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JASHOPS 2003: CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS
The Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of the Physical Sciences(JASHOPS) will be held September 19-21, 2003 in Cambridge, MA. This is an informal annual meeting featuring presentations by graduate students and postdocs. Young scholars are especially encouraged to come for discussion of historical approaches and methodological concerns. Seven papers will focus this year's discussion on “Modern Physical Sciences and the State.”
Limited funds are available for travel expenses. To apply for funding, please submit a one-paragraph description of why you would like to attend the conference and an estimate of travel costs to rms@mit.edu by July 20, 2003. Note that some housing will be provided by local participants. Grant requests should include only costs of travel.
PROGRAM:
- Peter Galison (Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and Physics), Keynote Address.
- Arne Hessenbruch (Dibner Institute), “Materials Research and the Role of the State in International Comparison.”
- Jeris Stueland (Princeton University), “APS, UCS and National Missile Defense: Scientists and Policy in Late Twentieth-Century America.”
- David Hecht (Yale University), “Hopes and Fears: Science, Security, and the Public Imagination.”
- William J. Turkel (MIT), “Can an Economic Theory of Property Rights Tell Us Anything about the Practice of Geological Surveying?”
- Faidra Papanelopoulou (University of Oxford), “Style in the Emergence of French Energy Physics.”
- Peter Shulman (MIT), “Petroleum Cassandras: Geology and Oil Conservation in the Era of Good Feelings.”
- Matt Wisnioski (Princeton University), “Inside ‘The System’: Engineers, Pessimism, and the State in the Long 1960s.”
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