FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4
HSS: 9:00 – 11:45 AM
Blossom (4th Floor)
"Costs and Benefits: Life Scientists and the Assessment of Wartime Technologies, from 1945 to the Vietnam War"
Chair and Commentator: Karen Rader, Virginia Commonwealth University
1. Environmental Consciousness in the Cold War: Radioecologists, Nuclear Technology, and the Atomic Age, *Rachel Rothschild, Yale University
2. Quickening Nature’s Pulse: Mutation Plant Breeding at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Oregon State University
3. The Atomic Farmer in his Gamma Garden: Agricultural Research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1948-1955, Helen Curry, Yale University
4. The Area Should Be Treated as a Laboratory: Scientists, Controversy, and the Vietnam War, Sarah Bridger, California Polytechnic State University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5
4S: 8:30am - 10:00am
Crowne Plaza, Grand Ballroom - West
"Science and Commercial Culture: Competition, Cooperation and Assimilation"
Chair: Lukas Rieppel (Harvard University)
1. Publish When You Cannot Patent: Counterintuitive Relations Between
Early Modern Science and Commerce. Mario Biagioli (University of California, Davis)
2. Academies in the Press: The Structural Transformation of the Scientific Public. Alex Csiszar (Harvard University)
3. Vertical Integration and the Market for Vertebrate Fossils, 1890-1910. Lukas Rieppel (Harvard University)
4. Purity vs. Property? Entrepreneurship, War and Technoscience's Changing Identity. Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds), Stathis Arapostathis (University of Leeds)
Discussant: Bruno Strasser (Yale University)
HSS: 9:00-11:45 am
Holden (4th Floor)
"Floating Labs: Mobile Scientific Spaces and the Reconfiguration of Practice "
Chair and Commentator: Helen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut, Avery Point
1. Scientists Under Pressure: The Scientific Practices of a Cold War Underwater Laboratory, Nellwyn Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
2. Ship as Instrument: The R/V Alpha Helix and Human Biological Research, 1966-1977, Joanna Radin, University of Pennsylvania
3. The Tale of Bathybius: Of Sea, Ships, and Urschleim, *Emma Zuroski, Cornell University
4. The Oceanic Feeling in Human Biology: The Voyage of the Zaca, 1934-35, Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney
HSS: 1:30-3:30 pm
Severance (4th Floor)
"Knowing Society"
Chair: Dan Bouk, Colgate University
1. Early Modern Social Analysis: Nicolas de Nicolay on the Ottoman Empire, Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego
2. Lamarckism and the Constitution of Sociology, Snait B. Gissis, Tel-Aviv University
3. Observation in the Social Field in Mid-20th Century America, Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam
4. Habitats of Organized Science: Louis Guttman and the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, Tal Arbel, Harvard University
SHOT: 2:00-3:30 pm
Marriott Salon C
"Hot & Cold: Manipulating & Disciplining Bodies with Technologies of Temperature"
Chair and Commentator: Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University
1. Joanna Radin*, "Shock of the Cold: Freezers and the Preservation of Bodily Extracts", University of Pennsylvania
2. Lisa Onaga, "A Silkworm for All Seasons," Cornell University
3. Deanna Day, "The 'Heart's Knowledge' of 'Walking Biological Computers:' How Domestic Thermometry Created a New Hybrid Subjectivity," University of Pennsylvania
HSS: 4:00-6:00 pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Severance (4th Floor)
"Knowing Society"
Chair: Dan Bouk, Colgate University
1. Early Modern Social Analysis: Nicolas de Nicolay on the Ottoman Empire, Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego
2. Lamarckism and the Constitution of Sociology, Snait B. Gissis, Tel-Aviv University
3. Observation in the Social Field in Mid-20th Century America, Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam
4. Habitats of Organized Science: Louis Guttman and the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, Tal Arbel, Harvard University
SHOT: 2:00-3:30 pm
Marriott Salon C
"Hot & Cold: Manipulating & Disciplining Bodies with Technologies of Temperature"
Chair and Commentator: Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University
1. Joanna Radin*, "Shock of the Cold: Freezers and the Preservation of Bodily Extracts", University of Pennsylvania
2. Lisa Onaga, "A Silkworm for All Seasons," Cornell University
3. Deanna Day, "The 'Heart's Knowledge' of 'Walking Biological Computers:' How Domestic Thermometry Created a New Hybrid Subjectivity," University of Pennsylvania
HSS: 4:00-6:00 pm
Halle (4th Floor)
"Pragmatism and the History of Science: James, Dewey, and Mead"
Chair and Commentator: Francesca Bordogna, University of Notre Dame1. The Wealth of Notions: The Evolutionary Epistemology of William James, *Henry M. Cowles, Princeton University
2. Dewey before James: Evolution and the Organic, 1875-1889, Trevor Pearce, University of Wisconsin, Madison
3. Reading What Was Spoken: Classroom Notes in our Understanding of George Herbert Mead, Daniel R. Huebner, University of Chicago
HSS: 10am - noon
Van Aken (4th Floor)
"Bodies, Colonies, and Stem Cells"
Chair: *Hallam Stevens, Harvard University
Commentator: Andrew Yang, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1. Weismann's Authoritarian Cell State, Lukas Rieppel, Harvard University
2. Stem Cells and the Colonial Metaphor,*Hallam Stevens, Harvard University
3. Biological Kinds and Moral Categories in American Regulation of Human Embryo Research, Ben Hurlbut, Arizona State University
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