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PACIFIC CIRCLE NEWSLETTER ; : r No. 18 July 1997 ISSN 1050-334X PACIFIC CIRCLE NEWS The Pacific Circle symposium for the 20^ International Congress of History of Science in Liège, Belgium, is now set for July 25th. The schedule of papers is as follows (abstracts will appear in the next Newsletter): • Exploration and Natural History o f the North Pacific, chaired by Roy MacLeod W. Conner Sorensen, “German Scientists in Russian America” E. Alison Kay, “Missionaries and the Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands” Jane Samson, “‘That Extensive Enterprise’: H.M.S. Herald's North Pacific Survey, 1845-1851” Marc Rothenberg, ‘“In Behalf of the Science of the Country’: The Smithsonian and the Navy in the North Pacific in the 1850s” • Science in the Asia-Pacific Region, chaired by Fritz Rehbock Roderick W. Home, “Humboldtian Imagery and ‘The Humboldt of Australia’” Roy MacLeod, “Post-Colonialism and Museum Knowledge” David G. Frodin, “Tropical Biology and Research Institutions in South and South-East Asia, 1870-1930” Song Sang-yong, “Two Kyoto Chemists Divided in Two Koreas” Barry W. Butcher, “Science in the Back Paddock: The Politics and Economics of Animal Health in Australia” • Business Meeting A Pacific session, “Field Science on the Pacific Rim,” has been assembled for the 1997 meeting of the History of Science Society, 5-9 November 1997 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in La Jolla, California. The tentative schedule of speakers (Friday afternoon, 7 November) is as follows: • Mike Sfraga (Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks), “From Harvard to Hollywood: Bradford Washbum, Interdisciplinary Research and the Exploration of Mt. McKinley, 1946-1960” • Peter Neushul (Caltech) and Zuoyue Wang (UC-Santa Barbara), “Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: C.K. Tseng and the Development of Marine Science and Technology in Modem China” • Carl-Henry Geschwind (Johns Hopkins Univ.), “Science California Style: The Case of Earthquake Seismology, 1905-1933” Roy MacLeod (Univ. of Sydney), “‘Strictly for the Birds’: The Pacific Ocean Biological Survey, 1963-1971.’ PAcc of Pacific-Asia interest will be the following sessions: s “Ocean Science, Spectacle and Politics: Historical Explanations into the Earth’s Last Great Frontier,” chaired by Ron Rainger n “New Directions in the Cultural History of Chinese Science and Medicine,” chaired by Mario Biagioli P2if- Page 2 Pacific Circle Newsletter 18 • “Empire and Exploration” CONGRESSES, CONFERENCES • “Science, Industry and Social Vision: AND Perspectives on the Scripps Institution of CALLS FOR PAPERS Oceanography,” chaired by Ron Rainger. For registration information, contact: 13-19 July 1997. The focus of the Eighth Pacific HSS Executive Office Science Inter-Congress at The University of the South Box 351330 Pacific, Suva, Fiji, will be “Islands in the Pacific Seattle, WA 98195-1330 USA Century.” Organizers expect that “the Inter-Congress will Phone: (206) 543-9366 provide an interdisciplinary forum to address specific Fax: (206) 685-9544. issues relating to the role of science and technology in the The lull program of this meeting is available on the web: development of islands; review progress and share http://weber.uwashingtion.edu/~hssexec/annual/ research findings in key areas in natural and social hss_program_1997.html. sciences relevant to islands; review the development, achievements, problems and prospects of Pacific Islands.” As part of this Congress, the Communicating Science It is not too soon to begin thinking about a Pacific Circle and Science Education Committee of the Inter-Congress presence at the XlXth Pacific Science Congress in has called for papers and/or symposia on the promotion of Sydney: 4-9 July 1999. Anyone wishing to propose a educational reform throughout the Pacific via the Science- session theme or a paper title is urged to contact Roy Technology-Society (STS) rubric. The Committee defines MacLeod ([email protected]; fax: [612] STS as “the teaching and learning of science and 9351-3918). technology in the context of human experience.” For more information, contact: Dr. Mahendra Kumar, Secretary-General c/o School of Pure & Applied Sciences The 1997 Pacific Circle Directory was distributed free to The University of the South Pacific members in May. If you did not receive a copy, please P.O. Box 1168 contact the editorial office. Copies of the Annual Report Suva, Fiji Islands for 1996 are also available upon request. Phone: +679-212691 We announce with sadness that the Circle’s first Fax: +679-302-548 volume, Nature in Its Greatest Extent: Western Science in or +679-314-007 the Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, 1988), is now out email: [email protected] of print. Many copies were lost to water damage—not web: http://www.usp.ac.fj/~psa from a Pacific typhoon but at the New York warehouse of the publisher! 