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Forwarded from HOPOS-L by Ross B. Emmett
Several sessions incorporate the history of economics.
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Joint BSHS/HSS/CSHPS conference: Crossing Boundaries
Below are details and a programme for the big history of
science meeting in Edinburgh this summer. The details were
scanned, so there may be a few spelling mistakes.
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3rd British-North American History of Science Meeting
23-26 July 1996
"Crossing Boundaries"
Following the two highly successful meetings in Manchester (1988) and
Toronto (1992), the third joint meeting of the BSHS, HSS and CSHPS
will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the afternoon of
Tuesday 23 July until the afternoon of Friday 26 July 1996. These
dates co-ordinate with the international meeting of SHOT in London, 1-
4 August.
The conference will be held at the University, George Square, which
is close to the city centre. Student-type accommodation is available
a short distance away. Details of other accommodation, eg hotel, may
be obtained from the Edinburgh Tourist Board, 4 Rothesay Terrace,
Edinburgfi, EH3 7RY, United Kingdom (Tel: (44) (0) 131 557 9655, Fax:
(44) (0) 131 557 51 1 8. Early booking is essential due to the
pressures of the tourist season. Creche facilities will be arranged
subject to firm bookings being received.
The provisional programme (following) gives details of sessions and
speakers. A Reception will be held on the Tuesday evening and visits
to places of local interest are being arranged for the Wednesday
evening. The Conference Banquet is to be held in the hammer-beamed
Debating Hall on the Thursday.
Edinburgh International airport operates a shuttle service to
London; there are rail/bus services to all parts of Britain..Further
details about local travel will be sent to registrants.
The organisers wish to thank all those who submitted a provisional
registration, which should now be confirmed. A Registration Form is
attached for use as confirmation or as a new booking; please return
to the address given as soon as possible but in any case before 1st
July 1996.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Tuesday 23 July
11.00-2.00 Conference Registration
2.00-4.00 Session 1
A Between the local and the general
Alix Cooper Inventing the indigenous in early modem
German natural history
Timothy L Alborn Uncooperative friendly societies:
destabilizing the local in British vital
statistics, 1780-1860
Anne Secord 'Our local Linnaeus': parochial science and
the work of nineteenth-century botany
Katherine Anderson Translating local knowledge:
communicating about weather prediction
B Biography at the crossroads: towards a biographical turn in the
history of science
Bruce Weber Devices, desires and dangers of the
biographical turn in the
history of contemporary science
Thomas Soderqvist Biography as therapy of scientific
desire
Steve Fuller Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: a critique of
Soderqvist's neo-Hellenistic
approach to biography
James R Hofman Biography and resolution of the experimenter's
regress
C Bridging theory and practice: rolesfor instruments in the
history of mathematics
Henk J M Bos The role of instrumental design in the formation
of Descartes' geometrical ideas
Katherine Hill Between theory and practice: the role of
instruments in Oughtred's scheme for
mathematical education
Stephen Johnston Utility, certainty and mathematical
instruments
4.00-4.30 Tea
4.30-6.30 Session 2
A A Burgerliche Wissenschaft?: Social structure and scientific
culture in the German states, ca1790-1890
Kathryn M Olesko Precision, property rights and the
Cadaster in Prussia, 1790-1850
Myles Jackson Fraunhofer's artisanal knowledge v
Savant's scientific knowledge
David Cahan Hermann von Helmholtz and his
audiences
B Individuals crossing boundaries
Richard England Reverend H B Tristram, a life in natural
history, theology and selection
Yvon Gauthier Crossing boundaries: the mathematical
foundations of quantum mechanics
by Hilbert and von Neumann
Sabine Brauckmann Max Delbrueck (1906-1981) - Life-long
