Sponsored by: UCLA History of Science Colloquium, Institute for Society and Genetics, Department of History, with additional support from Dean of Social Sciences and Executive Vice-Chancellor

PLEASE NOTE:  All are welcome to the workshop.  If you want lunch though, you must sign up!  To do so, simply send an email to:  nortonwisefest@gmail.com

Coffee: 9:30 am

Morning Session (10 am to 12 pm)

Mary Terrall: UCLA

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Kevin Lambert: CSU, Fullerton

“William Thomson’s Notebooks: How to do things with notebooks in Victorian Britain.”

Theodore Arabatzis: University of Athens

“A philosophical history of the discovery of argon”

David Aubin: (UPMC, Paris)

“Around the blocks: pathways to a history of flowcharts”

Lunch (306 Royce) 

Afternoon Session (1:30 pm to 5 pm)

Suman Seth: (Cornell University)

“Polygenism in Print: John Atkins and Naval Medicine in the 1730s and 1740s”

Mi Gyung Kim: (North Carolina State University  )

“A People-Machine: Balloons and the Republican Imaginary”

Tiago Saraiva: (Drexel University)

“Heidegger’s Pigs and Dewey’s Oranges: technoscientific organisms and the writing of history of science”

Alix Hui: (Mississippi State University) and Lino Camprubi: (MPIWG, Berlin)

“Testing the Underwater Ear: Hearing, Standardizing, and Classifying Marine Sounds during the Cold War”

Norton Wise: (UCLA)

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— Organized by Mary Terrall, Suman Seth, and Kevin Lambert —