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Friday, 13 July
SCIENCE IN THE PRESS
GOLKIN (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Iain Watts, Princeton University, Information Circuits: Galvanism and the International
Dissemination of Scientific News during the Napoleonic Wars
Nanna Kaalund, Aarhus University, University of Toronto, Oxford Serialised:
Revisiting the Huxley-Willberforce Controversy through the Periodical Press
Michael Kliegl, University of Kent, Engineering Consent: The Scientific Rhetoric of
Public Relations in Interwar USA
Judy Johns Schloegel, The Dilemmas of the Biological Philosopher: Herbert Spencer
Jennings and the Personae of Public Engagement
Erin McLeary, Independent scholar/exhibit developer, National Constitution Center,
“Science in Pictures”: Rudolf Modley, Pictorial Statistics, and Telefact
Chair: Marilyn Gaull, Boston University
SCIENTIFIC ETHOS AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE LONG NINETEENTH
CENTURY
CLASS OF ‘49 (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Elise Lipkowitz, University of Michigan, France’s European Empire and the Eclipse of
Cosmopolitan Science
Theresa Levitt, University of Mississippi, “The Glory of the Corps of Roads and
Bridges”: Augustin Fresnel and the Ethos of Civil Engineering in Restoration France
Alex Csiszar, Harvard University, Cultures of Discovery and Priorities of Publication in
1840s France and Britain
Michael Gordin, Princeton University, The Universal Language of the Slavs: German
and the Identity of Russian Chemistry
Chair: *Elise Lipkowitz, University of Michigan
SEEING AND BELIEVING: THE IMPORTANCE OF MECHANISMS IN HUMAN AND
MEDICAL GENETICS
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Nathaniel Comfort, Johns Hopkins University, Genetics without Sex: Going Molecular
in Human Genetics
Andrew Hogan, University of Pennsylvania, Stabilizing the ‘Fragile X’: Analyzing the
Integration of Newly Visible Genetic Markers with Existing Clinical Disorders (1969-
1989)
*Judith Friedman, National Institutes of Health, Science Fiction to Science Fact: The
Role of a Biological Mechanism in Validating Genetic Anticipation
Jessica Mozersky, University of Pennsylvania, Collective History as a Mechanism to
Explain Genetic Risk of Breast Cancer among High-Risk Ashkenazi Jewish Women
Commentator and Chair: Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania
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