iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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T166. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century biological sciences
Fri 26 July, 09:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
T166-A. Networks of circulation and exchange
Fri 26 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
Chair: Marsha Richmond | Wayne State University, United States
César Lorenzano | Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
The cell and tissue culture technique in Giuseppe Levi’s institute
Fernando Luna | Northern Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
A case study on the flow of information about medicinal plants between Europe and South America in the eighteenth century
James Poskett twitter | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Skulls in the snow: the passage of nineteenth-century Inuit crania
Carol Pal | Bennington College, United States
Information factory: circulating science in the seventeenth century
T166-B. The history and philosophy of biology
Fri 26 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
Chair: Efthymios Nicolaidis | National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
Hein van den Berg twitter | TU Dortmund, Germany
Teleology and biology in eighteenth-century rationalist thought
Pedro Fonseca | University of Coimbra, Portugal
The history of evolutionary thought in Portugal: the differentiated stances towards evolution of some of Portugal’s leading zoologists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Bo-Chi G. Lai | Department of Bioresources, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
The origin of Mayr’s BSC: the historical perspectives of biological species concept development
T166-C. Philosophy, race, ethnography
Fri 26 July, 14:00–15:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.007
Chair: James Moore | Open University, United Kingdom
Sadiah Qureshi | University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
‘Exterminate all the brutes’: dying races and the science of extinction
Marissa Petrou | University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Crossing oceans and flattening objects: the ethnography of Oceania in imperial Germany
María Haydeé García Bravo | UNAM, Mexico
Les cartes de l’empire: territoire et ethnicité dans la cartographie franco-mexicaine, XIXe siècle
Location: Roscoe Building 1.007
Part of: Roscoe Building