2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Friday, 3 November
HSS 2000 Program
Ellen␣ J. Valle, University of Turku, Finland, From Sloane to Owen: Epistolary
Episodes in the Construction of Natural History
Aileen Fyfe, University of Cambridge, Industrialised Conversion: Publishing
popular science and religion in Victorian Britain
CHAIR: H.␣ F. Cohen, University of Twente
Redefining Physics:
Science, Culture, and Politics in the 20th Century East Asia
(Balmoral)
*Kenji Ito, Harvard University, “Culture of Calculating”: Theory and Practice
of Theoretical Physics in the 1920s Japan
Dong-Won Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Why
Physics? The Conflicting Role and Image of Physics in South Korea
Danian Hu, Yale University, The “Great Proletarian Scientific Revolution”:
Einstein and his Relativity during China’s Cultural Revolution
COMMENTATOR: James␣ R. Bartholomew, Ohio State University
CHAIR: Martin␣ J. Klein, Yale University
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Exploring the Earth: Conceptual and Economic Infrastructures,
1650—1900
(Lord Byron)
Andre Wakefield, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
Science and Silver in the Mines of Central Europe, 1650-1850
Alexey␣ V. Kuprijanov, The S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science
and Technology, Natural History in Russia before the 1860s: Conceptual and
Institutional Developments
Brian␣ C. Shipley, Dalhousie University, “My fact, therefore, I now consider
established beyond controversy”: William E. Logan, the Origin of Coal Debate,
and the Writing of the History of Geology
Steven␣ W. Ruskin, University of Notre Dame, Private Science, Public
Imagination, and the Ambitions of Empire: Perceptions of John Herschel’s
Cape Voyage, 1833-1838
CHAIR: Ernst Hamm, York University
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