NEWS: the keynote lecture will be from Jan Golinski (author of Making
Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, CUP,
1998)
REMINDER: the deadline for paper and session proposals is 15 December
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What is to be Done? History of Science in the New Millennium
a joint HSS/CSHPS/BSHS conference
Following large and successful meetings in Manchester (1988), Toronto
(1992), and Edinburgh (1996), the British Society for the History of
Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of
Science, and the History of Science Society will be undertaking their
fourth international joint meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, August 3-
6, 2000.
The program committee, with members drawn from the three participating
societies, has chosen as the meeting theme: "What is to be done?
History of Science in the New Millennium." Session proposals are
invited on topics that address particularly:
o critical historiographical issues in the history of science, past,
present and future.
o master narratives in the history of science, including reassessments
of earlier narratives and presentations of new ones.
o evaluating the relationship between the history of science and
other disciplines, such as sociology, literary studies, social
history, cultural history, environmental history, natural science (the
"science wars")
o important absences in the history of science: what's been missed?
what can't be said?
o differing modes of investigation in the history of science, including
museum and material culture studies, history of popular culture,
history of printing and publishing, and others.
o re-examinations of particular chronological (e.g.,Enlightenment or
medieval science) and thematic fields (e.g., the history of biology,
science and gender, science and popular culture).
o the development of history of science as a discipline and as a
profession, in particular to provide an international perspective to
the issues that the HSS is considering at its 75th anniversary meeting
in 1999.
The meeting will be organized into sessions of three or four papers
with commentator. Proposals for complete sessions and individual
papers are encouraged. Session organizers are urged to include
speakers from more than one country.
Electronic submissions via the Web site are preferred. Proposals,
including abstracts of approximately 250 words for each paper, are due
at the HSS Executive Office by 15 December 99, with notification of
acceptance by early February 2000. Conference participants may expect
to receive a program of published abstracts. For further details
contact the HSS Executive office at [log in to unmask] or the
program committee: Jon Agar, [log in to unmask]; Bernie Lightman,
[log in to unmask]; and Paul Theerman, [log in to unmask]
More information on St Louis, and paper and session proposal forms
can be found at:
http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/2000/joint2000.html
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