Final Detailed Programme

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Opening Ceremony

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 09:00–10:15, room Aula P131

Welcome Addresses

Petr Svobodný (Czech Republic) – Conference President
Karine Chemla (France) – President of the ESHS
Mirjam Friedová (Czech Republic) – Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University

1st Talk of Young Scholar

Note-taking, especially in early 17th century Europe
Elaine Leong (Germany)

Coffee Break (10:15–10:30)

Session 1: Perspectives on Politics, Power and Knowledge from Russian and Soviet History

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room Aula P131

Chair: Suzanne Débarbat (France)

The Power of Translation: Technical Translation and Early Russian Enlightenment (ID 596)
Maria Avxentevskaya (Germany)

Russian colonization at Western Caucasus: the power of medicine and agricultural science (ID 588)
Alexey Sobisevich (Russian Federation)

How to outwit the regime: Physical anthropology in the 19th century Russia (ID 599)
Galina Krivosheina (Russian Federation)

General Biology, the textbook by Yu. Polyansky. The return of science to secondary school. (ID 585)
Anna Samokish (Russian Federation)

Session 2: The Power of Newton's Ideas and their Reception

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P001

Chair: Efthymios Nicolaidis (Greece)

Prism Quality Not a Factor: Estimations and Replications of Newton’s Optical Experiments (ID 556)
Yoshimi Takuwa (Japan)

Law and order: God and the sovereignty of Newtonian methodology in Petrus van Musschenbroek’s work (ID 484)
Pieter Present (Belgium)

Force of Nature, Power of State and Newton’s Legacy (ID 498)
Dimitris Petakos (Greece)

How Lagrange Saved the Universe: The Forgotten Narrative on the Stability of the Solar System (ID 193)
Massimiliano Badino (USA)

Symposium 321: The Acknowledged Ambassadors: Scientists’ role in international relations during the Cold War – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P018

Organizers: Doubravka Olšáková (Czech Republic), Simone Turchetti (UK)

Scientists as instruments of state power in international collaboration (ID 325)
John Krige (USA)

The patronage of science as “backchannel” diplomacy?: The case of NATO, 1950–1980 (ID 327)
Simone Turchetti (UK)

The Socialist Lobby?: Socialist Countries and the Soviet Union in the ICSU and the UNESCO (1945–1972) (ID 329)
Doubravka Olšáková (Czech Republic)

From Nuclear Test Ban Negotiations to the Club of Rome and the First World Climate Conference: Soviet Geophysicist Yevgenii Fedorov on the Stage of Science Diplomacy (ID 331)
Julia Lajus (Russian Federation)

Symposium 88: European Physicists and Chinese Physics in the 20th Century

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P104

Organizers: Xiaodong Yin (China), Danian Hu (USA)

The Impact of the Visits of Heisenberg, Dirac and Bohr to China (ID 89)
Xiaodong Yin (China)

H. W. Peng’s Association with Born, Schrödinger, and Heitler (ID 178)
Jinyan Liu (China)

The Royal Society and the Early Chinese Academy of Sciences (ID 399)
Xiao Liu (China)

Symposium 121: Scientific Persona as a way to scientific Power: how scientists deal with categories of social difference (SPaSP)

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P116

Organizers: Mineke Bosch (the Netherlands), Kaat Wils (Belgium)
Chair: Kirsti Niskanen (Sweden)

Marianne van Herwerden’s metamorphosis: from secluded laboratory scientist to American style researcher (ID 159)
Mineke Bosch (the Netherlands)

‘… we did not think his appearance was negroid enough to be any handicap.’ Rudolf van Lier becoming a scientist. (ID 122)
Margriet Fokken (the Netherlands)

Scholars as servants of the nation on the home front and in the field: Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio and Martti Haavio (ID 134)
Lisa Svanfeldt-Winter (Sweden)

Eileen Power and scientific persona: the role of the Albert Kahn Around-The-World Fellowship (ID 196)
Rozemarijn van de Wal (the Netherlands)

Symposium 206: Challenges for the history of engineering: Education, professions, circulation, sustainability, power – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P200

Organizers: Antoni Roca-Rosell (Spain), Ana Cardoso de Matos (Portugal)

Mathematics involved in the training for gunners in 16th century (ID 234)
Fàtima Romero Vallhonesta (Spain)

The theoretical preparation of army officers in Spain in the middle of the 18th century (ID 254)
Juan Navarro Loidi (Spain)

The 1730 proposal for the education of the men of war by Jorge Próspero Verboom (ID 215)
Antoni Roca-Rosell (Spain)

The Engineers on the Service of Big Policy, or How Two Spanish Experts Spoiled the Secrets of British Navy in France (1788) (ID 217)
Irina Gouzevitch (France), Dmitri Gouzevitch (France)

Symposium 226: Science and Education in the Context of Modernization

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P201

Organizer: Dazhi Yao (China)
Chair: Baichun Zhang (China)

The Nature of Science and the Purposes of Education: the Analysis Based on three Chinese lectures (ID 233)
Yufen Han (China)

The Ecole Polytechnique: Scientific Education versus Engineer's Training (ID 376)
Dazhi Yao (China)

The Greenhouse of China’s Technical Education: Foochow Arsenal and its Attempts to Transplanting French Model (ID 243)
Mingyang Li (China)

Symposium 29: Skulls and roses: natural history collections and their meaning in 18–19th centuries – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P209

Organizers: Anastasia Fedotova (Russian Federation), Marina Loskutova (Russian Federation)
Chair: Marianne Klemun (Austria)
Commentator: Marianne Klemun (Austria)

A national Forestry Museum and a Geographical Arboretum (1900–1970): Built to please the Belgian Ministers only? (ID 32)
Denis Diagre-Vanderpelen (Belgium)

Plants and politics: power relationships in botany in the Russian Empire, second half of 18th – early 19th century (ID 35)
Olga Elina (Russian Federation)

The role of Karl Ernst von Baer in the arrangement and growth of the craniological collection of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (ID 39)
Erki Tammiksaar (Estonia), Ken Kalling (Estonia)

Killing for museums: European bison as a museum exhibit (ID 30)
Anastasia Fedotova (Russian Federation), Tomasz Samojlik (Poland)

Texts, specimens and tests: bioprospecting in the late 18th century Russia (ID 31)
Marina Loskutova (Russian Federation)

Session 3: The Cold War – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P215

Chair: Jakub Jareš (Czech Republic)

Agents or actors? How Czech scientists helped shape UNRRA’s penicillin plant program, 1944–49 (ID 469)
Slawomir Lotysz (Poland)

The 1947 Commission médicale de défense contre la guerre moderne: post-war civilian contributions to NBC preparedness and response in France (ID 315)
Etienne Aucouturier (Ghana)

Reproducing scientific elites 1958–1989: Scientific contests for Swedish youth during the Cold War (ID 485)
Daniel Lövheim (Sweden)

Power Networks from the Evidence of IUPAC Conferences (ID 16)
Pierre Laszlo (France)

Symposium 264: The Power of Experiments: The Interdisciplinary Reconfiguration of Dense and Rare in Early Modern Europe

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P217

Organizer: Cesare Pastorino (Germany)

The rare and the dense: air quantification in Giovanni Battista Della Porta (ID 265)
Arianna Borrelli (Germany)

“The curious ways to observe weight in Water”: Thomas Harriot’s experiments on specific gravity (ID 286)
Stephen Clucas (UK)

Quantitative estimates, phenomenological investigations and operational concepts in Francis Bacon’s 'History of dense and rare' (ID 267)
Dana Jalobeanu (Romania)

Writing a New, Interdisciplinary History of Specific Gravities in the Long Sixteenth-Century (ID 266)
Cesare Pastorino (Germany)

Session 4: The History of Mathematics: Concepts, Practices and Political Issues – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P225

Chair: Maria Teresa Borgato (Italy)

Falling prey to the power of (mathematical) imagination: Bernard Nieuwentijt’s (1654–1718) ‘learned ignorance’ as a cure for pansophia (ID 562)
Steffen Ducheyne (Belgium)

Credit and intellectual ownership in the work of W.J. ’s Gravesande (1688–1742) (ID 467)
Jip Van Besouw (Belgium)

No Safety in Numbers? Mathematical Skepticism in Cartesian Physics and Contemporary Environmental Modeling (ID 589)
Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira (USA)

Session 29: Contribution of “Unwanted” Russian Scientists to the World Science

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P300

Chair: Marek Ďurčanský (Czech Republic)

Pitirim Sorokin’s Sociology of Revolution: a Relic from the 20th Century or Intellectual Weapon for the 21st Century? (ID 457)
Dmitry Ivanov (Russian Federation)

History, Politics and the Power of Science: Pitirim Sorokin´s Theory of Socio-Cultural Dynamics (ID 481)
Yury Asochakov (Russian Federation)

Soviet physicists against the authorities to preserve the scientific heritage of Leonid Mandelstam (ID 592)
Tatiana Shavrova (Russian Federation)

Symposium 17: Enduring Ideas, New Alliances: Social and Epistemic Factors in the Renaissance of General Relativity – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P301

Organizers: Roberto Lalli (Germany), Alexander Blum (Germany)
Chair: Roberto Lalli (Germany)
Commentator: Jürgen Renn (Germany)

General Relativity, a Theory Ahead of its Time (ID 185)
Jean Eisenstaedt (France)

A farewell to speculation: How quantum gravity drove the renaissance of general relativity (ID 356)
Alexander Blum (Germany)

The emergence of relativistic astrophysics in the early 1960s (ID 223)
Luisa Bonolis (Germany)

Symposium 110: Scientists and the powerful from the Middle Age to the Classical period

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 10:30–12:30, room P317

Organizers: Valérie Debuiche (France), Pascal Taranto (France)

Algebra and proto-algebra: about formalism and foundations (ID 258)
Marouane Ben Miled (Tunisia)

Leibniz and Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg: from master to friend (ID 114)
Valérie Debuiche (France)

« Scientia potestas est » : Francis Bacon and the birth of technocracy (ID 113)
Pascal Taranto (France)

Lunch Break (12:30–13:30)

Symposium 37: The Principle of Energy Conservation: history, philosophy, education, digital humanities – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room Aula P131

Organizers: Fabio Bevilacqua (Italy), Muriel Guedj (France)

Interplay Between Theory and Experiments in Some Classic 19th and 20th Century Formulations of Energy Conservation. (ID 139)
Fabio Bevilacqua (Italy)

Designing new digital tools to teach the concept of energy through history of science (ID 222)
Muriel Guedj (France)

Energy: conservation versus equivalence (ID 184)
Ricardo Lopes Coelho (Portugal)

Between a Simultaneous Discovery and Construction: Historical Views on the Emergence of Energy Conservation (ID 553)
Shaul Katzir (Israel)

Session 5: WW2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P001

Chair: Helena Durnová (Czech Republic)

Science, Politics and Military Effort: Chaim Weizmann’s Chemical Research during the First and Second World Wars (ID 586)
Nurit Kirsh (Israel)

World War II and the plasma fractionation program led by Edwin Cohn (1892–1953) (ID 10)
Elisa Campos (Portugal)

Mathematics during adversity: The turbulent career of Heinrich Löwig 1938–48 (ID 473)
Jan Kotůlek (Czech Republic), Pavel Ludvík (Czech Republic), Rolf Nossum (Norway)

Gleb Wataghin and his Brazilian pupils: Fascism, Second World War and international circulation of scientists (ID 432)
Luciana Vieira Souza da Silva (Brazil)

The influence of the Atomic Bomb project on physics and the political grand alliance (ID 458)
Joseph Kouneiher (France)

Symposium 321: The Acknowledged Ambassadors: Scientists’ role in international relations during the Cold War – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P018

Organizers: Doubravka Olšáková (Czech Republic), Simone Turchetti (UK)

US Science Attaches in Paris & London: Science & Politics in the early 1950s (ID 333)
Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am (USA), Genevieve Benezra (France)

The Commitment for Soviet Dissidence as a Counter-Power During the Cold War? The Case of French Mathematicians (ID 337)
Sophie Cœuré (France)

Environmental researches and US-USSR rapprochement during the 1970s (ID 339)
Nicolai Dronin (Russian Federation)

The “underground” International Geophysical Year: How American geophysicists used overt diplomacy and covert scientific intelligence-gathering during the early Cold War (ID 342)
Ronald E. Doel (USA)

Symposium 19: On the move: the circulation of radioactive materials in the cross road of health physics and biomedicine

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P104

Organizers: Maria Rentetzi (Austria/Greece), María Jesús Santesmases (Spain)

Blood, bombs, borders: Radiostrontium – a biography (ID 23)
Alison Kraft (UK)

Ruling the World with a Suitcase: The Standardization and Calibration of Thyroid Radioiodine Uptake Measurements by the IAEA (ID 20)
Maria Rentetzi (Austria/Greece)

The journeys of radiation: The circulation of radioiodine and the Atomic era geopolitics (ID 22)
María Jesús Santesmases (Spain)

From Radioisotopes to Genomes: the Biomedical Legacy of Atomic Age’s Big Science Institutions (ID 21)
Alexander Schwerin (Germany)

Symposium 202: Domesticating the air: The politics, technics, and material culture of breathing safely

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P116

Organizers: Elena Serrano (Germany), Marie Thébaud-Sorger (France)

The material handling of the air: Household and university expertise in the Medieval west (ID 204)
Montserrat Cabré (Spain)

Joseph Priestley and the Politics of Nitrous Air Eudiometry (ID 256)
John R.R. Christie (UK)

Spreading the revolution: Guyton’s fumigating machine in Spain during the Napoleonic era (ID 250)
Elena Serrano (Germany)

Aerial commodification: Technological construction of domestic and public space in 18th Britain and France (ID 203)
Marie Thébaud-Sorger (France)

Vapour’s Calling. The Role of the Site Called “Grotta del Cane” in the Chemical Studies about Gases (XVII–XIX Centuries) (ID 516)
Corinna Guerra (France)

Symposium 206: Challenges for the history of engineering: Education, professions, circulation, sustainability, power – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P200

Organizers: Antoni Roca-Rosell (Spain), Ana Cardoso de Matos (Portugal)

Wendlingen: a scientist in the Eighteenth Century Spanish Court (ID 228)
Joaquim Berenguer (Spain)

Francesc Santponç and the construction of a double-acting steam engine in Barcelona (1804–1806) (ID 218)
Maria Montava (Spain)

The difficult search for the first Barcelona’s professor of machinery (1821–1831) (ID 262)
Carles Puig-Pla (Spain)

Meritocratic Fiction: The Rise of Spanish Engineers as a Social Elite (1836–1912) (ID 213)
Darina Martykánová (Spain)

Symposium 367: Sciences and Universities in the context of political regime changes – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P201

Organizer: Mitchell G. Ash (Austria)

The French Revolution and Science: A Time of Reinvention (ID 372)
Bruno Belhoste (France)

Sciences and Universities in Politically Unstable Times. The University of Innsbruck during the Napoleonic Era (ID 375)
Christof Aichner (Austria)

Useful Knowledge in a Nation State: Research Institutes and Political Transformations in Poland 1918–1939 (ID 377)
Olga Linkiewicz (Poland)

Expelled Science. Dismissals of Life Scientists from the German University in Prague 1938/1939: A Prosopographic Evaluation (ID 379)
Michal Šimůnek (Czech Republic)

Differential psychology under the Franco regime (ID 319)
Annette Mülberger (Spain)

Symposium 29: Skulls and roses: natural history collections and their meaning in 18–19th centuries – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P209

Organizers: Anastasia Fedotova (Russian Federation), Marina Loskutova (Russian Federation)
Chair: Marianne Klemun (Austria)
Commentator: Marianne Klemun (Austria)

Rose Gardens and Scientific Debates on Heredity in 19th Century France (ID 33)
Cristiana Oghina-Pavie (France)

André Thouin’s (1747–1824) creation of seed collections at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle of Paris (ID 34)
Stéphane Tirard (France)

St. Petersburg Museums in the 19th century: From scientific laboratories to centers of educational activities (ID 36)
Tatiana Yusupova (Russian Federation), Nadezhda V. Slepkova (Russian Federation)

Scientific collections during the French Revolution: the power of minerals (1783–1839) (ID 513)
Maddalena Napolitani (France)

Session 3: The Cold War – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P215

Chair: Jakub Jareš (Czech Republic)

Two Faces of Sovietology. The Cold War and the Troubled History of Soviet Studies in Finland and Switzerland (ID 611)
Timo Vilén (Finland)

The fate of S.I. Vavilov's report of 1949 on the philosophy of physics (ID 598)
Konstantin Tomilin (Russian Federation)

Ethology in the USSR: Ideological pressing and overcoming it (ID 426)
Elena Gorokhovskaya (Russian Federation)

Communist jubilees as a symphony of power and science (ID 612)
Ewelina Drzewiecka (Bulgaria)

Symposium 200: Comparative study on the interplay between knowledge practices and powers in Chinese history – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P217

Organizer: Yiwen Zhu (China)

Mathematics and Power in Seventh Century China (ID 201)
Yiwen Zhu (China)

The anxieties of legitimating mathematical knowledge represented by prefaces to mathematical works in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) (ID 216)
Célestin Xiaohan Zhou (France)

Establishing Logic as a Subject of the Imperial Examination – Ferdinand Verbiest’s Ambitious Plan (ID 209)
Lu Jiang (China)

Session 4: The History of Mathematics: Concepts, Practices and Political Issues – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P225

Chair: Annette B. Vogt (Germany)

Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence between Gottlob Frege and David Hilbert in the years 1895–1903. Some Uninvestigated Topics (ID 482)
Gabriela Besler (Poland)

Abstract algebra in Puzyna's monograph (ID 530)
Stanisław Domoradzki (Poland)

Nikodym and Wilkosz – two mathematicians who were inspiring Banach (ID 532)
Danuta Ciesielska (Poland)

Some remarks about history of the theory of differential objects in Krakow (ID 584)
Zdzisław Pogoda (Poland)

Symposium 336: Power and display: Museums, science and politics in Southern Europe (1918–1939) – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P300

Organizers: Elena Canadelli (Italy), Jaume Sastre-Juan (Portugal)

The Italian Genius on Display: the First National Exhibition of History of Science (Florence, 1929) (ID 338)
Francesco Barreca (Italy)

Politics of Display in Portuguese Science and Technology Museums under the Fascist Regime (ID 341)
Ana Delicado (Portugal)

Science, Fascism and Foreign Policy: the exhibition ‘Scienza Universale’ at the 1942 World Fair in Rome (ID 416)
Geert Somsen (USA)

Between Technology and Arts: Exhibiting European Prehistoric Cave-art in the Interwar Period (ID 349)
José Lanzarote-Guiral (France)

Symposium 17: Enduring Ideas, New Alliances: Social and Epistemic Factors in the Renaissance of General Relativity – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P301

Organizers: Roberto Lalli (Germany), Alexander Blum (Germany)
Chair: Alexander Blum (Germany)
Commentator: Jürgen Renn (Germany)

Building a Scientific Community in the Post-War Era: A Social Network Analysis of the Renaissance of General Relativity (ID 297)
Roberto Lalli (Germany), Dirk Wintergrün (Germany)

Looking for coincidences: the birth of gravitational wave detection in Italy and the beginning of the first International detector networks (ID 361)
Adele La Rana (Italy)

Commentary
Jürgen Renn (Germany)

Symposium 123: Astral Sciences and Power in Europe and China – part 1

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 13:30–15:30, room P317

Organizers: Matthieu Husson (France), Liang Li (China)

Doors Open and Shut: the Bureaucratic Insulation of the Astral Sciences in Imperial China and the First Waves of Foreign Influence (ID 124)
Daniel P. Morgan (France)

Astronomy and religion in late medieval England (ID 125)
Seb Falk (UK)

The struggle of western astronomy in China: conflict of planetary motion between 1634 and 1635 under the Chongzhen reign (ID 126)
Liang Li (China)

John of Murs and John of Lignières pragmatic uses of their social and institutional environment (Paris, 14th century) (ID 127)
Matthieu Husson (France)

Coffee Break (15:30–15:45)

Symposium 37: The Principle of Energy Conservation: history, philosophy, education, digital humanities – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room Aula P131

Organizers: Fabio Bevilacqua (Italy), Muriel Guedj (France)

Energy and Montgolfières: Europe in a Balloon (ID 534)
Arnaud Mayrargue (France)

Robert Mayer: Conservation of Energy and Venous Blood Colour (ID 187)
Teresa Rocha-Homem (Portugal)

Safeguarding the Historical Heritage: the Italian CISE Center of Nuclear Research (ID 491)
Leonardo Gariboldi (Italy)

Session 6: Universities and their Political Environments

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P001

Chair: Ana Simões (Portugal)

Universities for the working class: Creating new spaces for science and technology in Lisbon (ID 515)
Maria Paula Diogo (Portugal), Ana Simões (Portugal)

New directions at Mexican public universities regarding the national innovation system (ID 455)
Gonzalo Varela-Petito (Mexico)

Democratization and professionalization of Dutch universities in the 1970s and 1980s: the case of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ID 569)
Abraham Christiaan Flipse (the Netherlands)

Symposium 321: The Acknowledged Ambassadors: Scientists’ role in international relations during the Cold War – part 3

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P018

Organizers: Doubravka Olšáková (Czech Republic), Simone Turchetti (UK)

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Soviet Science Diplomacy in the Early Cold War (ID 343)
Karl Hall (Hungary)

