cfp for panel session(s) on the History of Modern Physical Sciences from 1850 to the Present Day
We would like to invite paper contributions for a panel session on modern physical sciences for the 2013 History of Science Society meeting in Boston, MA, from 21 to 24 November (more information can be found at http://www.hssonline.org/ Meeting/index.html#wiki ). We are interested in papers covering the different subfields of physics, physical chemistry, astronomy, biophysics, geophysics, etc that attempt to engage with new ways of thinking and the re-visioning of known and less-known histories and narratives in the development of modern physical sciences from the nineteenth century up to the present time. We welcome not only papers taking on the historical or critical historiographical approach, but also papers that draw on interdisciplinary traditions of inquiry and methodologies as well as that addressing developments in the physical sciences outside of the US and Europe. The themes that the papers could address include but are not restricted to: the disjuncture an