2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Saturday, 4 November
HSS 2000 Program
Theory Comes West:
The Beginnings of Theoretical Astrophysics in Western America
(Regency West)
David␣ H. DeVorkin, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution,
Bringing Theory to Mount Wilson in the 1920s
Donald␣ E. Osterbrock, University of California, Santa Cruz, Herman Zanstra,
Donald Menzel, and the Zanstra Method of Nebular Astrophysics
*Karl Hufbauer, University of California, Irvine, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s
Path to Black Holes
COMMENTATOR: Robert Smith, University of Alberta
CHAIR: Peggy Kidwell, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution
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Saturday, 4 November
3:30 p.m.—5:30 p.m.
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Science in National and Transnational Contexts
(Regency Centre)
Jorge␣ Canizares Esguerra, SUNY, Buffalo, Postcolonial Nature: Nature
Narratives and Nation-Building in 19th-Century Latin America
Eckhardt Fuchs, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, The
Mechanics of Transnational Science: The Escuela Internacional de Arqueologia
y Etnologia Americanas (EIAEA) and the Scientific Exploration of Pre-
Columbian Mexico
*Fa-ti Fan, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Nature and
National Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century China
Juliette Chung, Harvard University, Transnational Science: the Japanese
Establishment of Shanghai Natural Science Institute and the Knowledge of
Taxonomy in China, 1923-1945
CHAIR: Harold␣ J. Cook, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
The Science and Spectacle of Man:
Popularization and Professional Debates in American Anthropology
(Prince of Wales)
Kevin␣ J. Francis, University of Minnesota, Popularization and the Role of
Humans in late Pleistocene Extinctions, 1927-1957
Juliet␣ M. Burba, University of Minnesota, Collecting for “The Science of
Man”: Expeditions and Expositions in Physical Anthropology
Michael␣ F. Robinson, University of Wisconsin, Chicago’s Eskimo Village:
Reconsidering Race at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
COMMENTATOR: Henrika Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
CHAIR: Alison Wylie, Washington University
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