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Monday, July 11, 2011

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9:00 am - 10:30 am

Evolution, God, and Truth

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Eric Rogers - Crossing the Milvian Bridge: Plantinga, Evolutionary Success, and 'True Belief'
Florida State University
Adam Shapiro - William Paley's Advice to the Evlutionary Theist
University of Wisconsin Madison
Tudor Baetu - How Contingent Is Evolution? Mechanistic Constraints on Evolutionary Outcomes
University of Maryland

Themes = Evo-Devo, Civic Engagement, Education
Keywords = Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Behavior, David Hull, Cultural Evolution, Ecology, 19th Century, Late 20th Century,
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Department of Anthropology, College of Humanities

Ecological Concepts and the Biological Hierarchy

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Diego Méndez - Emergence of the Vegetation Continuum Concept in Ecology as a Type of Aufhebung
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Christopher Lean - The Ecological Species Concept Should Be More Than a Citation
University of Utah
John Collier - Two Notions of Biological Hierarchy
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Keywords = Systematics, David Hull, Leigh van Valen, Ecology, Development
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities

Selection, Groups, and Variation

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
John Basl - Ecosystem Selection and the Trait-Group Framework
University of Wisconsin Madison
Christopher Dimond - Multilevel Selection and an Expansion of the Phenotypic Gambit
Arizona State University
Bjöorn Brunnander - Selection and Variation
Stockholm University

Keywords = Ecology, Evolutionary Theory, Population Genetics, Behavior, Genetics
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities

Pragmatism & Biology: An Exchange of Ideas

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Trevor Pearce - The Dialectical Biologist, circa 1890: Dewey and the Oxford Hegelians
University of Western Ontario
David Depew - How to Read Dewey's 'The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy'
University of Iowa
Judy Johns Schloegel - Pragmatism and American Biology: The Case of Herbert Spencer Jennings, 1890-1925
Independent Scholar
Organizer: Trevor Pearce

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, pre-20th Century, Early 20th Century
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

What Use is Human Nature? Part I

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Maria Kronfeldner - What Use was Human Nature?
Bielefeld University
Richard Samuels - Do Human Beings Have a Nature?
Ohio State University
Paul Griffiths - If Human Nature does not Constrain Human Possibilities, Why?
University of Sydney
Organizers: Karola Stotz and Paul Griffiths

Keywords = Development, Cultural Evolution, Human Nature, Developmental Plasticity, Human Evolution, Developmental Systems, Human Diversity
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Brain Institute, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology, Asia Center, Latin American Studis

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Imaging Techniques in Medicine & the Life Sciences

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Nola Semczyszyn - Visual Representation and Expert Vision: Problems and Politics in the Interpretation of Obstetric Aonograms
Franklin and Marshall
Laura Perini - Image Interpretation: Bridging the Gap from Raw Data to Evidential Representation
Pomona College
Megan Delehanty - Medical Imaging: What Kind of Experiment?
University of Calgary
Organizer: Laura Perini

Sponsors = Brain Institute, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

Darwin's Casino: Chanciness in Evolutionary Theory

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Marshall Abrams - Distinguishable Causal Factors - Not Processes, Not Independently Manipulable
University of Alabama Birmingham
Charles Pence - Chance in Evolution: A Reassessment
University of Notre Dame
Christopher French - Drifting Notions of Stochasticity in Evolutionary Biology
University of British Columbia

Themes = Genetic Testing
Keywords = Population Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Genomics, Chance and Stochasticity

Conceptual and Epistemic Issues in Ecology

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Robert Hudson - Introducing the Term 'Ecosystem'
University of Saskatchewan
William Bausman - Philosophical Interest in the Neutral Model of Ecology
University of Minnesota
Michael Goldsby - Levins Got it Backwards
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Keywords = Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Population Genetics, Ecology
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities

Visions of Tropical Diversity

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
William Kimler - Narratives and Visual Representations in a Persistent Vision of Tropical Abundance
North Carolina State University
David Steffes - Understanding Natural Diversity through the Tropics: Darwin and the 'Biodiversity' Movement of the 1970s/80s
Arizona State University
Matthew Chew - The Last Nineteenth Century Naturalist: Charles Elton's Visits to the American Tropics
Arizona State University
Organizer: William Kimler

Themes = Sustainability, Policy
Keywords = Ecology, 19th Century, Early 20th Century
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, College of Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Latin American Studies, Asia Center, Utah Museum of Natural History

Evolving Populations

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Mathieu Charbonneau - Individuals, Populations, and the Extension of Darwinism
Universite de Montreal
Peter Godfrey-Smith - Selection, Individuality, and the Alternation of Generations
Harvard University
John Matthewson - α
Australian National University

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Cultural Evolution, Organismal, David Hull

What Use is Human Nature? Part II

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Karola Stotz - What are the Implications of a Human Nature Based on Developmental Plasticity for Human Health and Disease?
University of Sydney
Kristen Hawkes - Life History Comparisons and Human Evolution
University of Utah
Edouard Machery - Virtues of the Nomological Notion of Human Nature
University of Pittsburgh
Organizers: Karola Stotz and Paul Griffiths