Uranium Surveillance, Uranium Diplomacy: Geology and Geopolitics in Morocco and Beyond (ID 345)
Matthew Adamson (Hungary)

Fleming, Florey and Chain and East-West Circulation of Knowledge on Penicillin (ID 347)
Daniele Cozzoli (Spain)

Asia as a Fertile Ground: Birth Control research in Japan and Cold War Diplomacy (ID 350)
Aya Homei (UK)

Symposium 205: Natural knowledge, power and politics in the long eighteenth century

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P104

Organizers: Sebestian Kroupa (UK), Dorit Brixius (Italy)

Poisons and Providence in Old Regime Paris (ID 210)
Emma Spary (UK)

Ignaz von Born’s Monachologia (1783): Carl Linnaeus in the Emperor’s service (ID 207)
Sebestian Kroupa (UK)

Putting knowledge on display: mayors, museums and public discourse in the French provincial city (1800–1860) (ID 211)
Déborah Dubald (Italy)

Empowering Spices: Indigenous power during the French Spice Quests in South East Asia (1768–1772) (ID 212)
Dorit Brixius (Italy)

Public and open meeting of the Commission on Women and Gender Studies of the DHST

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P116

Symposium 206: Challenges for the history of engineering: Education, professions, circulation, sustainability, power – part 3

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P200

Organizers: Antoni Roca-Rosell (Spain), Ana Cardoso de Matos (Portugal)

The engineers and the construction of a political elite and a liberal state. Portugal 1852–1926 (ID 237)
Ana Cardoso de Matos (Portugal)

XXth Century Engineering Professors in Colombia: The Case of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana since its foundation in 1936, to the end of the 90’s (ID 272)
Marisol Osorio (Colombia), Beatriz Garcés (Colombia), José Álvarez (Colombia)

Solar energy discarded in XXth century (ID 221)
Nelson Arellano-Escudero (Chile)

The educational project of the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry of Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in the business development of Antioquia, Colombia (1938–1960) (ID 277)
José Álvarez (Colombia), Marisol Osorio (Colombia), Beatriz Garcés (Colombia)

Symposium 367: Sciences and Universities in the context of political regime changes – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P201

Organizer: Mitchell G. Ash (Austria)

Mathematics in a new political environment – Changes and attempted change in Vienna 1938 – 1945 (ID 381)
Robert Frühstückl (Austria)

Jewish Refugies and the Diffusion of Italian Mathematics in Argentina (1938–1948) (ID 519)
Erika Luciano (Italy)

Transforming the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft into the Max Planck Gesellschaft: Continuities, discontinuites and the interdependcies of science and politics after the defeat of the Nazi regime (ID 385)
Florian Schmaltz (Germany)

Gisela Konopka: An Émigré’s Contribution to the Reconstruction of German Applied Social Sciences after World War Two Barbara Louis, Vienna (ID 383)
Barbara Louis (Austria)

„As in the West, so also on Earth“? Transformations in the Sciences, Politics and Policy after the Fall of Communism: The Case of German Unification (ID 386)
Mitchell G. Ash (Austria)

Symposium 348: History of Science – Inspired Theatre: The Social Power of Recent Plays

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P209

Organizers: Robert Marc Friedman (Norway), Pnina G. Abir-Am (USA)

History of Science on Stage: Beyond Hyperbole and Academic Appropriations (ID 353)
Robert Marc Friedman (Norway)

The Power of Dramatization: Recent DNA Plays on Scientific Credit and Gender Bias (ID 357)
Pnina Abir-Am (USA)

Science in the Theater: A new way of examining the History of Science (ID 358)
Bruce Coughran (USA)

Three Drafts, Five Versions, One Moment: Power of Memory and Narrative in/for Copenhagen (ID 517)
Eva-Sabine Zehelein (Germany)

Session 7: Women and Science in Different Political Environments

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P215

Chair: Olga Elina (Russian Federation)

Early modern narrations concerning the roles of women to be involved in scientific experimental research (ID 536)
Yu Cheng Lin (Germany)

Fighting for Equality: Scientists and Suffragettes in World War One (ID 437)
Patricia Fara (UK)

Russian women-scientists reporting to the XVIIth All-Russian Congress of Soviets (1937) (ID 454)
Olga Valkova (Russian Federation)

Research of Lithuanian plant physiologists during the Cold War (ID 493)
Aurika Ričkienė (Lithuania), Jadvyga Olechnovičienė (Lithuania)

Symposium 200: Comparative study on the interplay between knowledge practices and powers in Chinese history – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P217

Organizer: Yiwen Zhu (China)

Science Facing Different Authorities: Comparison between Matteo Ricci and Porta (ID 236)
Peipei Tao (China)

The Power of Geometry to Introduce Algebraic Language as Liu Hui and al-Khwârizmî did (ID 496)
Iolanda Guevara-Casanova (Spain), Carme Burgués-Flamarich (Spain)

Session 4: The History of Mathematics: Concepts, Practices and Political Issues – part 3

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P225

Chair:

The discrepant path of Brazilian mathematics: IMPA and the national developmentalism after World War II (ID 565)
Tatiana Roque (Brazil)

Marxism and Mathematics. Paul Libois (1901–1991) and Intuitive Geometry in Belgium (ID 494)
Geert Vanpaemel (Belgium), Dirk De Bock (Belgium)

Power Evaluation – Several Applications of Game Theory in Political Sciences (ID 551)
Magdalena Hykšová (Czech Republic)

Symposium 336: Power and display: Museums, science and politics in Southern Europe (1918–1939) – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P300

Organizers: Elena Canadelli (Italy), Jaume Sastre-Juan (Portugal)

A Museum Under the Bombs: The Failed Technical Museum of Catalonia (1937) (ID 352)
Jaume Sastre-Juan (Portugal), Jaume Valentines-Álvarez (Portugal)

Milan versus Rome: the Struggle for the Italian National Museum of Science and Technology in the 1930s (ID 340)
Elena Canadelli (Italy)

Gardens and Horticultural Exhibitions Conveying the Idea of Empire (ID 346)
Ana Duarte Rodrigues (Portugal)

Museological Pathology in Interwar Barcelona or the End of Museum Medicine (ID 412)
Alfons Zarzoso (Spain)

Symposium 94: The power of tropical biology: Creating epistemic spaces in the long twentieth century

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P301

Organizer: Sonja Walch (Austria)
Chair: Carola Sachse (Austria)

Epistemic Spaces and Divisions at the Colonial Frontier. Looking for Biogeographical Boundaries on the Island of Celebes around 1900 (ID 100)
Bernhard C. Schär (Switzerland)

Wallacea. Constructing a Floristic Tropical Zone in the Philippines (ID 95)
Sonja Walch (Austria)

Relocating and Provincializing European Botany: Melchior Treub, Buitenzorg and the Tropics as New Center of Plant Laboratory Science, 1880–1909 (ID 97)
Robert-Jan Wille (Germany)

Symposium 123: Astral Sciences and Power in Europe and China – part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 15:45–17:45, room P317

Organizers: Matthieu Husson (France), Liang Li (China)

The conflicting cognitions on fixed stars in the calendar reform in late-Ming China 1629–1644 (ID 128)
Ding Ming (China)

Controlling the Calendar in Early Modern Europe: Astronomical Knowledge, Printers and Civic Authorities (ID 129)
Richard L. Kremer (USA)

Astrological or Political: The Interpretation of Comets in the Time of the Crisis of Empire of Qing China (ID 137)
Ting Chen (China)

Break (17:45–18:00)

Plenary Lecture

Thursday, September 22, 2016, 18:00–19:00, room Aula P131

Science and Power: Francoist Spain (1939–1975) as a Case Study
Toni Malet (Spain) – President-Elect of the ESHS

Friday, September 23, 2016

Session 8: Power Issues in Science and the Theory of Science

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room Aula P131

Chair: Michal Kokowski (Poland)

The structure of power in the scholar body of Mexican program of methodology of science (ID 595)
Luis Mauricio Rodríguez-Salazar (Mexico), Carmen Patricia Rosas-Colín (Mexico), Joel Ángel Bravo Anduaga (Mexico)

Influences and powers at play in experimental research (ID 587)
Isabel Serra (Portugal)

Negotiating Power in the Public Communication of Science (ID 560)
Mircea Sava (Romania)

On the meaning of Francis Bacon’s supposed motto ‘Science is power’ and its relevance today (ID 446)
Gustaaf Cornelis (Belgium)

Session 10: History of Medicine

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P001

Chair: Bing Liu (China)

State of competition: conceptual shoehorning behind priority on calcitonin precursor biosynthesis (ID 421)
Enrique Wulff-Barreiro (Spain)

The Science of “super-pleasure”: Insatiability, Self-Stimulation, and the Post-war Brain (ID 7)
Otniel Dror (Israel)

The waste crisis in Campania, South Italy: a historical perspective on an epidemiological controversy (ID 436)
Roberto Cantoni (France)

Symposium 157: Mendel and the Uses & Abuses of the Scientific Past

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P429

Organizers: Gregory Radick (UK), Ondrej Dostal (Czech Republic)
Chair: Ondrej Dostal (Czech Republic)

What Mendel Did For (and To) Us (ID 235)
Gregory Radick (UK)

‘Mendel’s peas’, elsewhere: Mendelism, race, and the histories of human biological collections (ID 301)
Ricardo Roque (Portugal)

Between Imperialism and Democratic Science: Reconsidering Mendel in Twentieth-Century China (ID 162)
Lijing Jiang (Singapore)

Biology Textbooks Between Science and the State: The Case of Mendelism in Sweden (ID 253)
Niklas Gericke (Sweden)

Session 9: Science, Politics, and Issues of Race and Ethnicity

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P104

Chair: Danielle Fauque (France)

American anti-Immigrationism in the Years of the post-Darwinian Debate (ID 555)
David Ceccarelli (Italy)

Trend Analysis about the Ethnobotany in a Certain Political Context (ID 548)
Yufeng Ren (China)

The Problem of Color, or the Color Problem? American Dermatology, Melanin, and the Metrics of Liberation (ID 9)
J. Cecilia Cárdenas-Navia (USA)

Symposium 282: Environmental Science and the Politics of Power, 1890–1970

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P116

Organizers: Raf De Bont (the Netherlands), Simone Schleper (the Netherlands)

Point Zero. Science and Politics of the Mean Sea Level. (ID 287)
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (Germany)

Difficult Ground: Forest Management and Military Strategy in the Early Twentieth Century Philippines (ID 289)
Emily Brock (Germany)

Colonial Nature and International Science: The Case of the Albert National Park, Belgian Congo (ID 284)
Raf De Bont (the Netherlands)

Powerful Systems – Nature Conservation and Environmental Experts, 1960–1980 (ID 288)
Simone Schleper (the Netherlands)

Symposium 206: Challenges for the history of engineering: Education, professions, circulation, sustainability, power – part 4

