and Economic Ideas for the Discussion Reconstruction of Europe,” Corinna Marina 6 Schlombs (Rochester Institute of Technology) Chair: Raz Chen-Morris (Bar-Ilan “Cybernetic Systems and Ecosystems, University) circa 1946,” Cristine Webb (University Commentator: *Ofer Gal (University of of Pennsylvania) Sydney)

“Baroque Science?” J.B. Shank 1:30 – 3:30 P.M. (University of Minnesota ) “Radical Instrumentalism,” Joanna Peripheral Bodies, Visualizing Picciotto (University of California, Technologies, (Un)Development and Berkeley) Political Theories in Late 19th - 20th “Mathematics and the Dissipation of Centuries, Part 1 Order,” Matthew Jones (Columbia Nautilus 2 University) “Passions, Imagination and the Persona of Chair and Commentator: García Deister, the New Savant,” Anthony Grafton Universidad Nacional Autónoma de (Princeton University) México “The Mexican Mestizo, A Life in Finance Committee Meeting Science,” Carlos López Beltrán Maritime Board Room (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) “Architectonics of Waves: EEGs and Technological Transference in Mexico 12:00 – 3:00 P.M. 1940-1960,” *Nuria Valverde Pérez (Universidad Autónoma Committee on Publications Meeting Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa) Marina 1 “The material life of medical practices: production and circulation of

instruments in 19th-century Mexico,”

1:30 – 5:00 P.M. Laura Cházaro (Cinvestav, Mexico)

“Men's Bodies as Industrial Measurement Poster Session Gauges: The Case of the Petroleum Grande Ballroom Foyer Industry in Mexico during the 1930's,” “How Science and Technology Began Luis Sánchez Graillet (Universidad Sponsored in Japan: Emerging Nacional Autónoma de México) Process of a Leading Funding Agency,” Chihiro Yamanaka (Japan Cold War Social Science: Society for the Promotion of Science) A Roundtable Assessment “‘Water Flowing Uphill is one of the Nautilus 1 Commonest Facts of Nature’: The Chair: Hamilton Cravens (Iowa State Emergence of a Visual Language for University)

“How to think about Cold War Social “ on the Emergence of Material Science,” *Mark Solovey (University Complexity,” James Lennox of Toronto) (University of Pittsburgh) “Histories of Social Science, Around and “Scientific Method in Meteorology IV,” About the Cold War,” Sarah Igo *Tiberiu Popa (Butler University) (Vanderbilt University) “The Limits of Teleology in Meteorology “The Social and Natural Sciences in Cold IV.12,” Mary Louise Gill (Brown War America: Separate Stories or University) One?” Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia) Scientific Expeditions in the 20th “Cold War Social Science: Imagining the Century Past, Projecting the Future,” Rebecca Executive Center 2A Lemov (Harvard University) Chair: Ilja Nieuwland (University of

Margaret Rossiter’s Third Volume: A Amsterdam) New World for Women in Science? “Following expeditions: The mobility and Spinnaker politics of knowledge after the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913- Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of 18,” Andrew Stuhl (University of Science Association Wisconsin) Chair: Sally Kohlstedt (University of “Nature without borders: European Minnesota) naturalists and the internationalization Commentator: Margaret Rossiter (Cornell of conservation, 1900-1930,” Raf de University) Bont (KU Leuven) “The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911: “Plunging into Archives and Coming Up Science and history,” Almir Leal de for Air: Margaret Rossiter’s Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Exploration of Women Scientists,” Joy Ceará) Harvey (Independent Scholar) “More than a mere vision: On the origins “The Cutting Edge of Change for Women of the Organization for Tropical Scientists; After 40 More Years of Studies,” Jonathan Hagood (Hope Change, What Barriers Remain?” College) *Nancy Slack (The Sage Colleges)

