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Thursday, 15 November HISTORY OF SCIENCE 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: Thomas Kuhn, 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,” Mary Jo Nye (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 (Harvard University) 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
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