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Chair/Commentator: Lynn Nyhart, University of Wisconsin 1. “The Mind on Paper: The Shared Visual Order of Science and the Humanities during the Late Enlightenment,” *Matthew D. Eddy (co-organizer), Durham University 2. “The Surgeon’s Seeing Hand: Teaching Anatomy to the Senses in Britain, 1750‐1830,” *Carin Berkowitz (co-organizer), Chemical Heritage Foundation 3. “‘Things Familiar’: Object Lessons in Victorian Science and Literature,” Melanie Keene, Cambridge University 4. “Drawing Mathematical Theories, Illustrating Points: The History of a Topological Atlas,” Alma Steingart, MIT Death Under the Microscope: Histories and Mechanisms of Apotopsis Research Chair: *Andrew Reynolds, Cape Breton University Commentator: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University 1. “From Mechanism Schemas to Mathematical Models: Elucidating the Quantitative- Dynamic Aspects of Molecular Mechanisms,” Tudor M. Baetu, Konrad Lorenz Institute 2. “A Wormy Kind of Death: H. Robert Horvitz’s Genetic Study of Cell Death in C. elegans,” Lijing Jiang, Arizona State University 3. “Alexis Carrel’s Tissue Culture: Cell Death, Experimental Failure, and Surgical Imperatives,” Hyung Wook Park, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 4. “The Deaths of a Cell: How ‘Morphogenetic’ Cell Death Became ‘Altruistic Programmed Cell Suicide’,” Andrew Reynolds, Cape Breton University Lunch (11:45 am – 1:30 pm) 1:30 - 3:30 pm Defining the Instrumental: Navigation, Longitude and Science at Sea in the 18th Century Chair/Commentator: Robert D. Hicks, Mütter Museum, Philadelphia 1. “Longitude Inscrib’d: Early Pamphlet Solutions to the Longitude Problem,” Katy Barrett, University of Cambridge 2. “‘Precision’, ‘Perfection’ and the Reality of Eighteenth-Century Instruments at Sea,” *Alexi Baker (co-organizer), University of Cambridge 3. “Nevil Maskelyne and the Instruments of Scientific Exploration, 1760-1800,” *Rebekah Higgitt (co-organizer), National Maritime Museum, UK Tools of Science, Tools of Politics: Radioactive Contamination in Historical Perspective Chair/Commentator: Audra Wolfe, Independent Scholar 1. “Same Data, Different Conclusions: Radioactive Fallout, the U.S. and British Scientific Committees, and the Diverging Role of Expertise in Public Affairs,” *Toshihiro Higuchi, Stanford University 2. “Monitoring the Stratosphere: Fallout Risks, Vertical Control, and the Dynamic Atmosphere,” E. Jerry Jessee, Montana State University
3. “‘A Mechanism for Staying Alive on this Planet’: The Environmental Meanings of Global Nuclear War in the U.S. and the USSR, 1954-1986,” Jonathan R. Hunt, University of Texas at Austin Science in the Public Sphere Chair/Commentator: Jeffrey Hughes, University of Manchester 1. “Channels of Communication: Martian Canals and the Meaning of Popular Science,” Josh Nall, University of Cambridge 2. “‘Applied Science’, Self-Interest and the ‘Public Sphere’ in Mid-19 th -Century Britain,” *Robert Bud, Science Museum 3. “Selling – and Selling Short – Silent Spring: Environmentalism, Economics, and the Public Sphere,” David Hecht, Bowdoin College Experiments of the Experiential: Valuing Subjectivity in the Modern Earth, Medical, and Physical Sciences Chair: *Andrew M. Fearnley, Edge Hill University Commentator: Henrika Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania 1. “Science, Literature, and the ‘Mirror of Nature’: Metaphors of Knowing in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Robin Vandome, University of Nottingham 2. “From Subjective Experience to Experimental Subjects: Test Pilots in the Weimar Republic,” Daniela Helbig, Harvard University 3. “‘Checking Out Forms’: Research Subjects and Psychiatrists’ Use of the Subjective,” Andrew M. Fearnley, Edge Hill University Method and Discovery: Connections between Anatomy and Philosophy in the Early Modern Period Chair: Charles Wolfe, University of Ghent 1. “Philosophical Anatomy: Teleology in Harvey’s De Motu Cordis,” Peter Distelzweig, University of Pittsburgh 2. “Illustrations, Mechanical Explanations and Experiment in the Study of the Kidney in the Early Sixteenth Century,” *Allen Shotwell, Indiana University 3. “Cosmology and the Crystalline Humor: Color Theory in Natural Philosophy and Anatomy in Late Sixteenth-Century Padua,” Tawrin Baker, Indiana University 4. “A Mutual Divide: Experimental Anatomists vs. Speculative Cartesians in Seventeenth- Century Dutch Medicine,” Evan Ragland, University of Alabama Science and Art in the American South Chair: Nancy Hoffmann, Independent Scholar Commentator: Ann Shteir, York University 1. “To See the Moveing Pensil; Display a Sort of Paper Creation, Which May Endure for Ages: William Bartram as a Natural History Artist,” Joel Fry, Bartram’s Gardens, Philadelphia 2. “Philip Henry Gosse: English Naturalist-Artist in Alabama, 1838,” Gary Mullen, Auburn University (emeritus) 3. “Contextualizing Creativity: Maria Martin, Natural History Illustrator,” *Debra Lindsay, University of New Brunswick
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