“Creating New Paths; What Constitutes Physics between Engineering and Science?” Gwen Kay (State University Philosophy of New York, Oswego) Grande Ballroom B Aristotle’s Chemistry between Theory Chair: Peter Schimkat, Independent and Practice Scholar Marina 6 “Physics, engineering, and philosophy: Sponsored by the International Society for Intellectual and institutional scuffle at the History of Philosophy of Science German universities, 1870-1930,” Adelheid Voskuhl (Harvard Chair and Commentator: Andrea Falcon University) (Concordia University) “Philanthropy’s ‘Sonderweg’: The Americanization of the German physical sciences in the Imperial and

Weimar period,” Juan Andrés León Philadelphia,” Matthew White (Harvard University) (University of Florida) “Making Waves: Hans Reichenbach, “…but some are more made than others: Radio Philosopher,” Alan Richardson Preparations, models, and how they (University of British Columbia) differ,” Hieke Huistra (Leiden “Beyond American hegemony: Dutch University) radio astronomy in the heyday of the Cold War,” Astrid Elbers (Leiden Late-Modern Fabrications University) Nautilus 4

Up in the Sky: Aviation and Space Chair: Melinda Baldwin (York History University) Executive Center 1 “‘On a scale beyond all previous conceptions’: Plastic and the Chair: Matthew Shindell (University of preservation of modernity,” Bradford California, San Diego) Harris (Stanford University) “Aviation history: How much has the “Exponential optimism: The politics of view widened?” Layne Karafantis futurism,” Jason Miller (University of (Johns Hopkins University) California, Los Angeles) “Separating the wheat from the chaff: “‘Artificial and ugly’: IUPAC’s Midcourse discrimination and the systematic nomenclature for the heavy Strategic Defense Initiative,” Peter elements,” Ann Robinson (University Westwick (University of Southern of Massachusetts, Amherst) California) “‘A journal really needs to have an “Dreaming of Mars sample return, from opinion’: Scientific controversies in Viking to the Mars Science Nature and the role of the scientific Laboratory,” Erik Conway (Jet journal, 1966-1990,” Melinda Baldwin Propulsion Laboratory, NASA) (York University) “Transforming solar system exploration: The origins of the Discovery Program, Defining People in the 20th century 1989-1993,” Michael J. Neufeld Executive Center 2B (Smithsonian Institution) Chair: Colin Fisher (University of San

Medical Models on Display Diego) Nautilus 3 “‘Good marriages are made in the nursery’: Psychologizing married life Chair: Anita Guerrini (Oregon State in Britain’s post-WWII welfare state,” University) Teri Chettiar (Northwestern “Of Specimens and Scalpels: Making University) Medicine and History in Medical “Curative action: Joseph J. Kinyoun and Museums,” Amanda Bevers the diptheria antitoxin,” Eva Åhrén (University of California, San Diego) (Yale University) “P. T. Barnum and ‘Body Works,’” “Dr. Wilberforce Williams, African- Ruthann Dyer (York University) American health, and the periodization “From type speciment to iconic object: of medicine in environmental history,” Smilodon Floridanus at the Wagner Colin Fisher (University of San Diego) Free Institute of Science of

Authority, Expertise, and the Academy 1:30 – 4:00 P.M. Executive Center 3A Chair: Sophie Brockmann (University of Symposium: Causes and Comparability Cambridge) in Cases: the Human and Social “Midwives, models and maternity: Sciences Mediating childbirth in 18th century Marina 2 Italy,” Lucia Dacome (University of Sponsored by the Philosophy of Science Toronto) Association “Sexual science / sexual politics: Chair: Stephen Turner (University of Recasting the emergence of sexology South Florida) in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century,” Kirsten Leng (Northwestern “Easy to Manipulate? How Medical Case University) Studies Help to Reveal Causes,” “(En)gendering American mathematics: Rachel A. Ankeny (University of Mathematics education at male Adelaide) colleges and female seminaries, 1819- “Cases, Statistics and the Search for 1840,” Andrew Fiss () Causes of Mental Illness,” Theodore “Communicating scientific knowledge in M. Porter (University of California, colonial Central America, c. 1790- Los Angeles) 1810,” Sophie Brockmann (University “Breaking the Code: The Role of Case of Cambridge) Studies in Mixed Method Research,” Sharon Crasnow (Norco College) Climate, Environment, and Activism “Causal Evidence from Case Studies: Executive Center 3B Why It Is Helpful for Effective Policy Making,” Attilia Ruzzene (Erasmus Chair: Conevery Valencius (University of University) Massachusetts, Boston) “Re-Situating the Situated Knowledge of “Dutch skies, universal laws: The Case Studies,” Mary S. Morgan emergence of meteorology as a (London School of Economics and scientific discipline,” Azadeh Achbari University of Amsterdam) (Free University Amsterdam) “‘A dangerous precedent’: Astronomers, environmental politics, and protest 3:30 – 3:45 P.M. against Project West Ford, 1958- 1964,” L. Ruth Rand (University of Coffee Break Pennsylvania) Grande Ballroom Foyer and “Win, Lose, or Draw?: Emissions trading Executive Foyer and the roots of environmental Sponsored in part by Science History injustice, 1963-1997,” Krystal Tribbett Publications (University of California, San Diego)

