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1330 - 1530 SESSION 1

Panel 1 - Visualizing Body Politics - Empire East.

• An All-Consuming Experience: Obstetrical Ultrasound and the Commodification of Pregnancy, Janelle S. Taylor, U of Chicago, USA
• The Flexible Fetus and the Situated Individual, Deborah Blizzard, RPI, USA
• Shaping the Body Politic: The Case of Breast Cancer Activists, M. Woodell, RPI, USA
• On Re-Constructing Gender in Ultrasound Stories, Ann Rudinow Saetnan, Norwegian U of Science and Technology, Norway

Panel 2 - Representation and Education - Empire Central.

• Bringing It All Back Home: The Implications of Recent Science and Technology Studies for the Classroom Science Teacher, Trevor Pinch, Shelley Costa, and Tom Hughes, Cornell U, USA
• An Anthropology of Graphing: Use of Graphical Representations in High School Texts and Professional Ecology Journals, Wolff-Michael Roth, Michelle K. McGinn and G. Michael Bowen, Simon-Fraser University, Canada
• On Becoming a Biologically Literate Citizen: Trajectories of Competence from Elementary School to Professional Practice, G. Michael Bowen and Wolff-Michael Roth, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Classroom Implications of Science and Technology Studies, Michelle K. McGinn, and Wolff-Michael Roth, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Panel 3 - Invention and Application - Empire West.

• Invention as a Tool of African-American Social and Technical Development, Rayvon Fouche, Washington U, USA
• Using Electronic Networks to Harness Africa's Brain Drain, Rosemary Onyejekwe, Ohio State U, USA

Panel 4 - Expertise, Environment and Policy - Patio Room.

• Hormone-Mimicking Pollutants, Sustainability, and the Limits of Science, Jeff Howard, RPI, USA
• Shifting Sources of Scientific Expertise for Environmental Problems, Stephen Zehr, U of Southern Indiana, USA
• Changes in the Treatment of Risk: Definitions and Social Mechanisms, Jessica Glicken, Ecological Planning and Toxicology, Inc., USA
• STS and the Literatures on Expertise: An Appraisal and an Approach, Dean Nieusma and Ned Woodhouse, RPI, USA

Panel 5 The Stanford Project on Science Globalization - Plaza East and West.

• Institutional Aspects of National Science Activity: The Factors Influencing Nation-State Entry into the International Council of Scientific Unions, 1919-1990, Emilio Castilla, Stanford U, USA
• The Diffusion of Ministries of Science and Technology, 1950-1990: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Comparative Analysis, Yung Suk Jang, Stanford U, USA
• Modern School Science and Mathematics as Participatory: A Comparative-Historical Analysis, Elizabeth McEneaney, Stanford U, USA
• World Citizen or Industrialist? What Drove the Establishment of International Technology Organizations 1885-1985. Xiaowei Luo, Stanford U, USA.
• The Globalization of Western Science: Causes and Implications. Evan Schofer, Stanford U, USA.

Panel 6 - Rambles and Brambles: Rhetoric and Epistemology - Forum Room.

• The Nature of the Subject In Science Studies, Janet Rachel, U of East London, UK
• What Could Be More Natural? Genetics Rhetoric in the Popular Press, Elizabeth P. Shea, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
• Stress in the Book of Nature: The Supplemental Logic of Galileo's Copernicanism, Mario Biagioli, Harvard U, USA
• Science as Stranger and the Worship of the Word, Wenda Bauchspies, RPI, USA

Panel 7 - Networks and Assessment - Embassy Room.

• Scientific Excellence in the Making, Amilcar Davyt and Lea Velho, State U of Campinas, Brazil
• The Impact of Quantitative Science Studies on the Flemish Research Community and on the Flemish Science and Technology Policy, M. Luwel, Ministry of the Flemish Community, Belgium; R.E. de Bruin, U of Leiden, The Netherlands; J.A. Houben, Catholic U of Leuven, Belgium; H.F Moed, U of Leiden, The Netherlands; H. Van den Berghe, Catholic U of Leuven, Belgium; E. Spruyt, U of Antwerp, Belgium

Panel 8 - Multi-Institutional Collaboration - Orpheum Room.

• A Typology of Multi-Institutional Collaborations in Science, Ivan Chompalov and Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State U, USA
• Sociologists Wanted, Joan Warnow-Blewett, American Institute of Physics, USA
• Scientific Opportunities and the Structure of Multi-Institutional Collaborations, Joel Genuth, American Institute of Physics, USA

Panel 9 - Discipline Formation and Professionalization - Regency Room.

• Professional Presence: Edison in the Technical Press, Charles Bazerman, U of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Significant Scientists: Contributions of Individuals to the Scientific Process, Shelley A. Myer, Rutgers U, USA
• An Analysis of the Development of Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating 1920-1945, Stephen E. Nash, U of Arizona, USA
• Social Sciences on the Periphery: The Emergence and Development of Economics and Sociology in Uruguay. Adriana Barreiro Diaz, Lea Velho. State U of Campinas, Brazil
• Engineering Philosophy, Engineering Culture, and The Origins of Technoscience. Patrick Carroll, UCSD

Panel 10 - Patterns of Inventions - Broadhurst Room.

