Meeting of the American Philosophical Society

Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 9:00am to Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 5:00pm

Philadelphia, PA

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Working Group Events

November 1, 2019

Medicine and Health

Elise Mitchell, New York University, speaking on "Smallpox Inoculation, Slavery, and Kinship in the Atlantic World."
November 5, 2019

Early Modern Science

Our second meeting will cover "Part II: Vision" in Science in the Age of Baroque.
November 6, 2019

Earth and Environmental Sciences

We will discuss selections from two related and recently published books:

Pablo Gomez, The Experiential Carribean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Cameron Strang, Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

The two authors will open the discussion with comments on each other's books.
November 7, 2019

Biological Sciences

Please join us to meet with Gina Surita, Princeton University PhD student. Her paper "The Power of Phosphate: Making and Breaking Bonds in Wartime" is now posted.
November 13, 2019

History and Philosophy of Science

de Regt, Understanding Scientific Understanding
Chapter 4
November 19, 2019

Technology

Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware, "Dorothy Brett's 'Ear Machines': Disability, Technology and Representation"
December 3, 2019

Early Modern Science

Our final meeting for the fall will cover "Part III: Excess" in Science in the Age of Baroque.
December 4, 2019

Earth and Environmental Sciences

We will discuss a chapter in progress by Mary Richie McGuire (Virginia Tech) from her project “Translating Natural Knowledge in the Age of Revolution: Tobacco, Science, and the Rights of Man and Nature in the Art of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795 to 1820."
December 5, 2019

Biological Sciences

TBA
December 6, 2019

Medicine and Health

TBA
December 11, 2019

History and Philosophy of Science

de Regt, Understanding Scientific Understanding
TBD (selected from Chapters 5-7)

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