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October 1990 ISSN 1050-334X PACIFIC CIRCLE NEWSLETTER No. 8 October 1990 ISSN 1050-334X PACIFIC CIRCLE NEWS Network Enrichment. Two organizations—one on-going, the other nearing formation— promise to enhance the efforts of the Pacific Circle in advancing the history and social studies of Pacific science. The Social Sciences & Humanities Committee of the Pacific Science Association, currently under the active chairmanship of St e p h e n h il l (University of Wollongong), began publishing its Action Newsletter last year, and is on the way toward establishing a strong Pacific-wide network of scientists and others concerned with the impact of technology upon Pacific cultures. The major working group of the Committee at present is its "Technology and Culture" theme group. Members of the theme group will spearhead a symposium on 'Technology and Cultural Change in the Pacific” at next year's XVII Pacific Science Congress (see page 4). Possibilities for collaborating on future conferences will be discussed at the Congress. And in France, Patrick Petitjean (CNRS, Equipe REHSEIS) writes that plans are afoot for a "Science and Empires" Newsletter, following on the international colloquium of the same name which took place in Paris last April. Proceedings of the colloquium are being prepared for publication in the "Boston Studies" series. A partial listing of the program will be found on page 6. An account of the colloquium appeared in the July 1990 issue of the History of Science Society Newsletter. Meanwhile, the Pacific Circle's own roster of correspondents continues to grow. Items for the Newsletter-on any and all aspects of the history and social studies of Pacific science—are of course welcome from all of our readers at any time. Deadline for Newsletter No. 9 is 1 February 1991. FUTURE PACIFIC CIRCLE MEETINGS 25-28 October 1990. "Science in the Pacific: Darwinian Perspectives" will be session 25 of the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Seattle. Chaired by f r it z r e h b o c k , the session will include the following papers: P2A 2 "Darwin and the West Coast Exchange Network, by KEITH b e n s o n (Univ. of Washington); "Darwin's 12-14 December 1991. "Out of the Crucible: Correspondents in the Pacific" by j a n e t b e l l Science, Creativity and the Human Condition," a g a r b e r (independent scholar); and 'The Darwinian conference at the Centre for Human Aspects of Enlightenment and New Zealand Politics” by j o h n Science and Technology, University of Sydney. s t e n h o u s e (Univ. of Otago), d a v id s t o d d a r t (Univ. Inquiries: of Califomia-Berkeley) will be commentator. The Alex Reichel Seattle meeting, with local arrangements by k e ith C.H.A.S.T., Room 723 Carslaw b e n s o n and program by t im l e n o ir and p e t e r University of Sydney g a l is o n , will be an exceptionally large one and Sydney, NSW 2006 promises a number of innovative sessions. 27-30 December 1990. "History of Carcinology" 27 May - 2 June 1991. The Pacific Circle will co­ will be a theme at the annual meeting of the sponsor a number of sessions under the "Science American Society of Zoologists in San Antonio, and Culture" theme of the XVIIth Pacific Science Texas. Inquiries: Congress in Honolulu. See page x for information Frank Truesdale current at press time. A business meeting will also School of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries be held. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA. 70803-6202 CANCELLATION 18-20 April 1991. "Geography and Empire: Critical The conference on "Science of Pacific Island Approaches to the History of Geography," an Peoples" at the University of the South Pacific, international seminar at Queen’s University, previously set for 5-9 December 1990, has been Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This conference will postponed until 1992. Rescheduling will be follow immediately the annual conference of the announced. Association of American Geographers. The guiding theme: "How did the development of OTHER CONFERENCES geography as a discipline, in a variety of emerging AND national contexts, contribute to the technics and CALLS FOR PAPERS ideology of empire in its many forms, and how in turn did the experiences of empire mold the 18-21 October 1990. Annual meeting of the development of geography as a discipline and body Society for Social Studies of Science, Clinic of knowledge?" Center Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio. Inquiries: Deadline for abstracts: 14 December 1990. J. Scott Long or Inquiries: Thomas F. Gieryn Neil Smith Dept, of Sociology Department of Geography 744 Ballantine Hall Rutgers University Indiana University New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Bloomington, IN 47405 17 May 1991. "Richard Spruce and the History of 29-30 November 1990. The Third Annual Natural History in Amazonia" is the theme of a Australasian Finance and Banking Conference will one-day meeting of the Society for the History of be held at the University of New South Wales. Natural History