Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
Friday, May 3, 2013 10:00 am EDT
May 3 & 4 Organized by Dominique A. Tobbell, PhD, assistant professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota In May 2013, the Department of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania will be hosting a symposium to celebrate the career and scholarship of Professor Ruth Schwartz Cowan. The theme of the two-day symposium will be to highlight the scholarship of senior and early career scholars who work at the multiple intersections of the histories of science, technology, medicine, genetics, and gender. In this way, the symposium will not only celebrate the important interdisciplinary work that Professor Cowan has done but will also promote the work of early career scholars, something to which Professor Cowan is very committed. The speakers will be Robert Kohler (University of Pennsylvania), Deborah Coen (Barnard College), Daniel Kevles (Yale University), Helen Curry (Cambridge University), Paul Lombardo (Georgia State College of Law), Lara Marks (King’s College London), Alison Kraft (University of Exeter), Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh), and Caitlin Zaloom (New York University). For more information, to register, and a complete schedule, please visit the HSS page. Session A: Ways of Knowing in the Field Sciences
- “Resident observing in field science.”
Rob Kohler, PhD
Professor
Department of History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania - “The Regionalizing Sciences.”
Deborah Coen
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Barnard College
Session B: The Science and Culture of Horticultural Practice
- “Fruits of the American Vine: Sex, Property, and Etiquette in mid-Nineteenth Century Horticulture.”
Daniel Kevles, PhD
Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Professor of History of Medicine, American Studies, and Law
Department of History
Yale University - “Gamma Rays and Garden Flowers: American Horticulture Encounters the Atomic Age.”
Helen Anne Curry, PhD
University Lecturer
Department of the History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Session C: Dangerous Reproductions
- “Crime, Eugenics and the Honeymoon Homicide of 1936.”
Paul Lombardo, PhD, JD
Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law
Georgia State University College of Law - “The History of Early Pregnancy Loss.”
Lara Freidenfelds, PhD
Independent Scholar
Session D: The Making of Biomedical Technologies
- “Going beyond the bench: The first clinical applications of monoclonal antibodies.”
Lara Marks, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
King’s College London - “Bombs, blood, borders: Radiostrontium – a biography.”
Alison Kraft, PhD
Egenis Research Fellow
University of Exeter
Session E: Technologies and Expertise in Financial Markets
- “ABS CDOs: A Historical Sociology of Toxic Assets.”
Donald MacKenzie, PhD
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Edinburgh - “The Paradox of Personal Finance.”
Caitlin M. Zaloom, PhD
Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
New York University