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Thursday
3:30-5:30 PM
Fact, Fiction, and Popular Science
In Captivity: Animal Models and Metaphors in the Modern Era
Knowledge is Power? Scientific Practices, Geographies, and the Territorial
Romanticism and Science
Science on the North American Frontier
The Politics of Science in the Federal Government
The Royal Society and Early Modern Visual Culture
6:00-7:30 PM
Science and the Citizen in the 21st Cenutry
Friday
9:00 - 11:45 AM
‘Improvisation is the Rule, and Flexibility an Absolute Necessity’: The His
Choices and Challenges in 19th and 20th Century Genetics
Education and Its Audience: Crafting Pedagogy in Science, Technology, Mathe
Natural Things and Their Environments: Early Modernity
Protean Matters
Public Health in Global Contexts
Scientific Intimacies
Technē and Training
The Climate Sciences and Imperial Expansion in the Atlantic World
The Edge of Human
Physical Sciences Forum Business Meeting and Distinguished Lecture
What's the Difference? Comparative Approaches in the Life Sciences
Working and Knowing with Paper I: Paper Panopticism
12:00 - 1:15 PM
Physical Sciences Forum Business Meeting and Distinguished Lecture
Roundtable: Business History and the History of Science
Roundtable: Diversifying the Profession: Perspectives on Diversity
Roundtable: Rethinking Histories of Science and Medicine
1:30 - 3:30 PM
Computing and Science: Applications and Influences
Digital Humanities and the Physical Sciences
Improving Early Modern and Modern Agriculture through Science
Roundtable: Experiencing the Global Environment
Roundtable: Perspectives on the Bacteriophages at 100
Science and the State I: Anthropology During the Cold War
Science Education in the United States
Taking the Long View: Time and Space in the Study of Ecological Change
Thinking with Preindustrial Machines
Towards a Genealogy of Scientific Misconduct
Vertical Sciences and the Vertical in Science
Working and Knowing With Paper II: Shifts, Transfer, and Circulation
3:45 - 5:45 PM
Deploying Material Evidence
Eugenics, Medicine and Race
Evidence and Priority in Physics: Studies of Electromagnetic Waves
Science for Whom? Popularization for What Purpose?
How Evolutionary Perspectives Reshaped the Sciences of Man and Aesthetics
Instruments and Identity
Remaking Boundaries: Astronomy and Astrophysics in Britain 1867-1907
Science and the State II: Cold War Economic Orders
Science in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
Specimens and Artifacts: Objects of Evidence in the Life Sciences
The Production and Reception of Science and Religion Narratives
The Roles of Assumptions in Shaping the History of Science
7:00 - 8:00 PM
HSS Distinguished Lecture
8:00 - 9:00 PM
HSS Poster Reception
Saturday
9:00 - 11:45 AM
(Un)Enlightened Colonial Bodies: Medical Geography and Geographies
Creating and Changing Scientific Institutions
Economic Knowledge for Socialism
Flashtalks
Hospitable Subjects: Indigenous hospitalities in the history of science
Life Forms
Making and Knowing in the Biological Sciences
Making their Own Waves: One Hundred Years of Women's Activism in Science
Natural Things Beyond Their Environments: Modernity and Alienation
Pacific Frontiers of American Science & Technology
Pre-Modern Experiences and the Limits of Science
Towards a Media History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Transformations and Translations: Science in Korea
Works and Networks in pre-Copernican Astronomy
12:00 - 1:15 PM
Forum for History of Human Science Distinguished Lecture
1:30 - 2:30 PM
The 2017 Elizabeth Paris Public Engagement Event
2:45 - 4:45 PM
After Origin: Rethinking Darwin's Ideas and Their Reception
Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Correcting the Record: Women in Biology, Chemistry, and Public Health
German Biology and its Legacy (I): Reassessing Kant and Blumenbach
Making Modern Organic Time
Pharmacology and Plant Medicine in Global Context
Reinterpreting Maritime Science and Navigation
Scientific and Engineering Internationalism
Sex and Medico-Legal Expertise
The Emergence of Atmospheric Science
Virtual Realities: Libraries and 19th-Century Science and Mathematics
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Authority and Chemistry in Europe
Canadian Science, Commerce, and Public Health
Cultures and Politics of Astronomy
Drawing Conclusions: Case Studies in Visual Representation
Feeling, Sensation, and Perception in Global Context
Islamic Science in Theory, Teaching, and Practice
Music and Acoustics in Science
Nutrition Science in Europe and North America
On Display: Museums in Twentieth-Century North America
Psychology and Its Disciplines in the Twentieth Century
The Institutions and Popular Cultures of Microscopy
Transforming the Species: Evolutionary Ideas in the Enlightenment
Sunday
10:00 - 12:00 PM
Astronomical Phenomena in the Nineteenth Century
Between Utility and Discipline in Interwar Physics
Biology at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Historicizing Resource Management
Living Physics, Electricity, and Science Popularization
Making early modern medicine
Making Legitimate Science
Science as Politics in the Nuclear Age
Structure Across the Disciplines
The History and Historiography of Ottoman Science
Abstracts | HSS 2017
7:00 - 8:00 PM
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