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 23th

1:00 – 3:50 pm  Graduate Student Talks

Location: Room 143, Geology Building

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 Fajerstein, Indiana University

A Microprocess of Stalinization, 1928-1930: The Transformation of Puti sel'skogo khoziaistva and the 'Army of Soviet Agronomists'
Commentator: Evan Arnet

2:00 pm, Joseph Baxley, University of Notre Dame

A New Look at the Anonymous Parisian Master's Guide in Ripoll 109
Commentator: Meagan Allen

3:00 pm, JP Gamboa, University of Pittsburgh

Pain and Emotion upon Decerebration: Sherrington as a Historical Outlier
Commentator: Luma Melo

4:30 – 6:00 pm  Keynote Speech by Anjan Chakravartty

Location: Social Science Research Center, Woodburn Hall

6:30 – 8:00 pm  Reception and Discussion/Poster Session

Location: Social Science Research Center, Woodburn Hall

Saturday, March 24^th

8:00 am  Light Breakfast Fare

Location: Social Science Research Center, Woodburn Hall

9:00 - 11:50 am  Graduate Student Talks

Location: Social Science Research Center, Woodburn Hall

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

9:00 am, Patrick Tiffany, Indiana University

Do Athenians Dream of Poisoned Water: Water, Wells, and The Great Plague of Athens
Commentator: Brenton Wells

10:00 am, Joshua Barthuly, University of Notre Dame

Dispositional Essentialism Laws and Structural Complexity

 Commentator: Ali Mirza

11:00 am, Mousa Mohammadian, University of Notre Dame

From Peirce’s Abduction to Lipton’s Inference to the Best Explanation: How Two Historical Developments Fill the Gap
Commentator: Ryan O’Loughlin

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

2:00 – 4:50 pm  Graduate Student Talks

Location: Social Science Research Center, Woodburn Hall

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

2:00 pm, Qiu Lin, Duke University

The Epistemic Status of False Assumptions in Scientific Idealization
Commentator: Becca Jackson, Ryan O’Loughlin

3:00 pm, Teresa Jackson, Indiana University

A Closer Look at the "Ghosts" of the Sex Workers in the USPHS Conducted Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments
Commentator: Chris ChoGlueck

4:00 pm, Samuel Hall, University of Notre Dame

Fixing Evidence and the Problems of Underdetermination
Commentator: Justin Slattery