research by crossing boundaries
Ton van Helvoort Crossing a disciplinary boundary: how
plant virologist W M Stanley
became a world leader in cancer research
C Science on the margins of empire
Robert J Malone Making boundaries: Scots, nabobs and
votaries of science
Keith Benson The American West as a natural laboratory, 1870-
1900
Suzanne Zeller Outpost of science: Victorian assessments of the
Great Northwest in British North America
John Stenhouse 'The disappearance of the race is scarcely
subject for much regret': New Zealand scientists
and the dying Maori
7.00 Reception
Wednesday, 24 July
9.15-11.15 Session 3
A Managing risk across boundaries
Frank A J L James Science in the pits
K Horstmann The construction of healthy and unhealthy risks:
medical science and life insurance in
the Netherlands ( 1880-1930)
Barton C Hacker Dealing with plutonium: accidents, experiments
and reporting, 1945-1995
Sue Rabbitt Roff The metaphor of linearity in risk
assessment for the biomedical hazards
of ionizing radiation
B The Republic of Letters 1650-1800: the relation between 'centre'
and 'periphery'
A Hessenbruch & R Hayward Constructing the centres in the
Republic of Letters
A Carneiro Crossing boundaries: the sciences in Portugal and
Spain during the Enlightenment
A Clericuzio Corpuscular philosophy in Italy in the
second half of the seventeenth
century
K Gavroglu The transmission of the scientific ideas to the
Greek speaking world during the Enlightenment
C Measuring feelings
Harro Maas The will, the pendulum and human choice
Joshua Coben Twentieth century attempts at measuring utility
Nicholas Chaigneau A case of swinging boundary: Edgeworth v
Fisher on utility measurement
D Crossing boundaries: early Cambridge women in science and
mathematics
Joan Mason Barriers and loopholes
Marilyn Ogilvic The Cambridge-educated astronomer, Annie Maunder
Elisabeth Mulhausen 'I liked being incognito to the
outside world': the Cambridge/Gottingen-educated
mathematician Grace Emily Chisholm Young
Marsha Richmond 'A lab of one's own': the Balfour
Biological Laboratory for Women
at Cambridge University, 1884-1914
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-1.15 Session 4
A Fitting science into the seventeenth century Catholic
establishment
Craig Rodine Translations: Mersenne's trip from Paris
to Rome and back again, 1644-1645
Judi Loach Jesuit theologians and 'science' in the town
college at Lyons
Michael John Gorman Deus ex Machinis: bounding natural
knowledge in the Collegio Romano
B Boundary creatures
Terrie M Romano 'Strange horrible murders': camiverous plants in
an imperial context
Alice D Dreger 'The limits of individuality: an historical
review of the scientific and medical treatment of
Siamese Twins
Olivier Lagueux Drawing the line: the Geoffroy-St Hilaires'joint
study of double monsters
C Reconfiguring the natural and the social
Lisbet Koerner The Linnean natural oeconomy
Margaret Schabas Ricardo and Malthus: economies in retreat from
Nature
Theodore Porter Nineteenth century positivism and the erasure
of boundaries between the social and the natural
D Staying competitive: life on the periphery in astrophysics
and ionosphere physics in the 1920s and 1930s
Karl Hufbauer Tools for a new speciality:Rosseland and
his Institute for Theoretical
Astrophysics 1929- 1939
Bruce Hevly Taking the auroral view: Lars Vegard and interwar
ionospheric physics
Robert W Smith New uses for old instruments: V M Slipher and the
light of the night sky
1.1 5-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Session 5
A Techniques of travel: indigenous and scientific
Par Eliasson Northern travel in Sweden in the
eighteenth century
Michael Harbsmeier Travels to Europe: the techniques
of extra-European traditions
Michael Bravo Hi-tech hunting: cross-cultural
techniques of self-preservation
B Circumscribed feelings: sensibility, taste and the life of the
mind in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe
Frasca Spada Feeling the pages: eighteenth century
philosophy and sentiment
Emma C Spary Making a science of taste: Grimod de La
Reyniere and the invention of gastronomie in post-
revolutionary France
