STEP's 6th meeting
18-22 June 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
Looking back, STEPping forward:
Scientific Travels, Textbooks, Popularization and Controversies
in the European Periphery
Venue: Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters
PROGRAM
18 JUNE 2008
20.00 WELCOME DINNER (Hotel Lady Diana)
19 JUNE 2008
09.00 – 09.15 Opening Addresses – Feza Günergun and Ana Simőes
09.15 – 10.15 Key-Note Address by Dhruv Raina
What do Priority Disputes between Center and Periphery Conceal?
Reflections on Science in Twentieth Centuiry India
SESSION 1 ¦ TEXTBOOKS
Chair and Commentator: Manolis Patiniotis
10.20 – 10.35 Josep Simon, The making of Ganot’s Physics in France, England and Spain: Actors and sites in comparative perspective
10.35 – 10.50 Lütfullah Türkmen, Mustafa Murat Ontug, One of the first science textbooks taught in the newly established Western style middle schools of the Ottoman Empire
10.50 – 11.05 José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, Rosa Muńoz Bello, Making the order of things in the Periphery: Chemical classifications in nineteenth-century Spain
11.05 – 11.25 Comments
11.25 –11.40 Discussion
11.40 – 12.00 Coffee Break
SESSION 2 ¦ TRAVELS
Chair and Commentator: Ana Simőes
12.00 – 12.15 Haydée García Bravo, Gisela Mateos, Angélica Morales, The formation of Mexican physicists in the United States (1939-1959) and the generation of local practices in Mexico
12.15 – 12.30 Annette Mülberger, Three Spanish scholars visiting psychological laboratories in Germany
12.30 – 12.45 Ivano Dal Prete, Politics and instruments in Napoleon’s Europe: the Italian journey of Xavier von Zach (1807-1814)
12.45 – 13.05 Comments
13.05 – 13.30 Discussion
13.30 – 15.00 LUNCH
SESSION 3 ¦ POPULARISATION OF SCIENCE
Chair and Commentator: Agusti Nieto-Galan
15.00 – 15.15 Sevtap Kadioglu, Popularizing science in Turkey during World War II: A case study on the journal Fen ve Teknik (Science and Technique)
15.15 – 15.30 Elena Serrano, Reading a science best-seller in eighteenth century Spain: the cultural translation of Le Spectacle de la nature
15.30 – 15.45 Yoko Tochigi, The scientific publicity of spas and mineral springs in Catalonia during the First World War – The case of the Association Owners of Catalonia
15.45 – 16.05 Comments
16.05 – 16.25 Discussion
16.25 – 16.45 Coffee Break
SESSION 4 ¦ SCIENCE IN THE PRESS
Chair: Ali Alpar
Commentator: Faidra Papanelopoulou
16.45 – 17.00 Meltem Akbaţ, The enthusiasm for inventing in Turkey in 1930s: An outcome of science popularization policy
17.00 – 17.15 Kaan Ata,Nuclear energy and atomic bomb in the Turkish press during the early years of Cold War: A study based on newspapers Cumhuriyet and Akţam
17.15 – 17.30 Eirini Mergoupi-Savaidou, Faidra Papanelopoulou, Spyros Tzokas, Methodological and historiographical reflections on the use of newspapers
in the History of Science (Science in the Press Project): Our experience from the Greek case
17.30 – 17.45 Matiana González-Silva & Néstor Herran, Science in the press: Some reflections on comparative history of science in the press project
17.45 – 18.05 Comments
18.05 – 18.30 Discussion
20.00 DINNER
20 JUNE 2008
09.15 – 10.15 Key-Note Address by David Edgerton
"The Supremacy of Uruguay": How studies of the centre should start at the periphery
SESSION 5 ¦ PROFESSIONAL CONTROVERSIES
Chair: Feza Günergun
Commentator: Matiana Gonzalez-Silva
10.20 – 10.35 Annette Lykknes and Ola Nordal, Trondheim or Kristiania? An early 20th century debate on the education of industrial chemists in Norway
10.35 – 10.50 Darina Martykánová,The privilege of being engineer: Spanish engineers on the capacity and right to build public works and some hints on the benefits of the Spanish example in the analysis of Ottoman engineering
10.50 – 11.05 Anders Lundgren, Teaching technology 1850-1920: Comparisons on the periphery – The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Riga Polytechnische Institut
11.05 – 11.25 Comments
11.25 –11.40 Discussion
11.40 – 11.55 Coffee Break
SESSION 6 ¦ SPIRITUAL CONTROVERSIES
Chair and Commentator: Pedro Raposo
11.55 – 12.10 Palmira Fontes da Costa, Hélio Pinto, Disputes on the origin and meaning of comets: What they reveal about the Portuguese Enlightenment?