• Creating a Sustainable Tomorrow: Environmental Intelligence as Network-Building, Michael E. Gorman, Matthew M. Mehalik, U of Virginia, USA
• Brazil, 1833: Photography Was Invented by Hercules Florence. Was He A Genius?, Rosana Horio, Lea Velho, Silvia Figueiroa, State U of Campinas, Brazil
• Technology, Appropriation, and Regulation: The Product Space of Plant Varieties, Dwijen Rangnekar, Kingston University, UK
• Social Aspects of Innovative Activities in Ukraine, Alexandr A. Tkachenko, U of Kiev, Ukraine

Panel 11 - Recent Advances in Psychology in Science Studies - Manhattan Room

• Research Problems in the Scientific Process as Viewed by Senior Researchers, Carl Martin Allwood, Goteborg U, Sweden
• Some Psychological and Meta-Theoretical Aspects of the Process of Problem Generation in the Research Process, Jan Barmark, Goteborg U, Sweden
• Social Studies of the Arts and Humanities: Empirical Studies of Research Conditions and Performance, Sven Hemlin, Goteborg U, Sweden
• Research Apprenticeship, Steinar Kvale, Aarhus U, Denmark

1530 - 1600 Break - Empire Ballroom Foyer

1630 - 1800 Reception and Welcoming Addresses, At the HOLIDAY INN CITY CENTER (This is a location change, due to anticipated inclement weather.)

• Mayor George Miller
• Dean Ernest Smerdon, College of Engineering and Mines
• Dean Eugene Levy, College of Science

1700 - 1830 Panel Discussion: Knowledge and Economic Development. CESL 103.

With
• Ms. Roz Boxer, Director of the Arizona Council on Economic Conversion
• Mr. Kendall Bert, Director of the Tucson Office on Economic Development
• Moderator: Sheila Slaughter, Center for Research on Higher Education, Science and Technology Policy Initiative, University of Arizona

1700 - 1715 Load Buses For Trip To UA Campus

1730 - 1830 Performance Piece: The Sounds of Plasma Physics. Kinsella and Carius. Social Sciences 100

1815 Buses begin to depart to return to Holiday Inn

1915 Last bus departs to return to Holiday Inn

0730 AM Breakfast Meeting TBA for Council or Committees - Tambo Room

0830 - 1000 SESSION 3

Panel 1 - Consequences of a Competitiveness S & T Policy - Empire East.

• Science and Technology Policy in a Global Economy, Cynthia Archerd and Sheila Slaughter, U of Arizona, USA.
• Centers, Institutes, and Departments: Advantages and Disadvantages of Being Close to the Market, Gary Rhoades U of Arizona, USA
• Industrial Scientists and New Research Cultures, Roli Varma, Russell Sage College, USA

Panel 2 - Illness and Treatment Construction - I - Empire Central.

• The Treatment of Otitis Media in an Environment of Indecisive Information, Simone Taubenberger, U of Arizona, USA
• Negotiating Patient Management of Asthma: A Report of Ethnographic Findings, David Van Sickle, U of Arizona, USA
• Changing Relationships in Biomedicine and End-of-Life Care, Carolyn M. Smith, U of Arizona, USA

Panel 3 - Conversations with the Author -- Donna Haraway. Empire West.

Featuring Discussion with:

• Karen Barad
• Stefan Helmreich
• Pnina Abir-Am

Panel 4 - Teachers' Practices, Technology and Policy, Patio Room.

• Teachers Methodologies and Implementations of Technology, William S. Bradley, Ryukoku U, Japan
• The Everyday Mathematics of Two Teachers, Michelle K. McGinn, Simon Fraser U, Canada

Panel 5 - Metaphors and the Dynamics of Knowledge I - Plaza East and West

• Metaphors - Media of (ex)Change in Societal Discourses, Sabine Maasen, Max Planck Institute, Germany
• Metaphor and Scientific Change: From Representation to Performative Understandings of Metaphor and Scientific Practice. James Bono, SUNY Buffalo, USA
• The Spatiality of STS: Converging Metaphors. Janet-Atkinson-Grosjean, U of British Columbia, Canada

Panel 6 - Materials, Practices and Appropriate Politics: Putting Theory To Work in Designing Technology I - Forum Room.

• The Practical Logic of Computer Work, Philip Agre, UCSD, USA
• Technology, Design, and the Politics of Space, Ina Wagner, Technical U of Vienna, Austria
• The Politics of Survival and Learning: Negotiating the Model Cabin as a Boundary Object in a Customized Mass Production Setting, Yrjo Engestrom, U of California, San Diego, USA
• Philosophy Meets Design: The Missing Masses in Ecodesign. Jaap Jelsma, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Panel 7 - Power and Perspective: Gender in Graduate Education in Science, Engineering, and Math - Embassy Room.

• What Does It Take to Be a Scientist? Banu Subramaniam, U of Arizona, USA
• Shifting the Focus from the Absence to the Presence of Women in SEM Graduate Programs, Mary Wyer, North Carolina U, USA
• Reproducing Cultures: The Trouble Gender Causes, Laura Briggs, U of Arizona, USA

Panel 8 - Knowledge Systems:Reconstruction and Resistance - Orpheum Room.

• Maps and Encounters Between Knowledge Traditions, A Critical Examination of Cartographic Resistance, David Turnbull, Deakin U, Australia
• Biological Reconstructions of the 'Third World': The Case of Equatorial Africa, David Ayers Eaton, U of California, Berkeley, USA
• Knowing The World, Knowing the Self: The Construction of Fulani Medical Science, Andrew J.Gordon, U of South Carolina, USA
• Documents And/As Technical Work Knowledge. Kathryn Henderson, Texas A&M, USA

Panel 9 - Technology Assessments in Comparative Perspective - Regency Room

• Technology Assessments in Comparative Perspective, Norman Vig, Carleton U, USA.
• Rob Hoppe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Herbert Paschen, German Bundestag

Panel 10 - Technological Systems: Contingency and Structures - Broadhurst Room.

• Civil Systems in the 1990s: the First Time as Tragedy, The Second as --Intelligent Transportation Systems, Hans K. Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Constructing Technology: Managing Social Contingencies, Eamonn Molloy, Lancaster U, UK
• Norms, Networks, and Trails, Adrian Cussins, Cornell U, USA

Panel 11 - Modelling and Knowledge Production - Manhattan Room

• Global Solution, Local Problems: Issues of Constraints and Flexibility in the Local Use of "Standard" Molecular Modeling Systems, Eric Francoeur, McGill U, Canada
• SiSiFOS: Simulating Science Studies on the Internal Formation and Organization of Science. Petra Arhweiler, Bielefeld, Germany.
• Observation, Neural Networks and Human Agency, Hans Radder, Vrije U, The Netherlands

1000 - 1030 Break - Empire Ballroom Foyer

1030 - 1200 SESSION 4

Panel 1 - The Production and Transfer of Knowledge from Academe to Industry: Investigations of Emerging Challenges - Empire East.

• Toward Resolving Ambiguities in University-Industry Relationships: Faculty and Administrators Voice Their Convictions, Teresa Isabelle Daza Campbell and Sheila Slaughter, U of Arizona, USA
• Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions About Technology Transfer, Steven Stralser, U of Michigan, USA

Panel 2 - Illness & Treatment Construction II - Empire Central.

• Our Environment, Ourselves: Hormone Disruptors and the Fragile Fetus, Monica J. Casper and Vivian a. Christensen, U of California, Santa Cruz, USA
• Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: The Social and Cultural Articulation of an Illness, Jason Todd Congdon, RPI, USA
• I Take My Brain Out and Put This Little Tablet Inside Instead: Stigmatization of Ritalin and its Effects on Patient Adherence. Elizabeth England-Kennedy, U of Arizona, USA

Panel 3 - Ideas and Ideology in Technological Systems - Empire West.

• Virtual Capabilities, Russell Mills, Vermont Technical College, USA
• Privacy in a Digital World: How Technological Beliefs Influence Our Conception of Privacy, Patrick Feng, RPI, USA
• The Inevitability of Constructing Web Newspapers: Metaphors and Propositions in the Rhetoric of Technological Determinism, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Cornell U, USA
• Ideas About Audience in World Wide Web Design, Christine Hine, CRICT/Brunel University UK
• Self-Presentation on the World Wide Web, Heinrich Schwarz, MIT

Panel 4 - When is A(n) ... not A(n) ...? - Patio Room

• (Re)configuring 'Ecosystems' in Transnational Contexts, Luis a. Vivanco, Princeton U, USA
• To Bean or Not to Bean? The Ironic Political Economy of Vanilla Production, Jennifer Croissant and Kyle Ackerman, U of Arizona, USA
• "Where the Wild Things Are": American Dream Research as a Laboratory Science: 1953-1967 Kenton Kroker, University of Toronto.
• The Problem of Premature Collapse. Daniel Kennefick

Panel 5 -Metaphors and the Dynamics of Knowledge II -- Plaza East and West.

• The Power and Peril of the Information Metaphor, Lily Kay, MIT, USA
• Metaphor and the Limits of Language, Henry Krips, U Pittsburgh, USA
• The Order of Meaning: the Career of Chaos as a Metaphor, Peter Weingart, University of Bielefeld., Germany

Panel 6 - Materials, Practices and Appropriate Politics - II - Forum Room

• Human/Machine Interventions, Lucy Suchman, Xerox Corp, USA
• Information Infrastructures and Standardization Ideologies, Ole Hanseth, Norsk Regnesentral, Norway
• Chains of Custody: Keeping the Demons at Bay, Michael Lynch & Ruth McNally, Brunel University, UK
• Things Perceived as Real Are Real in Their Consequences, Susan Leigh Star, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Panel 7 - Moral Standings of Science - Embassy Room.

• Science, Market and State: Three Paths from Moral Responsibility, Lawrence Busch, Michigan State U, USA
• Rising from the Ashes: Totalitarian Science after Totalitarianism, Alfred Nordmann, U of South Carolina, USA
• Action of Knowledge: Questions of Locational Fairness, Anoop Chandola, U of Arizona, USA

Panel 8 - Research Programs - Assessment and Evaluation - I - Orpheum

• The Case of the Post-Evaluation of the Dutch Sensor Technology Programme (1992-1997), Frans C.H.D. van de Beemt, Technology Foundation, The Netherlands
• An Experiment with Expert Panel Review of a Technology Program: Peer Review, Gretchen B. Jordan, John C. Mortensen, Sandia National Labs, USA
• Two Recent Studies of the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program: The Interaction of Industry with ERCs, Linda E. Parker, NSF, USA

Panel 9 -- Roundtable Discussion: Peer Review and Publication in STS Regency Room

• Edward Hackett, National Science Foundation, USA
• Olga Amsterdamska, U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• David Edge, Edinburgh, Scotland

Panel 10 - Dimensions of Identity in Science I - Broadhurst Room.

• A Black Man and Blue-Babies: Invisible Work in the Creation of Cardiovascular Surgery, Stefan Timmerman, Brandeis U, USA
• The Personal is Scientific: Expanding Actor-Network Analyses to Accommodate Marginalized Social Scientists, Laurel D. Graham, U of South Florida

Panel 11 - Models as Mediators - I - Manhattan Room.

