The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM)
Saturday, September 13
Registration and Refreshments
Pyle Center, Vandeburg Auditorium
8.30-9.00
Session 5
9.00-10.30
5A. Turn-of-the-Century Technological Fascination
Vandeburg Auditorium
X-Rays in Print Media
Kris Belden-Adams, Department of Art History, City University of New York
The Reception of Cinema in the American Newspaper and Periodical Press, 1895-1920
Stephen L. Vaughn, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Edison’s Depiction in the Media: Genius? Wizard? Madman?
Catherine Lange, Department of Earth Sciences and Science Education, State University of New York College at Buffalo
Moderator: Nathan Riley Johnson, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
5B. Rural Networks and Narratives
Room 213
Printing the Garden: Commercial Networks and the Language of American Horticultural Description
Emily Pawley, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Quackery, Mountebanks, Fraudulent Science and Haberdashery in the Colorado Territory: An Investigation into the Geographical Ramifications of Print Culture in the Old West
James Ascher, Special Collections, Norlin Library, University of Colorado at Boulder
Bradley Bishop, Department of Geography, Florida State University
Writing a Country Doctor's Life: Narratives of Rural Medicine in Nova Scotia, 1920s-1970s
Sasha Mullally, Gorsebrook Research Institute, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada
Moderator: Jane Collins, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Break and Refreshments
10.30-11.00
Vandeburg Auditorium
Session 6
11.00-12.30
6A. Popular Medical Texts
Vandeburg Auditorium
For Our Children: The French Origins of International Sexual Health Communication with Adolescents, 1901-1910
Jennifer Burek Pierce, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
How to Feed the Family: Nutrition in United States Periodical Literature of the 20th Century
Rima D. Apple, School of Human Ecology and Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moderator: Andrew Ruis, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
6B. Libraries: Collecting, Classifying, and Enabling
Room 213
The Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine (STEM) Books of the Pioneer Collection: Library as Community
Debbie Chaves, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
The Bellevue Classification Scheme: The Cultural Commentary of a Nursing Library Classification System
Keith Mages, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Mobilizing Body and Mind: Reading the Bookmobile in Mid-Century America
Derek W. Attig, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Moderator: Wayne A. Wiegand, College of Information and Department of American Studies, Florida State University
Lunch on your own
12.30-2.00
Session 7
2.00-3.30
7A. Print Culture Meets Political Controversies
Vandeburg Auditorium
Spreading Disease: Role of Newspapers in Subverting Quarantine in 18th Century Boston
Charles Vidich, Harvard School of Public Health
The Terror of the Word: Clandestine Printing Presses, Bomb Making Manuals and Militant Newspapers in the Scientific and Technological Origins of Modern Terrorism
Mats Fridlund, Department of History of Technology, Technical University of Denmark
Reading The Eugenic Vernacular in Progressive Era Print Culture
Susan M. Rensing, Department of History, Mississippi State University
Moderator: Ed Goedeken, Parks Library, Iowa State University
7B. Old information: New Technology
Room 213
Print as Technology: The Library of Congress, Printed Catalog Cards, and Cooperative Cataloging
Melissa Adler, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Digitizing Early Printed Medical Books, or: Robert Hooke Meets the Internet
Stephen Greenberg, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health
Archives and Technology: The Price of Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Irene Hansen, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Public Monies, Privatized Words, and the Pace of Technology: The Struggle to Provide Scholarly Access the Face of Rising Costs and Budget Shortfalls
Laura Wynholds, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moderator: Ken Frazier, General Library System, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Break and Refreshments
3.30-4.00
Vandeburg Auditorium
Session 8
4.00-5.30
8A. Natural World in Print
Vandeburg Auditorium
Tickle-ass, Shitquick, Cardinal, and Pope: How American Ornithology Moved from Folk Names to Scientific Taxonomy
Michael Edmonds, Wisconsin Historical Society
Big Natural History: Deep-Sea Voyages and Their Reports 1872-1940
Lynn K. Nyhart, Department of History of Science University of Wisconsin
Scientific Accuracy, Authorities and the Author: Paratext, Deference, and Ignorance in Samuel Kinns's Moses and Geology (1882)
Richard England, Salisbury University
Communicating Knowledge in Alpine Tectonics
Andrea Westermann, Institute of History, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland
Moderator: Paul Boyer, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
8B. Mathematics: Code and Text
Room 213
Luca Pacioli and the Rise of Mathematical Research
William Branson, Department of Mathematics, St. Cloud University
Algarotti Removed from the Ladies: English Editions of Il Newtonianismo per le dame
Laura Miller, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Measure of Influence: French, British, and American Mathematics in Print
Robin Rider, Department of Special Collections University of Wisconsin-Madison
Unmasking the Origins of Digital Texts and Code Culture: Calculating Machines as Encoded Textual Operations and the Birth of Code in the Age of Print
John Vincler, Grad. School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Moderator: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, General Library System, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dinner
6.30-8.30
Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge