Sessions

WED 3/12	Room 14-115	Room 14-116	Room 14-132	Room 14-216
9:00 – 10:30am			Plenary: Peter Evans Agents, Instruments, and Objectivity: Phenomenology for the Foundations of Physics
11:00am – 12:30pm	Do Individuals Matter? Character and Personality in the History of Science Kristian Camilleri Ian Hesketh Samara Greenwood	Questions of Method (1) Ricardo Restrepo Echavarria [Remote] Must Freedom Be Incompatible with Science? Aidan Ryall The Historical Premise Jules Rankin Perspectivalism Within and About the Philosophy of Time	Transspecies Interactions Daisy Norfolk [Short] Bogong Moth-Human Relationality Leo Chu Making the “Aquatic Chicken”: Freshwater Tilapia and the Asian Blue Revolution, 1940-80 Damcelle Cortes Law lag or science lag? What happened in the first transgenic eggplant lawsuit in the Philippines Sruthi Balaji Stabilising the Gene: Patent Law and the Legal Identity of Epistemic Objects	Manufacturing Human Nature: Evolving Conceptions of Humanity’s Past and Future (1) Peter Harrison Science and Human Nature: From Aristotle to Bacon Henry-James Meiring Global Darwin: Manufacturing Human Nature
1:30 – 3:00pm	Higher Degree by Research Students and Early Career Academics Workshop	Questions of Method (2) Sandy Boucher [Remote] What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology Sarita Rosenstock What is modelling for? Aligning academic and applied perspectives in disease response Kenneth Aizawa [Remote] Zetetic Scientific Entity Realism	Values in Medical Practice Republica Acharyya [Short, Remote] Values and distributive epistemic injustice in fibromyalgia Rach Cosker-Rowland Facial feminisation surgery (FFS): selling science and the objectivity of gendered skulls Arpita Das Uterus Transplantation as an emerging Reproductive Technology: Feminist Contentions and Contestations Mark Herman [Remote] Can Psychology Incorporate Moral Truth?	Manufacturing Human Nature: Evolving Conceptions of Humanity’s Past and Future (2) James Bradley Nature, culture and vivisection: hierarchies of sympathy and the animal-human divide in the early nineteenth century Victoria Lorrimar Hacking Human Nature: DIY Approaches to Technological Augmentation
3:30 – 5:00pm	Beyond Academic Interest: The Continuing Relevance of Medical History to Contemporary Healthcare Gemma Lucy Smart Samantha Kohl Grey Zoë Cosker	Questions of Method (3) Edmund Hassell [Remote] Can less equal more? A Critical Examination of Zollman’s Model of Scientific Inquiry Kristian Camilleri The Problem of Orthodoxy in Intellectual and Social History of Science Janelle Baxter [Remote] Correcting Course: What Nonstandard Genetic Codes Mean for the Frozen Accident Theory	Aesthetic Epistemologies Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen [Remote] Visualising and communicating plant anatomy between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries Samara Greenwood Explaining Tartaglia’s Transgressive Epistemic Vision Philippa Barr Using aesthetics to neutralise toxicity in the atmosphere	Manufacturing Human Nature: Evolving Conceptions of Humanity’s Past and Future (3) Dalia Nassar Fanaticism and the Metaphysics Behind it: Germaine de Staël on the Moral and Political Implications of Reductive Natural Science James A. T. Lancaster The Intellectual Genesis of Freud’s Death Drive
6:00pm	Dyason Lecture: Peter Harrison Protestant Origins of Modern Science? Terrace Room, Level 6, Llew Edwards Building

