Ten years ago, David Livingstone, started his well-known Putting Science in its Place by a brainstorming of questions that were supposed to consolidate a new perspective in the study of science. The activity takes place, in many different places, but does it matter where? Can the location of the scientific activity have any influence in how science develops? And even more important, can this affect the content of the work? For Livingstone, the answer to these questions was, and still is, affirmative and his book claims that fact.
Livingstone was not the first author wondering about those questions, and so, we can also find them framed in a more or less clearly way in the works of Hannaway, Shapin and other authors who, in the 1980s, contributed to explain the history of the laboratories. But, as Charles Withers reminded us in his lecture in the last meeting of the SCHCT, during the last ten years the Geography of the Scientific Knowledge has become a rich and dynamic study field that includes a whole bunch of publications and research groups in many countries. In the catalan context the initiatives of our forerunners in the geographies of knowledge have also started to come about This allows its consolidation as a field of high interest achieving both the cohesion of our local community and its international visibility.
This thematic SEMINAR PROGRAMME that we are introducing for the 2013-2014 academic year will connect science and sites, avoiding the focus on only the research programs created by Livingstone, Withers, etc. Approaching this topic from different sites related to health, education, research, exhibitions, art and creation, this seminar series aims to establish questions and to highlight different aspects: how physical places condition scientific knowledge production (laboratories, anatomical theatres, museums, etc…?, the coexistence of science and the city; how scientific knowledge changes by its circulation and appropriation or how a region or nation are built through science and to think about the existence of different science styles; how to re-think political and national borders as a tool of historical studies…And many more questions that we hope that you will find as revealing as ourselves and will encourage you to think and discuss them during the sessions that we offer you in these seminars.
ACTIVITIES of the GEOGRAPHIES OF KNOWLEDGE 2013-2014 SEMINAR PROGRAMME
• PLENARY LECTURE
Reviel Netz (Stanford University) “Towards a Cultural Geography of the Ancient World” 9/10/ 2013 (Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona – Edifici Històric, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585, Barcelona).
Coordinator: Francesca Mestre i Cristian Tolsa (UB), Jaume Sastre (CEHIC-UB).
Organized by: SCHCT and Grup de recerca Graecia Capta – Departament de Filologia Grega (UB)
• SEMINAR´S SERIES: “Ciencias e ideologías en los parques naturales españoles”
3 sessions (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Carme 47, Barcelona)
Santos Casado (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) “Ciencia y sentimiento de la naturaleza en los orígenes de la conservación” 16/01/2014
Lino Camprubí (CEHIC-UAB) “Migraciones y endemismos: ideas e instituciones en el Parque Nacional de Doñana” 30/01/2014
Judit Gil (CEHIC-UAB) “La protecció de la natura a Catalunya a la transició i primers anys de democràcia” 13/02/2014
Coordinators: Lino Camprubí (CEHIC-UAB) and Judith Gil (CEHIC-UAB)
Organized by: SCHCT
• SEMINAR´S SERIES: “Itineraris d’història de la ciència a Barcelona”
4 sessions
Miquel Carandell (UABDivulga-CEHIC)
“Ciència i la Tecnologia a l’Exposició Universal de 1888” 3/03/2014 and
“Històries de Ciència a Gràcia” 07/04/2014
Laura Valls (CSIC)
“Sanitat al Raval: una història de més de 500 anys” 05/05/2014
“Històries Naturals a Ciutat Vella, Barcelona” 2/06/2014
Coordinators: Miquel Carandell (UABDivulga-CEHIC) and Laura Valls (CSIC)
Organized by: SCHCT
• SEMINAR´S SERIES: “Recuperant Plaers i Obstacles d’escriure Història de la Ciència”
2 sessions
Reviel Netz (Stanford University) and Jaume Sastre (CEHIC- UB), “Space, History and Materialism for the 21st Century”. Presentation of the book Alambre de púas: una ecología de la modernidad 7/10/2013 (Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona – Campus del Raval, Montalegre 6)
Massimiano Bucchi (Universitá di Trento), Presentation of the book Il pollo di Newton. La scienza in cucina 20/05/2014 (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Carme 47, Barcelona)
Coordinators: Jaume Sastre (CEHIC-UB) and Pepe Pardo (IMF-CSIC)
Organized by: SCHCT, Research Group Graecia Capta – Departament de Filologia Grega (UB) and IMF-CSIC
• SEMINAR´S SERIES: “Geografies audiovisuals”
3 sessions (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Carme 47, Barcelona)
Paloma Polo (Artist). Artistic project (triple format: movie, photographs and texts): “Posición aparente” (Dates non confirmed).