Paul White Sympathy under the knife: animal feeling and the
scientific identity in mid-Victorian Britain
C Between science and religion in medieval Islam and the Latin West
Sonja Brentjes Philosophy as a bridge bewteen magic and
prophecy in Islam
Steven J Livesey Holding the centre and testing the
boundaries: scientific disciplines
in the late Middle Ages
W R Laird Theology and other middle sciences at the
Collegio Romano
D Between practitioners and scientists
Colin Divall, Paolo Palladino and Steve Sturdy Spanners, seeds
and scalpels: similarities and contrasts
in the professionalisation of engineers,
agricultural scientists and physicians in Great
Britain, 1790-1990
Diane M Secoy and Allen E Smith Scientific agriculture of the
early nineteenth century: the transfer
of information from agricultural writers and
researchers to the general farming community
Andrew Samuel British nature conservation 'science'
as a bounded space: its congruence
with Scottish conservation practice
4.00-4.30. Tea
4.30-6.00. Session 6
A Comparative perspectives on Nordic science and landscapes of
honour
Robert Mare Friedman National honour, manly heroes, and
the shaping of Norwegian polar geophysics, 1881-
1932
Urban Wrakberg The land of honour and remembrance:
toponymy, geography and national identity in the
exploration of the European Arctic, 1860-1920
Sverker Sorlin Science and polar diplomacy: national
objectives and the politics of
international cooperation in twentieth century
glaciology
B Instruments as mediators
Maria Trumpler From muscles to metals: how Galvanism crossed the
boundary from the organic to the
inorganic realm, 1790- 1820
Sean F Johnston Sharing, straddling or synthesising?
Communities of light measurers
Keith Nier Diverging ions and converging disciplines: the
instrumental unity of modern science
C Film and the authority of medical science
Susan E Lederer Celluloid science: laboratory life in
Hollywood films of the 1930s and 40s
Timothy Boon Professor Huxley goes to anti-Hollywood:
scientific authority in the documentary film
Naomi Rogers The nurse as scientist: gender, science, and
authority in Hollywood's Sister Kenny (1946)
D Cross-currents in the history of science: engineering and
economics in France
Robert F Hebert and Robert B Ekelund Economics at the Ecole des
Ponts et Chaussees, 1747-1897
Keiko Kurita French engineers and the analysis of
roads as public goods
Philippe Le Gall From biometrics to econometrics: the saga of
Lucien March
Wednesday evening entertainment session
[subject to sufficient bookings being received]
A Whisky appreciation and tasting (L9.00)
This will consist of an entertaining talk on the history and art of
whisky making, and the different types of whisky, followed by an
opportunity to test your palate and preferences against the experts.
B A Burke and Hare evening (L4.00)
This will consist of a reception and a lecture by a leading expert
on all aspects of the Burke and Hare affair, in the Royal College of
Surgeons of Edinburgh. There will also be an opportunity to visit
the College's excellent Museum and some of the local sites associated
with the nocturnal activities of Edinburgh's two famous medical
entrepeneurs.
C A James Clerk Maxwell evening (L4.00)
This will consist of a presentation by the Director of Development of
The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, in Maxwefi's birthplace, now the
splendid headquarters of the Foundation. It will be followed by a
reception and a chance to see the Maxwell collection and the house,
which is a superb example of a dwelling in the heart of Edinburgh's
Georgian New Town.
Thursday, 25th July
9.15-11.15 Session 7
A Crossing the boundariesfrom atomism to the particle explosion
Laurie M Brown Yukawa and the Japanese school of meson
physics and their exchanges with the British
school
Helmut Rechenburg Meson theory in Switzerland, Germany
and other Western European countries and the
Soviet Union
Silvan S Schweber Meson theory in the United States and
early experiments with artificially
produced mesons
Nicholas Kemmer (Discussant) Discussion of the early days of
meson theory, by one of its
originators
B Did the Royal Society matter in the ]8th century?