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P200

Organizers: Antoni Roca-Rosell (Spain), Ana Cardoso de Matos (Portugal)

Teaching Engineers in the Seventeenth Century: The Aula de Fortificação in Lisbon (Portugal) (ID 332)
M. Rosa Massa-Esteve (Spain), Antónia Filhao Conde (Portugal)

American Technocracy and the Rhetoric of the Technological Fix (ID 8)
Sean Johnston (UK)

The Role of French Polytechnic Engineers in Algeria´s Modernization Process (19th – 20th Centuries) (ID 609)
Yamina Bettahar (France)

Symposium 40: Revisiting the Marie Curie effect: “Invisibly powerful” women in science – Challenges of Empowerment for Women in Science: A Transnational Perspective – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P201

Organizer: Isabelle Lémonon (France)
Chair: Maria Rentetzi (Austria/Greece)
Commentator: Isabelle Lémonon (France)

Contrasting Strategies of French Women in 18th Century Science: Submissiveness to Empowerment (ID 220)
Isabelle Lémonon (France)

'Utter Failure', 'Isolated Miracle', and 'Inspirational Heroine' – Discrepancies and Changes in the Perception of Sofja Kowalewskaja as a Role Model for Women in Science (ID 155)
Eva Kaufholz-Soldat (Germany)

Out from the Shadow of Men and into the Light of Lecture Halls: Women Entering Central European Universities, 1880–1900 (ID 119)
Milada Sekyrková (Czech Republic)

Marjory Stephenson: Right Place, Wrong Time (ID 163)
Soňa Štrbáňová (Czech Republic)

Symposium 70: Pugwash and the communism question: Perceptions and Realities

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P209

Organizers: Alison Kraft (UK), Geoffrey Roberts (Ireland)
Chair: Alison Kraft (UK)

Simple Scholars or State Agents?: Scientists and Chinese Relations with the Pugwash Conferences, 1960–1985 (ID 98)
Gordon Barrett (UK)

East-European Scientists for Peace: Scientists and mass media campaign for peace (ID 81)
Doubravka Olšáková (Czech Republic), Michaela Kůželová (Czech Republic)

Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the Struggle for Peace and the Pugwash Movement (ID 92)
Geoffrey Roberts (Ireland)

American Scientists in “Communist Conclaves”: Pugwash and Anticommunism in the United States (ID 106)
Paul Rubinson (USA)

Sustained Ambivalence: The Max Planck Society and Pugwash 1955–1989 (ID 101)
Carola Sachse (Austria)

Session 11: Power Issues in the History of Psychiatry and Psychology

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P215

Chair: Josef Řídký (Czech Republic)

A new light on the relationship between psychiatry and power: the iconological approach (ID 453)
Tonatiuh Gallardo Núñez (Mexico)

The Privilege of Being Tested? Administering the Rorschach Inkblot Experiment Among Delinquent Girls, 1938–1949 (ID 335)
Saskia Bultman (the Netherlands)

Developmental Psychology: Power Beneath Scientific Method (ID 591)
Josef Řídký (Czech Republic)

Symposium 364: Inequality in Early Modern Philosophy and Science: The Impact of Social Order on Learned Identity and Knowledge Production

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P217

Organizer: Verena Lehmbrock (Germany)

Learned Knowledge and Agricultural Skill: Transatlantic Perspectives during the Enlightenment (ID 614)
Denise Phillips (USA)

The Making of Colonial Medical Knowledge during the French Wars: Military Physicians in Egypt and the Caribbean (1798–1803) (ID 615)
Roberto Zaugg (Switzerland)

Artisanal versus Craft Knowledge. How did Premodern Social Order Map onto Epistemology in German Agricultural Reform and Science (18th and early 19th Centuries)? (ID 369)
Verena Lehmbrock (Germany)

Session 12: Perspectives on Politics, Power and Knowledge from Chinese History – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P225

Chairs: Jiří Hudeček (Czech Republic), Václav Laifr (Czech Republic)

The establishment of the first regime and a large-scale survey in early China (ID 509)
Fengxian Xu (China)

The Transition under Emperor’s Enthusiasm: The Sinicization of Tapestry in Song Dynasty (ID 324)
Wei Chen (China)

Session 13: Science, Religion and Power in the Middle Ages

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P300

Chair: Erwin Neuenschwander (Switzerland)

Innovation versus tradition in 13th century natural philosophy: Nikephorus Blemmydes’ “Epitomi Fysikis” (ID 483)
Manolis Kartsonakis (Greece)

Changing Roles: Hungarian Learned Jurists until 1437 (ID 398)
Péter Haraszti Szabó (Hungary)

Science and Power in the Medieval Islamic World: A Case Study of Ptolemy’s Almagest (ID 6)
Maria Americo (USA)

Ibn al-Majdī (d. 1447) – Astrological practices and the office of the muwaqqit (ID 546)
Fien De Block (Belgium)

Symposium 240: Statistics and Power – Power of Statistics? – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P301

Organizers: Annette B. Vogt (Germany), Ida H. Stamhuis (the Netherlands)
Chair: Annette B. Vogt (Germany)

History, data and tables: statistical evidence in 18th century histories of Dutch commerce (ID 388)
Ida Nijenhuis (the Netherlands)

Kluit’s assessment of facts and figures in the new statistics (ID 402)
Ida Stamhuis (the Netherlands)

Self-knowledge through numbers. Self-instructors in phrenology as selftracking technologies, 1850–1900 (ID 390)
Fenneke Sysling (the Netherlands)

How statistics entered physics? (ID 395)
Olivier Rey (France)

Graphs and Graph-like Maps as tools of Power then and Now (ID 561)
Harald Gropp (Germany)

Symposium 105: Odd scientific objects in post-Great Depression Europe

Friday, September 23, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P317

Organizer: Alina-Sandra Cucu (Germany)
Commentator: Maria Paula Diogo (Portugal)

Underwater Sounds and Spain’s Participation in the Golden Age of Capitalism (ID 183)
Lino Camprubí (Germany)

Politics of Time: Labour Heroism and Scientific Vision in Early Socialist Romania (ID 111)
Alina-Sandra Cucu (Germany)

Scientifically Organized Socialism: State Socialist Governance as A Scientific Object (ID 109)
Vítězslav Sommer (Czech Republic)

Coffee Break (11:00–11:30)

Plenary Events

Friday, September 23, 2016, 11:30–13:00, room Aula P131

Koyré Prize Award

Introduction: Efthymios Nicolaidis (Greece) – President of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science

The Dream That Never Dies: Universal Knowledge as Utopia and Myth
Robert Fox (UK) – Koyré Prize Winner

2nd Talk of Young Scholar

What Have the Historians of Quantum Physics Ever Done for Us?
Massimiliano Badino (USA)

ESHS Council Meeting

Friday, September 23, 2016, 13:00–14:30, room S214 (floor -1, Jan Palach Library)

Lunch Break (13:00–14:30)

Symposium 142: Science, Medicine and the State: the Revolution of Chinese Medicine in Modern China – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room Aula P131

Organizers: Xi Gao (China), Yuan Yuan (China)

The State Medicine: an idea and practice movement in Modern China (ID 143)
Xi Gao (China)

Science, Tradition, and State: The first Attempt in Standardizing TCM Disease Terms in the 1930's (ID 144)
Yuan Yuan (China)

The Influence of Missionary Hospitals on Traditional Chinese Medicine in Modern Shanghai (ID 147)
Li-Yun Chen (China)

The Diversion of Acupuncture Impacted by Policy Factors in 1950’s China: Zhu-Lian and New-acupuncture (ID 146)
Shu-jian Zhang (China)

Session 14: Science, Technology, and Gaining Power on New Spaces

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P001

Chair: Emma Sallent Del Colombo (Spain)

High Tech Europeans in 16th Century Algonkian America: Scientific Expertise and the Evolution of Speculative Financing of North American Exploration and Settlement (ID 424)
Brent Lane (USA)

Scientific Progress vs. Power: 17th-Century Jesuit Explorations in Asia vs. the Portuguese Maritime Monopoly to China (ID 5)
Gerhard F. Strasser (USA)

Travelling to Spain and Portugal. Joan Salvador and Antoine Jussieu’s: connected interest, shared practices and personal strategies (ID 593)
Emma Sallent Del Colombo (Spain)

Wolfgang von Kempelen and his study trip to the Salzkammergut. An Order of Maria Theresia in 1775. (ID 450)
Alice Reininger (Austria)

Natural History and military discipline at unconquered territories: The Malaspina expedition in Vava’u island (1793) (ID 538)
Marcelo Fabian Figueroa (Argentina)

Symposium 72: The Big Brother Role Model? Soviet and American impulses for Central and Eastern European academic systems, 1945–1989 – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P429

Organizers: Martin Franc (Czech Republic), Johannes Feichtinger (Austria), Jakub Jareš (Czech Republic)
Commentators: Johannes Feichtinger (Austria), Jakub Jareš (Czech Republic)

Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and accepting Soviet experiences and models 1956–1968 (ID 141)
Martin Franc (Czech Republic)

Sovietization of historical and archival sciences in Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 50s? Institutions and actors, discourses and codes, transfers and projections (ID 260)
Miroslav Kunštát (Czech Republic)

Scientific state institutes and their transformation in 1948–1953 (ID 96)
Adéla Jůnová Macková (Czech Republic)

Academies of Sciences in Central Europe during the Cold War. Towards a comparison of transformation processes in different political systems (ID 76)
Johannes Feichtinger (Austria), Heidemarie Uhl (Austria)

Post-War Reform of Higher Education in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1950: Origins, Implementation, and Legacy (ID 132)
Jakub Jareš (Czech Republic)

Symposium 67: Algebra, Humanism and Cultural Policies – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P104

Organizers: Veronica Gavagna (Italy), Pier Daniele Napolitani (Italy), Sabine Rommevaux-Tani (France)

On the interaction between algebra and arithmetics in 11th – 13th century Arabic mathematics (ID 224)
Eleonora Sammarchi (France)

Humanism and Mathematics in the Duchy of Milan (ID 74)
Nadia Ambrosetti (Italy)

Renaissance Italian algebraists and Humanism (ID 93)
Veronica Gavagna (Italy)

Symposium 13: Prosopography and the History of Science in a Networked Computational Environment: Theoretical, Methodological, and Technical Considerations – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P116

Organizers: Gavan McCarthy (Australia), Stephen Weldon (USA), Birute Railiene (Lithuania)
Chair: Birute Railiene (Lithuania)

Bibliographical data of PhD records – a source for prosopography of scientific communities in Lithuania (ID 27)
Giedre Mikniene (Lithuania), Birute Railiene (Lithuania)

Intersecting Prosopography: Connecting the IsisCB Online and the Encyclopedia of Australian Science (ID 26)
Gavan McCarthy (Australia)

