Conference: West Coast History of Science Society (University of California Berkeley: 5-7 May 2000)
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Russell Johnson
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 08:04:56 -0400
From: "Harry M. Marks, H-SCI-MED-TECH" <smtedit@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Subject: CONF: West Coast History of Science Society
Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and
Technology" <H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Mark Hineline <hineline@helix.ucsd.edu> writes:
Dear Colleagues,
Below is the preliminary version of the program for the joint meeting to be
held at the University of California, Berkeley, May 5-7. The preliminary
program is followed by an electronic form for registration, as well as one
for reserving hotel rooms. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE NEED HOTEL RESERVATIONS
(BUT NOT PAYMENT) BY APRIL 19. A final version of the program, including
locations of events, will be sent out by e-mail about 10 days before the
meeting. Program and other information will also be available on a page of
the website for the UC Berkeley Office for History of Science and Technology:
http://ohst7.berkeley.edu/Conferences/wchss.html
Students coming to Berkeley from outside the Bay Area to attend the joint
meeting may be eligible for a travel subsidy of up to $150; inquire of Bob
Frank (rfrankj@ucla.edu) as soon as possible.
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*** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ***
WEST COAST HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY &
UC/STANFORD WORKSHOP IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, MAY 5-7, 2000
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,
with financial support from the UCLA School of Medicine.
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 draws primarily upon UC/Stanford scholarly resources, and is
designed especially to address issues that are predominantly methodological,
historiographic and professional.
9:00 -- Coffee & rolls
9:15 -- PANEL DISCUSSION
Chinese Science and Society in the Twentieth Society: New Trends in
Historiography (organized by Zuoyue Wang)
Brian Greene (UCLA)
Lyman Miller (Hoover Institution, Stanford)
Jim Williams (UC Berkeley)
Zuoyue Wang (Cal Poly Pomona)
10:45 -- Coffee Break
11:00 -- PANEL DISCUSSION
Rethinking the Scientific Revolution
Margaret Jacobs (UCLA)
Bill Eamon (New Mexico State)
Paula Findlen (Stanford)
12:45 -- BOX LUNCH DISCUSSION
Applying History of Science Outside the Classroom
Henry Lowood (Stanford University Libraries)
Glenn Bugos (The Prologue Group, Redwood City)
Howard Rootenberg (B. & L. Rootenberg Rare Books, Los Angeles)
2:00 -- SYMPOSIUM
Historicizing Objectivity: The Values of Science and Its Public Credibility
(organized by Ted Porter)
"Objectivity, Postmodernism, and Policy Science."
Sonja Amadae (UC Berkeley)
"Provenance in Contest."
Minghui Hu (UCLA)
"Regulatory Sciences, Pollution Standards, and the Measurement
of Danger."
Josh Dunsby (UC San Diego)
"Making and Transporting Technical Claims."
Bruce Goldstein (UC Berkeley)
"Vocation, Discipline, and Objectivity."
Charles Thorpe (UC San Diego)
Commentary -- Ted Porter (UCLA)
5:00 -- RECEPTION & MUNCHIES
WEST COAST HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY -- Saturday May 6 & Sunday morning
May 7
SATURDAY, MAY 6
9:00 -- Coffee & Rolls
9:15 -- Biology and Culture c. 1850-1950
"Darwinism and Death: Devaluing Human Life in Germany, 1859-1918."
RICHARD WEIKART (CSU Stanislaus)
"Antivivisectionists in Late 19th-Century Germany: Visionaries of
Humane Medicine."
MONICA LIBELL (Lund University & UC Berkeley)
"Steroids at War: Hormones of the Adrenal Cortex in U.S. Military
Research, 1940-1945."
NICK RASMUSSEN (University of Sydney & UC Berkeley)
10:45 -- Coffee
11:00 -- The Scientific Revolution--And Before
"Criteria for the Classification of Babylonian Astronomy in Modern
Historiography of Science."
FRANCESCA ROCHBERG (UC Riverside)
"The Sympathetic Cure of Wounds: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Object in
the Scientific Revolution."
