2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Friday, 3 November
HSS 2000 Program
From Public Health to Domestic Hygiene in Nineteenth-Century France
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Martha Hildreth, University of Nevada, Reno
Authority, Originality, Piracy: Histories of Intellectual Property
(Regency West)
Mario Biagioli, Harvard University, Inventions, Instruments, and Discoveries:
Priority and ‘Intellectual Property’ in Galileo’s Venice
*Ken Alder, Northwestern University, “PASCAL DEFEATS NEWTON!” Or,
Originality and Verisimilitude in History and Science
Adrian␣ D. Johns, University of California, San Diego, What We Can Learn
from the History of Piracy
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science
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Science and National Politics in Twentieth-Century Yugoslavia
(Oxford Room)
Ljubinka Trgovcevic, Historical Institute, Belgrade, Science of Borders: The
Uses of Jovan Cvijic’s Geography at the Paris Peace Conference 1919-20
*Vladimir Jankovic, University of Manchester, Fear and Medical Politics of
the 1999 Solar Eclipse in Serbia
Marija Sesic, Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade, The Electrical
Icon: National Appropriations of Nikola Tesla, 1945-1999
COMMENTATOR: Gale Stokes, Rice University
CHAIR: Ron Doel, Oregon State University
Polemics, Philosophy, and Experiment in Chymistry
(Plaza West)
William Newman, Indiana University, The Fire-Analysis Debate Before Boyle
and Van Helmont
Bruce␣ T. Moran, University of Nevada, Reno, Libavius, Polemics & Alchemy:
The Transmutation of Emotion and Rationality
*Alice Stroup, Bard College, Duclos on Boyle: A French Academician Criticizes
“Certain Physiological Essays”
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Lawrence␣ M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Progressive Science and Technology: The Role of Scientists and
Engineers in the American Progressive Movement
(Balmoral)
*Christian␣ C. Young, Mount Angel Seminary, American Wildlife Organizations
in the Progressive Era
*Mark␣ A. Largent, Oregon State University, Biological Justifications for
Progressive Reform
Jennifer␣ K. Alexander, University of Minnesota, Engineers, Charlatans, and
Progressive Efficiency
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Barbara␣ A. Kimmelman, Philadelphia University
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