“Scientific uncertainty and US acid rain

politics in the 1980s,” Milena Wazeck

(New York University)

3:45 – 5:45 P.M. Beyond the Garden Gate: New Perspectives on the Role of Mobility Occult in Thought and Deed: and Exchange in 18th, 19th, and 20th Intellectual Discipline in Medieval and century Botanical Gardens Early Modern Occult Philosophy Executive Center 2A Executive Center 1 Chair and Commentator: Mark Hineline Chair: Allison Kavey (CUNY John Jay (University of California, San Diego) College) “Botanical Borderlands: Russian Military- “Making Visible the Invisibilia dei: Medical Gardens on the Ottoman and Astronomy between Magic and Persian Borders, 1720 – 1760,” Contemplation,” Richard Oosterhoff *Rachel Koroloff (University of (University of Notre Dame) Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) “‘A strong and exalted imagination’: the “‘A Scientist's Eden’: Disciplining disciplined mind in Agrippa's magical Tropical Biology at Barro Colorado theology,” *Allison Kavey, (CUNY Island,” Megan Raby (University of John Jay College) Wisconsin, Madison) “Medicine in Defense of Astrology,” “The Marianne North Gallery at Kew: Sheila Rabin (St. Peter's College) Mobilizing Botanical Knowledge,” “Matthias Corvinus and Princely Uses for Katie Zimmerman (University of Natural Philosophy,” Darin Hayton Cambridge) (Haverford College ) The Science of Emotion: Childhood, Borders, Books, and the Circulation of Motherhood, Autism Knowledge in the 17th and 18th Nautilus 3 Centuries Sponsored by the HSS Forum for the Nautilus 1 History of Human Science Chair and Commentator: Adrian Johns Chair and Commentator: Valerie Hartouni (University of Chicago) (University of California, San Diego) “Galileo's Border-Crossings: the Mutable, “Constructing the Womb as Social Mobile Sidereus Nuncius,” Nick Environment: Social Justice Wilding (Georgia State University) Movements, Maternal-Fetal Biology, “A Protestant Bookseller in Counter- and the Intergenerational Inheritance Reformation Rome: Science, of Trauma,” Sarah Richardson Censorship, and Commerce,” *Daniel (Harvard University) Stolzenberg (University of California, “Niko Tinbergen’s Work On Autism: Davis) Interpreting Gestures From Gulls to “Border-Crossers at the Blind Man’s Children,” Marga Vicedo (University Arch: The Literary Itineraries of Frei of Toronto) José Mariano da Conceição Veloso’s “Autism: From Emotional Risks to Arco do Cego,” Neil Safier (University Rights,” Ellen Herman (University of of British Columbia) Oregon)

