No. 15______________________________September 1995_____________________ ISSN 1050-334X PACIFIC CIRCLE NEWS MEETINGS. The Pacific Circle will co-sponsor a session entitled “The Naturalist Abroad: At Work in the Field,” at this year’s annual meeting of the History of Science Society, 26-29 October, in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Organizer of the session is s a n d r a H e r b e r t , chair is f r i t z r e h b o c k . Included will be the following speakers: s a n d r a H e r b e r t (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), “Charles Darwin: Writing Up in the Field”; j a n e c a m e r i n i (independent scholar), “Victorians in the Field”; E l i z a b e t h a . h a n s o n (University of Pennsylvania), “Popular Science in the Field: Collecting Animals for the National Zoo, 1937-1940”; a n n e l a r s e n (Princeton), “Does a Bird in the Hand Equal a Bird in the Book? Actual and Virtual Specimens in Early English Zoology, 1800-1840”; h e n r i k a k u k l i c k (University of Pennsylvania), commentary. The Circle will also sponsor a session, on “Science in the Pacific: From Voyages of Discovery into New Dimensions?” at the Third British-North American Joint Meeting of the Canadian, American and British history of science societies, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-26 July 1996. Tentatively, speakers include r o y m a c l e o d , p e t e r h o f f e n b e r g , and Go r d o n m c o u a t . Additional speakers are sought and should contact Roy MacLeod (Fax: +612 692 3918; E-mail: [email protected]) as soon as possible. Plans continue for a Pacific symposium at the XX- International Congress of History of Science, hosted by the Universty of Liège, Belgium, 25-30 July 1997. The following session themes have been proposed, with conveners indicated where known: Museums o f the Pacific, Roy MacLeod Science in Japan, Jim Bartholomew Astronomy in the Pacific, Fritz Rehbock Environment and Empire, Richard Grove Exploration and Natural History o f the North Pacific, Fritz Rehbock Suggestions of papers that might fall within any of the above topics, as well as proposals for other Pacific sessions, l are now solicited and should be communicated to either Roy Macleod (Department of History, University of Sydney) or ^ Fritz Rehbock (Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa). Ï Page 2 Pacific Circle Newsletter 15 GIFT. The Pacific Circle is exceptionally pleased to Program Chair: announce the receipt of a generous donation from the Michael E. Gorman Kajiyama Publications Fund, toward the production of Division of Technology, Culture and Communications future newsletters and other publications. The Fund was School of Engineering and Applied Science endowed by the Kajiyama family of Japan to support University of Virginia publications concerning Asia and the Pacific Rim. Charlottesville, VA 2290J USA Special thanks are due to Professor Emeritus g e o r g e Phone: (804)982-2905 a k i t a and Professor s h a r o n minichiello of the E-mail: [email protected] University of Hawai‘i at Manoa for their assistance in Local arrangements: making this award possible. Brian Pfaffenberger Division of Technology, Culture and Communications ***** School of Engineering and Applied Science OFFICE MOVE. The editorial office of the Pacific University of Virginia Circle Newsletter has moved to a new location within the Charlottesville, VA 22901 USA History Department, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Phone: (804)924-6098 The new phone number is: (808) 956-7675. Although the E-mail: [email protected] old addresses are still valid, e-mail addresses have and changed slightly: for the editor ([email protected]) Stefan Fuchs and the assistant to the editor ([email protected]). Department of Sociology University of Virginia CONGRESSES, CONFERENCES Charlottesville, VA 22901 USA AND Phone: (804)924-5338 E-mail: [email protected] CALLS FOR PAPERS For additional information and updates, see the 4S Homepage on the World Wide Web. The URL is: 5-8 October 1995. Peter Hoffenberg has provided the http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~meg3c/4Shome.html following information on a session at the forthcoming meeting of the North American Conference on British 19-20 October 1995. Interface ’95, the Twentieth Annual Studies 1995 to be held at ANA Hotel in Washington, Humanities and Technology Conference, Atlanta, D.C. The session, entitled “Colonial Subjects and Georgia. An interdisciplinary conference devoted to the Cultural Authorities: Identity, Knowledge, and Expertise study and discussion of the interrelationship between the Concerning Late Victorian Africa and India,” and chaired sciences, the various technologies, and the humanities. by Helen Cooper (SUNY, Stony Brook), will be on Inquiries: Saturday 7 October, 2:15-3:45 pm. Titles and their Dr. Julie