Arxiu de la categoria: Col·loquis i seminaris

Sigrid Leyssen / Michotte’s experiments

Sigrid Leyssen, investigadora del National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “Iconic Criticism – Power and Importance of Images” de la Universitat de Basel presentarà (en anglès) el seu treball de recerca titulat “Impress by the real: Albert Michotte ‘s experiments with images” el dilluns dia 28 de novembre a les 12.30h en la P-24 de la Facultat de Psicologia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. L’acte és obert a tots els que estiguin interessats en el tema.

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Seminaris d’Història de la Ciència

Divendres, 25 novembre 2011
11:00 hrs al CEHIC, Facultat de ciències (UAB)

Jaume Sastre (CEHIC-UAB).
“Un laboratori per a la divulgació científica: el New York Museum of Science and Industry i la política de les exposicions tecnològiques als Estats Units”.

En Jaume Sastre presentarà resultats de la seva recerca als Estats Units, part de la seva tesi doctoral en curs sobre el New York Museum of Science and Industry.

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TAULA RODONA: Ciutats mediterrànies del coneixement i de la fe a l’Edat Mitjana

Seminari Internacional “Ciutats mediterrànies: civilització i desenvolupament”(Barcelona, IEC-IEMed, 16-18 Nov 2011)

TAULA RODONA

Ciutats mediterrànies del coneixement i de la fe a l’Edat Mitjana

Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans

Divendres 18 Novembre  –  9:00-11:00 hores

Coordinador: Jon Arrizabalaga (IMF-CSIC, Barcelona)

Ponents:

1) Jacques Verger (École Pratique des Hautes Études IVe section, París)
Le réseau des universités et les itinéraires de la peregrinatio academica

2) Michael R. McVaugh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Cities and the emergence of professionalism in medieval Europe:  the case of medicine

3) Josef Meri (Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Pilgrimage as shared experience among Muslims and Jews in the medieval Islamic world

4) Jonathan Harris (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The role of Greek émigrés in East-West cultural communication before and after the fall of Constantinople

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The American Challenge. The impact of the US scientific, technological and industrial organization in Post-war Europe.

The American Challenge. The impact of the US scientific, technological and industrial organization in Post-war Europe.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities, Barcelona (Spain), December 15-16, 2011, room 20.053

Organizers:

Daniele Cozzoli (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Departament d’Humanitats)

Mauro Capocci (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)

Matteo Gerlini (Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, University of Florence)

Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester)

contact: daniele.cozzoli@upf.edu

Program:

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Chair: Antoni Malet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

(15:00 Wellcome address)

15:15 Presentation

Daniele Cozzoli (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

15:30 – 16:15

Jon Agar (University College London)

How do we account for the predominance of US science? Seven kinds of answers

16:15 -17:00

Veera Lisa Nisonen (European Institute Florence)

The American Challenge and the Difficult Advent of the Common European Research Policy”

17:00 Coffee break

17:30 – 18:15

chair: Agustí Nieto Galán (Universitat Atutónoma de Barcelona)

John Krige ( Georgiatech, Atlanta)

“The Co-Construction of Transnational Networks in Space Science: NASA-West European Relations in the Early 1960s”

18:15 – 19:00

Robert Bud (London Science Museum)

Pure and Applied Research in the Context of the Cold War

Friday, 16 December

Chair: Matteo Gerlini (University of Florence)

10:00 – 10:45

Ludovic Tournès (Université de Paris Ouest)

American foundations and the Higher Education and Research System in France (1945-1965)

10:45 – 11:15 Coffe break

chair: Xavier Roqué (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)

11:15 – 12:00

Soraya de Chadarevian (University of California, Los Angeles)

Scientific relations between the US and the -UK post WW II.

12:00 – 12:45

Daniele Cozzoli (UPF, Barcelona)

Penicillin and the Americanization of Europe. Three patterns of penicillin research and production in Post-war Europe

12:45 -15: 00 Lunch

chair: Oliver Hochadel (CSIC, Barcelona)

15:00 – 15:45

María-Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid)

Genetics during the Cold War: Body, technologies, images

15:45 -16:30

Mauro Capocci (“La Sapienza” University of Rome) – Fabio De Sio (Queen Mary University of London)

LIGB and the others. Creating a new space for science in Southern Italy.

16:30 – 17:15

Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester)

Sword, Shield and Buoys: the US, NATO and Oceanography in Europe, 1957-1973

17:15 – 17: 30 Coffe break

chair: Gilberto Corbellini (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)

17:30 – 18:00

Robert Marc Friedmann (University of Oslo)

Icy Shadows: American Cold-War Concerns and the Shaping of Norwegian Polar Research Policy

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100 Years of the Max Planck Society: German Science, Culture and the Élite in the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Countries

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)

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