# History of Science Society Annual Conference #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 21 - November 24, 2013** All day #### pin\_drop Location **Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer St, Boston, MA 02210** Panels of interest to the ESWG community include: Session T3: Re-Thinking Medieval and Early Modern Science - Thursday 11/21 - Location: Room 252B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center) - Chair and Organizer: Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College) - Presenters: - “Unsettling Boundaries I: Premodern and Modern,” Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University) - “Unsettling Boundaries II: East and West,” Katharine Park (Harvard University) - “Byzantium: The Other East,” Darin Hayton (Haverford College) - “An Irrational Fear of Magic,” Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College) Session Sa14: Negotiating Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern World - Saturday 11/23 - Location: Otis (Lobby Level) - Chair: Ashley Inglehart (Indiana University) - Presenters - “Shop Natural History: The Conversable and Convivial Science of the Renaissance Pharmacy,” Valentina Pugliano (Cambridge University) - “Needles, Texts and Anatomy: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Acupuncture in Seventeenth-Century Japan,” Wei Yu Wayne Tan (Harvard University) - "Making Observations: Patients and the Medical Encounter in Early Modern England,” Olivia Weisser (University of Massachusetts, Boston) - “Reforming Knowledge over the Nature of Drugs: A Physiological Turn in Eighteenth Century Chinese Materia Medica,” He Bian (Harvard University) - “Mercury Drugs as Objects of Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan,” Daniel Trambaiolo (Princeton University) See for more information, including registration. A complete preliminary program can be found at [http://hssonline.org/Meeting/2013HSSMeeting/2013\_Preliminary\_Program.pdf](http://hssonline.org/Meeting/2013HSSMeeting/2013_Preliminary_Program.pdf). --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf 2013\_preliminary\_program.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum9476/files/eswg/files/2013_preliminary_program.pdf) --- Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://eswg.hsites.harvard.edu/node/113696/event-feed.ics) Copy link link