Myth-Making, Discipline Waters and Environments: Knowledge Consolidation, and Science Studies Making and Scientific Expertise in Nautilus 4 Imperial Contexts Chair: Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State Executive Center 2B University Chair: Deborah Coen (Barnard College- Commentator: John Krige, Georgia Tech ) “From Umwälzung to Revolution and “Climatography as Imperial Genre,” Beyond: On Telling a Continuous Deborah Coen, (Barnard College- History of Mechanics and Politics,” Columbia University) Richard Staley (University of “Science and Sentiment: Controversy over Wisconsin, Madison) Potable Water in British Colonial “Computing and the Sands of Time: from Cairo,” *Shehab Ismail (Columbia al-Khwarazm to Los Alamos,” University) *Ksenia Tatarchenko (Princeton “Fishing, Fisheries Science, and Climate University) Change on the Soviet Caspian Sea,” “UNESCO, the Congress for Cultural Gregory Ferguson-Cradler (Princeton Freedom, and the Politics of History of University) Science / Science Studies in the Cold “International claims to environmental War,” Elena Aronova (University of knowledge: a post-war language of California, San Diego) best practices for large-scale agriculture,” Abigail Schade Comedy, Seriously (Davidson College) Spinnaker Law, Property, and the Life Sciences in Chair: *James Fleming, Colby College the Long 20th Century Commentator: Roger Launius, Nautilus 5 Smithsonian Institution Chair: Daniel Kevles (Yale University) “Tragedy Plus Time Equals History,” “Properties of the Public Good: Alice Dreger (Northwestern Innovation and Ownership in University) California’s Stem Cell Initiative,” Ben “Funny Car Society, Theodoric of York, Hurlbut (Arizona State University) and Elephantoplasty: Using Comedy to “Intellectual Property, Plant Breeding, and Illustrate Themes and Problems in the the Rise of Mendelian Genetics,” History of Science,” Kevin Kern Gregory Radick (University of Leeds) (University of Akron) “EPO and the IP Bloodbath: Patent Case “Revenge of the Nerds: Scientists in ‘The Law as Surrogate Science Policy for Big Bang Theory’,” Margaret A. Biotech in the USA,” *Nicolas Weitekamp (National Air and Space Rasmussen (University of New South Museum) Wales)

“Like Money in the Bank: Courts,

Regulation and Body Products in the

mid-20th Century USA,” Kara

Swanson (Northeastern University)

Agricultural Sciences in Modern East Asia Peripheral Bodies, Visualizing Executive Center 3A Technologies, (Un)Development and Political Theories in Late 19th-20th Chair: Peter Lavelle (Centre College) Centuries, Part 2 Commentator: Mitch Aso (State Nautilus 2 University of New York, Albany) Organizer: Nuria Valverde Pérez “Experiments, Models, and the Promotion (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, of Cropping Techniques in Nineteenth- Cuajimalpa) Century China,” Peter Lavelle (Centre College) Chair and Commentator: Carlos López “The Genetic Ideal of Producing New Beltrán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma Insects and New People in Taisho de México Japan,” Lisa Onaga (Nanyang “The role of the IQ Tests on the Technological University, Singapore) implementation of eugenical policies,” “The Central Agricultural Experimental Yuri Pascacio Montijo (Universität Institute and Rice Expert Training Bielefeld) Program in Republican China, 1927– “Health care delivery in the middle of the 1937,” *Seung-joon Lee (National nineteenth century in Mexico and the University of Singapore) use of instruments,” Esmeralda S. Covarrubias López (Instituto Chemistry and the Public Sphere: Politécnico Nacional, Mexico) Moments of Transition “Biomedical Sciences and Homosexuality Marina 6 in Mexico along the 20th Century,” Fabrizzio Guerrero McManus, Chair: Jennifer Rampling (University of (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Cambridge) México) Commentator: Bernadette Bensaude- Vincent (Université Paris I, Panthéon- Historical Studies in the Natural Sorbonne) Sciences Editorial Board Meeting Sponsored by the Forum for the History of Marina 1 the Chemical Sciences (FoHCS)

“Philosophical Instruments and Public

Display: New Modes of Knowledge- 5:50 – 6:10 P.M.

Making and Demonstration in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry HSS Earth and Environment Forum Courses,” John C. Powers (Virginia Meeting Commonwealth University) Marina 2 “Beyond Genius, Before Theory: Recovering the Lost World of Practice 6:15 – 7:00 P.M. in Nineteenth-Century Chemistry,” Catherine M. Jackson (University of Prize Ceremony Notre Dame) “Opportunity vs. Risk: The Changing Grande Ballroom B Culture of the Early 1960s,” Robert Bud (Science Museum, London )

7:15 – 9:00 P.M. 8:00 – 9:00 P.M.

