The annual meeting of the History of Science Society (HSS) will take place July 23-27 in the historic buildings of Utrecht University. Here is a list of sessions and events relevant to the history of anthropology:
July 24, 2019
Drift 21, Rm 005, 9:00-11:45
- Changing Minds: Feminist Methods in Anthropology (Barbara Pohl (Yale University)
Measuring Heads and Races: Continuities and Ruptures in the History of Biometry
Drift 25, Rm 204, 13:30-15:30
- Facing the Past: Ancient Skulls and National Identity in the Middle East (Dr. Elise Burton (University of Cambridge)
- Skulls and Statistics: Karl Pearson and Competing Methods of Classifying Races in the Early 20th Century (Ms. Iris Clever, PhD Candidate, UCLA)
- What Is a Normal Face? Karl Pearson’s Principal Component Analysis, Facial Recognition Technologies, and Race (Dr. Abigail Nieves Delgado, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ruhr University Bochum)
- Reconstructing Human Faces from DNA: Competing Methodologies and the Quest for Replicability (Irene Pasquetto, Harvard University)
Drift 25, Rm 103, 16:00-18:00
- Interracial Encounters in an Era of Identity Politics: The Study of Population Admixtures in Italy after the Second World War (Dr. Luc Berlivet, French National Centre For Scientific Research)
- Many Shades of “Race”: Variations in the Concept of Race in French Sero-Anthropology between the 1940s and the 1970s (Claude-Olivier Doron, Associate Professor, Université de Paris)
- What “Race” Does: Pluralism in Post-WWII Population Genetics (Lisa Gannett, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada)
- Population Genetics, Genetic Variation, and the Monomorphism of the Human Species (Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl, Université Paris Diderot – SPHERE)
July 25, 2019
Pacific Science in Transnational and Translocal Perspective
Drift 25, Rm 206, 9:00-11:45
- Cultivating Resistance: Ethnoecology, Anticolonialism, and Indigenous Territoriality in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia (Dr. Geoff Bil, New York Botanical Garden)
At the Crossroads of the Senses: Human Sciences and their Material Cultures ca 1900
Drift 25, Rm 105, 16:00-18:00
- Between the Lab, Field, and Garden: Experimental Psychology and Ethnology ca. 1900 (Cameron Brinitzer, History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania)
- The Use of Sensory Stimuli in Linguistic Fieldwork (Judith Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania)
- It’s Very Difficult to Sing a Daisy: Adventures in Aesthetics and Experimental Phonetics at the Turn of the Century (Michael Rossi)
- Tracing the Zigzags of Early Anthropology (Laurel Waycott, Yale University)
Drift 25, Rm 204, 16:00-18:00
- Cochineal Husbandry in Eighteenth-Century Mexico and India (Deirdre Moore, Harvard University)
- Materiality in the Wild: A Posthumanist Approach to Indigenous Knowledge of West African Wild Silk (Dr. Laurence Douny (Research Associate, Humboldt University, Berlin)
History of Anthropology Happy Hour
Cafe Le Journal, 7pm
July 26, 2019
Janskerhof 2-3, Rm. 013, 13:30-15:30
- “An Ethnographical Museum of Living Specimens”: Retelling the Social and Scientific Life of the Schlagintweit Expeditions in Asia in the Mid-1850s (Dr. Moritz Von Brescius, University of Bern)
- Enacting Race While Objectifying Race: Recovering the Story of the Dutch New Guinea Expeditions (1903, 1909) for the History of Anthropometry (Prof. Geertje Mak, University of Amsterdam)
- Scientific Facts and Alternative Facts: The Detzner Affair and Fieldwork after Empire (Dr. Daniel Midena, The University of Queensland)
Science in the Nineteenth Century
Drift 25, Rm 206, 13:30-15:30
- Anthropology, Peyote-Eaters, and the Shifting Morals of Intoxication (1880-1919) (Dr. Adam Johnson, University of Michigan)
- Experimental Abstraction: Francis Galton, John Venn, and Cambridge Anthropometry, 1887-1891 (Lukas M. Verburgt, Utrecht University)
Science, Universal History, and the Future
Drift 25, Rm 104, 13:30-15:30
- Paleoanthropological Futures and Historical Pasts: Human Origins and Rewriting the Place of Africa in World History (Emily Kern, University of New South Wales, Sydney)
July 27, 2019
Anatomical Representation and Bodily Difference in the Long-Nineteenth Century
Drift 25, Rm 105, 9:00-11:45
- Tracing Racial Illustrations in Historic Cranial Collections, 1790-1850: Camper, Blumenbach, and Morton (Mr. Paul Wolff Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania)
- Monster Collectors from Peter to Willem: Abnormal Bodies and Embryology, 1697-1849 (Sara Ray, University of Pennsylvania)
- Reading Skulls: An Object-Based Study of the Vrolik Collection of Racial Anthropology to Determine a Change in Focus of Collecting, 1800-1860 (Dr. Laurens De Rooy, Museum Vrolik, Amsterdam University Medical Centers)
- Docteur Doyen’s Photographic Anatomy Show: Objectivity, Showmanship, Difference, and the Reinvention of the Anatomical Image in Belle Époque France (Dr. Michael Sappol, Uppsala University)
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