17-20 July 1997. The conference, “From Myth to Newsletter editor Fritz Rehbock happily reports that Minerals: Place, Narrative, Land, and Transformation in he will be on sabbatical during the 1997-98 academic New Guinea and Australia,” has been rescheduled from year. Serving as guest editor for No. 19 (December 97) April to enable more academics from the northern will be Professor Peter HofTenberg, Department of hemisphere to participate. The venue has been changed to History, University of Hawaii. (Peter’s email address is: the Australian National University, Canberra. Inquiries: [email protected]). Thank you, Peter! Alan Rumsey With this issue we welcome aboard Karen Rehbock email: [email protected] as Associate Editor and new Webmaster. Karen has been 3-5 October 1997. The Graduate Student Conference on a consultant and proof-reader since PCN1 and now takes Evolutionary Perspectives in the Social Sciences and on added responsibilities of copy input and editing, and Humanities plans to bring together students and faculty maintaining our web pages, which have moved to: from many disciplines who are working on a variety of http ://www2 .hawaii.edu/~frehbock/pcn/pcn.html evolutionary issues and models. Speakers will include (Karen’s email address is [email protected]). David Hull, author of Science as a Process, and Peter Thanks Karen! Danielson, editor of Modelling Rationality, Morality and Evolution. The meeting will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Contact: June 1997 Page 3 Dawn Ogden: development and gradual professionalization of email: [email protected] malacology during the early twentieth century. Inquiries. Chris MacDonald: Elizabeth Platts email: [email protected] Phone: 01-982 880396 18-19 September 1997. A multidisciplinary conference 16-22 March 1998. “Science & Society—Technological entitled “Science and Exploration: European Voyages to Turn” will be the subject of an international conference to the Southern Oceans in the 18th Century” will be held at be held in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima, Japan. The the Royal Society of London. Its purpose will be to re conference will provide a forum to discuss the problems of evaluate the context, expectations, and outcomes of a society undergoing technological transformation and the Cook’s 1768-1771 Endeavour voyage. The conference is public’s understanding of the science underlying such organized by the National Maritime Museum. Inquiries: transformations. It will be conducted in both Japanese Research Administrator and English. The deadline for applications for papers is National Maritime Museum in October of 1997. (See P C N 17 for more details.) For Park Row more information, contact: Greenwich, London SE 10 9NF Conference Office United Kingdom c/o Prof. Shin-ichi Kobayashi Phone: 44-181-312 6616 Graduate School of Information Systems Fax: 44-181-312 6722 University of Electro-communications email: [email protected] 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu City, Tokyo 182, Japan 26-27 September 1997. The Society for the History of Fax: +81-424-85-9843 Natural History will hold a conference on maritime email: [email protected] exploration at Discovery Point, Dundee, where the H.M.S. web: http://hostcinf.shinshu-u.ac.jp/ Discovery is moored. In addition to this famous ship’s stsconfjp.html voyages, presentation topics will include the natural history of whaling ships, Antarctic expeditions, and trips 22-24 March 1998. The South-Central Section of the through the Bering Sea. Papers may still be submitted. Geological Society of America will hold a Historical Contact: Symposium entitled, “Geology and Travel: Historical Mike Taylor Perspectives,” at its annual meeting at the University of Perth Museum and Art Gallery Oklahoma. This topic aims to examine the links between George Street, Perth PHI 5LB travel and geology through the historical study of Scotland geologists’ travel experiences. Such a focus will clarify Phone: 01-738 632488 the significance of a geographical understanding of the earth for the geologist and, thereby, enhance our 16-19 October 1997. The Society for the History of knowledge of how all of the earth sciences have grown Technology will hold its annual conference in Pasadena, and changed through time. Deadline for abstracts will be California, at the Doubletree Hotel. The hosts for the 28 November 1998. Inquiries: conference include the Huntington Library, Art Kenneth L. Taylor Collections and Botanical Gardens. Contact: Department of the History of Science Prof. Miriam R. Levin, SHOT Program Chair University of Oklahoma Program in History of Technology & Science Norman, OK 73019 History Department Phone: 405-325-5416 Case Western Reserve University Fax: 405-325-2363 Cleveland, OH 44106 email: [email protected] Phone: 216-368-2380 web: http://hoth.gcn.ou.edu/~jahem/scgsa/ Fax: 216-368-4681 email: [email protected] July 1998. The twelfth conference of the Pacific History Association will be held in Honiara, Solomon Islands, 22 November 1997. “Gentlemen and Players” is the including four days of sessions and one day of excursions theme of a joint meeting of the Malacological and to various cultural and historical sites.