HSS/PSA Joint Reception Caltech’s Bacon Prize Reception in Bayview Lawn Honor of Lisa Jardine. Sponsored in part by the Science Studies Marina 6 Program and the Division of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego.

Please join your colleagues from the HSS and PSA on the Bayview Lawn for heavy hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Please note that this is a ticketed event.

Sunday, 18 November

“Surveying the State: Francis Buchanan’s 8:00 – 9:00 A.M. A Journey from Madras through the HSS Business Meeting countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar (1807),” *Minakshi Menon Executive Center 3A/3B (University of California, San Diego) All members are welcome. Light breakfast will be served. See p. in the Machine Geographies program for the agenda. Marina 4

Chair and Commentator: Peter Dear 9:00 – 11:00 A.M. (Cornell University) Knowing Nature, Making States: “Re-inventing the (calculating) wheel: Natural Knowledge and State Power in Imitation, Emulation and Nescience in the Early Modern World the Enlightenment,” Matthew Jones (Columbia University) Executive Center 2A “Balloon Travels: A Liminal Geography Chair: Fredrik Jonsson (University of of Mass Enlightenment,” *Mi Gyung Chicago) Kim (North Carolina State University) “Natural Knowledge as a Tool of “The Tocqueville of Techniques: Michel Impersonal Rule,” Chandra Mukerji Chevalier and the Cosmic Geography (University of California, San Diego) of the USA,” John Tresch (University “Cattle Plagues and Public Health of Pennsylvania) Environments in Eighteenth-Century Italy,” Karl Appuhn (New York Neurohistory as a Moment in Science University) and History “The Enlightenment Science and Politics Seabreeze 2 of Carrying Capacity,” Fredrik Chair and Commentator: Steve Fuller, Albritton Jonsson (University of University of Warwick Chicago)

“An Integrative Legacy: History & “Kurt Vonnegut’s Dystopia: Science Neuroscience,” *Stephen Casper Fiction and the Use of Science in (Clarkson University) Soviet Society,” Yana Skorobogatov “What Makes ‘Neuro’ Such a Compelling (University of California, Berkeley) Meme” Roger Cooter (University “‘The improvement of the conditions of College London) human life’: Human Rights and U.S.- “If Neurohistory Is Bunk, Why Does It Soviet Scientific Cooperation,” *Paul Look So Much Like Science Studies?” Rubinson (Bridgewater State Max Stadler (Eidgenössische University) Technische Hochschule Zürich) Collections, Exhibits, and Museums as Before Technocracy: Scientific and Educational Tools for the History of Technological Expertise in Early Science Modern Europe Spinnaker 2 Marina 1 Chair and Commentator: James C. Evans Chair and Commentator: Eric Ash (University of Puget Sound) (Wayne State University) Sponsored by the HSS Committee on “Engineer/architects between Military Education Engineering, Urban Construction, and “SICU -- A Local Resource for Historians Cartography in Sixteenth-Century of Science and Technology,” Richard Rome: The Case of Leonardo Bufalini L. Kremer (Dartmouth College) and Antonio Trevisi,” Pamela O. Long “Participation as a Useful Pedagogical (Independent Scholar) Tool for Presenting Historical Content “Finding Time to Build Roads in Early in Museums,” Emily Margolis Modern France: Charles Thevenon (d. (University of Oklahoma) 1736) and early public works in “Doing History of Science Outside the Brittany,” *Katherine McDonough Academy,” Marvin Bolt (Adler (Stanford University) Planetarium) “Soldier, Scholar, Courtier: Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-80) and the Use Conflict or Compromise: Establishing of Science in the Seventeenth Authority over Radiation Century,” Suzanne Sutherland Executive Center 2B Duchacek (Stanford University) Chair and Commentator: David Cantor Science and the Rise of Human Rights (National Institutes of Health) since World War II “X-Ray Safety,” *Vivien Hamilton Marina 6 (Harvey Mudd College) “Physics and American Radium Therapy,” Chair: Benjamin Greene (U.S. Military Aimee Slaughter (University of Academy, West Point) Minnesota) Commentator: Alexei Kojevnikov “The ABC’s of the AEC’s Biomedical (University of British Columbia) Program,” Katherine Zwicker “Making Medicine for Bomb Survivors: (University of Saskatchewan) Japanese Doctors, American Patients,” Naoko Wake (Michigan State University)

