RASI 2011 Program and Participants/more references

[David Pantalony]

Google DOCS now has the Program and Participants for RASI 2011.

 

Off-line I am getting mixed reactions to some of the readings. Good. I hope that as a group we discover new approaches to artifact research that goes beyond what is available in the HistSciTechMed and material culture literature.

 

That said, there are some influential readings that have appealed across disciplinary boundaries. Cindy Stelmackowich, one of our guest faculty for RASI 2011, has suggested a few additions to our growing reference list:

 

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Daston, Lorraine and Peter Galison. Objectivity. New York: Zone Books, 2007.

Pauwels, Luc, ed. Visual Cultures of Science: Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communication. New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, 2006.

 

Below are some more suggestions from Jean-Francois Gauvin, RASI 2009 faculty, Director of Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.

 

Turkle, Evocative Objects (MIT Press)
Daston, Things that Talk (Zone books)
King, Collections of Nothing (Chicago)
Baudrillard, System of Objects (Verso)
Wall, The Prose of things (Chicago)
Te Heesen, The World in a Box (Chicago)
Miller, Stuff (Polity)
Wylie, Thinking from Things (California)
Thomas, Entangled Objects (Harvard)
Eco, The infinity of lists (Rizzoli)

 

And finally from Roland Wittje, RASI faculty 2009, presently assistant professor for history of science at the Universität (Germany).Regensburg

Hasok Chang, 'How Historical Experiments Can Improve Scientific Knowledge and
Science Education: The Cases of Boiling Water and Electrochemistry', Science
and Education 20 (2011)

Per-Odd Eggen, Lise Kvittingen, Annette Lykknes and Roland Wittje:
"Reconstructing Iconic Experiments in Electrochemistry: Experiences from a
History of Science Course."Published in Science & Education, Online First, 1
April 2011