Newell presenters include: “Identity, Race, and the Ironic Space Social and International Studies of the Colonial Situation: James [Afficanus] Beale Southern College of Technology Horton,” d o u g l a s m e l v i n r a y n e s (University of 1100 South Marietta Parkway California, Irvine); “The Victorian Subaltern as Expert: Marietta, GA 30060-2896 USA T.N. Mukbarji, Exhibitions, and the Construction of (404) 528-7481 Knowledge,” p e t e r h o f f e n b e r g (University of Hawai‘i, 20-21 November 1995. “Science, Politics and Evolution Manoa); “British Women’s Periodicals and Advice in Asia and the Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Columns About Trips to India and Sojourns There, 1860- for Honours Students, Postgraduates, and Junior 1900,” n u p u r c h a u d h u r i (Kansas State University). Scholars” will be sponsored by the Division of Pacific and d a n e K e n n e d y (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) is the Asian History, RSPAS in the Humanities Research Centre commentator. Reading Room, Australian National University, Canberra, 18-21 October 1995. The annual meeting of 4S will take Australia. This workshop will explore how evolutionism place in Charlottesville, Virginia, and will be held jointly and other scientistic models have been translated into with the Society for the History of Technology. The various social and political discourses articulated in the theme will be the impact of STS on technoscience: what Asia-Pacific region. The impact on different cultures and implications does the latest work in STS have for the value systems will be one sub-theme, as will be the conduct of science and for science and engineering manner in which Darwinian themes were co-opted to serve education? Should scientists be welcomed as various interest groups. Other sub-themes include: the collaborators in STS research? reception of evolutionary theory in various national September 1995 Page 3 contexts, colonial science, social Darwinisms, gender San Juan Islands, Washington. Inquiries: construction, imperial expansion, eugenics/race hygiene, Jody Bourgeois ideologies of race and class, and population control. Geological Sciences While the aim of the workshop is to encourage contact University of Washington and the exchange of ideas amongst students and junior Box 351310 academics in an informal, yet stimulating environment, we Seattle, WA 98195 USA would be happy to hear from more senior academics who 11-12 April 1996. “Empires of Nature,” the tenth feel they have a positive contribution to make to such a international conference of the Society for the History of forum. Those interested in attending the workshop, but Natural History, will be held at Wadham College, who are not able to give a paper should also contact the Oxford. See PGN14 for details of the intended themes of conveners as soon as possible in order to be placed on the the program. Visits to the Bodleian Library, the mailing list. Conveners: University Botanic Garden and Herbaria, the Museum of Dr. Christine Dureau History of Science and the University Museum are also Division of Pacific and Asian History planned. Inquiries: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Ms Jane Pickering Australian National University Oxford University Museum Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia Parks Road Phone: (06)249 4247 Oxford OX 13PW UK Fax: (06) 249 5525 Phone: (01865)272950 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (01865)272970 or E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Morris Low Division of Pacific and Asian History 2-5 July 1996. “Margins and Metropolis: Literature, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Culture and Science, 1660-1830,” is the title of the X- Australian National University David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, hosted by the Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia Australasian and Pacific Society for Eighteenth- Phone: (06)249 3121 Century Studies, Australian National University, Fax: (06) 249 5525 Canberra. Proposals for papers addressing the theme E-mail: [email protected] “Margins and Metropolis” are invited from scholars 6-9 December 1995. The Twentieth Annual University working in English Literature, Gender and Women’s of Hawai’i Pacific Islands Studies Conference, sponsored Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Art History, by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Center for Social, Economic and Cultural History, and other relevant Hawaiian Studies, and Population Studies Program disciplines. Proposals of papers (25 minutes duration) (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa) and Program for should include a 300-word abstract, and should be sent to Cultural Studies (East-West Center), will be held in the conveners by 30 November 1995: Honolulu, Hawai‘i.