Dimarts, 13 de desembre de 2011 a la Biblioteca Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) a les 19.00h.
“Les confidències del comte Buffon”
La conferencia anirà a càrrec de Martí Domínguez (UV) narrador i assagista valencià
Dimarts, 13 de desembre de 2011 a la Biblioteca Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) a les 19.00h.
“Les confidències del comte Buffon”
La conferencia anirà a càrrec de Martí Domínguez (UV) narrador i assagista valencià
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.
Dimecres 23 de novembre, a la Biblioteca Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) a les 19.00h.
“L’escàndol de la vivisecció en la literatura de l’Anglaterra victoriana”
La conferencia anirà a càrrec de Jordi Lamarca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), i tindrà el títol :
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.
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
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
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)
Paleoantropología, divulgación y nacionalismo científico. El caso de Atapuerca.
Oliver Hochadel, CSIC