Turning the Isis Current Bibliography into a Prosopographical Tool: Managing Authorities in a Linked Open Data Environment (ID 179)
Stephen Weldon (USA)

Digital sources as a fund of words and persons: Designing new prosopographical tools (ID 56)
Markus Schnöpf (Germany)

Session 15: The Attitude of Scientists towards Totalitarian Systems in the 20th Century – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P200

Chairs: Dieter Hoffmann (Germany), Stefan Wolff (Germany)

Adaption and Cooperation of physicists in Nazi-Germany (ID 452)
Stefan Wolff (Germany)

Unpolitical scientist, aeronautical advisor, goodwill ambassador: Ludwig Prandtl's political performance in Nazi Germany (ID 465)
Michael Eckert (Germany)

Hans Thirring and Engelbert Broda – Scientists in Times of National Socialism and Cold War (ID 440)
Wolfgang L. Reiter (Austria)

Peter Adolf Thiessen (1899–1990): From National-Socialist to a Socialistic Model Scientist and Science Manager (ID 543)
Dieter Hoffmann (Germany)

Symposium 40: Revisiting the Marie Curie effect: “Invisibly powerful” women in science – Challenges of Empowerment for Women in Science: A Transnational Perspective – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P201

Organizer: Isabelle Lémonon (France)
Chair: Anne-Sophie Godfroy (France)
Commentator: Isabelle Lémonon (France)

Participation and exclusive networking – Ida Smedley’s dual strategy for empowering women scientists (ID 133)
Robert Freedman (UK)

Piedad de la Cierva: a Spanish woman in a military laboratory during the Franco Regime (ID 51)
Ana Romero de Pablos (Spain)

Spanish Women Geneticists: A Genealogy of Partnerships (ID 77)
Marta Velasco-Martin (Spain)

Women and the workplace. The case of the first unit on human genetics in Mexico (ID 62)
Ana Barahona (Mexico)

Symposium 69: Forgotten Pages in the History of Genetics

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P209

Organizers: Georgy Levit (Russian Federation), Sergey Shalimov (Russian Federation)

The “old-Darwinian” genetics of Ludwig H. Plate (1862–1937) (ID 104)
Georgy Levit (Russian Federation)

German Forest Genetics in Bohemia and Moravia, 1939–1945 (ID 239)
Michal Šimůnek (Czech Republic)

Nikolai Dubinin and the revival of Soviet genetics (ID 160)
Sergey Shalimov (Russian Federation)

Genetic engineering as a promise of power? (ID 87)
Jérôme Pierrel (France)

Session 16: The Power of Ideas, Practices and Instruments in Physics and Chemistry – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P215

Chair: Pere Grapi (Spain)

Instruments of experimental physics in the chemistry laboratory at the end of the eighteenth century (ID 425)
Pere Grapi (Spain)

To see what you hear: The visualization of soundwaves in 19th century (ID 428)
Jasmin Janka (Germany)

Symposium 82: Pariah sciences. Episteme, Power and Legitimization of Knowledge, from Animal Electricity to Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P217

Organizers: Jan Surman (Germany), Borbala Zsuzsanna Török (Germany), Friedrich Cain (Germany)
Chair: Borbala Zsuzsanna Török (Germany)

Positivism, Psychology, Occultism: Julian Ochorowicz and his quest for scientification of the spiritualism (ID 83)
Jan Surman (Germany)

Science vs. superstition? William James, Leonora Piper, and the American psychological profession (ID 91)
Andreas Sommer (UK)

Quantum Narratives of Omission: The Demarcation of the Pilot Wave Theory (ID 140)
Jose Perillan (USA)

On clever horses and trustworthy professors. Rise and fall of the Gesellschaft für Tierpsychologie (1912–1934) (ID 195)
Marco Stella (Czech Republic)

Session 12: Perspectives on Politics, Power and Knowledge from Chinese History – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P225

Chairs: Jiří Hudeček (Czech Republic), Václav Laifr (Czech Republic)

Measuring the Heaven and Earth: Antoine Thomas (1644–1709) and His Scientific Activity in China Revisited (ID 542)
Qi Han (China)

The Power Structure of Science Translation in the late Qing Dynasty: A Case Study on the Translators group (ID 518)
Fuling Nie (China)

On Tseng Kuofan’s Thought of Science and Technology (ID 460)
Yang Aihua (China), Shi Haiming (China)

Social Idealism and Industrial Practice in Modern China: Research on Background For Rise and Fall of Dasheng Cotton Mill Founded by Zhang Jian (ID 411)
Xiaoming Yang (China), Jiangbo Liao (China)

Symposium 299: Changing mathematical spaces: geometry and physics in the 20th century – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P300

Organizers: Tilman Sauer (Germany), Gerard Alberts (the Netherlands), Jan Kotůlek (Czech Republic)
Chair: Gerard Alberts (the Netherlands)

Geometry on Display: Mathematical Models in Fin de Siècle Scientific Culture (ID 300)
Ulf Hashagen (Germany)

Visualization in mathematics: Karel Vorovka and his Philosophy of Mathematics (ID 302)
Magdaléna Hykšová (Czech Republic), Helena Durnová (Czech Republic)

Geometry of the “Restricted three-body problem” and the contribution of Vincenc Nechvile (ID 303)
Petra Hyklová (Czech Republic), Martin Šolc (Czech Republic)

The place of geometry at a technical university: the case of Emil Waelsch (1863–1927) (ID 304)
Pavel Šišma (Czech Republic)

Symposium 240: Statistics and Power – Power of Statistics? – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P301

Organizers: Annette B. Vogt (Germany), Ida H. Stamhuis (the Netherlands)
Chair: Ida H. Stamhuis (the Netherlands)

Victorian Statistics: From the London Statistical Society to the Royal Statistical Society (ID 610)
Lukas M. Verburgt (the Netherlands)

Euler and Lagrange’s involvement in the insurance policies of the German states (ID 523)
Maria Teresa Borgato (Italy)

Between Mathematics and Social Sciences: the Statistical Field in Germany, c. 1880–1935 (ID 401)
Jochen F. Mayer (UK)

The invention of new categories in German statistics in the 1920s – Three different reasons to make statistics more powerful (ID 371)
Annette B. Vogt (Germany)

Symposium 355: Re-contextualising Urban History of Medicine. Cities, Power relations and Networks of Urban centers of Medicine, 1848–1955’ – part 1

Friday, September 23, 2016, 14:30–16:30, room P317

Organizers: Birgit Nemec (Germany), Petr Svobodný (Czech Republic), Natalia Aleksiun (USA)
Chair: Brigitte Lhoff (Austria)

Prague – Vienna – Tehran: The Physician Jacob E. Polak (1818–1891) as a mediator of modern medicine between the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Persia (ID 417)
Afsaneh Gächter (Austria)

Austrian Nobel Laureates in Medicine in context of social networks: Education, Research and Mobility between Vienna, Prague and Budapest (ID 405)
Daniela Angetter (Austria)

Vienna 1867–1941: Destination of Migration and Origin of Medical Refugees (ID 410)
Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal (Austria), Barbara Sauer (Austria)

Scholars‘ Monuments as Evidences of Power Relations in Medicine (ID 415)
Julia Rüdiger (Austria)

Coffee Break (16:30–17:00)

Symposium 142: Science, Medicine and the State: the Revolution of Chinese Medicine in Modern China – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room Aula P131

Organizers: Xi Gao (China), Yuan Yuan (China)

Uyghur Medicine in Xinjiang (1949–2011) (ID 148)
Ying-chong Hu (China)

“Medical and Surgical Atrocities”: The Early History of Hong Kong’s Tung Wah Hospital, 1860–1900 (ID 2)
Angharad Fletcher (UK)

Frontier Experiences in Modern National Construction of China: From the Perspective of Medical Images (1950–1977) in Xinjiang (ID 120)
Junchen Wei (China)

A New Medical Order in China: Dissection, Research and Power (ID 459)
Núria Pérez-Pérez (Spain)

Session 17: Analyzing and Assessing Scientific Activity

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P001

Chair: Erika Luciano (Italy)

Selective Realist Strategies in Modern Science (ID 451)
Alberto Cordero (USA)

Concept of force: crossing glances of the history of science and didactics (ID 434)
Boumghar Said (Algeria)

A history of recent evaluation of science: power through knowledge and knowledge through power (ID 514)
Aline Waltzing (France)

Symposium 72: The Big Brother Role Model? Soviet and American impulses for Central and Eastern European academic systems, 1945–1989 – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P429

Organizers: Martin Franc (Czech Republic), Johannes Feichtinger (Austria), Jakub Jareš (Czech Republic)
Commentators: Johannes Feichtinger (Austria), Jakub Jareš (Czech Republic)

Science societies and the soviet power during the 1920s (ID 73)
Elena Sinelnikova (Russian Federation)

Associations in Times of Political Turmoil: Science Societies and the Bolshevik Regime, 1917–1921 (ID 117)
Joseph Bradley (USA)

The Influence of the Soviet model of science policy and its abandonment in Slovenia (ID 274)
Aleš Gabrič (Slovenia)

American inspirations for socialist science. Unsuccessful proposals for better effectiveness of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1968–1989) (ID 190)
Adam Hudek (Slovakia)

Symposium 67: Algebra, Humanism and Cultural Policies – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P104

Organizers: Veronica Gavagna (Italy), Pier Daniele Napolitani (Italy), Sabine Rommevaux-Tani (France)

Viète' School in Italy and France. A Comparison (ID 186)
Pier Daniele Napolitani (Italy), Paolo Freguglia (Italy)

Algebra and Humanism in John Wallis's work (ID 261)
David Rabouin (France)

The Manuscript of Bombelli´s Algebra Book III (ID 550)
Alessandra Fiocca (Italy)

Symposium 13: Prosopography and the History of Science in a Networked Computational Environment: Theoretical, Methodological, and Technical Considerations – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P116

Organizers: Gavan McCarthy (Australia), Stephen Weldon (USA), Birute Railiene (Lithuania)
Chair: Stephen Weldon (USA)

Understanding historical audiences for science using prosopography (ID 15)
Hattie Lloyd (UK)

Mapping the cultural topography of chemistry – Chemical manufacturers in France, 1755–1815: A prosopographical study (ID 359)
John Perkins (UK)

Situating Chemistry – Integrating a History of Science Database with a Growing Ecology of Open Data Sources (ID 373)
John Stewart (USA)

The “Historical Dictionary of Switzerland”: a powerful source for the historiography of Science (ID 603)
Erwin Neuenschwander (Switzerland)

Annual meeting of the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science and Technology

Session 15: The Attitude of Scientists towards Totalitarian Systems in the 20th Century – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P200

Chairs: Dieter Hoffmann (Germany), Stefan Wolff (Germany)

Patricians and Plebeians. Scientific Careers in Totalitarian Greece. (ID 512)
George Vlahakis (Greece)

Conviction and Loyalty (ID 468)
Gábor Palló (Hungary)

