Friday, 20 September

9am - noon. Session I: Teaching Practices, Transferring Skills

    Michael Gordin (Princeton University), "Beilstein Unbound: The Pedagogical Unraveling of a Man and his Handbuch"

    Andrew Warwick (Imperial College, London), "Pedagogy and the History of Mathematical Physics in the Longue Duree"

    David Kaiser (M.I.T.), "Making Tools Travel: Pedagogy and the Transfer of Skills in Postwar Theoretical Physics"

    Hugh Gusterson (M.I.T.), "A Pedagogy of Diminishing Returns: Scientific Innovation across Three Generations of Nuclear Weapons Science"

    Commentator: Ursula Klein (Max-Planck-Institut, Berlin)
 
 

2:30 - 5:30pm. Session II: Pedagogical Cultures in Collision

    Reed Stevens (University of Washington), "There must be some way to get from there to here: Telling more real stories about how little kids become practicing
technoscientists"

    Graeme Gooday (Leeds University), "Practice, Pedagogy, and the Problematic Machine: Victorian case studies on the limits of training as an explanatory resource for the historian"

    Kenji Ito (University of Tokyo), "The Geist in the Institute: Production of Quantum Physicists in 1930s Japan"

    Cyrus Mody (Cornell University), "Probe Microscopists at Work and Play: The Growth of American STM in the 1980s"

    Commentator: Michael Lynch (Cornell University)

Saturday, 21 September

9am - noon. Session III: Textbooks as a Genre

    Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Univ. Nanterre), Antonio Garcia Belmar (Univ. Alicante), and Jose-Ramon Bertomeu Sanchez (Univ. Valencia), "A Fresh Look at the History of Chemistry through Textbooks"

    Christopher Ritter (AAAS), "Chemical Didactics in a New Nation: Visual Practice and the Chemistry of Robert Hare and Benjamin Silliman"

    Karl Hall (Sloan/Dibner Project on History of Recent Science), "'Think Less about Foundations': A Short Course on the Course of Theoretical Physics of Landau and Lifshitz"

    Buhm Soon Park (NIH), "In the 'Context of Pedagogy': Teaching Strategy and Theory Change in Quantum Chemistry"

    Commentator: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University)
 
 

2:30 - 5:30pm. Session IV: Generational Reproduction

    Myles Jackson (Willamette University), "Machines and Masters: Mechanics, Physics, and Music Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century Germany"

    Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University), "Training Generations: Mental Tools, Mental Habits, and the Ethos of Practice"

    Ana Simoes (University of Lisbon), "From Learning to Teaching and Writing: The Quantum Chemist Charles A. Coulson and the Crafting of Science"

    Sharon Traweek (UCLA), "Generating High Energy Physics in Japan: Moral Imperatives of a Future Pluperfect"

    Commentator: Robert Kohler (University of Pennsylvania)