Science and Historical Cataclysm: “Pathological Iconography in the Late Russian Scientists’ Interpretations of 18th Century,” Domenico Bertoloni and Responses to War and Revolution Meli (Indiana University) Marina 5 Future-Visions: The Cultural Chair and Commentator: Michael Gordin Landscape of Prediction and Prophecy (Princeton University) in Post-WWII American Science “A Scientific Critique of Experimental Marina 2 Socialism: Winogradsky’s Pseudonymous Essays on the Chair: *Gabriel Henderson, Michigan Bolshevik Revolution, 1910-1920,” State University Lloyd Ackert (Drexel University) “Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical “Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Genealogy,” Lynda Walsh (Open Russian Revolution,” Alexei University) Kojevnikov (University of British “The Revelation of Carl: Nuclear Winter Columbia) as Apocalypse from the Scientific “Illuminating the Past to Create a Brighter Prophet,” Matthew Stanley (New York Future: Aleksandr Chizhevskii, the University) Sun, and His Search for Historical “Prophets of Doom on a Global Stage: Laws,” *Margaret Hofius (University Commoner, Ehrlich, and the Politics of of Minnesota) Climate Catastrophe,” Roger Eardley- Pryor (University of California, Santa Going to Press: Visualization Strategies Barbara) Spinnaker 1 “Helmut Landsberg and the Public Culture of Climate Science,” Gabriel Chair: Carin Berkowitz (Beckman Center Henderson (Michigan State for the History of Chemistry, Chemical University) Heritage Foundation)

Organizer: Florence Hsia (University of Redefining Life in the 19th and 20th Wisconsin, Madison) Centuries “Finding “the Best and the Truest” in a Seabreeze 1 Multiplicity of Images: Visualization Co-Sponsored by the Philosophy of Strategies in Willughby’s Science Association Ornithology,” Meghan Doherty (Berea College) Chair: Veli-Pekka Parkkinen (University “Authorship, Expertise, and a Place in the of Oslo) Historical Canon: Illustration in “Conflict of the faculties? The Anatomy Books of Enlightenment philosophical and medical contexts of Britain,” Carin Berkowitz (Chemical the study of life, ca. 1800,” Jacob Heritage Foundation) Habinek (University of California, “Beneath the Skin of Flora: Dissecting the Berkeley) ‘Beauties of the Vegetable Race’ in “Key-term: Laboratory animal,” Shira Robert John Thornton’s New Shmu’ely, (Massachusetts Institute of Illustration (1797-1812),” Miranda Technology) Mollendorf (Harvard University) “‘The uterus is outside the body’: A gendered history of synthetic biology,”

Luis Campos (University of New “Tested formulas and literati medicine: Mexico) Resolving the crisis of doubt in 11th “Systems biology: an old and new century Chinese Medicine,” Stephen approach,” Sara Green (Aarhus Boyanton (Columbia University) University) and Olaf Wolkenhauer “The role of trust in empiricist medical (Rostock University) methodology,” Marquis Berrey (University of Iowa) Knowledge, Trust, and Doubt from “A new Venetian shipbuilding Ancient to Early Modern Times manuscript from the eighteenth Marina 3 century: Light galleys of traditional design versus light galleys of new Chair: Robert Hatch, University of Florida design,” Lilia Campana (Texas A&M “Equality and similarity in Apollonius’s University) Conica,” Sabetai Unguru (Cohn Institute )

Join the HSS in Boston in

2013 (21-24 November) for the HSS Annual Meeting and a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Isis!

Mark your calendars for the PSA and HSS joint conference in Chicago in 2014 (6-9 November)