Historians at the cross-roads. Polish historians milieu and its attitude to Stalinism, 1945–1956. Henryk Wereszycki and Stefan Kieniewicz case. (ID 441)
Leszek Zasztowt (Poland)

Modernization and militarization of Italian classrooms during Fascism (ID 597)
Donatella Germanese (Germany)

Symposium 40: Revisiting the Marie Curie effect: “Invisibly powerful” women in science – Challenges of Empowerment for Women in Science: A Transnational Perspective – part 3

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P201

Organizer: Isabelle Lémonon (France)
Chair: Annette B. Vogt (Germany)
Commentator: Isabelle Lémonon (France)

The “cooling out” effect is, was, and ever will be? (ID 75)
Nicola Oswald (Germany)

Should all women researchers be inspired by Marie Curie? (ID 317)
Anne-Sophie Godfroy (France)

America’s Third Nobel Laureate – the “Controversial Madame Curie of the Bronx” (ID 192)
Margaret W. Rossiter (USA)

Symposium 116: From Lysenkoism to Evolutionary Biology

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P209

Organizers: Tomáš Hermann (Czech Republic), Marco Stella (Czech Republic), Mikhail Konashev (Russian Federation)
Chair: Eduard Kolchinsky (Russian Federation)

NeoLysenkovshichina XXI century and its causes (ID 130)
Eduard Kolchinsky (Russian Federation)

Soviet evolutionary biology and Th. Dobzhansky’s critics of lysenkoism (ID 156)
Mikhail Konashev (Russian Federation)

Botanist V.N. Sukashev, experiment in the evolutionary theory and the struggle with pseudoscience in USSR (ID 198)
Yakov Gall (Russian Federation)

Histories of Lysenkoism Continued: A.E. Stepushin and why is there no English translation for 'Lysenkovschina?' (ID 246)
William de Jong-Lambert (USA)

Bad guys turned to good guys: Milan Hašek, VJA Novák and others on the way from Lysenkoism to mainstream science in Czechoslovakia, 1950–1980s (ID 180)
Tomáš Hermann (Czech Republic), Marco Stella (Czech Republic)

Session 16: The Power of Ideas, Practices and Instruments in Physics and Chemistry – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P215

Chair: Pere Grapi (Spain)

Stationary States as a Functional Concept in the passage from the Old Quantum Theory to Quantum Mechanics (ID 3)
Roberto Angeloni (France)

Why Has the Bohr-Sommerfeld Model of the Atom Been Ignored by General Chemistry Textbooks? (ID 606)
Liberato Cardellini (Italy), Mansoor Niaz (Venezuela)

Remarks on the Impact of Computers on Physics, Mathematics and Society (ID 504)
Rita Meyer-Spasche (Germany)

Symposium 82: Pariah sciences. Episteme, Power and Legitimization of Knowledge, from Animal Electricity to Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P217

Organizers: Jan Surman (Germany), Borbala Zsuzsanna Török (Germany), Friedrich Cain (Germany)
Chair: Friedrich Cain (Germany)

Marxist Sociology in Communist Hungary (ID 131)
Borbala Zsuzsanna Török (Germany)

Towards a comparative, quantitative account of the pariah sciences: three case studies (ID 219)
Christopher Donohue (USA)

Science on the Fringe: UFO Studies in Cold War America and the Contestation Over Scientific Legitimacy (ID 189)
Kathryn Dorsch (USA)

The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Psitron: A Genealogy (ID 136)
Derek Lee (USA)

The Benveniste Affair: dynamics and epistemic structure of a scientific controversy (ID 85)
Pascal Ragouet (France)

Session 12: Perspectives on Politics, Power and Knowledge from Chinese History – part 3

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P225

Chairs: Jiří Hudeček (Czech Republic), Václav Laifr (Czech Republic)

China’s struggle to solve the clothing problem: Mei Ziqiang’s time and opportunity (ID 511)
Tian Tian (China)

The Construction of “Abolished Calendar” in Public Discours during Republic of China (ID 531)
Yan Wu (China)

Symposium 299: Changing mathematical spaces: geometry and physics in the 20th century – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P300

Organizers: Tilman Sauer (Germany), Gerard Alberts (the Netherlands), Jan Kotůlek (Czech Republic)
Chair: Ulf Hashagen (Germany)

Levi Civita's school of differential geometry at the University of Rome (1918–1938) (ID 305)
Rossana Tazzioli (France)

Prague trace in the network of differential geometers between the two World Wars (ID 306)
Jan Kotůlek (Czech Republic)

Understandings and misunderstandings: the Einstein-Hlavatý-correspondence (ID 308)
Helena Durnová (Czech Republic), Tilman Sauer (Germany)

The cultural role of mathematics as a political issue among geometers Dirk Struik, Hans Schouten and David van Dantzig (ID 382)
Gerard Alberts (the Netherlands)

Symposium 38: The Power of the Knowledge of Geometry in the West and the East

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P301

Organizers: Zhigang Ji (China), Tatsuhiko Kobayashi (Japan)
Chair: Zhigang Ji (China)

Why John Dee chose Elements：A New Discussion on the ‘Mathematical Preface’ of Henry Billingsley’s Elements of Geometry of Euclid (ID 55)
Jingbo Cao (China)

The Power of Mathematics as an Art and as a Theory: A Comparative Study of the Prolegomena of Euclid’s Elements between Commandino and Clavius (ID 45)
Hongchen Wang (China)

How the Knowledge of Euclid’s Geometry Affected China: A Cultural Interpretation of Ricci and Xu’ Prefaces of Jihe Yuanben (ID 44)
Zhigang Ji (China)

On Mathematical Terminologies in the Edo Period Borrowed from Chinese Calendrical Calculations (ID 68)
Tatsuhiko Kobayashi (Japan)

Symposium 355: Re-contextualising Urban History of Medicine. Cities, Power relations and Networks of Urban centers of Medicine, 1848–1955’ – part 2

Friday, September 23, 2016, 17:00–19:00, room P317

Organizers: Birgit Nemec (Germany), Petr Svobodný (Czech Republic), Natalia Aleksiun (USA)
Chair: Brigitte Lhoff (Austria)

Born in Jihlava, raised and worked in Vienna, died in Moskow. The visual world of the anatomist Julius Tandler (1869–1936) and the material power relations and international networks of the so called ‘closed’ welfare system of Red Vienna (ID 413)
Birgit Nemec (Germany)

Post-war Psychiatry in Vienna, 1945–1955. Science, Power and Transformation between War and Republic (ID 420)
Thomas Mayer (Austria), Katja Geiger (Austria)

Professors of Medicine between Prague, Brno, and Bratislava, 1918–1953 (ID 419)
Petr Svobodný (Czech Republic)

Between Power Relations and Powerlessness: Warsaw Medical Circles and Antisemitism (ID 414)
Natalia Aleksiun (USA)

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Symposium 247: To Learn and “Correctly” Understand: Popularization of Science in Central Europe 1944–1989

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room Aula P131

Organizers: Michaela Kůželová (Czech Republic), Leszek Zasztowt (Poland)

A Miraculous Ascension: Materialism as a Political Tool for the Prosperity of Socialist/Communist Society (ID 252)
Leszek Zasztowt (Poland)

The Soviet “historical policy” in Eastern Bloc (by the example of Poland and Czechoslovakia) (ID 251)
Jan Szumski (Poland)

System versus History: Mechanics of Attempted Revisions in Polish Historiography after 1944 (ID 257)
Jiří Vykoukal (Czech Republic)

Béla Köpeczi: the Historian, the Cadre and the Politician (ID 255)
Réka Krizmanics (Hungary)

Faster to the Shores of Communism: Czechoslovak Popularization of Atomic Energy in the 1950s (ID 249)
Michaela Kůželová (Czech Republic)

Session 18: Politics of Science

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P001

Chair: Ivana Lorencová (Czech Republic)

The role of the government in the organization of water transport routes (ID 166)
Viacheslav Nizovtsev (Russian Federation), Valerian Snytko (Russian Federation), Vera Shirokova (Russian Federation), Natalia Erman (Russian Federation)

The role of the government in the organization of scientific research on natural resources in the XVIII – early XX centuries (using the example of the Smolensk province) (ID 167)
Viacheslav Nizovtsev (Russian Federation), Natalia Erman (Russian Federation)

Science and scientists in interwar international diplomacy: West-East perspectives (ID 389)
Emilia Plosceanu (France)

Radio Landscape after the Battle. Cultural geography of radio-engineering industry in Poland after the WWII (ID 227)
Joanna Walewska (Poland)

Session 24: The Power of the Media

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P429

Chair: Ida Stamhuis (the Netherlands)

A Preliminary Study on the Classification of Ancient Opera Stages in Shanxi Province Based on their Acoustic Characteristics (ID 607)
Yang Yang (China), Gao Ce (China), Ding Hong (China)

The influence of Early Modern Western European gardens in the design of some 20th century royal gardens in Romania. Peles castle and the Late Renaissance landscape. (ID 583)
Alexandru Mexi (Romania)

Television entertainment series and public perception of science – the power of moving images (ID 602)
Elisa Maia (Portugal), Ricardo Pestana (Portugal

Solidarity movement and underground radio broadcasting (ID 577)
Agnieszka Dytman-Stasieńko (Poland)

Symposium 78: Anti-authoritarianism in natural philosophy: radicalism and folk intuitions

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P104

Organizers: Charles Wolfe (Belgium), Enrico Pasini (Italy)
Chair: Anne-Lise Rey (France)

History of the earth as a laboratory of revolutions and a critical discipline (ID 403)
Enrico Pasini (Italy)

“A General Agreement of All the Parts”: Hierarchy and Organization in Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophy (ID 397)
Veronika Szántó (Hungary)

Perverting the course of natural philosophy: free-thinking as deterritorialization in the early Radical Enlightenment (ID 79)
Charles Wolfe (Belgium)

Mastering the Method of Experimentation: Projects of Natural History in the Mid Seventeenth Century England (ID 445)
Oana Matei (Romania)

Symposium 263: Science, self and power: Self-Orientalism and others performances of identity in relation to Science (19th–21st century)

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P116

Organizers: Kenji Ito (Japan), Agathe Keller (France)

Self-Orientalism and Politics of Cultural Identities in the History of Japanese Science (ID 311)
Kenji Ito (Japan)

Modes of Self-orientalism in « Vedic Mathematics » (ID 276)
Agathe Keller (France)

Relativist Nationalities: Cultures, languages, and power as performance among Cold War physicists (ID 280)
Aaron Wright (USA)

Symposium 115: The power of norms: standardisation and normalisation through International Scientific Organisations – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P200

Organizers: Danielle Fauque (France), Brigitte Van Tiggelen (USA)
Commentator: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (USA)

The Joint Commission of Standards, Units and Constants of Radioactivity: Demonstrations of power in IUPAC and IUPAP (ID 194)
Danielle Fauque (France)