Richard Sorrenson Imperial mathematical science
Rob lliffe Big science
Andrea Rusnock Correspondence networks
Larry Stewart Other centres of calculation
C The 'Science of Man' and the Science of Brain: discipline
identities in the human sciences
Karin E Wetmore Continuities between the eighteenth century
Scottish 'Science of Man' and
the nineteenth century 'New' psychology
Jay Foster Epistemology and politics in the philosophy
of John Stuart Mill
Roger Smith Science on the boundary of mind and brain:
tensions of identity and
difference in the late nineteenth century
Marcia L Meldrum 'Drawing the thin red line':
Interdisciplinary debates in the
field of pain studies, 1946-1970
D Linguistic and communicative boundaries
William A Smeaton Chemical translation in Dijon in the 1770s
and 1780s
David Wright The transmission of westem chemistry into
China, 1840-1900
Alice Jenkins Boundary images and the metaphoricity of
science
Morris F Low Fuzzy borders: the role of electronic cultures in
the transformation of
national and regional identity in Asia
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-1.15 Session 8
A Patronage, geography, science
Charles Withers Royal geographies in seventeenth
century Britain
Leslie Cormack Networks of knowledge: patronage of geography
at the early Stuart Courts
Mary Terrall Navigation, astronomy and patronage in the
French Enlightenment
B Gender, the body and physical science in Victorian Britain
Andrew Warwick Exercising the student body: the teaching of
mathematical physics
in Victorian Cambridge
Paula Gould Proposals both inexpedient and immodest: women
and the study of mathematics and physics in
Victorian universities
Alison Winter A calculus of suffering: Ada Lovelace's
intellectual invalidism and
the representation of mathematical ability in
early Victorian England
C Computing history of science: digital sieve, impermeable boundary
or WindowsTM of opportunity?
David Gooding So its computable: can it be
historically interesting? Analysing
texts and modelling processes
Michael E Gorman Computer supported interpretation of
inventor's sketches
R Tweney Beyond the database: computer analysis of the
fine structure of science
Gloria Clifton Project SIMON: an historical database
of instrument makers
D Science and the Pacific
Peter Hoffenburg 'We are like dwellers in the desert':
nineteenth century exhibitions and the
invention of Australian science
Gordon McQuat 'Dynamic' boundaries in the Pacific. The
strange case of Bunzo Hayata's
'Dynamic System'
Roy MacLeod Science and the Pacific
1.1 5-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Session 9
A Authorship, credit and communication in early modern Europe
Ann Blair A popular genre in early modern natural
philosophy: the Problemata
Mario Biagioli Author-functions in seventeenth
century science
Adrian Johns Constructing credibility in early
modern journals
B From domestic expertise to scientific discipline
Akihito Suzuki Psychiatric knowledge in private and public
spheres in nineteenth century England
Lyuba Gurjeva Constructing developmental psychology: James
Sully and the child study movement
Richard E Rice & Joanne A Charbonneau Ellen H Richards:
crossing borders and breaking down barriers
C The Victorian scientist as polymath
Richard Baum William Lassell, 1799-1880
Peggy Champlin Raphael Pumpelly: gentleman geologist
David Strauss Preparation of a polymath: the Harvard
education of Percival Lowell, 1872-
1876
D Exporting science
S Sangwan Popularising science on a colonial periphery:
outline of an emerging research agenda
Waltraud Ernst Crossing the boundaries of colonial rule:
mesmerism in British India
Robert Kargon & Stuart Leslie Translating models of
university-industry interaction:
science, technology and economic development
in Europe and Asia
4.00-4.30. Tea
4.30-6.00 Session 10
A Scientific publishing and the readership of science in the
nineteenth century
Jonathan Topham The scientific book trade in early
nineteenth century Britain
James A Secord Marketing speculation: Vestiges and the early
Victorian audiences for science
Leslie Howsham The international scientific series
B Boundaries in the history of mathematics
