Schedule

2026 IU HPSC Graduate Conference Schedule

Scientific Authority: The Role of Instruments and Institutions

April 11th, 2026

Woodburn Hall, Room 200 (1100 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN 47406)

10:00am - 10:30am

BREAKFAST

10:30am - 10:40am

Introductory Remarks

10:40am - 11:40am

KEYNOTE: Dr. Judith Houck

Examining the Women’s Health Movement: Instruments, Identities, Authority, and Institutions

11:40am - 12:10pm

Avery Banerjee

Reclaiming or Reframing Science? Decolonisation, Institutional Authority, and Scientific Temper in India

12:10pm - 12:40pm

Yuqi Sun

Small Changes in 18th-Century Surveying Instruments

12:40pm - 1:40pm

LUNCH

1:40pm - 1:50pm

Post-lunch remarks

1:50pm - 2:20pm

Qiong Wu

Epidemic Performance: Internalized Orientalism and The Decoupling of the Qing’s Manchurian Plague Policy, 1910-1911

2:20pm - 2:50pm

Alexandra Noi

Carceral Science as Simulation: Research on Nutrition and Labor in the Soviet Prison Camps

2:50pm - 3:00pm

SHORT BREAK

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Kinzie Gameleldin

Reconceptualizing Social Objectivity for Psychiatric Epistemology

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Sam Duckworth, Shane Tucker, and Ashley Edwards

A History of Mathematics at Indiana University, 1890-1990

4:00pm - 5:30pm

CONFERENCE END/BREAK

5:30pm - 7:00pm

DINNER @ UPTOWN CAFE - for speakers only 

(102 E Kirkwood Ave)