2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

HSS 2000 Program
Friday, 3 November
3:30 p.m. — 5:30 p.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Friday, 3 November
Nature’s Empires:
Museums and the Cultivation of Knowledge in the Pacific
Part I—Exploring Meanings
Session cosponsored by the Pacific Circle
(Regency Centre)
Introduction: Roy MacLeod and Philip␣ F. Rehbock, Viewing the Pacific
through European Eyes: Constructing Meanings and Memories
Sujit␣ P. Sivasundaram, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, Objects of
this World: Missionaries, Museums and the South Pacific
Richard␣ W. Burkhardt, Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The
School for Naturalist-Voyagers
Jim Endersby, University of Cambridge, “From Having No Herbarium”: Local
Knowledge vs. Metropolitan Expertise: Joseph Hooker’s Australasian
Correspondence with William Colenso and Ronald Gunn
Janet Garber, Independent Scholar, Jane Franklin and the Natural History
Museum Idea in Tasmania
CHAIR: Roy MacLeod, University of Sydney
Prospects for a History of Social Science
Session cosponsored by the Forum for the History of Human Science
(Plaza Centre)
Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University, The Social Science Disciplines in
Europe and the U.S.: Enlarging the Historical Lens
*Theodore␣ M. Porter, University of California, Los Angeles, Project for a
History of Social Science, 1750-1890
Mitchell␣ G. Ash, University of Vienna, A Human Science? Psychology as Science
and Profession, 1850-1970
Mary␣ O. Furner, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Enlightenment
Ideal, the Social Sciences, and Governance, 1880’s-1940’s
CHAIR: Theodore␣ M. Porter, University of California, Los Angeles
A Civilizing Science:
The Political Culture of Public Health in 19th-Century France
Session cosponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine
(King George)
*Ann␣ F. La␣ Berge, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dirty
Stories: Investigative Reporting as Scientific Practice on the 19th-Century French
Health Councils
David␣ S. Barnes, Harvard University, Street-Level Etiologies: The Political
and Cultural Stakes of “Local Knowledge” in French Public Health, 1880-1900
Cherilyn␣ M. Lacy, Hartwick College, Science Marches across the Threshold:
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