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Thursday, 12 July
Sue Hemmens, Marsh’s Library, Dublin, “As Good a Laboratory as Can Be Desired”:
The Chymical Correspondence of William and Thomas Molyneux
Chair: Joy Harvey, Independent Women Scholars Society
WHAT IS THE OBJECT OF THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY?
AMADA RECITAL HALL (IRVINE, 1ST FLOOR)
Mi Gyung Kim, North Carolina State University, Stabilizing Chemical Objects
Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire, Historiography and Disciplinary Identity:
The Case of Humphry Davy
Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge, History of Chemistry: Benefits for Chemical
Philosophy, Science, and Education
Commentator: Michael Gordin, Princeton University
Chair: *Carin Berkowitz, Chemical Heritage Foundation
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break (Houston Hall Reading Room)
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
EGALITARIANISM AND POPULAR SCIENCE: THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY
OF ASHLEY MONTAGU
GOLKIN (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Gregory Radick, University of Leeds, Between McCarthy and the Modern Synthesis:
Ashley Montagu’s Problems with Darwinism
Jennifer Brown, University of Pennsylvania, “All He Does Is Play Himself”: Ashley
Montagu on the Television Talk Show Circuit
*Peter Sachs Collopy, University of Pennsylvania, Race Relationships: Professional and
Personal Histories of the Race Concept
Commentator: Andrew Fearnley, Edge Hill University
Chair: Henrika Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
FIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES: MILITARY CONFRONTATIONS WITH
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, 1876-1918
HALL OF FLAGS (HOUSTON, GROUND FLOOR)
*Elizabeth Bruton, University of Leeds, “Britannia Rules the Wireless Waves”: The
British Admiralty and Wireless, 1899-1914
Michael Kay, University of Leeds, Phone Lines on Front Lines: The Victorian Army and
the Telephone
Elizabeth Cregan, Monmouth University, Monopoly Games: The US Navy and
Domestic Wireless during World War One
Chair: Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
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