2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Thursday, 2 November
HSS 2000 Program
HSS 2000 PROGRAM
Thursday, 2 November
Plenary Session
5:00 p.m.—7:00 p.m.
Particularity and its Problems
Heinrich von␣ Staden, Institute for Advanced Study, ‘For the most part...’
particularity and the language of exception in ancient science
Kathryn Olesko, Georgetown University, Aesthetic Precision: Particularity
and Social Fact
Robert Kohler, University of Pennsylvania, Particularity in Field Biology
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Andrew Warwick, Imperial College
ORGANIZERS: Thomas␣ H. Broman, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lynn␣ K.
Nyhart, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and John␣ Harley Warner, Yale
University
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Reception
7:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m.
(Hyatt Hotel, Regency Centre)
Reception
7:30 p.m.—9:30 p.m.
(Museum of Anthropology—Ticketed Admission)
Hosted by the President’s Office of the University of British Columbia, this
reception complements the special sessions, “Nature’s Empires: Museums
and the Cultivation of Knowledge in the Pacific.”
(Buses will be at the Melville Street Entrance)
Friday, 3 November
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Crafting Knowledge, Defining Nation:
Science and Identity in Canadian History
(Plaza East)
*Edward Jones-Imhotep, Harvard University, Ionograms, Identity, and the
‘Idea of North’
Stephen Bocking, Trent University, Science, Politics, and Perceptions of the
Arctic Environment
Suzanne Zeller, Wilfrid Laurier University, Elective Affinities: National
Identity and Early Timber Researches at McGill University, 1894-1910
CHAIR: Ronald␣ L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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