at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Inquiries: Kew. Inquiries: The Organising Committee Gina Douglas, SHNH Meetings Secy. Australasian Finance & Banking Conference The Linnean Society School of Banking and Finance Burlington House, Piccadilly University of New South Wales London W1V OLQ, UK P.O. Box 1, Kensington Sydney, N.S.W. 2033 Australia - 3 - 20-22 June 1991. A conference on "Understanding Australian Medical History, Aboriginal Medicine, the Natural World: Science Cross-Culturally Women and Medicine, Childhood Medical History, Considered" will be sponsored by the Ford Military and Maritime Medical History, Dental Foundations Program in Comparative Scientific History, Medicine of the Indo-Pacific Region, and Traditions at Hampshire College, Amhearst, Social Medical History. Inquiries: Massachusetts. The conference will examine Conference Office science broadly as ways of observing, explaining, University of Western Australia predicting and controlling events in the natural Nedlands, WA 6009 world. Comparative papers and papers focusing on non-Westem science are solicited. Some 11-14 July 1991. Conference of the International supplementary funding may be available to Society for the History, Philosophy and Social support travel from the Third World. Send Studies of Biology, at Northwestern University, abstracts to: Evanston, Illinois. Session abstracts are due 31 Kathleen Dugan October 1990, paper abstracts by 31 January School of Natural Science 1991, to: Hampshire College Peter Taylor Amhearst, MA 01002 ISHPSSB Program Co-ordinator Phone: (413) 549-4600 ext. 667 STS Program, 632 Clark Hall E-mail: [email protected] Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 25-28 June 1991. "Science and Discovery" is the Or by BITNET: BJTJ® CORNELIA general theme of a conference in Madrid For registration & accommodation: commemorating the quincentennial of the David Hull European discovery of the New World. Co­ Philosophy Dept. sponsors are the History of Science Society and Northwestern University the Spanish and Latin American Societies for Evanston, IL 60208-1315 the history of science and technology. Leading For information concerning society membership, topics include: archival sources for New World dues and newsletter: Science: the cultural impact of discovery: discovery Peggy Stewart, IS/HPSSB and the nature of humankind: the political Science Studies Center economy of discovery; comparative perspectives on 102 Price House European science and New World societies; the VPI & SU Earth redrawn (time, space, and measurement); life Blacksburg, VA 24061-0247 and death in the tropics; and political independence and scientific and technological September 1991. "Museums and Collections in the dependence. Inquiries: History of Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology" Prof. Michael R. McVaugh is the title of the 16th Symposium of the Department of History International Commission on the History of the University of North Carolina Geological Sciences, to be held in Dresden, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, Germany. Inquiries: or Gesellschaft fiir Geologische Prof. Seymour Mauskopf Wissenschaften der DDR, Department of History Secretariat, INHIGEO Duke University Invalidenstrasse 43 Durham, NC 27706 Berlin, Germany 1040 1-5 July 1991. 'The Impact of the Past Upon the Present" has been chosen as the theme of the Second National Conference of the Australian Society for the History of Medicine, at Perth, Western Australia. Papers are sought on: Western - 4 - The XVII Pacific Science Congress will be held In Honolulu, Hawaii, USA May 27 through June 2,1991. The title of the Congress Is "Towards the Pacific Century: The Challenge of Change.” The six themes of the Congress are: Global Environmental Change; Population, Health and Social Change; Science and 21st Century; and l^ynamlcs of the Earth and the I leavens: The Pacific Arena, listed below are the symposia currently planned fbr Sdencc and Culture, Contributed papers are encouraged. For Information, please write; XVU Pacific Science Congress Secretariat 2424 Malle Way, Fourth Floor Honolulu, HI 96822 USA phone: 808 956-7526 fax: 808 956-3512 Email: [email protected] SCIENCE AND CULTURE I. Scientific Change in the Pacific— the 19tb and 20tb Centuries F. Rehbock, University o f Hawaii, USA; Cosponsor - Pacific Circle A. OUT OF THE SOUTH SEAS: PACIFIC INFLUENCES UPON WESTERN THOUGHT 1. The Geologist and the Pacific R. Laudan, University of Hawaii, USA 2. The Botanist and the Pacific C. Lamoureux, University o f Hawaii, USA 3. The Zoologist and the Pacific E. Kay, University o f Hawaii, USA 4. The Anthropologist and the Pacific N. Geschwind, M id Pacific Institute, USA 5. Patrons and Patronage in the Pacific / • '. Rehbock, University o f Hawaii, USA 6 . Instruments and Exploration F. Rehbock, University of Hawaii, USA B. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE PACIFIC WAR 1. Science Mobilized R. Friedman. University o f California, San Diego, USA 2. The Bomb and its Masters R.
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