Taking the CNIC Route: How Systematic Nomenclature Failed, Yet Won (ID 164)
Ann Robinson (USA)

Reporting NMR Spectra and Electing a Reference: Role of IUPAC (ID 182)
Pierre Laszlo (France)

Instrumental Practice, Organizational Votes, and the Carbon-12 Scale of Atomic Weight (ID 177)
Keith Nier (USA)

Symposium 24: Science funding and gendered scientific personae in interwar Europe

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P201

Organizers: Kaat Wils (Belgium), Kirsti Niskanen (Sweden)
Chair: Donald L. Opitz (USA)
Commentator: Donald L. Opitz (USA)

Searching for “brains and quality”. Fellowship programs and male constructions of scientific personae by the Rockefeller Foundation in Sweden during the interwar years (ID 84)
Kirsti Niskanen (Sweden)

Funding Scholarly Women: The International Federation of University Women’s fellowships program in the interwar period (ID 188)
Anna Cabanel (the Netherlands)

Travel grants for female scholars in Belgium during the Interwar years (ID 25)
Kaat Wils (Belgium), Pieter Huistra (the Netherlands)

Scientific Persona and the Catharine van Tussenbroek fund, 1926–2000 (ID 158)
Dineke Stam (the Netherlands), Mineke Bosch (the Netherlands)

Symposium 149: Power and Authority in 20th Century Childbirth

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P209

Organizers: Paula Michaels (Australia), Ema Hrešanová (Czech Republic)
Chair: Ema Hrešanová (Czech Republic)

Using Risk to Exert Power: Obstetricians, Cesareans, and Consent (ID 151)
Jacqueline Wolf (USA)

The Politics of Place: Joseph DeLee, home birth, and the rise of modern obstetrics (ID 152)
Wendy Kline (USA)

The Island of alternatives: Power and gentle birthing in socialist Czechoslovakia (ID 153)
Ema Hrešanová (Czech Republic)

The Twinned Histories of Birth Trauma (ID 150)
Paula Michaels (Australia)

Session 19: Biopolitics – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P215

Chair: Michal Šimůnek (Czech Republic)

Uses of racial science as a form of domination in nineteenth-century Brazil (ID 61)
Luis Fernando Tosta Barbato (Brazil)

The question of racial ancestry in Portugal (1884–1945): “Aryan supremacy” as fascination and as fallacy (ID 570)
Pedro Fonseca (Portugal), Ana Pereira (Portugal), João Pita (Portugal)

Crossroads in Barcelona: from anthropology to genetics. The case of Santiago Alcobé Noguer. (ID 429)
Xavier Calvó-Monreal (Spain)

Symposium 197: Hungarian schools and students in various fields of power – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P217

Organizers: Attila Szilárd Tar (Hungary), László Szögi (Hungary)

The Influence of Hungarian Authorities on the Education of Hungarian Students at Dutch Universities (ID 312)
Réka Bozzay (Hungary)

The Enlightened Rulers' Influences on the Hungarian Higher Education (ID 313)
Réka Ibolya Juhász (Hungary)

The Relationship of Power and Protestant Higher Education during the Period of “Cabinet Absolutism” in the Kingdom of Hungary (ID 310)
Alex Durovics (Hungary)

Session 20: Scientific Issues in the Astral Sciences – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P225

Chair: Helge Kragh (Denmark)

The age of the Sun and its sources of energy, ca. 1850–1910 (ID 423)
Helge Kragh (Denmark)

From Biblical Flood to Swedish Deluge: Astrology, Chronology and Political Propaganda in Prognostications by Joannes Latosinus (ID 582)
Michal Choptiany (Poland)

Astronomy at the service of 16th c. States: Galileo and the longitude problem (ID 545)
Meropi Morfouli (France)

Symposium 41: Textbooks and Handbooks as an Instrument of Power – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P300

Organizers: Marianne Klemun (Austria), Ana Carneiro (Portugal)

From the laboratory to the field: textbooks in building up Portuguese Tropical Medicine (1902–1935) (ID 54)
Isabel Amaral (Portugal)

J. J. Rousseau’s Letters on botany: A subversive take on a non-elite science (ID 118)
Alexandra Cook (Hong Kong)

Textbooks and the making of the new biomedical sciences in Italy after its unification (1860–1899) (ID 50)
Ariane Dröscher (Italy)

Symposium 290: The power of the historiography of science – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 09:00–11:00, room P301

Organizers: Zhihui Chen (France), Jiří Hudeček (Czech Republic), Martina Schneider (Germany)

Taming Maxwell’s Demon: The Bowman Committee and the Planning of Science for the Public Good (ID 291)
Roger Backhouse (UK), Harro Maas (Switzerland)

Historiography and the Politics of Discipline-Building in 19th Century Botany (ID 293)
Ulrich Charpa (Germany)

Values in the historiography of mathematics and the “measure” of “peoples” – The case of 19th century historiographies of mathematics in ancient China (ID 294)
Karine Chemla (France)

The astral-mathematical knowledge, its historiography and the power of civil examination in 18th and 19th centuries China (ID 295)
Zhihui Chen (France)

Coffee Break (11:00–11:30)

Session 21: The Power of Scientific Networks and Institutions – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room Aula P131

Chair: Frank James (UK)

Science, politics and institutional rivalry in eighteenth-century Portugal: the origins of Lisbon Academy of Sciences (ID 533)
Luis Miguel Carolino (Portugal)

Antoine Gaubil,S.J., and his election to the Russian Academy of Sciences (ID 566)
Dimitri Bayuk (Russian Federation), Alexei Volkov (Taiwan)

Western knowledge as leverage for collecting knowledge and objects from Japan under her isolationist policy (ID 449)
Yuko Takigawa (Japan)

Collecting Minerals at the Royal Institution in the early nineteenth century (ID 477)
Frank James (UK)

Citizen Power: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries (ID 506)
Sally Shuttleworth (UK)

Symposium 380: Circulation of mathematics, sciences and techniques between continents, 19th–20th centuries

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P001

Organizers: Yolima Alvarez Polo (Colombia), Norbert Verdier (France)

John Horvath and the beginning of modern mathematics in Colombia (ID 430)
Asdrubal Moreno Mosquera (Colombia), Yolima Alvarez Polo (Colombia)

Connections between France and Colombia. The case of Aimé Bergeron (ID 431)
Yolima Alvarez Polo (Colombia), Asdrúbal Moreno (Colombia)

Yu Takeuchi, How the Mathematics were exported? (ID 539)
María Cruz (Colombia), Luisa Rodriguez (Colombia)

From the Western Method to New Method – Government and the Identity of European Mathematics in China (ID 541)
Miao Tian (China)

The Sources of General Topology from the Policy of Authors and Journals to Geopolitical Powers (ID 549)
Marie Větrovcová (Czech Republic)

Symposium 46: Disciplining Knowledge: The Emergence of Learned Journals and The Consolidation of Scholarly and Scientific Disciplines in the German lands

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P429

Organizers: Anna Gielas (UK), Dominik Huenniger (Germany), Martin Gierl (Germany)
Commentator: Noah Moxham (UK)

Plan for an entomological republic – scholarly journals and the establishment of entomology (ID 48)
Dominik Huenniger (Germany)

Constructing law: the typology of legal literature and the Göttingen legal journals from 1760 to 1800 (ID 49)
Martin Gierl (Germany)

The Bulletin of the Association of Portuguese Physicians (1899–1919). Regulating the Profession and its Prerogatives (ID 28)
Ana Carneiro (Portugal), Teresa Mota (Portugal), Isabel Amaral (Portugal)

Session 22: The Attitude of Scientists towards Authoritarian Regimes in the 20th Century (Portugal and Spain)

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P104

Chair: Antoni Roca-Rosell (Spain)

Traditionalism and evolutionism: the co-construction of science and Francoism (1939–1975) (ID 579)
Clara Florensa (Spain)

Negotiating the sky. UK plans to operate large telescopes in Franco's Spain (1965–1975). (ID 466)
Matteo Realdi (the Netherlands)

Funding Science during the Portuguese dictatorial regime: The case of the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (ID 575)
Richard Marques (Portugal), Arsélio Pato Carvalho (Portugal), Carlos Fiolhais (Portugal)

Archaeology and power in Portugal during the 60s of the 20th century: actors, networks and theories (a first round analysis) (ID 600)
Ana Cristina Martins (Portugal)

Session 23: Global Approaches to Science and Power – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P116

Chair: Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am (USA)

New Brazilian Medicines Circulation on Global Scale (16th to 18th century): the various narratives of medicinal herbs (ID 557)
Danielle Almeida (Brazil)

Knowledge, Power and Empire: Medical manuscripts and Natural Sciences in 18th century Portuguese India. (ID 478)
Fabiano Bracht (Portugal)

A Portuguese science in the tropics: power and circulation of scientific knowledge in 18th century (ID 479)
Gisele Cristina da Conceição (Portugal)

Indigenous Medicines in the European Pharmacies: Brazilian medicinal herbs in the Portuguese medicinal canon (ID 568)
Wellington Bernardelli Silva Filho (Portugal)

Symposium 115: The power of norms: standardisation and normalisation through International Scientific Organisations – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P200

Organizers: Danielle Fauque (France), Brigitte Van Tiggelen (USA)
Commentator: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (USA)

Constructing Safety and Quality: The UN, the ICMSF and the postwar development of global food norms (ID 199)
Brigit Ramsingh (UK)

Chemical Definitions as Tools of Business Pressure: Negotiations Surrounding the Standard ISO 412 on Turpentine (ID 165)
Marçin Krasnodebski (France)

An historical perspective on the definitions of detection limits given by IUPAC and regulatory authorities (ID 168)
Marco Taddia (Italy)

Symposium 374: Historical-Epistemological Prospects on Science as Power – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P201

Organizers: Sascha Freyberg (Germany), Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Germany)
Chair: Sascha Freyberg (Germany)

Narratives of Superiority in the Historiography of Pre-modern Science (ID 408)
Sonja Brentjes (Germany)

Epistemological and Political Configurations of the Sciences of Man The Society of the Observers of Man (France, 1799–1830) – Methodological Reflections (ID 406)
Martin Herrnstadt (Germany), Laurens Schlicht (Germany)

Cultural Hegemony, Historical Epistemology and the Concept of Science (ID 409)
Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Germany)

Symposium 170: Counteracting erroneous interpretations of bibliometrics: Tensions between science and politics

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P209

Organizers: Michal Kokowski (Poland), Efthymios Nicolaidis (Greece)
Chairs: Michal Kokowski (Poland), Efthymios Nicolaidis (Greece)

On the unscientific foundations of bibliometrics (ID 171)
Michal Kokowski (Poland)

The history of the European Reference Index in the Humanities (ERIH) (ID 175)
Robert Halleux (Belgium), Efthymios Nicolaidis (Greece)

