2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Friday, 3 November
Friday, 3 November
1:30 p.m.—3:10 p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
HSS 2000 Program
State-Sponsored Science during the Cold War
(King George)
Audra␣ J. Wolfe, University of Pennsylvania, Protecting Turfs (Literally):
Negotiating the Meanings of Exobiology at the Dawn of the Space Age
Ulf von␣ Rauchhaupt, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Colorful
Clouds: West Germany’s First Steps into Experimental Space Science in the
Early 1960s
Gerard␣ J. Fitzgerald, Carnegie Mellon University, “Mechanization through
Standardization,” Bacteriological Engineers and Biological Weapons at
LOBUND, 1928-1955
Rebecca␣ P. Schwartz, Princeton University, Writing the Authorized Biography
of the Manhattan Project: Harry DeWolf Smyth and the Smyth Report
CHAIR: Nadine Weidman, Harvard University
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Expanding Conceptions of the Scientific Revolution
(Prince of Wales)
Maurice␣ A. Finocchiaro, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Giordano Bruno,
1600-2000
David␣ N. Harley, University of Notre Dame, “The Scientific Revolution”:
Boxing for England?
Eric␣ J. Palmer, Allegheny College, A Philosophical Education Program:
Descartes selon l’ordre des recitations
Jongtae Lim, Harvard, Yenching Institute, Taming the Spherical Earth and
“Globalizing” the Traditional Cosmology in the Late Choson Dynasty Korea
CHAIR: Sheila Rabin, St. Peter’s College
Science, Culture and Weltanschauung in Interwar Europe
(Plaza East)
Cristina Chimisso, Open University, UK , Hélène Metzger: The History of
Science between the History of Mentalities and Total History
Sofie Lachapelle, University of Notre Dame, Materializing Authority: The
1922 Psychical Experiments at the Sorbonne
Susan␣ M. Lanzoni, Harvard University, On the Common Ground of
Experience: Ludwig Binswanger’s Phenomenological Psychopathology
Deborah␣ R. Coen, Harvard University, Taking Nature’s Pulse: The Place of
the Organic in Austrian Physics
CHAIR: Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University
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