Preliminary 4S Conference Schedule

Saturday October 21 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

28. Program Chair's Choice IV

Sydney Halpern, University of Illinois at Chicago,

"The Organization of Early and Mid-Century Immunization Research,"

Kim Hansen, Technical University of Denmark,

"Repairing SCOT: Introducing Power,"

David Ferro, Virginia Tech, Chair and Discussant,

"Coming of Age in the New Media Center: Actor Network Theory/Sociology of Translation in Examining Multi-Media Education,"

Stephane Baldi, Ohio State University, and Lowell L. Hargens,

"N-Rays vs. Relativity Theory: Can Reference Networks Distinguish Between Successful and Unsuccessful Research Areas?"

29. Greg Feist, " The Growing Influence of the Psychology of Science on other Metascientific Disciplines"

Greg Feist, William & Mary,

"Do Hostile and Arrogant Scientists Become Eminent or are Eminent Scientists Likely to Become Hostile and Arrogant?

Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo

"Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Conceptual Change in Medicine,"

David Klahr, Carngegie-Mellon University

"Cognitive Psychology and Scientific Discovery,"

Ryan Tweney, Bowling Green State University

"On the Varying Use of Cognitive Frameworks for the Psychology of Science,"

David Gooding, University of Bath

"Simulating Real Science, A Unifying Role for Functional Modeling in Psychology and Science Studies,"

Eric Freedman, University of Michigan

"Working Memory and Testing Multiple Hypotheses,"

Robert E. Rosenwein, Lehigh University, Chair & Discussant

30. Gabrielle Hecht, "Teaching Gender in the History of Technology and in Science Studies: Notes from the Classroom,"

Judith McGaw

Carroll Pursell

Donna Haraway

Ruth Oldenziel

Adele Clarke

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford University, Organizer and Chair

31. Jon Guice, "Building the Internet,"

Jon Guice,

"The Growth of the Internet: Introduction and Critical Review,"

Judy E. O'Neill,

"Developing the Internet: ARPA's View,"

Janet E. Abbate,

"'Building the Open Road': The Role of the 'Open Systems' Model in Shaping the Internet,"

Juan D. Rogers,

"Characterizations of INTERNET History: Towards a Multistranded Account,"

Geoffrey C. Bowker, UIUC, Discussant

32. Douglas Taylor, "Technoscientific Knowledge, STS Critiques and Social Movements,"

Amy Crumpton,

"Environmental Justice and Popular Epidemiology: Redefining the Science of Public Health,'

Juan Lucena,

"Making People for Economic Competitiveness: The Science and Engineering (S/E) Pipeline,"

Wairimu Njambi,

"The Construction of Scientific Promiscuity,"

Diana Obregon,

"Love in the Time of Leprosy: Colombian Lessons in the Stigmatization of the Body,"

Sujatha Raman,

"Technology for Competitiveness: What's In It For Us?

Douglas Taylor, Virginia Tech., Chair,

"Environmentalist and the Consequences of Expert Knowledge,"

33. Program Chair's Choice, V

Elisabeth S. Clemens, Chair, and Kelly Moore, Barnard College, Columbia University,

"Fighting Someone Else's Battles: How Scientific Claims are (or aren't ) Enrolled in Policy Disputes,"

Antonio Botelho, MIT,

"Parallel Lives, Separate Existences - Comparative Politics and Science & Technology Studies,"

Joop Schopman, University of Innsbruck,

"The Socio-Technical Construction of the Problem of Transit Traffic,"

Per Blomkvist, University of Stockholm,

"Mixing Science and Politics for 'Good Roads',"

Mikael Hard, University of Trondheim, and Andreas Knie,

"'National Styles' or 'Technological Dialects?' Diesel Engineering in Germany and France in the Interwar Period,"

Frank Quinn, Virginia Tech,

"Cultural Adaptation in Science,"

Herbert Gottweis, University of Salzburg, Discussant

34. Christopher P. Toumey, "Science and the Anthropologist in 1995: Some Ethnographic and Theoretical Studies in the Anthropology of Science,"

