#  SCHEDULE 

 



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**The 56th Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology**

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##  **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)**

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Friday and Saturday, April 8-9, 2022  


###  [https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/jas-history-biology](/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

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**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”

###  Wrap up and Goodbye 'til 2023