2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

HSS 2000 Program
Saturday, 4 November
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.
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Saturday, 4 November
Astronomy and Its Histories: A Session in Honor of Owen Gingerich
(Plaza East)
Robert␣ S. Westman, University of California, San Diego, Kepler’s Early
Astrological Problematic
Sara Schechner, Harvard University, Material Culture of Astronomy in Daily
Life: Sundials, Science, and Social Change
*James␣ R. Voelkel, Johns Hopkins University and Owen Gingerich, Harvard
University, Giovanni Antonio Magini’s ‘Keplerian’ Tables of 1614 and Their
Implications for the Early Reception of Keplerian Astronomy
Joann Eisberg, University of California, Santa Barbara, Making a Science
of Observational Cosmology: The Cautious Optimism of Beatrice Tinsley
COMMENTATOR: Owen Gingerich, Harvard, Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CHAIR: Richard␣ L. Kremer, Dartmouth College
North-South Scientific Relations During the Cold War
(Plaza Centre)
*Tanya␣ J. Levin, Johns Hopkins University, Winning the Hearts and Minds
of Third World Peoples: US Oceanography During the Cold War
Hebe Vessuri, Venezuela Institute of Scientific Research, Venezuelan Oil and
the Building Up of National Science and Technology in the Cold War
*Alexis De␣ Greiff, Imperial College and the National Astronomical
Observatory of Colombia, The North-South Exchange Viewed from the
Boundary: Abdus Salam’s Conception of Scientific Internationalism During
the Cold War
COMMENTATOR: John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
CHAIR: Zuoyue Wang, California State University, Pomona
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Saturday, 4 November
1:30 p.m.—3:10 p.m.
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Laboratory Science and Contingent Knowledge
in American Veterinary Medicine
(Brighton)
Philip␣ M. Teigen, National Library of Medicine, Science, Society, and Culture
in the Establishment of the Harvard School of Veterinary Medicine
Olivia Walling, University of Minnesota, The Intellectual and Social Life of
Nineteenth Century Laboratory Methods, A Longhorn View
*Susan␣ D. Jones, University of Colorado, Creating a Scientific Context for
Contingent Knowledge in Veterinary Medicine
COMMENTATOR AND CHAIR: Barbara Rosenkrantz, Harvard University