2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

HSS 2000 Program
Friday, 3 November
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Friday, 3 November
Coping with Information Overload in Early Modern Natural
Philosophy
(Regency West)
Richard Yeo, Griffith University, A Solution to the Multitude of Books:
Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopaedia (1728) as “the Best Book in the Universe”
*Ann␣ M. Blair, Harvard University, Reading Strategies for Coping with
Information Overload
Brian␣ W. Ogilvie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, The Many Books
of Nature: How Renaissance Botanists Created and Responded to Information
Overload
Jonathan Sheehan, Indiana University, From Philology to the Fossil: The
Biblical Encyclopedia in Early Modern Europe
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Daniel Rosenberg, University of Oregon
Voyages of science/The science of voyages
(Stanley)
*Jordan Goodman, University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology, Mr. Huxley’s Voyage? Making Imperial Space and Knowledge in
the mid-19th Century
Londa Schiebinger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Gender
in the Voyages of Scientific Discovery
Richard␣ J. Sorrenson, Indiana University, From South Col to South Pole:
Sir Edmund Hillary and the British Commonwealth Expeditions to Everest
and Antarctica in the 1950s
Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Scientific
Research Expeditions: Scott and the Discovery, 1901-1904
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Rebecca Ullrich, Sandia National Laboratories
Science in Twentieth-Century China: The Importance of Place
(King George)
E.␣ Elena Songster, University of California, San Diego, Forests Stand for
Pandas: Scientific Forestry and Nature Reserves in Sichuan, China
Grace␣ Y. Shen, Harvard University, Mining the Cave: Global Visions and
Local Traditions in the Story of Peking Man
*Sigrid Schmalzer, University of California, San Diego, Breeding a Modern
China: The Making of the Dingxian Pig, 1929-1937
Brian Greene, University of California, Los Angeles, Making the Invisible
Visible: The Public Health Efforts of W. W. Peter and Tee Han Kee in Early
20th Century China and The Philippines
COMMENTATOR: Liang Kan, Seattle University
CHAIR: Marta Hanson, University of California, San Diego
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