• Why Models? Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University, Canada
• Multiplex and Unfolding: Computer Simulation in Particle Physics, Martina Merz, CERN
• An Epistemology of Calculation? Simulation and a Revised Relationship Between Theory and Data, Eric Winsberg, Indiana U, USA
• Experimenting on Theories, Deb Dowling, U of Melbourne, Australia

1200 - 1330 Lunch - Starlight Ballroom

• Feminist Caucus
• Roundtable Discussion: The Descent of Icarus. T. Gieryn, D. Guston and M. Brown, Facilitators.
• Others TBA

1330 - 1530 SESSION 5

Panel 1 - Heterogeneity and Interdisciplinarity - Empire East.

• Establishing and Managing Collaborations, Gordon Abra, U of Arizona, USA
• Patterns of Interdisciplinarity, Peter van den Besselaar, U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Trust, Control, Competition: Contradictions in a "Mode 2" Laboratory, Jason D. Smith, U of Arizona, USA
• Sites and Boundaries: Location and Process in the Production of Knowledge, Benoit Godin, INRS, Canada

Panel 2 - Biodiversity, Race and Reproduction - Empire Central.

• Confessions of Bioterrorist, Charis Cussins, Cornell U, USA
• Marketing Medicinals, Corinne Hayden, U of California, Santa Cruz, USA
• Primate Boundaries and Reproductive Technologies, Angela Lintz, U of California, San Diego, USA
• Imperial Environmentalism or Environmental Imperialism? S. Ravi Rajan, Max Planck Institute, Germany
• Reconstructing Race and Diversity, Jenny Reardon, Cornell U, USA

Panel 3 - At Work in the Museum - Empire West

• The Museum Lifeworld of Aristocratic Entomology, Daniel Alexandrov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Constructing the Field: Translation and Representation in Natural History Museum Research and Exhibition, Steven W. Allison-Bunnell, Independent Scholar, USA
• Balancing Acts: Science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian, Thomas F. Gieryn, Institute for Advanced Study, USA

Panel 4 - Controversy and Policy - Patio Room.

• Constructing 'Serviceable Truths': An Exploration of Four Strategies, David H. Guston,Rutger U, USA
• Public Controversies Over Science: Towards a Cultural Constructivist Analysis, Rob Hagendijk, U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Paradigms, Objectivity, Neutrality and Science: A Political Interpretation, Stephen Turner, U of South Florida, USA
• The Policy and Politics of Alternative Food Programs in Brazil, A Controversy Analysis, Lea Velho and Paulo Velho, State U of Campinas, Brazil

Panel 5 -Conversations with the Author: A. Gross and W. Keith on The Rhetoric of Science - Plaza East and West

• The Historical Perspective: Mario Biagioli, Harvard U, USA
• The Sociological Perspective: Trevor Pinch, Cornell U, USA
• The Rhetorical Perspective, Carol Berkenkotter, Michigan Technological U, USA

Panel 6 - Materials, Practices and Appropriate Policies - III - Forum Room

• Classification Systems as Political Technology, Geof Bowker, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Documentation as Performance, Mike Robinson, U of Jyvaskyla, Finland
• What Use for Social Theory in Designing Technology, Marc Berg, Maastricht U, The Netherlands

Panel 8 - Research Programs: Research and Assessment - II - Orpheum

• Performance Assessment of the International Research Programs: The Case of Mexico, M. Bonilla-Marin, C. Gonzalez-Brambila and S. Ortega-Salazar, Mexican National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico
• Social Aspects of Learning and Innovation in Responsive Organisations, Lars Fuglsang, Roskilde U, Denmark
• R&D Value Mapping: A Case Study-Based Method for Assessing Impacts of Government-Sponsored Research and Technology Development Projects, Barry Bozeman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• The University in Ruins?: Collaboration and Identity in Industrial-Academic Discourse, Geoff Cooper, U of Surrey, UK

Panel 9 - Scientific Selves - Regency Room.

• Learning To Be a Natural Scientist Through Self-Similarity in Local Spaces of Knowledge, Cathrine Hasse, Institute of Anthropology, Denmark
• Aesthetics, Habitus, and the Formation of a Scientific Self, Michael Ling and David Boote, Simon Fraser U, Canada
• School Architecture, Artifacts, and the Formation of a Scientific Self, David Boote and Michael Ling, Simon Fraser U, Canada
• Making Policy for Making Selves in Science and Engineering: From Sputnik to Global Competition. Juan Lucena, Embry-Riddle University, USA

Panel 10 - Dimensions of Identity in Science - II - Broadhurst Room.

• Doing Anthropology from Deep Within: Methodological Reflections of Two Observer-Actors, David Ferro, Ahmed Bouzid, Virginia Tech, USA
• Women in Computer Science: Contradictory Stories, Multiple Selves, Linda Condron, Ohio State U, USA
• Knowing in Action, Martha Vanderwolk, Norwich College, Vermont, USA
• Archaeology of Technoscientific Language in the Discourse of a Muslim Engineer/Politician, Mazyar Lotfalian, MIT, USA

Panel 11 - Models as Mediators II: Cases from Economics - Tambo Room.

