2018 Meeting Information
61st Annual Meeting
April 13 – 15, 2018
University of Minnesota
Pre-Junto Colloquium: Those who arrive early and wish are welcome to join the University of Minnesota HSTM and Philosophy of Science community for the “Friday Colloquium,” which will be held at 155 Nicholson Hall on the UM East Bank campus in Minneapolis (pretty much westward down University Avenue from the Junto hotel a number of blocks, but walkable if you area walker). The 13 April speaker will be Larry Principe (Johns Hopkins University), speaking on: William Homberg’s Laboratories and Instruments: Doing Chymistry in Early Modern France”
There will be no formal Junto reception Friday night, owing to the complexity of the above event and the business of local venues on Friday nights during the school year. If you want to meet informally, I can recommend Stub and Herb’s at the corner of Washington and Oak Street. Surly Brewery is about 4 short blocks from the hotel, but I was there Monday night and was assured by the staff that it will be packed on Friday and a difficult social space to negotiate. You can buy some Surly beers and ales at Stub and Herb’s and the bar menu is cheaper, more extensive, and much more gluten friendly than Surly’s. Other campus food and beverage menus abound in the university area, as you can imagine, but for a calmer, alcohol-free dinner, I can especially recommend the Caspian Bistro (Persian food and deli) on University Avenue, near the Washington Avenue intersection, which is four blocks west of the Hampton Inn on University Avenue.
SATURDAY 14 April at 555 Diehl Hall next to the University/Fairview Hospital on campus. Enter the building from grade level outside (third floor) or via the tunnel (second floor) and take the elevator to the fifth floor. 555 Diehl is adjacent to the Wangensteen Historical Library, which is opposite the elevator.
8:15 a.m. Meet for coffee and light breakfast items at 555 Diehl Hall
Session 1, 9:00-10:00 Communicating Knowledge in Words
- David Seim, University of Wisconsin–Stout: Globalizing a History of Science Survey Course at UW–Stout
- Bonnie Gidzak, University of Minnesota: The Baltimore Atomic Energy Institute and Public Engagement with the Atom
Coffee Break 10:00-10:30
Session 2, 10:30-12 Communicating Knowledge without Words
- Adam Borrego, University of Minnesota: ‘Materiall wisdom, in the form of a fiery drink’: Natural Knowledge, Prophecy, and the Alchemical Elixir in Robert Fludd’s Mosaicall Philosophy (1959) and Truth’s Golden Harrow
- Adam Fix, University of Minnesota: Esperienza, Teacher of All Things: The Musical Art-Science of Vincenzo Galilei
- Peter Ramberg, Truman State University: Chemistry as part of “Grand Narratives” in the History of Science
12-2:00 p.m. Lunch break on own; some nearby venues are good.
Session 3, 2:00-3:30 Biology and Medicine in the New World
- Luis Felipe Eguiarte Souza, University of Minnesota: The Viable System Model: Governing Through Analogy and the Principles of Biological Control
- Paul K. Vieth, University of Oklahoma: Epistemic Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism:
Interactions Between Imported American Techno-Scientific Agronomy and Indigenous Agroecology in Green Revolution Mexico, 1943-1979 - David Korostoshevsky, University of Minnesota: Gordon Wasson’s Mexican Trip: Gender, Indigeneity, and the Discovery of Magic Mushrooms
- Maria Sánchez Daza, Laboratoire ICT, University Paris Diderot (France): Mineral Remedies in the Mines of the Viceroyalty of Peru
Coffee Break 3:30-4:00
- Session 4, 4:00-5:30 Collecting and Exchanging
Jieun Shin, University of Minnesota: The Politics of Display: Planning the National Air and Space Museum, 1972-1976 - Ann Campbell, Drexel University: The American Type Culture Collection; Microbiology as Organismal Biology and Natural History Collections in the Age of Molecular Genetics
- Anna Amramina, University of Minnesota: ‘Thank You for Transformers’: The Post-WWII American-Soviet Scientific Exchange Program
5:30-6:00 We will set up the buffet, etc; conference attendees welcome to visit the exhibit in the Wangensteen Library next door
6:00-7:30 Buffet dinner in 555 Diehl Hall (the conference room)
7:30-8:30 After dinner academic presentation by Jole Shackelford, Der Stumpfsinn des dreimal täglich: Chromatophores and the History of Chronopharmacology
8:30 Quit the library for the bars or public venue of choice, on your own.
SUNDAY 15 April at 555 Diehl Hall
9:30 a.m. Meet for coffee and light breakfast items at 555 Diehl Hall.
Session 5, 10:00-11 Natural theology, ethics, and entomology
- Brent Purkaple, University of Oklahoma: ‘For Now We See in a Mirror Dimly’: OpticalIllusions and Natural Theology in the Jesuit Order
- Jessica Olson, University of Minnesota: Tularemia in the Lab and the Field: How Biomedical and Entomological Methodologies Couple in Understanding the Incidence and Prevalenceof Vector-Borne Zoonotic Diseases
11:00 a.m. All done! Safe travels.
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