State, mining and mining academy
Mining experts in the 18th and early 19th centuries
Call for papers for an international symposium
Place: TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Senatssaal)
Date: Friday, 20 February, to Sunday, 22 February 2009
Hosts: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel (University of Regensburg) and
Prof. Dr. Helmuth Albrecht (TU Bergakademie Freiberg)
Contacts: Peter Konečný (Universität Regensburg)
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Hartmut Schleiff (TU Bergakademie Freiberg)
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Conference Languages: German or English
Duration of presentations: approx. 20 mins
Commentary: approx. 15 mins
Conference fee for non speakers: Euro 40,00 (students 10,00)
A conference publication is anticipated.
For the history of mining in Central Europe, the 18th and early 19th
centuries represent a central period. Not only did the economic interest
of the Absolutist State connect with a thorough admistrative reform. The
scientific knowledge also underwent a significant reorganisation. The
combined effect of these factors led, among other things, to a new type
of institution of higher education: the Mining Academy. The mining
academies formed scientific and technical experts as a new type of
functional elite. The formation and establishment of this type of expert
as a consequence of scientific, institutional, economic and bureaucratic
reorganisations until the mid-19th century is the thematic frame for
this symposium.
We wish to discuss questions regarding the knowledge cultures and
spaces in which the experts were trained and consequently served as the
main actors. We wish to ask how the mining experts of the 18th and 19th
centuries implemented their knowledge, and how their education and
training affected their careers within the mining administration.
Furthermore, we wish to ask how this culture of learning was practised
among mining experts, how the transfer of experts and knowledge
proceeded, and how the differentiation of knowledge related to mining
and metallurgy was part of the simultaneous formation of scientific
disciplines.
The symposium addresses these subjects in subsequent four sessions: 1.
Mining and metallurgy in the process of differentiation of scientific
disciplines; 2. State and mining in the transition to modernity; 3.
Mining and metallurgy experts in the 18th and 19th centuries; 4.
Transfer of knowledge in mining and metallurgy.
Abstracts of papers (max. 2 pages) should be sent to Peter Konečný
(University of Regensburg) or Hartmut Schleiff (TU BA Freiberg) until 31
October 2008. The program of the symposium will be finalised in December
2008.
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Universität Regensburg
D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
Tel. +49-941-943 3661, Fax +49-941-943 1985
<http://www-wissenschaftsgeschichte.uni-regensburg.de>
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