Below is information on the schedule, the keynote speaker, and the hotel for participants.

• Schedule
• Keynote Speaker: Professor David Oshinsky
• Hotel for Conference Participants

Tenative Schedule: (all times are subject to change as event nears)

Friday, April 4
7 - 8:30pm: Keynote Speech by David Oshinsky, titled ""Polio: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Campaign" in MEZ 1.306 (see below for information on keynote speaker)
8:45 - 9:30pm: Opening Night Reception


Saturday, April 5
All events will take place in the Eastwoods Room of the UT Union unless otherwise noted.

9:15 - 10:00am: Breakfast (Garrison Hall)

10:15 - 11:45am: Panel 1, "The Role and Influence of Texts in Science"
Moderator: Heather Peterson, History, University of Texas at Austin

Eighteenth-century Equine Anatomy, Specialism, and a New Farriery / Michael McKay, History, University of York Living Dead Guys: A Forgotten Audience of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem / Valerie Palazzolo, Art History, University of South Florida Books, Bodies, and Machines: Anatomical and Print Technologies in Turn-of-the-century Domestic Hygiene Guides / Aimee Dowl, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, UCLA From Johnny to Chomsky / Philip Loring, History of Science, Harvard University

11:50am - 1:00pm: Panel 2, "Tradition and Modernity in Health, Science, and Medicine "
Moderator: Sara Sliter-Hays, English, University of Texas at Austin

Women’s Pathways to Mental Health in India / Anubha Sood, Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis Bioprospecting and the Remaking of Chinese Herbs as Pharmaceuticals: The Making of an Ethnobotanical Drug Company / Andy Pham, Anthropology, UC Berkeley Radiomania: The Uses of Radium in Orthodox and Patent Medicines, 1898–1940 / Rob Holmes, History, University of Texas at Austin

1:00 - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00 - 3:10pm: Panel 3, "Locating Health and Science"
Moderator: Rebecca Onion, American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Prison Health: Examining Barriers to Care / Meredith Rountree, Sociology, University of Texas at Austin Walter Reed Hospital and the Rise of the American Military Medical Complex / Jessica Adler, History, Columbia University Staging Science in Late-19th Century Berlin / Kristin Becker, Theatre Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

3:15 - 4:25pm: Panel 4, "Science and Technology in the Era of Cold War"
Moderator: Adrian Howkins, History, University of Texas at Austin, Colorado State University

Re-considering the Chomskyan Revolution: A History of American Linguistics, 1957–1968 / Janet Martin-Nielsen, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto Operators Are Standing By: Automation and Computer Utilities, 1949–1969 / Andrew Mamo, History, UC Berkeley False Witness? Feynman, Bohm, and Brazil / Shawn Mullet, History of Science, Harvard University

6:30 - 9:00pm: Banquet at Threadgill's in South Austin


Sunday, April 6
All events will take place in the Eastwoods Room of the UT Union unless otherwise noted.

9:15 - 10:00am: Breakfast (Garrison Hall)

10:15 - 11:45am: Panel 5, "Perceptions of Threat"
Moderator: Erin Hamilton, Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Bodies of Numbers: Enumerating ‘the Prostitute’ in Modern Japan, 1850–1912 / Ann Marie Davis, History, UCLA A Critical Examination of the Role of ‘Balance’ in U.S. Mass Media Coverage of Climate Change / Martina Kunovic, Sociology, McGill University Mixed Motives: The Multiple Uses of XDR-TB / Erica Dwyer, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania Envisioning the Invisible: The Silent Epidemic of Hepatitis C / Katrina Boulding, Department of Communications/ Science Studies Program, UCSD

11:50am - 1:20pm: Panel 6, "Science and Policy"
Moderator: Matt Tribbe, History, University of Texas at Austin

A Numerical Quandary: New Interpretations of Youth Drinking Behavior and the Appropriate Minimum Drinking Age / Joy Newman, History, University of Albany, SUNY Translating Risks: Practicing Prevention among IV Drug Users in Odessa, Ukraine / Jennifer Carroll, Anthropology, Central European University Public Understandings and Expectations of Biometric Identity Systems: A Case Study of the United Kingdom National Identity Scheme / Aaron Martin, Information Systems and Innovation Group, London School of Economics and Political Science Policy as a Technology / David Bruggeman, Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech

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Keynote Speaker:
David Oshinsky
Professor, Jack S. Blanton Chair in History, The University of Texas at Austin

Talk title: "Polio: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Campaign"

Professor Oshinsky won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book, Polio: An American Story. According to the Oxford University Press, Polio tells "the gripping story of the 1950s polio scare and of the intense--and intensely bitter--competition to find the first vaccine."

Oshinsky is also the author of A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, which won the Hardeman Prize as the best book about the U.S. Congress, and Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, which won the Robert Kennedy Prize for its contribution to human rights. He is a co-author of American Passages: A History of the United States, and a co-editor of The Oxford Companion to United States History. His articles and reviews appear regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Chronicle of Higher Education.

The keynote address will take place at night on Friday, April 4 at 7pm in MEZ 1.306. A reception will follow immediately.

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