X-post: H-GERMAN
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
How have science and "civil society," both so central to modern Western culture, co-evolved? This workshop brings together scholars from different national perspectives and disciplinary traditions to explore this question at both the conceptual and institutional levels, through case studies ranging across Western settings from the late seventeenth century to the late twentieth century. The result, we hope, will be a fuller and more nuanced comparative understanding of the various relationships between science and civil society in the construction of the modern world.
Thursday, April 13, 2000:
University Lecture by Ted Porter (History, UCLA):
"Scientific Objectivity and the Problem of Public Knowledge: A Historical
Perspective." 4 pm
Reception for conference participants, Pyle Center, 5:30-7 pm
Friday, April 14, 2000
8:45 a.m. Welcome and introductions: Lynn Nyhart and Tom Broman
9:00 Harold Cook (History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin)
Is Virtue Necessary? The Mechanical Body and the Body Politic.
(Comment: Phil Gorski, Sociology, UW-Madison)
10:00 Shelley Costa (Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University)
The Ladies' Diary: Gender, Mathematics, and the Public Sphere, 1704-1725.
(Comment: Mary Terrall, History, UCLA)
11-11:30 break
11:30 John Carson (History, University of Michigan)
Differentiating the Public Sphere: Talents, Mental Science, and Republican
Citizenship
(Comment: Eric Daniels, History, UW- Madison)
12:30-2: Lunch break
2:00 Maneesha Lal (Centre Alexandre Koyre, CNRS)
Professionalising Medicine in Colonial Civil Society: The Case of British
India.
(Comment: Elizabeth Hachten, History, UW-Whitewater)
3-3:15 break
3:15 Elizabeth Hachten (History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
Constructing Civil Society: Science, Scientists, and the Public in Late Imperial
Russia
(Comment: David McDonald, History, UW-Madison)
4:15 general discussion
Break at 5:15
Saturday, April 15, 2000
9:00 Andreas Daum (German Historical Institute)
How Natural History and Civil Society Interacted in Germany, 1840-1870: Science,
Politics, and Religion Before Darwin and Bismarck.
(Comment: Tom Broman, History of Science, UW-Madison)
10:00 Lynn Nyhart (History of Science, UW-Madison)
Teaching Community via Biology in Imperial Germany.
(Comment: Bill Reese, Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison)
11-11:30 break
11:30 Glenn Penny (Center for European Studies, Harvard University)
The Cultural Capital of Scientific Institutions: Ethnology and Civil Society
in Imperial Germany.
(Comment: Rudy Koshar, History, UW-Madison)
Lunch: 12:30-2
2:00 Ted Porter (History, UCLA)
Science as a Model of Civic Life, 1880-1920
(Comment: Victor Hilts, History of Science, UW-Madison)
3-3:15 break
3:15-4:15 Alice Conklin (History, University of Rochester)
Africans on Display: A Common Humanity in the Museum of Man?
(Comment: Florence Bernault, History, UW-Madison)
4:15 General discussion
Break at 5:15
Sunday, April 16, 2000
9:15 Douglas Weiner (History, University of Arizona)
Ecology and Environmentalism in the USSR and the US: Two Models of Professional
and Civic Identity.
(Comment: Zuoyue Wang, History, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)
10:15 Jessica Wang (History, UCLA)
Scientists, Civil Society, and Totalitarianism in Cold War America.
(Comment: John Rudolph, Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison)
11:15 Wrap-up discussion
How To Sign Up:
There is no formal registration or registration fee for the workshop. However,
to promote vigorous discussion, all papers will be pre-circulated, and there
will be no formal presentations at the workshop itself. Discussion of each
paper will be kicked off by a ten-minute comment from a designated commentator,
and then the floor will be open.
If you wish to attend the workshop, please send your name and mailing address
to Lynn Nyhart (lknyhart@facstaff.wisc.edu) or Tom Broman
(thbroman@facstaff.wisc.edu) so we can put you on the mailing list for
papers.
Our snailmail address is: History of Science, 7143 Social Science Bldg.,
1180 Observatory Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1193 USA.
Meals and Accommodations: Conference attendees are responsible for paying for their own meals and accommodations. Rooms may be booked at the Madison Inn, 601 Langdon, 608-257-4391 (S=$74, D=$80 say you are coming to this conference to get this rate), a half block from the Pyle Center, or at the Ivy Inn, 2355 University Ave. ($74 Single or Double; mention conference), which operates a free shuttle to and from campus (a 5-minute drive). Rooms at these two hotels are being held until March 13; after that, rooms will be released and it will be first-come, first-served. Graduate students desiring to be put up with local graduate students should let us know so we can arrange those accommodations if at all possible.
Copyright ©1996-2002, H-Soz-u-Kult · Humanities · Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte