RELOCATING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF KOSTAS GAVROGLU

Co-organized by the Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015

LOCATION: MARASLION SCHOOL, 4 MARASLI STR., ATHENS, GREECE

PROGRAM
10:00-11:00: WELCOME
Costas Varotsos, Dean of the School of Science, University of Athens
Jean Christianidis, Chairman of the Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens
Jürgen Renn, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Theodore Arabatzis, Head of the Division of History of Science & Technology, Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens
Ana Simões, Head of the Center for the History of Science and Technology, University of Lisbon

11:00-12:00: SESSION 1, HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Jean Christianidis, University of Athens: The Meaning of Hypostasis in Diophantus’ Arithmetica
Faidra Papanelopoulou, University of Athens: Louis Paul Cailletet, the Liquefaction of Oxygen and the Emergence of an ‘In-Between Discipline’ -- Low-Temperature Research
Sam Schweber, Brandeis & Harvard University: Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum Revolution

12:00-12:15: COFFEE BREAK

12:15-13:15: SESSION 2, STEP MATTERS
Agustí Nieto-Galan, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Centers and Peripheries Revisited: STEP and the Mainstream Historiography of Science
Manolis Patiniotis, University of Athens: Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment: In Search of a European Identity
Angelo Baracca, University of Florence: Subalternity vs. Hegemony: Cuba’s Unique Way of Overcoming Subalternity through the Development of Science

13:15-16:00: LUNCH BREAK

16:00-17:00: SESSION 3, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge: Reductionism and the Relation between Chemistry and Physics
Gürol Irzik, Sabanci University: The Internal-External Distinction Sheds Light on the History of the Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science
Theodore Arabatzis, University of Athens: Concepts Out of Theoretical Contexts

17:00-17:15: COFFEE BREAK

17:15-18:15: SESSION 4, HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MUSINGS I
Jürgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin: The History of Science and the Globalization of Knowledge
Rivka Feldhay, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv: The Global and the Local in the Study of the Humanities
Helge Kragh, University of Aarhus: On Scientific Biography and Biographies of Scientists

18:15-18:30: COFFEE BREAK

18:30-19:30: SESSION 5, HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MUSINGS II
Aristotle Tympas, University of Athens: On the Hazardousness of the Concept ‘Technology’: Notes on a Conversation between the History of Science and the History of Technology
Stathis Arapostathis, University of Athens: Wireless at the Bar: Experts, Circuits and Marconi’s Inventions in Patent Disputes in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Ana Simões, University of Lisbon: Different Undertakings, Common Practices: Some Directions for the History of Science

19:30: SESSION 6, CLOSING REMARKS
Kostas Gavroglu, University of Athens