Call for Papers: West Coast History of Science Society and UC/Stanford Workshop in the History of Science (Berkeley, California, 5-7 May 2000)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L: an announcement by ISHN member Bob Frank.
Russell Johnson
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:55:04 -0800
From: "Robert G. Frank, Jr." <rfrankj@ucla.edu>
Subject: West Coast History of Science Society
To: "Colloquium for the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and
Medicine"
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
WEST COAST HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY &
UC/STANFORD WORKSHOP IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, MAY 5-7, 2000
Dear Colleagues,
Following the pattern of last year's gathering at Santa Barbara, we
will once again attempt to put together the meeting of the
long-established West Coast History of Science Society, and the
UC/Stanford Workshop of rather younger vintage. Both will be co-hosted
by the UCLA Center for Cultural History of Science, Technology and
Medicine, and the UC Berkeley Office for History of Science and
Technology. The Workshop will take place on Friday, May 5, 2000, and
the WCHSS on Saturday, May 6, and Sunday morning, May 7, on the
Berkeley campus.
UC/STANFORD WORKSHOP IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE -- Friday, May 5
The WORKSHOP on Friday will be open to all attendees, whether UC/Stanford
or not. It will draw upon UC/Stanford scholarly resources, and is designed
especially to address issues that are predominantly historiographic and
professional. The guidelines, as expressed by Ted Porter last year, are:
• Preference for panels rather than individual papers
• Panels to include, if possible, individuals from several campuses
• Encouragement of participation by a mixture of faculty, graduate students,
and postdocs
• Formal presentations not to fill more than half the time of a session,
leaving ample time for discussion
• Most of the time in plenary sessions, but with possibility of gatherings
by interest groups (early modern science, medicine, social sciences,
modern physical sciences, etc.)
The panels last year included one on a recent innovative book by
Daston and Park, one on colonial science, one on what university
presses are looking for in a book, and a demonstration of uses of the
internet in the history of science. Among the possibilites tossed up
in brainstorming as possible subjects have been: historiography of the
scientific revolution, the science wars, relations of history of
science to a history department, science and gender, science and
cultural studies, environmental history, history of science in science
education, etc. Let a thousand flowers bloom!
We are continuing with said brainstroming (and occasional arm-twisting)
to arrange sessions for the Workshop, but would MOST WELCOME contacts
from individuals who would like to organize sessions in the spirit of
the above. Write to Bob Frank at rfrankj@ucla.edu by March 31.
We have financial support towards travel and accommodations of
UC/Stanford graduate students, postdocs, affiliated scholars, and
junior faculty who are on the program. We have subsidies of
accommodation for UC/Stanford graduate students and postdocs who want
to attend the Workshop, but who are not on the program.
WEST COAST HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY -- Saturday May 6 & Sunday
morning May 7
The sessions on these days will consist largely of individual,
volunteered papers. Oral presentations should be about 15-20 minutes
in length, so as to leave time for questions and discussion.
Submissions from all levels of scholars are welcome, and we would
especially like to receive abstracts from graduate students, postdocs,
independent scholars, and from those who pursue history of science
(broadly construed) as a serious avocational interest. Organized
groupings of papers as a coherent session are also most welcome,
although each person in such a proposed session should send a separate
abstract.
If you wish to be considered for a place on the program, please send an
abstract by e-mail to Bob Frank (rfrankj@ucla.edu), who is serving as
program chair. The CLOSING DATE for abstracts is MARCH 31, and you will be
notified within a few days thereafter. The program itself will be sent out,
largely via e-mail, four weeks before the date of the meeting.
Subsidized accommodations, and a reimbursement of up to $150 towards
travel costs may be available for graduate students, postdocs, and
independent scholars who are on the program--although we do hope you would
help us stretch out the money by first requesting finances from your own
university!
Dues for the WCHSS help cover some of the costs beyond electrons, and are $5
annually for students and postdocs, and $15 for others. They may be sent to
the WCHSS Secretary-Treasurer:
Mark Hineline
Department of History
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA 92093
E-Mail: hineline@helix.ucsd.edu
We look forward to seeing you in Berkeley in early May for a gathering with
the usual pleasant mixture of scholarship and conviviality!
Best wishes,
Bob Frank (UCLA)
Cathy Carson (UC Berkeley)
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