DANIEL STOLZENBERG (Stanford)
"Naturalists and Natural History in the Scientific Revolution."
JANET GARBER (Independent Scholar)
12:30 -- Lunch
1:45 -- Special Invited Lecture
"Laboratory and Artist's Workshop: The Master in His Atelier."
GUNTHER S. STENT (UC Berkeley)
Prof. Stent is a molecular biologist and neurophysiologist, with
ancillary strong interests in history of science (Phage and the
Origins of Molecular Biology, 1966) and in philosophy (Morality as
a Biological Phenomenon, 1978), as well as being the former Director
of the UC Virus Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American
Philosophical Society.
3:15 -- Post World War II Big Science
"Grace Murry Hopper: Software Development and the Management of
Innovation."
KURT BEYER (UC Berkeley)
"The Demise of the Superconducting Super Collider."
MICHAEL RIORDAN (Stanford & UC Santa Cruz)
4:15 -- Interpreting Scientific Change
"'Premature' Discoveries in Radio-Chemistry: Noddack and Nuclear Fission
in the 1930s."
ERNEST B. HOOK (UC Berkeley)
"Kuhn's Blind Spot and the Layered-Ness of Paradigms: A Cognitive
Approach."
ROSS MAXWELL (The Institute of Historical Study, San Francisco)
5:30 -- Adjournment
6:30 -- Banquet (at a nearby Berkeley restaurant)
SUNDAY, MAY 7
9:15 -- Coffee and Business Meeting
9:30 -- Science and the Experiencing Self Between Enlightenment &
Romanticism
"A Beautiful Gradation: Order and the Creation of Human Beauty in the Late
Eighteenth Century."
ALICIA GAMEZ (UC Berkeley)
"Why Did Humphrey Davy Not Explore the Pain-Alleviating Properties of
Nitrous Oxide?"
MARGARET JACOB & MICHAEL SAUTER (UCLA)
"'You thought that I was buried deep': Resurrectionists, Dissecting, and
the Sensibilities of Medical Men in Eighteenth-Century Britain."
LYNDA PAYNE (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
11:30 -- Award of Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper/Adjournment
11:45 -- Buffet Lunch
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REGISTRATION BY E-MAIL:
Name:
Address:
E-Mail Address:
Fees
Conference Registration (=1 year dues)
Students and postdocs, $5.....................................:
Others, $15...................................................:
Box Lunch on Friday (optional)
Box lunch for discussion session is free; indicate intention..:
Otherwise, box lunch is $8.00.................................:
Box Lunch on Saturday (optional), $8.00.........................:
Banquet, including drinks (optional)
Students, $12.................................................:
Others, $20...................................................:
Buffet Lunch on Sunday (no charge); indicate intention..........:
Total of Conference Fees =
Please return your registration information to rfrankj@ucla.edu.
Make your check out to WCHSS and send, with a copy of this form, to:
Mark Hineline
Department of History
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA 92093
E-Mail: hineline@helix.ucsd.edu
ACCOMODATIONS:
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Hotel Shattuck for the nights of
Thursday through Saturday, May 4-6; the cost is $79/night + tax. To
encourage participation in the meeting by graduate students and postdocs,
double-occupancy rooms will be available at a subsidized rate of $25 per
person per night. (Graduate students may choose single-occupancy, or
occupancy with a non-participant, at $50 per room per night.) If you wish
to reserve a room, please fill out the following form:
Thursday Night, May 4
Regular Rate ($79 + tax): ___
Student, Double-Occupancy ($25): ___
Student, Single-Occupancy ($50): ___
Friday Night, May 5
Regular Rate ($79 + tax): ___
Student, Double-Occupancy ($25): ___
Student, Single-Occupancy ($50): ___
Saturday Night, May 6
Regular Rate ($79 + tax): ___
Student, Double-Occupancy ($25): ___
Student, Single-Occupancy ($50): ___
**IMPORTANT**
If you wish to reserve a room for any or all of the three nights, we need
to receive your reservation by APRIL 19. Confirmation by e-mail is fine.
You will not have to pay until checking out, but we need to know numbers by
April 19. Otherwise we cannot assure you of accomodations.
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