• Built-In Justification, Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Economic Models and Economic Policy: Theory, Choice or Moral Choice?, Robert Evans, Newcastle University, UK
• Mathematical Modelling as Empirical Research: Rhetoric and Experiment in Economics, Daniel Breslau, U of Tel Aviv, Israel
• The Emergence of Modelling Practice and the Depillarization Planning in The Netherlands, 1920-1995, Adrienne van den Bogaard, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1530 - 1600 Break - Empire Ballroom Foyer

1600 - 1800 Session 6 ( Plenary) - Empire Central and West

• Knowledge Societies and Their Global Microstructures. K. Knorr-Cetina and U. Bruegger
• Science in the System of World Society. R. Stichweh
• Numbers, Standards, and the Making of a Global Political Economy. T. Porter
• How to Make Knowledge Travel. S. Shapin
• Discussant, D. Haraway

1800 - 1900 4S General Business Meeting - Patio Room

1900 Reception - Cash Bar - Empire Ballroom Foyer

1930 Banquet - Empire Ballroom

Banquet Agenda
• Welcoming Remarks
• In Memoriam Diana Forsythe
• Introduction of the Mullins Student Award Winner
• Introduction of and Remarks from the Fleck Award Winner
• Introduction of and Remarks from the Bernal Award Winner

0700 - 08:00 Social Studies of Science Editorial Team and Committee Meeting - Montclair Room.

0830 - 10:00 SESSION 7

Panel 2 - Health Philosophy and Policy - Empire Central.

• Deviant Life: Toward a Political Philosophy of Biology, Jason Scott Robert, McMaster U, Canada
• The Policy Context of Health-Related Genetic Information Gathering, Willia Leeming, York U, Canada
• Instrumentally Conditioned Health Care Needs: the Case of In Vitro Fertilization, Kenneth Meiklejohn U of Toronto, Canada

Panel 4 - Con(tra)ceptions - Patio Room.

• Out of the Caribbean: Avoiding Issues of the Safety of "The Pill", Laura Briggs, U of Arizona, USA
• Scientists as Cultural Entrepreneurs, Nelly Oudshoorn, U of Twente, The Netherlands
• Representing Users' Bodies in the Development of Immunological Contraceptives, Jessika van Kammen, U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Panel 5 - STS as Home and STS as Work: How Location Affects the Doing of STS - Part 1 of "STS: Passive Present to Active Future."Plaza East and West.

• Interdisciplinarity as Academic Downsizing: Changing Structures in the Research University, James Collier, Virginia Tech, USA
• Changing Places: From STS to Human Ecology, Merle Jacob
• Are you being served? Disciplinization and STS Teaching, Joan Leach, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, England
• From Feudal to Capitalist Modes of Production in STS Research, Sujatha Raman

Panel 6 - Designing Engineers: Roundtable on issues of Design, Demographics, and Accreditation for the future of Engineering Education - Forum Room.

• Jeffrey L. Newcomer, New England Institute of Technology,USA
• Art Frickie, RPI,USA
• John Schumacher, RPI, USA
• Dean Nieusma, RPI, USA
• Nicole Farkas, RPI, USA
• Laura Kramer, Montclair State, USA

Panel 8 - Transnational Policy and Regulation - Orpheum Room

• Supranational Regulation .. National Science ..Local Practice: Drug Regulation, Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Care in Europe, Arthur Daemmrich, Cornell U, USA
• The European 'Experiment' in Developing Transnational S&T, Erkki Kaukonen, U ofTampere, Finland
• Evaluating Research and Education: A Study of Swedish Health Sciences, John Hultberg and Christer Rosenberg, U of Gothenburg, Sweden
• International Regulation of Greenhouse Gases: Science, Power, and a Linear Policy Model, Franz Foltz, Penn State

Panel 9 - New Careers, New Norms - Regency Room.

• Framing Scientific Careers: Biotechnology as Legitimate Science, Laurel Smith-Doerr, U of Arizona, USA
• Biographies and Biotechnologies, Mark Jones, U of California, San Diego, USA
• Little Science and Survival: Cultural Consequences of Doing Research Under Pressure in Small Biotech Firms, Constance Perin, MIT, USA

Panel 10 - Cars and Communities - Broadhurst Room.

• A Theoretical Analysis of the Importance of Pedestrian Technology to the Creation of Community, David Levinger, RPI, USA, Loren Demerath, Centenary, USA
• The Social Shaping of Urban Technologies: Re-Configuring for Electrical Infrastructure for the Sustainable City, Robert Evans, Simon Guy and Simon Marvin, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

1030 - 1200 Session 8

Panel 1 - Social Power and S&T in Education II - Empire East.

• Science and Technology Studies & The Field of Education, David Shutkin, Ohio State U, USA; Hank Bromley, SUNY Buffalo, USA
• Science Education and the Politics of Poverty, Angela Calabrese Barton, Columbia U, USA
• New Technologies and the Cultures of Primary Schooling: Theorizing Teachers as Luddites In/Deed" Mary Bryson, U of British Columbia, Canada, Suzanne de Castell, Simon Fraser U, Canada
• Educational Technology and the National Information Infrastructure: A Critical/Ironic Map of Policy Pasts and Presents, Sousan Arafeh, U of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (presented by Shutkin)
• Rethinking Science Education through the Filter of Cultural Studies, Matthew Weinstein, Macalester College, Canada

Panel 2 - Changing The Atmosphere: Global Warming I - Empire Central.

• Scientific Internationalism and the Global Atmosphere, 1945-1957, Paul Edwards, Stanford U, USA; Clark Miller, Harvard U, USA
• Weather and Climate Modification: Operational Use Versus Fundamental Research in the 1960s, Chunglin Kwa, U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Climate Science in International Politics: 1970-1996, Clark Miller, Harvard U, USA
• Climate Change, Global Research Consortia, Media Hype and the Political Agenda, Peter Weingart, U of Bielefeld, Germany

Panel 3 - Confounding the Boundaries: Learning(s) and Practice(s) in Technoscience I - Empire West.

