The Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology holds its delayed 55th meeting on April 9-11, 2021. Founded in 1965, the Joint Atlantic Seminar provides a welcoming forum for new scholars to present original scholarly research to their peers and faculty.
The remote format involves recorded power-point presentations of no more than 20 minutes each, which must be uploaded to the designated CHSTM site by March 31. During the actual seminar participants will respond to live questions from the assembled group.
PROGRAM
Friday April 9
4:00-5:00 pm
Welcome, Susan Lindee
Joanna Radin: Memories of the Future of the History of Biology
5:00-5:30 pm
Opening Breakout
Optional breakout groups will be open during this time for catching up.
You can move freely from room to room to socialize.
Session 1: 5:30-6:30 pm
Session Chair: Janet Browne
Liv Grjebine, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Science, Harvard University. livgrjebine@fas.harvard.edu
The Debate on Darwinism in the French popular press, 1859-1900
Henry-James Meiring, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Queensland, h.meiring@uqconnect.edu.au
Mimicking a Darwinian: The Curious Case of William Boyd Dawkins
Daniel Halverson, University of Toronto, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. daniel.halverson@mail.utoronto.ca.
“Always Reprehensible and Dangerous to the Fair Fame of Biological Science”: Biologists in the United States reject Ernst Haeckel’s Evolutionary Monism, 1874-1924
Auguste Nahas, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto auguste.nahas@mail.utoronto.ca
Cui Bono? The Continental Critique of Teleonomy and its Relevance Today
6:30-7:30 Social Hour Zoom Breakout Groups
We recommend that for the first 15 minutes of each breakout after a session, all of those in the immediately preceding session (here Session 1) join Breakout Group 1. Anyone interested in talking with them further can meet them there. There will be 11 optional Breakout Groups. All can move freely from room to room to socialize or talk about the session
Saturday April 10
Session 2 9:00-9:45 am
Session Chair: Robin Scheffler
Itamar Avneri, History of Science Department, Harvard University; and Graduate Program in Science, Technology & Society, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. itamar_avneri@fas.harvard.edu
Reinventing Nature or Preserving It? Or Maybe Both? Uncovering the Roots of De-Extinction in Conservation Biology
Jonathan Galka, History of Science, Harvard University jgalka@g.harvard.edu
Mussels, Modernity, and the Mobilization of Invertebrate Sensation
Oliver Lucier. History of Science and Medicine, Yale University. oliver.lucier@yale.edu
The Construction of a Normative Climate: Caribbean Commodities and Holdridge Life Zones 1940-1970
9:45-10:30 BREAK
We recommend that for the first 15 minutes of each breakout after a session, all of those in the immediately preceding session (here Session 2) join Breakout Group 1. Anyone interested in talking with them further can meet them there. There will be 11 optional Breakout Groups. All can move freely from room to room to socialize or talk about the session.
Session 3 10:30-11:30 am
Session Chair: Sharon Kingsland
Ryan Hearty, History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University. rhearty1@jhu.edu
Visualizing pollution: Graphic representations of how pollution affects biological diversity, 1945-1960
Caitlin Kossmann, History of Science and Medicine, Yale University caitlin.kossmann@yale.edu
Poiesis and Poetics: Self-Fashioning in Gaia and the Anthropocene
Gina Surita History of Science, Princeton University. gsurita@princeton.edu
From Cancer to Carbohydrates: Metabolic Cycles, Collaboration, and Experimentation in 1920s Biochemical Physiology
David J. Robertson, History of Science, Princeton University davidjr@princeton.edu
Thinking in Herds: Veterinarians, Epidemiologists, and the Question of Immune Populations
11:30-1:00 LUNCH BREAK
We recommend that for the first 15 minutes of each breakout after a session, all of those in the immediately preceding session (here Session 3) join Breakout Group 1. Anyone interested in talking with them further can meet them there. There will be 11 optional Breakout Groups. All can move freely from room to room to socialize, eat lunch, or talk about the session.
Session 4 1:00-2:00 pm
Session Chair: Betty Smocovitis
Brigid Prial, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
An Ape Psychologist? Sarah the Chimpanzee and ‘Theory of Mind’ Experiments
Alexander Clayton, Department of History, University of Michigan aclayt@umich.edu
“The Philosophic Bacon:” Learned Pigs and the Demi-Rational Nonhuman in Late-Eighteenth Century London
Paige Madison, Postdoctoral Fellow, Natural History Museum Denmark & University of Copenhagen. paige.madison@snm.ku.dk
A Fantastic Specimen: Debating Hobbit Bones
Brooke Penaloza-Patzak, FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of History and Sociology of Science. cbpp@sas.upenn.edu
Ancient Migration and Biogeographic Speculation during the Dawn of Modern Genetics: The Jesup Expedition, 1897-1902
2:00-2:30 BREAK
We recommend that for the first 15 minutes of each breakout after a session, all of those in the immediately preceding session (here Session 4) join Breakout Group 1. Anyone interested in talking with them further can meet them there. There will be 11 optional Breakout Groups. All can move freely from room to room to socialize or talk about the session.
Session 5: 2:30-3:15 pm
Session Chair: Henry Cowles
Katherine Contess Modern Culture & Media, Brown University. katherine_contess@brown.edu
‘Fatigue Has Its Uses’: Recovering Subjectivity’s Knowledge-Making Potential at the Harvard Fatigue Lab
Sam Schirvar, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Seeing Stress: Measurements of Mental Workload in the 1970s
Matthew Soleiman, Science Studies Program and Department of History UC San Diego
Mechanisms of Experience: Ronald Melzack, Patrick Wall, and the Gate Control Theory of Pain
3;15-3:45 BREAK
We recommend that for the first 15 minutes of each breakout after a session, all of those in the immediately preceding session (here Session 5) join Breakout Group 1. Anyone interested in talking with them further can meet them there. There will be 11 optional Breakout Groups. All can move freely from room to room to socialize or talk about the session.
Session 6: 3:45-4:45 pm
Session Chair: Sebastian Gil-Riano
Udodiri R. Okwandu, History of Science, Harvard University udodiriokwandu.com, udodiriokwandu@g.harvard.edu
Violence and the (Black) Brain: Law and Order Politics and Biomedicalization of Urban Rioting, 1960 - 1975
Nayanika Ghosh Dept. of the History of Science, Harvard University nag123@g.harvard.edu
Synthesizing Sexual Selection into Mainstream Evolutionary Theory: On the Historiographical Significance of Sociobiology versus Academic Feminism in the History of Biology
Vincent F. Auffrey, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology (IHPST) University of Toronto, vincent.auffrey@mail.utoronto.ca
“Pour l’amélioration de la race humaine”: The Reception of Eugenics in Québec Newspapers, 1912-1921
Iris Clever Postdoctoral Fellow, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago clever@uchicago.edu
Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Antiracism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology
4:45-5:00 Breakouts
Breakout Sessions will be open
We recommend that for the first 15 minutes of each breakout after a session, all of those in the immediately preceding session (here Session 6) join Breakout Group 1. Anyone interested in talking with them further can meet them there. There will be 11 optional Breakout Groups. All can move freely from room to room to socialize or talk about the session.
5:00-5:45
Marsha Richmond: Journal of the History of Biology
Adrianna Link: Barzun Fellowship, American Philosophical Society
Toasts, thanks, and goodbyes! Wishing we could have a lovely dinner in Philly somewhere. Maybe next year…