David Hakken,

"Anthropology as Technoscience and its Dialectical Relationship with STS,"

Constance Perin,

"Experience-Far and Experience-Near Engineering Practice in the Nuclear Power Industry,"

Myanna Lahsen,

"Climate Scientists: The Shapes and Limits of Globalization,"

Ron Eglash

"From Hip-Hop to Flip-Flop: Black Noise in the Master-Slave Circuit,"

Cori Hayden,

"Our Genetic and Historic Future: Kinship, Property, and the Salvage of Endangered Genes,"

Gary Lee Downey, Virginia Tech

"Reimagining Impacts: Fashioning Selves Through CAD/CAM Technologies,"

Christopher P. Toumey, Chair,

"Conjuring Science,"

Saturday 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.

34. Carolyn R. Miller, "Rhetorical Representations of Risk: Three Case Studies,"

Carolyn R. Miller, North Carolina State University,

"The Roots of Risk Analysis: Chauncey Starr's Management of Rhetorical Pathos,"

Steven B. Katz, North Carlona State

"The North Carolina Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Controversy: Risk in Official Risk Communication,"

Shawn A. Walsh, North Carolina State

"No Compromise: Grassroots Response to Risk Analysis,"

Les Levidow, David Wield & Susan Carr

"Normalizing Biotechnology: Howthe European Union Defined the "Safety" of a Herbicide-Resistant Crop'."

Joseph Herkert, NC State, Chair and Discussant

35. Mary Frank Fox "Women in Science: Opportunities, Barriers, and Explanations,"

Miriam R. Levin, Case Western Reserve

"Science Education and the Shaping of Careers in Science: The Historical Example of Mount Holyoke,"

Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Tech.,

"Doctoral Education for Women in Science and Engineering: The Effect of Departmental Conditions,", Chair

Linda Grant, University of Georgia and Kathryn Ward, Southern Illinois University

"Mentoring and Women's Progress in Science,"

Sharon G. Levin, University of Missouri and Paula E. Stephan, Georgia State University

"Are the Rewards to Science Gender Blind?"

Susan Leigh Starr, University of Illinois, Chair

Sharon Traweek, UCLA, Discussant

36. Jeffery L. Newcomer, "STS and Design in Engineering Education,"

David Levinger, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"Design in Engineering Education,"

Jeffrey Newcomer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair,

"(De)Emphasizing Industry: Integrating STS into Engineering Design,"

John Schumacher, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"The Use of STS Companion Courses in Teaching Engineering Design"

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,

"Restructuring Engineering Education: The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences,"

Richard Devon, Penn State,

"Shaping the Future: The Designing University"

Jennifer Croissant, University of Arizona, Discussant

37. Ed Russell, "Science and the Environment,"

Peter J. Taylor, Cornell University, and Chris London,

"Structuredness, Historical Process, Differentiation, and Inseparability in Social-Environmental Relations: Problems of Representing-Intervening,"

Stephen Zehr, University of Southern Indiana,

"The Representation of Scientific Uncertainty About Global Warming/Global Climate Change in the Popular Press,"

Dale Jamieson, University of Colorado,

"The Paradox of Scientific Environmentalism,"

Florain Charvolin, CRESAL of Saint-Etienne, and Philippe Veitl, Lille University,

"Between Managerial Precision, Scientific Exactness and Artistic Realism; The Documentary Feature of Landscape Photography,"

Ed Russell, University of Virginia, Chair & Discussant

38. W.D. Kay, "Political Construction of Technological Systems: The Case of Space Exploration,"

Edward J. Woodhouse,RPI

"New Materials for STS, or Just a Complicated Bicycle?"