12.10 – 12.25 Helge Kragh, Conservation and controversy: Ludvig Colding and the imperishability of “forces”
12.25 – 12.40 Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, It’s not true, but I believe it. Discussions on jettatura in Naples at the end of the 18th century
12.40 – 12.55 Eirini Mergoupi-Savaidou, Science and religion: A controversy between Greek periodicals in the early 1890s
12.55 – 13.15 Comments
13.15 – 13.30 Discussion
13.30 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00. Free Afternoon or Tour to Süleymaniye Mosque, Topkapý Palace Museum, Hagia Sophia Museum
20.00 DINNER
21 JUNE 2008
SESSION 7 ¦ SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES IN INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS (I)
Chair and Commentator: Pedro Ruiz Castell
09.00 – 09.15 Isabel Amaral, Discovering exotic pathologies - Bacteria or parasite on sleeping sickness, controversies at the Lisbon School of Tropical Medicine (1898-1904)
09.15 – 09.30 Masanori Kaji, Mendeleev’s discovery of the Periodic Law in the context of European periphery
09.30 – 09.45 Vanda Leităo, ‘Who owns the geological collections?’ The dispute between Pereira da Costa and Carlos Ribeiro over the collections of the Portuguese Geological Survey (1868-1876)
09.45 – 10.00 Yiannis Garyfallos, The Greek AC-DC Debate
10.00 – 10.15 S. Muller-Wille, The Buffon-Linnaeus controversy: a one-sided affair
10.15 –10.35 Comments
10.35 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
SESSION 8 ¦ SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES IN INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS (II)
Chair: Gürol Irzik
Commentator: Nestor Herrán
11.30 – 11.45 Pedro Raposo, Of stars and pride: The discussion on Argelander’s Star at the Academy of Paris and the foundation of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon
11.45 – 12.00 Pedro Ruiz-Castell, How to become a prominent astronomer: Comas i Solŕ and his claims of priority for astronomical observations
12.00 – 12.15 José Alberto Silva, Oratorians and Jesuits: The manifold nature of a scientific controversy
12.15 – 12.30 Bruno Almeida, Henrique Leităo, A debating Society? Scientific controversies in the Portuguese province of the Society of Jesus
12.30 – 12.50 Comments
12.50 – 13.20 Discussion
13.20 – 15.00 LUNCH
SESSION 9 ¦ APPROPRIATING CONTROVERSIES
Chair and Commentator: Josep Simon
15.00 – 15.15 Marco Segala, Contributions to the continental drift controversy from the European periphery (1912-1960)
15.15 – 15.30 Brigitte van Tiggelen, Geert Vanpammel, Closing a controversy from the periphery: J. B. Van Mons and the reduction of calx of mercury
15.30 – 15.45 Maria do Mar Gago, Portuguese struggle for synthesis: José Antunes Serra and the genetic controversies in the 1940’s
15.45 – 16.00 Gabor Pallo, The advantage and disadvantage of peripheral ignorance: The gas adsorption controversy
16.00 – 16.20 Comments
16.20 – 16.50 Discussion
16.50 – 17.10 Coffee Break
17.10 – 18.10 –Concluding remarks by Kostas Gavroglu
18.10 – 19.10 – General Assembly (chaired by Antonio Garcia-Belmar)
20.00 DINNER at the "Ottoman" to celebrate summer solstice on the Golden Horn
22 JUNE 2008
10.00 – 17.00 Free Daily Tour (Boat trip along the Bosphorus, lunch at a fish restaurant)
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