HPS Graduate Conference Preliminary Program

Thanks to all for their submissions!  We're glad to announce the preliminary program for the upcoming conference.  

Friday, March 11th

1:00 – 3:50 pm  Graduate Student Talks

Location: Hazelbaker Hall (Room E159), Wells Library

Talks are 30-minutes in length, followed by commentary and Q&A time, with a short break before the following talk.  

- 1:00 pm, Samuel Schulte, University of Chicago

To be (a baboon), or not to be (a bat); On Time and Subjectivity in Baboon Mothers and Infants
Commentator: Archie Fields

- 2:00 pm, Paul Kelly, Indiana University

Can the Decisions of Historical Scientists be Judged as Rational?
Commentator: Josua Aponte-Serrano

- 3:00 pm, Casey Caldwell, Northwestern University

The Funny Thing About Syphilis: The Sexual Economy of a Jest in Twelfth Night
Commentator: Ashley Inglehart

4:00 – 5:30 pm  Keynote Speech by Alice Dreger

Location: Hazelbaker Hall (Room E159), Wells Library

History and Philosophy of Intersex: Can the Humanities 

Accelerate the Arc of the Moral Universe?

Abstract: Paraphrasing Theodore Parker, in 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr., observed, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” This talk is a bit of a meditation on that conviction, specifically with regard to the intersex patients’ rights movement with which I’ve been involved for twenty years, since finishing my dissertation (in IU HPS) on the history of the scientific and medical treatment of hermaphroditism in France and Britain from the 1830s to 1915. I’ll summarize my own work in the field, explore how scholarship in the humanities has supported the movement, and—drawing a page from my latest book (Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science)—parse out why the search for truth and the search for justice require each other.

6:30 – 8:00 pm  Reception and Discussion/Poster Session (Doors open at 6:00 for poster set-up)

Location: President’s Room in the University Club, Indiana Memorial Union 

Saturday, March 12^th

8:00 am  Light Breakfast Fare

Location: Room 664 (HPS Seminar), Ballantine Hall 

9:00 - 11:50 am  Graduate Student Talks

Location: Room 033, Chemistry Building

Talks are 30-minutes in length, followed by commentary and Q&A time, with a short break before the following talk. 

- 9:00 am, Daniel Lindquist, Indiana University

Kant and Hegel on the Logic of Life
Commentator: David Rogers

- 10:00 am, Corey Dethier, University of Notre Dame

Components of Reality: Changes of momentum and causal interactions in Newtonian astronomy

Commentator: Evan Arnet

- 11:00 am, Bohang Chen, University of Notre Dame

Revisiting Logical Empiricists’ Criticisms of Vitalism
Commentator: Chris ChoGlueck

12:00 noon – 2:00 pm  Lunch Break (lunch on own)

2:00 – 4:50 pm  Graduate Student Talks

Location: Room 033, Chemistry Building

Talks are 30-minutes in length, followed by commentary and Q&A time, with a short break before the following talk. 

- 2:00 pm, Mahi Hardalupas, University of Pittsburgh

Implicit learning, attention and consciousness: where gatekeepers fear to tread?
Commentator: Nicholas Zautra

- 3:00 pm, Phillip Henry, University of Chicago  

Recasting Bourgeois Psychoanalysis: Freud, Budapest, 1918
Commentator: Sarah Reynolds

- 4:00 pm, Daniel Halverson, Case Western Reserve University

Ernst Haeckel’s Monism: The Confession of Faith of a Man of Science
Commentator: Ryan Ketcham