Due to the ongoing pandemic, the History of Science Society (HSS) and the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) will not hold their planned in-person joint meeting this November in New Orleans, but will hold the joint meeting online, with a full schedule of talks, roundtables, social activities, prize ceremonies, a book exhibition, and more. It will take place from November 18 through November 21, 2021.
The HAR News editors would like to highlight several events on the program related to the history of anthropology. Please note that the event times given are in Central Time (U.S.). Registration for the meeting is required unless otherwise noted; a discounted rate is available for graduate students. Please note that events are subject to change and it is best to check the program regularly for the events you are interested in.
Thursday, November 18 12:00 – 1:00 PM CT
Redistribution and Reparation in the History of Science: an Open Listening Session
Where’s the money (and value and recognition)? We invite you to join an open listening session on redistributing scholarly resources to support early-career and underrepresented scholars and scholarship. We invite scholars who hold forms of academic capital, early career and underrepresented scholars, to talk about how we, as a Society and as a field, allocate value and resources. Where is value situated at different stages of the career, and where should it shift? What are scholars’ needs at different stages, places and positions? How can we think about redistribution and reparation in the history of science? This session is co-sponsored by Isis, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Forum for the History of the Human Sciences, Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and Graduate and Early Career Council.
Please note: Unlike other sessions on the program, this session is open to all, even those who have not registered for the annual meeting. Please register separately for this session at this link.
Thursday, November 18 3:00 – 4:30 PM CT
FHHS Distinguished Lecture and Business Meeting
Please join us for the Forum for the History of Human Science (FHHS) business meeting. We welcome any scholar with interests in the history of the human sciences, broadly defined, and we look forward to seeing familiar faces and new members. The meeting will include the presentation of awards and the FHHS Annual Distinguished Lecture, delivered by Alexandra Hui, Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University, on “Functional music and affective spaces: 100 years of the human science of background music.”
Thursday, November 18 3:30 – 4:30 PM CT
Darwin, Evolution, and Beyond
Bartlomiej Swiatczak, University of Science and Technology of China: Darwin within the body: Early theories of somatic evolution and their eclipse (1881-1910)
Jan Baedke, Ruhr University Bochum: Endosymbiosis and the Nazis: Adolf Meyer-Abich’s work at the German-Dominican Tropical Research Institute
Arya Mohan, The English and Foreign Languages University: “To Be Esteemed by My Fellow Scientists”: Examining the “Professional Man’s” Rhetoric in the Origin of Species
Liv Grjebine, Harvard University: A Darwinian Murder: The Role of the Barré-Lebiez Affair in the Diffusion of Darwinism in 19th Century France
Theology, Eugenics, and Constructions of Science & Medicine
Branden McEuen, Wayne State University: Eugenics as Preventive Public Medicine in Michigan
Vincent Auffrey, IHPST, University of Toronto: “Pour l’amélioration de la race humaine”: The Reception of Eugenics in the French-Canadian Press, 1912-1921
Nathan Bossoh, UCL: Christian “universalism” and the non-Western “other”: science, religion and racial boundaries
Thursday, November 18 5:45 – 8:00 PM CT
Joint Opening Plenary and Land Acknowledgment: Environment, Infrastructure, and Social Justice: Public Engagement in Historical and Multidisciplinary Research
Organizer and Chair: Gabrielle Hecht (Stanford University); Panelists: Alesia Montgomery (Stanford University Libraries), Jason Ludwig (Cornell University, Department of Science and Technology Studies), Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and Lisa Onaga (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Friday, November 19 9:00 – 10:00 AM CT
Constructing/Deconstructing Race
Monica Libell, Lund University: Time and Culture in Carl Linnaeus’ Ethno-racial Classifications
Erica Torrens, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico: The natural system and its relation to the process of racialisation in nineteenth-century Mexico through visual representation
Kelsey Henry, Yale University: “This milestone in their development as property”: Racially Stratified Child Development, 1820 – 1865 U.S.