Keywords = Development, Cultural Evolution, Human Nature, David Hull, Developmental Plasticity, Developmental Systems, Innateness, Niche Construction, Universality
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Brain Institute, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Roundtable: Debating Entwickelungsgeschichte I - Disputed Interpretations

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Sabine Brauckmann
Estonian Institute of Humanities
Lynn K. Nyhart
University of Wisconsin, Madison
John M. Opitz
University of Utah
Robert J. Richards
University of Chicago
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
University of Pittsburgh
Organizer: Sabine Brauckmann

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = pre-20th Century, Early 20th Century, Development, Evolutionary Theory, Genetics
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Conceptualizing Evolvability

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: King's Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Rachael Brown - What Evolvability Really Is - A Probabilistic Analysis
Australian National University & Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition
Brett Calcott - Tinkering Revised: Evo-Devo as Diachronic Engineering
Australian National University
Anya Plutynski - Commentary
University of Utah
Organizer: Anya Plutynski

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Development, Evolutionary Theory, Late 20th Century
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

Managing Uncertainties and Constructing Concepts in Medicine

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Grandeur Peak (Medical School classroom B)
Michelle De Stefano - The Differing Constructs of a Disease
George Mason University
Sean Valles - Navigating the Epistemic Challenges to Personalized Genomic Medicine
Michigan State University
Judith Friedman - Stories of Continuity and Change: Counselling at Risk Families Throughout the 20th Century
National Institutes of Health

Themes = Genetic Testing
Keywords = Microbial, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genetics, Genomics
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Theoretical Issues in the History and Philosophy of Developmental Biology

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Ensign Peak (Medical School classroom C)
Elizabeth O'Neill - Homeostasis and Homeorhesis: Waddington's Distinction between Stabilized States and Stabilized Trajectories
University of Pittsburgh
Francisco Güell - Towards a Zubirian Model of Organismic Development
Institute de Cultura y Sociedad
Universidad de Navarra
Fabrizzio McManus - Can Development be Explained Mechanistically?
Faculty of Sciences, UNAM

Themes = Evo-Devo, Genetic Testing
Keywords = Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Development, Genomics, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Anthropology, Latin American Studies

Evo-Devo, Phylogenetics, and Conceptual Change in Evolutionary Biology

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Deseret Peak (Medical School classroom D)
Miles MacLeod - Homology Concepts as Kind Concepts: The Epistemic Dimension of Homology Concepts and Their Disputes
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Lindsay Craig - The Developmental Synthesis in Evolutionary Biology: Reconciliation and Explanation
University of Idaho
Francis Cartieri - The Specter of Lamarck: Is There Reason to Fear?
University of Cininnati

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Development, Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, Scientific Revolution, Cultural Evolution
Sponsors = Environ Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Department of Anthropology

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Groundbreaking Women: History and Historiography

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Christiane Groeben - ‘First Ladies’ at the Naples Zoological Station
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrm
Pnina Abir-Am - Women Biologists as a First Time Majority in a Nobel Prize (2009): Lessons from the History of Their Predecessor in UC-Berkeley’s Deptartment of Cell & Molecular Biology
Brandeis University
Nurit Kirsh - Elisabeth Goldschmidt A Tragedy or Success Story?
STS program, Bar Ilan University

Themes = Gender, Education
Keywords = Population Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sponsors = Gender Studies, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Homology and the Explanation of Phenotypic Evolution

2 pm - 4 pm
Room:Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Kate MacCord - Mammalian Dentitions as a Case Study for Phenotypic Evolution: Integrating Complementary Epistemologies
Arizona State University
Taylor Murphy - What Homology Contributes to Understanding the Imagination
University of Alberta
Grant Ramsey - Can Homology Be Unified?
University of Notre Dame

Themes = Evo-Devo,
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Development, Neurobiology, Organismal, Genetics, Population Genetics
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, Brain Institute, Utah Museum of Natural History

Evaluating Adaptationism(s) and Alternatives

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Stephan Kopsieker - Extending Apaptationism
Bielefeld University
Elisabeth Lloyd - Adaptationism in Action
Indiana University
Roger Sansom - An Empirical Approach to the Form/Function/Adaptationism Issue
Texas A & M University
Valerie Racine - Evolutionary Explanations of Complex Adaptations
University of Western Ontario

Themes = Evo-Devo, Gender,
Keywords = Behavior, Evolutionary Theory, Development, Organismal
Sponsors = Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies, Utah Museum of Natural History

Heterogeneity and Evolution: Looking for the Organism Level

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Francesca Merlin - Developmental Stochasticity: The Specific Heterogeneity of Individual Organisms
University Paris-Sorbonne
Eva Boon -No Rule to the Exception: The Role of Genetic Heterogeneity in Evolution
University of Montréal
Marta Bertolaso - Tumor Heterogeneity: Insights from the Biology of Cancer on the Hierarchical Organization of Organisms
University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Pierre-Alain Braillard - Heterogeneity in Development: More than Noise
Unversite Paris
Organizers: Francesca Merlin and Eva Boon