D. Launius, NASA

"Political Construction of NASA"

W.D. Kay, Northeastern University,

"Public Policy and Private Enterprise Above the Atmosphere"

A.D. Van Nostrand, Georgia Tech

"Going Ballistic: Packaging the Strategic Defense Initiative"

Patrick W. Hamlett, NC State, Chair & Discussant

39. Special Exhibit Session: Demonstrations of Multimedia Materials

Joyce Bedi, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Chair & Discussant

Charles Twardy, Indiana University,and Mike Gorman, University of Virginia

"WWW and Original-Source Scholarship: Alexander Graham Bell On-Line"

Tamar Lieberman,

"Replicating Alexander Graham Bell's First Transmission of Speech,"

Matthew M. Mehalik, University of Virginia,

"Mapping Elisha Gray's Path to the Multiple Telegraph,"

Morris A. Pierce,

"SHOT and the Internet"

Julian Reitman,

"A CD-ROM Based System for Teaching the History of Technology"

Note: We hope to have the exhibit room open during the break and the next session, though not all participants will be able to stay with their exhibits.

Saturday 3:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.

40. Anne Figert, "Identity and the Production of Knowledge,"

Anne Figert, Loyola University, Chicago, Chair,

"Identity Science: Congruence and Conflict Between Scientists Lives and Knowledge Production,"

Kelly Moore, Barnard College, Columbia University,

"Collective Identity and the Production of Scientific Knowledge Among Political Activists in America, 1965-1975,"

Reid Helford,

"A Feeling for the Ecosystem: Ecological Restoration and the Production of "Better" Eco-Knowledges,"

Ron Westrum, Aeroconcept Consulting,

"China Lake, An Engineering Community of 'Good Judgment',"

Tom Gieryn, Discussant

41. Andrew Weiss, "Technoscience, Democracy, and Scale,"

Franz Foltz,

"Large Scale and Issue Ownership in a Democratic Society: Public Apathy for Global Climate Research,"

Carol MacLennan,

"The Contract on America: Regulation on a Large Scale,"

Jesse Tatum,

"Listening Carefully: Barriers to Democracy in Technology Decision Making,"

Andrew Weiss, Michigan Technical University, Chair,

"Large-Scale Technoscience as a Challenge to Democratic Governance,"

Frank Laird, Respondent

42. Philip E. Agre, "The Scientific Representation of Work Practice and Human Action,"

Philip E. Agre, University of Californai, San Diego, Chair,

"Linguistic Metaphors for Action in Computing,"

Stefan Timmermans, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cahmpaign,

"Representing Discovery Work: The Multiple Trajectories of Closed-Chest Cardiac Massage,"

Laura J. Neumann and Susan Leigh Star,

"Qualities of Infrastructure: Understanding Use and Design of a Large Virtual Library,"

Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of Illinois, Jesper Doepping and Susan Leigh Star,

"I am not a bed: Dilemmas of Visibility in Classifying Nursing Work,"

43. "New Missions for Old Agengies: DOD, NIH and NSF Shifts in Academic Science and Technology,"

Sheila Slaughter, University of Arizona, Chair, and Paulette Cattell,

"Dual Use and Sponsored Research in Universities,"

Richard G. King, Jr.

"Impacts of NIH Funding Patterns on Research Universities,"

Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona, and Jack Dexter,

"Constructing Mother Nature: Environmental Science and Technology Policy,"

44. "Collective Work, Critical Practice, and Feminist Science Studies"

Deborah Blizzard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,

"Embryoscopy: Continuing the Reductionism and Mechanism of the Normal Pregnancy,"

Marilys Guillemin, University of Melbourne,

"Knowledge Making in the Menopause Clinic: Whose Knowledge? Whose Menopause?"

Jennifer L. Croissant,

"Dorothy Smith and the Sociology of Knowledge: Critique and Constituencies for Science Studies,"

Kay Neeley, University of Virginia, Chair & Discussant

Saturday Evening 6:30 pm

Joseph Needham Memorial Plenary

Patricia Kluge, Chair

William McDonough, Dean, School of Architecture, University of Virginia,

"Ecological Ethics and Design Revolution"

Sal Restivo will give a short appreciation for Joseph Needham

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