Internationaler Workshop: "Spaces in Between in the History of (Scientific) Knowledge"

5.-6. Oktober 2023 in der "Alten Burse", Sonnenfelsgasse 13, 1010 Wien.

REGISTRATION:

requested by October 2, 2023 by e-mail to regina.barth@oeaw.ac.at

Limited space available!

 

Internationaler Workshop der AG Allgemeine Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaft der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

5.-6. Oktober 2023 in der "Alten Burse", Sonnenfelsgasse 13, 1010 Wien.

REGISTRATION:
requested by October 2, 2023 by e-mail to regina.barth@oeaw.ac.at
Limited space available!

Internationaler Workshop der AG Allgemeine Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaft der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 5.-6. Oktober 2023 in der "Alten Burse", Sonnenfelsgasse 13, 1010 Wien.

PROGRAMME


THURSDAY, 5 OCTOBER

 

  • 09.00 Greetings
    Johannes Feichtinger | Head of the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Sciences
    Mitchell G. Ash | Head of the Working Group General History of Science of the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Sciences

  • 09.15 Keynote 1 and Discussion
    Erika Milam| Princeton University
    Between Places: Cultures of Fieldwork in Animal Behavior
  • 10.15 Presentation and Discussion
    Francesco Luzzini| University of Venice
    Debates on the Origins of Minerals in Early Modern Europe — Between Natural Philosophy and Practical Alchemy

11.15 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

 

  • 11.30 Presentation and Discussion
    Marianne Klemun | University of Vienna
    Catalogues, Collections, Credibility: Between Mineralogical Knowledge Possession and Perception in the 18th Century

12.30 LUNCH

 

  • 14.00 Presentation and Discussion
    Bórbala Zsuzsana Török| University of Vienna
    Descriptive Statistics in Early Modern Europe: The Multi- and Interdisciplinary Construction of Administrative and Geographic Space in Economic, Political and Moral Perspectives
  • 15.00 Patrick Anthony| University College Dublin Mercenary Science between American and Eurasian Empires

16.00 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

 

  • 16.15 Presentation and Discussion
    Ariane Dröscher| University of Florence
    The Debate on the Causes of Potato Blight in the 1840s: The Insertion of Science into a Complex In-Between Space
  • 17.15 Alexis Rider| Cambridge University
    The Visual Language of Glaciology: Etudes Sur Les Glaciers and the Space Between the Sublime and the Geological in the Nineteenth Century Making of Deep Time

18.15 End of Day 1

18.45 Brief "History and Memory" Tour
Meeting Point: Judenplatz, 1010 Vienna

19.00 WORKSHOP DINNER (Ella's, Judenplatz, 1010 Vienna)


FRIDAY, 6. OCTOBER

  • 09.00 Keynote 2 and Discussion
    Helen Rozwadowski | University of Connecticut
    The “Frontier” Metaphor in Historical Context
  • 10.00 Presentation and Discussion
    Wilko Hardenberg | Humboldt-University Berlin
    The Sound in Between: The Place of Aurality in the Natural Sciences

11.00 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

 

  • 11.15 Presentation and Discussion
    Brooke Penaloza-Patzak| University of Vienna
    The World as We Know It. Geographic Provinces in and between the Natural and Human Sciences
  • 12.15 Mátyás Erdélyi| University of Vienna
    Calculation of Railway Prices in the Habsburg Territories: Spaces in Between + Go-Betweens

13.15 LUNCH

  • 14.30 Presentation and Discussion
    Johannes Mattes| University of Vienna and Oslo
    Popular Scientific Societies and the Spatial Transformations of Knowledge Acquisition in 19th-century Europe

15.30 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

  • 15.45 Presentation and Discussion
    Petra Svatek| University of Vienna
    Informal Networks in Viennese and Berlin Geography, 1900-1930
  • 16.45 Jan Surman| Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
    East Central Europe as a Space in Between for Science (and Scholarship):Focus on the 20th Century
  • 17.45 Brief Concluding Remarks
  • 18.00 End of Workshop