Thur 4/12	Room 14-115	Room 14-116	Room 14-132	Room 14-216
9:00 – 10:30am			Plenary: Melissa Dickson Hearing the Nineteenth Century: Literature, Science, and the Culture of Sound
11:00am – 12:30pm	Indigenous Encounters Rowena Ball Indigenous mathematics is the finest, most effective, long-distance, communication system in the world John Stenhouse Christian missionaries and indigenous go-betweens, 1790-1930 Maurizio Meloni ‘Extermination’ in Charles Darwin’s private and public writings: a decolonial assessment	Machinic Societies Christine Polowyj [Short, Remote] Paradigms of violence: The dependency of Large Language Societies on epistemic injustice Jacob Hall [Short] Australia’s AI Ethics Framework – Policy without politics Conor Spence The uneasy cyborg: Subjectivation in the age of the Libre 2 Lars R. “Jones” Vadjina [Remote] Owning Tomorrow: AI, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Outer Space	Doing and (Re)making Psychiatry Christian Gelder How to Do Things with Words: American Style, Psychiatry and the Psychoses Thomas Spiteri What Goes into a Case? Freud, Janet, and the Construction of Memory Hannah Winspear-Schillings “A Skirt Over Their Heads”: Femininity and Conceptualising Early Autistic History
12:30 – 1:30pm			AAHPSSS AGM
1:30 – 3:00pm	Museum Tours
3:30 – 5:00pm	On possibilities: Reflecting on Connections between History and Philosophy of Science and Medical Humanities Jacinthe Flore Christopher Orrell Cassandra Byrnes Josh Szymanski Elizabeth Stephens	Women, Science and Knowledge Maria del Mar Yunis [Remote] From snails to metaphysics: Margaret Cavendish and the female scientific revolution Vandana Singh On a rock and in a hard place: women scientists in extreme environments Poornima Sandana [Remote] Goddesses don’t need TVS Ultrasound?	Causes, Networks, and Connectives Kate Lynch One cause, many values: What causes of death can teach us about values in science Rebecca Mann Metabolic Wholes: The Organism as Having a Centred Metabolic Network Louisa Shen Is Sub-Symbolic AI Reliable? On the Design Limitations of a Software Paradigm	Metascience and Science Policy Fiona Fidler Kate Williams John Byron Martin Bush
6:00pm	Conference Dinner Mado Restaurant, South Bank

Fri 5/12	Room 14-115	Room 14-116	Room 14-132	Room 14-216
9:00 – 10:30am			Plenary: Hannah Adler Thinking with Medicinal Cannabis
11:00am – 12:30pm	Attempting to Mitigate Climate Change through Synthetic Biology: Ethical and Social Analyses Daniele Fulvi Henry Dixson Josh Wodak	Looking at / Knowing the Sky Ian Tasker [Remote] Reclaiming Scientific Authority Through Counterfactual Historiography Carl Sciglitano Blurred Visions: Redefining the analogue-digital divide in astronomical imaging Kevin Orrman-Rossiter First Peoples’ astronomy: reviewing its scientific representation in the literature	Alternatives in Mental Health Zoe Cosker When the community will not care: psychiatric patients, public protests, and policies of deinstitutionalisation Georg Repnikov Who is neurodivergent? A philosophical perspective on neurodiversity research Gemma Lucy Smart Beyond Biomedical Paradigms: Spiritual Counter-Narratives in Australian Mental Health Consumer Activism, 1970-1990	Metascience and Epistemology Wendy Higgins [Remote] Psychological measurement: validity potential versus realised validity Sophie Veksner Intersubjectivity in Bayesian prior elicitation Carmelina Contarino Opening the “Tech-Driven” Black Box: Establishing conceptual clarity
12:30 – 1:30pm	Centring Equity in HPS Networking Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm	Searching and Naming in the Nineteenth Century Jamie Ashworth [Remote] Cartographic Science and Colonialism in Early New Zealand: A Case Study of Wairarapa, 1842-1853 Christopher Orrell Medicine in the Colonies: Searching for the emergence of local cultures of medicine in the nineteenth century Australian colonies through digital analysis of medical journals, 1856-1900 Martin Bush Feeling the sky: epistemic emotions in nineteenth century popular astronomy	Climates and Governance David Garcimartín Arenas [Remote] Between Cartography, Meteorology and Political Philosophy: the Concept of Climate in the Modern Age Daniele Fulvi Challenging the Moral Hazard Argument in Climate Change Mitigation: a Transitional Justice Appraisal Aseera Shamin Governing for Intersectional Energy Justice: Risk, Deliberation, Environment, and Anticipation in Transition Pedram Rashidi Reframing the Sociotechnical Boundaries of Responsible Innovation Discourse	Religious Motivations James Ungureanu [Remote] From Hermeticism to Transhumanism: The Theological Roots of Technological Utopianism Rebecca Sachse The Infertility Blame Game: Medical Knowledge and Religious Narratives on Men’s Infertility in the Roman Empire (2nd Century CE – 6th Century CE) Tom Aechtner Religious Disinformation and Science on the Most Unreliable Domains	The Work of Science and its Networks Tushar Chaturvedi [Remote] Distribution, Disagreement, and Dialogue: Considerations for Scientific Peerhood Maria Amelia Rodriguez [Short] The Friction of Collaboration: On Credit, Circulation, and Scientific Practice Sophie Ritson Why Trust a Collaboration
3:30pm			Conference Close