Preliminary 4S Conference Schedule

Thursday, October 19 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

1. Loet Leydesdorff and Terttu Luukkonen, "Scientometrics and the Study of Scientific Communications,"

Terttu Luukkonen, Academy of Finland,

"The Cognitive and Social Foundation of Citation Studies,"

Leah A. Lievrouw,

"Communication and Scientometrics: Toward Resolving the 'Crisis of Interpretation',"

Lowell L. Hargens,

"A Comparative Study of Reference Network Graphs,"

Loet Leydesdoff, Chair,

"Why Words and Co-words Do Not Map the Development of the Sciences?"

Thomas Schott,

"Inwardness in a Center and Outwardness in a Periphery of World Science: A Comparison of the United States and Denmark,"

Robert E. Rosenwein, Lehigh University,

"Science as a Social System: The Emergence and Interaction of Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Anarchy as Social Forms in Science"

2. Ahmed Bouzid, "The Islamization of Science: Context and Themes,"

Chris Furlow,

"Contemporary Islamic Science,"

Mammo Muchie,

"Islamic Science, World Scientific Knowledge and the Persistence of the Greek myth,"

Ahmed Bouzid, Virginia Tech, Chair,

"The Islamization of Science and its Political Context: the Case of Sayyid Qutb,"

Leif Stenberg,

"Four Muslim Voices: An Analysis of a Discourse Concerning the Islamization of Science,"

Munawar Anees,

"Islamization of Science: Fact or Fancy?

3. Ullica Segerstrale, "From Pro-Science to Anti-Science - and Where Next?"

Bernard Barber,

"Patterns and Processes in the Development of a Scientific Sociology of Science: Notes From a Sixty-Year Memoir,"

Valery Cholakov,

"The 'Anti-Science' Phenomenon - Real or Imaginary?"

Ullica Segerstrale, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chair,

"Changing Attitudes to Science: From Pro-Science to Anti-Science - and Back?"

Henry H. Bauer,

"The Anti-Science Phenomenon in STS,"

John Ziman,

"What Should We Do With Science, Really?"

Stephan Fuchs , University of Virginia

Discussant

4. Arthur Diamond, "The Economics of Science,"

Susan Feigenbaum and David M. Levy,

"Scientific Conventions and Schools of Thought,"

Arthur M. Diamond, Jr., University of Nebraska, Chair,

"The Complementary of Scientometrics and Economics,"

Steven Payson,

"The Classification and Analysis of Business Interest in Scientific Discovery: An Empirical Approach Based on Articles Appearing in Business Journals,"

Hans Weinberger,

"The Social Construction of Knowledge as Practice: Workings of a Swedish Agency for Technical Development,"

Kor Grit,

"The No-Nonsense Age: About the Relation Between Economic and Scientific Culture,"

Steve Fuller - Discussant

Edward Hackett - Discussant

Brett D. Steele - Discussant

Brown Bag Lunch.

Stefan Timmermans, Brandeis University,

"Surviving the STS Job Market: Options and Strategies"

Thursday 1:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.

5. Program Chair's Choice, I

Annie Canel,University of Paris, Chair, and Benedicte Cretin,

"Gender, Civil Engineering and Careers,"

Ellen Moors, Delft University of Technology, and Karel Mulder,

"Transformation Strategies Towards More Sustainable Industrial Production Systems - A Case Study of the Zinc Production Industry,"

Tomas Hellstrom and Merle Jacob, University of Gothenburg,

"The Science-Policy Dialogue in Transformation: New Trends in the Social Construction of Scientific Certainty,"

6. Joan Leach, "Rhetorical Interventions into Science: Cases for Rhetoric of Science and Science Studies,"

John Lyne - Chair

Kirk Junker,

"Rhetorical Intervention in Environmental Science Regulation,"

Joan Leach, University of Pittsburgh,

"Speaking Scientists and Other Wonders of Nature,"

Anand Rao,

"Rhetoric and Scientific Legal Testimony: Changing thePrecedent,"

Carol Stabile - Discussant

7. Cassandra Pinnick, Western Kentucky University, "Functionalism in the Sociology of Knowledge,"

Sharon Crasnow,

"Functionalism in Sociology and the Problem of Social Change,"

Jean Elisabeth Pedersen,

"Durkheimian Social Science and the Feminist Sociology of Knowledge: A Response to Warren Schmaus' Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge,"

James Maffie,

"Epistemology in the Face of Strong Sociology of Knowledge,"

Warren Schmaus,

"A Functionalist Theory of the Categories,"

Stephen Turner,

"Durkheim's Prerogative Instances,"

8. John M. Bozeman, "The Challenge of Eugenics: Religious and Cultural Responses,"

Mary Jane Ballou,

"The New Motherhood: Images of Science and Technology in Feminist Eugenics,"

Dr. Munawar A. Anees,

"Islam and the Challenge of Bioethics,"

John M. Bozeman, University of Virginia,

"Eugenics and Catholicism in Early Twentieth Century America,"

Deborah Anne Barrett,

"The International Eugenics Movement During the Interwar Years--A Sociological Analysis."