Carlos Tabernero and Fernando Vidal (CEHIC-UAB). Film meeting: “Das Experiment” 27/02/ 2014
Sandra Rozental. Documentary and presentation: “La Piedra Ausente” 11/04/ 2014
Coordinators: Carlos Tabernero i Fernando Vidal (CEHIC-UAB), Laura Valls (CSIC) and Ignacio Suay (IHMC).
Organized by: SCHCT
• SYMPOSIUM: “Building the region through science and medicine”
5 talks 09/01/2014 (Institut d’Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero, València)
Simon Naylor (University of Glasgow), “Cornwall”
Astri Andresen i Teemu Ryymin (University of Bergen), “Sápmi”
Stella Fatovic-Ferencic (Academy of Arts and Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia), “Balkans”
Josep Bernabeu (Universitat d’Alacant), “Mediterranean Basin”
Josep Barona, Francesc Pérez and Ximo Guillem-Llobat (Universitat de València), “Valencian Country”
Coordinators: Ximo Guillem-Llobat and Josep Lluís Barona (IHMC)
Organized by: SCHCT
• SEMINAR:
Emilia Musumeci (Universitat de Catània) “Neuroscience and Law Today and Rediscovering Cesare Lombroso” 21/11/2013, (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Carme 47, Barcelona)
Coordinator: Alfons Zarzoso (CEHIC-UAB, Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya)
Organized by: SCHCT
• SEMINAR:
Carme Montaner i Luís Urteaga (UB), “Cartògrafs italians en la guerra civil espanyola (1936-1939)” 20/03/2014, (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Carme 47, Barcelona)
Coordinator: Joaquim Berenguer (CEHIC-UAB)
Organized by: SCHCT
• ROUND TABLE: “Cloenda del programa de la SCHCT sobre Geografies del coneixement”
17/06/2014 (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Carme 47, Barcelona)
Coordinator: Josep Maria Camarasa (IEC)
Organized by: SCHCT
OTHER ACTIVITIES NOT INCLUDED IN THE SEMINAR´S SERIES GEOGRAPHIES OF KNOWLEDGE 2013-2014.
•PLENARY LECTURE
Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) “Nature’s Revenge: Responsibility, Reasonableness and Risk in Historical Perspective”, 19/09/2013, IEC, Barcelona
Coordinator: Agustí Nieto-Galán (CEHIC-UAB)
Organized by: CEHIC-SCHCT
•PLENARY LECTURE
Arne Schirrmacher (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) “Happy Birthday Bohr atom!” 24/10/2013, IEC, Barcelona
Coordinator: Agustí Nieto-Galán (CEHIC-UAB)
Organized by: CEHIC-SCHCT
OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE SCHCT 2013-2014
“PRIMER CONGRÉS VERNIÀ” 4, 5, 6/09/2013, IEC, Barcelona
Coordinator: Pasqual Bernat (CEHIC-UAB)
Organized by: Societat Catalana Verne-SCHCT
“INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: SCIENCE AS CULTURAL HEGEMONY: IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE” 22, 23 and 24/01/2014, IEC, Barcelona
Coordinators: Agustí Nieto-Galan (CEHIC-UAB), Matteo Realdi (CEHIC-UAB) and Massimiliano Badino (CEHIC-UAB)
Organized by: CEHIC-SCHCT
“V JORNADA D’HISTÒRIA DE L’ASTRONOMIA I DE LA METEOROLOGIA” 5/10/2013 Temple Romà, Vic
Coordinator: Pasqual Bernat (CEHIC-UAB)
Organized by: SCHCT, PEO, AAO
“1ST EUROPEAN AUTUMN SCHOOL ON HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: SOURCES AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES IN THE ERA OF INTERNET” 14-16/11/2013, IEC, Barcelona
Coordinators: Pere Grapí (CEHIC) and M. Rosa Massa (UPC)
Organized by: SCHCT
FOUNDATIONAL MEETING OF “RESEAU DU INVESTIGATIÓN INTERNATIONAL DESCARTES ET LA SCIENCE” 15 or 22/03/2014 (dates non confirmed), Campus de la Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca
Coordinators: Francesc Bujosa and Joan Lluís Llinàs (UIB)
Organized by: GIHS-UIB, GRFMM-UIB, SCHCT
