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2. “Building Mathematics and Mathematics Buildings: The Built Environment of the
Mathematical Institutes at Göttingen and NYU,” Brittany Shields, University of
Pennsylvania
3. “Board into Their Minds: Sketching the Mathematical Blackboard in Anecdotal
Memory,” *Michael J. Barany, Princeton University
Genetics, Race, and Anthropology
Chair: TBD
1. “Half-Castes and Family Lines: Franz Boas’ Anthropometric Studies 1890-1891,”
Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Exeter
2. “Wilhelm Nussbaum and Franz Boas: Anthropometry in the 1930s,” Veronika Lipphardt,
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
3. “Occupying Europe: How West German Volkskundler Claimed Europäische
Ethnologie,” Amanda Randall, University of Texas at Austin
4. “Mapping Human Metabolic Diversity: Racial Metabolism Studies in the 1920s-30s,”
Elizabeth Neswald, Brock University
Nuclear Scientists and the Dangers of the Nuclear Age
Chair: Mark Walker, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Commentator: Carola Sachse, University of Vienna
1. “Knowing the Atom: The IAEA and International Scientific Exchange,” Elisabeth
Röhrlich, University of Vienna
2. “ ‘Fallout’ in the Fifties: Scientists Divided, Pugwash United?,” Alison Kraft, University
of Exeter
3. “ ‛Experts Between War and Peace’ – Austrian and West German Experts and the
International Pugwash Movement,” *Silke Fengler, University of Vienna
Models and Materiality
Chair: *Ruthann Dyer, York University
1. “ ‘Resembling as Near as Possible’: Botanical Models and Botany Instruction in the
Nineteenth Century,” Ellery Foutch, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2. “Materializing the ‘Atomic’: Iconography at the Interface of Molecular Models and
Design in Post-War Britain,” Emily Candela, The Science Museum, London & Royal
College of Art
3. “Logics and Materialities of Air Resistance: Étienne-Jules Marey’s Insect Automata,”
Enrique Ramirez, The University of Texas at Austin
4. “Model Lessons: Object Lessons, Specimens, and Models in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.
Classroom,” Sarah Anne Carter, Harvard University
Scientific Correspondents
Chair: TBD
1. “ ‘Almost Out of a Woman’s Natural Thinking’: Considering Science and Gender
through Charles Darwin's Private Correspondence,” Philippa Hardman, University of
Cambridge