Mark Shields, University of Virginia, Chair & Discussant

9. Program Chair's Choice, II

Marianne de Laet, Chair,

"The Travel of Patents into the Industrializing World"

Govindan Parayil, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Wesley Shrum,

"Fourth Sector Science: The Case of Non-Governmental Organizations in Kerala, India"

A.J. Nederhof, University of Leiden,

"Activities, Publications and Impact in the Humanites: A Bibliometric Study of Modern Language and Literature Search in the Netherlands"

Benjamin Sims, University of California, San Diego,

"Technology Studies and the Evolution of Constructivism,"

10. Mark Elam, "In/secure Subjects of Technoscience,"

Tarja Cronberg & Mark Elam,,

"Technology and European Security: Views from the East and West"

Ingunn Moser,

"On Lives Mastered Though Technology"

Brita Brenna,

"Norway Under Glass"

Per Anders Forstop,

"The Estonia Catastrophe and the Faces of Responsibility"

Jane Summerton, Linkoping University, Chair

Randi Markussen , Discussant

11. Todd D. Cherkasky and Kim Laughlin, "Science, Culture and Organization: Responding to the New World Order,"

Randel D. Hanson,

"Redistributing Environmental Information and Action in Indian Country: The Indigenous Environmental Network and the New World Order,"

Todd D. Cherkasky, Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair,

"Flexible Relations: Working Within Corporate Agendas for Change,"

Kathryn Milun,

"Decolonizing Science? New Technologies in the Wake of the Recent Indian Repatriation Laws,"

Susan DeLay,

"Environmental Justice and the Politics of Identity:Challenging the Authority of Science,"

Thursday 4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.

12. Carol Berkenkotter, "Inhabiting Practices and the Textual Structure of Orthodoxy,"

Lucille McCarthy, University of Maryland

"Settling Indeterminacy in Psychiatry: Revising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,"

Doris J. Ravoltas and Carol Berkenkotter, Michigan Tech. University, Chair,

"Psychotherapists' Casenotes and the Ambivalent Constitution of the Self in Psychotherapy,"

Gerald Savage, Illinois State University-Normal

"Heuristic Argument as Principled Action: Learning to Argue Like and Engineer,"

Stephanie McCulley, University of Utah, Chair

13. Nelly Oudshoorn, "Politics and Practices of Reproductive Technologies,"

Monica Casper,

"Maternal Practices in Fetal Surgery: Fetal Intensive Care Units or 'Heroic Moms'",

Adele Clark ,

"Constructing Modern Contraception: The Quid Pro Quo Between Reproductive Scientists and Birth Control Advocates,"

Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Amsterdam, Chair,

"Discourse Coalitions in Contraceptive Technologies: The Case of Male Contraceptives,"

Naomi Pfeffer,

"The Social Significance of Human Tissues and Body Fluids,"

14. "Modeling"

Deborah Dowling, University of Melbourne, Chair,

"Negotiating Realities, "Scientists and an STS Researcher Map the Virtual Laboratory,"

Martina Merz,

"Practices of Simulation and the Relation Between 'Theory' and 'Experiments' in Particle Physics,"

Paul N. Edwards, Stanford University,

"Computer Models and the Politics of Global Change,"

15. Arthur Daemmrich, "Bloody Fingerprints: Experts and the Standardization of Identity Testing,"

Shelia Jasanoff, Cornell University, Chair, Moderator, and Discussant

Simon Cole, Cornell University,

"Trying Dactyloscopy: The Mechanization of Truth in the Courtroom,"

Kathleen Jordan, Boston University,

"DNA Profiling in Criminal Forensics,"

Arthur Daemmrich, Cornell University,

"Vertical Integration of Integrity: How DNA Typing Companies Stabilize Science and Establish Credibility for the Law,"

Michael Lynch, Brunel

"Real Comedy: Dialogues between Experts, Lawyers, and Judges over the Credibility of Persons and Techniques,"

16. Mike Gorman, "Politics and Epistemology in Science"

Susan Haack, University of Miami,

"Science as Social? - Yes or No?"

Ellsworth R. Fuhrman, Virginia Tech,

"Cyborgs and Hybrids: Cybrids and Hyborgs,"

Karen Parshall, University of Virginia, Chair and Discussant

17. Todd D. Cherkasky and Kim Laughlin, "Science, Culture and Organization: Responding to the New World Order,"

Kim Laughlin, Chair,

"Producing Community Health: Collaborative Approaches,"

Michael Fortun,

"Entangled States, 'Quantum Teleportation' and 'The Willies,'"

Beth Britt,

"Defining Infertility: Law, Science, and the New Reproductive Technologies,"

Joseph Dumit, Haravard Medical School

"From Scientific Sublime to Clinical Approval: Creating a Market for a New Diagnostic Imaging Technique,"

Michael Fischer, Discussant

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