The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM)
Friday, September 12
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Registration and Refreshments
Pyle Center, Vandeburg Auditorium
8.00-8.30
Welcome: Greg Downey & Christine Pawley Vandeburg Auditorium
8.30-9.00
Session 1
9.15-10.45
1A. Homing in on Engineering Education Vandeburg Auditorium
The University Practice Cottage: Shared Living Experiences of Early Home Economists
Judy Pasch, Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
39 Lessons: Engineering Education in Your Home
Christine Myers, History in Popular Culture, Lourdes College
Glen Myers, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Do Books Cause Revolutions?: Technics Out-of-Control as a Theme in Engineering Thought
Matthew H. Wisnioski, Dept. of Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Moderator: Sarah Pfatteicher, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1B. Popularizing Science in Print
Room 213
What Two Books Can (and Cannot) Do: Stewart Udall's The Quiet Crisis and its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Cheryl Knott Malone, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona
Doing Good and Doing Well: A Critical Perspective on Cause-Marketing and its Social Agendas
Inger L. Stole, Department of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Utility of Popular Science News for Scientists
Sharon Dunwoody, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dominique Brossard, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moderator: James P. Danky, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Break and Refreshments
10.45-11.15
Vandeburg Auditorium
Session 2
11.15-12.45
2A. Promoting the Medical Profession
Vandeburg Auditorium
The Medical Trade Catalogue: Product Promotions and British Medical Practitioners, 1880-1914
Claire Jones, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK
Writing Medicine: George M. Gould and Medical Print Culture in Progressive America
Jennifer J. Connor, Faculty of Medicine and Department of History Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
The Life and Work of Will Burtin
R. Roger Remington, Rochester Institute of Technology
Moderator: Gregory Higby, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2B. Hybridity: Science and Literature
Room 213
Darwin's Voyage on Ahab's Pequod: Anglo-American Print Technologies, "Scientific Realism" and the Strange Case of Moby Dick,
Maeve Adams, Department of English, New York University
"A Linnaean Novel": The Influence and Presence of Natural History in James Fennimore Cooper's The Prairie
Kelsey Squire, Department of English, Marquette University
Best-Selling Science: Some Curious Responses to Allegra Goodman's Intuition
Laura Otis, Department of English, Emory University
Moderator: Susan Bernstein, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lunch on your own
12.45-2.00
Session 3
2.00-3.30
3A. Government, Commerce and International Communication
Vandeburg Auditorium
Science, Medicine, and the Book Trade in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jonathan Topham, Division of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK
Crossing Borders: The Smithsonian Institution and the Diffusion of Scientific Information Between the United States and Canada in the Nineteenth Century
Bertrum MacDonald, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Canada
Modernization Through Print: the Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Knowledge to Developing Nations by the USA during the Cold War, 1950-1968
Amanda Laugesen, Department of American Studies, Flinders University, Australia
Moderator: Louise Robbins, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3B. Representations of Body and Nature
Room 213
Body on Page: Texualization and Visualization of Body in Traditional Medical Books Printed in Late Imperial China
Liangyu Fu, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
The King's Animals and the King's Book
Anita Guerrini, Department of History, University of California Santa Barbara
Natural Color: Problems with the Category of Nature in Botanical Illustration
Theresa M. Kelley, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Break and Refreshments
Vandeburg Auditorium
3.30-4.00
Session 4
4.00-5.30
4A. New Technologies and Graven Images
Vandeburg Auditorium
Careful Translators: Engraver's Manuals, Rhetorics of Accuracy, and the Transfer of Knowledge
Meghan Doherty, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Picturing the Machine in Nineteenth-Century America
Stephen P. Rice, School of American and International Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Moderator: Tracy Honn, Silver Buckle Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4B. Children Reading Nature
Room 213
"Nature, Not Books" The Dilemma of Introducing Nature Study into Public Schools
Sally Gregory Kohlsted, Program of History and Science and Technology, University of Minnesota
Evolution for Children: 1882-1914
Kate McDowell, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Animals on the Shelf: Scientific Information in the Depiction of North American Predators in Contemporary Informational Books for Young People
Debra Mitts-Smith, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University
Moderator: John Rudolph, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Public Lecture, 6.00 pm
Memorial Union, Tripp Commons (2nd Floor)
"The Laboratory of Print"
James A. Secord
Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project
Cambridge University, UK
It has become a ritual commonplace to claim that we are witnessing a profound transformation in print culture, akin to the introduction of the printing press in the fifteenth century. Yet much current research on communication in science, medicine, and technology remains resolutely unhistorical. Conversely, historians of these subjects are only beginning to draw upon the insights of contemporary communication studies, although they have used work in (for example) the microsociology of knowledge for at least two decades. This paper explores how these fields might benefit from being brought more closely together. It suggests the need to reexamine some of the taken-for-granted dichotomies which structure research in these fields, particularly the role of ethnographic, literary, and rhetorical approaches in relation to statistical studies and accounts of long-term trends.
Reception, 7.30-8.00 pm
Memorial Union, Tripp Commons