Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities, Carrer Ramón Trias Fargas 25/27, 08005 Barcelona

Program

November 17-18, 2011

November 17th, Thursday
16:00 – 16:30 Official Opening of the Workshop

16:30 – 17:15 Plenary address:

Jürgen Renn / Horst Kant (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

“A short history of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society”

17:15 – 18:00 Discussion

20:00 Official Reception Dinner

November 18th, Friday

09:00 – 13:30

Mitchel Ash (University of Vienna)

Resource Exchanges. The Kaiser-Wilhelm and Max-Planck Societies in times of political change – 1918, 1933, 1945, 1990

Lorenz Beck (Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin)

The international relationsship of the KGW/MPG

Dieter Hoffmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

KWG / MPG and the relaions with East Europa

15:00 – 19:30

Wolfgang Schäffner (Humboldt University of Berlin)

German Culture in Latin America

Albert Presas i Puig (UPF, Barcelona)

Science and political strategy: German science in Spain in the 20th Century

Marició Janué (UPF, Barcelona)

(On the cultural relationship between Germany and Spain)

Javier Ordóñez (UA Madrid)

(On the role of German culture in the Spanish Élite)

Conclusions

Participants:

Mitchel Ash (University of Vienna)

Lorenz Beck (Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin)

Dieter Hoffmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin)
Marició Janué (UPF, Barcelona)
Horst Kant (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Javier Ordoñez (UA Madrid)
Albert Presas i Puig (UPF)
Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Wolfgang Schäffner (Humboldt University of Berlin)