Program

Columbia History of Science Group

41st Annual Meeting

Friday Harbor Labs

March 10-11, 2023

Friday, March 10

4:45-5:45 Nancy & Norman Benson Keynote Lecture (Commons)

Kristin Johnson, University of Puget Sound

Farberian Traditions: Teaching the History of Natural History, Evolution, & Evolutionary Ethics

Keith Bengtsson, Introduction and Comments

5:45-6:30 Evening Reception (Commons)

6:30-7:00 Dinner Served (Dining Hall)

Saturday, March 11

8:00-8:30    Breakfast Served (Dining Hall)

9:00-10:00  Session I – Chaired by Kathryn Olesko

Preetham Sridharan, University of Oregon   

Enchanted Tongues: The Idea of a Perfect Language and Religion in German Romantic Thought from Hamann to the Brothers Schlegel (1760-1840)

Jacob Green, UCLA       

Psychedelic Research and the 19th Century Scholars who Finally Understood Hegel, Berkeley and Fichte after Breathing Nitrous Oxide

10:00-10:15   Break

10:15-11:45   Session II – Chaired by Erik Conway

Robert Brain, University of British Columbia-Vancouver

A Cold War Quest for Soil-Less Food: Warren Weaver, Aldous Huxley, and Others

Devin Short, University of Washington

Finding Work: On Collaboration and the History of Climate Science

Cecilia Slane, University of Oklahoma

Naturalizing Oil: Ecology and Oil in the Alaskan Arctic

11:45-12:00 The Future of CHSG – an overview

12:00-12:30   Lunch Served (Dining Hall)

1:15-2:15    Session III – Chaired by Piers Hale

Peter Wimberger, Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound

Stanley Jewett – Unearthing the Legacy of an Extraordinary Naturalist

Chris Young, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Hidden Valley, Remote Harbor, Abandoned Shack: Place in the Naturalist Tradition

2:15-2:30    Break

2:30-3:30     Session IV – Chaired by Amy Fisher

Diane B Paul, University of Massachusetts Boston  

In the Name of Anti-Eugenics: History as a Political Resource in Struggles over Abortion

Jiemin Tina Wei. Harvard University

M.M. Canavan and E.E. Southard: Grief, Eugenics, and Memorialization Through Science

3:30-5:30     Afternoon Exercises

5:30-6:30     Evening Reception (Commons)

6:00-6:30 – Discuss the Future of CHSG (Commons)

6:30…            Milosian Banquet (Dining Hall, Black-Tie Optional, Dinner served 6:30-7:00)

Sunday, March 12

*NOTE CHANGE TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME*

8:00-8:30  Breakfast Served (Dining Hall)

Ferries 

Depart Friday Harbor Arrive at Anacortes

6:25am-8:40am

8:00am-9:05am

11:10am-1:25 pm         

11:55am-1:00 pm

2:50pm-5:00pm (foot passengers only)

4:30pm-5:35pm

5:25pm-7:40pm

7:50pm-8:55pm

9:50pm-11:55pm

Program Committee 

Piers Hale

Kevin Francis

Melinda Gormley 

Thank you!

CHSG is grateful for ongoing support from:

The Elva & Andy Osborne Wine Trust

The Nancy & Norman Benson Fund

STS Program, University of Puget Sound