Serafino Cuomo Entering the citadel: Niccolo Tartaglia,
mathematics and the art of war
Richard Ashcroft Constructing mathematical purity 1897-
1947: the case of G H Hardy
Tony Malet Political boundaries and scientific
isolation: mathematics under Franco
C National boundaries and scientific internationalism in the
twentieth century
Dong-Won Kim British and German influence on the
Japanese physics community in the
early twentieth century
Sharon Traweek Changing scientific culture in Japan
Philippe Chavot When internationalism confronts
national styles: institutionalising
ethology after World War 11
D Crossing boundaries in the Scientific Revolution
H Floris Cohen Crossing boundaries between Westem and non-
Western science
Robert A Hatch Against the wall?: Bounding images in post-
Keplerian theories of vision
Michael Hunter Robert Boyle and the doctor's art:
demarcation and demurral
Malcolm Oster Magnetism and mechanism in Boyle's
subterranean world
7.30 Conference Banquet
Friday, 26th July
9.1 5-11.15 session 1 1
A Co-production as a unifying theme in science and technology
studies
Sheila Jasanoff Seven forms of ambiguity
Peter Dear Knowing what's best: mystery, expertise
and ungrounded authority
Michael Aaron Dennis Living in the garrison state: technical
knowledge as politics in cold war America
B Modelling across the sciences
Margaret Morrison What's ideal about the Ideal Gas Law?
Mary Morgan Models of money
Mareel Boumans Artificial intelligence and modelling the
economy
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-1.15 Session 12
A Instruments and the shifting boundaries of chemistry
Andrew Ede Simple instruments: Wilder Bancroft, the New
Positivists and the search for the laws
of chemistry
Brian Dolan From text to context: the transfer of
blowpipe analysis from Sweden to
Britain, ca 1800
Mi Gyung Kim Standardizing heat
B Bodies as Boundaries: Science and Cultural Embodiment
Tony Ballantyne Empiricism and empire: construction of the
Maori Body from the 1770s to the 1870s
Cynthia Comacchio 'The human factory': industrial metaphor
and medical discourses in
early twentieth century Canada
Stephanie Kenen The diagnosis of 'true' sex: hermaphroditic
surgery in inter-war America
1.15. Conference ends
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FINAL REGISTRATION FOR "CROSSING BOUNDARIES"
Name
Address
Institution
If any other person is accompanying you and is NOT separately
registered for the Conference but IS needing accommodation or
attending evening functions such as the
Banquet, give the name(s) here and include approriate charges below:
Please enter your choices and return this form with remittance or
card detaits to the address below before 1 st July 1996.
Registration
The full registration fee includes refreshments on all
four days and luncheon on Wednesday 24th and
Thursday 25th L40/$65
[Student members of participating societies L20/$32]
Accommodation in student hall of residence
[Double rooms have double beds, not twin beds]
Single room L20/$35
Double room, ensuite facilities, double occupancy L50/$85
Double room, ensuite facilities, single occupancy L31/$50
Evening functions
Wed 24th Whisky or L9/$15
Burke and Hare or L4/$7
Maxwell L4/$7
Thur 25th Banquet L25/$40
Creche facility
(please give ages and numbers of children overleaf and
send deposit of L15/$25 for each child:
full cost will be about L35 per child for
the period of the conference)
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TOTAL
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I enclose a cheque payable to BSHS Ltd for the total sum or
Please charge my card [VISA - MASTERCARD - EUROCARD] the total sum
Card no:
Card expiry date:
Signature:
Please give below any special needs you may wish us to note in
advance, eg accomodation before/after meeting, creche facilities,
diet, disability, etc:
Creche required for children, ages:
Tick here is you wish to be sent details of the SHOT meeting
Please return this form, before 1 JULY 1996 to:
BSHS Executive Secretary
31 High Street
Stanford in the Vale
Faringdon
OXON
SN7 8LH
England
Tel/Fax: (44) (0) 1367 718963
or email: s.pumfrey@lancaster.ac.uk
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