Aparna Nair, University of Oklahoma-Norman: “Swadeshi” Spectacles, Eye Preservers and Dark Glasses: Race, Disability and Vision Aids in British India
Natural History Collections and Empire (1)
Lauren Williams, McGill University: The American Black Parrot: Exploring an 18th-century Paper Museum
Whitney Barlow Robles, Dartmouth College: The Kitchen in the Cabinet: Histories of Food and Natural Science
Dr Charmantier, The Linnean Society of London: Empire and the Linnean Society Botany collections
Luciana Martins, Birkbeck, University of London: Resources of hope: reactivating Indigenous biocultural knowledge
Working Theories: The Human Sciences and Motivation to Labor in the Twentieth Century
Nima Bassiri, Duke University: Simulation, Industrial Labor, and Economic Pathologies circa 1900
Danielle Judith Carr, Columbia University: It made human life seem like the worst kind of wage labor”: Imagining the Motivation to Produce From Behaviorism’s Stimulus-Wage to Cognitivism’s Innate Creativity
Simon Torracinta, Yale University: Time, Labor, and Motivation in Midcentury Economics
Charles Petersen, Cornell University: The 100xr Road to Neoliberalism: Engineers, Meritocracy, and Economic Inequality, 1950-2000
Friday, November 19 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
Natural History Collections and Empire (2)
Sofia Boanova Viegas, CIUHCT- FCUL, University of Lisbon; Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Porto: African Herbarium Collections: A Trigger to Uncover ‘Colonial Botany’ at University of Porto.
melanie boehi, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research: Revisiting empire in a Southern African plant collections
Chanelle Adams, University of Lausanne: Empirical Aims, Empire Gains: Knowledge regimes in the Madagascar herbarium collection at Marseille’s Colonial Institute
Martha Fleming, Natural History Museum of Denmark: Colonialities of the storeroom: provenance matters in natural history collections
Histories of Evolutionary Thinking about Social Things
Michael Pettit, York University: How Faces Became Special (When Maybe They are Not)
Tara Suri, Princeton: Security, Territory, Primate: Rhesus Monkeys and the Politics of Development in Postcolonial India
Cameron Brinitzer, University of Pennsylvania: Social Learning Mechanisms: The Evolution of Culture and Its Sciences
Joint Session: Building Race into the Machine: The Ongoing Challenges of “Big Data”
Erik Peterson, The University of Alabama: Afraid of the Dark: Making the First ‘Index of Nigrescence’ (1850s-1900)
Iris Clever, University of Chicago: Tracing race in forensic anthropological data practices: the case of Fordisc
Abigail Nieves Delgado, Utrecht University, Freudenthal Institute: Making race (ir)relevant: historical biases in facial recognition technologies
Catherine Stinson, Queen’s University, Kingston: The artifice of AI mindreading
Friday, November 19 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
Racialized Knowledges: Epistemology, Difference, and Sciences Beyond the Western Teleologies
Sarah Qidwai, University of Toronto: De-centering the History of evolutionary thought and theories of origin in the nineteenth century
Patrícia Marcos, University of California San Diego: Racialized Knowledges: Manipulating Nature, Blackness, and Epistemic Disciplining in the Portuguese Inquisition.
Taylor Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara: Of Seashells and Sand: Racing and Erasing Superstition in Khedival Egypt
Friday, November 19 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
Indigenous Peoples, Settler Science, and Social Justice
Kelly McDonough, University of Texas at Austin: Indigenous Scientific Knowledges and the Archive: Health, Illness, and Healing in the 1577 Relaciones geográficas
Charlotte Williams, University of Pennsylvania: The Many Roads to El Dorado: transportation infrastructures in archaeological extraction
Alexi Baker, Yale Peabody Museum: Instruments of Science and Social Justice: Uses for Historical Scientific Artifacts in Higher Education
Adam Johnson, SMU: Structure, Constraint, and Revelation in the Paper Tools of 19th Century American Ethnology
Saturday, November 20 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Tom Kayzel, Universiteit van Amsterdam: Early Economic Planning and the Double Experience of Modernity
Ohad Reiss Sorokin, Princeton University: The Production of Knowledge: A Path Not Taken
Christopher Rudeen, Harvard University: “Anthropology at Home”: The Domestic Methods of Mass-Observation
Matthew Hoffarth, Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine: Interactions with the Rorschach: Anthony F.C. Wallace and Mel Spiro’s Criticisms of the Culture Concept
Science in East Asia between Global, Regional, and Local Perspectives: Power, Colonialism and Knowledge Production, 19th – 21st Century
Noa Nahmias, York University: The universe of science at your doorstep: popular science between national and global in China, 1933-1937
Rachel Wallner, Northwestern University: Making Hydrography Modern: Late-Qing Empire and Reforming Knowledge of the Southern Chinese Coast, 1886-1902
Haesoo Park, Singapore Management University: Postcolonial Science in Korea: Gendered Stem Cells and Technoscientific Sovereignty
Midori Kawaue, Princeton University: Japanese Anthropology and its Colonial Enterprise: A Case Study of the 1903 Human Pavilion
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