Subject: CASTAC - Mullins Award / San Diego Conference Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:37:30 -0500 From: Joseph Dumit To: CASTAC-L (sent by Bart Simon) UNDERSTANDING THE PRACTICES OF SCIENCE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MARCH 6-7, 1998 A two-day conference on Understanding the Practices of Science will be held at the University of California, San Diego, on 6 and 7 March, 1998. The conference has been organized by the UCSD Science Studies Program with the support of the UCSD Council for the Humanities and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Speakers include Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge), David Bloor (University of Edinburgh), John Hedley Brooke (University of Lancaster), Lorraine Daston (Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Stephen Jay Gould (Harvard University), David Hull (Northwestern University), Michael Lynch (Brunel University), Ronald Numbers (University of Wisconsin), Naomi Oreskes (Gallatin School, New York University), and David Raup (University of Chicago). The program, schedule, information, and directions are available on the conference web site http://www.sdsc.edu/~maisel/ucsd-conf (Note that the web site is being hosted at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.) The conference will take place in the auditorium of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and will be open to participants who have registered in advance (via the form on the web or by e-mailing or telephoning Merry Maisel, mmaisel@helix.ucsd.edu, 619-534-5127, or Julie Scales, jscales@ucsd.edu, 619-534-0491). Registration is free, but a fee will be collected to defray the cost of food (continental breakfast and box lunch on two days and a buffet dinner Friday night, $50 for faculty, $30 for students; participation optional). Those who wish to register on either day at the time of the conference will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis if and only if space is available after seating of preregistered participants. Bart Simon simonb@post.queensu.ca Dept. of Sociology http://post.queensu.ca/~simonb/ Queen's University Kingston, Ontario phone: 613-545-6000 x7152 K7L-3N6 fax: 613-545-2871