New directions in the historiography of genetics

Organisers
Yafeng Shan (University of Kent)
Ehud Lamm (Tel Aviv University)
Oren Harman (Bar-Ilan University)

Venue
Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building, Hall 496

Programme
Day 1: Monday, November 18, 2019
11:00 – 11:15 Welcome and Refreshments
11:15 – 12:30 Marsha Richmond (Wayne State University) The Imperative for Inclusion: Women in the Historiography of Genetics
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:45 Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University) Medical Bacteriology and Medical Genetics, 1880–1940: A Call for Synthesis
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:30 William Wimsatt (University of Chicago) What If There Were No Genes and We Had to Do with Generatively Entrenched Elements?
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:30 Greg Radick (University of Leeds) Mendel the Fraud? A Social History of Truth in Genetics
20:00 – 22:00 Conference Dinner


Day 2: Tuesday, November 19, 2019
9:00 – 10:15 Michael Dietrich (University of Pittsburgh) Empires of the Fly: The Globalization of Drosophila Genetics
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:45 Charles Pence (Université catholique de Louvain) Of Stirps and Chromosomes: Early Attempts at Grounding Statistical Inheritance
11:45 – 12:15 Concluding Remarks

Admission is free.