Keywords = Microbial, Genetics, Organismal, Evolutionary Theory, Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

Understanding Organisms and Individuality: Organismality, Multicellularity and Major Transitions

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Matt Herron - Multicellularity and Cellular Differentiation in the Volvocine Green Algae
University of Arizona
Lynn Nyhart - The Political Organism: The Circulation of Political, Economic, and Biological Analogies in the 1840s and 50s
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Scott Lidgard - Darwin on Individuality, Polymorphism, and ‘Modularity’ in a Colonial Animal
The Field Museum
Mark Borrello - Commentary
University of Minnesota
Organizers: Mark Borrello and Will Ratcliff

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Development, Organismal, Microbial 19th Century
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History

Biology's First Law: Authors Meet Critics

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Doug Erwin - ZFEL in Paleontological Perspective
Santa Fe Institute
Derek Turner - McShea and Brandon's Zero-Force Evolutionary Law (ZFEL) and the Distinction Between Passive and Driven Evolutionary Trends
Connecticut College
Lily Huang - Can Selection Be Background?
University of Texas South Western Medical Center
Dan McShea and Robert Brandon - Responses to Our Critics
Duke University
Organizer: Chris Haufe

Keywords = Population Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Genomics

Roundtable: Debating Entwickelungsgeschichte II — Disputed Legacies

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Scott F. Gilbert
Swarthmore College
Alan Love
University of Minnesota
Jane M. Maienschien
Arizona State University
Marsha Richmond
Wayne State University
Ron Amundson
University of Hawaii, Hilo
Organizer: Scott F. Gilbert

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Development, Evolutionary Biology
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

How Eugenics Does Its Work

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: King's Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Megan Bertagnolli - Educating the Public: Photography, Mental Hygiene and the Visual Culture of Eugenics
Steeves Demazeux - The Politics of Eugenics in Light of the 1918 Statistical Manual
Rob Wilson - The Eugenic Mind
University of Alberta
Garland Allen - 'Culling the Herd:' Eugenics and the Conservation Movement in the United States, 1900-1940
Washington University, St. Louis
Organizer: Rob Wilson

Themes = Civic Engagement, Policy
Keywords = Early 20th Century
Sponsors = Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies, College of Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

Hybrids, Populations, and Types: Was Race Rethought in the Mid-Twentieth Century?

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Grandeur Peak (Medical School classroom B)
Christine Manganaro - Amalgamation of a Different Color: Scientific and Popular Ideas about Biological Assimilation in Territorial Hawai‘i
Tracy Teslow - Rejecting Race, Embracing Man? Ruth Benedict, Gene Weltfish and ‘The Races of Mankind’
John P. Jackson, Jr. - Is Race Real? The postwar dispute between Sherwood Washburn and Ashley Montagu
Michelle Brattain - ‘Lottery of the Genes': The Popular Discourse of Genetics and Race in the Postwar US
Organizer: John P. Jackson, Jr.

Themes = Civic Engagement, Race
Keywords = Early 20th Century, Population Genetics, Genetics, Cultural Evolution
Sponsors = Asia Center, Latin American Studies, Utah Museum of Natural History, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology Gender Studies

Mormonism and Evolution

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Ensign Peak (Medical School classroom C)
James McLachlan - William H. Chamberlin and the 1911 Modernism Controversy
Duane Jeffery - LDS Owned Brigham Young University and Evolution: Progress in an Evolving Program
David H Bailey - Creationism and Intelligent Design: False Friends
Steven L. Peck - Mormonism's Current Experience with Creationism: Responses and Challenges
BYU
Organizer: Steven L. Peck

Themes = Civic Engagement, Education
Keywords = Early 20th Century, Religion and Science, Mormonism
Sponsors = Tanner Center for Humanities, College of Humanities

Niche Construction Theory: Challenges and Applications

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Deseret Peak (Medical School classroom D)
Peter Godfrey-Smith - Introduction
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Ayelet Shavit - Why is Niche Construction So Rarely Recorded, and What's Wrong with That?
Tel‐Hai Academic College
Emanuele Archetti - Overcoming the Organismic/Ecological Divide in Niche Construction Theory
University of Leeds
Ben Kerr - Evolutionary Effects of Niche Construction Feedback
University of Washington
Organizer: Emanuele Archetti

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Organismal, Ecology, Development, Niche Construction

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Officers' Club

Integrating History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology: David L. Hull's Contributions

4:30 pm - 6 pm
Room: Officer's Club
Jane Maienschein
Dick Burian
Chris Horvath
Bob Richards
Ed Wiley
Lisa Lloyd
Ana Barahona

Themes = Civic Engagement, Policy
Keywords = Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century David Hull
Sponsors = Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies, College of Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Post Theater

Evening Plenary - Political Descent: The Evolution of Man and Society from Victorian England to a Post-War World

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Room: Post Theater
Piers J. Hale
Department of the History of Science
University of Oklahoma
Garland Allen - Introduction
Washington University, St. Louis