Subject: ISHPSSB meeting Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:32:51 +0100 From: [log in to unmask] (Jutta Schickore) We posted the following announcement on the ISHPSSB web site today. Many Thanks Jutta Schickore & Judy Johns Schloegel ------------------ Call for papers for a session proposed for ISHPSSB Meeting, July 1999 Organizers: Jutta Schickore Judy Johns Schloegel Disciplining Microscopic Practice In this session we aim to examine the means by which microscopic practices were established as reliable procedures for the study of biological entities, and the implications of these practices for conceptual and disciplinary developments in the life sciences. We welcome papers concerning any period of the history of microscopy, and on any aspect or aspects of observational, representational, and social practice in microscopic investigations. We propose to examine questions such as: how were particular preparative techniques and representational methods accepted as informative? and what technical, material, conceptual, disciplinary, aesthetic, or social factors and priorities shaped these outcomes? How did accounts and images of microscopic entities come to be accepted as accurate? and how were the meanings of these accounts and images negotiated? And what role did these practices play in the formation of disciplines in the life sciences? Paper abstracts should be received no later than December 31, 1998. If you are interested in contributing a paper to this session, please contact: Jutta Schickore Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Wilhelmstrasse 44 D-10117 Berlin Germany phone: +49.30.22.667.165 email: [log in to unmask] or Judy Johns Schloegel Avenue Parmentier 2A B-1150 Brussels Belgium phone: +32.2.771.0145 email: [log in to unmask] ---- Dr. Jutta Schickore Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Wilhelmstr. 44 D-10117 Berlin Germany phone: +4930-22667-165 email: [log in to unmask]