Philosophy in bibliometrics. A look at the supply-side of academic information (ID 172)
Steven Laporte (Belgium)

Session 19: Biopolitics – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P215

Chair: Michal Šimůnek (Czech Republic)

Lamarckian Power Politics: the Case of Pierre-Paul Grassé (1895–1985) (ID 581)
Emily Herring (UK)

The origin of life debate in Portugal during the Estado novo regime (1933–1974) (ID 572)
Pedro Fonseca (Portugal), Ana Pereira (Portugal), João Pita (Portugal)

Biopolitical Ideologies of European Union: A Historical Approach (ID 527)
Bartosz Płotka (Poland)

Symposium 197: Hungarian schools and students in various fields of power – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P217

Organizers: Attila Szilárd Tar (Hungary), László Szögi (Hungary)

The Road to Power – Hungarian Politicians with University Studies in Germany (ID 307)
Attila Szilárd Tar (Hungary)

The Profit of Learning. Students from the Medieval Hungarian Kingdom and Their Later Career (ID 314)
Borbála Kelényi (Hungary)

The Role of the University Education in the Formation of the Political Elite in Hungary in the Age of Dualism (ID 334)
Andor Mészáros (Hungary)

Session 20: Scientific Issues in the Astral Sciences – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P225

Chair: Helge Kragh (Denmark)

Astronomy as a power tool in Cochinchina in João de Loureiro's (1717–91) time (ID 594)
Vitor Bonifácio (Portugal), Isabel Malaquias (Portugal)

Wars and Stars: Astral Sciences in Military Service from Asarhaddon to Hitler (ID 505)
Johannes Thomann (Switzerland)

Adriaan van Roomen, mathematics and philosophy knowledge in astronomy (ID 444)
Zaqueu Vieira Oliveira (Brazil)

Symposium 41: Textbooks and Handbooks as an Instrument of Power – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P300

Organizers: Marianne Klemun (Austria), Ana Carneiro (Portugal)

The books by Nerée Boubée (1806–1863) travel to Brazil: how and why? (ID 102)
Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça Figueirôa (Brazil)

Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: The Development of Speleology as a “Handbook Science” (1870–1920) (ID 464)
Johannes Mattes (Austria)

“Have we ever been geologists?” Images in geology textbooks in Portuguese secondary education, 1836–1974 (ID 605)
Teresa Salomé Mota (Portugal)

The Hungarian Translation and Reception of David Page's Introductory Textbook of Geology (1872) (ID 42)
Katalin Straner (Hungary)

Symposium 290: The power of the historiography of science – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P301

Organizers: Zhihui Chen (France), Jiří Hudeček (Czech Republic), Martina Schneider (Germany)

The power of historiographic labels and the power of national historiographies of science: the Bacon-Descartes case (ID 296)
Mihnea Dobre (Romania)

Indian astronomy being observed: late 18th and early 19th century European scholars’ historiographies of Indian astronomy (ID 298)
Sho Hirose (France)

Lessons from the Past: History of Chinese Mathematics, Consciousness and Power in Republican China (ID 362)
Jiří Hudeček (Czech Republic)

Planning Historiography of Science: Chinese Historians of Science and the “Twelve Years’ Plan” (1956–1967) (ID 366)
Václav Laifr (Czech Republic)

Symposium 316: Representing global power in Iberia: Diogo Ribeiro’s world maps and Early Modern Science – part 1

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:30–13:30, room P317

Organizers: Antonio Sánchez (Portugal), Thomas Horst (Portugal), Samuel Gessner (Portugal)

From the History of Cartography to the History of Science (ID 318)
Henrique Leitão (Portugal)

Ribeiro, Technology Transfer between Spain and Portugal, and the Perceived Value of Applied Science (ID 320)
Alison Sandman (USA)

Producing an Iberian image of the world: Ribeiro’s cartographic production and the Padrón Real (ID 322)
Antonio Sánchez (Portugal)

The Renaissance of the Spanish Nautical Cartography of the Atlantic and the Planispheres of the Casa de la Contratación (ID 323)
Joaquim Alves Gaspar (Portugal)

Lunch Break (13:30–15:00)

Session 21: The Power of Scientific Networks and Institutions – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room Aula P131

Chair: Sally Shuttleworth (UK)

Political Power Domination through Academic Institutions Suppression. The case of Succession War in Catalonia (ID 608)
Marina Castells (Spain), Aikaterini Konstaninidou (Spain), Angela Garcia-Lladó (Spain)

The Private Subscription Library as Intellectual Collective: Sharing Ideas of Science in the Early 19th Century (ID 360)
Alan Rauch (USA)

Scientific networks in European seismological research during the 1930s (ID 567)
Lif Lund Jacobsen (Denmark)

The paths of knowledge legitimization : innovation and pluridisciplinarity in innovation oriented institutions, schools and programs (ID 495)
Jean-Claude Ruano-Borbalan (France)

Session 25: Politics, Technology and Science in the 19th Century

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P104

Chair: Milada Sekyrková (Czech Republic)

Geography, geographers and the foundation of nation(s) in France and Prussia (1800–1850) (ID 1)
Laura Péaud (France)

Science and Power in Frankfurt due the 19th century (ID 11)
Panagiotis Kitmeridis (Germany)

Electric units – the view from the periphery (ID 601)
Vitor Bonifácio (Portugal), Jason Adams (Portugal)

Witnesses and experts in the judgments of the Imperial Court of Justice (1880–1938) (ID 524)
Raluca Enescu (Germany), Leonie Benker (Germany), Julian Sandhagen (Germany)

Session 23: Global Approaches to Science and Power – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P116

Chair: Helena Durnová (Czech Republic)

Serums and vaccines against the bubonic plague in India: disputes, circulations and interactions (1896–1900) (ID 502)
Matheus Silva (France)

Appropriating Africa: Taxonomic knowledge as a means of political legitimation of the Portuguese colonial agenda in the late 19th century (ID 574)
Catarina Madruga (Portugal)

Perspectives on scientists as political agents in the Arctic (ID 573)
Urban Wråkberg (Norway)

Symposium 268: The Science of the Human: Naturalization and Control

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P200

Organizer: Stephen Gaukroger (Australia)

How Does One Naturalize the Human? (ID 269)
Stephen Gaukroger (Australia)

Doing Things with Anthropometry in the Nineteenth Century (ID 270)
Peter Cryle (Australia)

Composite Statues and the Statistically Average American Male and Female, 1890–1945 (ID 271)
Elizabeth Stephens (Australia)

Images of Power and Ideology: Representation of Human Evolution in Mexican Popular Visual Culture (ID 80)
Erica Torrens (Mexico)

Symposium 374: Historical-Epistemological Prospects on Science as Power – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P201

Organizers: Sascha Freyberg (Germany), Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Germany)
Chair: Sascha Freyberg (Germany)

The Use of Historical Theater Play in Science Education (In Memoriam Arthur Stinner) (ID 435)
Juergen Teichmann (Germany)

Machines as Metaphors: a “Big Picture” of the History of Modern Science (ID 521)
Frans Van Lunteren (the Netherlands)

Sharing Knowledge, Challenging Power? (ID 576)
David Steinman (Canada), Dolores Steinman (Canada)

Session 27: Environmental Studies, Climatology and their Political Environments

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P217

Chair: Leonardo Gariboldi (Italy)

Civilization to Death? Human Ecology as a Science for Survival in the Environmental Age (ID 540)
Christer Nordlund (Sweden)

Environmental Sciences under the Portuguese dictatorship: Inverting drought in Lisbon ca. 1940 (ID 12)
Ana Rodrigues (Portugal)

Cloud photography: Science, Art and Technology in the nineteenth century (ID 490)
Maria Estela Jardim (Portugal), Fernanda Madalena Costa (Portugal)

Understanding and Controlling Climate at the End of the 18th Century. Kant´s Reflections on Physical Geography and Geopolitics (ID 470)
Silvia De Bianchi (Spain)

Session 26 & 28: Science, Religion, and Power Issues & Plants and Pharmaceutical Products in the Eastern Block

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P225

Chairs: Benjamin Le Roux (France) & Soňa Štrbáňová (Czech Republic)

Science on Index: the censorious power of the Church against scientific publishing in 19th-century Italy (ID 463)
Carlo Bovolo (Italy)

Scientific knowledge as power of persuasion in a religious context (ID 433)
Benjamin Le Roux (France)

USSR legislative impact on the pharmaceutical sector in Latvia (1940–1941) (ID 462)
Sabīne Lauze (Latvia), Baiba Mauriņa (Latvia), Venta Šidlovska (Latvia)

T. D. Lysenko and VASKhNIL during Wartime: The “Pre”-Prehistory of the August Session of 1948 (ID 474)
Hirofumi Saito (Japan)

Symposium 41: Textbooks and Handbooks as an Instrument of Power – part 3

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P300

Organizers: Marianne Klemun (Austria), Ana Carneiro (Portugal)

Chemistry, expertise, and scientific disciplines: the treatise of chemical analysis by José Casares Gil (1866–1961) (ID 53)
Ignacio Suay-Matallana (Portugal)

Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s Manual on Cage Birds and its Significance for Nineteenth-Century German Bird-Keeping Literature (ID 86)
Thomas Tretzmüller (Austria)

Societal and Political influences on the development of Geoscience and Astronomy related textbooks in Central Europe and vice versa (ID 564)
Barbara Mohr (Germany), Annette B. Vogt (Germany)

Symposium 290: The power of the historiography of science – part 3

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P301

Organizers: Zhihui Chen (France), Jiří Hudeček (Czech Republic), Martina Schneider (Germany)

Mobilizing nationality in the historiography of science (ID 309)
Martina Schneider (Germany)

Chorography of Knowledge in the Early Modern City (ID 497)
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (the Netherlands)

History of Science, Local Knowledge and the Influence of Ideology in Contemporary China (ID 522)
Bing Liu (China)

Symposium 316: Representing global power in Iberia: Diogo Ribeiro’s world maps and Early Modern Science – part 2

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 15:00–17:00, room P317

Organizers: Antonio Sánchez (Portugal), Thomas Horst (Portugal), Samuel Gessner (Portugal)

The Power of the Casa de la Contratación: Historical background and reception of Ribeiro’s Planispheres (ID 326)
Thomas Horst (Portugal)

Diogo Ribeiro as an instrument maker: reinterpreting the mappamundi of Weimar (1527 & 1529) (ID 328)
Samuel Gessner (Portugal)

Historiographic controversies on Diogo Ribeiro's life and work (ID 330)
João Carlos Garcia (Portugal)

Royal Power and the Cartography of France (ID 475)
Suzanne Débarbat (France)

Coffee Break (17:00–17:30)

Neuenschwander Prize Award & ESHS General Assembly

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 17:30–19:30, room Aula P131

 

(Last update: September 23, 2016)