JOINT MEETING BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ...

Friday, 13 July
TOWARD A GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL/TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF
SPACEFLIGHT
AMADA RECITAL HALL (IRVINE, 1ST FLOOR)
Gregory Good, Center for History of Physics, Cold War Science at the Last Frontier:
Messing with and Measuring the Magnetosphere
Linda Richards, Starfish, International Law, and Human Rights
Audra Wolfe, Independent Scholar, Private to Public: The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
and the Changing Character of American Scientific Diplomacy
Commentator and Chair: *Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum,
Smithsonian Institution
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Tour of the Mütter Museum of Medical History
The tour is by pre-registration only. As of the time of this printing, all slots were filled.
You may inquire at the registration desk about any last-minute openings.
Meet at 10:00 at the Museum in Mitchell Hall (a 1-mile walk, accessible by the Green
Subway Surface Line; see directions below) for a short film about the College and its
collections. The film will be followed by a 1 hour and 15 minute tour of the Mütter’s
holdings in the history of science and medicine.
Directions to Mitchell Hall: Board the inbound Green Subway Surface Trolley at 36th or
37th Street (both on the Penn Campus). Get off at 22 nd and Market; the entrance to the
building is on 22 nd Street about 50 yards south of this stop.
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
ANCIENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Jacqueline Feke, Stanford University, Meta-mathematical Rhetoric
Elizabeth Hamm, Saint Mary’s College of California, Ptolemy’s Visual Theory Applied
to Astronomy
Zena Kamash, University of Oxford, Exploring the Archaeology of Light in Roman
Britain
Chair: Zena Kamash, University of Oxford
IN THE LIBRARY
AMADA RECITAL (IRVINE, 1ST FLOOR)
Jennifer Steenshorne, Columbia University, Catalogus Bibliothecae Historico-Naturalis
Josephi Banks: Joseph Banks as Book Collector and Corpus Creator
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