• What does STS have to say about Technoscientific Learning? Reed Stevens, UC Berkeley, USA.
• Learning Cutting Metal as Situated Practice, Naoki Ueno, National Institute for Educational Research, Japan.
• Aliging Images of Competence in Reproduction of Mathematical Practices across Schools and Workplaces, Rogers Hall, UC Berkeley, USA.
• Inititaion and Practice: Things, Meanings, and Scales in EcoSocial Networks, J. L. Lemke, CUNY, USA.

Panel 4 -- Biomedical Practices and Platforms: Patio Room.

• Transcending Location, Catharina Landstrom, Gothenburg U, Sweden
• Biomedical Platforms, Peter Keating, UQAM, Canada; Alberto Cambrosio,McGill U, Canada
• The Laboratory and the Field: Bacteriology and Epidemiology in the Wake of the 1918/19 Influenza Epidemic, Olga Amsterdamska, U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Permutations of Things: Substitution and the Power of Drugs, Gomart Emilie,CSI, France
• Cultures in Bioinformatics. Joan Fujimura, Stanford, USA.

Panel 5 - Technology Studies: Multimedia and Social Learning - Plaza East and West

• What Did We Learn in the Social Experiments?, Birgit Jaeger, Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark
• Fishing for Fun and Profit: Norway Domesticates Multimedia, Jarle Brosveet and Knut H. Soerensen, Norwegian U of Science & Technology, Norway
• Some Digi-tales from the Netherlands: The User in Multimedia Experiments, Wiebe Bijker, U of Maastricht, The Netherlands
• What Can STS Tell Us About The Virtual Society? Steve Woolgar, CRICT, Brunel University
• An Overview of Social Experiments in Multimedia, Roger Slack, University of Ediburgh, UK

Panel 6 - Conversations with the Author -The Fleck Prize Winner, 1997 Forum Room

• M. Berg
• M. Akrich
• R. Hagendijk

Panel 7 - Values in On-Line Communication - Embassy Room

• Drafting a Code of Ethics On-Line: the IEEE/ACM Experience, Michael Davis and Vivian Weil, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Political Participation on the Internet: How Does It Compare with Traditional Political Participation?, Bruce Bimber, U of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Debunking the Myth of the Nintendo Generation: How Doctoral Students Introduce New Electronic Communications into University Research, Lisa M. Covi, University of Michigan
• Is Electronic Communication Transforming Graduate Education?, Marcel LaFollette, George Washington U, USA
• The Value of and Values in On-Line communication, Vivian Weill, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Panel 8 - Psychoanalytic Knowledge - Orpheum Room.

• Medical Efficacy and the Third Revolution in Psychiatry, Josh Dunsby, U of California, San Diego, USA
• Influence Across Professional Worlds: Diagnostic Nosology as Genre and Boundary Object, Carol Berkenkotter and Doris Ravotas, Michigan Technological U, USA.
• The Social Construction of The Psychoanalytic Knowledge: The Analytic Situation and the Analytic Process, Siamak Movahedi, U of Massachusetts, USA

Panel 9 - Quantification in Science Studies - Regency Room.

• The Effects of Incentives and Constraints on the Behavior of Scientists, Art Diamond, U of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
• Mapping Change and Stability in the International and the National Research Fronts: A Science Policy Analysis of the Social and Behavioral Science, Anton J. Nederhof and Erik van Wijk, U of Leiden, The Netherlands
• Discipline Boundaries in the Sciences and Social Sciences: Recent Theory and Australian Data, Paul Bourke and Linda Butler, Australian National U, Australia

Panel 10 - Research Ecology - Broadhurst Room.

• Constructing A New Research Agenda in a Research Group, Eveliina Saari, U of Mexico; Reijo Miettinen, U of Helsinki, Finland
• Bending, Shaking and Breaking: Earthquake Engineering and the "Ecology" of Testing, Benjamin Sims, U of California, San Diego, USA
• Co-ordinating Big Experiments in High Energy Physics, Cornelis Disco, U of Twente, The Netherlands
• The Singular Construction of High Energy Physics, Greg Wallenborn, U Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Panel 11 - Undermining Expertise - Part 2 of "STS: Passive Present to Active Futures." - Manhattan Room.

• The Institutionalization of Alternative Expertise: The EPA's Office of Environmental Equity, Amy Crumpton.
• The Virginia Resource commission and the Role of Science: The Case of the Virginia Oyster, Charlotte Webb, Virginia Tech, USA
• Reforestation in Africa: Slapping the World's Bank Hand, William O'Brien
• Disturbing Urban Geographies: Space and Nature in Chicago, Douglas Taylor, DePaul U, USA

1200 -1330 Lunch. Starlight Ballroom.

• Forming an Activist Caucus in 4S - Part 3 of "STS: Passive Present to Active Future." - Organizer: Jeff Howard, RPI. Facilitator:Douglas Taylor, DePaul U, USA.
• On-Line Ethics.
• STS Contributions to Engineering Education
• ST&HV Publications Committee - Montclair Room, Olga Amsterdamska, Organizer

1330 - 1530 SESSION 9

Panel 1 - Patient Association and Genetic Diseases - Empire East.

