2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society
2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society
2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society
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<strong>HSS</strong> <strong>2000</strong> <strong>Program</strong><br />
Friday, 3 November<br />
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.<br />
*indicate session organizer(s)<br />
Friday, 3 November<br />
Coping with Information Overload in Early Modern Natural<br />
Philosophy<br />
(Regency West)<br />
Richard Yeo, Griffith University, A Solution to the Multitude <strong>of</strong> Books:<br />
Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopaedia (1728) as “the Best Book in the Universe”<br />
*Ann␣ M. Blair, Harvard University, Reading Strategies for Coping with<br />
Information Overload<br />
Brian␣ W. Ogilvie, University <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts, Amherst, The Many Books<br />
<strong>of</strong> Nature: How Renaissance Botanists Created and Responded to Information<br />
Overload<br />
Jonathan Sheehan, Indiana University, From Philology to the Fossil: The<br />
Biblical Encyclopedia in Early Modern Europe<br />
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Daniel Rosenberg, University <strong>of</strong> Oregon<br />
Voyages <strong>of</strong> science/The science <strong>of</strong> voyages<br />
(Stanley)<br />
*Jordan Goodman, University <strong>of</strong> Manchester Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> and<br />
Technology, Mr. Huxley’s Voyage? Making Imperial Space and Knowledge in<br />
the mid-19th Century<br />
Londa Schiebinger, Max Planck Institute for the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong>, Gender<br />
in the Voyages <strong>of</strong> Scientific Discovery<br />
Richard␣ J. Sorrenson, Indiana University, From South Col to South Pole:<br />
Sir Edmund Hillary and the British Commonwealth Expeditions to Everest<br />
and Antarctica in the 1950s<br />
Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute for the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> Medicine, Scientific<br />
Research Expeditions: Scott and the Discovery, 1901-1904<br />
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Rebecca Ullrich, Sandia National Laboratories<br />
<strong>Science</strong> in Twentieth-Century China: The Importance <strong>of</strong> Place<br />
(King George)<br />
E.␣ Elena Songster, University <strong>of</strong> California, San Diego, Forests Stand for<br />
Pandas: Scientific Forestry and Nature Reserves in Sichuan, China<br />
Grace␣ Y. Shen, Harvard University, Mining the Cave: Global Visions and<br />
Local Traditions in the Story <strong>of</strong> Peking Man<br />
*Sigrid Schmalzer, University <strong>of</strong> California, San Diego, Breeding a Modern<br />
China: The Making <strong>of</strong> the Dingxian Pig, 1929-1937<br />
Brian Greene, University <strong>of</strong> California, Los Angeles, Making the Invisible<br />
Visible: The Public Health Efforts <strong>of</strong> W. W. Peter and Tee Han Kee in Early<br />
20th Century China and The Philippines<br />
COMMENTATOR: Liang Kan, Seattle University<br />
CHAIR: Marta Hanson, University <strong>of</strong> California, San Diego<br />
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