HSS Session Overview - History of Science Society
HSS Session Overview - History of Science Society
HSS Session Overview - History of Science Society
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<strong>HSS</strong> PROGRAM, PITTSBURGH, 6-9 NOV. 2008<br />
Saturday, 12:00-1:15 p.m.<br />
<strong>HSS</strong> Nominating Committee,<br />
Parkview East<br />
‘Our ‘doubts’ in fact appear to<br />
me as sacred’: William Froude,<br />
Test Tanks and Victorian Doubt<br />
Don Leggett (University <strong>of</strong> Kent)<br />
<strong>HSS</strong> Saturday<br />
Graduate Student Early Career<br />
Caucus Meeting/Luncheon,<br />
Carnegie III (Bring Own Lunch)<br />
Committee on Honors and<br />
Prizes, Churchill<br />
Saturday, 12:00-3:00 p.m.<br />
<strong>HSS</strong> Committee on Publications,<br />
Parkview West<br />
Saturday, 12:30-1:15 p.m.<br />
WELK – Forum for the <strong>History</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Human <strong>Science</strong>s<br />
Distinguished Lecture<br />
Personal Equations: Reflections<br />
on the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fieldwork, with<br />
Special Reference to British<br />
Anthropology<br />
Henrika Kuklick (University <strong>of</strong><br />
Pennsylvania)<br />
Saturday, 1:30-3:10 p.m.<br />
PARG – Managing Risk:<br />
Assuaging Doubt<br />
Fritz Davis (Florida State University),<br />
Chair<br />
Risky Drinking: Conceptions <strong>of</strong><br />
Risk in Debates about Prohibition,<br />
1900-1920<br />
Grischa Metlay (Harvard University)<br />
Regulating ALARA – as Low as<br />
Reasonably Achievable? Health-<br />
Physics Practice and Pr<strong>of</strong>ession<br />
Ioanna Semendeferi (University <strong>of</strong><br />
Houston)<br />
ALLE – Dimensions <strong>of</strong> a<br />
Scientific Career<br />
Paul Halpern (University <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Science</strong>s in Philadelphia), Chair<br />
The Tragic Final Years <strong>of</strong> Paul<br />
Ehrenfest<br />
Paul Halpern (University <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Science</strong>s in Philadelphia)<br />
When <strong>Science</strong> is Paradise: Research<br />
and Boundaries in Astrid<br />
Cleve von Euler’s Scientific Career<br />
Kristina Espmark (Umeå University,<br />
Sweden)<br />
Women <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> and Wife <strong>of</strong><br />
a Scientist: Ida Noddack-Tacke,<br />
(1896-1978)<br />
Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Independent<br />
Scholar) & Annette Lykknes<br />
(Norwegian University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong><br />
and Technology)<br />
Planck’s Unification <strong>of</strong> Physics<br />
within German Liberal Culture<br />
Edward Jurkowitz (Illinois Institute<br />
<strong>of</strong> Technology)<br />
PARE/F – Mechanism and<br />
Life in the 18th Century<br />
Sara Miles (Esperanza College,<br />
Eastern University), Chair<br />
Why Did Nobody Ever Discover Photosynthesis?<br />
Dr. Ingen Housz and<br />
the Discovery <strong>of</strong> Photosynthesis<br />
Geerdt Magiels (VUB Free University<br />
Brussels)<br />
Mediating Models and Machines:<br />
John Smeaton and the Interactions<br />
between Natural Philosophy and<br />
Engineering in 18th-century Britain<br />
Minwoo Seo (Seoul National<br />
University)<br />
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