Princeton University

Program Schedule

Saturday, April 5

8:45 am coffee and bagels available in 210 Dickinson Hall

9:10-9:15 Welcome

9:15-10:30 am Session 1 Better Breeding?
Chair: Nathan Comfort, John Hopkins University

A Crop of Better Babies: Industrialization of Children’s Health in America, 1910-1920
Meggie Crnic, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Herd Books, Breeders’ Associations, and Natural History in the United States, 1860-1899
Brendan Matz, History of Science and Medicine, Yale University

10:30-11:00 am coffee break in 210 Dickinson

11:00 am-12:15 pm Session 2 Heredity and Development
Chair: Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania

Investigating the Criminal Chromosome: Narratives of the XYY Controversy
Ami Karlage, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

Comparing regulative processes to understand development: An examination of John Tyler Bonner’s Morphogenesis
Mary Sunderland, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

12:30-2:00 pm Lunch in 210 Dickinson

2:00-3:15 pm Session 3 Natural History and Evolution
Chair: D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University

Adventures Through Time: Barnum Brown’s Abyssinian Expedition of 1920
Lukas Rieppel, History of Science, Harvard University

Stephen Jay Gould vs. Conway Morris: Design Space and Its Implications for Evolution
Keynyn Brysse, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

3:15-3:45 pm coffee break in 210 Dickinson

4:00-5:30 pm Roundtable: New Directions in the History of Biology
Chair: Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University

6:00 pm Banquet at Triumph Brewery

The 43rd Joint Atlantic seminar for the History of Biology will be held Saturday, April 5th, 2008, and hosted by the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. The seminar has been organized and coordinated by scholars in the history of biology in the Northeast for 43 years. Our mission is to foster a sense of community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research by peers from a variety of institutions and backgrounds.

THERE IS NO FEE FOR THE SEMINAR, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THE DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS MONDAY, MARCH 24TH.

Please note that on Friday, April 4, from 11 am-5 pm, there will be an additional graduate student conference, Apparatus XY, featuring seven papers on gender, sexuality, and science. You are invited to come early to attend this event as well.

To register, please contact Amy Shortt at  ashortt@princeton.edu or by phone at 609 258 6705. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information; also indicate whether or not you plan to attend the Saturday evening banquet.

All conference activities will take place in Dickinson Hall. Click here for a campus map.

Helpful information regarding your visit to campus is available here on the Princeton website

Also available is a list of local hotels and local restaurants.

If you have any further questions, please contact Amy Shortt at ashortt@princeton.edu or 609 258 6705.