• Mediatizing Genetic Diseases, Soliciting the Public: The Construction of the French Telethon, Dominique Cardon, CNET, France
• Why Do Patients Share Their Pain, Their Experiences, and Their Hope: The Case of Two Patient Groups At The French Muscular Dystrophy Association, Vololona Rabeharisoa, CSI, France
• Between the Market and the State: The French Muscular Dystrophy Associations and the Making of Science and Expertise, M. Callon and Rabeharisoa, CSI, France
• An Association in Crisis: The Relationship Between Professionals and Lay-People at the French Cystic Fibrosis Association, Robert Triendl, CSI, France
• The Quest for the Cure: Advocacy Groups and the Politics of Molecular Research in the USA, Alan Stockdale, Stanford U, USA

Panel 2 - Changing the Atmosphere: Global Warming II - Empire Central

• Underdetermination, Structural Escalation, and the Reliability of Scientific Models, Steve Norton and Frederick Supper, U of Maryland, USA
• Greenhouse Ethics: Science, Nature, and Global Inequality, Dale Jamieson, Carleton College, Canada
• Controversy in the United States Over Detection and Attribution of a Human Influence on the Global Climate, Myanna Lahsen, Rice U, USA
• Climate Change Policy and Research in Brazil, Mark Lutes

Panel 3 - Confounding the Boundaries: Learning(s) and Practice(s) in Technoscience -II Empire West.

• Toward an Amodern Research Ethics: (Re)Conceiving and Teaching Ethics in Technoscience, Michael Flower, Portland State, USA.
• Fashioning Selves in Engineering Education, Gary Downey, Virginia Tech, USA.
• Discursive Practice as Competence in Software Engineering, Susan Newman, UC Berkeley, USA.
• Learning Science and Math as Organizing Language Games, Yasuko Kawatoko, Daito Bunka, Japan.

Panel 4- Organization, Culture and Context - Patio Room.

• Creating the Science: The Case of Atmospheric Science, Patricia A. Taylor, U of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
• Even Rocket Science Isn't Rocket Science:The Organization as a Barrier to the Production of Knowledge on Science and Technology, Diane Vaughan, Institute for Advanced Study, USA
• Space Stories: Oral Histories From The Pioneers of the American Space Program, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, U of Texas at Austin, USA
• Wartime Los Alamos as Moral Narrative: Place, Community and Charisma, Charles Thorpe, U of California, San Diego, USA

Panel 5 - Science Outside the Citadel I - Plaza East & West.

• Stories of Ties and Strategies in a Public Arena: Reporters and Sources in the Food Irradiation Controversy, Toby A. Ten Eyck, Louisiana State U, USA
• A Matter of Survival: the Hybrid Culture of Cold Fusion Research, Bart Simon, U of California, San Diego, USA
• Science, Local Knowledge, and Community, John A. Schumacher, RPI, USA.
• The Landscape of Genescapes: Surveying Shifting Understandings of Agriculture in France, Chaia Heller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Panel 6 - The Brain-Hand Thesis: Edgar Zilsel, Revisited - Forum Room.

• The Historical Development of the Brain and Hand Thesis, R. Hadden, St.Mary's U, Canada
• Zilsel on Cooperation and Progress, R. M. Sargent, Merrimack College, USA
• Craftsmanship, Arts, and Science - The Case of Renaissance Architecture, W. Krohn, Bielefeld U, Germany
• Zilsel and the Western Religious Origins of Theoretical Knowledge, D.Raven, Utrecht U, The Netherlands

Panel 7 - Images of the Nuclear Age - Embassy Room.

• The Veil of Tranquility: New Development at Los Alamos, Greg Mello, Los Alamos Reading Group, USA
• Self Policing: The Los Alamos Scientists, Then and Now, Todd Macon, Los Alamos Reading Group, USA
• Visualizing Nuclear Terror, Beatrice Aaronson, Columbia Int. U, USA
• The Nuclear Threat: Ethics and Responsibility, Raphael Sassower, U of Colorado, USA

Panel 8 - Transnational Meets Ethnoscience - Orpheum Room.

• Advances in the Multi-Sited Study of Three Laboratories of Biotechnological Production within the Anthropology of Science, Adriana A. Stagnaro, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• China's "Open Door" Policy: Investigating the Link Between Technology Transfer and Western Progress, Randy Chafy, Northern Telecom, Canada

Panel 9 - Bodies - Regency Room.

• Heterotopic Homeplaces: Embodied Spaces, Cyborg Bodies and AIDS in Late Capitalist USA, Fernando F. Ona, U of California, Berkeley, USA
• Ingredient for Life and "Hazardous Waste Material": Semen and the Production ofTechnological Solutions, Lisa Jean Moore, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, USA
• The Bodybuilder's Pharmacy. Jen Croissant, U of Arizona, USA

Panel 10 - Making IT Work - Broadhurst Room.

• Bits, Bytes, and Big Iron: Structuring Knowledge in Electronic Data Processing,1955 to 1970, Eric S. Boyles, U of Minnesota, USA
• Surfaces of Emergence In CSCW Design, Lorna Heaton, U de Montreal, Canada
• On Eliciting Knowledge in Design practice: Artefacts, Engineers, Users and Their Interactions, Carole Cohen and Vivien Walsh, Manchester School of Management, UK
• Culture in Computing: RAD Evangelism, Hugh Mackay, The Open U, UK; Tudhope and Paul Beynon-Davies, U of Glamorgan, UK

1530 - 1600 Break - Empire Ballroom Foyer

1600 - 1800 SESSION 10

Panel 1 - Technology and Democracy - Empire East.

• Beyond Technological Determinism. Francis Sejersted
• The Politics Question in Feminist Studies and Technology Projects, Susan Leigh Star
• Technology, Democracy, and Work: State Mandated Worker Involvement. David Hakken

Panel 2 - But I Looked It Up: Towards an Anthropology of Facts - Empire Central.

