SCHEDULE
The 56th Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology
Jointly held by the Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology (MIT), and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS)and Department of the History of Science (Harvard University)
Friday and Saturday, April 8-9, 2022
https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/jas-history-biology
Friday 8 April 2022
4:30pm Welcoming Remarks
4:45pm
Guest Lecture
Kenneth R. Manning
Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and of the History of Science, MIT
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of E. E. Just--A Retrospective
Social Event, Breakout Rooms
Saturday 9 April 2022
9:00-10:30am
Biology on the Inside
Chair: Harriet Ritvo
Anin Luo, Princeton
Animals between Universality and Locality: The Emergence of Experimental Biology in Republican China
Gina Surita, Princeton
Cellular Power Plants: An Overview of Postwar Mitochondria Research
Libby O’Neil, Yale University
Dream Laboratories and Psychical Microscopes: On Psychoanalysis as an Experimental Science
10:30-11:00pm Break
11:00am -12:30pm
Evolution as Explanation
Chair: Henry Cowles
Anna Christensen, Harvard University
“In the End is the Beginning”: Speculating about Deep Evolutionary Pasts and Futures with Dougal Dixon
Sam Franz, University of Pennsylvania
Adaptation as Learning: John Holland and Evolutionary Computing at the University of Michigan
Nayanika Ghosh, Harvard University
Sociobiology as Cold War Propaganda: What Can the History of Nuclear Science Offer the History of Organismic Biology
12:30-1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30-3:00pm
The Body Politic
Chair: Susan Lindes
Jessica Hester, Johns Hopkins University
“We the people’ would soon decide for them”: Resurrection, Dissection, Democracy, and Race in 19th-Century Philadelphia
Margo Williams, Washington, DC
Biopolitics and the Bacillus: Sinophobia in an Epidemic of Bubonic Plague in Sydney, 1900-10
Katherine McLeod, NYU
The Call of the Hoatzin: Ecology, Evolution, and Eugenics at the Bronx Zoo
BREAK
3:15-4:15pm
Microbes, Megafauna, and Gender
Chair: Angela Creager
Meg Perret, Harvard University
“Why Do Pandas Have So Little Sex?”: Scientific Representations of Giant Panda Reproduction in Zoo Captive Breeding Programs, 1985-2020
Caitlin Kossmann, Yale University
“I have contributed to science because twice I quit my job as a wife”: On the pedagogy and reluctant feminism of Lynn Margulis
BREAK
4:30-5:00pm
Special Session on Museums
Guest speaker John Durant, MIT
“Invisible Biology”