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Experimenting in Baconian Style<br />
Chair: Carin Berkowitz, Chemical Heritage Foundation<br />
Commentator: Daniel Garber, <strong>Pr</strong>inceton University<br />
1. “Bacon’s Sylva sylvarum and <strong>the</strong> <strong>Pr</strong>actice of <strong>the</strong> Great Instauration,” Peter Dear, Cornell<br />
University<br />
2. “The Hunt of Pan: The Creative and Heuristic Role of Experiments in Francis Bacon’s<br />
Natural Histories,” Dana Jalobeanu, University of Bucharest<br />
3. “The Rules of Experientia Literata: The Case of Bacon’s Magnetic Experiments,” Laura<br />
Georgescu, University of Bucharest<br />
4. “The Baconian Experiment as <strong>Pr</strong>obatio,” *Cesare Pastorino, University of Sussex<br />
Scientific Ethos and Epistemology in <strong>the</strong> Long Nineteenth Century<br />
Chair: *Elise Lipkowitz, University of Michigan<br />
Commentator: TBD<br />
1. “France’s European Empire and <strong>the</strong> Eclipse of Cosmopolitan Science,” Elise Lipkowitz,<br />
University of Michigan<br />
2. “ ‘The Glory of <strong>the</strong> Corps of Roads and Bridges’: Augustin Fresnel and <strong>the</strong> Ethos of Civil<br />
Engineering in Restoration France,” Theresa Levitt, University of Mississippi<br />
3. “Cultures of Discovery and <strong>Pr</strong>iorities of Publication in 1840s France and Britain,” Alex<br />
Csiszar, Harvard University<br />
4. “The Universal Language of <strong>the</strong> Slavs: German and <strong>the</strong> Identity of Russian Chemistry,”<br />
Michael Gordin, <strong>Pr</strong>inceton University<br />
Science in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Pr</strong>ess<br />
Chair: TBD<br />
1. “ ‘Current’ Events: Galvanism and <strong>the</strong> Functions of Scientific News in Britain c. 1800,”<br />
Iain Watts, <strong>Pr</strong>inceton University<br />
2. “Ox<strong>for</strong>d Serialised: Revisiting <strong>the</strong> Huxley-Willber<strong>for</strong>ce Controversy through <strong>the</strong><br />
Periodical <strong>Pr</strong>ess,” Nanna Kaalund, Aarhus University/ University of Toronto<br />
3. “Engineering Consent: The Scientific Rhetoric of Public Relations in Interwar USA,”<br />
Michael Kliegl, University of Kent<br />
4. “The Dilemmas of <strong>the</strong> Biological Philosopher: Herbert Spencer Jennings and <strong>the</strong><br />
Personae of Public Engagement,” Judy Johns Schloegel<br />
5. “ ‘Science in Pictures’: Rudolf Modley, Pictorial Statistics, and Telefact,” Erin McLeary,<br />
Independent scholar/exhibit developer, National Constitution Center<br />
Material Culture<br />
Chair: TBD<br />
1. “The Biography of <strong>the</strong> Blue Dye: Science, Nature and <strong>the</strong> Limits of Improvement,”,<br />
<strong>Pr</strong>akash Kumar, Colorado State University<br />
2. “Making – and Breaking – Scientific Specimens in 21st-Century Paleontology<br />
Laboratories,” Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Cambridge