• "But I Looked it Up...", Joseph Dumit
• Patents and Facts, Marianne de Laet
• Cycles of Risk and Benefit: The IUD and American Women, Marcia Meldrum
• The Lifestyle of Facts, Chris Kelty

Panel 3 - Confounding the Boundaries: Learning(s) and Practice(s) in Technoscience III - Empire West

• Telewitnessing: Elementary Spectacles of Science Education, Douglas Macbeth, Ohio State, Michael Lynch, Brunel University.
• Kids and Simulation Games: Subject Formation through Human-Machine Interaction, Mizuko Ito, Stanford U and the Institute for Research on Learning
• Re-presenting Science: An Ethnographic Investigation of Visual Display and the Expository Imperative in Chemistry, Christopher Ritter, UC Berkeley, USA.
• Jean Lave, Discussant
• J.L. Lemke, Discussant

Panel 4 - What Can Science Learn from Sociology? - Patio Room.

• Can Bourdieu's Reflexive Sociology Liberate Science? Kyung-Man Kim, University of California, Riverside.
• What Makes Science Special? Steven Ward, Western Connecticut State U, USA
• Is the Sociology of Science Concerned with Science? Ullica Segerstrale, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Simulating Science, Martin Orr and Steven Patrick, Boise State University.

Panel 5 - Science Outside the Citadel II - Plaza East and West.

• Stories of Vernacular Science: The Apotheosis of Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, Katherine Pandora, University of Oklahoma, USA
• In Search of Community: Pregnancy Loss Tales from Three Toxically-Contaminated Communities, Linda L. Layne, RPI, USA
• Back to Our Roots: Toward an Integration of Traditional and Modern Agricultural Knowledge, Hector E. Flores, Penn State U, USA
• Deep Ecological Science, Steve Breyman, RPI, USA

Panel 6 - Alternative and Indigenous in the Anthropology of Knowledge - Forum Room.

• Expanding Medical Horizons? The National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, Mary Miles, Penn State U, USA
• Upending the Needham Hypothesis: Acupuncture East and West, Douglas Allchin, U of Texas at El Paso, USA
• Tibetan Buddhist Medicine in the Perspective of Anthropology of Knowledge, Jan Barmark, Goteborg U, Sweden
• Varieties of Indigenous Psychologies, Carl Martin Allwood, Goteborg U, Sweden

Panel 7 - Nuclear Systems and Public Trust - Embassy Room.

• Negotiating Science, Literally: Scientists in Nuclear Arms Control Negotiations, Kai-Henrik Barth, U of Minnesota, USA
• The Interaction Context of Science: the Case of Military Nuclear Waste Management, W.F. Lawless, Paine College, USA; Teresa Castelao, Grand Valley State U, USA
• The Interplay of Public Mistrust and Science: The Monticello Radiation-Standards Debate and Its Resolution, Ionna N. Semendeferi, University of Minnesota, USA.
• The Virtual Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, Hugh Gusterson, MIT, USA

Panel 8 -Engineering Workforce Project - Orpheum Room.

• Relationships Among Educational Pathways, Occupations, and Job Activities, Lawrence Burton, NSF, USA
• Educational Pathways and Management Activities on the Job, Linda Parker, NSF, USA
• Creative Activities Among Research Engineers, Carlos Kruytbosch: NSF, USA
• Occupational Pattern Differences Between Engineers and Scientists, Susan Hill, NSF, USA
• Foreign-born and Foreign-education Engineers, Mark Regets, NSF, USA

Panel 9 - When Professionals Use Computers - Regency.

• Computer Networks, Academic Researchers and Scientific Practices: A Field Study, Luc Wilkin and Jacques Moriau, U Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Data: Quantity or Relevance?, Vitoria Peres de Oliveira, UFRJ, Brazil
• Architecture and Emergent CAD Technology, Christopher Koziol, Colorado State U, USA

Panel 10 - Software and AI - Broadhurst

• Representing Time and Work in Software Design, Michelle K. McGinn, Simon Fraser U, Canada
• The Specificity of Developmental Paths in Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, Christiane Gebhardt and Susanne Giesecke, U Jena, Politikwissenschaft.
• Archetypes, Analogies, and Dangerous Things: Connecting Technological Knowledge with Technological Practice, Stuart Shapiro, U of British Columbia, Canada
• The Costs of Being Certain: (Or, How to Build a Rhetorical Agent), Sean Zdenek, Carnegie Mellon U, USA

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1997

0730 Committee Meeting Breakfast TBA- Montclair Room

0900 - 1100 SESSION 11

Panel 1 - Conversations with the Scholar: The Bernal Award - Empire East

Panel 2 - International Science: Collaboration and Representations - Patio Room

• Sheep and Science: Evolution as Basic Knowledge and Evolution as Application. Alejandra Mujica, Adriana Pefullo, and Judith Sutz, Universidad de la Republica Uruguay.
• The Politics of International Collaboration in Polar Research. Ingrid Schild, University of Sussex.
• The SSC Project: A Diverse Complex of Japanese Academia, Business, and Government. Hironori Ayabe.

Panel 3 - Identities and Boundaries - Forum Room.

• Re-Constructing Race: The Significance of Biology and Ethnicity in Biracial Narratives of Identity and Family Formation, Carol Shepherd McClain, U of California, San Francisco, USA
• The Hagahai Cell Line Patent Controversy: Natural Artifacts, Flexible DNA and Collective Property Rights, Janet Childerhose, U of Toronto, Canada

Special Session: 1000-1100, Room TBA.

1115 Closing - Plenary - Empire Central and West

"...My education tells me NO.
But I am full to bursting with a rage
You'd find in textbooks. And it will not go."