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Organizing Knowledge Today Workshop

April 30-May 1, 1999
Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

South Kensington — A Case Study
Universities
Laboratories — The Spaces of Knowing
Disciplinarity
Classification/Measurement/Numeration and other Organizing Principles
Museums, Objects, Collecting



South Kensington — A Case Study

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Asa Briggs, Victorian Things (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1988), 52-79, 84-88.

Malcolm Baker and Brenda Richardson, eds, A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Baltimore: Harry N. Abrams, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1997), 17-47.

Sophie Forgan and Graeme Gooday, "'A fungoid assemblage of buildings': Diversity and Adversity in the Development of College Architecture and Scientific Education in Nineteenth-Century South Kensington," History of Universities 13 (1994): 153-192.



Universities

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Hilde Deridder-Symoens, ed. A History of the University in Europe, Vol. II: "Universities in Early Modern Europe," (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

  1. 57-70 (Willem Frijhoff)
  2. 192-204 (Hilde Deridder-Symoens)
  3. 451-500 with ellipses (Olaf Pedersen, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann)
  4. 536-548 (Roy Porter)
  5. 609-615 (Laurence Brockliss)

Daniel Fallon, The German University: A Heroic Ideal in Conflict with the Modern World (Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1980), 5-9, 16-31.

Roger Geiger, "Research, Graduate Education, and the Ecology of American Universities: An Interpretive History," in The European and American University since 1800: Historical and Sociological Essays ed. Sheldon Rothblatt and Björn Wittrock, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 234-259.

Donald R. Kelly, "The Problem of Knowledge and the Concept of Discipline," in History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, ed. Donald R. Kelly (Rochester, NY: The University of Rochester Press, 1997), 13-27.

Notker Hammerstein, "The Modern World, Sciences, Medicine and Universities," in History of the Universities 8 (1989): 151-178.



Laboratories — The Spaces of Knowing

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Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces," trans. Jay Miskowiec, Diacritics (Spring 1986): 22-27.

Adi Ophir and Alan Penn, "The Place of Knowledge: A Methodological Survey," Science in Context, 4: 1 (Spring 1991): 3-21.

John Pickstone, "Museological Science?" History of Science, 32: 96 (June 1994): 111-138.

Sophie Forgan, "The Architecture of Display," History of Science, 32: 96 (June 1994): 139-162.

Steven Shapin, "The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England," Isis 79: 298 (Sept. 1988): 373-404.

Bruno Latour, "The Costly Ghastly Kitchen," in The Laboratory Revolution In Medicine, ed. Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 295-303.

Robert Kargon and Stuart Leslie, "Imagined Geographies: Princeton, Stanford and the Boundaries of Useful Knowledge in Postwar America," Minerva 32: 2 (Summer 1994): 121-143.



Disciplinarity

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Joseph Kockelmans, "Science and Discipline: Some Historical and Critical Reflections," (excerpts) in Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education, ed. Joseph Kockelmans (University Park, PA, and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979), 11-48.

Wolfram Swoboda, "Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity: A Historical Perspective," in Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education, ed. Joseph Kockelmans (University Park, PA, and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979), 49-92.

Jonathan Broido, "Interdisciplinarity: Reflections on Methodology," in Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education, ed. Joseph Kockelmans (University Park, PA, and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979), 244-305.

Clifford Geertz, "The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought," (excerpts) in Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York: Basic Books, 1983), 147-166.

Hugh Petrie, "Do You See What I See? The Epistemology of Interdisciplinary Inquiry," The Journal of Aesthetic Education 10 (January 1976): 29-43.

Ann Blair, "Bodin, Montaigne, and the Role of Disciplinary Boundaries," in History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, ed. Donald Kelley (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997), 29-40.

Robert Kargon, "Henry Rowland and the Physics Discipline in America," Vistas in Astronomy 29 (1986): 131-136.

Timothy Lenoir, "The Discipline of Nature, and the Nature of Disciplines," in Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 45-74.

Thomas Gieryn, "Boundary Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists," American Sociological Review 48 (December 1983): 781-795.

Peter Galison, "Introduction: The Context of Disunity," in The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power, ed. Peter Galison and David J. Stump (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), 1-33.

Tony Becher, "The Cultural View," in Perspectives on Higher Education: Eight Disciplinary and Comparative Views, ed. Burton Clark (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984), 165-198.

James Traub, "Drive-Thru U.: Higher Education for People Who Mean Business," The New Yorker (Oct. 20-27, 1997): 114-121.



Classification/Measurement/Numeration and other Organizing Principles

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Ernest Cushing Richardson, Classification: Theoretical and Practical (New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1930), 58-87 (with ellipses).

R. Y. Edwards, "Research: A Museum Cornerstone," in Museum Collections: Their Roles and Future in Biological Research, ed. E. H. Miller (N.P.: Ministry of the Provincial Secretary and Government Services, 1985), 1-11.

R. T. Oglivie, "Botanical Collections in Museums," in Museum Collections: Their Roles and Future in Biological Research, ed. E. H. Miller (N.P.: Ministry of the Provincial Secretary and Government Services, 1985), 13-22.

John Dean, "The Controversy over Classification" A Case Study from the History of Botany," in Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture, ed. Barry Barnes, and Steven Shapin (Beverly Hills and London: SAGE Publications, 1979), 211-228.

Harriet Ritvo, The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), x-xiv, 38-46, 52-59.

Richard Yeo, "Reading Encyclopedias: Science and the Organization of Knowledge in British Dictionaries of Arts and Sciences, 1730-1850," Isis 82, 311 (March 1991): 24-49.

Nicholas Fisher, "The Classification of the Sciences," in Companion to the History of Modern Science, ed. R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie, and M. J. S. Hodge (London: Routledge, 1990), 853-868.

M. Norton Wise, "Introduction," in The Values of Precision, ed. M Norton Wise (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 3-13.

Simon Schaffer, "Accurate Measurement in an English Science," in The Values of Precision, ed. M Norton Wise (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 135-172.

Bruno Latour, "Drawing Things Together," in Representation in Scientific Practice, ed. Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990), 19-68.

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, revised ed. (New York and London: Verso, 1991), 163-185.



Museums, Objects, Collecting

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Susan Pearce, "Introduction," in Interpreting Objects and Collections, ed. Susan Pearce (London and New York: Routledge, 1994; repr 1996), 9-11.

Brenda Danet and Tamar Katriel, "No Two Alike: Play and Aesthetics in Collecting," in Interpreting Objects and Collections, ed. Susan Pearce (London and New York: Routledge, 1994; repr 1996), 220-239.

Liv Emma Thorsen, "The Electric Fridge and Other Recollections: On Things as Memory Objects," Knowledge and Society: Research in Science and Technology Studies: Material Culture. Volume 10. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996), 69-86.

Carol Duncan, "Chapter One: The Art Museum as Ritual," in Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London: Routledge, 1995), 7, 20, 98-99.

Stephen Conn, Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 2-31, 233-262.

Donald Horne, The Great Museum: The Re-Presentation of History (London and Sydney: Pluto Press, 1984), 1-25, 211-217.

Bill Readings, The University in Ruins (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), 1-20.