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3. “Health as Natural History at the American Museum of Natural History, 1909-1922: The
Failure of an Innovative Initiative,” Julie Brown, National Museum of American History
Scientists and the British State
Chair: TBD
1. “The British State and Storm Surges, 1919-1959,” Anna Carlsson-Hyslop, Cardiff
University
2. “ ‘That Was Decided for Me’: Science Graduates and the British State from World War
II to the early 1960s,” Sally Horrocks, University of Leicester
3. Geology and Governance: Surveying the North Sea in the Cold War, Leucha Veneer,
University of Manchester
4. “London and Los Angeles Smogs Revisited: Contrasting Origins, Actions and Controls,”
Peter Reed, Retired
In the Library
Chair: Ann E. Robinson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1. “Information Factory: Samuel Hartlib and the Circulation of Scientific Knowledge,”
Carol Pal, Bennington College
2. “Catalogus Bibliothecae Historico-Naturalis Josephi Banks: Joseph Banks as Book
Collector and Corpus Creator,” Jennifer Steenshorne, Columbia University
3. “Marginal Men? Non-Conformity, Medical Men and the Subscription Library Movement
in Leeds in the Eighteenth Century,” Rebecca Bowd, University of Leeds
4. “Problems Posed,” Jemma Lorenat, Simon Fraser University
Tempo and Mode in Mid-Twentieth-Century Genetics
Chair/Commentator: Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania
1. “Latent Life: Intersections between Cryobiology and Human Genetics in the Mid-20th
Century,” Joanna Radin, University of Pennsylvania
2. “The ‘Evolution Accelerator’: Colchicine in Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding, 1937-
1950,” *Helen Curry, Yale University
3. “Skulls from the Dead, Blood from the Living: Studying Human Heredity and Race in
Interwar Britain,” Jenny Bangham, University of Cambridge
Ancient Science and Technology
Chair: TBD
1. “Meta-mathematical Rhetoric,” Jacqueline Feke, Stanford University
2. “Ptolemy’s Visual Theory Applied to Astronomy,” Elizabeth Hamm, Saint Mary’s
College of California
3. “Exploring the Archaeology of Light in Roman Britain,” Zena Kamash, University of
Oxford
John Tyndall and His Correspondences
Chair/Commentator: Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
1. “What’s in a Letter?: A Critical Examination of Victorian Letter Writing Practices,”
Efram Sera-Shriar (organizer), York University